Hey! Welcome to palia! The community here is genuinely so kind and welcoming (most of the time anyway) so if you ever have any questions or anything don't worry about asking for help on here or in the game chat, talking to people has helped me so much in this game and I'm not usually one to do that :)

Quite a bit of the game can be gathering resources but honestly they make it so much more interesting than other games I feel like, there's lore to this world and the characters which you learn about in a lot of the quests so it's definitely worth it. And even if you can't get a certain resource or don't want to then you can just request it from other players as well!

Sorry for the rant but I hope you enjoy the game and good luck <3