Hello boys and girls
Here is a few tips to help you level fast and gain gold.
In the tutorial a lot of things are build, including the toolmaker. firstly, when you have satisfied the quest for the toolmaker - DELETE IT.
Use the license instead on another stonemaker, and if you can get away with deleting your bowmaker ( keep it til about level 15 when you should have about 400 bows in storage) then delete that too - use the license on a fir wood sawmill.
Why?
Well this is very very simple. The game has an option in the provisions house to provision wood and stones into tools, marble and HWP. It is in fact very possible by mass producing fir wood and stones, to save a lot of gold on marble and HWP building upgrades. You will also never run out of basic building materials.
What else should you build?
As you move up the ranks to level 26, other buildings become available such as stables, gold mines, iron buildings, longbowmakers etc.
DO NOT BUILD THESE - instead, spam bronze swords, beer and bread. These three items are the most important of the game, and the most used.
Sure, you need 110 cavalry to take down chuck and metaltooth, but you will be able to buy the horses with coins selling the excess swords and bread you produce, as well as all of those tools, HWP and marble. You have created a surplus of the most required goods in the game, which you can in turn trade for gold, which can in turn be traded for ANYTHING you need.
Iron production can be started around level 24 if you want, gold around level 27. At the levels they become available, it is too difficult to supply the buildings with the materials required, so the trick is to wait a few levels. Another trick is to never build an iron weaponsmith - use the iron bars to convert to steel, then steel swords (again, dont try this until level 30). Remember, iron, steel and gold all take a lot more coal than bronze swords, and I mean a lot more. Which = more licenses for cokers, mines etc which you could otherwise do without.
If you decide to open your stables then fine, however here is an interesting point - all of those bronze swords you produce currently sell for 25-30 coins on the market per 400. 400 horses on the other hand can be bought for 30 coins... seems like they will be quite easily swappable for the coming future.
I have tried to keep this short and sweet as a guide, trust me, follow this and you will be levelling up and rolling in gold in no time.