1. Start cutting wood until you are full
2. Build woodcutter - craft planks
3. Build foragers - from start one is enough, later after few villagers ( maybe 6-8 ) build another forager
4. Build storage ( close enough ( 200m ) to all other production buildings )
5. Now as you have enough food gatherers - this is the one of the most important stuff to have lot of food then you can obtain a villager.
6. Get 2 foragers , 1 porter , 1 merchant. You need to have a food, you need to gather products from other productions, you need money on some productions and to obtain villagers.
7. Build library - research desk - recruit scholar and now you can build other stuff.
This is the basics how to get to another level and how to get by. Moods can be changed by some random events but if you have enough food, enough warmth in a houses, villagers have things to do then the basics are met. Production properlz works if they are on its own foundation meaning do not connect foundation of more buldings/ productions. In a pc use "P" button i think it is called something like "donkt know actuallz but it enables to looks from above ".