After a long time of playing I have automated everything. Have someone to dig, plant, chop, and two people to pick up the seeds and wood. I have someone to rechargert them for when they unwind. I have a miner and someone that picks up all the iron and stone. I have someone making charcoal and storing it. I have someone making iron ingots and storing those. I have someone collecting water and storing that.I have a few robots that make sure my storages are full of planks/poles by sawing a log or plank and then storing them.I even have a robot that recharges my recharger robot. I've made every building and every item. I've clothed my little dudes. I even have robots that farm and feed the little dudes in their brick shacks. All in all I think I did pretty well.
Also I might add a little exploit:
You can for example go on the other side of the map, chop down a bunch of trees, build a storage, fill it, and you can then move the storage all the way back to your base. This exploit also works if you're building your farm far away from your trees and base or If you want to move iron to a bench quicker.
All in all a very fun game and I can't wait to see more, very happy with the updates and I imagine i'm going to love the research mechanic.