10 Essential Tips the Game Doesn't Tell You (from a No Man's Sky Pro)

I've compiled my top 10 tips and tricks for playing No Man's Sky like a pro. Tired of the grind? Whether you're a new player or a pro, these are the features that the game doesn't tell you about. Secret strategies. Want to play all that fun stuff you see in the trailers? No Man's Sky in 2023 is better than ever, so here are my pro strats for getting the most out of it!

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Chapters:
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:00:57 - #10 Starship Launch Fuel and Uranium
00:02:37 - #9 Buy Everything!
00:04:46 - #8 Pirate Early Detection System
00:05:59 - #7 Derelict Freighters
00:07:09 - #6 Portal Glyphs in Photo Mode
00:08:09 - #5 Don't Get Stranded
00:09:50 - #4 Inventory Upgrades and Drop Pods
00:11:22 - #3 Make Money Easy!
00:12:47 - #2 Disable PVP
00:13:56 - Honorable Mention: Warp Hypercore
00:14:30 - #1 Melee Boost
00:11:01 - Outro

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[leaningtower]

Not a pro, but here's something I learned by myself: Tired of fighting sentinels? Pull a minecraft and hide in the dirt. Dig down with your terrain manipulator, preferably diagonally. When you feel like you've dug deep enough, dig sideways so the sentinels won't detect you when they fly over the hole. Wait till everything blows over, and fly out that tunnel smelling fresh as a sodium flower 💛

[Mo_sty]

Pro tip: Create the exocraft station on your frieghter, you can summon your Nomad to any planet without a exocraft launcher pad, exocrafts are increadibly useful for scanning and moving around the planet, the Nomad especially and recently it got a storage boost so it is the best for exploration

[Mr.Sprockets]

Pro tip: if you want tens of thousands of ferrite dust and carbon in a few minutes, find one of those wierd planets with no trees and tons of rocks and use your starship weapons, preferably the positron or infra-knife and just blast the surface. Go slow so the resources have time to render in and just shoot. You'll end up with massive amounts of ferrite and maybe carbon depending on the planet in just a few minutes. Super nice for massive alloy structures!

[kfitz]

I played the release version of NMS for all of 6 hours before putting it down. Decided to boot it up again after Sean Murray’s announcement at the game awards, and haven’t been able to stop since. What a triumph, and what a legendary team. Very excited for Light No Fire, even if it takes some time to get there

[thatFalkon]

My biggest tip is to finish the main story, I spent over 100 hours before even trying to triangulate my position. just to find out soooo many things I grinded for (eg. base parts)t I would have gotten for free later. Oh and expanding the base so many free parts.

[lightningjet]

For people who are struggling with inventory, get a freighter and get the matter beam for it. Your freighter is the biggest inventory you will have, and with the matter beam you can access that massive inventory as long as your freighter is in the system, and if you are already in a system you can just summon your freighter in with no fuel cost whatsoever.

Also some extra notes, use portals to go everywhere. Going to new systems requires warp cells, which at the start of the game is like 20 mins or more time to make. Portals let you go to previous locations and stations for free, found on every space station. And if you’ve been to pretty much every type of system and planet that you need to then there’s no need to grind for more warp cells. Do the exploration later when getting warp cells is like a 2 minute job.

Thirdly, if you are looking for millions and millions of units once you have a freighter, look no further than frigate missions. Send frigates you buy on missions to then come back with loads of goodies. And don’t worry about the ranks of the frigates, the stats get better the more you use them, although it is nice to stumble across the odd S class frigate and be able to afford it. Unfortunately this needs a lot of hydrogen for fuel, which is easy to get but boring to do. But the rewards for frigate missions is so worth it. Later on if you are a hardcore player and you just NEED a billion units for some reason, you can find YouTube vids on chlorine farms.

Also lastly is don’t be afraid to put in the grind, it’s so worth it later when you have better equipment for everything and everytime a new update comes out you are able to do it immediately. Once you get that good tech that makes things easy you can basically do anything you want.

[vjpearce]

I got 2 tips that I always use.

#1 If you're low on credit or the space station you're on has sold out of wiring looms, and need more, look for 'buried cache' on planets. You can sometimes get Suspicious Modules from them. Install them, then dismantle them for a free wiring loom.

#2 If you're in a storm, even extreme ones, place down either a Portable Refiner or a Nutrient Processor and access them. You are immune to any environmental damage. It even saves you from attack damage when collecting Whispering Eggs. Biological Horrors can't touch you.

