No Man's Sky

So, I'm doing the expedition and trying to not get irritated about it as is usual for me.

Unfortunately, the game isn't playing along with that. I'm on one of the moons of the starting gas giant. The paradise world. I'm trying to find all the animals so I can retrieve some things I actually like rather than the stating gear.

Most of the animals are aquatic so I jump into the water... I haven't tried finding fish in quite a few updates but it appears some of them spawned in a water-cave under the lake I found. I dig down and... the moment I enter any hole in the ground while underwater I'm returned to the surface.

This lake isn't deep so I'm fighting buoyancy the entire time but being snapped back to the surface doesn't seem like an intended behavior.

I'm just starting out on the expedition and trying to visit all the starting planet's moons. This is being made more difficult by the number of bases in this system. I can't point my ship at one and see if it's temperate or if it's radioactive, or if it's frozen or so on. This is because I'm only given information about one base on each planet.

Is there a way to turn this off?

Because your faction standing in expeditions doesn't carry over to your main save, kill a bunch of frigates and freighters while in the expedition. Then transfer the tech modules back to your main save. Yoho

Assuming you end Expedition 17 with the Wraith as your ship, you can go to the Expedition terminal and copy the ship (in exchange for nanites) as per usual. The Wraith has a bunch of nice living ship modules on it.

Two options: store the modules and then salvage the ship; or store the ship in your hanger (so it isn't in your list of active ships). Then claim it again. Lather rinse repeat until you have enough upgrade modules for whatever you need.

You can also claim it from the Quicksilver terminal once.

I jumped around the rendezvous points without hitting the space station and forgot to take the pictures when playing earlier today. If I set my active quest to it, it says go to %planet% so I’m assuming this is a bug but I have no quest route in the galaxy map. I only visited the space station for the first rendezvous if that’s any help

Update: still no luck but looks like the rendezvous milestones autocompleted as I haven’t gotten to phase 5 rendezvous

Hello Everyone,

Thank you to everyone playing No Man’s Sky – Worlds Part II, especially those taking the time to report any issues they encounter via Zendesk or console crash reporting.

We are listening closely to your feedback, and have identified and resolved a number of issues. These fixes are included in patch 5.55, which is now live on Steam and will be coming to other platforms as soon as possible.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that caused Favourited teleport destinations to be unfavourited after warping to them.
The teleporter page will now show the closest destination to your selected mission as the first entry in the list.
Fixed an issue that caused the Nautilon platform to become unstable in the water.
Fixed an issue that caused trader starships to plummet to the ground immediately after takeoff when leaving an outpost on the moon of a gas giant.
Fixed a number of collision issues with Exocraft and lasers.
Fixed a collision issue affecting biodomes. Fixed an issue that caused the starship to sound like it was landing on water when it was not.
Fixed an issue that could cause some starships to snag on the entrance to the freighter hangar.
Fixed an issue that could cause the player to move erratically in some environments, such as the Space Anomaly or in bases.
Fixed an issue that could cause the galaxy map to select a route that went through invisible systems.
Fixed a number of rare issues with saving settlements.

Fixed an issue that caused the UI to be unclear about if abandoned mode was enabled or not.
Fixed an issue that caused some sea creatures to show as extinct in the discovery page.
Fixed an issue that caused broken slots to be "sorted" by the inventory sort options.
Fixed an issue that caused some discovery screen text to flicker while playing in multiplayer.
Fixed an issue that caused two identical options to appear during a dialogue tree in They Who Returned.
Fixed a text issue with some monolith interactions.

Fixed an issue that caused water to appear too dark when viewed from space.
Improved the visibility of underwater jetpack effects.
Fixed a number of water rendering issues. Fixed an issue that made abandoned and pirate space stations too bright.
Fixed an issue that caused holograms to be invisible when viewed against the sky.
Fixed an issue that caused some sea creature to use the wrong death effects.
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Fixed a crash related to memory management.

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This might be considered an exploit or glitch. I'm not the one to discover it. Probably some of you know this already.

You can transfer ALL of your Expedition items to your main save.

Step one -- complete the Expedition. But don't accept the End Expedition dialog when it pops up (ESC on PC, O on PlayStation, etc. -- basically, dismiss the dialog without hitting "Accept").

(A) Go to the Expedition terminal and fill up all the inventory there with stuff you want to transfer back to your main save. DO NOT CLICK END EXPEDITION.

(B) Get into and out of your starship to create a save, then using the game menu choose "Return to Primary Save"

(C) In your main save, collect all the Expedition items from the Expedition terminal. Then click "Resume Expedition" from the Expedition terminal.

