Well, I've spent a couple hours on a junk pile now, making the same tools over and over again only to throw them away. Fun, this is not. It isn't realistic, immersive or challening, either. It's just utter oldschool grind.

What's worst about that is that the game gives me no control over recipes. My only option is to continue grinding until i win in the lottery and my character suddenly remembers the ancient art of crafting a fishing rod...

It should be possible to choose recipes or at least get them in a predefined order that makes some sense.