Very cool game mechanics so far, but it's very frustrating trying to play it.
For the "Repair and Improvement" quest, I go and talk to Shaartan, who asks for something... I think maybe cattails? The quest log doesn't update to reflect the new task, so I'm not sure. When I go talk to her, she asks about the bathhouse, and there's no way to give her the cattails for the dry grass, or to ask to be reminded what to bring her. I tried reloading and doing the quests in a different order, so then she asks me if I've brought the cattails (if I remember right?), and I have them, but she won't take them. Plus, then she stops asking about the bathhouse, and there's not way to bring it up with her, so I worry that now the bathhouse quest is broken.
So, I reload to my old game, and I try to finish the bathhouse quest in the hopes that the Repair and Improvement quest will work afterward. Now, however, she asks for soapwort roots, but doesn't tell me where to find them. And the quest log just says to colelct "roots", so if I had forgotten that it was soapwort, then I wouldn't be able to figure out how to complete the quest. So now I'm just wandering around looking for something that hopefully says "soapwort"...
Meanwhile, I've gotten hungry, but I've already eaten the fish soup from the ingredients Alice gave me, so now I'm out of food. The only food I know how to cook is fish soup, but I don't know how to get any of the ingredients. It says you don't need everything for a recipe, but you do need some of it. The recipe says onions are necessary, but I don't know where to get them. I worry fish would be necessary, too, but I don't know where to get that. Maybe the trap has been put back, and now has fish in it? Are those the only necessary ingredients? Is water necessary? I know where to get water if it is, but it would be nice to know which ingredients were necessary instead of needing to guess.
I really want to like this game, but it's just too frustrating to play right now. I'd suggest having the first quest include directions on how to feed yourself repeatably. I also suggest being able to ask the NPCs about quests instead of it being what they talk to you about. Because sometimes if you're working on more than one quest, one will overwrite the other, and then you can't complete the first one. If you ask them about it, then you can always ask about progressing the quest you've worked on. Also, the quest log should include more details like "collect 3 cattails from the beach" or "collect 3 chamomiles from the meadow in front of the town".