Hard to get back into it

I was excited for the 1.0 released and jumped in. I think the learning curve is high and getting new blueprints is difficult, I suppose the game isn't holding your hand, but it is not giving good guidance I think

I have completed a couple of the smaller quests around. Like building the house for the cow and the corn heart. I came across 2 which are the Work Car and the Nice Car. Which requires objects I have no access to. And it is not telling me how to get access to those.

I play on easy as I didn't enjoy respawning a lot and having to grow the 20 tomatoes seems near impossible. As the raid starts 5 green bots and 5 orange bots come at at the crops and destroy them before I can even destroy 1 bot, I only have the hammer and a sawblade on a car.

I then explored a bit and came across a big red bot that destroyed my mobile base as I ran out of fuel.

The game doesn't make it obvious either if its better to have a bigger mobile base, or build a smaller wooden structure and having multiple smaller vehicles.

I now have lost interest in the game, which is too bad as I like the survival aspect, but I don't like losing progress. If there was a way to increase drop rate that would be nice.