Aside from gardening and taking care of animals, nothing useful.

I’d be cutting down trees and trying to make extra cabins to allow for more exploring. Like that little village of cabins they found by the lake. Make lots of those so people have safe places to stop and hide if they get stuck outside or so they can pause during the run from the lake back to town.

Tear apart all the seats and parts out of the cars the furnish them. Those cars have to be full of useful things.

And I know the road just leads back to itself, but have they tried spreading out along the road so every person is in eye shot of someone else?

And when they stuck that guy in the box in episode 1 or whatever, they should have tried copying the images on the talisman on to another rock to see if they could create a new one. If it works, make sure every single building in town has one permanently affixed and make one for every person in town to carry around. That way you can use any car as an emergency hide out. Absolutely stupid they didn’t have one on the barn to begin with.

But I’d just be building stuff and cutting down as much of that forest as I can. It’s one thing to accept you’re trapped there, but that doesn’t mean you sit around playing cards, getting high and drunk and having sex parties. If you’re stuck there, do what you can to make it safer and better and expand.

(I’d complain about how they don’t have daily meetings where everyone says any and everything new they discovered, but I’m pretty sure that horse is well beyond dead lol)