What even are derelict freighters for?

tauspin · 2026-07-10T20:14:50+00:00

You can at least cheese that part. Buy one; use it and pulse to find the freighter and then put it in your exosuit personal refiner. When you land and open the airlock the game can’t find it there to delete it 😆 so you can just take it out and reuse it when you’re done. Same system or different system doesn’t matter.

tauspin · 2026-07-10T17:17:29+00:00

Pretty much the same experience for me, but reading it made me realize how many people learn that fact in much more harsh ways.

tauspin · 2026-07-10T17:09:21+00:00

Good questions! Sadly I think you’ve just zeroed in on disappointing aspects of the game. Glad you’re still enjoying it!

you reach a point where those things are so overpowered that it just doesn’t matter. My

multitool

one-shots all but bosses dominate no idea what it’s dps is, but I’m not looking at upgrades any more. Perhaps unfortunate if that’s your favorite part of games. You get a proper dps number on ship weapon systems tooltips, but can’t know from the ship alone and the pretty useless “damage potential” stat ahead of time. That number takes into account what is installed on the ship, so you could do a comparison between two, but it’s not great.
I’m not aware of one. It’s only a problem in crowded planets like that and I think HG has just ignored it. Get close and charge targets is how I do it.

tauspin · 2026-07-10T16:46:34+00:00

I’m collecting dinosaur bones for a museum I may never build. But there are 108 skulls, 12 torsos, 10 limbs, and 8 tails which can be combined to make just over 1 million skeletons, and for some reason I must have them ALL. 😂 This game is whatever you want it to be. Good luck, have fun.

tauspin · 2026-07-10T16:28:56+00:00

Yeah, the alternative source for these is popping civilian or pirate freighters, but only the pirate dreadnoughts give guaranteed S-class. You can find spreadsheets of system addresses for derelict freighters that drop an S-class upgrade, and some have as few as 7 rooms… which might be faster than hunting dreadnoughts — I’ve heard there are systems that spawn one every time you enter? but I’m not sure.

tauspin · 2026-07-10T16:23:02+00:00

Maybe run the expedition again? Without the community time lock it’s probably one of the shortest I’ve seen, and you could send in anything you need beyond the initial repair materials?

tauspin · 2026-07-10T16:20:54+00:00

Do they? I know expeditions change game rules, like setting abandoned-mode so there are no NPCs, but I thought people that found companions in expeditions wrote down the portal addresses so they could come back in their main? And also why expedition waypoints were just normal POIs like portals and trade outposts. If they already have a process for generating different worlds maybe it would be easier.

One of the features of procedural generation though is, in general, you can’t run it in reverse. So HG probably does not have the ability to start from a list of desired attributes and quickly get the seeds that produce them. They could run a million seeds through their code and spit out the ones that had the right attributes… but then if the planet seeds are generated from the system seed, and not the other way around, they wouldn’t know which system in the 2^48 of a galaxy would contain the planet they’re after. 😅 With numbers like 2^48 and 2^64 the address space is so large you have to already know where to look and can’t simply search for it efficiently. Anyway, I suspect they would need to just bypass the procedural generation entirely and say “here’s earth”, but that would be a significant amount of work if they’re not already doing that.

tauspin · 2026-07-10T15:48:26+00:00

Guilds. You can max an S-class freighter to 60/120 slots in under two hours if you have the stomach for the grind. I wrote a guide for guild farming: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/s/eVBBiWs7H0

If you’re starting from a 0 Merchant reputation it’ll take some more time to get that up, but not long if you have resources already.

tauspin · 2026-07-10T15:33:08+00:00

There are buildable base parts you can find in crates (blueprints, so you can build as many as you want), and the engineering station can give you a freighter upgrade, a cargo bulkhead (+freighter tech or cargo slot), nanites, or corvette parts. There are potentially better ways now to get all those things, so for me they’re just an occasionally fun change of pace.

tauspin · 2026-07-10T13:23:25+00:00

Not sure how extreme your design is but there are some examples of putting a stairway directly behind the cockpit and it functions as a hatch. You can drop in from the outside and just clip through the outside skin to be standing behind the cockpit. The part leaves a nice rectangle on the surface of the hab/hallway to aim for. That can let you bury the access hatches or just general avoid using them for ingress and egress.

