Greetings.
I asked for a Seed Bench from Billy, but he gave me an Alchemy Bench instead.
Sometimes early on I was able to make seeds on the Basic workbench next to the tent in the Hideout, but later I wasn't. I don't know if was doing something differently each time.
I don't know if it matters, but the synopsis after the first year where my character chose to leave the island said she hadn't made any friends, but the construction screens were showing Friends: 1. That would be Suong (60.0) I suspect. (I also don't know what it means to have a friend when you are constructing something in the first place.)
One time when speaking to an NPC my character gave her surname as Volkova instead of what I entered at the start, but she gave the correct given name. I don't remember which NPC she was speaking to, sorry.
Looking through the thead here I see people being exact about the bugs, so I'll try to be more helpful if I post again.