Originally posted by jjrobinson2:

Why wasn't it obvious that Wards have to be activated to actually function? Also took a very long time into the game before I realized the Hoe has a right-click menu. Is there a really detailed guide for this game somewhere?

This is primarily an experiential learning type game and not an on the rails/tutorial based one.

If you feel there are things you need to learn more, let's play and tutorial youtube videos by other players, the wiki, other written guides and more are available resources.