With over 400hrs in my main save, I wanted to try some more challenging. Here is what I learnt.

\- It took me about 20hrs, using the portal glitch. Overall it was an enjoyable although nervous experience, with the first few hours being the hardest. 

\- Deadly planet environments are the norm, with massive storms. I learnt early on never to stray far from my ship. 

\- Caves early on are a life saver for both their resources and shelter.

\- Caution is the name of the game, My first play through was ended by bunch of aggressive animals hunting me in toxic bio. (going into water and picking them off, was the answer) Pirate battles are longer and often ended in expensive repairs. 

\- Dangerous fauna and fall damage is incredibility dangerous. My sloppiness almost cost me many times.

\- With costs jacked up, less storage, and "common" resources like iron, carbon, sodium, etc. harder to find in volume, basic builds/progress feel like a real achievement. It wasn't until I found a paradise planet (I only found 2) did it feel like I got on top resource gathering.  

\- With the usage costs also increased, I focused on progressing guild ranks for both the merchants (launch fuel) and explorers (warp hypercore), removing a stack of resource grinding later on. 

\- I found permadeath extremely glitchy, the number of times I feel through things or they just didn't render properly, made me a gun at restart before I died. 

\- I was able to access my various expedition rewards, removing the grind of the multi-tool and ship upgrading. 

\- Permadeath still tiggers the Survivor trophy as well.   

Permadeath Learnings