A quick and easy way to get Skill points early in the game is to climb all the Tallnecks. There are five of them in total and each one will give you one Skill point.
To fast travel to and from any discovered campfires or settlements, you need the "Fast Travel Pack" item. You can craft the Fast Travel Pack by selecting "Crafting", "Travel", "Pack" at the menu. It costs 15 Ridge-Wood, 1 Fatty Meat, and 1 Bony Meat to craft each "Fast Travel Pack". To fast travel an unlimited number of times without having to use lots of crafting materials on Fast Travel Packs, purchase the "Golden Fast Travel Pack" from a vendor. It is not too expensive, and can be unlocked fairly early in the game. Go to the Meridian settlement and talk to the merchant in the market square to purchase the Golden Fast Travel Pack under the Resources tab. It costs 50 Metal Shards, 1 Fox Skin, and 10 Fatty Meat. The Golden Fast Travel Pack costs a lot more than a Fast Travel Pack, but it is well worth the investment. It is easy to overlook this enhanced item at the bottom of the merchant's resources list.
There is a way you can get an unlimited amount of rare, purple mods early on in the game that will help you progress faster. You will be able to do this during the 'A Seeker at the Gates' quest. Locate the campfire that is just northwest from your starting location. Once there, go further west following the river and you'll find the Scrapper Site where you'll need to stealthily kill the Scrappers and collect their rare mods. After that, go back to the campfire, save the game and quit. Once you start the game again, you’ll be able to do the looting again and, eventually, get the infinite amount of rare mods to sell or use.
Find all five Power Cells and take them to the Ancient Armory bunker (marked as a side quest) to unlock the Shield-Weaver outfit/armor and "Got The Shield-Weaver Outfit" trophy. This armor is extremely powerful and makes you invincible until it starts flashing red. It absorbs every type of damage, even falling damage. When it turns red, go into cover for a few seconds to make it recharge. You can take a lot of damage before it gets red, which makes the game much easier.
Successfully complete the "Hunting For The Lodge" errand, which is automatically unlocked after getting Half Sun Marks in three Hunting Ground Trials. Then, successfully complete the "Hunter's Blind" follow-up side quest, which is automatically unlocked after completing the "Hunting For The Lodge" errand (mark it in your quest log), to unlock the Tearblaster treasure box as a mission reward. You can find it under "Inventory", "Treasure Boxes", "Tearblaster Weapon Box". Even though this quest line is not really secret, the weapon can easily be overlooked among the many other reward boxes. It is a good weapon for early to mid-game. It shoots compressed air, tearing off machine components, armor, and heavy weapons in one hit. Use it against enemies that carry weapons on their backs, then use their own weapons against them (especially the big Thunderjaws are very easy to kill this way). It is also good against flying enemies to knock them out of the air or shoot machine components with fluids that will then explode. The Tearblaster stuns most enemies in a few hits. They then fall to the ground for a few seconds where you can follow up with a critical spear hit. The range is very limited, comparable to a sawed-off shotgun.
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- 10 Vulnerable machine kills
| - Killed 10 machines weak to Fire while burning, or weak to Freeze while frozen.
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| - Killed 3 enemies using the Strike from Above skill.
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- 7 types of machine overridden (secret)
| - Unlocked and used the overrides for 7 different types of machine.
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- Aided the defectors (secret)
| - Aided the escapes of Uthid and the child king Itamen from the Shadow Carja.
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- All Acquisition machines killed (secret)
| - Killed at least one of every type of Acquisition machine.
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- All allies joined (secret)
| - Given Aloy's actions, all possible optional allies joined the defense.
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- All Ancient Vessels found (secret)
| - Found all the Ancient Vessels.
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- All Banuk Figures found (secret)
| - Found all of Arnak's figures.
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- All Combat machines killed (secret)
| - Killed at least one of every type of Combat machine.
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- All Cores Overridden (secret)
| - Reached the Core of every Cauldron and accessed the information within.
