Thank you for the reply. I had figured out the new ropes (at least new to me) needed to go into the backpack. But one of the places I had looked for info was the "?" in game and I know I looked under "exploration". I continued a save from 0.5.0.2 (which seems to be working fine, except the selections of contraceptives and whatnot had cleared) so I didn't run the "beginning of the game" tutorial.
Looks really good so far. Keep this up and I'll break my "[practically] no patreons" policy and throw a little your way each month.