Summary
A base building enthusiast in theNo Man’s Skycommunity has shared their design of a beautiful raft house that floats upon the surface of one of the new oceanic planets recently added to the game. Unfortunately, the project became the victim of a known issue affecting builds on such worlds. Many builders inNo Man’s Skyhave been eager to bring some similar creations of their own to these aquatic planets, though anyone looking to build something like this on the water’s surface should be aware that this bug could cause their work to disappear.
Ocean planets are just one of the many new features added to the universe inNo Man’s Sky’s latest free update, titled Worlds Part 2. These kinds of environments are ones that many in the game’s community have been hoping to see added for many years now and feature dark ocean depths that stretch down for kilometers, various new forms of aquatic life, valuable new resources only to be found in the depths, and more. These kinds of planets can only be found in the new purple-class star systems, and players will need to complete the game’s main story and a few of its side missions before they can access them.
The cozy construction project in the spotlight this time is a wooden raft house design built and shared by the player known as WrastlingIsReal. This gorgeous build sits atop the calm, watery surface of one ofNo Man’s Sky’s deep aquatic planetsand uses resized gas cylinder props to make it seem like the structure is floating on buoyant tanks. This cabin focuses on a warm and cozy aesthetic rather than serving as a particularly large and industrial base and is packed full of decorations and furnishings to make it feel like a real home among the stars. The creator even included galactic coordinate glyphs in the screenshot, which others can input into any portal structure to travel to the planet.
Why No Man’s Sky Fans Should Avoid Building on the Surfaces of Water Worlds for Now
Unfortunately, the creator quickly found that much of their build had disappeared due to a known bug affecting bases built on the new deep ocean planets. It seems that these new worlds don’t actually feature deeper terrain, but instead feature a significantly higher water surface level to achieve larger and deeper oceans. On many ocean worlds, it seems that the water surface level actually sits around the player build height limit. Because of this,bases inNo Man’s Skycan bug out and disappear partially or even entirely.
Sadly, much of this raft house was lost as a result, but some fans speculate that bases that encounter this issue are still considered by the game to exist, and instead just aren’t visible. Hello Games has been hard at work fixing many new bugs in variousrecent patches forNo Man’s Sky, and many fans are hopeful that lost bases could potentially be restored in future fixes and updates.
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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.
