One is hands-on base stuff. The windmill and spinning wheel are examples of good ideas -- they hold a ton and do their thing without needing to be poked at every 2 min (though the 1/2 stack from 50 in the windmill is dubious). The smelters are terrible, they need constant input of coal and ore and can't be left to work for very long before they stop again and need a whopping 10 more ore (how about hold 30, one full stack, at least) and coal (also hold enough for 30 .. not 29.95 either, 30 :P). Cooking is a hassle as well. I get that burnt food is a thing so you can't leave it, but the quantities are a bit low, esp the oven and pot. The pot needs a make-all-you-can button and the oven could stand to hold 10 items, or at least 5 so you get full stacks after N goes instead of constant stacks of 8 or 12 when trying to get to 10 of something.

The other is the lack of inventory space. In 5 min after leaving my house, I will invariably be attacked by a dwarf (3 slots for wood, rock, resin, and maybe more junk), something from whatever zone I went to (more stuff, eg black metal and coins, or wolf meat and pelt, etc) and then Ill see a wild plant and grab a thistle or berry, and my armor and tools and food, and all of a sudden I haven't done anything and my bag is full again. Yes, I can drop a portal and dump it every few min, but it gets old. If just the armor and food were not taking up so much space, it would be a ton better. I feel like I can only gather one or two things sometimes, like if I want wood in bulk I have to discard all the feathers, resin, grey dwarf eyes, rocks, ... etc that come my way or waste a lot of time portaling back and forth.