No Man's Sky

[Smooth Pancakes]

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Oh my god! This is so absurdly brilliant! When you find the whispering eggs, build a base computer. Put up walls around an entire nest of eggs. Go to a different nest, outside the walls, grab a core and spawn the terrors. THEN jetpack INSIDE the walls and collect all the cores from that nest of eggs. While the initial spawn of terrors, more won't spawn while you clean up wholesale inside the walled off and protected eggs!

I just cleaned house on 6 cores in less than 30 seconds!

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[CubFan23]

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Saved a freighter from attackers and now they want to give me the freighter for free, do I take it? Anyone here have a freighter? Are they a pain to watch over for attacks?

[Smooth Pancakes]

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Need suggestions.

After selling 40 of those cores for over 3.8 million units, I have 4.352 million units burning a hole in my pocket. Should I buy the Messenger of Storms multi-tool that's for sale at the space station (23 slot B-class rifle, +9% damage and +7% scanner for 2,764,500 units) or should I use all 4.3 million units towards trading someone at the space station for a shiny new and better ship?

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[Goldin Brown]

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Anyone have any tips to find drop pods? I warped twice just now to at least unlock my first two cargo slots but that **** is gonna get expensive quick. I’d rather go the free route. I haven’t seen a pod yet though.

I've found a few, but don't remember exactly how I did it. My advise is to talk to everyone in the space stations and ask for directions as much as you can, iirc some of them will give you coordinates to a drop pod. You can also try to use Navigational Data in your signal booster, it'll tell you where things are on the planet. Can't remember exactly if it tells you were the drop pods are, but as you're flying around to various locations you'll find some along the way. Hope this helps.

[BurghFan]

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Anyone else having an issue where the thermal protection upgrades are reversed from what their description says. Every time I try buying a module that says "enhanced survival in sub-zero temperatures", it ends up being a heat protection shield and vise versa.
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I bought a C-class freigher for 5 million units for the hell of it (I have 257,000,000 units), but then I went through the black hole in the system I was in and abandoned it. I'm still trying to find a nice planet to rebuild my base on as the one I restored is kind of glitched.

[ricky24]

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I've found a few, but don't remember exactly how I did it. My advise is to talk to everyone in the space stations and ask for directions as much as you can, iirc some of them will give you coordinates to a drop pod. You can also try to use Navigational Data in your signal booster, it'll tell you where things are on the planet. Can't remember exactly if it tells you were the drop pods are, but as you're flying around to various locations you'll find some along the way. Hope this helps.

That’s what I did tonight. Talked to every npc I saw. Did 3 pods and I have 2 located for next play session. Thanks a lot.


Also finally got my agricultural terminal and hired my farmer.

[Smooth Pancakes]

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I love this game! The anomalous broadcast mission took me directly to an abandoned building surrounded by more whispering eggs. Another 40-50 larval cores here I come!

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[Smooth Pancakes]

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Oh my god! This is so absurdly brilliant! When you find the whispering eggs, build a base computer. Put up walls around an entire nest of eggs. Go to a different nest, outside the walls, grab a core and spawn the terrors. THEN jetpack INSIDE the walls and collect all the cores from that nest of eggs. While the initial spawn of terrors, more won't spawn while you clean up wholesale inside the walled off and protected eggs!

I just cleaned house on 6 cores in less than 30 seconds!

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This method works like a dream. I put up walls around two different nests and triggered the terrors by grabbing one unprotected egg. Jetpacked inside the first set of walls, cleared an entire nest in less than 30 seconds, Jetpacked over to the second set of walls, cleared another nest in less than 30 seconds. 13 larval cores collected in less than a minute and never once in danger.

It does take some time setting up, since you have to build a giant box around the nests, and you may need to go collect a bunch of carbon if you don't already have at least 500 carbon on you, but once you have everything set and you're ready to collect, you can wipe out nests and rack up larval cores in seconds. Less than 2 minutes of actual time spent blasting eggs and collecting larval cores, and I already have 20 cores sitting in my inventory.

