Aw, we’re glad to have you 
Also I thought of a few more random things that confused me when I was finding my feet:
- to eat a piece of food you need to click and hold whichever hand it’s in for ~5 seconds (literally 5 seconds) (literally literally, not figuratively literally)
- you can unlearn a skill by clicking on it in the tree and using a “cleanse point”, of which you have a max of 3 and gain 1 per level
- as you learn more skills in a skill-set, the cost of others in the same set increases. So it’s a bit tricky to map out your skills, and I still haven’t quite figured that out…
- …but it helps that as you level you’ll get more skillpoints and plots per level. @spoygg showed me a chart once, lemme go find it.
[Edit: I found it! https://forum.playboundless.com/t/lvl-atm/8131/29]
Also! The devs are positively drooly-eyed about getting feedback from new players, so if/when you have some, feel free to post it here. There are a bunch of them who post pretty regularly, @james being the most visible, but also @luke-turbulenz and @olliepurkiss about overall gameplay, @Minyi and @jesshyland about art, @vdragon about adding your bug to the database, @michaelb about magically fixing servers, @lucadeltodecso about…topological homeomorphism… and others I’ve missed, I’m sure, which, SORRY DEVS!