you can craft shoes anywhere but the first area
to leavd the first area you just need in increase your int to 5, then in the second area get your looks stat to 7. From there is 3 other areas after that that you can go to in any order. Switching to patreon because it's easier to fund long term development thag way, I do plan on(and have already been working on) making dlc areas for those who purchased my other games so if you wanna do one time purchases for content those will be an option soon