Ships! A Beginners Guide for 2023

No Man's Sky Ships

Here's a beginners guide to all things ships; updated for 2023.
Learn about class, parts, exotic ships and solar ships.

See how what ships are good for what and how to upgrade them to find the best ship for you.

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Twitter: @NMSRicey

No Man's Sky is a survival game developed and published by Hello Games. It was released worldwide for the PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows in August 2016, for Xbox One in July 2018, and for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and Series S consoles in November 2020.
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This Channel is aimed at the older player, 13+.

[dvdh]

NMS has been quite overwhelming as a new player, so this video was a great help, thanks!

[mrviking]

Found a clean looking C class solar ship very early in my playthrough for like 1.6 mill credits. Used it through my whole playthrough despite it being only C class lol

[ClericofChaosHavik]

I’d take a weird looking shuttle over a boring guppy any day of the week. But I love my Haulers

[EzraBridger]

I'm freaking out because I have the exact sentinel ship in the ship explanation section

[Mansyno]

very nice video for beginners, really informative and cover all bases.
one remark, when you talked about 5% of finding S-class ships in pirate systems vs the 2%, 1%, 0% of other systems, its worth mentioning (if you did and i missed, I apologize) that those S-class are usually with lesser stats compared to those on regular systems

[KannX]

Now I'm gathering wrecked ships to build my dream Hauler ^^

[DanielBriese]

I just saw an exotic in the anomaly while I was watching this video. They look crazy

[Corkest]

Found you in a google search, Thank for this video.

[delaray]

You were recommended by Jason Plays. Great video, liked and subscribed. I just found an S class Radiant Pillar in green!

[yorudegurechaff]

I am new and this is what I really need about ships, thank you!

[InsanoDeedz]

I was getting worried that a solar ship may have overridden the exotic one in my starter system.

It's been weeks that I'm waiting for it to spawn with no avail. I've also tried finding a crashed one (like the first time I found it), but so far no luck on that end.
Although I found many similar ones... It's just not the same.

Very good and informative video.

I was not very fond of the shuttles until I found one I liked. Bought it, upgraded it, and named it:

Family Sedan

[bannanaphoneguy]

I was wondering why I kept getting the same sentinel ship in the same system so it's good to know that only one type spawns per system

[Soli]

Thank you, helped me grasp what's going on.

[unicronxlgaminghobbies]

Great video. Ricey. It saves as a nice primer for new pilots and explorers. Well done.

[oussamaokbi]

The sentinel ships can hover, making them to me the only viable ship type in the game. Don't get me wrong i do love all kinds of other ships and have hunted some of my favorite designs, it's just they don't hover and i can't be bothered flying them xD

[PierreChe]

Nice voice mate ! Nice intro to the question of ships. I am looking for a in-depth video about all the different small use cases of each ship, can't find it anywhere. And with the orbital update, feels like someone should do it ^^

[Rogue_Night]

Super Helpful. I just got a sentinel AI fragment and I'm gonna go ship hunting. Any tips for a first-timer?

[Deaner]

So do you think the sentinels are the best overall? Style is important to me, but how the ship feels while flying is by far the most important. Ive had some fun and cool haulers / solars / fighters. However I’m kind of upset that the interceptors fly so much better because I don’t like the style as much.

[andrewb]

I use an explorer as my main just cause it looks good :/ idc about warp range

[alexanderzak-falkowski]

Any idea on what the best ship might be for dogfighting? Currently trying to take down later freighters and I’m struggling. I never know if I should go for a sentinel living or custom built ship