Forge for food!
maybe kitchen forged food gives a buff?
if anything the tools are good for cutting and smashing
You get kicked out of the forge and made to farm instead.
It is now early fall. Current trends should leave you with enough food through the winter, even without your personal work at the farm.
You click labor, and then depths path (spiders). The spider study is completed promptly. You know more about the dread GCS, which may help in the future. You're not sure it's worth dealing with smaller spiders, but you can try to harvest enough webs to craft silk socks.
Resources
Food: 17/100 + 12 - 7
Stone: 22.5/100 + 6
Copper: 4/25 + 1
Space: 22.1 + 6
Population: 6/6
Home: 3
Buttons: 2
Lore Repository: 1
Workshops: 1
Farms: 1
[]Miners: 2
[]Foragers: 2
[]Farmers: 2/2
[]Farm for food
[]Strike the earth
[]Chat with the people
[]Harvest spider webs
[]Build a home - Next costs 6.6 stone, 4 space
[]Build a farm - Next costs 15 food, 15 space
[]Build a lore repository - Next costs 50 food, 20 stone, 20 space, 50 parchment
[]Build a button - Next costs 1 space
[]Build a workshop - Next costs 25 stone, 25 space, 25 copper
[]Build a stockpile - Next costs 3 stone, 10 space
[]Craft fine tools - Next costs 7 copper
[]Begin Distillation - Next costs 10 food
[3]Research Stone Path: Dig Deeper 88%
[]Research Steel Path: Parchment 50%
[]Research Blade Path: Hunting 75%
[2]Research Rune Path: Labor Organization 50%
[]Research Depths Path: [Write-in]