Image 1 — A Desert Base in a Pirate System — and a Cave That Inspired Me
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A Desert Base in a Pirate System — and a Cave That Inspired Me

I found a beautiful desert planet in an equally beautiful pirate system.

I’ve always had a soft spot for desert worlds, so while I was wandering through the mountains, I came across an amazing cave right at the top of one of them. The moment I saw it, an idea came to mind: I wanted to build a base that looked a bit like a nativity village.

So that’s exactly what I did — and here are the pictures.

If you ever feel like visiting that area, you’re very welcome to stop by and take a look!

Galaxy 256, Glyphs in last pictures.

u/Tzardauker — 5 days ago

Another Station Joins the Grey Council — Galaxy 256!

Here's our latest addition to the Grey Council! 🚀

Another station has joined our ranks, and this one's a beauty: a massive pyramid with three impressive towers. It caught my eye right away, so I just had to claim it!

We're in a Korvax system, all the way out in Galaxy 256.

And that's another one for the Council! Our little collection keeps growing, one station at a time.

After all, it's not about quantity. It's about quality.

We're old-school gamers. We know how to appreciate the good stuff! 😎

Long live the Grey Council! 🖖

u/Tzardauker — 5 days ago

After Far Too Many Attempts… Meet My Saab Draken

After many (possibly far too many) attempts at combining various mechanical parts without really knowing what I was doing, I think I’ve finally cracked it.

Fortunately, I seem to have a knack for somehow making everything work in the end.

I believe I’ve finally assembled my perfect Solar Ship: evocative, with beautiful colours, a wonderfully weathered paint job and perhaps a few too many dents and battle scars... but I absolutely love her.

Ladies and gentlemen, meet my Saab Draken, first (Diesel) Solar Ship 😂

What do you think?

u/Tzardauker — 1 month ago

Even the Universe Can Wait — Tzadauker’s Taking a Break

Good old Tzadauker, enjoying a quiet moment of contemplation and relaxation. Time passes, but out here in space, everything seems still, even as it unfolds.

u/Tzardauker — 1 month ago

I’m old enough to recognise that ship. Still young enough to get excited.

Spoilers for the Beachhead Expedition finale!

I’ve been revisiting old No Man’s Sky expeditions on PC, playing offline to experience the missions themselves.

Here’s the finale of Beachhead, with the Normandy making her entrance. A little space nostalgia for anyone who knows that silhouette.

Anyone else tempted to reinstall Mass Effect now? 😂

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u/Tzardauker — 1 month ago

Un piccolo schianto per un Gek, un gigantesco balzo verso la paternità.

I’m afraid I’ve just crashed into a giant egg cell in space… I hope that makes me a bad pilot, not an expectant father. 😄

u/Tzardauker — 1 month ago

I Need a Hauler for My NipNip Smuggling Business — Which One Would You Pick?

Now that I’ve fully embraced NipNip farming and trading (Gek weed, basically) for the first time I’ve had to consider adding a proper hauler to my fleet, something capable of slipping away from Sentinel inspections.

I ended up building three different models, and now I honestly can’t decide which one works best.

So I’m asking for your help: out of the three haulers I’m showing here, which one would you choose?

Thanks a lot! Your advice will genuinely help me make the final decision.

u/Tzardauker — 1 month ago

Sazabi Prime, glitch build corvette

This Corvette was built using the standard base-building method, while also taking advantage of a few in-game glitches.

The inspiration comes from Japanese anime, especially the spacecraft of the Principality of Zeon from Mobile Suit Gundam 0079. I also took some visual cues from the Sazabi, the mecha piloted by Char Aznable, one of the most iconic characters in the series.

That’s pretty much it — I hope you like it in all its simplicity.

u/Tzardauker — 1 month ago

Ho trovato l'Arizona in No Man's Sky... così ho costruito un impero NipNip

Benvenuti alla mia prima base di produzione di **NipNip** su larga scala in No Man's Sky.

Ho trovato un incredibile pianeta desertico che assomiglia quasi esattamente all'Arizona: enormi canyon, pianure desertiche, valli rocciose e panorami spettacolari che mi ricordano costantemente il Grand Canyon.

Mi è sembrato il luogo perfetto per costruire qualcosa di diverso.

