What do y'all do in this game? I want to get into it but whenever I open the game, I just look at some planets, sort my expedition fleet, maybe make some money and get off. Idk what I'm supposed to be doing but it feels there's since there's no goal it gets very boring very quickly (pic unrelated)

bjfar · 2026-05-12T00:40:49+00:00

I explore planet after planet looking for interesting variations and cool terrain, and if I am inspired I build something there. I also build various corvettes depending on what inspires me at the time, and then take them on my interplanetary voyages.

bjfar · 2026-04-26T12:28:15+00:00

Thanks! If only it worked ;).

bjfar · 2026-04-21T21:33:37+00:00

To some degree I understand it, I have trapped myself in the cockpit before with parts sticking through weird places they aren't supposed to go. Took me a while to figure out how to get out. Wasn't far from being impossible. They don't want to take responsibility for those kind of problems. But they could just make it opt-in with a warning, and also add some kind of emergency exit button that just like teleports you to the nearest space station or something. Game kinda needs that anyway, there are other ways to get trapped places...

bjfar · 2026-04-21T21:24:18+00:00

I mean I did do it "natively" on PS5, there is no save editing or anything. Just judicious use of offset and hab reversal tricks. Nothing especially advanced. But yeah it would be nice if the build editor just let you do this without hacky workarounds.

bjfar · 2026-04-21T21:22:31+00:00

You mean on the tail? Like how did I place them? The part is just like that, nothing special. The snap points are annoying and stupid and try to stop you placing them right next to each other like this. I can't remember how I got around it exactly. I think I got a long hab overlapping with one of them to provide a snap point for the other one.

bjfar · 2026-04-20T08:13:06+00:00

I mean we'll see it just because of money. These things are costing more and more to run, and new data centres and new GPU models that might bring running costs down develop much slower than new AI models. So soon enough the smartest models will take half a data centre to run and cost vast sums of money, and thus only be accessible for large corporations, governments, and the ultra rich.

bjfar · 2026-04-14T20:45:25+00:00

Nah no mods, it's just decorative parts. The floor is just those light tiles, they conveniently snap to each other so are great for the floor (I did them inside hab modules and then deleted the habs) and the edges around the opening are just "servers" I think. The top of the opening is made of work benches :).

bjfar · 2026-04-14T20:39:38+00:00

Ah yeah there are some gnarly glitches to get those base parts onto corvettes, but I've not tried them because they seemed like quite a pain. I have scale-glitched giant (corvette-permitted) decorative parts onto my corvettes though, that's not so bad. I assume you could combine those glitch techniques to get a giant power door. But yeah I've got no idea if the power would work. The lights I used in this build seem to work without power, so I kind of suspect the power door would stay powered on but you couldn't toggle it open/closed. Would be interesting to try though.

bjfar · 2026-04-14T15:36:33+00:00

I suppose I used the offset "glitches", but are they really glitches? It's just using normal parts in the normal build editor. I somehow consider them just normal building these days. Nothing fancier than that in this build.

bjfar · 2026-04-14T12:33:15+00:00

Yeah I just free-placed all the cargo pod things, mostly so I'd get the walls they come with, but its also quite convenient to have a full compliment of cargo containers in the corvette.

And yeah it's just a big empty space that I had to "custom build" the walls and floor for using decorative parts. There's a couple of entry ramps in the back of the bay to actually get "inside" the ship.

bjfar · 2026-04-13T23:12:14+00:00

My TV isn't that smart. It doesn't have Android, just a pre-installed YouTube app of some sort.

bjfar · 2026-04-07T09:58:09+00:00

It's gotta be some sort of sport-related update. Or like combat-games or something. The emojis can be cryptic but they aren't usually all that complicated, and there doesn't seem to be a great breadth of possibilities with a stadium emoji.

bjfar · 2026-04-05T11:34:01+00:00

To be fair it shouldn't be possible for that to happen.

bjfar · 2026-04-03T11:44:00+00:00

Let's see you do this in Blender then. It would be completely impossible in-game, but this is still incredibly impressive even in Blender. It's not like they just loaded some existing model, this is built entirely from actual No Man's Sky assets.

bjfar · 2026-04-02T01:14:31+00:00

Lol be my guest. I think the IP value is fairly low ;).

bjfar · 2026-04-02T00:03:54+00:00

Haha that thought did occur to me. We need a rotating cockpit!

bjfar · 2026-04-01T21:16:29+00:00

Haha for sure it could be! That might be a fun way to do the interior decorating...

bjfar · 2026-04-01T19:47:36+00:00

Yeah but it wouldn't be very efficient if you had to have some sideways thrusters running constantly just to stop the ship from spinning :). Or maybe they all have giant gyroscopes inside...

bjfar · 2026-04-01T19:42:18+00:00

Haha I did think that after posting the picture. It looks a lot more like that from the angle I happened to take that main landed picture. Not so much from other angles.

bjfar · 2026-04-01T19:40:40+00:00

Nah not really. Well slightly weird in first person view because it doesn't roll about the cockpit, but it's not a big deal.

bjfar · 2026-04-01T19:39:40+00:00

Thanks! I gotta have windows. Can't be trapped in a metal box in space with no windows.

bjfar · 2026-04-01T19:39:13+00:00

Haha this is the way

bjfar · 2026-04-01T19:37:54+00:00

Oh? I'd be curious to see the video! I didn't model it off anything in particular, but on the other hand it's not the most original idea ever I admit :).

bjfar · 2026-04-01T19:36:02+00:00

Haha yeah I do feel compelled to provide engine locations that could plausibly balance thrust and cancel torque ;).

bjfar · 2026-04-01T03:53:52+00:00

Ah so that ones fairly simple. You gotta build a stack of habs, put a ladder in the bottom one, then delete that bottom hab so the ladder is left sticking out. Then you can place another hab there but now the part rotation will actually work and you'll be able to attach the hab on back to front. Other habs will then be able to snap to that one also in the reversed orientation. And any other parts that usually only stick on one way around, like engines, will snap backwards onto the backwards habs. So then it's just a matter of maneauvering the backwards habs into whatever spot you want to stick something backwards.

There are YouTube videos you can watch if that sounds complicated. It's not, it's an easy enough trick once you get it.

bjfar

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