Crashed Ships are planetary Points Of Interest that tin be establish past the player while they explore the universe of No Man's Sky.

If yous're struggling to find Crashed Ships, this guide covers every method to locate them easily, why yous should fifty-fifty bother looking for them, and what you can do once you've found 1.

Disclaimer:All the information in this guide is correct as of the Atlas Rises update for NMS.

Updated June tenth, 2022 by Harry Alston: With the series of recent No Human being's Heaven updates, including the visual overhaul in Prisms, we're revisiting this article on how to find Crashed Ships in the game.

This updated guide will cover how to use Exocraft and even flight companions (they exist now) to notice crashed ships, as well every bit some updated details on the Planetary Charts, which volition no longer disappear if you don't find whatsoever hidden locations.

What Are Crashed Ships In No Human's Sky?

crashed ship in no mans sky

No Homo's Sky is populated with planets, and on those worlds are various POIs (Points of Interest). There are ruins, abased stations, and in this case, Crashed Ships. You can either wing over a planet looking for them or jump into 1 of the game's many awesome Exocraft.

How To Notice Crashed Ships With Exocraft

Two Exocraft are recommended for finding Crashed Ships: the Nautilon and the Minotaur. The Nautilon can scan for ships underwater, which can be tricky to detect if you're not already down there. Likewise, the Minotaur has the capability to browse for distress signals, which doesn't involve using Planetary Charts to track the signals.

Out of the two, the Nautilon tin be really useful if you lot're searching for lots of Crashed Ships, either to subcontract Nanites or get actress ship materials. You're going to want a planet that is covered in water and located in a relatively rich system (the richer, the more likely you'll notice more worthwhile crashed ships.)

Head downward to the planet with the Nautilon. Dip into the water, practice a scan, discover a transport. If you can't discover a crashed ship location, bound back into your ship and head to a different part of the sea. Repeat until you find plenty of ships.

More than Info About Crashed Ships

These ships spawn randomly on planets and can offer a couple of different rewards for a keen-eyed astronaut. Once you spot one, caput over to information technology and investigate the ruined ship. You can a) repair the ship and take it with y'all, b) activate the distress beacon, which will offer yous a reward.

  • You might go some Nanite Clusters as a advantage.
  • Your standing volition be boosted with the race nearly prominent in that system.
  • Very rarely you might become a blueprint.
  • A bones stack of units.

Nearby the transport yous'll too discover a pile of Damaged Machinery. This spawns aslope every Crashed Ship so always go along an eye out for it. You'll become 30 Nanite Clusters from harvesting it.

How To Locate Crashed Ships In No Man'due south Sky

no mans sky ship cockpit and transmission tower

In that location are a few different ways of locating Crashed Ships in No Man's Sky. Here is a rundown of each.

Transmission Towers

Using a Manual Belfry is the simplest way to observe a Crashed Ship. These towers are POIs located randomly on planets. Within each tower is a puzzle where you have to enter an admission code, basically a number puzzle. This volition ping the distress beacon of any nearby Crashed Transport or Crashed Freighter. Manual Towers are pretty huge, so you'll probable come across them every bit y'all prowl over the surface of a planet.

Give A Gift To A Faction NPC In The Local Space Station

Each system will have a ascendant race or faction. If you talk with an NPC in a local Space Station, a slice of dialog might suggest that there'southward a nearby distress signal, and they'd similar you to do something about it. You can only admission this in one case you lot mitt over the top-tier gift for each faction: the Gek Relic, Vy'peachy Effigy, or Korvax Casing, depending on the faction. This will point y'all in the management of a Crashed Ship.

Crashed Ships Do Appear On Your Starship Scope

Just similar whatever other send, Crashed Ships and Freighters volition appear on your Starship scope. They'll appear as red dots. This ways yous can simply skim over the surface of a planet and accidentally stumble across ane without using a Tower or giving a gift to an NPC. Always go along an eye out for that cerise dot.

Planetary Charts

One disregarded part of the visual overhaul update Prisms is the fact that Planetary Charts are no longer expended when you do not detect whatever points of involvement. With the new update, this method of hunting for Crashed Ship locations just got a whole lot better. Of form, y'all still can't tell whether the PoI is a ship or non, but at least now if you don't find annihilation you can simply try again.

Best Thing To Do With A Crashed Ship In one case Y'all Find One

No Man's Sky Crashed Ship

This really depends on what sort of resources you're after. Before the most recent patch, there was a cool strategy that involved solving multiple Manual Tower puzzles on the aforementioned planet, thus finding several Crashed Ships 1 later another. This ways you could continuously upgrade your ship by finding Crashed Ships with more than inventory infinite. Since Atlas, this has been removed. Here's a guide on how to become the all-time ship in No Man's Sky every bit apace as possible.

That means there are a few things you can exercise with a ship: repair it, destroy information technology, or scavenge some resources from it.

Repairing a Crashed Ship

This is simply worthwhile if the Crashed Ship'south inventory is larger than the ship you're currently flying. Otherwise, you're simply burning resources on a useless ship, and information technology's not exactly cheap to repair, either.

Yous need:

  • 200 Plutonium to fuel the ship's Launch Thruster.
  • 7 Carite Canvas to even repair the Launch Thruster in the first place.
  • 320 Heridium, 4 Carite Sheets, and 32 Zinc to repair the Pulse Engine.

These are required to actually get the ship off the footing. Various other pieces of tech on the send are probable damaged besides and volition need to be repaired at some betoken to go the maximum apply out of the ship. Hither'south a complete guide on how to repair your transport in No Man's Sky.

Trading In A Crashed Ship

One time you've repaired the Pulse Engine and Launch Thruster, you lot tin can merchandise in the Crashed Ship at an outpost with a landing pad (somewhere like a Space Station) for units. You tin make a decent amount of units for trading in decent ships, with better ships being worth more when traded-in.

Destroying a Crashed Ship

You lot can simply destroy a Crashed Ship with your own transport'south weapons. You'll become some Nanites and Tropheum from the destroyed ship, but your standing with the system's leading faction will drop a small amount.

Scavenging Resource from a Crashed Ship

If you prefer to keep your own ship, or whatever Crashed Ship you've found just isn't as good, then you can scavenge resource from the crashed one. Switch into the Crashed ship (don't transfer anything, nosotros've made that error before) and dismantle every slice of tech onboard. Once you've ripped everything apart, switch back to your transport and load up anything you desire to take. Simple.

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