Mafia auto-crafts it when you click on the pyramid anyway, if not sooner. The only thing I'm really sure of is that I haven't looked at the staff in a long time. The main argument for making the staff seems to be that mafia might currently get to the "better get that staff" message, then make it and revisit the pyramid (I don't really know), and a server hit could be saved. However, for someone that wants the staff untinkered, mafia will make it, then the user will untinker it, then mafia would make it again when you finally get to the pyramid. I was thinking that mafia could visit the pyramid along with making the staff to open it up, but you can get all of the staff parts without having the pyramid available.