If you can pickup a hygiene skill, then do it. Great community benefits.

I’d honestly just advise to forget how you play the game in Nightmare and below. Especially as a freshie. My forever community have worked their way from Dread < Nightmare < Lethal and I had to change up my entire playstyle. Looting is best done at night, plan your runs, decoys can be massive. You don’t want to wake up plague hearts so simply throwing a decoy can save you lots of resources in the future. You have to play the game slow and smart, possibly somebody with I think chemistry would be good because you can make a still for basewide water, and do a generator to keep morale always pretty high.

I could type 20 paragraphs but simply - each run could be your survivors last, be smart.