No Man's Sky: Complete Guide to Settlements

The world of No man's sky it's filled not only with danger but also with simple people making their way across the galaxy (or galaxies). Some of these people establish settlements on planets, and you can help them grow and prosper by becoming an Overseer.

This guide will tell you everything you need to know about settlements in No man's skyhow to manage them and how to make them profitable.

How to Become a Settlement Overseer in No Man's Sky

To be responsible for a deal, you must first find it. Every planet (except for abandoned planets) has at least one settlement. You may receive a distress signal to go to the settlement and save it from the Sentinels, or you can find it yourself. To locate a settlement, you can also use a Planetary chart available from a cartographer on any space station.

When you reach the settlement, eliminate all attacking sentries in the area if necessary and interact with them Settlement hub interfacewho looks like a statue in the center of the settlement, to become the Overseer.

You can only be the supervisor of one settlement at a time. However, you can modify settlements by finding a new one and interacting with its settlement hub interface.

How to manage a settlement in No Man's Sky

Settlements produce resources that you can collect and sell to create units. However, in most cases, the settlement requires additional care before producing such resources.

You can view the status of your settlement at Settlement hub interface or the Settlement administrative terminal.

Settlement Overview

There are some important aspects to understanding the Settlement Overview:

• Productivity: Current regulation production.
• Maintenance cost: Current settlement costs.
• Characteristics of the settlement: Benefits that positively or negatively influence your agreement. You can change these advantages through construction.
• Production status: Resources produced or debt accumulated.

That's the main goal ensure that productivity is greater than the cost of maintenance. When productivity is higher, the agreement will gradually cancel its debt, allowing it to start producing resources. When the carrying cost is higher, the settlement will accumulate debt, preventing it from producing resources.

Once you become an overseer, make sure to do so take care of your settlement often. If you leave the agreement unattended, a large amount of debt will accumulate that will take longer to clear.

Decisions to improve the settlement

In the Settlement Administration Terminal you can deal with random transaction events. These events include citizen requests, disputes, new arrivals to the settlement, policy proposals, and more. You need to choose one of the two options that benefits your deal the most. These events are a way to increase productivity and start constructing new buildings in the settlement.

Construction to expand the settlement

The construction of new buildings in the settlement occurs only through decisions. One of the decisions you may encounter at the Settlement Administration Terminal is two parties offering their ideas for the next building. Each building has its own effect on the settlement.

Once you've chosen your next construction project, exit the superintendent's office and find the building under construction with the Terminal building. Each building has multiple construction phases. Interact with the terminal, deposit the required resources and wait for the phase to complete. Rinse and repeat until construction is complete.

Completing a stage takes one to two hours of real time.