These are some of the things I’ve discovered while playing, as well as information I’ve gathered from browsing and lurking this sub, among other places. Hopefully they’ll be useful to others.

General

• To cover more ground faster, do a forward melee attack before jumping: it’ll keep your momentum as long as you keep moving forward.
• Your own plasma grenade CAN one shot kill you.
• Extreme weather goes away after a number of real-time minutes. If you pause the game and come back after ~5 minutes, the storm will clear;
• Your hazard protection won’t drop while you are in Build Mode -> Free Camera. Sentinels can still see and hurt you.
• Whenever the game counts you as “inside a building” (no longer losing life support, restoring hazard protection), sentinels drones will completely stop attacking you and lose sight of you. Bigger sentinels, such as Quads, might still attack.
• If you are within your base, you can build several “open rooms” of 4 archways + one roof (or floor as roof) which can act as a shelter from sentinels and weather and still have ample line of sight for everything around you.
• Atlas Cylinders (the red ones often found around settlements) often have Antimatter and Antimatter housing.
• The rooms that an Atlas V3 pass opens inside space stations often has just a bunch of plants for carbon and some ammo boxes. Not worth the effort
• Keeping a stack of Uranium is usually better than carrying Starship Launch Fuel around
• Activated version of star metals (Copper, Cadmium, Emeril and Indium) are never used for any recipes. They’re only useful for selling or refining into Chromatic Metal.
• A ship’s Economy Scanner can also be used to look for planetary Trading Posts.
• If you sell stuff to pilots that arrive in Space Stations, it won’t affect the star system’s prices. This is very useful for Hardcore and Permadeath modes, where you’re more likely to take Active Indium all over your exosuit, ship and freighter.
• These pilots that stop by Space Stations can offer any of the specific weather elements (Pyrite, Phosphorus, Dioxite, Parafinum), Pugneum, Chromatic Metal, as well as Alloy Metals (dirty bronze, magno-gold, etc). How much they have depends on the system’s economy level.
• Although selling to these pilots won’t affect the prices of the star system, their inventories are affected by the prices shown at the Space Station. You can, for instance, crash Metal Plate prices down to -80% at the trade terminal and buy full stocks off the pilots for the same -80% discount
• On that note, waiting around a 3-star economy space station is the fastest way to fill up your inventory with Metal Plates, if you ever need more for your mining farms.
• Pilots that land on planets often have one or two of the 6 plants used for crafting super expensive things.
• Do NOT attempt to crash the prices of Wiring Looms, Microprocessors or pretty much anything else that’s expensive and ready to buy out of a Space Station’s trade terminal. Wiring Looms’ base prices are 50k/25k buy/sell. For Microprocessors, it’s 19k/2k. Launch Fuel is 40k/450
• Markets are usually fully restocked after 2 hours of real time.
• Crashed markets take over 24 real time hours to recover.
• You can transform Units into Nanites via Outlaw Space Stations. The illegal goods sellers there always have a number of Suspicious Packets (Technology) and (Weaponry). While it’s not a 100% chance they’ll drop X mods, the chance is very high.
• These Outlaw sellers often stock Larval Eggs and Hadal Cores, which you can refine into 50 nanites each. Having a number of these outlaw stations ready to visit can be very good for your nanite account.

Mission stacking

• If you are too far away from where a mission is supposed to happen, you can reset it and it’ll most likely point to a planet within your current star system. This is best done in systems with 2 planets.
• The Scan (Minerals/Fauna/Flora) and Take a Photo of X missions can stack. If you reset them while in a small system, you’re more likely to get all of them for a single planet.
• All the “Kill” missions (sentinels, fauna, monstrosities, pirates), as well as the “feed animals” missions can stack and will count for completion simultaneously, no matter which system or planet you kill/feed the things. If you have 3 “Kill 1 predator” missions active at the same time, as soon as you kill 1, all 3 will complete.

