>>2022368
it's complex at first, but it's not hard to figure things about if you use the handbook, which you should. you can hover over any item in your inventory or hotbar and press H and it'll show you the entry on it, or you can just press H normally and it'll bring up the handbook where you can search
it even has little articles for getting started and different things you can do, so learning is pretty straightforward and once you've done something it's pretty easy to remember

>>2022370
yeah I just use the object finder overlay mod for that, I have only so much time in life and I'm not really going to waste it sprinting through a forest which just not have even a single hive in it with nothing playing and the volume maxed. I guess that's the other good part, if there's something you don't like you can just cheat a little bit
I normally switch between survival and creative while playing, mainly if I forgot an item at base or need to dispose of stuff I can just dump it into the creative inventory where it disappears, and it's helpful during construction to test out ideas or do tedious things like roofing without needing to spend multiple days gathering dry grass