Not a full guide but a tip on one of the parts that I was stuck on for a while.
To hit the final explorer level to craft everything there is a step to shock and kill 4 things within 3 seconds. I kept trying to bait, shock and kill. For some reason when they were eating and then I shocked and killed them it would not register. What I tried finally was to bait them, hit them with the binding bile, shock them and finally kill them and it worked on the first go. Hope this helps, it would have saved me at least an hour!!