I just checked and all my old crafting parts are gone from storage with the exception of 5 types: lotus blossoms, glass frills, leviathan pearls, bluebells, and hibiscus blossoms. It's like they are finally clearing the mess out and missed a few. So, I am wondering if the stars not appearing in storage is an intentional change? If the new crafting parts only appear in the crafting shack, we won't get a big build up of spare parts in storage when the dragon expires. The puppet strings disappeared, too- but since I was already done crafting Marionette, I didn't check my storage for them, I just saw all the posts about it.
It would have been nice if we could have used those old parts craft dragons...or something. The parts just suddenly disappearing from storage feels like a wasted opportunity (and a waste, in general).
Edit: oops, I didn't see the other posts about this.
the weird thing is I swear I scrolled all the way down and read all the posts before commenting. :/