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

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 💛

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Am I considered a pro for being one of the first players to discover melee boosting the jet pack? And then sharing it with anyone I could. This was shortly after release so not many of us to be fair. Was always a joy in later years as the game got better and more players got to enjoy the game. Watching people type various things of “How are you going that fast?!” And being able to show them and see the reactions of excitement to the discovery. Was awesome. Edit: for those who are newer, no one knew this was a feature. It just happened to people by happenstance and going ‘Wtf how did I do that?’ And eventually figuring out how to replicate it. Then it got shared around, now it’s more common which is great.

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!

Have several thousand hours in game between PS4, Xbox & now PC. Just learned about the early detection warning in the starship cockpit! One way I make units in "early" game is once you receive your free freighter make sure to talk with your Fleet Coordinator & learn how to make Frigate Fuel and start sending the single frigate that comes with your freighter out on missions. I always start with the shorter times esp if I'm going to be playing for a while as sometimes you'll get several missions complete during your playtime. But you get millions of units and a lot of rare or very hard to find resources from your frigate missions. These can be invaluable when you're still struggling to find expensive components. Also - I had almost 3 years of playtime under my belt before I learned about the melee boost... OMG. Ranked #1 is totally valid. My main tip for any new player is definitely complete the MAIN Artemis & ATLAS storylines to get a ton of blueprints & components for free that you'd otherwise have to grind for and build yourself!

Solid advice all. Longtime player here (PS4 version). Picked up a secondhand copy when the game started coming good in 2018, and fell in with the very supportive PS4-NMS community. Such is the game's size and scope, there's probably a vast number of helpful hints that could be added. Here are a couple of mine. 1. When placing upgrade modules in your gear, place adjacent to the relevant system. That's obvious, yes. But, also experiment. Try different arrangements, swap around usage of any supercharge slots, and generally see what each layout does for the system's stats. Box-y arrangements usually work better than lines, but there is an occasional exception. 2. When placing an automated mine, people can spend vast amounts of time looking for a "perfect" set-up - multiple adjacent S class hotspots, etc.. But these ideal situations are extremely rare, so you will likely spend ages looking for one. Better by far to first find a situation that is just "OK" (A or B hotspots, etc.). Set up a Base there, get production going, lay in lots of storage, THEN start your search for something better. You'll be getting resources you want / need while you search and, if you do find a better place, demolishing your first base is simplicity itself. Keep up the good work.

This is genuinely one of the best tips videos for No Man's Sky I have watched. Thank you so much!

1:00 You can reduce launch fuel hassle by using as many launch fuel upgrades, to the point of instantly refueling it automatically and having so low usage per laubch, it becomes something you never have to deal w again.

The easiest way i found to make money and nanites was farming sentinel ships and selling them for scrap. Once you find a site that provides you with the location of disonant spikes, (like using an echo locator) mark it with a save beacon or even a base with a portal. That will led you to a ship, get inverted mirrors and cleanse the brain and you have a new ship. An A class sentinel ship will scrap for 35 or 36 million units, even a c is worth 16 million or so. And it will give you ship upgrades that you can sell for hundreds of nanites. Then go back to the same spot using your marker and do another one. You'll break 100 million plus in no time and you'll buy everything you need indtead of grinding it for hours.

Very good tips! I am also a day one (ish) player and even I had not heard of a couple of these! Well done. Also, here's one more for ya: you can directly teleport to any of your frigates from your freighter's Fleet Management Screen.

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