The beastbane display is worth it if you can spare the gems. I collected enough tokens between the last hunt and this one to craft 3 gold tokens at the start of this hunt. And I didn't count them, but I must have gotten a couple of gold tokens as well.
I'm not going to be able to collect many more tomens, but I got a glimmer alicorn in kingdom #1 and a third unicorn in #2. So I'm satisfied. I hope to get enough points to earn the kitsunecorn kit, but I doubt that will happen. I still need over 1100 points to reach that goal (it says 2300 points on page 1).
The confusing part of the chests is you get the pop up with the prizes first and after that you see a chest flying into inventory. So it looks like your getting one, but actually you already got the contents. I got a rotten cabbage and a gold token, some coins and the rest I forgot, nothing to write home about.
About the blue dire boars only spawning once a day: it was a lot easier to collect gold tokens when they spawned with every chop, but we know how it goes...S8 giveth and S8 taketh away...