For suggestions, all I can say is that personally, I like "realistic" sorta interaction when it comes to resource collection and crafting a lot, such as The Forest, Premortal VR. Carrying items instead of dropping them all to inventory, doing manual movements for crafting stuff (like how you seemed to set up smithing, although I couldn't figure out how to get it to work).
I think it's a "love it or hate it" kinda thing in general, but I've always liked it, especially in a medium like VR.
Any case, hope you keep at it! Gave you a follow in case you plan to release updates at some point.