My go-to weapons are a flaming spear (alt fire is a flamethrower) and a sniper rifle that isn't very special but hits like a truck. The mining facility was a relative cakewalk. There was a bunch of other great loot and upgrade materials. I looted all of my core fragments from crates and chests and one pissed off Adult Poptop. The first planet had an Avian shopkeeper right by the start, with a quest to find some other NPCs in the mines, which were not too far away. and it's been my best run yet, as far as the random generation goes. Then on one run I accidentally happened to leave it on Casual before starting. Dying to fall damage was really pissing me off to the extent that I would just start a whole new game and hope for an easier starting planet from the RNG. The first few runs I started on regular survival mode. Pretty impressed with 1.0 so far, it just feels fully baked. Dunno how far along it was but there was only the skeleton of the intro questline.

I somehow managed to put 16 hours into this in early access.