No Man’s Sky Tips: How to land on a hostile planet and survive

 1. Make your first landing on a landing pad.

For your first landing on a new planet, I always suggest landing on a landing pad, either at a shelter or at a full-on trading post. Trading posts have the benefit of being on top of raised platforms, which are almost always out of the reach of hostile creatures and sentinels.

The second benefit is that landing pads give you a free re-launch. If your ship lifts off a landing pad, you will not have to charge your launch thrusters. So, if you’re on a planet where resources are limited or you cannot get near them, you’re golden. This gives you time to assess your situation, and whether or not you want to continue exploring the planet.

Landing pads also almost always mean that you’ll have access to that robot-eye looking vendor. That means you can quickly dump your old cargo and restock on things you need.

2. Have everything fully charged up before leaving, and bring some extra plutonium.

When leaving a planet, make your life easier and charge all your systems up before moving on. You never know how challenging your next planet will be, so reload your multitool and life support before heading out. Also, it helps to have a little plutonium to start, since that charges everything.

3. Purchase the shield upgrades.

There are upgrades that can give your exosuit resistance to cold, heat, radioactivity, toxicity, and even allow you to breathe underwater. The cheapest versions require very common minerals, so they’re good for using / deleting as you arrive and depart from planets.

The better versions require gravitino balls. Some planets have gravitino balls littering the ground, however, you should be weary as sentinels walkers are instantly deployed upon gathering them. However, I’ve found that you can park your ship near these rare substances, gather them, and jump in and fly off before being attacked quite easily.

4. Learn how to jetpack-run-melee jump.

I wrote a tip about this, here. However, I’ll just say if you run, do a melee attack, and then immediately jump into your jetpack, you will fly REALLY FAST across the terrain. This is an important thing to learn how to do, especially if you’re on a planet with storms and other extreme conditions. This will save you time and from getting damaged. Also, it allows you to run away from sentinels and hostile creatures.

No Man’s Sky Tips: How to increase your speed across land

This is the best tip ever! I use it constantly!

To move really quickly across terrain, get a running start, do a melee attack, and immediately jetpack-boosted-jump.

You’ll see what I mean.

WARNING: Make sure you save enough jetpack fuel to slow your landing, otherwise you will take fall damage.

Detailed explanation: Your jetpack’s speed is changed by your character’s speed. Naturally, your character does not run very quickly. However, running while melee attacking makes your character run extremely quickly for a short period. If you jetpack-boost-jump immediately after a running melee attack, you will fly incredibly fast.

It’s really fun to do this! However, this may be a glitch, so the developer may patch it out. Let’s hope not!

 

No Man’s Sky Tips: How to get more inventory slots on your exosuit quickly.

There are two ways to max out your suit’s inventory slots fast, but both require a ton of money.

 

Step 1: Gather money.

Slots are purchased, and the more slots you have, the higher the cost for the next one.

Step 2: If you have an Atlas Pass V1, then you can find a Slot Pod in any Space Station. Simply walk through the door on the left.

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Step 2: Go to a barren planet.

One without much plant or animal life. The more bland looking, the better. 

Step 3: Use your eyes. 

Slot Upgrade Pods are REALLY easy to see on barren planets and moons. You’ll find a bunch quickly. Just use your eyes and not your scanner. Forget the scanner, just fly slowly and you’ll find the pods ASAP.

a barren planet in No Man's Sky