Getting farther along now....I've gotten the higher capacity oxygen tank, repair tool, and habitat tool, and I'm thinking about spending some of my materials to make a base. My inventory is getting full too often, and the floating storage lockers don't hold much. That and I have to leave the pod, grab materials from the storage lockers, and re-board the pod build things. Just gotta pick a good spot to do so. I've also repaired the radio, so I've gotten a few messages from other pods. I may go and them down before I do any building, just to keep my options open.

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as "bad luck.”
-Robert Heinlein