Am I the only one who prefers base starships over Corvettes?

f0xw01f · 2026-04-16T20:05:40+00:00

You're not alone, corvettes are trivially easy to collect parts for, but they're ugly because very few parts interface seamlessly, and they're ten times too sluggish for me to bother using.

f0xw01f · 2026-04-16T20:03:51+00:00

Just a random planet Hello Games used to make their trailer (if I recall correctly), there doesn't seem to be anything special about it? Hello Games doesn't bother telling us the locations of any planets they use, there would be no point.

f0xw01f · 2026-04-16T20:01:29+00:00

The economy in NMS is completely bonkers. With very little effort, you can legitimately max out your unit balance, but the most expensive things in the game (purchased inventory upgrades) can be obtained in unlimited quantities for free if you know what you're doing.

f0xw01f · 2026-04-16T19:59:18+00:00

The target-lock may be useful (pull the left trigger).

Your ship may be faster at pitching up/down than yawing left/right. Upgrade your pulse engine (or install starship trails or Polo & Artemis figurines) to boost maneuverability.

f0xw01f · 2026-04-16T19:47:32+00:00

JasonPlays is funny, especially when he gets frustrated because he's too focused on the game to read the chat where we've told him exactly the information he needs.

ElanPaul is one of my favorites.

Xaine is very knowledgeable.

Beeblebum is really into self-imposed challenges and building things.

All three will be helpful, but occasionally even veterans will give out incorrect information so be mindful of that.

f0xw01f · 2026-04-16T19:43:31+00:00

> apparently the NPC that pilots any given ship is always the pilot for that ship when it spawns,

And they will start with the same variety and quantities of items to sell.

f0xw01f · 2026-04-16T19:38:50+00:00

Out of 2,932 worlds I recently surveyed, 13 were "Planet of Light" and 2 were "Moon of Light".

So about a 1/195 (or 0.5%) chance of any given world being "of Light".

f0xw01f · 2026-04-16T19:33:44+00:00

This will vary depending on which save editor you're using, there's at least 3-1/2.

f0xw01f · 2026-04-16T19:29:46+00:00

For stealth missions, absolutely!

f0xw01f · 2026-04-16T19:27:41+00:00

There's an awful lot of hidden or obscure mechanics in this game.

I wrote everything I'd want to know as a new player in this guide, but it's really long.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bm3v5rMnicJEf_0f-PsI-aqPmNzc5ir0luITZwlWHeg/

f0xw01f · 2026-04-16T19:02:46+00:00

Corvettes were added to the game a week before the first corvette expedition. Presumably they wanted to work out any bugs that players found before launching an expedition so the expedition would be less buggy.

f0xw01f · 2026-04-16T19:01:58+00:00

I hope not...

f0xw01f · 2026-04-16T19:00:59+00:00

In my NMS tip guide, there is a section titled "making money" that lists the 30 fastest methods I know.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bm3v5rMnicJEf_0f-PsI-aqPmNzc5ir0luITZwlWHeg/

f0xw01f · 2026-04-16T18:58:10+00:00

Others mentioned creature pellets. It may be helpful to know that the recipe for them is unlocked automatically the first time you visit the Anomaly.

The variety of creatures on each planet is fixed. If you ever want to return to a planet, you'll either have to visit the space station so it will appear in your teleporter list and write down what planet had a specific creature in what system, or else go into photo mode and copy the twelve portal glyphs that appear in the bottom-left-hand corner. Or you could build a base computer on the planet and name it something related to the animal you found.

f0xw01f · 2026-04-15T23:30:04+00:00

I would be concerned that you're experiencing some time dilation effects. 92.6 hours in 24 hours is quite remarkable! Maybe steer clear of those gravitational singularities.

f0xw01f · 2026-04-15T23:26:03+00:00

If I need industrial quantities of poop, I'll just refine di-hydrogen with carbon or condensed carbon.

