No Man's Sky Frontiers: How to find a settlement on your home planet (2024)

No Man's Sky Frontiers: How to find a settlement on your home planet (1)

Finding a settlement is easy in No Man's Sky Frontiers. The Frontiers update added settlements that you can manage and expand, build new structures on, defend from enemies, and resolve disputes between citizens. You can get started with the new settlement system as soon as you launch the game.

There are two ways to find a settlement, and you may want to consider both, especially if you want to manage your settlement on a specific planet instead of a random one.

How to find your first settlement

The easiest way to find a settlement is just to climb into your ship and leave whatever planet you were on. After installing the Frontiers update, you'll receive a radio message in space, a distress call from one of the new settlements. Listen to the message and the settlement's location will be added to your galactic map. Most likely it is in a nearby solar system, a quick warp jump away.

But the settlement generated from this quest will be on a random planet in a random solar system. That planet may have toxic or radioactive weather, aggressive sentinel activity, volcanoes or constant fires, or just be a place you don't want to spend a lot of time on. Plus, you may already have a favorite home planet where you built your base, and you might want to do your settlement management there instead of some stinky gas rock.

How to find a settlement on your home planet

If you want to specifically choose which planet or moon your settlement will be on, then ignore the quest completely and instead go to the nearest space station. Talk to the cartographer there, and you'll be able to buy a settlement map (it'll cost 5 navigational data).

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Then head to the planet you want to find a settlement on. As long as it's inhabited (not a dead planet with absolutely no life) there will be a settlement on it somewhere. To find it, land on the planet, get out of your ship, and use the settlement map you bought in your inventory.

Note: It may take more than one try—the first settlement map I bought pointed me to one of those small buildings with a vendor that were already in the game before Frontiers. If that happens, a quick jump back to the space station to buy another settlement map and you'll be able to try again.

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When the map locates a settlement, just fly to the icon and you'll be able to talk to a settler to begin managing the settlement.

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How to find 5 navigational data

If you haven't played in a while and can't remember where to collect the navigational data needed to buy a settlement map, the easiest way is simply by searching space stations. Check on tables, especially in those lounge-like rooms with the closed doors, and even on some vendor's counters.

You'll see a glowing object like a cube, and when clicked, they'll usually give you navigational data (sometimes they'll only give nanites). I had to spend 10 navigational data for my two settlement maps, and wound up searching six space stations for them, which doesn't take long if you use the teleporters to travel between them.

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No Man's Sky Frontiers: How to find a settlement on your home planet (2024)

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No Man's Sky Frontiers: How to find a settlement on your home planet? ›

As long as it's inhabited (not a dead planet with absolutely no life) there will be a settlement on it somewhere. To find it, land on the planet, get out of your ship, and use the settlement map you bought in your inventory.

How do you find settlements on planets in no man's sky? ›

As long as it's inhabited (not a dead planet with absolutely no life) there will be a settlement on it somewhere. To find it, land on the planet, get out of your ship, and use the settlement map you bought in your inventory.

How do you find new settlements in no man's sky? ›

Start things off with the Cartographer that is present on any Space Station. From the NPC, you need to purchase a Settlement Chart using Navigation Chips. That is a type of map made specifically for locating Settlements. In the absence of Navigation Chips/Data, this item can be bought from Galactic Trade Terminals.

How to get more settlements in No Man's Sky? ›

If all else fails and finding a new settlement in NMS is your top priority, head to the Cartographer in any space station or in the Anomaly. Settlement Charts can be purchased for five Navigation Data, and all that needs to be done is to find the follow the chart's guidance to a new settlement.

How do I find abandoned settlements in NMS? ›

Abandoned Minor Settlements can be found on planets in Abandoned systems, or on abandoned planets in otherwise inhabited systems.

How to increase settlement productivity in No Man's Sky? ›

How to get settlement productivity really high?
  1. Add scanner mods to your multitool. ...
  2. Trade goods between systems. ...
  3. As someone mentioned, mine cobalt. ...
  4. Similarly, produce chlorine. ...
  5. Mine valuable minerals (classic example is activated iridium, but true fir others as well).
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How many settlements can you oversee in no man's sky? ›

A player may only be the Overseer for one Settlement at a time. It is possible to have more settlements in different saves, but they will be glitchy. A player can switch to a different Settlement by investing a certain amount of race-specific resource (3 GekNip for Gek) and renouncing their current post.

How big can settlements get NMS? ›

And all settlements can eventually reach a maximum population of 200 settlers. That's about it. if your settlement has ground to a halt at max expandability you could always slap down a base marker and build your own stuff in/around the settlement.

How do you get a lot of money in no man's sky? ›

Scanning rocks, plants, and animals with an upgraded scanner is the easiest way to make money in No Man's Sky. Buy Planetary Charts to find crashed ships you can sell as salvage to make money quickly. With the new patch update, more experienced fighters can find and sell Sentinel Interceptors.

How do you make settlements happy in no man's sky? ›

The decisions that the Overseer has to make directly impact the growth of the Settlement. An early choice that has to be made, for example, is whether or not to construct a Saloon or Marketplace. The Saloon will increase the happiness meter of the settlers, while the Marketplace will increase revenue.

Is there a way to get rid of a settlement in no man's sky? ›

You can get a map from the cartographer in a space station and find another settlement. Once you are overseer of the new one you will automatically drop the previous one. Yeah, it is best to just keep shopping until you find one that seems like it is on a reasonable planet.

How to find the best settlement in No Man's Sky? ›

Settlements can spawn on even inhospitably hot or cold planets, but it's best to choose a planet with a temperate atmosphere and as few extreme weather events or storms as possible.

How do you find salvageable ships in no man's sky? ›

Locating. Crashed Ships can be located in a variety of ways: Using Transmission Towers. After correctly solving a number sequence at a Transmission Tower, a Distress Signal can be found (in some rare instances the location of a Crashed Freighter will be found instead).

Where can I find settlement charts in NMS? ›

To do this, go to the system's station and talk to the Cartographer vendor. You'll be able to purchase a Settlement Chart for five Navigation Data. Next, use this Settlement Chart to locate a settlement on the planet of your choice.

How do you get the settlement quest in NMS? ›

The Emergency Broadcast

Player will receive a Emergency Broadcast from a alien race in the system you are in, this can answer from your starship communicator. After the emergency broadcast end,player will receive a coordinates, that lead you to a Planetary Settlement.

How do you use the settlement map in no mans sky? ›

A map showing the location of a nearby planetary settlement, acquired from the Space Station Cartographer. Select the map and use Plot Route to pin the location in your Exosuit display.

How do you take control of the settlement in no man's sky? ›

How to Claim a Settlement in No Man's Sky Once you land on the settlement planet, you can talk to any of the settlers there. You will soon be attacked by Sentinels, and you will have to defend yourself and the town. After the fight, you can talk to one of the survivors and then go to the Settlement Hub Interface.

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