Originally posted by caroraim:

Really need a way to produce resin once the base is very large and wood cutting needs don't add up to enough. Charcoal is producible from the smelting, why not have resin be a side product from a process at some crafting bench?

Charcoal is used to smelt, it is not smelted. It is made in a kiln, not a smelter, or you could get them from my favorite trophies, the Surtlings.

As for resin, you are asking to make the life making force of a tree that gets dried as something to make.

Go kill Greydwarves, you will need the eyes anyway.