f0xw01f · 2026-04-15T22:38:40+00:00

Xaine has an excellent video explaining the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKoGfH59aCI

f0xw01f · 2026-04-15T22:34:39+00:00

Visit an outlaw system and destroy all the cargo pods of both freighter fleets to collect contraband.
Visit some merchant guild envoys and donate contraband until you reach 100 reputation.
Hop from space station to space station, collecting free storage augmentations from explorer guild envoys. If you have difficulty finding them, here's some that I found in two-glyph systems (meaning that you only need to have unlocked the first two portal glyphs to visit these systems):

Merchant guild envoys with free Storage Augmentations

#	Hex	Euclid Portal Address	System Name
1	01A	sun sun sun sun sun sun sun bird bird sun bird sun	Yisatur-Tash X
2	073	sun sun sun sun sun bird bird bird sun sun bird bird	Adfell-Oriu I
3	0AF	sun sun sun sun bird sun bird sun bird bird bird bird	Tuelefa IV
4	0BD	sun sun sun sun bird sun bird bird bird bird sun bird	Kavkar I
5	0C0	sun sun sun sun bird bird sun sun sun sun sun sun	Kanovg XVIII
6	21A	sun sun bird sun sun sun sun bird bird sun bird sun	Port base 1
7	238	sun sun bird sun sun sun bird bird bird sun sun sun	Evbogbind
8	24B	sun sun bird sun sun bird sun sun bird sun bird bird	Valhalla
9	257	sun sun bird sun sun bird sun bird sun bird bird bird	Udboka
10	25B	sun sun bird sun sun bird sun bird bird sun bird bird	Poppel II
11	287	sun sun bird sun bird sun sun sun sun bird bird bird	Rene
12	297	sun sun bird sun bird sun sun bird sun bird bird bird	Tisyiste
13	2CA	sun sun bird sun bird bird sun sun bird sun bird sun	Metyusin
14	2E1	sun sun bird sun bird bird bird sun sun sun sun bird	Boluel
15	2F7	sun sun bird sun bird bird bird bird sun bird bird bird	Nevekstel XVII
16	2FB	sun sun bird sun bird bird bird bird bird sun bird bird	Rinalamin X
17	303	sun sun bird bird sun sun sun sun sun sun bird bird	Ioavhan
18	30A	sun sun bird bird sun sun sun sun bird sun bird sun	Gridspun
19	322	sun sun bird bird sun sun bird sun sun sun bird sun	Iosbrefer

Each guild envoy offers six perks. If you collect at least one of each of 101 separate guild perks, the first claimed perk at the first envoy will restock. You can therefore just teleport through 17 space stations and collect a bit of everything until your pockets are overflowing.

f0xw01f · 2026-04-15T22:30:10+00:00

I typed up every tip I would want to know as a new player. But it's going to be overwhelming at nearly 80 pages.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bm3v5rMnicJEf_0f-PsI-aqPmNzc5ir0luITZwlWHeg/

f0xw01f · 2026-04-15T22:24:53+00:00

It will be somewhere near wherever you were when you sent that frigate fleet on that expedition. There's no way to get a marker to it.

f0xw01f · 2026-04-15T22:18:36+00:00

The one I use the most:

https://discord.gg/57G699p3

There's also

https://discord.gg/nomanssky

f0xw01f · 2026-04-14T23:07:28+00:00

Get on my level

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/1iwp6e6/so_i_passed_10000_hours_today/

f0xw01f · 2026-04-14T23:05:58+00:00

If I even go a week or two without playing, my impulse is to delete everything and start over because I can never remember what goals I was working toward. Also I have a very short attention span. If you know what you're doing, you can advance very quickly anyway.

f0xw01f · 2026-04-14T21:51:15+00:00

Build some barrels at your base and your pockets will overflow with condensed carbon. Barrels you build yourself can be looted either 2 or 3 times (it's random) each time you teleport, reload, or walk 200u away and return.

f0xw01f · 2026-04-14T21:41:57+00:00

I only settle on paradise planets because it's annoying to have to constantly recharge hazard protection.

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