Hm... That is very confusing, Ryan. I'm wondering if there's a part of the tutorial that maybe you are missing or skipping? There's just no way that the game would not show those things to you, unless for some reason you quit in the middle of the tutorial and didn't restart.
Are you on Discord by any chance? I'd love to hear more about the problems you are running into, because at this point they just don't make sense to me. You can click the Discord logo in the game or just go here. I'm @moebial :)