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if you KNOW how to refine uranium, but you're in the wrong family, does it just not work if you try it?  Does it not even show up in your crafting hints?  How do you know you are not able to do it?  Wouldn't it be frustrating?

The simplest implementation of this could be game-wide, and even broader than just a few special things.  What if the entire crafting tree was "filtered" uniquely for each family?  These guys can make tinder, but can't make a hatchet.  These other guys can make a hatchet, but not tinder.  These guys can smelt iron, but not copper.  These other guys can do copper and zinc, but not iron.

Only the things that your family can actually do would show up in your hints, and only those things would actually work.

(In general, I've avoided this kind of "forced specialization" because I can imagine it being frustrating.... if you "know" how to fish, but your character doesn't know how to fish, and must observe someone else fishing each life, in order to "learn" it each life... would just be tedious.  Going through the motions:  "Show me how to fish (again)"   This has been suggested many times, by many people, including by the great Richard Garfield himself.... but I have very strong doubts about this approach.)

The best way to manage labour is if you're an experienced enough player to notice when others are trying to help but not really suceeding and you happen to have a similar task needing working on.

Yesterdady a girl was making fast roads near berries, which is absolutely a bad thing to do as it makes filling bowls a pain in the ass. I' been previously making a path to an iron vein so when I saw her I immediately explained and asked for help. Even gave her my bag as I got older. I had gotten people to smith iron i've gathered in this same life so we were pretty close to mining that vein even though most players in this city were new and we were quite behind on tools and iron when I was born.

You seem like a person that tries to do their best, you'll soon be able to manage people without even noticing.

Have any if you tried to spend an entire life gathering iron?

this is the only way we'll gather accurate data for wheter iron is too scarce or not. I think It's no scarce yet, but will be after jungles, as twisted said.