Thank you for report and suggestion.
You can't gather wood (notify: +0 wood) because somebody built townhall near and gathering tax. Townhall has 700m radius taxing area.
I will add tax info to notify window in next build.
About sprint: there is a huge world in the game, it's not "arena" - traveling and gathering different resources must not be a quick and easy.
More crafting stuff available in wooden workbench. More stuff will be in next builds (see roadmap).