OK, I'm giving this another shot after a long break, and overall I think it turned out okay, at least for what I want to do. However, I HATE the mandatory mining facility quest and I'm super cheesed off that they kept that. Seems like almost anything else in the game can be reached by means other than combat, but in this case, they're like HAHAHA NOPE YOU GOTTA FIGHT YOUR WAY THROUGH ALL IN ONE SHOT AND YOU HAVE TO USE STARTING GEAR AND YOU CAN'T MINE OR USE ANY OF THE THINGS YOU NORMALLY USE LIKE SLEEPING BAGS TO RECOVER HEALTH HAHAHAHAHAHAHA SUCK IT.
So does anyone have any tips, for someone who is truly atrociously bad at combat and has no interest in practicing it, on getting through this quest? Any simple ways to cheese the combat without risk? I was using a gun but one of the monsters got past it and wound up destroying me before I could switch to my sword. I wouldn't mind the mandatory combat so much if the facility remembered your progress, and I could pick away at it slowly, go in, clear a few rooms, go take a rest, and return, but it seems to reset every single time. I am perfectly fine with cheating to make it possible to place items and mine, if someone knows how to do that. I'm fine with some fighting, but I'll never be able to make it any further into the game if I have to beat this quest the way they intend me to beat it, and the stuff I actually WANT to play is all gated by it. And I don't see any reason for this quest to even be in a sandbox game about exploration. I want to get to THAT part without having to spend many hours I don't have mastering a skill I don't care about to get through a quest which seems to be designed as a sort of EFF YOU to anyone who prefers casual exploration and building.