When moving, what can not be quickly purchased is taken with a stock. If a person was left with nothing as a result of the disaster, then there is only one way out: to make from scrap materials. So for immigrants a large supply of tools and clothing to beggars stone tool.
The easiest way to create an early tool is to repair a broken tool or melt it into a new tool
About stone tools. Instead of a stone tool to make a bad iron tool. If you substitute charcoal for wood, metal work (if possible) of poor quality. Charcoal is almost pure carbon, used in blacksmithing for two reasons: 1. gives a great temperature, 2. there are no harmful impurities that affect the quality of iron. The second option: at the start of the game, the stock of the tool should be larger and last for 4-5 years.
Ceramics can be burned with firewood. It is not necessary to spend expensive charcoal on it.
How can the yield of firewood depend on education? There is pure physical strength, no mind required. Output 4 PCs of logs optimally.
With birches as lucky. On some maps, there may be one grove of 10 birches nearby. Or near 2-3 groves of fifty trees. Hence the excess or lack of wood.