Be warned that terrain will eventually respawn over time if you use your terrain manipulator or build pieces that delete sections of terrain when you place them. It is good to build on a foundation.
Building in pre existing caves solves this issue, which is one reason they are great to be aware of when you establish a new base. Tunnel systems are usually safe and remain when terrain changes.
@@Renfailfor what you've built, it's still doable, but your idea of using prefabs to go down will blow up in your face. Been there. Done that. What you could do though, is use a teleporter from the first one you've already built to the first one in the stack that isn't buried, then ladder your way down from there like you want. That first one will still eventually fill in, but because of how you have it placed, it will be relatively easy to clear when it does.
i was never interested in survival, crafting and base building stuff before i started playing No Man's Sky. I needed a story to follow and shoot my way to kill the last big boss to keep it simple. But No Man's Sky totally changed that for many reasons. I was always interested in the concept of open world SciFi games and the amount to stuff you can do in NMS is massive, while not forcing you to do anything at all. You can have battles all the time if you want or just chill out in space or on some beautiful planet and just do your thing. What really hooks me here is the fact, that everyone is playing in the same universe. For some reason that makes a big difference for me personally. Any base i build or system i have explored can be seen by any other player and i can visit any base from other players or join a colony on a planet. You can build together in a group and create your own civilization with anyone. However, the base building has it's limits in many ways. The game struggles to show complex bases on very populated planets and if you have bases build in different saves they usually (or randomly) are not visible on the other saves. Also you can only use 3000 parts on one base and there is a total limit of 16000 parts across 400 bases in one save. This may sound a lot, but it isn't if you are really into building and exploring. Building at least one base in each of the 256 galaxies results in having only 62 parts per base available and that is not much. So i hope these limits will be increased at some point, since players are asking for it for quite a some time now.
Welcome to the club. I got the game a few months after launch and base building has kept my interest in NMS over all these years. Been honored to have had three of my bases featured in the Anomaly over the years.
Im also addicted to building! Working on a floating island base currently. Found the prettiest island planet with both big ocean islands and floating islands and pretty colors! Sometimes the ocean waters look like pastel rainbow.
You could always use a short range transportet to save having to build or tunnel through the island. This would make it much easier to build a deep water base.
@@RenfailJust know that the tunnel will fill in eventually. I spent hours and hours making amazing inner mountain bases, but when an update comes eventually, terrain has a tendency to fill back in. I have multiple different bases now trapped deep underground and inside mountains lol. The transporter will give you a way to get back to those areas if they fill back in.
I have very mixed feelings about base building in NMS. I really want to love it, but it is clunky and inconvenient, and also there are a lot of pre-defined shapes - like stairs, etc. - but very few basic shapes. My number one base building game is 7 Days to Die. It has dozens of basic shapes (cubes, triangles, ovals, etc.), and each shape comes in variants like half shape, full shape, sheet, wider, etc. There are literally millions of combinations for base building.
apparently there are ways maybe to prevent terrain regrowth , have no idea if it works, but involved uploading the base after a terrain edit before someone else visits the planet, not sure how long it works for, or if it persists other people going there i need to go back to my PS4 bases, which will have some edits, some of those bases are what 6 years old now, in a weird way as they are abandoned now, it might be like nature has taken them back , some post apolycapse , added to the fact these are probaly 20 updates old , might be some kinda Last of Us thing going on with them
Satisfactory's base building has a ton of meaningful interactivity, more components, blueprints and materials, which makes it better. Even though NMS's base building is good, there are still a huge amount of improvements needed. I hope Hello Games brings out a whole new update that bumps up base building.
@@Renfail Beeblebum did a video on it the other day if you want to take a look. Some modders finagled the code to make it usable, but it's clearly unfinished.
I've been building for this game since 2020 on XBOX. Then I picked up the game on Playstation 4 Now the PS5. I hope they improve the base building parts for ocean building & stations.
I also love Base-building in No Man's Sky. Sometimes the ideas for expanding the Base come so fast you lose all track of time! lol Love your Shroud of the Avatar shirt!
Cheers :) Got it from their offices during one of my visits back when they were still hosting an office in Austin while I was heading our MMORPG company :)
Each save has a set limit of cache for the dirt and ground you displace, eventually your cache will fill up and as you dig further, the older part will return to their original state. It's much better to build on top or above the ground.
I lost hours of terrain manipulating near a settlement, I’ve liked to make the view beautiful, terraforming the whole place than it was gone. Now it’s bugged in. The half of the place I made is there, a crazy big akward looking hole in the mountain. One of the newest update made impossible to manipulate near settlements. I hope they add multiple settlement/city building to the game. It would be very unique and creative way to play. Something like Minecraft for adults, fans of the not cubic forms 😂
I play on PC, but really struggle with mouse & keyboard (bad hands) so I use an Xbox 1 controller. Haven't had any issues at all, seems to work the same as Xbox as far as I can tell
@@RenfailI've mentioned it before, but what I think the problem that most of us have with controller building, is that both the controller and the game have accelerating inputs for movement. This means it often goes from moving slowly to extremely fast because both are happening simultaneously and fighting each other. For quick and dirty work, this is fine, but when you're trying to do precise work KB&M is the way to go.
