Playing with a friend

So me and my friend got farming sim 25 and now have no idea how to actually start playing.

Our idea was to start completely from scratch, like 0 dollars, just a piece of land and two chainsaws, after almost 2 hours and only 50k in the bank we got bored.

How do we prevent this? We would like a challenge so each piece of equipment would feel rewarding to finally afford, cover all of the different ways to farm (Silage, animal produce, woodworking etc) and build a farm from the bare minimum.

Some mod recommendations would be appreciated too as we found out that the vanilla stuff is kinda wack