Your mistakes in Starbound

First of all, this is not a rant thread or anything like that. Here I'd like to know what kind of mistakes YOU have made so far in the Starbound universe. After all it's a sandbox game with little to no handholding, so you have to find almost everything out by yourself and of course you also make some mistakes and I'd like you to share them with us

I'll start...

1. I assumed that you couldn't leave your starter planet until you defeated the first boss and thought that beta sector meant, visiting other planets in your solar system...
2. After about 16 hours into the game I finally noticed what the beta sector was really about and realised that I didn't need the starmap upgrade in order to leave the starter planet

Now, what about you guys?

 

Placing down the distress beacon thinking maybe I was prepared and being totally wrong

And then later almost making the same mistake with the second boss spawner

 

When I got out from the alpha sector to the beta for the first time, I smelted all my iron to new steel bars. Then all happily and with excitement of new steel uppgrades I accidentally dragged the whole pile of all my steel bars to the "trash/junk" slot. Swoosh, after a second or so all of it was gone ...

Down to the mining I went again ... and I felt so stupid at that moment.

 

Well, I just created the second Boss item and used it without backing up my save. At least it's not as bad as broken structures but I still wasted a lot of resources. Oh well, live and learn.

 

Yeah, totally forgot about that. Did the same thing

 

Distress beacon... I got owned. Putting my first npc spawner to 3d scanner -> gone. =(

 

Knowing full well I couldn't beat the first boss, but putting the first Distress Beacon down to test his actions. He promptly wrecked my buildings.

 

Digging straight down at my beam-down point and falling down and dying every single time.
To this day I don't know why I haven't covered that up. Hey, I need that pickaxe durability.

 

killed the npc in my friends ship with the brain extractor
didnt know they would die lol

 

I did the same thing as the OP. I spent a lot of time on my starter planet, dying of the cold and being really confused as to why I kept blacking out. It got really annoying so finally I came on the forums here and in searching for what was going on I found that coal and wood were fuel. I was expecting something to pop up saying "You have fuel!" And barring that, I thought the distress beacon might bring another ship to help you go to another planet.

 

dropped gold pickaxe in lava.

 

The second boss. I thought twice about it while still in silver armor after placing them down, but not a third time and I died.

Afking while my game was still on and going to the store and starving to death multiple times.

Getting stuck in a hole while in ball form. The jump needs to be upped just a hair...

Walking absent mindedly into a hole that was clearly mined straight down by a friend.