I thought terrain regenerated after a couple of hours...? Unless they changed that? I ask that cause I think it'll cause issues with your base build eventually. Also I'm a huge EQ 1 fan. Any plans to do any Teek streams eventually?
I bought this game on PC about 2 weeks ago. I started playing in survival and I'm already tired of constantly being attacked by 3 or 4 fighters ...I might start over and try creative or relaxed. I just want to explore and build ...fighting is ok but im getting my ass kicked?
You've barely scratched the surface of base building in NMS... Wait until you learn the glitch building techniques and creating your own things in Blender to import... You definitely want to be on PC... 💥
Lol... You may change your mind about that once you realize how it opens up custom base building so your imagination is your only limit... Blender is a very easy 3D modeler program to use and not a dev tool... Suggest checking it out because it could also be a great source of video content if you choose to get into it... 🙂
@@ShaighJosephson < game dev with 10+ years in the space, founded two studios, launched an MMORPG + two other games. I don't touch the tools of the trade unless I'm getting paid to do so =P VERY familiar with Blender and all the other tools
can you put titles on the ( Renfail Plays No Man's Sky in 2024 (First Playthrough) - Part ----- ) series? because id like to know what will the video be about, like this one or the other one u started building this stairs; its so much fun watching you, also putting title makes me want to watch the video instead of too many parts of the game that makes me feel that id never be able to watch the 70+ videos example, like I saw the new starship in the video and I really want to see when you bought it but I really don't know which video to click or see. at least put titles on the next uploads it will be really beneficial for the channel, viewers and you when u want to refer to a video or search for something
the base building videos have their own titles, but these are all cut down from the livestreams, so it's usually a 3-hour livestream that I cut down into 6 episodes. So yeah, it's just part 1, 2, 3.
@@Renfail ahh so maybe if you can refer the part to which exact live stream its from like put in description and yea ur right i just noticed that the livestreams have titles ^^ that's good to know
Nice. Is there an easier way to find the glyph gates than scanning randomly? I can't find travelers at stations any more yet that's what the guides still suggest.
Are you trying to find the portal itself or the glyphs? The glyphs are a slog. You just need to explore enough space stations and go to new star systems until you get lucky and find a traveler. If you mean the portal itself, then you just need to upgrade your exocraft scanner all the way, and then they can scan for alien outposts which give you a portal a percentage of the time.
Theres a guide up to get them all quickly after you get the first two, do a search for find all glyphs in minutes. Someone set up public bases to the rest of the graves once you can portal with two glyphs.
@@ValenceFlux If they were asking for the address to your planet you can easily get system coords from placing down a signal booster. It'll be listed as something like NAME:1234:5678:0910:1112 which you can then input online to convert into portal glyphs. (there's a couple fan sites that will convert coords into glyphs)
Be warned that terrain will eventually respawn over time if you use your terrain manipulator or build pieces that delete sections of terrain when you place them. It is good to build on a foundation.
Yeah Foundations really helps.
Building in pre existing caves solves this issue, which is one reason they are great to be aware of when you establish a new base. Tunnel systems are usually safe and remain when terrain changes.
sweet
@@Renfailfor what you've built, it's still doable, but your idea of using prefabs to go down will blow up in your face. Been there. Done that.
What you could do though, is use a teleporter from the first one you've already built to the first one in the stack that isn't buried, then ladder your way down from there like you want.
That first one will still eventually fill in, but because of how you have it placed, it will be relatively easy to clear when it does.
@@0ld_R3b3l Cool. I’ve learned the hard way lol.
i was never interested in survival, crafting and base building stuff before i started playing No Man's Sky. I needed a story to follow and shoot my way to kill the last big boss to keep it simple. But No Man's Sky totally changed that for many reasons. I was always interested in the concept of open world SciFi games and the amount to stuff you can do in NMS is massive, while not forcing you to do anything at all. You can have battles all the time if you want or just chill out in space or on some beautiful planet and just do your thing.
What really hooks me here is the fact, that everyone is playing in the same universe. For some reason that makes a big difference for me personally. Any base i build or system i have explored can be seen by any other player and i can visit any base from other players or join a colony on a planet. You can build together in a group and create your own civilization with anyone.
