Originally posted by Vorion:

Originally posted by Grandaddypurple:

I actually did that on purpose when I was looking for acorns and didn't need fine wood. I would have loved it if fine wood yielded more coal though. It's hard to have 4 smelters constantly running, you constantly need to farm wood

You could just NOT have 4 smelters running.

True but it didn't seem like a lot at first. Early game you build one, then a second one when you get the karve and can transport more ores, and you double that as you get the longship and can haul 18 stacks of iron back to base... but yea having them work non stop requires to farm wood the whole time your kilns/smelters are working