Money money money

• Starting out fresh, mining for Cobalt might be the first bit of easy money you can get. Find a cave and mine away. Once you can build your first Medium Refiner, you just need to buy Oxygen and put both on the refiner.
• Oxygen is a “universal multiplicator”. Stick it + any of the following elements in a refiner to get more of said element: Condensed Carbon, Ionized Cobalt, Chlorine.
• If you have access to plenty of Trituim and Dihydrogen, you can use them to craft Frigate Fuel. The return of investment is usually around 100x, as both elements are extremely cheap and 50tonnes has a base sale price of 20k
• Planetary trading posts might have Drop Pod Coordinate Data for sale. You’ll notice that these are always sold at ~33% discount. You can immediately sell them at any space station for a hefty profit. With enough inventory space and Teleport-saved trading posts, you can even crash the drop pod markets of several systems before selling it all to a space station. Combine this with the time it takes for economies to recover and you can spend a good day hopping back and forth for immense profits.
• A Cactus plantation on a desert planet is one of the easiest, lowest maintenance and time consuming ways to get lots of money. Each cactus yields 150-180 Cactus Flesh. With 200, you can craft one Unstable Gel, which has a base selling price of 50k. This makes each planted cactus worth roughly 35-40k
• You can always visit other players’ activated indium or whatever else farms. If they’ve uploaded their base, they want other players to drop by and get the stuff, because they no longer need it themselves. They want to help you and others.
• Mining machines work on a diminishing returns math. The overall yield drops among all miners the more you put around the spot.
• Minor Settlements NPC sellers usually have 1 or more advanced materials that you have to otherwise craft yourself, such as Semiconductors or Nitrogen Salts.

Making upgrades better

• If you put similar upgrades next to each other, they gain a small bonus (10%) to their efficacy. A +5% damage for your Infra-Knife besides another said upgrade will make both give you +5.5%, for a total of +11% damage.
• You can only have 3 nanite bought upgrades of the same thing (shield, specific weapon) per tab. You can, for instance, install 3 shield upgrades on your General exosuit tab, plus another 3 on the Technology tab.
• Crafted upgrades do not count for the above maximum. They still count for giving the proximity bonus.
• Any upgrades that are in the General tab of your ship can be damaged by Black Hole jumping. Any upgrades in the Tech tab of your ship and exosuit are always safe from being damaged.

My phone goofed and I can’t seem to find out who it was or where it was from, but this is helpful information.

“A complete listing of all possible types of planets which can generate and a system to classify them, based on my observations of 150 star systems

Everyone knows that there are seven biomes, right? Well, kind of. Today I’m going to explain my system for classifying planets, and list every type of planet that can exist.

Seven basic biomes: these can occur in Standard [STD] or Extreme [XTR], and can be low-security or high-security [HS]. In space, XTR planets can be determined from scans by whether or not their chromatic metal [copper, cadmium, emeril, indium] is marked as “activated.” Activated chromatic metals only occur on XTR planets. This means there are seven biomes, two extreme-ness levels [except for airless], and two security levels, for a total of 26 basic types.

1. Humid [paraffinium, star bulb]
2. Cold Desert [pyrite, cactus flesh]
3. Hot Desert [phosphorous, solanium]
4. Frozen [dioxite, frost crystal]
5. Irradiated [uranium, gamma weed]
6. Toxic [ammonia, fungal cluster]
7. Airless

Next, each planet can have three different types of ocean level:

1. Type P [Pangaea] – planets with no water at all [all moons are Type P by default]
2. Type O [Ocean] – planets with oceans but still with large continents
3. Type A [Archipelagic] – planets dominated by water with only small, island landmasses

Last, each planet can have five levels of hostile animal activity [this is a qualitative scale, not a quantitative one]

1. Zero stars – no predators recorded
2. One star – Predators exist but attacks rare or non-existent
3. Two stars – Predators exist and attack occasionally
4. Three stars – Predators exist and attack often, interfering with other activities
5. Four stars – Predators attack so frequently it is difficult to engage in other activities

There are also anomalous planets. These come in two large categories, anomalous and exotic:

• Anomalous planets: Always Type P, only have one species which never changes between iterations. There are 10 subtypes: Bubble, shards, beams of light, tall robots, techno ruins, hexagon world, mechanical mushrooms, shells, and giant concrete spores,.
• Exotic planets: can be of any ocean type, normal or extreme weather, high or low security, and have a normal complement of flora and fauna species. There are, to my knowledge, six subtypes that overlap somewhat:

1. Mega Aquatic – contains extremely large versions of underwater flora
2. Mega Toxic – contains massive versions of flora from toxic worlds. Mega Toxic worlds aren’t actually toxic though
3. Mega Humid – contains massive versions of flora from humid planets.
4. Mega Desert – contains massive versions of flora from Hot Desert planets. Has normal temperatures though
5. Boundary failure – contains only large, ringed mechanical structures
6. Stone ring world – contains large stone rings. May occur with colossal flora as well.

This system can be used to quickly classify any planet:

• HS Xtr Toxic (A)*** = a high-security extreme toxic planet mostly covered in oceans, with relatively high predator danger
• Std. Frozen (P) = A regular-weather, low-security ice planet with no water or predators
• HS Std Mega Humid Anomaly (O)* = A high-security exotic biome planet with massive palm trees, oceans, continental landmasses, and predatory creatures which don’t attack the player”

I would love to give credit so if anyone knows who it was that made the original post I will credit them the moment I find out. Hope this helps 🙂