However, the base building has it's limits in many ways. The game struggles to show complex bases on very populated planets and if you have bases build in different saves they usually (or randomly) are not visible on the other saves. Also you can only use 3000 parts on one base and there is a total limit of 16000 parts across 400 bases in one save. This may sound a lot, but it isn't if you are really into building and exploring. Building at least one base in each of the 256 galaxies results in having only 62 parts per base available and that is not much. So i hope these limits will be increased at some point, since players are asking for it for quite a some time now.
I still love my narrative story, but this has opened some new doors for me :)
Welcome to the club. I got the game a few months after launch and base building has kept my interest in NMS over all these years. Been honored to have had three of my bases featured in the Anomaly over the years.
Always wondered how do bases end up at the anomaly?
@@JohnSmith-bk7hk I think them seeing screenshots of bases via Twitter, Reddit or NMS FB groups.
nice :)
which ones?
@@achromatic1 None this round but Twelve Towers Castle in the last round, Sauron’s Summer Home before that and years ago Escher’s Square Knots.
Quick fyi here. On PC you can freely swap between KB&M and controller. I switch constantly depending on what I'm doing.
Yep!
Same here... The Razor Wolverine Ultimate USB works great as a console controller on PC for this game...
Beeblebums glutch building is another gateway to a rabbit hole.
For real
I was going to comment this. I can only do circle builds so far but his videos are great tutorials.
@@Renfail www.youtube.com/@Beeblebum
Place a Save Beacon at the entrance of the cave to make it easy to find again!
that's a good tip :)
Im also addicted to building! Working on a floating island base currently. Found the prettiest island planet with both big ocean islands and floating islands and pretty colors! Sometimes the ocean waters look like pastel rainbow.
The new water looks so amazing
You could always use a short range transportet to save having to build or tunnel through the island.
This would make it much easier to build a deep water base.
I'm enjoying doing it this way
@@RenfailJust know that the tunnel will fill in eventually. I spent hours and hours making amazing inner mountain bases, but when an update comes eventually, terrain has a tendency to fill back in. I have multiple different bases now trapped deep underground and inside mountains lol. The transporter will give you a way to get back to those areas if they fill back in.
I have very mixed feelings about base building in NMS. I really want to love it, but it is clunky and inconvenient, and also there are a lot of pre-defined shapes - like stairs, etc. - but very few basic shapes. My number one base building game is 7 Days to Die. It has dozens of basic shapes (cubes, triangles, ovals, etc.), and each shape comes in variants like half shape, full shape, sheet, wider, etc. There are literally millions of combinations for base building.
cool
apparently there are ways maybe to prevent terrain regrowth , have no idea if it works, but involved uploading the base after a terrain edit before someone else visits the planet, not sure how long it works for, or if it persists other people going there
i need to go back to my PS4 bases, which will have some edits, some of those bases are what 6 years old now, in a weird way as they are abandoned now, it might be like nature has taken them back , some post apolycapse , added to the fact these are probaly 20 updates old , might be some kinda Last of Us thing going on with them
interesting
Satisfactory's base building has a ton of meaningful interactivity, more components, blueprints and materials, which makes it better. Even though NMS's base building is good, there are still a huge amount of improvements needed. I hope Hello Games brings out a whole new update that bumps up base building.
I've been very pleased so far
They're working on something. A recent datamine found a grid building system may be coming.
@@Lordoftheapes79 pleeeeease be true :)
@@Renfail Beeblebum did a video on it the other day if you want to take a look. Some modders finagled the code to make it usable, but it's clearly unfinished.
I've been building for this game since 2020 on XBOX. Then I picked up the game on Playstation 4 Now the PS5. I hope they improve the base building parts for ocean building & stations.
we'll see!
I also love Base-building in No Man's Sky. Sometimes the ideas for expanding the Base come so fast you lose all track of time! lol Love your Shroud of the Avatar shirt!
Cheers :) Got it from their offices during one of my visits back when they were still hosting an office in Austin while I was heading our MMORPG company :)
Each save has a set limit of cache for the dirt and ground you displace, eventually your cache will fill up and as you dig further, the older part will return to their original state. It's much better to build on top or above the ground.
So I've heard
That is the best part for me.
I've been having a blast. Discovering those tunnels in the ocean underneath my base was "chef's kiss"
Me too!
If you find an electromagnetic hot spot, you can get unlimited power for your bases
Yep
I have the same problem. I go into a trance when I'm building and hours can pass without me realizing it...
heheheheh nice! meditation ftw
I lost hours of terrain manipulating near a settlement, I’ve liked to make the view beautiful, terraforming the whole place than it was gone. Now it’s bugged in. The half of the place I made is there, a crazy big akward looking hole in the mountain. One of the newest update made impossible to manipulate near settlements. I hope they add multiple settlement/city building to the game. It would be very unique and creative way to play. Something like Minecraft for adults, fans of the not cubic forms 😂
updates can do that sometimes.
