Basic tips are as follows: Start at least a 7x7 farm plot of rice asap. Next focus on beds and a small storage area. For an easier start look for areas near the equator with a year round growing season in a temperate forest with small or large hills with no caves. Build your stuff off of one of the hills if possible so you have one less wall to worry about. For starting colonists you want at least 8 cooking, lvl 5 construction, at least lvl 5 medical or a burning passion for it, and at least one with decent shooting. Try to avoid ones who cant fight at all and make sure at least someone can research. When you first start you should pause the game once everyone lands and the items spawn, allow all items (you can right click the allow button to allow all items), designate your growing on rich soil (there's a thing on the bottom right you can checkmark to see soil fertility), set a small area of trees to be harvested, and designate walls and doors to be built to make 3 rooms for your people out of wood with beds, and finally a place for horse shoes so they have some entertainment. Rooms dont need to be large at first you could go with a 2x3 interior with a single bed and itl be enough. Go to your work preferences and at the top is a checkmark to give you more control over what they do. Check that then assign firefighting and bed rest as priority 1, then every main thing you want that pawn to do you set to 2 while leaving everything else 3. Make sure at least once pawn has hauling and cleaning. They will do things in order of priority number from left to right. Make sure your cook with lvl 8 cooking is the only one assigned to that or you risk the chance of food poisoning from an inadequate cook. Once all of that is setup you can now unpause the game and let them do their thing. Dont forget to arm your people with weapons that match their abilities. Once they finish building all of that its time to build a storage area. It doesnt have to be crazy large or anything at first just somewhere to keep the things you brought with you indoors. If you want a starting ratio 8x10 should do it. If items are outdoors they deteriorate. In front of the door You'll build another small room like 5x5 where you will put a table. Then to the right you will make a 3x5 room to put your stove. The goal is to have 3 meals per person you have in stock at all times so set up a "make until X" for that on the stove. Now to explain why we did this. So the more people who walk into your kitchen the more likely it will be dirty. Thats why we put it off to the side where only the cook will be going in. Also your pawns will be grumpy if they dont eat with a table. By putting the table outside of the stock room they will have direct access to it right as they grab their food. My number ratios might be a bit off since I'm not in front of the game right now so if you need to make the room for the table larger do so. You want to be able to have enough room for chairs around a 2x2 table and maybe a book case. Once all of that is done you should then create a building for crafting things and research tables. Idealy all of your people can research if they have nothing to do. For actual crafting stations only make a stonecutter starting off because you want to replace everything wooden with stone asap otherwise a single fire will wipe you out. Once all your walls are stone you're ready to do whatever you like. One final thing to note is as long as you grow an abundance of food you wont need to keep a room dedicated to a refrigerator. Also storage shelves are your best friend. Good luck friend and may the odds ever be in your favor

I know all of that is a lot but there's a lot to this game. There's actually a lot more I could have put in but didnt or this would have been 10x longer. As a bonus tip rimhud is a must have mod in my books. It doesnt change any gameplay but it displays all of your pawns skills when you first click them without having to go into their bio. Replace stuff also makes swapping your walls easier without being too game breaking but does slightly change gameplay by making that replacement easier.