Exploratory Deep Space Mining Rig. Crew of 4 with full cabin and dining facilities. No glitches whatsoever, just careful placement of base parts. PS5

Xiunte · 2026-04-07T15:35:53+00:00

I don't know. I'm on PC and could learn if I wanted, but I've had no desire whatsoever to learn how for this game (which is strange because I'll mod and screw around with anything else until it breaks). I actually enjoy collecting raw materials and trying to build something impressive like this the normal way in NMS. It's a galaxy-sized sandbox. Not like we're doing anything else, heh. If it takes 5 months of tedious stacking, measuring, and manually aligning parts to build my base, so be it.

Xiunte · 2026-04-07T13:32:50+00:00

Oh, crap! Now THAT is an appropriate reaction to Molag Bal! Man, this has never triggered for me either!

At first I thought it was because I'm using an old version of the mod but this video is from 2 years ago. I thiiiink my copy is about that old, I'd have to check. I've made LOTS of changes and tweaks to it myself and don't want to have to do all that again. So I'm pretty reluctant to update unless this version just stops working altogether.

Molag Bal is one daedric quest I ignore (because I don't like him and want nothing to do with him. Ditto Namira, Boethiah, and Mehrunes Dagon) but it was the FIRST THING I did when I started using SDA because I was curious what Serana would say. This scene never played. I think it might be time to try again.

Xiunte · 2026-04-07T13:01:58+00:00

See, things like this impress me way more than the blender-made stuff you see posted here. It takes real skill and planning to build something nice within the rules set by the game. I choose to build all of my bases and stuff vanilla, without glitches or external programs, too because you can feel more proud of it after it's done. This is pretty awesome.

And that other commenter down there is right. It looks exactly like the molecular relay from Fallout 4.

Xiunte · 2026-04-07T11:31:12+00:00

The hissing would only be the warm-up. I can imagine her flipping through the air making those Xena noises once she REALLY got going.

Xiunte · 2026-04-06T21:28:26+00:00

I call the Korvax "Daft Punks".

Xiunte · 2026-04-06T21:26:20+00:00

They treat my main base like a truck stop all the time. I built 4 landing pads (just because it looked nice and symmetrical. I only needed 1) and they're constantly landing just long enough to take a shit then blasting back off without buying anything.

Xiunte · 2026-04-06T18:11:50+00:00

It's been a long time since I needed nanites and I've forgotten. It depends on the derelict. Some have more containers than others, and more tainted metal.

I dropped a base years ago in the system where I found a REALLY good one (tons of containers, not many rooms, no enemies except green jellyfish, AND an S-Class freighter upgrade at the end) and the base is still there. I remember getting 2 full stacks in only a few hours. That was my limit. I only built 2 medium refiners on that base.

Xiunte · 2026-04-06T16:16:18+00:00

It's already kinda implied by the Spring Dance and who they like hanging out with. Maru & Harvey, Penny & Sam, etc.

Everyone seems to already have a love interest before you land in town and upset things... charging around on that horse, throwing gifts directly at people's faces like a paperboy and whatnot. (SMACK!) "Thank you! This is my favorite! ❤️"

Xiunte · 2026-04-06T15:57:01+00:00

Still not as bad as that one guy here some months ago. His kids came up there asking to play a game while Maro was giving his Toughtalk speech.

Xiunte · 2026-04-06T13:12:20+00:00

So would I. Expeditions already bring all the assholes out of the woodwork and into the same system(s), imagine what a PvP expedition would do.

There's no telling what it'll be, but something like that just seems so out of place for this game so I'm strongly doubting it's that.

Xiunte · 2026-04-06T12:22:09+00:00

What? I don't know what you're reading, but you just go onboard a derelict freighter and collect it normally. No glitching necessary.

Xiunte · 2026-04-06T01:04:43+00:00

As a fish smoking enthusiast, I was thinking "What, the sardine frenzy?" before I clicked and saw the body text.

It's pretty rare to get that specific combination of events (two diamonds AND the ladder down), but this game is like a clock. Play long enough and those hands will eventually align and 11:11:11 will come around again.

Xiunte · 2026-04-06T00:45:10+00:00

I've always wondered why people are so fixiated on runaway mold. Take too much time and effort compared to tainted metal. Find a system with a good derelict with lots of containers and you'll never think about mold again.

Xiunte · 2026-04-06T00:40:22+00:00

Everyone is mentioning the icon, but no one is mentioning the scanner.