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- All Corrupted Zones cleared (secret)
| - Killed all the corrupted machines in every Corrupted Zone.
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- All machines catalogued (secret)
| - Encountered and Focus scanned every type of machine.
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- All Metal Flowers found (secret)
| - Found all of the Metal Flowers.
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- All Recon machines killed (secret)
| - Killed at least one of every type of Reconnaissance machine.
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| - Learned all available skills.
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- All Suns at all Grounds (secret)
| - Earned at least a Half Sun mark in all trials at all of the Hunting Grounds.
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- All Suns at one Ground (secret)
| - Earned at least a Half Sun mark in all three trials at one Hunting Ground.
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- All Tallnecks Overridden (secret)
| - Scaled all of the Tallnecks and accessed their information.
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- All Transport machines killed (secret)
| - Killed at least one of every type of Transport machine.
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| - Obtained all Horizon Zero Dawn trophies.
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- All Vantages found (secret)
| - Found and accessed all of the Vantage datapoints.
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- Blazing Suns at all Grounds (secret)
| - Earned a Blazing Sun mark in all trials at all of the Hunting Grounds.
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- Blazing Suns at one Ground (secret)
| - Earned a Blazing Sun mark in all three trials at one Hunting Ground.
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- Broke the siege of All-Mother (secret)
| - Defeated the invaders and went inside the sacred mountain.
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- Cleared all the Bandit Camps (secret)
| - Took back all settlements from the bandit clans.
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- Crashed the Eclipse network (secret)
| - Infiltrated the Eclipse battle camp and crashed their network.
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- Defeated the Sawtooth (secret)
| - Defeated the Sawtooth that threatened the Nora.
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- Discovered the truth (secret)
| - Discovered the truth of Zero Dawn.
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| - Found and knocked over all of the Grazer training dummies in the Nora region.
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- Ended the war machine threat (secret)
| - Ended the threat of the ancient war machines.
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- First Ancient Vessel found (secret)
| - Found an ancient vessel once used by the Old Ones.
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- First Bandit Camp cleared (secret)
| - Took back a settlement from a bandit clan.
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- First Banuk Figure found (secret)
| - Found a wooden effigy left by a Banuk traveler.
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- First Core Overridden (secret)
| - Reached the Core of a Cauldron and accessed its information.
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- First Corrupted Zone cleared (secret)
| - Killed all the corrupted machines in a Corrupted Zone.
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- First Metal Flower found (secret)
| - Discovered a strange metal flower.
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| - Used a Weapon Coil or Outfit Weave on a modifiable weapon or outfit.
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- First Tallneck Overridden (secret)
| - Scaled a Tallneck and accessed its information.
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- First Vantage found (secret)
| - Found and accessed a Vantage datapoint.
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- Followed Rost's teachings (secret)
| - Learned to hunt and fight alongside Rost.
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- Fought back the corruption (secret)
| - Destroyed the corruption inside the Nora valley.
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- Got the Shield-Weaver outfit (secret)
| - Recovered an ancient technology and put it to use.
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- Headshot 30 human enemies
| - Killed 30 human enemies by landing headshots on them.
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- Hunted Redmaw with Talanah (secret)
| - Rose through the ranks of the Hunters Lodge and helped Talanah defeat Redmaw.
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- Learned of the ancient past (secret)
| - Learned of the ancient past at Maker's End.
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- Recovered a powerful weapon (secret)
| - Explored the Mountain That Fell and recovered a powerful weapon.
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- Saved Meridian from its foe (secret)
| - Helped Erend investigate Ersa's fate, and foiled a plot against Meridian.
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- Stealth killed 10 machines
| - Performed a stealth kill on 10 machines.
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| - Detached 10 components from machines during combat.
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| - Detached 5 heavy weapons from machines during combat.
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- Triumphed in the Proving (secret)
| - Overcame adversity and placed first in the Proving.
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- Victorious with the War-Chief (secret)
| - Found the Nora War-Chief and defeated the killers in the Ring of Metal.
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