Throughout my time experimenting and testing a lot of things, communicating with a lot of other great builders, we together learned a lot of what is possible and what's not. Often these building tricks get lost in the void of Discord, and that's why I summarized them here on this page. Credit goes also out to the people of this community.
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Do's (Handy building tips by the community)
Do's (Handy building tips by the community)
Edit your Corvette - The fastest way to copy and modify
Learn the fastest way to copy, edit, and replace your Corvette in No Man’s Sky.
In this video I show how to use NMS Corvette Optimizer, BaseBuilderApp, and Blender to modify your Corvette safely and reload it back into the game.
- Core Features
0:09 Open/Optimize
0:56 Copy/Paste/Load File
1:46 Save/Save As
2:14 UserData/BaseType Protection
2:39 Ship Slot Manager
- Workflows
3:18 Game ↔ Corvette Optimizer ↔ Blender
4:06 Game ↔ Corvette Optimizer ↔ Base Builder App
- Additional Features
4:54 Tech Slots
Dual Cockpit Systems
In this video, I show how to build a dual cockpit in your corvette. Different setups are covered, including small cockpits and two cockpits in a single view. Step-by-step tips make it easy to follow.
0:00 Intro
0:09 What is Dual Cockpit
1:33 Small Cockpit
2:15 Do's and Don't
3:58 How to Build
5:15 Json Edit Hard mode, better to use NMS Corvette Optimizer: https://www.tazmd.nl/corvette-optimizer
For Blender help and tips, check out the Discord topic by ChefZiggy. He shares a collection of the most useful Blender plugins for building corvettes and explains building techniques in Blender. There are many plugins out there, but not all are relevant. His list is a great starting point once you get comfortable in Blender.
NMS - Creative & Sharing Hub>Ship>Corvette>ChefZiggy's Blender Menu
Check out Avunnamu’s guide for corvette building. It links to many resources from the links page and includes guides and simple how-tos. Each YouTube video is broken into steps with direct links, so you can jump straight to the part you need.
NMS - Creative & Sharing Hub>Ship>Corvette>BaseBuilding for Corvettes
NMS - Creative & Sharing Hub>Ship>Corvette>Save Editor Color Codes
Corvette Spawn Rotation
The highest-priority landing bay always faces the player when spawning.
Placement of that bay defines the landing direction.
If the highest-priority landing bay faces forward, the Corvette will land facing you. If it’s placed on the side, the Corvette will land sideways.
Add open doors to habs/walkways
Stap 1: Add a Corvette Utility Module (e.g. Crew Berth) make a Restore point (Save).
Stap 2: Take your Corvette to Blender, Find and click on B_WALL_BUNK0 (Crew Berth), Go to Object Properties (Orange square) fold open Custom Properties and change ObjectID and SnapID to B_DOOR0
If you use BaseBuilderApp you have to change it in the JSON, open your corvette in a notepad, search for B_WALL_BUNK0 replace with B_DOOR0
Doorways will adept to the hab/walkway you use.
Freighter Door With No Bars
Are you wondering why every time you work with a freighter hab for your Corvette, and if you attach a door to it, it has bars? Simply turn the door 180 degrees around, and the bars will disappear.
Horizontal short-range teleporters
It's not like they stop working in a smaller scale, it's just that walking through them becomes impossible. I found that 0.250 is still somewhat acceptable.
These are core building mechanics
- If multiple cockpits are used, the first cockpit in the order is the camera cockpit and the second cockpit is the enter/exit cockpit.
- If multiple landing bays are used, the highest landing bay in the order becomes the active beam-up destination and the beam up landing bay must be no smaller then 0.058
- Short-range teleporters must be placed below landing bays, otherwise beam-up will not work.
Infinite Power
Put a battery inside a class cube box and get infinite power no need for need the biofuel reactor
Minimum size not losing functions
Minimum size not losing functions
Cockpit (losing ui)
0.25
Cockpit past 1.861 it will always lose snappoint to a hab/walkway
Lading bay (beam up from planet or freighter will break below this size)
0.058
Short-range Teleporter (stops working below this size)
0.058
Habs/Walkways (before snapping to it stops working)
0.025
Wonder Projectors
0.030 is minimum, below this and the wonder becomes massive.
