Summary
The No Man’s Sky’sWorlds Part 1 Updatebrought with it dozens of new changes, including better clouds, more realistic water, and sky islands, which caused players tocome flooding back to the eight-year-old game.
However, while that update did blow minds, a trick shared on Reddit has sent theNo Man’s Skycommunity into a frenzy as they’re just discovering a new way to make mining far more efficient.
The Terrain Manipulator’s Settings Make All The Difference
Reddit user Adamoy shared a post,asking players, “Where were you when you learnt that using the smallest Terrain Manipulator setting gives you the most resources?” This simple question caused an existential crisis for large parts of the fan base.
Adamoy found that by setting theTerrain Manipulatorto the smallest setting, resource deposits were more plentiful, and they were able to gather more over the same span of time. While there was some debate on just how efficient this new method was, one player with almost 4,000 hours in No Man’s Sky said, “The lowest setting definitely gets you a higher yield.”
This discovery split the community into multiple directions, there was, of course, the group that already knew, but there were also a couple of groups that didn’t. The first group consisted of people who responded to the OP with posts like “There’s different sizes of terrain manipulator settings?” and “Hold the f***ing phone…There’s SETTINGS???” seemingly having no idea that the Terrain Manipulator could actually be changed.
The second group was apparently more aware of the ability to change the Terrain Manipulator but had no idea about the difference in the resource yield. Giant comment threads began within the original post, with players saying that they learned about the trick “right now”.
It seems like resource deposits are going to be much more useful going forward.
No Man’s Sky
WHERE TO PLAY
Lose yourself in a vast sci-fi odyssey as you explore a near-infinite, procedurally generated universe.
Set out from the edge of the Euclid galaxy and carve out your own interstellar existence in a vast universe teeming with life, danger and near-endless mystery.
No Man’s Sky is a hugely-ambitious, heavily-stylised, sci-fi adventure that spans entire galaxies all brought to life with procedural generation. Travel through an endless array of increasingly diverse and dangerous star systems, prospecting for rare materials, trading with alien life, populate planets and searching for clues to the meaning of the universe’s mysterious existence.
How you survive is up to you. Assemble entire fleets of dreadnought-class freighters and tear across the universe; build sprawling habitable bases across planet surfaces, beneath the ground or under the ocean; buy and upgrade your own weapons and star ships and do battle with outlaw space pirates, hostile alien fauna or the mysterious sentinel fleets.
The universe is yours to explore - trillions upon trillions of planets, waiting to be discovered.
