Always rush a pickaxe on a new character. How far did you get? How to change Starbound character difficulty? There are four main hex values in a simple dye, and vanilla “Starbound” only uses these simple palettes.
If your field is so isolated that nobody cites your work, does that make you irrelevant? If you want, you can speak with the Riften guards to get the misc quest that should make a marker appear on her head.