I'd say you only spend about 1/4th of the game actually gathering where about 75% is done crafting. Which adds to the feeling of "Slowness." of the game.
#The Amount Of Time Gathering To Crafting Is Very Disproportionate.
snow pine
fast notch
75% in the early stages "crafting" maybe true, in the later stages it's more like 98% crafting passively for an hour or 2 or applying obscene amount of effort over an even more obscene amount of AFK'ness. While I appreciate this crafting stuff should take effort I don't want to watch a bar fill for each and every step along the way while yes this does help create artificial scarcity allowing for an economy to sort of take shape (assuming one even exists in your region -_-) it certainly should take as long as it does as you increase more and more in still level. I currently fell like I spend 90% of my time in game either talking to my friends and asking who the hell is using all the emarium because we have no good chest control's or we're alt+tabbing and checking on the game every 10 - 15 mins while we watch youtube or anime or netflix or something.
I would love a more "active" role to play in the crafting process as a whole, I love idle and AFK games don't get me wrong but I don;t want to play a 3D one that has a gorgeous world to explore. I've had chance to explore roughly 0.2% of the world and I'm hitting level 50 in some skills (as a scholar... please reduce some of this effort requirement, I'm doing the effort solo 😭 as the only scholar in my group).