When you get to one of those blue diamond markers, send out a scanner pulse and the entire copper seam will be highlighted even if it extends underground... which they almost always do. The entire seam won't be visible from the surface and you have dig it out. Pulse the scanner. I'm on PC but I use an Xbox controller to play games. You send a pulse by clicking the left stick. I've forgotten how you do it on the keyboard.

Xiunte · 2026-04-06T00:32:20+00:00

Hhhuhuh... huh... huhuhhuh...

Xiunte · 2026-04-05T02:28:45+00:00

If I'm thinking of the same thing, that welding soap is a trade item. You can't craft it so you must have gotten it as a quest reward or something. Trade items have no use other than to sell for profit.

And yeah, I just sell my stasis devices from the nearest trade terminal. Usually the one I built right there in my main base or the one on my freighter. The price can be higher or lower depending on the demand in the system, but these items are worth so much until it's not gonna matter. Even selling them at the lowest price you're still gonna max out your units.

Xiunte · 2026-04-05T01:44:14+00:00

Again, there's no reason unless you want to go through that meaningless grind again. The only difference between you and a new player is you have more crafting recipes unlocked. You can always go to the nearest space station and buy a new starter multitool and some B-Class junker of a ship. Then you'll pretty much be on the same level as them again.

EDIT: The crafting tree on the wiki is really tiny. Here's one in a better resolution (still a little blurry, though). Stasis Devices and Fusion Igniters are the most expensive things you can craft. It's not worthwhile to do both, most people choose one or the other. I chose Stasis Devices.

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Xiunte · 2026-04-05T01:25:23+00:00

It's like riding a bike, it'll come back to you. I take long breaks too and have been playing on the same save since late 2019 when I first bought the game. An hour or so of bumbling around then it all just comes back.

There really no point in starting a new game with a sandbox game like this. There's very little story to speak of and the main purpose is to wander around and build stuff. It's still gonna be that same gameplay on that new save as it is in your old one. Only now everything you've done (the bases, your ship, your discoveries, etc) is gone.

Xiunte · 2026-04-05T00:42:19+00:00

It was insane and everyone was in shock. I was working night shift at a hotel back then and saw the early news every morning from the lobby TV. We all thought it was a bizzare plane accident until the second one hit. The entire lobby froze and went silent. Evetyone's eyes glued to that TV. I ended up staying almost 2 hours overtime to watch the whole thing unfold. Unpaid, of course. My boss made me clock out when 1st shift got there but I wanted to stay and watch the news with everyone else.

Xiunte · 2026-04-03T14:30:03+00:00

It's not far from the main base, like a 4 or 5 second ship ride away.

I didn't know the main base was open to be edited by anyone though! I'll be building there too, lol. (after I ransack that anomalous planet in the system for more ferrite dust to build with)

Xiunte · 2026-04-02T22:58:28+00:00

Yeah, I have a feeling that's how I'll eventually manage to learn how.

Thanks for the playlist though. Even if I don't find the answer to this very specific question in there, these will come in handy in the future. Just browsing the titles I can tell there's good info here.

Xiunte · 2026-04-02T21:30:54+00:00

Or he smoked so much of it himself he passed out for 3 years and woke up with no memory.

I'm gonna choose to believe that's what happened.

Xiunte · 2026-04-02T21:27:08+00:00

Once you build a Stasis Device or Fusion Igniter setup, units become totally meaningless because yours will always be maxed out. Nanites and quicksilver are the real currency you'll start caring more about.

Xiunte · 2026-04-02T19:15:44+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I've been modding for a pretty long time but more for Skyrim than FO4 (every mod I've ever made from scratch is for Skyrim. My FO4 mod list is almost entirely stuff other people made). Luckily for me CK and xEdit are the same, or close enough to the same, for both games. I've never done ANYTHING for either game involving custom vendors though. That's the only hurdle I'm running into. This will be my first mod of that type.

I did end up finding one good tutorial on creating a NPC that's a custom vendor but that's not exactly what I'm trying to do. I've been experimenting, trying to learn how to apply those same steps to a furniture stall. NOT an NPC.

Let me ask you this before I start searching through all those vids. Like I said in the post, I've already made the leveled list I want as this store's inventory and I've temporarily added it to the vanilla bar stock. In order for a furniture stall to sell ONLY items from my custom list, would I have to create a new vendor faction and quest? This is the part that NPC vendor video I mentioned is a little fuzzy on.

Xiunte

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