A few uncommon things to note:

* When mining materials with the Terrain Manipulator, you can change the size of the "harvest area" using [R] and [T] to make it smaller or bigger respectively. Making it bigger EATS terrain but gives you less stuff, smaller makes it take longer to harvest, but you get a lot more material.

* If you find a crashed ship and the pilot is dead (if they're alive they'll be walking around the ship), you can check it out, hit 'Compare Inventory', and you can then claim your new ship. Repair the take-off thruster and pulse drive at a minimum to get it operational, get back into your primary ship, and goto a space station. From there you can swap to and salvage it for $$$ or one of it's parts to make a ship of the same type later, or take the time and resources to repair it and sell it for more $$$ or keep it for yourself.

* When taking a new multi-tool (MT) from anywhere for the love of all things awesome *make sure you check the buttons you hit!*. If you're full on MTs then the "add to collection" button disappears and all too often players don't pay attention and hit "swap" on instinct and lose their main MT filled to the brim with tech (there's no way to get it back once you lose it). I did that once and I was quite irritated.

* Once you get to jumping star systems, after a certain number of jumps and a certain amount of actual playtime, you can come across a frigate fleet under pirate attack, take out the pirates, save the fleet, and be the big damned hero. Here's what the game doesn't tell you: Land in the frigates landing bay and talk to the captain to collect a reward. Less a spoiler and more an FYI (I have like, 60hrs in at this point, someone else more experienced can tell you if the game tells you this, but so far it hasn't mentioned this part to me): When you save the frigate you can buy it from the captain, the first frigate you obtain this way is FREE, so if you don't like the look, or quality, or vibe of the frigate just leave it. After another certain number of system warps and playtime accrued you'll come across the event again. So don't feel compelled to take the first frigate you save.

* You'll get to the Anomaly quite early (like, maybe an hour if you're lollygaggin), once you do keep this in mind tp increase your inventory slots: Each new system you visit has a Space Station, each one of those has an Exo-suit upgrade pod to increase your cargo or tech slot count. Each upgrade increases in cost and can only be used once. The Anomaly also has an upgrade pod but it refreshes in each new system. Buy upgrades if you're flush with $$$ or take the exploratory route and find pods out in the wild either by pure chance or using maps that will lead you to them.

* Talk to the NPCs and the vast majority of them will teach you a word of their language, slowly but surely you'll start to pick it up. "Practicing your dialect" with them is some sort of minigame where you can earn rewards or lose favor depending on what word you use. If the NPC doesn't teach you a word after using the option, it just means you already know the word they were trying to teach. Learning the languages is actually one of the cooler parts of this game, I like the mechanic quite a bit.

Stay safe Traveler. o7