So this is kind of borrowed from Space Engineers.
but what about adding a conveyor belt system to transport things like iron and stone and various other mine,or farm items(or anything really)
to storage/production facilities. i know a lot of people might ask why when you can use it for training an mostly for convenience and efficiency when it comes to productivity. instead of carrying the resource back when they produce and it reaches 'full'.
the conveyor would transport it back as soon as one was produced. this could help speed up/streamline production.
Especially with automated mines. and Kenshi's tech level seems like it would be an appropriate tech .