I like the simple and humoristic style of crafting in the original. You could make good stuff, and you could make a lot of funny stuff, and there was some sort of internal logic that made a kind of "DOS sense". No a hammer and leather do not make a boot, but I don't think an elaborate system involving all the tools you actually need for maing shoes would make the experience of crafting a shoe in this game any better.
Sometimes simplicity is a good thing. With a simple system we can have more recepies.
