In contrast, edits within a base region are protected (true). Buffers contain spatially grouped edits and by default are not protected (false). The time span of these two studies was about two weeks.Ī few updates ago HG added a section to the save file under TerrainEditData called BufferProtected. No more than thirteen buffers were ever needed for my two-system study. More on this below.Įdits are grouped into buffers and there is an upper limit of 256 buffers. I give them credit for this minor improvement.Īs I generated more edits, moving toward the 861 edits on planet A and 14,013 edits on planet B, I kept track of the base edit meter that can be seen when placing a building object such as a main room or floor piece. I assume that HG made this change in order to not waste edits on deleted base objects. Past versions of NMS did not have this behavior. The floor sections must remain in place or the terrain comes back. In addition, I flattened terrain using the “flattening” mode as well as flattening simply by placing large floor sections. I also edited two mineral deposits (Copper and Paraffinium).

The type of terrain editing I did included direct excavating with the terrain manipulator both inside the and outside the base radius. These edit configurations were my new starting point for investigating terrain regeneration. These combined edits were stable (no terrain regeneration after several days). One planet (A) eventually had 861 edits, the other planet (B) eventually had enough edits for the combined to reach 14,874 total edits, just below the 15,000 maximum set by HG. In one study I used two bases that already existed. This reset everything and gave me a clean slate of zero edits. My study approach was to take an existing save and delete all the terrain edit data. For those playing on another platform, you may have success accessing your save file using another editor called NomNom Save Editor, also found on. This has led many of us to only build elevated bases. Many who have played a single save long enough have experienced terrain regrowing or respawning.

I used this editor to track edits and to provide me with some insights on how the Hello Games (HG) developers chose to treat edits. Brendon Matthews (aka goatfungus ) has generously provided an editor called NMSSaveEditor (SE). Playing NMS on a PC allows one to view and edit the save file. No Man’s Sky Terrain Editing Studies, Published June 27, 2021

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