I’m relatively new to this game (if 80 hours can be considered new), most of my time has been spent just messing around exploring – you know how it is. I have little story to tell.

Honestly haven’t had the best day today, went to a badminton tournament and felt pretty rough, didn’t play well etc. so as any sane person would do, I hopped on no mans sky when I got home.

Wasn’t expecting much, just looking to lose myself in space and found myself in the anomaly and completely out of the blue came a player by the name of “Craftyblock#2284 the undying”, didn’t say anything or invite me to a party but he gifted me 2 void Eggs. I thought there must be a mistake so I sent them back, he then proceeded to send me them back along with 10 others! TWELVE TOTAL! This might not seem like a lot to many but I don’t know the value and that wasn’t what mattered to me personally.

I had barely anything in return but I’d just completed a nexus mission so I handed over all my ancient bones as some form of “payment” if you can even call it that. He then continued to gift me stuff: an AI dreadnought fragment, 50 suspicious packets of tech and items worth 12 million units! I tried to invite him to my party but he didn’t accept, he simply said Yes! To my Thank you and left.

I don’t know if you are out there my friend but just know you made a man’s day, I don’t care about the items personally but the simple kind gesture made me go from having a pretty rough weekend to a much more wholesome one. As someone who has come across from the rocket league community (if ykyk lol) this made me realise just how good this community is. If you’ve managed to sit around and read this, have a wonderful weekend travellers! <3

I usually play more single player games so when I saw starfield is coming out in 3 months I got in a space game mood and decided to try out no man’s sky and the reason I said surprisingly wholesome is because usually the people who play survival games aren’t the friendliest bunch you know what I mean games like dayz or rust you try to meet up with people and they either kill you and shout slurs or grief you or back stab you along the way so anyway while doing the tutorial quests I got into the anomaly for the first time and checked out the place for a bit and this random dude invited me into his group I joined them I told them I was new and they immediately helped me out we did a bunch of stuff together one of them gave me a bunch of shit to sell which I used to buy a new ship and he even showed me how to build a base and even when I asked how to get more blueprints they helped and showed me how to find those buried tech for the salvaged data but anyways my point is props to the NMS community for being so helpful to new players can’t wait to grind further 🔥🔥🔥

Literally went from grinding out dreadnaughts in clusterfucks of lasers and rockets in the search for an S-tier to fearing for my life in a derelict freighter in the span of 5 minutes. How did this become dead space so fast? What happened to this crew? Why are my pants wet? I have no answers to these questions but what I do know is that I’m having the time of my life.

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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-Where can I post ships and other cool stuff that I want to share with the public? A-You can always post on this sub and now the NMSGlyphExchange is live! 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.