8 No Man’s Sky Next Tips And Tricks To Conquer Space

No Man’s Sky Next basically reinvents the game, so why not try our tips and tricks to survive the vastness of space. This No Mans Sky Next guide reveals how to make easy money, how to buy cheap ships and why you should farm alien eggs. Because that can’t go wrong, right?

These are the tips and tricks that have been making No Man’s Sky Next more fun to play - a more regular supply of money lets you start playing with better ships, and there’s a good trick for trading one heap of junk for something shiny and new. The Next update also introduces a fleet of frigates that you send out from your freighter, so I’ll explain how you get a free freighter to start building your galactic empire. Please use it for good, not evil.

I’ve included a couple of quality of life tweaks, including the secret to faster jetpack travel, where to buy more inventory spaces (it’s hidden in plain sight) and how to change the camera view on PC - because it’s hidden in a weird place. I also talk a tiny bit about the need to build a portable save point and why you should carry your portable devices with you.

I should note that these tips and tricks are aimed at people who have played through the early tutorials - doing that unlocks some essential tech and blueprints, letting you focus on enjoying the wider universe. If you have suggestions of your own No Man’s Sky Next tips and tricks, please share them in the comments. I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Quick disclaimer: Rock Paper Shotgun’s senior editor Alec Meer worked on the original release of No Man’s Sky, but has not been involved in subsequent updates. He was not involved in the making of this video - imagine the secrets he could have shared, though.

[joshbaggy]

I thought this was going to be another generic 'here's a list of things we skim-read from the patch notes', but i genuinely learnt a lot from this video. Well done for going above and beyond in helping new players out!

[boiky]

I would have never of thought upgrading the scanner as a method to generate units! Also, never knew that I could use the cargo tab to store twice as much. Extremely useful tips, thanks!

[nickmatta]

Just watched like 10 tips videos for this game, this is the only one that has actual useful information

[notsoninjajoe]

If you make a home base at an Abandoned Building and build a simple 4-walled room around the egg clusters you can farm the Larval Cores for +/- 4-8 million per run. The walls prevent the Abominations from getting you and you can farm at your leisure. When you make the trip to a space station and return the eggs will have respawned inside your farm boxes and you can repeat the process ad infinitum

[TheHobbit]

Something thats helped me, once you jump to three different systems youll be able to use the portal in the space station to warp to any station youve discovered and all your bases. You can also buy the portal blueprint to create your own portal to make which allows for basically fast travel from your base to the space station.

[bravepart]

The first planet the tutorial brought me to was super chill only hot rain storms and a ring around it with a sister planet practically touching it. I cannot even begin to describe the horizon it's epic

[franzusgutlus]

It you buy all the movement upgrades and install them next to each other in the inventory, you will get more than the sum of their boosts. That ist true for all upgrades that belong together

[flippantb]

Thanks, Matthew. Useful stuff. My tip after playing for a few hours yesterday is that you can leave the refiner while it is running - it took me quite some time to figure this out. While it is running you can leave and go gather more stiff like H2 or C, then as soon as it is done the processing noise will stop, and you can meander over and compress your next batch of carbon, etc.

[seandonaldson]

Buy semiconductors (they run about 450k) then buy enriched carbon (they run about 65k) then make superconductors and sell those for about 2.5m. I started with 3 m and after an hour I had over 1B units

[notjoshcasts]

Regarding the Whispering eggs, if you put down a base computer near the abandoned building you can place wooden walls around all the eggs and get them really quick

[nocturnalnun]

Upgrades that you buy with nanites can stack. So 2 "S" rank scanners get you about 200k per animal scanned. ALSO, if you find a station that sells an upgrade you want more than one of, buy the one upgrade and leave the station. Then find a save point, such as a trading post, then go back to the stations inventory will be restocked.

[lucidlywaking]

Once you get to the abyss questline get a submarine. Use its scanner to find drowned starships that = Free ship!
Do it over and over until you have the type you want. Now take that ship. Now repair it. Make sure to repair the technology tab too. I love submarines!

[Dragonsbladeuk]

I also missed the exo suit inventory puchases on the station. I prefer to get the cargo expansion via the drop pod, as they can cost the most. Last one would have cost 300, 000 units in the station, while the normal slots are normally under 100k untill you get over 30-35 slots.

[someguy]

Ok, this was so damn helpfull. New to the game and after a few hours was thinking how to proceed from there as everything seemed so unattainable. You get a thumbs up and a subscriber. Thank you

[dashausdesamadeus]

*TIPS*
You can purchase exo suit slot again and again by just join random ppl game and go to the space station.. Keep in mind it will cost you a lot of credits to fully upgrade the exo suit slot..

[TzuCraft]

So glad they fixed the progression and early game flow. I was one of those ppl at launch 2 years ago that spent all their time on the first planet and farmed droppods to literally max my exosuit and got all 400 words and upgraded to the largest ship All without Ever leaving the surface lol.

[landoblando]

7:14 you can also refine those larva cores in portable refiners for nanite clusters. One core Will give you 50 nanite clusters and the cores refine super quick.

[ShelJones]

It's cheaper to upgrade the Cargo slots of your exo-suit using drop pods, and buy Technology and Inventory slots on Space Stations. Cargo slots cost ten times as much as Inventory slots and fifty times as much as Technology slots. I don't think it's worth it for twice the inventory capacity.

[miguelwolmers]

When you exchange crashed ships for a new one you can also go back to your ship (Lifeform will be in it now) and buy it back from him for 0 units without exchanging the ship you got from him. Then use it for a discount on a nicer ship again later on :)

[cobyjim]

Awesome tips. I found a crashed ship and have been mining for ages trying to repair each slot. Now you said about just selling it I feel stupid for now trying it. Doh!