I like the survival-esque approach to materials and upgrades. But the lack of storage space early on really conflicts with that style.
Once you get the house and like 10s to spend on chests, that completely changes. But it changes to what it should be in the first place, chests are the first thing you learn to make in any resource heavy survival game. They should be available earlier and cheaper, otherwise people will miss this important system and get frustrated with inventory management (already had this conversation with someone).
Maybe make it so that you can actually place items in the rookery rooms? Give us a basic workbench in there by default so we can make those basic furniture items. Also how can we not use the beds in the rookery room? Feel like some rookery room tweaks could fix a lot QOL wise.