No, there's directions on the boot-up screen. You have to actually click past the screen when you're loading the game. If you skip over those screens and don't read them, you've probably already missed content. We actually added more visuals for this screen during the last update to draw more attention to it so your best bet is to read the screens when the game starts. You just need to click new game after an update then there's a choice there to automatically jump to the end of the last update. That activates everything and will prevent the errors you're likely getting. You'll have to do this with each update just because of the way the code works.
This game is a work-in-progress so we're constantly making changes to it as we learn more what we're doing. This is a first attempt for me and the team I'm building so we're learning as we go. So we ask that you read those warning screens while things are under construction. It allows you to still play the game while unlocking all the content that we add in each time.