In questo video vi farò un **tour completo della base**, mostrandovi come ho progettato la disposizione interna e organizzato l'intera logistica di produzione del NipNip: aree di coltivazione, spostamenti tra le sezioni, stoccaggio e la struttura generale dell'impianto.

Un po' di agricoltura, un po' di ingegneria... e tanto deserto.

Benvenuti nel mondo del NipNip. 😎

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u/Tzardauker — 1 month ago
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Tour degli interni di SHIN GAMERA

Benvenuti a bordo di **SHIN GAMERA**.

In questo video, vi porto all'interno della mia Corvette personalizzata per mostrarvi la **disposizione degli interni e alcune soluzioni costruttive insolite** che ho utilizzato per rendere lo spazio più interessante, funzionale e unico.

La Corvette è stata costruita principalmente con componenti standard di No Man's Sky, combinati con alcuni glitch e alcune **modifiche dirette al file JSON** utilizzando un software di programmazione.

Alcuni degli aspetti più interessanti sono nascosti all'interno, quindi salite a bordo e date un'occhiata.

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u/Tzardauker — 1 month ago

Nothing Beats the View Through a Transparent Corvette Floor

I’d been thinking about doing this for quite a while, and I finally managed to make it happen.

I added a transparent floor to my Corvette, and I have to say, the experience is absolutely amazing. Flying through space with the universe right beneath your feet gives the ship a completely different feel.

u/Tzardauker — 2 months ago
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This Time No Man’s Sky Truly Surprised Me

This time, No Man’s Sky really surprised me. I landed on a moon orbiting near a gas giant, and it was covered in glowing, bone-shaped vegetation, with wildlife that looked like a strange assortment of crystal-like creatures. It had some similarities to things I’ve already seen on other planets, but this one felt completely different from the rest: corrupted Sentinels, stunning caves, and a genuinely beautiful atmosphere.

It’s a really nice place. On top of that, if you turn toward the right side of the moon, you get an absolutely beautiful view of the blue gas giant.

Grah!

u/Tzardauker — 2 months ago

Should we find a planet and found our own Old Man’s Sky community?

Good morning, guys!

After the recent posts about planets we’ve discovered and all the great places people have been sharing, I’ve been thinking about something... this community may be small, but I genuinely think it has a lot of potential, mostly because of the quality of the people in it.

So… what if we actually started looking for a planet and founded our own little Old Man’s Sky society/community? The first question, of course, would be: which galaxy?

From a practical point of view, Euclid would probably be the best choice. Everyone can reach it easily; but then again… we’re Old Man’s Sky. We’re old-school gamers. 😄 Maybe we should expect at least a little bit of skill and stubbornness from ourselves! So perhaps simply reaching the chosen galaxy could already be part of the challenge. For example, we could use Galaxy 256. It’s technically the last galaxy, but it’s also reasonably well known and there are established ways of getting there.

Or we could choose a lesser-known galaxy... I’ll admit that Galaxy 69 crossed my mind, and yes, I absolutely thought of that number on purpose. 😂

The problem is that getting everyone there could become unnecessarily difficult. Galaxy 256 is unusual, but at least people know about it. If we chose some random distant galaxy, half the challenge might simply become reaching the place rather than building a community there.

So, what do you think? Should we officially start a planet hunt?

Everyone could propose candidate planets, and then instead of judging them only from screenshots, we could actually travel there, visit them ourselves, compare them properly, and eventually vote for the planet that becomes our home.

I think that would make the choice much more meaningful.

I’ll shut up now and leave it to you guys. 😄

What do you think?

And of course, we’ll have to see whether our great u/OldManSky overlord approves the idea.

GRAH!

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u/Tzardauker — 2 months ago

Is My Gek Judging Me… or Planning My Murder?

I swear, my Gek keeps staring at me in a really weird way.

I feel judged. I feel insecure. I feel like he might actually be planning to kill me in my sleep.

Do your characters give you this feeling too, or is it just those huge Gek eyes doing all the work? 👁️🤣

u/Tzardauker — 2 months ago

Three (four) Classic Fighters for Every Occasion

Today I was feeling particularly creative — and nostalgic.

I wanted fighters, yes, but classic fighters. Beautiful ones. No Interceptors this time: I already have a pretty damn good one by default, and I really don’t feel like going hunting for whatever the “Interceptor of the week” happens to be.

