I've looked around for a readme or what-have-you, and I've looked on the wiki, but there's really nothing that answers the questions I have.

I realize that it's very early along in the development and whatnot, but I've been curious about a few things.

The lack of tooltips is a killer to a first launch, and again I understand it's early in development, but a very small, quickly made manual bundled with the software that's just a readme.doc or somesuch that at the very least gives you a nice screenshot of the main window with the trade and scavenge and inventory windows open, everything on the screen that is giving you important information numbered and a list down below that explains each number would be a massive improvement and more easily accomplished at a much quicker rate than getting the tooltips coded in.

Example: Those bars at the bottom of the screen above your hotbars. What do they mean?

They don't even need to be verbose descriptions. Just a quick "This is your hunger meter." or what-have-you.

Amusingly, asking this question in game got the snitty response of "You don't need a manual."

Awesome. :|