Hello! Hopefully this post belongs here – I did my best to tag it properly, but if the mods feel that this kind of post doesn’t fit the nature of this sub, that’s cool too. This is “Part 1” of my journey of playing through No Man’s Sky. I am a recently recovering addict (lots of questionable life choices), and one of the things that helps make things easier for me is playing video games. I bounced around from game to game for a while, before a youtube video popped up on my feed, talking about No Man’s Sky. I purchased the game at launch, but, like many people, I was severely underwhelmed with the game. I had been following along with the development ever since, and have now and again thought about picking up the game again. I decided that this was the perfect excuse that I needed to finally do a full play-through of No Man’s Sky. So, here I am! My therapist suggested that I keep a journal while I work on recovery, and while I never could really find anything to write about my own life, I decided that I want to try and journal about my experiences playing No Man’s Sky! My goal is to play the game every day for the next while, and try to have different experiences each time, to help distract my brain during my recovery. Then, at the end of each play session, I’ll journal about what I did. I also figured, “why the hell not? Let’s put it on reddit!” in the hope that some make-believe internet peer pressure would help keep me honest.

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To be clear: this is just me uploading my journals of my adventures in No Man’s Sky. My goal here is to try and talk about my adventures in the game in (hopefully) interesting ways. If for some reason anybody finds this to be any kind of interesting and decides to comment, tips and tricks and general advice is always appreciated! (But no story spoilers, please!) If you have any stories that you want to share about your own adventures in-game, I would love to hear them also! Disclaimer: I am not incredibly well-experienced with this game. I know a bit, and the game has been helpful, but I’m not super hip to all of the crazy efficient mining strats or the best way to trade goods or anything like that. (and again mods if this post doesn’t belong here you can just delete, I’ll keep journaling anyhow, maybe post them somewhere else. No biggie.)

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Today actually starts off with a bit of a short entry. I really wanted to get my first session in tonight, but the game had to do some updating, and my internet isn’t the best. I finally started playing around 1am my time, and got in around a solid 40 minutes before I felt like it was time for bed. Hopefully, I will be able to get in a more complete experience tomorrow. FYI, this playthrough is occurring on normal mode, as I want to go for a more conventionally casual experience.

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I started on a planet called Winthalc Omega, a dusty, irradiated world, where orange sand blows on the horizon and strange, tentacled lifeforms grow out of the surface, like the world is some sort of cancerous prison for an eldritch god. I promptly went to work trying to survive, gathering resources to repair my hazard protection and following a mysterious signal to my ship. As I sat in the ruined cockpit, I took some time to add my own personal touch to tho it. After a brief moment of thought, I renamed my ship the Akabane 3000, after one of my more favorite anime characters.

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The next order of business was gathering some resources to repair my ship, and exploring the area. I found a crashed satellite nearby my ship, and when I interacted with it, it sent out a mysterious signal. Very nifty! I spent the rest of the session gathering resources. Crafted some sort of metal plate, so I’m halfway there to repairing my ship! (Sorta kinda.) I also took some time to take some screenshots! (See above.) Got some of the environment and the local flora and fauna – I think that the walking creatures look like mini-cuthulus, so maybe I’ll rename them something in that theme. I also found some cool blue crystals, which I thought looked really nice against the landscape. I also noticed that the sands turn more dark blue at night, which provided a cool contrast to the hot, radioactive sands of the daytime. I finished my day as the planet turned to night, sitting in my ship and staring out into the boundless sky. I finally decided on a name for the planet before logging off: “Az Kaban,” after the prison from the Harry Potter series, both due to my own personal headcanon about the planet’s creatures (see above), and because it was a place that I desperately wanted to get the hell off of. The screenshots I took are attached to this post, all taken pre-name change.

That’s all for today, folks! Stay tuned for my next adventure, I’m looking forward to getting off of this planet and starting to explore the solar system! Thank you so much for taking the time to read this, if you have. Honestly, I don’t really expect very many people to read this, but that’s fine. This was surprisingly more helpful to do than I thought that it would be, so I guess there’s my motivation to come back! Assuming this doesn’t get deleted, there will probably be another installment in the next day or so, we’ll see how it works out.

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First Moments on the planet

A shot of the horizon

Ghot G’yotglorb, amirite? (Seriously tho what is this thing?)

Di-Hydrogen, I think? Pretty anyhow

The ground sprouts tentacles

Az Kaban at night. (Pre-name change)

Maybe a bit of a strange question. My friends and I know this guy and he’s basically a stalker.

That’s the long and short of it.

I played around 100 hours of No Man’s sky and they decided to start playing it again and my friends have been looking for another game to play multiplayer with so we all joined and started playing.

Within one day of playing, and me streaming it once, this guy who basically is stalking me and my friends, saw in my stream and immediately showed up while my friend was playing last night and started harassing her, messing with her base, he built a base next to her, and now she wants to leave and go make another base somewhere else and not be found. She told me he was bringing sentinels into her bace, she doesn’t know how to really play super well yet and fight, and he started building around her stuff, trying to chat her up and it was making her uncomfortable. He kept requesting that she go to voice chat and she kept refusing and trying to hint she wasn’t interested. He then friended her in game but she refused to friend him back.. I know all this because she called me in the middle of night on discord complaining about it to me.

Unfortunately this guy used to be my friend so he does know where some of my stuff is but if we all were to move, and go somewhere else, what’s the stop him from following us again and keep trying to build bases near us and harass people?

I don’t think there’s a block feature, I’m just wondering if there’s some ways I could use to avoid him? And at the same time are there things I can do in the game to make him have a very uncomfortable experience anytime he’s around us so that he stops wanting to harass me and my friends?

I don’t know why no man’s sky doesn’t have a block player feature. This guy definitely keeps trying to bring drama in with me and my friends when when he’s gone no one has any problems with one another.

My friends are enjoying this game immensely, and this is a mother and her child and some of her family including now her father might want to play, but now this development has sort of put a dampener on things and I would like everybody to enjoy the game experience as much as possible without this guy mucking everything up, which he definitely will try to do knowing him. Everyone already tried telling him in the past they were not interested in talking to him anymore and even stopped communicating so showing up at my friends base and trying to force an interaction and basically move next store was definitely creepster level.