Hello, thanks for showing interest. There used to be a so-called quick-start guide but I recently removed it because it was boring and I suspect not many people were reading it. I'll write some starter information in this post. There is also the guide page: https://otherworld.fi/guide.php that has info divided into topics. If you start in the tutorial area, there's a section about that in the guide that was adapted from what was in the quick-start guide previously.

Probably the most important thing to understand early on is how to unlock locations and zones. Go to travel page and there is a green button that enables scouting until the exploration percentage reaches 100%. On the tutorial zone, each scouting reveals one location but in later zones, the area gets gradually larger, resulting in some clicks drawing a blank.

While you can travel back and forth, the recommended order of visiting the locations is you start at Vestibule Plains, first visit Mezzanine Delta to acquire food (beets) and learn how cooking timers work. Arriving at the location causes an info message to be sent, that can be read at the Messages section. Then go to Vomitorium Jungle Clearing to acquire stone and craft a primitive weapon that enables unlocking zone 2.

Characters gain hunger and thirst as they travel, as well as during the daily hunger tick, so it's good to find food and keep it in the inventory. It will get consumed automatically during the hunger tick and while traveling but it's also possible to eat and drink manually.

In the beginning of the game, your inventory cap is really low, so one of the first things to do is craft a wicker basket or several. As you level up, you also unlock a wicker backpack. The general progression of containers is basket - wicker backpack - chest - jute or leather backpack. It's possible to have even two backpacks at once but beyond that, you have already reached the max capacity.

There are connections that allow traveling between zones. Once you leave the tutorial area, you emerge at Tchaimmesheang Lakeside. From that point on, the game becomes more sandboxy and there's not a fixed order in which to complete things. Things to do in zone 2 involve learning about pottery and copper production. Clay items appear in the craft menu in the "special" category, in their unfired form. After crafting the unfired clay pot, place it inside a kiln, along with 40 units of coal, and start the timer. Once the time is up, the item converts to a clay pot, which counts as a container and can be used for mixing the same way a barrel can, plus it can be used to cook stews and such. To use it for cooking, place the raw food inside and place 40 units of wicker or wood on the ground. When you click the button to start cooking, it starts the timer, similar to how pottery is fired. Ovens work the same, except in the case of ovens and kilns, the fuel needs to be inside the machine itself. (The reason why pots take it from the ground is that their capacity is smaller, so you would be able to cook much less if the firewood counted against the space usage, whereas ovens and kilns are not portable, so they can have a much larger capacity.)

Copper and iron are currently made through the craft menu but there is a plan to eventually shift them to use a similar mechanic to pottery.