Deepening Understanding of Guitar Scales

[Leeacoustic81]

I’ve been playing guitar for around 3-4 years and I want to deepen my understanding of soloing/moving around scales within a major or minor key. I know the whole pentatonic scale from 1st position all the way until it repeats, however I’m interested in how I could memorise how to switch from, for example, 1st position all the way to 4th without thinking too hard. Also, how can I learn to make different licks in my improvisations. Finally, is the default pentatonic scale the “minor” scale, or is it actually the standard minor scale? This has been confusing me, thanks!!!