No Man’s Sky NPCs: A Comprehensive Guide
Introduction to NPCs in No Man’s Sky
The answer to Are there NPCs in No Man’s Sky? is yes, as the game features a variety of Non-Player Characters (NPCs) that players can interact with, including those found at Space Stations and Trading Posts, which can provide quests, ships, and other valuable items. These NPCs can offer missions, trading opportunities, and information about the game’s vast universe, making them an integral part of the No Man’s Sky experience.
Frequently Asked Questions
How to Hire NPCs in No Man’s Sky
- Hiring NPCs: To hire an NPC, visit a Space Station or a Trading Post and talk to the various characters you meet, noting that some of these NPCs can only be found in stations near systems that their faction controls.
- Shooting NPCs: You can’t shoot the NPC, but you can get a lot of satisfaction from shooting their ship, which can be done by doing several strafing runs until you see sparks coming out, at which point it’ll no longer register damage.
- Colonies in No Man’s Sky: The game features colonies, such as Dorinish and Mount Loper, which have a presence in the wiki, although this is not an exhaustive list.
- Recruiting Pilots: Essentially, recruiting a pilot is finding one of the NPCs players would usually speak to when buying a ship and instead asking them if they want to join the fleet.
- Finding Other Players: Yes, it’s possible to find other players randomly, and if you want to be around others more, it’s entirely possible to find civilization-dense parts of the universe.
- Riding Aliens: In addition to petting and feeding them, you can also ride your companions, including giant and even flying creatures.
- Building a Town: Players will eventually need to learn how to find a new settlement in No Man’s Sky and abandon unwanted settlements, with the Frontiers update adding the ability for players to start their own settlement and become the Overseer.
- Being a Pirate: Players can choose to engage in piracy themselves by attacking a freighter or other ships in a space fleet, which will alert Sentinel Drone Starships.
- Being a Bad Guy: The game never says you’re a hero, or what you’re doing is even a noble cause, and there’s ample evidence to point toward your character not doing good at all, but rather could very well be a villain.
- Being an Outlaw: Players can even embark on new missions and criminal career paths that are unlike any other in No Man’s Sky, starting a career as an outlaw with the Outlaw Stations.
- Starting a Civilization: This guide will help you avoid some of the common issues in setting up a civilization, with Civilized Space regions of the No Man’s Sky universe formed by individual or groups of players.
- The Endless Map: The game’s map is not actually infinite, with only 18 quintillion planets in the game, which would take nearly 585 billion years to explore.
- Farming in No Man’s Sky: Creating a farm is one of the best ways to obtain lots of Units, as you can control how much profit you make and expand your farm however you see fit.
- Claiming Abandoned Starships: The player can choose to claim and repair an abandoned starship, or exchange it for a better one at a Space Station or an Outpost.
- Visiting Every Planet: You can’t visit all the planets, as there are 18 quintillion of them, and even if you hop between them at a rate of one planet per second, it would take 41 times the age of the universe.