Originally posted by Smetrix:

I just want the smelting process to be quicker... I already spend a good few hours gathering and transporting it, just let me load up the smelter and give me a decent amount in return so I can move on to the next area lol.

I feel this.

My friends and I went and cleared out a bunch of crypts, fully loaded out longship (540 scrap iron) and still has some we had to carry in out own inventory. We're all laughing and having a good time talking about the haul, all tired as hell from the gaming session.

[EDIT]We even had to purposely encumber on of our guys for the entire ride just to carry what we got.[/edit]

We get back, and the three of them log out for the night after I tell them I'll get the iron smelted. I take down our two Charcoal Kilns (since we'd had the foresight to make more than two full chests of coal beforehand) and add two extra smelters (we already had two up), and it still takes me the better part of an hour being a base-body, refilling smelters, sleeping when I can, doing gardening, etc.

I don't know if it's really enough for me to want the devs to make it quicker or anything, but I can agree it was annoying having to spend all that time processing our haul. Would have been even longer if we didn't have the coal on hand (and those 2 and a half chests were just BARELY enough).