(D) Go to step (A) and repeat until everything is transferred.

This is great if you want to collect things like technology modules from destroying frigates/freighters or something in your expedition save (to send back to your main save) without having to deal with the faction hits. Or whatever else you wish to farm from an expedition.

February 06, 2025.
Hello Everyone,

Thank you to everyone playing No Man’s Sky – Worlds Part II, especially those taking the time to report any issues they encounter via Zendesk or console crash reporting.

We are listening closely to your feedback, and have identified and resolved a number of issues. These fixes are included in patch 5.53, which is now live on Steam and will be coming to other platforms as soon as possible.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue which prevented some gestures from ending when attempting to move.
Fixed an issue that caused the Stellar Extractor to display an invalid slot.
Fixed a number of issues that could occur when warping on board someone else's freighter.
Fixed an issue that could cause life support to drain while in the Nautilon.
Fixed an issue that prevented the Mineral Rig from being installed correctly in the Colossus.
S-Class upgrades to the Grafted Eyes now choose 3 bonuses.
Fixed a number of cases where the highest bonus for X-Class Neutron Cannon upgrades was lower than the S-Class bonus.
Fixed an issue that caused all hermit crabs to be listed as extinct on the Discovery Page.
Abandoned Mode saves now indicate their status on the load screen.
Fixed a number of mission issues that could occur after joining another player in who was already aboard the Space Anomaly.
Fixed an issue that prevented some decals from being coloured correctly.
Fixed an issue that could cause some ships or Multi-Tools to appear twice in the list of active items in their respective archive UIs.
Fixed a rare issue that could cause some ships to change colour when being retrieved from cold storage. This fix will restore ships to their correct colour.
Fixed an issue that caused Multi-Tools to have an incorrect class listed on the weapon rack UI.

Fixed a rare mission blocker that could occur at the start of the Artemis missions.
Fixed a number of issues that could prevent the Space Anomaly or Atlas Path missions from starting correctly.
Fixed a rare mission blocker where players would not know the correct recipes during In Stellar Multitudes.

Fixed a number of issues with water simulation, including all water vanishing from the oceans on PlayStation 5.
Planetary rings and rainbows now reflect correctly in the water.
Fixed an issue that could cause flickering glitches with water rendering.
Fixed a number of additional visual glitches with water rendering.
Fixed a number of visual issues with lighting.

Introduced a significant improvement to load times while using a large number of mods. Introduced a minor optimisation for video memory usage.
Fixed a rare crash related to creature navigation.
Fixed a crash related to the animation system.
Fixed a number of crashes related to memory management.
Fixed a crash related to memory allocation. Fixed a crash related to animations.

We will continue to release patches as issues are identified and resolved. If you experience any issues, let us know by submitting a bug report.

Thank you, Hello Games

A reddit user posted screenshots of a gas giant that were beautifully adorned with the colors of the trans flag.

This attracted bigots with their agenda to disrupt the community discussion and the mods shut it down by locking the post.

So the poster created a second one with more photos as a symbolic gesture that the message was simply about pretty planets that they felt represented them-

It too, was locked.

I made a post there proclaiming that I am leaving until I see the mods replaced with those that will not give in to bigotry, and I linked to this community with the hope that people can find a new home here.

Sooooo… welcome new friends!

Hello Everyone,

Thank you to everyone playing No Man’s Sky – Worlds Part II, especially those taking the time to report any issues they encounter via Zendesk or console crash reporting.

We are listening closely to your feedback, and have identified and resolved a number of issues. These fixes are included in patch 5.51, which is now live on PS5 and will be coming to other platforms as soon as possible.

Bug Fixes

•Fixed an issue that prevented some new materials from being harvested by planetary extractors.
•Fixed an issue that prevented some flora and mineral discoveries from appearing in the discoveries list after scanning.
•Fixed a rare graphical glitch that caused some creature models to explode.
•Fixed an issue resulting in hangs on PS5.
•Fixed a crash related to networking.
•Fixed a crash that could occur when donating items to a guild envoy.

Hello!

No Man’s Sky is a game that we all genuinely truly love. Last year we released Worlds Part I and I remember thinking at the time that this is just the beginning. We can’t wait to show people what we’ve been working on! There’s new solar systems, new planets with more variety, new terrain types, even new Gas Giants, and of course new adventures. Our next update is called Worlds Part II. Full patch notes are available here.

Worlds Part II allows us to push the boundaries of our engine with new technology.