I play NMS on PC and switch to the Steamdeck wich works really good!
cool!
Wait until you discover glitch building techniques.
I've seen some guides :)
I play on PC, but really struggle with mouse & keyboard (bad hands) so I use an Xbox 1 controller. Haven't had any issues at all, seems to work the same as Xbox as far as I can tell
Interesting. The fine-tuning of some of the placements in free mode is driving me nuts on the controller
Would love it if they add pillers, fix some snappoints, and make the automatic garage doors bigger to fit the exocrafts, but I really like it, too.
@@RenfailI've mentioned it before, but what I think the problem that most of us have with controller building, is that both the controller and the game have accelerating inputs for movement. This means it often goes from moving slowly to extremely fast because both are happening simultaneously and fighting each other. For quick and dirty work, this is fine, but when you're trying to do precise work KB&M is the way to go.
Bro is addicted to base building I am addicted to exploring :skull::skull::skull:
it's all good at the end of the day :)
Please get help,addiction is a terrible thing.
just one more snapped object.....
I know the feeling
Nice
Always build above the terrain 👌🏾
lots of fun
I thought terrain regenerated after a couple of hours...? Unless they changed that? I ask that cause I think it'll cause issues with your base build eventually.
Also I'm a huge EQ 1 fan. Any plans to do any Teek streams eventually?
No Trek planned atm
Occasional hopefully-not-annoying post requesting portal address :D
nah :)
just wait untill you find out how to do some glitchbuilding
Indeed
Door switches are absolutely stupid in this game, which is why most people just stick to holo doors.
I'm thinking that's a far better option LOL
I bought this game on PC about 2 weeks ago. I started playing in survival and I'm already tired of constantly being attacked by 3 or 4 fighters ...I might start over and try creative or relaxed. I just want to explore and build ...fighting is ok but im getting my ass kicked?
creative mode
You've barely scratched the surface of base building in NMS... Wait until you learn the glitch building techniques and creating your own things in Blender to import... You definitely want to be on PC... 💥
I won't ever go THAT deep. I'm not touching Blender unless I'm getting paid for game dev =P
Lol... You may change your mind about that once you realize how it opens up custom base building so your imagination is your only limit... Blender is a very easy 3D modeler program to use and not a dev tool... Suggest checking it out because it could also be a great source of video content if you choose to get into it... 🙂
@@ShaighJosephson < game dev with 10+ years in the space, founded two studios, launched an MMORPG + two other games. I don't touch the tools of the trade unless I'm getting paid to do so =P VERY familiar with Blender and all the other tools
Why not just use your console controller on the PC as well? Then you can switch from mouse and keyboard to the controller seamlessly.
I have :) I prefer just playing on my Xbox and leaving my PC for the PC exclusives and my video editing
can you put titles on the
( Renfail Plays No Man's Sky in 2024 (First Playthrough) - Part ----- ) series?
because id like to know what will the video be about, like this one or the other one u started building this stairs;
its so much fun watching you, also putting title makes me want to watch the video instead of too many parts of the game that makes me feel that id never be able to watch the 70+ videos
example, like I saw the new starship in the video and I really want to see when you bought it but I really don't know which video to click or see.
at least put titles on the next uploads it will be really beneficial for the channel, viewers and you when u want to refer to a video or search for something
the base building videos have their own titles, but these are all cut down from the livestreams, so it's usually a 3-hour livestream that I cut down into 6 episodes. So yeah, it's just part 1, 2, 3.
@@Renfail ahh so maybe if you can refer the part to which exact live stream its from like put in description
and yea ur right i just noticed that the livestreams have titles ^^ that's good to know
Nice. Is there an easier way to find the glyph gates than scanning randomly? I can't find travelers at stations any more yet that's what the guides still suggest.
i haven't gotten into that part of the game deep enough yet
Are you trying to find the portal itself or the glyphs? The glyphs are a slog. You just need to explore enough space stations and go to new star systems until you get lucky and find a traveler. If you mean the portal itself, then you just need to upgrade your exocraft scanner all the way, and then they can scan for alien outposts which give you a portal a percentage of the time.
@@ghost-user559 Someone asked for the glyphs to a planet I made a video of. I don't have much time to play lately but I gave it a shot. Thanks
Theres a guide up to get them all quickly after you get the first two, do a search for find all glyphs in minutes. Someone set up public bases to the rest of the graves once you can portal with two glyphs.
@@ValenceFlux If they were asking for the address to your planet you can easily get system coords from placing down a signal booster. It'll be listed as something like NAME:1234:5678:0910:1112 which you can then input online to convert into portal glyphs.
(there's a couple fan sites that will convert coords into glyphs)
Looking for a cure? Try building in VR.
Happy to check it out. Send me some hardware and I'll do so
Nah bro. You want fine tuning? Play on PSVR2!