The Insomniac Interloper

This is one of those things that isn't obvious: trying to just grabbing the eggs and fighting the biological horrors in Permadeath is going to get you killed . The trick is that you have to understand how biological horrors behave: they won't chase you indoors. This means that you can go to an abandoned building, build walls and roof around most of the eggs and put a door, leave one of the eggs outdoors. Now shoot one of the outdoor eggs, run like hell back indoors and you can harvest the indoor eggs at your leisure. I learned this trick from the following video from Scottish Rod , he has fantastic NMS content and is well worth a subscribe:

 First contact:  Already put to work!

 

 I'll be expanding this post as I move along ... The starting world is Christole Oich, Rowland-Desk. This is a permadeath expedition. You WILL lose a lot of stuff and progress every time you die. Whenever you spawn, run for your ship first, then check your expedition chart. There are certain things that are easier to do if you expect to die quickly, for example collecting whispering eggs, befriending a predator, etc. Do those now, if you get killed you lose nothing. From the spawn planet, look around: there are a TON of nice folks out there that have built bases in strategic points, either with a ton of loot for free, or in important locations that are much harder to find later. A good example: a crashed freighter. I wasted two days looking for one, yet there's one clearly marked in the starting world.  You have a freighter! And whatever you build on your freighter, or any other bases you build, persists even if you die. You lose inventory and upgrades, but infrastructure surv...