How to get the best item in No Man's Sky
Pick up a multitool with four adjacent supercharged slots, claim a crashed ship, or adopt a creature, each with the portal glyphs and coordinates to get there. The guides say where each kind of item comes from, from the galaxy down to the planet, and How lucky am I? scores one you found yourself. The capital freighters page shows every capital freighter shape, the Sentinel Interceptors page shows every Interceptor the game can build, and how it works tells why only a few systems make the list.
A confession
The author was obsessed with finding the perfect item. That meant touring the galaxy system by system, filling table after table, combing the sites where travellers share coordinates, and checking other people's finds by hand. At the end of that road was an interface to the Atlas itself: a way in, and a universal formula behind it.
What opened up was beyond reckoning. Worlds, items, and creatures in numbers that could fill the database of any site there is. A multitool of any colour, any size, with any stats you could name. There were so many that the author could not choose anything at all, and sank into the tables looking for the very best, only to learn that the very best were many: every category had its own.
The great joy of limitless choice gave way to frustration, and then to apathy. If any multitool or any ship of known stats is three seconds away, there is nothing left to explore the galaxy for. And the author grew afraid of ruining that same game for everyone else.
But the genie is out of the bottle. So here is a list of items, and a very short one: just 19 systems and one star, enough to prove the formula is real and too few to take the journey from anyone. The author deeply regrets ruining a personal experience of the game and does not want to ruin yours, which is why so little is published. And for all the regret over this site, it was a wonderful time in the galaxy, even if this was never the route anyone planned to take.
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