So I created three (four) fighters for three different occasions.

Now nobody can say I don’t have the right outfit when the situation calls for it. 😎

GRAH!

u/Tzardauker — 2 months ago

Light Blue & White A-Class Sentinel Interceptor — Lance Wings, Turbines & Laser Attachments

Natural A-Class Sentinel Interceptor in light blue/cyan and white, with black mechanical accents.

• Class: A
• Colors: Light Blue / Cyan + White / Black accents
• Wing configuration: Lance-style wings
• Mid Wings: Full-size mid-wing configuration
• Attachments: Turbines + Laser attachments
• Supercharged Slots: 3
• Galaxy: Odyalutai
• Glyphs: shown in screenshots

u/Tzardauker — 2 months ago

I’ve solved my little “midlife crisis” 🖖

Gentlemen, thanks to all of you — and especially to your suggestions and contributions — I can finally say I’ve solved my little “midlife crisis”… so to speak. 😄

After quite a bit of work, I completely rethought the whole aesthetic and narrative identity of my character: starting with my freighter and the frigates accompanying it, then the look of my Traveller himself, my squadron, and finally my primary fighter.

The one thing I didn’t really touch is my corvette. That one is still my black beauty, and I’m ridiculously proud of her.

So here are a few screenshots showing what I look like these days while roaming the skies of No Man’s Sky.

Thanks again, everyone!

GRAH! 🖖

u/Tzardauker — 2 months ago

My NMS Midlife Crisis: Less Meta, More Me — Freighters, Fleets and Bases

I’m thinking about making my No Man’s Sky experience a little more personal.

Right now I have a Pirate Dreadnought that I captured very early in my journey. I still like it, but pirate freighters have become so common that, to me, they’ve lost some of their personality. So I’m considering switching to a civilian freighter — something with a really distinctive, charismatic silhouette.

The first thing that comes to mind, as our dear Cthulhu-loving friend will probably appreciate, is one of those freighters that resembles the Sentinel Dreadnought. But I’m absolutely open to suggestions.

I’d also like to rethink my frigate fleet a little, so ideas for that are very welcome too.

More and more, I feel like turning my NMS experience into an actual role-playing narrative, something that feels more mine. I’m becoming less interested in hunting for “the best” of everything — the best stats, the best ships, the most efficient setup — and much more interested in finding things that are unusual, evocative, and somehow fit the personality and presence of my Traveller.

So, fellow old Travellers: what freighter and frigate fleet would you choose for character rather than pure performance?

GRAH!... No! It's ti early to Grah! Because... The same goes for my bases.

It’s true, I don’t have that many hours in the game yet — I’m still under 1,000, although probably not for much longer! 😁 Over time, though, I’ve scattered lots of little placeholder bases across many — perhaps too many — planets.

I’m now thinking about changing that approach: creating one distinctive, characterful base in each galaxy, something that can become my home base there, from which I can head out and explore everything else.

Alternatively, I could build representative bases in some of those iconic places shared and inhabited by the various NMS communities.

Now I need to figure out what architectural direction my bases should take. The one that currently feels the most like me is the pirate base I built in Galaxy 256. But I still need to understand where I want to go from there.

So once again, fellow Travellers, I’m very open to your ideas and suggestions.

GRAH!

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u/Tzardauker — 2 months ago
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Could LNF eventually draw players so, HG attentionaway from NMS?

Hi guys,

I have a small concern, and I really hope I’m just overthinking it, so I’d like to hear what you more experienced and long-time players think.

With all the anticipation and excitement surrounding Light No Fire, do you think that when it finally releases we could see a significant migration of players away from No Man’s Sky?

What worries me even more is the possibility that, if Light No Fire becomes a huge success, Hello Games might naturally shift more of its attention and resources toward the new game, leaving NMS increasingly in the background.

I really hope that doesn’t happen. No Man’s Sky has built something quite unique over the years, and it would be a shame to see it slowly decline simply because the community’s attention moves on to the “next big thing.”

I’m hoping Cosmos and future updates can keep NMS feeling alive, evolving and exciting, and maybe even bring another wave of players into the game.

Do you think this concern is reasonable, or does Hello Games’ history with NMS give us good reason to be optimistic?

GRAH!

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u/Tzardauker — 2 months ago