So, I'm a new player that bought the game during the autumn sale. I remember watching gameplay of the game a year or two ago, and it had my interest.
Now, ever since getting to the first lab (and being told to go to the Hedge Maze), I feel quite lost. Well, not really 'lost' (as the game is telling me where to go), but lost as in how the hell I acquire items for Tier II/III tools/weapons (to give me more of an edge against the bugs). I was hoping the ingame notes would actually be helpful, but not always.

Trying to look for "Grounded how to find X" on Youtube, keeps giving me videos from a year ago. Now this typically wouldn't really be a problem, but the game world/what is needed to craft) has been clearly, substantially changed from when it was finally released to the current update. And this, is obviously NOT useful to me.

For example, I want the Fire Ant Club as I hear it's good for dealing with Orb Weavers. I have everything but Red Ant Mandibles. The unofficial wiki, doesn't tell me where to look for these (only that they are in 'biome here'). Not exactly useful with how massive the biomes are (and it's easy to miss if you're not really paying attention).
IGN however, says they can be found from Red Soldier Ants. And it has a video... but said video shows the Fire Ant Club with a completely different set of materials than what it shows ingame! So which is it, IGN?! Because killing the standard Red Soldier Ants aren't dropping it, and there's nothing that says if the mandibles have a really low spawn rate.
Read something about they're in Anthills. So I ask Google "where do I find anthills?", and again... videos from almost a year ago. These are useless to me as they have the old map design.

It feels like Youtubers have pretty much 'abandoned' this game and moved on to more relevant titles, which is screwing over people like myself that rather not 'enjoy' looking for hours for a needle in a haystack. I get most people actually prefer to find things on their own, but I'm not one of them when I need to find very specific things in order to progress the damn story.
Ah... buyer's remorse. So much buyer's remorse.