Buildings are hidden until their cost is met, surprise factor.

Your goal should be to expand the colony and increase its profitability as well as your chances at getting extra income.

Well 20 lumberjacks or 1 farmer... one gives you a good amount of wood per week, while the other gives you food. What do you want?

Ever played an idle game or management game? You buy stuff without knowing the exact output numbers. Of course a farmer gives you more food than a forager. 20 lumberjacks would be good to get a lot of wood and unlock buildings for instances, since you'll be meeting their requirements....

So think of it in a tactical standpoint...

This game is along the lines of - what kind of stuff do I want to figure out?

I made it this way because variety will shape colonies to be different, different focuses will develop colonies in unique ways, specializing them.

Think about the things you can unlock with stone, wood, different workers... then take the necessary measures.

Your colonists are at your command, you can order them to do everything, but they won't perform out of their specialization... for instances, order 20 lumberjack to mine for stone, they'll do it, but the results would be less than optimal.

It's natural for people to be a little bit disoriented with the game, it's on purpose, to hide the features until the way people play the game unlocks them. Plus, from an organizational standpoint it's the best choice.

If you have any doubt, just ask, just don't ask me about future unlocks, like buildings, techs and so on, I want players to have their prefered way of playing reward them for it.

Hope to have cleared the air a bit for you, but open to questions.