PRIORITY LIST FOR NEW PLAYERS OR PLAYERS WHO DON'T PLAY THIS KIND OF GAME.
1. Cooking Pot, spam search driftwood at the beach especially after Typhoon. Cooking pot helps you blend food effects for efficiency.
2. Rush Southwest exploration to 52% to unlock Hot Spring, very helpful to hygiene and stress management.
3. Eat Wild plants, Fruits and Mushrooms more, these foods help boost your immunity and prevent colds and diseases.
4. Prioritize leveling Akemi's crafting. She starts at level 2 crafting making it easier to unlock crafting items/facilities. You need this to craft Bow Trap or Barricade, lowering the chances of death. Stronger Wolves will eventually appear sooner than you expect, they deal high damage and they're tanky.
5. Prioritize leveling up Endurance and Carrying at least to level 3 in early game. Endurance for more SP and Carrying for more items to loot especially in duo explorations.
6. Prioritize 200 affection to all heroines, this will make chatting to them reduce their stress slightly. This will not work if you chat with 3 of them at once, one on one chatting only applies stress reduction.
7. If you achieved Basic needs stability ( Food and Water supply is stable ), prioritize making Mixing station, gather herbs and flowers if you can. If anything happens you already have answers to any ailments, injuries or any circumstances that you want potions to. I think you can get Botanical Notes ( to unlock gathering herbs ) at Southeast and Flower Garden in Northeast.
8. Obsidian Spear is the best craftable general weapon. So prioritize Crafting and making those for your team. Bone knife is good but you can't craft them and they're rare early game.
Edit: day music is kinda fire ngl...