Is it normal to start off on a planet that is incredibly hot? I swear I had literal seconds to spare figuring out where to find the sodium I needed to keep myself alive. So, I didn’t die, that much is good. I traded with one bird/reptile dude eventually. Named a few crazy lookin beasts. One looked like a beaver and a ground mole had a gigantic child (two big beaver-looking tails and the finger-star mole nose on a pretty basic quadruped body). Another looked like a stegosaurus and an iguana had a baby. Got my spaceship up and running by some miracle and harvested a ton of Na+ just so I wasn’t on edge walking around. Explored a few wreckages and tower thingies. Found a distress signal and a bunch of broken stuff on the ship where the alien died. I left most of it. Had no idea where to find most of the resources to fix it all. And now finally I am on the next planet over. A big toxic fungal ball. This game is weird. I think I like it though.

So when I first started playing nms I was gifted 10 fusion ignitor, last night while playing I finally was able to craft 10 and go to the space anomaly and find a new player and pay it forward. It felt good and I spent the next few minutes giving away other valuable stuff I had collected to new players. They were all very excited and it made me happy to know that nms has a large base of positive players who aren’t toxic.