Across the universe we’re adding billions of new solar systems and trillions of new planets, and introducing new biomes and terrains without changing what people already love about the game. It’s now so far beyond what we ever thought was possible when we started out.

Continued

Edit: added ps5 patch note screenshot

The Cursed Expedition was one of my favourite expeditions, so of course I'm redoing it.

The constant drain of the Anomaly Suppressor and the harassment of the Boundary Horrors lends an incessant pressure. That first dash to the ship with an underpowered Boltgun and no Elixirs at hand is reminiscent of a Permadeath start.

I think the slightly reduced targets of the Redux version make it a little less grindy.

And of course, the trash talk…

I assume it's Worlds Part 2 since Worlds Part 1 was released at the beginning of last year.

A bit odd perhaps, at least Ii haven't run into this.

Planets in uncharted systems have no structures. However if you use a portal to travel to a planet in an uncharted system, a Portal will generate. I spent a good deal of time trying to portal to this world, and some other worlds in the same system. I've double-checked the glyphs several times. In all cases I get the address error, approximating. I'll end up in a different system around the same distance from the core every time.

I swear I've done this to generate a portal on uncharted worlds before. Did I not have enough coffee today? Has this been "patched"? As it is I portalled to a bunch of other systems anyways, so got a functional portal base for this galaxy. On to the next.

Glyphs 3207-FA00-6FFA

Twelve galaxies down, 244 more to go. I just realized that it would make more sense if I'd not repair everything every single time...

Hi all. I will try to reach all 256 galaxies. Last time I tried this I got bored at #10... But I sure do hope that this attempt will be different! I'm looking forward to sharing my progress here on this sub. By the way, I had no idea that you need emeril drive to jump to galaxy core :-)

I missed it the first time. Any recommendations for items to push through to the expedition from your main save?

I picked up this tall boi just before the Adrift Redux expedition, and I was going to remember where I picked him up but… I didn't. Flipped back through my discoveries, no sign. It's the tallest of these big synthetic creatures I've discovered. I'm certain it's the tallest creature I've discovered, but it's not in my wonders either (which make me curious to backtrack to find the tallest that is in my wonders).

I wish you could export your discoveries to a CSV file, or something that let you search through and sort more effectively, but is there any easy way to figure out where a pets origin world was?

Cull animals, kill predators, kill sentinels... any other ones that stack well? I sort of like collecting missions while on a station and then not doing them at all. Eventually I'll do a quicksilver mission in the Nexus and accidentally complete like two dozen missions at once...

Doing the Adrift Expedition Redux (even though I've already done Adrift, I just like doing Expedition), and ran into this at Rendezvous 4, a derelict freighter pretty much crashing into the planet. It apparently tilts gravity, and severely hampers your jump jets. TIL I guess.

I also did the freighter task for free, saving the scanner, so thank to whoever parked a derelict freighter right on top of the rendezvous. Saw lots of other people going into the freighter at the same time, so I think it helped out.

Hi folks, just finished the "Adrift" Expedition 13 redux -- currently running until Dec 25th.

First thoughts:

(1) If you have some sellable scrap or something in your main save, push them into your expedition inventory and sell them at the first space station. This will help you get started. But, perhaps more importantly, you can buy a lot of https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Emergency_Signal_Scanner for about 1.4M each -- which are normally about time limited, so you can buy out the stock of ~14 at each space station and bring them back into your main save.

(2) Due to the nature of this particular expedition, bases don't show up on the map (although you can still fly to them). There are a lot of bases already built with names like "easy larval cores" or "robot horses" or similar. When you are looking at your task list, sometimes it is easiest to just go to the space station and then warp to someone's base.

(3) In particular, the one that says "climb to 1400u" -- just go to the Rendezvous planet for that phase of the expedition and land on a mountain. There are several near the rendezvous point that are sufficiently tall.

(4) For the one that says "salvage a starship" or similar -- probably the least resource intensive version is to find a base with a crashed sentinel ship.

(5) Nanites are in short supply, so it is unlikely you'll be able to have enough to import a multi-tool or ship unless you're cheesing things. Even to complete the mission to get 1200 nanites, I was doing things like processing slime in my personal refiner.

(6) The ghost frigate is awesome.

Reminder to claim your Starborn Phoenix (Gold version of Starborn Runner) at the quicksilver station either before/after your expedition.

Starborn Phoenix -- a gold version of Starborn Runner -- free to Steam users. (Probably works with Cross Save to get on other systems, but unsure.)