Edit - Lmao, I just wiped out three nests, another 17 larval cores, in less than two minutes, one a singe spawn of those things. I put one huge box around two nests and a smaller one around a third. Spawned those *******s, Jetpacked into the giant box, wiped out two nests in seconds, Jetpacked into the second box and wiped out the third before the initial spawn wave started disappearing. I've got 37 cores sitting in my inventory with another 13 eggs to blast.

Edit 2 - My total haul at the end of an easy day's work blasting whispering eggs - 47 larval cores worth a grand spanking total of $4,465,000 units.

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[DanH35]

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Anyone have any tips to find drop pods? I warped twice just now to at least unlock my first two cargo slots but that **** is gonna get expensive quick. I’d rather go the free route. I haven’t seen a pod yet though.

I don't remember where I got it, it might have been in buried tech, but I have something you put in the signal booster that tells you where a drop pod is on each planet. When I first got it, I thought I would only be able to use it once, but it lets me use it over and over. You might be able to buy one somewhere. It's sell value is around 130,000 so I'm sure it will be pretty expensive to buy, but it's worth it for all the "free" slots you can get with it.

[bcruise]

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I don't remember where I got it, it might have been in buried tech, but I have something you put in the signal booster that tells you where a drop pod is on each planet. When I first got it, I thought I would only be able to use it once, but it lets me use it over and over. You might be able to buy one somewhere. It's sell value is around 130,000 so I'm sure it will be pretty expensive to buy, but it's worth it for all the "free" slots you can get with it.

Yeah, Signal Booster is the key. It allows you to search for specific nearby structures on planets at the cost of a navigational data. The "Search nearby structures" can find them too and that's free, but you can get any of the structures with that one, and not necessarily one that you want.

[Smooth Pancakes]

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I randomly stumbled upon a drop pod tonight. Need ionized cobalt and one antimatter to repair the last two of the three broken sections for the suit upgrade. So to make it easy to find my way back upon collecting those, I set up a base computer right there so it'll be easy to find my way back.

Also stumbled upon my third building full of whispering eggs in just tonight's gameplay period after taking off flying from a monolith. Set up a base computer and saved for the night so I can immediately start building walls and collecting eggs tomorrow. Well, maybe after I visit the space station or a trading post as I'm still loaded down with the 47 larval cores from earlier.

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[bcruise]

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I randomly stumbled upon a drop pod tonight. Need ionized cobalt and one antimatter to repair the last two of the three broken sections for the suit upgrade. So to make it easy to find my way back upon collecting those, I set up a base computer right there so it'll be easy to find my way back.

Also stumbled upon my third building full of whispering eggs in just tonight's gameplay period after taking off flying from a monolith. Set up a base computer and saved for the night so I can immediately start building walls and collecting eggs tomorrow. Well, maybe after I visit the space station or a trading post as I'm still loaded down with the 47 larval cores from earlier.

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Yeah I was gonna say.....even the free option for suit upgrade isn't "free" . You usually need some material to unlock the pod upgrade and they're not all easy to get.

[Smooth Pancakes]

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Yeah I was gonna say.....even the free option for suit upgrade isn't "free" . You usually need some material to unlock the pod upgrade and they're not all easy to get.

Not at all. Since I won't be getting anymore antimatter until I pick up the Blueprint after I leave this current system (unless I find some for sale), that drop pod is gonna be sitting there for a while. Thus my putting down a base computer and setting up a base so I can find my way back to it extremely easily.

The other headache is trying to find cobalt. I've come across it before, because I had turned cobalt into ionized cobalt near the beginning of the game, but now I can't find cobalt anywhere.

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[DanH35]

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Not at all. Since I won't be getting anymore antimatter until I pick up the Blueprint after I leave this current system (unless I find some for sale), that drop pod is gonna be sitting there for a while. Thus my putting down a base computer and setting up a base so I can find my way back to it extremely easily.

The other headache is trying to find cobalt. I've come across it before, because I had turned cobalt into ionized cobalt near the beginning of the game, but now I can't find cobalt anywhere.

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Look for the spikes in underground caves, most I've seen are cobalt.

[ricky24]

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Yeah I was gonna say.....even the free option for suit upgrade isn't "free" . You usually need some material to unlock the pod upgrade and they're not all easy to get.

They are pretty simple. Just make sure to have a portable refiner and a beacon on you.