If there is an alternate way to obtain lumber in larger quantities, then please disregard this post.
On the PTR, it costs around thirty pieces of lumber to craft one piece of furniture, but each of the lumber nodes only give one piece per node. This means that if I want, say, fifteen pieces of a specific furniture, I would need to go to over four hundred and fifty different nodes of lumber across an expansive area, which would take hours to do.
The number of pieces per node needs to be increased, or, conversely, the number for each recipe needs to be decreased. Sure, it should take commitment, but it shouldn’t take absolute hours to craft, for example, ten candlesticks.