Excavations, Climate, and Linguistics at GlassShop Farm
The planet GlassShop in the Legacy is both paradox and contradiction: paradox because the same base unit exists in two places at once, and contradiction because a cold-weather crop […]
The Location, Location, Location of BotFodder’s Base
Location, location, location! Sometimes the universal reset of Atlas Rises v1.3 does something positive for a player. In this case one can only imagine player BotFodder2 logging in on August […]
The Excavation of Sunaru2’s Farm
After visiting several Legacy Hub sites I continue to think that nothing will surprise me, yet every site has at least one strange feature. Sunaru2’s farm (aka Binoscope’s Pad) has […]
Past Meets Present in Local Serenity
Introduction Local Serenity is a star system in the Amino Hub near the home of the Pilgrim Star, which I wrote about recently. The system as of June 3, 2018, […]
Intangible Cultural Heritage on the Pilgrim’s Path
Introduction On August 27, 2016, player Steam-bot decided to go for a walk. Over the next 16 days he successfully circumnavigated an entire planet in No Man’s Sky, journaling about his […]
My Archaeological Methodology in No Man’s Sky
Introduction The Legacy Hub (née Galactic Hub) is a landscape of systems and planets in a portion of the Euclid Galaxy of No Man’s Sky, which was settled by hundreds […]
Sanctuary: The Loneliest Outpost in the Galaxy
I originally arrived on Verikondor to look for the Sanctuary base, one of the Hub’s most remote and least known player settlements. At first, there was nothing notable on the […]
Schrödinger’s Rat Race
This planet used to be called “Red Death”, but you wouldn’t see any evidence now as to why. Tragedyfish settled here in April 2017 almost as a challenge to the […]
Digital Reconstruction of Digital Heritage
There was an older Parthenon at the site of the Parthenon we know today, which stands atop the Acropolis of Athens. This “proto-Parthenon” was built after the Battle of Marathon […]
The Clustered Bases of Nohash Patieme
No one lives on Nohash Patieme anymore, yet the toxic, fungus-ruled planet is overpopulated with procedurally generated habitats, structures, and trash. This is the first planet (out of literally hundreds) […]
A Quiet Place: Mortham
ZeusJones opened his Gravatino Host and NipNip Buds farm in May 2017, three months before Atlas Rises reconfigured his planet. Unlike his fellow Galactic Hub settlers, it would appear that […]
New Athena: A Prelude to War
Introduction The Harsh Buds War of April 27, 2017, was the first major conflict between factions of human players in No Man’s Sky. KingJamesHova and the Hova Empire’s conflict with Bez-Harr […]
NMS Field Report: No More Butter for the King?
The most interesting thing about investigating ButterBase 1.3 was not what I did find, but the promise of what I would discover. I had heard about a Temple, which was […]
La Cage aux Folles in Space
Asphodel and its only surviving base have changed between its founding in April 2017 and the Atlas Rises event in August. The Birdcage once shared a planet with other player […]
The Wandering Ruins of Elebor
No logic can describe what happened to the Longitude Base of Elebor. On arrival, the planet tossed me back into space (see video below). On return, the base appeared in […]
The Base Paradox of Beecham’s Pearl Island
Ty Beecham’s Pearl Island was built in May 2017, two months after the release of the Pathfinder update in No Man’s Sky. When constructed, the base was built on a literal […]
Archaeogaming 