You could always just place pebbles in the world which you can use to make first tools.
Worst case, if that’s too much additional work for the devs, you could harvest gravel and take some of the bigger stones from there.
There are multiple ways to get stones for first tools. No need to have wooden tools which are just unnecessary.
That you can cut down trees with your hands is also something I’d rather not see. But that’s a minor issue.