10 Things You Didn't Know you could do in No Man's Sky

Ok, I admit, I knew more than half of these, and you probably know a few as well! But I do hope you learn something new with this video!

Coloring Guide! Credit to u/thejonzu

Chapters -
0:00 - Intro
0:10 - 10 DO A BARREL ROLL
0:33 - 9 Turbotasic
0:44 - 8 Get out of caves ASAP
1:20 - 7 Sentinels don't want to hurt your dog
1:43 - 6 Coloring Base Icons
1:58 - 5 Custom Color Fonts/Icons
2:49 - 4 Free Ancient Ruin Scans
3:05 - 3 Combat Frigate to the RESCUE
3:22 - 2 Phantom Star Systems
4:03 - 1 Forbidden Galaxies

Music - Credits
Chonkers - StreamBeats by Harris Heller
Lost Footage - StreamBeats by Harris Heller
Uh Oh - Slynk

[extrajava]

Another early game tip: keep any rusted metal you find! It's a great source of ferrite dust if you happen to run low

[DadClwn]

On PC, when you bind the 1st/3rd person utility, you can double-tap it to skip the map scan animation.

[Loganl]

If a trader lands near you on a planet, you can use your terrain manipulator to dig a hole under them, and they sink into the hole. Then you can restore right over the top of them. The nautilon can be forced through a planet core, and slingshotted out the other side of the planet into space.

[Qwnntm]

Even as a veteran NMS player, I didn't know 6/10 of these facts. Thanks for sharing!

[Graybeard_]

I got to 256 through the Anomaly. I always check the list in the teleporter of players currently in the anomaly before I head out. You can click on the player's name and then teleport to their base/system that they just came from. One day a player was in the anomaly, and they must have just come from 256. I clicked, I warped, and there I was in 256. 8-)

[jayblesvr]

My theory about the "phantom stars" is that the data was lost in one of the numerous updates. Planets and entire systems have been changed and updated over time, but the bases remain, along with the ability for the player to return to their base. This happened to one of my first bases. I believe it was after the "Atlas Rises" update when I looked on the galaxy map to see no star at my location...just my player marker. I've left the system and deleted the base since then, because the planet completely changed and buried my base in a mountain.

[LifeInFrame]

I didn't think you were going to get me on any of these but I actually learned a bunch of stuff. I'm a Day 1 player too. Great video.

[tribaltalker]

Here's something interesting... There's a setting to change the hyperdrive star map colours for various types of colour-vision problems. The Protanopia setting is beautiful.

[eironthreve]

If you go to the very edge of a galaxy, as far away from the center as you can get, there are tons of phantom stars that you can't get too. There will be interact-able stars up to a certain point, then there is a layer of stars that cannot be interacted with, move past those then you reach complete empty space.

[HowWereLivingForagingChannel]

1:31 the pet is a great idea I didn’t know of. I usually use the terrain manipulator to quickly make a hole to escape the sentinels in, then double back and try to escape in my ship once their guard is down.

[TheIceThorn]

Early game tip:
Travel in as many systems as you can. Accept every kill creature/sentinel mission.
Kill the creatures and sentinels up to the highest number of kills required.
Gratz, you completed *ALL OF THEM*.
Were they 200?
You completed 200 kill missions.
In one shot.

[yesthisisme]

First time that I find a things you didnt know video with all of the things I really didn't know... I think you achieved something extraordinary

[jjbarajas]

How topical, I myself just learned about the frigate assist! I must have encountered some bug because while using maps to locate structures, pirates would scan every time I left the atmosphere to pulse to the location. I never encountered pirates in my home system, at least not with my freighter fleet around. It was really cool to see and recognize the name of my best frigate come to help me with its fighters.

This game is just so cool.

[tribaltalker]

Some really interesting arcana here!
Also, the tip for boosting up to the surface from underground - I can confirm that this has been safe to use on PS4 for a very long time. I'm confident to use it even in permadeath.
It's an interesting way to get into otherwise inaccessible buildings by tunneling under them then popping up to the "surface". Just make sure you have an exit strategy! Teleporting back to the Anomaly is my favourite way.
There used to be a bug in bad Portal codes where you could end up in a phantom system at the centre of Euclid. It was a messed up and glitchy place though. I didn't know there were so many more, good to know.

[Lucifronz]

This was actually *extremely* eye-opening for the custom fonts and colors information _alone._ Thank you so much for sharing that. I can finally organize my boxes better. Wish they would make this a standard, easily-accessible feature, but I'll take it as it is for now.

[nex]

Hundreds of hours and a Day1.. still learned something new!
This game and community just keep on giving :)

[floydgoodwyn]

Didn't know there were phantom star systems and negative galaxies, this game is so cool

[nembutsu]

adding to what D3adCl0wn mentioned: you can keybind your multitools to numbers. so you can have your mining tool on 1 and your pve gun on 2 then switch quickly

[gamer-jmmy]

Today I learned actually from a different video (I’m new to no man’s sky) that in the freighter battles you can actually shoot the freighters disarming certint components. I thought that it couldent be tourched until the battle was over and I thought the way to end it was defeating their fleet. I thought it was so cool can’t wait to put my new knowledge into practice and nab me my first freighter

[goldenboyyt]

Great vid, the fact that I had no idea a science frigate can just find a monolith for you or so, is cool and annoys me for the fact it couldve saved me time instead of trying to get lucky 😭😭 but these facts are useful