I'm playing on the most relaxed mode and wood, planks, and coal seem so unbalanced. I can never keep ANY in reserve so I have to turn down all quests for any of the three.

thanks for your feedback!! <3 <3

What works for me is to have a bunch of additional woodcutters. You rarely have enough of them. Collect some hundreds of wood in advance, then there will be no shortage.

Originally posted by Nom:

It takes forever for my fabling to start using the sawmill. All they do is endlessly add wood that gets taken away by laborers anyway. Maybe making it so 2 work at it where one just endlessly makes planks and the other gathers wood.

What you describe can be done by placing a storage facility next to the production building. I do this for every production and food production.

Early on I focused getting 3 lumber camps with 3 workers each, being able to pull a worker for something else as needed and I'm good on planks, wood and coal. Pace your building is another tip.

Something what I did was put the game of 3 times speed and go and make me a coffee xD when I got back I had a pufferzone of wood.
But thats not how the game should work. hehe ^^

BUT

You can set a limit on the maximum amount of each material that should be produced. This is in the same menu as where you can see which Fablelings are unemployed.

But yeah in the early game the wood is extremly unbalanced. Stone dont have the problem that much.

I built 3 woodcutter and 3 sawmills in total but it only got balanced in the endgame. dunno why but I had the whole game long a shortage of wood and since I got city (I guess) the wood and planks rapidly increased. I dont know if its a bug or if its something I did to get it balanced.

Originally posted by NeroTheAngel:

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I built 3 woodcutter and 3 sawmills in total but it only got balanced in the endgame. dunno why but I had the whole game long a shortage of wood and since I got city (I guess) the wood and planks rapidly increased. I dont know if its a bug or if its something I did to get it balanced.

I have a guess why you have the whole game long a shortage of wood: too little lumber hutties. When you have like 10 (quite early, not everyone may have 3 workers all the time), then you have always plenty of wood ;)

I know its not a bug, and game is balanced.
Its easy: too little wood -> produce more wood ;)

Originally posted by resieg:

Originally posted by NeroTheAngel:

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I built 3 woodcutter and 3 sawmills in total but it only got balanced in the endgame. dunno why but I had the whole game long a shortage of wood and since I got city (I guess) the wood and planks rapidly increased. I dont know if its a bug or if its something I did to get it balanced.

I have a guess why you have the whole game long a shortage of wood: too little lumber hutties. When you have like 10 (quite early, not everyone may not have 3 workers all the time), then you have always plenty of wood ;)

I know its not a bug, and game is balanced.
Its easy: too little wood - produce more wood ;)

Yeah maybe I just suck at strategy games. lol xD

XP comes with playing

Originally posted by resieg:

XP comes with playing

that is true

I think something is wrong with the Sawmill. I've stocked up on Wood near the Sawmill, assigned a worker, and still no Planks are being made.

I am enjoying the game a lot, but early game seems very tedious due to massive demand for wood and slow gathering. Same for planks and coal. One thing this game seems to be missing that many other similar games have is productivity upgrades to structures.
As an example:
"Sharper Axes - 50 stone: increases wood felling speed by 30%"

Solution is similar to real life. Make sure your sawmills are close to the stockpile of wood. the closer this stockpile of wood is to the lumber camps the better. Disable other resources, focus solely on that specific supply chain. is that wood turning into plans? or both plants and charcoal. If you are making mane, make ANOTHER stockpile for coal and planks, so that the wood one providing the sawmills never gets full.
Solution is always better supply chains.

Originally posted by Afterburn:

I think something is wrong with the Sawmill. I've stocked up on Wood near the Sawmill, assigned a worker, and still no Planks are being made.

I am reaching the point where my patience is growing thin. At 100 pop and all I am doing is waiting for these damn planks. Are we meant to drop a dozen of sawmills to finally get a good production rate?!