The collection availability is intended

Although I will likely add more spawn points so they are a bit more random instead of being in the same place everytime and encouraging "camping."
How many Sand buckets are you currently seeing? There should be a few around each excavator in the area. I will take a look and see if it is feasible to up the number of them.
Keep in mind we don't want to encourage anyone to stick to one quest and just do it over and over. There are several different quests you can do within the camp if one is heavy on traffic you can either wait it out and see if the people currently doing it move on or try your luck with one of the other quests. At the same time we don't want to make it impossible to complete any of them so it's a fine balance
In regards to the crafting quest they are fairly simple crafting requests that net a pretty good amount of tradeskill exp. We will likely be keeping it as one D.I.R.T.Y. money reward but I will see about adding a bit of coin to make up for fuel costs.
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