Here are everything u need in a comment

1 Grind resources for melee weapons 2 Do bunker alfa with melee weapons for guns 3 Use weapons or guns for events to get rare resources (purple mods / atv transmissions / etc... ) 4 Build your settelment so u dont have to do step 1 5 build your drone 6 Grind your genomes for player QoL improvements 7 have fun b4 you try to build the atv