I’ve been keeping the wiki open on my phone while I’ve been interloping, it’s very handy for looking up crafting formulas and determining whether or not to keep something for later. But today it really came in handy when I stumbled across a relic gate in the wild. These things looked suspicious to me so I always ignored them in the past, but I thought to look up what they do and found out that they will send you somewhere random, sometimes to another galaxy even! So I took the dive and now I’m 500,000 light years from my origin planet on the other side of Euclid. What a ride.

I have no clue what I’m doing and I absolutely love it. Been playing for less than 10 hours total and I’m having so much fun just casually exploring and gathering useless stuff.

Should I consult the wiki or keep going with no handholding? I see people talking about certain things in the reddit but I haven’t a clue what any of it means and sometimes I’m so tempted to read up on stuff and use “easy methods” of doing things. But I fear that will kill the game for me if I have billions of units etc within a few weeks.

I would absolutely love to see or explore with some other people but not sure where to even start..

Thoughts?

According to the wiki:

Forbidden Exosuit Modules grant at least two to a maximum of four of the following six bonuses:

• 📷Shield Strength: increases the durability of the Exosuit’s shield.
• 📷Core Health: adds 1 health square (the player initially has 3 health squares).
• 📷Life Support Tanks: increases Life Support capacity
• 📷Solar Panel Power: during the day, reduces the Life Support drain of all movement functions
• 📷Sprint Distance: Sprint bonus: increases maximum sprint duration
• 📷Fuel Efficiency: Jetpack bonus: decreases Jetpack’s drain on Life Support

My thoughts on these are:

• More shield/health is always good as a buffer
• Bigger tanks increase the time between recharges but then again fuel is cheap and plentiful
• Does the drain reduction from solar panels really help?
• I use the jetpack to gain distance and only rely on sprinting when the jetpack is recharging
• I’m not sure I should bother with fuel efficiency as a) I have bigger tanks from the above bonus and b) ultimately, fuel is cheap and plentiful

What do you prioritise when choosing upgrades and what is your reasoning?

Unification Day is a semi-fan-made, semi-canon holiday based in the No Man’s Sky simulation.

https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Unification_Day

Excerpt from a Distress Beacon at a Crashed Ship:

The logs reveal that the pilot was celebrating a festival known as ‘Unification Day’. Groups of similar minds, unable to meet but attempting to find one another, to claim worlds across time and space. Once a year their various alliances, federations, hubs, and empires united to remember all that they were, and could become in time…

This year, Unification Day is being organized by the Galactic Hub. That doesn’t mean it’s being hosted in our space, that just means I’m the one who is responsible for compiling the schedule and reaching out to participants.

So that’s what I’m doing! If you’re a member of a civilization, and you have any bases which would be suitable for hosting a Unification Day activity (minigame, PVP, racing, etc), let me know! I’ll also send you an invite to the Unification Day Council planning server.