V+ has kiln and smelter pull from chests. It's an evil luxury which I plan to keep using. The souls of those discorporeal surtlings work for me now, bwahahaha! Dump wood and ore in a nearby chest and walk away. Come back to find bright and shiny ingots waiting for you. Make sure to store wood you plan to keep further away, and turn off the use of other types of wood. It does wonders for my sanity, or so the dead surtlings tell me.