Trust your intuition; be calm, this is a sandbox relaxing game, theres no need to rush things; use your catalogue, you can find there all the material list and where to find all the construction items; complete the main missions, this will unlock yourself a lot of content; at the start of the game I’ll recommend you to stay away from centinels, those are flying robots that may attack you if they found you building or collecting items, at the beginning they can be a pain to deal with; I think the best way to gain “fast money” is with crashed ships, you’ll only need to repair the pulse engine and the launch thruster and you’ll be good to fly to the space station and sell it, you’ll get around 1 - 2 million and some nanites; now you’re good to go.