Here’s How to Collect Resources
While there are plenty of resource collection buildings that you’ll be able to build eventually, these require a ton of resources themselves and will take up your laborers’ times. To start, you need to collect this stuff yourself. Hit the “Collect All Resources” button on the bottom right of your screen, and then go through selecting each type of resource. For each one, drag your mouse across the screen to highlight all the resources and mark them. Your laborers and builders will go through collecting these all, so make sure you have plenty of those to pick these up. This is how you will stockpile logs, hay, stone, and ores at first in the game. It then becomes automatic as you build the resource collection buildings, but as previously stated, this won’t be for awhile.
