What to do after getting past steam

[Thaliur]

Hey, remember the first pragraphs of the walkthrough? The ones I personally added to avoid something like this?
Especially this part:

Don't go Freeman on the mines.
I know it's tempting to always have something ready to beat up anything that moves, but as long as you're carrying a weapon, you will not be able to interact with your environment (apart from beating on it). So something that can actually be moved around might appear static. This way you might miss some solutions to puzzles.