27 tips/tricks, many of which you probably already know
Hold RMB to focus the cutter’s laser, mining ~6X faster
Bind Alt as a secondary jump key to boost forward
Companions only need one ammo to use a weapon indefinitely, including grenades
In the lodge, the safe in your room and some of the containers in the basement have infinite storage. Some containers in procedurally generated structures do too - but none as convenient as the lodge
Cancel your ship boost (with S) to evade missiles without fully using up your boost, or spam boost-cancel in combat for the engine systems perk challenge
With a precise click, you can land between multiple biomes and build an outpost with resources from all. I’ve got a triple, and suspect a quadruple is possible
Setting up an outpost with some extractors and a large amount of storage, then spam-crafting items 99 at a time, is super-fast XP
Cargo links work in real-time (every 3 minutes) rather than game time. For the trick above, you’ll need to produce all ingredients in one outpost (e.g: Archimedes III for drill rigs, which are a rare component so give more XP than just adaptive frames/etc.) if you want to make full use of sleeping
Venus, Charybdis IV, and Katydid III all have 1:100 ratios for sleeping (1 hour slept = 100 UT hours)
Being over-encumbered still allows you to sprint (but not fast travel)
Health drain from moving with full CO2 won’t fully kill you
The more over-encumbered you are, the faster O2 drains. Being very over-encumbered can even overcome personal atmosphere’s O2 regen, allowing you to rapidly drain (by stepping forward) then regen (by briefly standing still) your O2 for the fitness challenge perk
The fitness perk challenge actually requires filling CO2, not just draining O2, and the “Life Begets Life” achievement only counts flora, not organic materials from fauna
The ship landing animation only plays if you’re sitting in your cockpit
The perk you get from a non-recipe magazine is determined by how many of that series you already found, not the magazine number
Magazine perks persist through NG+, and magazines respawn
You get all resources back when destructing outpost modules, or the entire outpost at once
You can steal starborn ships if you get there before the starborn exit, or have that bug where enemy ships are empty
You can instantly fully-scan gas/ice giants from space to get survey data (and Vlad buys survey data for the most money)
Killing fauna and collecting minerals/flora counts as scanning
For minerals you can scan the ground areas (where you can place extractors) and dropped item versions (even if taken from elsewhere), not just the mineable rock deposits
After unlocking ship thrusters, use them by holding space and a direction
Novablast disruptor and magsniper can be charged by holding left click
You can access ship’s cargo from the menu if within 250m
Also a cheesy one to level: each hit with a silenced automatic weapon counts as a sneak attack as long as your not full detected, rapidly filling the challenge for sneak.
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