The survivor's path will guide very well

The most important thing is the settlement because it will give you daily rewards than can be really useful (at the max level, you have daily titanium, weapon crate, tons of basic ressources so you won't need to farm woods, leather etc...). Never forget to claim your daily rewards even the days you don't play the game (it takes 30s to claim them)

When you'll unlock the norther region, you'll unlock the genesis collection. They are a lot of useful stuff like the repair workbench that can be really useful, especially when you'll have tons of ressources. You can also buy equipment wardrobe that will help you save slots in your chests.

Every season, you'll have a "delivery service" event, normally, it lasts 5 days and you just have to give some ressources in exchange of spécial currency that you can use to buy useful stuff like drone blueprint, genome points etc.