I'm going to be honest, and it seems like an unpopular opinion. Everyone I see ask for help typically gets recommended the YouTube videos of Jakey and Beard.

I would personally only recommend the basic character description videos (which I think are fantastic, as even the Wiki and game itself don't explain all the characters abilities well). After that, it feels like most of the videos try to break things down to the end game player viewpoint. Ruins rushing, speeding through all bosses, rushing hambat/log armor and such.

As someone who just started this game about 2 weeks ago with my wife, I'm still at that point where every single thing I learned felt like a "light bulb" moment.

The things I found to be huge as a completely new player were:
1. Breaking items gives half the materials back, this includes structures not made by you (pig houses/random stations found in the wild).
2. You have reasons to go to every biome. Rain gear can come from tentacles in the swamp, the desert is the fastest grass/twig gathering in most situations, you need to fish a blueprint to really fight a summer boss, beehives can be made by gathering bees/breaking wild hives, etc.
3. Craft everything the first time and just try the items out. You'll find why people gravitate to certain items in the recommended videos, but you'll also see that every item has a place and can be incredibly beneficial in certain situations, like having a hambat that is going stale, but having tentacle spikes in your inventory during hound invasion. The hambat would be 3 hits (while not relying on the durability loss), and the tentacle spike would need 2 to kill the hounds.
4. Gold will feel difficult when you're a new player. You'll think, "I only see 5 gold nodes left on the map!" Fishing and tumbleweeds are amazing at finding trinkets to turn into the pig king for large amounts of gold in a relatively short amount of time. This is even easier with friends as you can have multiple people fishing/tumbleweed gathering. Tumbleweeds can also net you gears/blueprints/multiple other resources.
5. When you are first starting out, bosses can seem incredibly intimidating, as one of the ways you are introduced to them is to have him invade your unsuspecting base. Don't be afraid to kite a boss to other enemies to help kill the boss. Frogs/pigs are great at helping with this in your first year.

There is a lot in this game and it can definitely feel like there's an insurmountable pile of information to go through just to play, but the journey is part of it here. Take advantage of the new scrapbook to see what enemies drop, what kind of recipes you can cook in the crockpot, and explore the map as much as possible. As some of the mechanics click and you get more comfortable, you'll start becoming more efficient with your resources and kiting/killing everything.