[azureknight]

Sentinels are a great source of materials and upgrades early game. If you struggle with them, just fight phase one and two, then run away and reset the encounter. Once you have a few weapon and suit upgrades from glass shards you should be able to make it further. If you can get to phase 3 and kill the quad without killing the summoner, you'll be able to farm the basic sentinels for as long as you like.

Pro tip: When you want to try finishing all 5 waves, leave lots of those combat supply canisters laying around on the ground. You can pick them up for a quick shield and hazard level recharge. They can also be shot with the mining beam if your inventory is too full to pick up.

[arir]

I’d like to also mention that drop pod inventory upgrades are free; they don’t get more expensive every time.

[TracyMarkGorgas]

I've been playing since launch also and today I learned about the early detection radar. I never knew that there was a way of detecting when I would be scanned. I would add to your tip on the melee boost the it works like a dream during gravitational storms. I can seemingly fly for miles off one boost.

[TheNeoVid]

I had no idea the Nexus had a suit upgrade terminal, much less that it keeps resetting! That and the melee boost are going to be game-changers, so I'm grateful I saw this in my first week playing!

[killerkia]

Pro tip (been playing since release): want to make your life easier? When you find a planet with any activated resources build a small mining base (if you can). You'll make millions just from that especially if you put some effort into the storage part.

Tip#2: also make a farm/mining base for all of the basic resources (cadmium, indium, copper, Emeril, SODIUM, etc, etc). It'll make future missions easier and crafting just about anything you need to in the future will be easier than ever with all those resources at your finger tips. Have too much of something you needed for crafting? Sell it and now you have a extra few thousand creds in ur pocket

[andymccormack]

Yesterday I was chilling in the anomaly with 2 million units to my name. Then, out of nowhere, this guy named "Mr Fox" donated 1.5 billion units worth of items. I'm now 750 times richer than I was. So, pro tip, wait until nice people give you money?

[CatGrindle]

I really enjoyed this vid, even though I'm a long-time player, you gave me a couple of tips I wasn't aware of, to thank you.

My pro-tip: when you come across a crashed ship, claim it alongside your current ships (always have a spare ship slot!!). But DON'T repair anything on it. Instead, once it's officially yours, switch back to your regular ship and head for the anomaly. There you can switch your ship to the crashed ship. Then head to the teleporter and jump to a space station. Your crashed ship will come along with you. Strip it of anything that's not nailed down, and scrap it! Your regular ship (or another in your collection) will appear in the space station. Just make sure beforehand that you have at least five empty inventory slots in your exosuit.

[Kamdrimar]

Melee boost is such a fun way to move around that I find myself trying to do it in other games all the time.

[robertanderson]

This is a great video! I've logged in over 800hrs in NMS, and had accepted the grindy nature as part of the game a long time ago. I knew many of these, and they were excellently explained. A few were new to me and give me more of an option to grind or not to grind...and I will offer a tip of my own. Go to a good economy Vy'keen system and sit in the space station until an A class fighter shows up. Buy it and scrap it. You will need about 20mil units to do this reliably and six or so empty slots in your inventory. This is the best way I've found to convert cash into nanites, as well as to reliably get storage upgrades to your ship (which are hard to find otherwise). The net loss in cash is about 2mil (after selling the scrap), but the gain of 1, 400 nanites and a ship storage upgrade make it worth it. Also, as the rewards are procedurally rolled up, I've actually made a cash profit in doing this. Happy harvesting!

[NathanTruby]

Freighter tip: If you dont own a freighter yet, the game will initiate a freighter attack event every 5 warps and 3 hours. Save the freighter and you can then get it for free! Alternatively, you can just take the payment, wait 3 hours and do 5 warps for another guaranteed event for a free freighter of a different kind. If you dont take this freighter as well, the next event will be a capital ship!

Another freighter tip: freighter class level (c, b, a, s) when you go to buy a freighter is influenced by the wealth of the system you're in. The Economy Scanner upgrade can help you with this (from The Anomaly) if you decide to save scum a capital ship.

[Kraibotvideo]

Pro tip: when building a base, build a trading center first. That way you'll have access to supplies that you don't have, or can't carry. Being able to buy 60+ metal panels saved so much... it's insane

[Mr.Sprockets]

Oh and dont forget about the power diversion in your starship. You can go so much faster with power diverted to engines and so much more damage with power diverted to weapons and take so much more damage with power diverted to shields. I know on PlayStation it's the up arrow but idk about pc or xbox

[troycc]

I started No mans sky about a week ago so I’ve been looking up tons of vids on how to do things & this is one of the best NMS vids I’ve seen. Great job!