Island Sanctuary feels intentionally slow and inefficient.

[Iscah]

Just gather some materials...let your workshops do the rest...come back after a week and level up like 3 or 4 levels at once and get tons of cowries.

Thus far the workshops won't do anything unless I manually gather every item they need to do things with.

I've just unlocked the granary so perhaps that will be better for acquiring materials. But up to this point there's been very little timegating and a whole lot of "this won't progress until you do it all by yourself".

Also, the mammets are obnoxious.