Food, and general build order problem
-school, inn, 4 quarries, woodcutter spam and 2 sawmills
-gold, not too late, not too early, eventually I have 2 goldsmelters (I make third one and block gold in storehouse, when my wood production stabilizes) - up to this point 26 serfs and 18-20 builders
-while making gold I usually place 1st farm (sometimes two), another school, fisher hut
-now wood production has probably stabilized a bit... edit: good time to make additional 1-2 stonemasons
-I go for iron+coal to start making weapons
-barracks built in parallel with first smithies
-I build a mill as soon as I have corn (hard to say when exactly it happens, but I think it's somewhere towards the end of making iron buildings), usually that's when I make additional farms and (if wood permits, which is usually the case) 2-3 vineyards
-finalizing iron (2nd smithies etc.) which happens near 45-50th minute, and later just towers, wood weapon makers, additional sawmills (that may be a mistake, but 2 sawmills seem to be surprisingly capable for just building a city - seeing as I start making axes quite late...), sometimes when I have 2 mills and 4-5 vineyards at this point, I make a stable... in no particular order. I try to end with 30-35 builders and 80-90 serfs.
As you can see, there's no leather involved, I decided few days ago to play iron only to have a chance of making decent food production. And it kind of works, but I need 2 mills and 4-5 vineyards (ofc some fishermen before, and a second Inn somewhere near pt) at peacetime to barely have food, to be safe I need to make 1 more mill and a few vineyards after pt. I usually make 15-20 iron troops at the very start, but the situation improves quite quickly thanks to double smithies. The problem is, it can be done better. Better players easily outproduce me in every single aspect of the game - food, troops, general economy etc. I feel I improved my city much already, but I'm still miles from the actual solution. I need to make mills (which makes Mulberry laugh at me xD) because I'm too afraid of going sausage and wasting time early for additional farms. Maybe I just don't know when it's the perfect time to make them. The question is: do you see any obvious mistakes in my build order? Do you have any advices? I'm mainly interested in becoming more efficient, and not having to bother about food anymore. Leather would be a nice thing to have too.