No Man’s Sky  ›  Building

Complete Beginner’s Guide to Building Basics | No Man’s Sky Base Building Essentials

Current GuideDifficulty: BeginnerLast updated: August 11, 2024

Building fundamentals

This guide covers the core systems a player needs to understand before moving into more advanced building techniques.

  • Claiming a base and understanding the buildable area.
  • Multiplayer settings that help protect a base.
  • Uploading, deleting and moving bases.
  • Cross-base connections and unlocking building parts.
  • Building controls, the toolbar and snap points.
  • How terrain interacts with base building.
Guide status: The fundamentals remain useful, but this guide is marked Needs Review so any behaviour changed by later updates can be noted clearly.
KEEP EXPLORING

RELATED GUIDES