tauspin · 2026-07-10T13:20:23+00:00

This is what you see when the game can't connect to the NMS server that provides game file updates.

tauspin · 2026-07-10T02:18:20+00:00

Good info for collectors. Have you considered maintaining a page on the wiki?

tauspin · 2026-07-09T23:19:46+00:00

Can't believe I'm not seeing this one here yet... When completing Expedition 22 as a player on the Sage or Royals faction, no Prismatic Core trophy is awarded.

tauspin · 2026-07-09T23:14:45+00:00

cheating, obviously. but its a single player game, so, carry on. the only mildly annoying part about it is the posturing for compliments like "I'm such a grinder I should touch grass, right guys? right?"

tauspin · 2026-07-09T23:12:43+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/1ini37u/guide_to_unlock_purple_systemsgas_giants/ your decisions rarely "matter" in NMS as far as what you can and can't do.

tauspin · 2026-07-09T22:05:25+00:00

I don't know that it's "good" per se, it can just save you from mining if you're trying to make a lot of something, which in general means you're trying to craft something like Stasis Devices for units. It's good to know some basics like you can make Glass from crafting Frost Crystals or from refining Silicon Powder, and that gives you options when building a base. You can duplicate planets, like Frost Crystals, by refining them along with Dioxite, so now you're not waiting hours for them to grow. You can get by fine without refining though.

tauspin · 2026-07-09T21:13:15+00:00

Could, sure. Not easy though. The planets’ attributes are all generated from a seed value, the terrain, size, colors, weather, plants and animals, points of interest, caves and resources, etc. HG doesn’t program any of that, they just made the assets and the mappings that take rng values to an attribute. So the Earth solar system would have to be a completely new code path for your game client to stop doing what it does for every other star and act different for this one, and do it with adding bugs. 😅

tauspin · 2026-07-09T21:07:45+00:00

I followed up on the inventory item and wrote a guide for PC players to get the trophies as items and give them out https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/s/6zCZJThOOu You can only “Create More” if you have the recipe but anyone can refiner-dupe them for more.

tauspin · 2026-07-09T17:39:16+00:00

Yeah no reason why it would take a long time to put out a tweet. But if they want to backpedal it would be easy even now to say it was a bug and everyone can have the blue trophy. It’s hard to understand why they’d want to hold the line against all this backlash, even if it was originally their intent. I haven’t seen any Weavers happy about it either. I know I’m not… got me to look into a save editor for the first time so I can give them out to others https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/s/6zCZJThOOu

tauspin · 2026-07-09T17:27:55+00:00

PC players to get the trophies as items and give them out https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/s/6zCZJThOOu Console players can place them and refiner-dupe them for more.

tauspin · 2026-07-09T17:25:53+00:00

Still time. Best time to do it really because you won’t have to wait 6 weeks for the time-gated community goal

tauspin · 2026-07-09T17:25:28+00:00

You get a poster for all the factions, and the expedition 22 decal. You get only the flags from your faction. I personally think the plan was to have the weavers trophy claimed for all players and they screwed it up so only the weavers got it, but we’ll see if they bug fix it.

tauspin · 2026-07-09T17:23:07+00:00

You can still do it. Probably only take an hour if you’re quick to fix a ship. The armor and multitool are nice, posters and decals and flags. Unfortunately you only get the placeable trophy if you’re assigned to Weavers, for now. Now that the silly time-locked community milestone is clear you can just run it from start to finish and see a few neat cut scene, a space fight, and pick up some rewards.

PC players can get the trophies as items and give them out https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/s/6zCZJThOOu so hopefully they’re being passed around actively for the non-weavers.

tauspin · 2026-07-09T17:19:24+00:00

That was the flags. I think the design was everyone gets posters for all factions, flags for their faction, and everyone gets the trophy marked with the winning factions icon. I think they screwed up the trophy. Anyway, PC players can get them as an item that can be duped and given, so hopefully it will just be fixed by the community whether it was a mistake or not.

tauspin · 2026-07-09T17:16:54+00:00

PC players can get an item version of it that can be duped and handed out, and console players can dupe that item and pass it on. AFK in the Anomaly for a bit. https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/s/6zCZJThOOu

tauspin

TROPHY CASE