Tips on crafting charcoal?

[vavillalobos1]

hiii! does anyone have any tips/ideas on speeding up the charcoal production? :/ i don't want to be ~that~ person but it's been insanely slow no matter how many kilns i put in (or don't put in)

i have four kilns with 2/3 families assigned at each (so 8 families total), placed it adjacent to a firewood yard + placed it adjacent to a storehouse that is the only one collecting the firewood, no reserves or limits set, the families assigned are housed nearby, no market stalls enabled... yet i maybe get just a little bit of charcoal each month and the firewood just ends up getting used up by the burgages.

i've also tried watching the families through the "people" tab, and they don't seem interested in making charcoal nor care for the logistics i've setup for them.

thanks in advance!! :)))

[Jabberwocky]

Little update from my current playthrough: Large town of 500 people. 1 woodcutter w/ 3 families and 4 charcoal kilns w/ 3 families each are supplying the whole town and creating enough surplus for exports.

EDIT: Still going strong after hitting 600+ population.

[vavillalobos1]

i just posted in another discussion, but i think i realized one of the gameplay mechanics involves a preference for uninterrupted process chains. now that i have the firewood being left at the firewood cutter's log and having the storehouses distribute charcoal instead, charcoal production is through the roof with just three kilns + 2 single-family firewood cutter logs