Saw this on Sean’s Twitter. https://x.com/NoMansSky/status/1727054991746068828?s=20

Am fairly new to NMS, but I heard folks say whenever he only posts an emoji that a new update will be revealed soon.

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)

I heard people mentioning that a ship exchange scam is finally over.

I was told once by a traveller that people call me an NPC in NMS, don’t know what that means but that is who I am right now. I’ve forgotten my real name years ago.

I travelled the universe trying to make a living. I’ve done some really bad deeds to be able to provide for my family. Killed wildlife, smuggled goods, destroyed natural resources, colonized planets without managing them and many more that I dare not to mention. After all that I’ve done, I’ve decided to put everything on a Hauler. Brought my family with me and lived life through sweet and sour.

One day, a traveller came to me at a station, offered me a really good deal for my hauler. A trade in for his S class ship plus some extra money and in total it will be an amount that will set me up for life. I accepted under the interstellar guidelines and rules. Money was deposited into my E-Wallet. One second later, I saw the traveller putting my dear Hauler into recycling. All those memories, all those adventures, were all gone in a second. That traveller was a destroyer of ships and a destroyer of dreams. I swallowed my pain and tried to ignore his actions since he already paid me.

After that, I saw him coming back to me and somehow hacked into MY SHIP (the one that he owned before), got access into it and threw me out. I was left with NOTHING. And before I say anything, he flew away, leaving me and my family on that station without shelter, no money, and no way of going to a planet to get my life back together.

The station’s security were not joking, they told me that I need to leave. I explained, no one cared. After an hour, they threw my kid into space were I saw him explode into thousands of pieces and they told me that me and my wife are next if I don’t solve this.

I went into the station’s lobby, and saw a GEK named Snoopy Doggo. He looked rich and had something in his mouth that spreads some kind of aroma in the air that’s makes everyone around him vulnerable. I begged him to help me. He agreed on the terms that I give up everything I ever cherish for this. I accepted and he sent me to some dark alleys behind the station. I lost my honor and saw my wife do disgusting things thinking we will be out of this soon. The monsters took turns on both of us. I saw the money piling up in Doggo’s pockets, I thought I will get paid. That never happened. Even at this moment, I am still being used as a slave. A kind master accepted to let me use this device to spread my message before he spreads my “message”. There are thousands of us here in the alleys and no one is getting paid. WE ARE SLAVES FOREVER. I asked the others and it was the same traveller who did this to all of us. Some also were scammed by travellers using something called “steam” to gain access into our galaxy. Life will never be the same again but I am glad that we will not see more brothers and sister enter the dark alleys after the recent news. Intertellar E-crime can’t let this go by after all those missing entities’ claims. I hope that one day they will find us. Help us. NMS NPC, out.

Below are a few popular questions that we’ve received from our past FAQ thread. As always we ask that everyone be respectful and we welcome everyone’s contribution so have fun!

Q- I’m keen to start a new passive money making pursuit. What are some good ideas or guides post-Waypoint?

A#1-Gold farm, then take that stack and sell it at a terminal (not traders) in systems that sell gold. Sell all your gold to the terminal and crash the economy. Then buy it all back at 80% off discount. You just got free money and keep all the gold. All this takes is an initial investment on a gold farm, then you carry all that gold with you and just sell/buy back when you get to another system that sells gold. With 50 stacks in my ship’s cargo hold, I can make somewhere around 150 million units in each system I do this in.

A#2-Start a Farm, Fusion Igniters or Statis Devices Farm which will increase your profits to 100- 200 mil fairly quickly and you can even send out multiple freighter missions which will help you get aronium, magno-gold, Enriched carbon and more which will increase the profits even more.

A#3-Quickest way I’ve found to make a TON of units: Harvesting Storm Crystals. Find a VERY hot planet that has frequent fire storms. DURING STORMS ONLY – you can see the bright white light from Storm Crystals if you fly around low enough. Fly to them, land, quickly harvest them, get back in your ship and fly to the next before you burn up.

Q-How do I get the Advanced Mining Laser? I don’t have the option to craft one, and the multi-tool upgrade vendor at the space station doesn’t have the blueprint for sale.

A-In order to get it, you have to look for the blueprints in crashed ships or abandoned facilities. You get it from the main story (awakenings) or you can buy it on the anomaly.

Q-What do I actually do in the game? I finished the tutorial, is there anything else beside gathering stuff, building a base and repeat?

A#1-It’s really whatever you want, there’s a base story, (assuming you haven’t completed it already), follow the quest log and you’ll figure it out, but things You’d want to do for end game? You can collect multiple multitools, ships, built a fleet for your freighter, etc.

Q-Is there a planet that is populated by many players, and they built their base close to each others like a city?

A- Yeah its the Galactic Hub Project, Its a place where many people have bases and each day the numbers grow. Please help yourself. There are many factions in NMS that do this, even NMS Pirates Hub.

Q-I’m still pretty early into the game, just making my way to the center of the galaxy, what should I be spending my credits on?

A-Go hang around a outlaw/pirate trading post. Cheapest S-class start at around 8-8.5 million without a trade-in. I recommend Vikeen pirate, as then you have two good and 1 remote chances at high-maneuverability S-class: fighter, solar, exotic.

The important, totally legitimate, exception: you don’t want an S-class because you NEED a freighter that’s bigger, goes faster, goes farther, etc. You want an S-class because it feels good to have an S-class. You want to see the big orange “S” emblem when you open your freighter screen. That’s its own reward. This is a totally legitimate, understandable, applaudable reason to spend as many reloading saves as it takes to get exactly the right one. It’s your game, and you are having fun pursuing what you want.

For everyone else, who just want to use the freighter to play the rest of the game, although there are potential downsides of settling for a C or B, you save time in the end. Potential downsides and limitations: There could be a time when you cannot warp all the way to the next desired destination, so you have to jump twice. There could be times when you cannot store a stack of something because your freighter inventory is smaller, so you have to make two trips or something. Maybe a mission takes a few minutes longer?

The time and effort dealing with those inconveniences does not add up to the length of time and boring effort it takes to get an S-class if you’re not lucky.