Agriculture & Animals:Begin testing crop rotation method in small scale farms to see what is the most efficient crop cycle in terms of soil quality, crop product quality and growing speed and search for other animals to tame and domesticate for meat products and maybe also domesticate a horse-like animal we can use to vastly speed up scouting
Expansion:Set up more scouting teams to look firther in the east to look for coal and other ore deposits, and also begin setting up temporary wooden huts which we will replace with proper stone housing later but for now use the small villages as supply depots for furhter scouting and expansion
Take Terasaga fur and knit it into tough rope shaped materials, research the wench and build large wooden spoons, and maybe add a counter weight, add all those together and see what we get.
Start Researching better structural stability. Implement Terasaga into commercial trade. Do weekly inspections on Residential Areas, sewage systems, and markets to cut down on Plague transmission. Build Larger wells and put water large 3 meter tall containers made of brick or iron, attach filters made of Terasaga fur knited to together at small openings which can be opened with a lever contraption, so people in the Arid areas can be more independent from the coast.
Research: Ways to make recurve catch bows smaller and lighter. Make sort of fishing harpoon catchbows and mount them on ships for larger fish.
Industry: Develop hotter forges, by making them more enclosed, and using sort of bellows to feed air into them, so that the metal melts faster and the efficiency of tool production increases. Mine for coal to fuel these forges as well.
Economy: Start stockpiling whatever food we have to ensure the swarms do not cause food prices to raise too high. Replace the gem currencies with wooden or stone coins with gem backed economy.
Military: Begin consription of a qaurter of the male population, rotating each year. Meaning one qaurter will serve a year, then the next, so on. All soldiers are to march to the beetles and pour herbicides on everylast one.