As a Souls' player since PS3 Demons Souls, this concept is so foreign to me and I love it. I have opened the crafting menu to craft a furnace pot once and instead beat my head against the game over and over until I "succeeded".
Crafting used to be fairly useless (glowstones exempted) and now you've convinced me to do a "crafting only" run and make try make it ER a survival game. Not like I needed another 150 hours invested in this masterpiece.
Human interaction? Why would you want that? The sweet cold embrace of mother google is all we need nowadays friend.
Thanks for the post, I hate the nightmares it brings but I didn't know these hellbeasts existed before today.