The stove is one of the few benches that requires you to hit the craft button and the play button.
As far as temperature, we will have to rely on gear and food now for the buffs we need.
To go back to your original question, nope, no way to mitigate temperature difficulty built in to the character.
Equipment (which aught display it’s actual temperature protection in the craft and feat menu, rather than a single bar for everything) and consumables are the only options.
Mistmourn, Solspiel, and Eye of the Watcher all became much more important.
Don’t feel bad about the Fuel thing done it plenty of times one reason you hit start and it works with out Fuel on ps4. Seen mention of other players not finding their bodies staying off official until they repair things or being careful with cheap gear
Good Luck.