I'm really enjoying the mod so far. It's brought back some of that "Oh crap, I'm going to die" feeling I miss from when I first starting playing Seven Days to Die. Couple questions:
You can create wood blocks with and without the workbench. The recipe requirements are the same though. I would expect you to be more efficient at building stuff using the workbench. True, it's faster on the bench, but I was expecting to use less nails or something (the idea being you wouldn't waste as many trying to hammer nails in without a workbench)
I see you're homing in on another patch where you'll have the friendly NPC working again... which is awesome! I'm absolutely not trying to rush you, but I'm just about to start up another multiplayer server, and just was curious about your timeline. If you think you'll be done today, I'll wait until you're done so that I can patch it before starting it up.