List with Utilities that can be added to corvette's
Most required:
Teleport
Planetary Probe
Trade Terminal
Good to have:
10 Storage containers
Missions Radar
Refiner Unit
Weapon Terminal
Nutriënt Processor
Multi-Tools
Staff Builder
Hazard Protection Unit
Health Station
Signal Booster
Overboard options:
Stellar Extractor
Research Stations
Autonomous Mining Unit
Atmosphere Harvester
Oxygen Harvester
NipNip plants
Appearance Modifier
Odd Objects/Effects Most not shown in Blender/BBA
Odd Objects/Effects Most not shown in Blender/BBA
Autophage Staff builder:
SET_STAFFBUILD
Research Stations:
AM_EXOCRAFTTREE AM_SHIPTREE AM_SUITTREE AM_WEAPONTREE S9_BUILDERTREE
Settlement Fish Pond:
SET_FISHPOND
Adds fish trap but don't function (and acts trippy):
BUILDSEAHARVEST
A always closed landing bay:
B_ALK_D
Titan wall with a door in the middle:
B_DOOR0
Weird broken looking hab (red color):
B_LAN_B
Corvette parts:
B_CON_4
B_DECO_E
B_GEN_4
B_LAN_B
B_SHL_D
Checkpoint of a race, has an animation
CHECKPOINT
The floating Geobay, come near it and it bounces you far off
GARAGE_FLOAT
The glowing classes above settlement buildings, good to use for beam lights:
SET_CLASS_A
SET_CLASS_B
SET_CLASS_S
Starship maker, will make a ship (probably will bug your landing not tested):
SET_LZ_SHIPBUIL
No visual object but it does ad smoke to the ground:
SET_SFXCONST_S0
A Settlement Bytebeat, good for astatic, if you don't like the noise.
SET_BYTEBEAT
Everytime you summon ship it spawn fireworks:
SPEC_FIREWORK07
SPEC_FIREWORK08
SPEC_FIREWORK09
SPEC_FIREWORK10
SPEC_FIREWORK11
SPEC_FIREWORK12
Don'ts (Objects that can cause problems in your corvette)
Don'ts (Objects that can cause problems in your corvette)
Save Beacons
There icons will get everywhere and clutter up your screen
Base or freighter refinery
These are glitchy in-game and filtered out by the Service Bot. Use Corvette refineries instead, they work fine.
Fossil display stands, settlement ship upgrade stations, and other interactive settlement objects
These can make your ship fly through a space station or anomaly, or make the camera rotate strangely.
Also objects that are not connected to the main ship and are way off center, sometimes the Paragon block could be accidentally dragged away or a floating sticker.
Message modules (Communication Orbs)
These are not always downloaded by the Service Bot, messages may not display, and they constantly trigger notifications while placing them.
Geobays (Exocraft bays)
These are blocked by the Service Bot and are very glitchy. Exocrafts placed in them may not spawn correctly or can fall through the corvette.
Terminals in corvettes
Interacting with terminals to spawn NPCs can cause black screens or crashes. NPCs only spawn from terminals sized 0.025 or larger; anything smaller will not spawn NPCs. NPCs work only for the player who spawns them and are best viewed while the ship is landed; otherwise, they rotate with the ship and appear flat.
Landing bay and short-range teleporter bug
If short-range teleporters in the JSON order are above the landing bay, the landing bay won’t allow beam-up while floating in the air on a planet. To fix this, place the landing bay first and then the short-range teleporters, or adjust the JSON so the landing bay is above the teleporters.
Base storage boxes
You cannot quickly move items with Base Storage-boxes. Use Corvette Storage-boxes instead, which allow fast item transfer.
What you can do is make a corvette storage rack really small and place them inside a base storage box, both open the same box or anywhere else on the ship just to use fast transfer
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