yeah my main problem with the blacksmith is the crafting queue is simply not long enough to put constant fill orders for each type of ingot and armor set available-I hate managing crafting orders.
as I have mentioned before, clay is the most precious material in the game, and coal / iron/ copper/ tin that you can buy from the trader infinitely are much less valuable, because of this I always get a backlog of ores in my stockpiles that I just cannot sell fast enough because traders don’t have enough gold on them to satisfy my trading demands. this causes a huge problem that eventually causes crafting to slow and eventually grind to a halt.