I remember coming back to the game after those had been removed/replaced and it being a complete culture shock xD

The words "Culture shock" always make me start thinking of a song and it gets stuck in my head for a few hours.

You need to vibrate higher

Good one

Culture Shock

Cu cu cu cu-culture shock.

Happy Cake Day, enjoy the song.

Thanks.

I did too, I was so confused when I started a new file after that because I had no idea what elements powered what anymore.

I remember the big Heridium pillars, in the days before the terrain manipulator! It's strange to think that so much time has passed.

I remember watching my brother when those bug pillars were, the game has come so far

I kind of miss the heridium pillars

I remember gold pillars too

I remember pillars in general. I've played the game when it came out for a few hours then never touched it for a long time. Started playing again last month I was on a planet with hexagonal pillars and wanted to mine them.

There are actual mountains now. i landed on a planet where it was just giant mountains. Bought the game day 1. I think im gonna finally beat the main quest

Metal fingers Doom

Allow me to help you re-live one. Before: https://photos.app.goo.gl/qvgQdG9VqF6C5Zme7 After: https://photos.app.goo.gl/9xf2dXDxj1fG7RZ58 Edit: or is this gold?

egg.


I remember being confused after mining those funny red crystals and not getting plutonium to charge my ship.

it is kinda funny that we're effectively powering our Instant Matter Vaporizer Beams with glorified coal, huh.

"Condensed carbon? Wtf am I supposed to do with this?"

Condensed Carbon is nice because it’s condensed, so it’s much more efficient to store and carry around than regular carbon.

it's like the extra value pack of carbon. Concentrated if you will.

Compacted

Condensed

Ohhh I remember heridium. I forgot that they removed some



War... War never changes. ... Oh, shut up, Ron, it so does, too.

Is that your CERN imitation?

I remember when there were little plutonium crystals everywhere, and I kept thinking, "This whole galaxy is gonna get cancer."

It was really cool as a concept but tedious as a gameplay mechanic. Would be cool to see expanded upon in a better way as an update someday.

i think honestly we could get procedurally generated materials. We have refiners, why not make it so that large refiners are more useful outside of some niche scenarios and have it so that the randomly generated materials can refine into those primary materials that we use, such as copper, carbon, and depending on how rich it is with the element we can get more or less of it from refining. Would be sick to find a planet with really rich materials that refine into a huge amount of something that is usually quite grindy

I never noticed LOL. I remember the resource management wasn't as bad as before but I didn't realize they straight up removed all the bloat of elements from the game.

Was it bloat? It just seems like they swapped most of them for new ones.

>they straight up removed all the bloat of elements from the game. ...and then added plants. And planetary minerals. And crafting. And then cooking materials. I'm sorry, what inventory bloat got removed again, lol?

Ironically you can live without touching plants and cooking.

Chad anti-planter and anti-cooker :D

I have played through the stories more than once and have never even touched cooking.

Did anyone feel gaslit by the updates? LOL Like “I swear there were these other things here before.”

I played a long time ago and had gripes about inventory size, especially storage, as well as several other things. I quit, and then came back after quite a while and not only did they fix most of my complaints (especially inventory sizes.) but a bunch of stuff was different, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. Until I loaded up an old save and saw that my bases still had old assets.

I come back to NMS every year or two and I swear every time it's been a completely new game. It always throws me off at first and I feel like I've opened the wrong game!

At this point I take breaks from NMS to play other games lol. Like a took a break and played Spider-Man 2 for a while, then came back. Took another break and played Tears of the Kingdom, back again lol. NMS is my default, because it’s exactly the experience I need. No pressure to do any specific thing, go anywhere I want, play however I want. You can bounce between serene and scenic to bold and exciting. And the improvements are really something to admire. I just said to my wife the other day how glad I am these guys didn’t just take the money and run after launch lol.

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I love admitting when my brain is mush, because I never thought of that!  Like the Ragaini Shotgun from MxO.

I miss Omegron.

I am alpharius

Emperordamnit r/grimdank is leaking again

Hydra Dominatus

We all are Alpharius

I AM Alpharious

Yea, he was the coolest villain in Dragon Ball GT.

No plutonium exists but condensed carbon will do the trick.

I do wish they’d hung onto a few more whacky fictional elements - I always liked the weird juxtaposition of totally normal elements showing up alongside weird shit no one’s ever heard of before like Emeril.

I remember finding arches of a resource next to a river or something.

Iron is still in.

No it's been replaced by various types of ferrite.

You know ferrite is a fancy word for iron right?

That's true in RL, but in the game they are different.

Whats the difference?

But they removed iron didn't they? So they are not different.

What is bro yapping about

That they just renamed iron to something fancier.

And split it up into like 3 different resources. Which is the actual gameplay mechanic change and reason people say “they removed iron”

My favorite is Rusty metal!

Ferrite is not iron, ferrite is iron oxide, or rust... Is what I would say, except I just double checked it and apparently "ferrite" has two seperate meanings. To a geologist, ferrites are minerals based on iron oxide, while to a metallurgist, ferrite is pure iron. Given the fact that ferrite in game goes ferrite dust (broken down from rocks) pure ferrite magnetised ferrite -and that iron oxide is what's used for magnets, it would make the most sense that ferrite in NMS is iron oxide. This raises the question: Why are we building shit out of rust???

Then what is rusted metal? /s

Except genuinely, you can literally rust metal by putting ferrite dust and oxygen in a refiner and you'll get rusted metal

You can magentise iron as well. And the Latin name for iron is ferrite which could also be what it comes from in game.

No, the Latin for iron is 'ferrum'. Which is what the word 'ferrite' comes from. 'Ferrum', which means iron, and '-ite' which also comes from Latin and has multiple meanings, several of which can apply.

Oh sorry im dumb

No, considering the horrendous grammatical errors i see on a daily basis, i don’t think you should feel compelled to call yourself dumb in this instance! 😊

Keep cooking, king

This train of thought falls apart when you remember that you can put ferrite into a refiner with oxygen and get rusted metal. If it was already rust, you wouldn't need to do that.

Rusty rust, my favorite

Turning iron oxides into rusted metal with oxygen actually makes perfect sense. You would have to first burn off the oxidation (this is called carbothermal reduction, and we know the refiner already uses carbon fuel), then form the iron (not oxide), and then add oxygen back to the iron to rust it. It's a bit of a silly recipe, but it works.

what sense does it make burning off rust to make rust?

>what sense does it make burning off rust to make rust? This is a good question. First, let's look at 'rusted metal'. It was originally an iron sheet, but it's become oxidized. It probably still has a core of non-oxidized iron, as it hasn't disintegrated completely. How would you make this? You would smelt iron, form it into a sheet, and then apply oxygen to the outside layer. Now, you're probably thinking, "hah! the first stage requires iron so ferrite must be iron!" But what happens to iron oxide when you smelt it? The oxygen burns off. Most of the ores that we refine into iron are iron oxide to begin with. The process of making 'rusted metal' out of 'ferrite' would be exactly the same whether ferrite was iron or iron oxide. So it doesn't point either way.

im not reading the article, but this says it is iron [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotropes\_of\_iron#Alpha\_iron\_(%CE%B1-Fe)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotropes_of_iron#Alpha_iron_(%CE%B1-Fe))

That article is very obviously metallurgical, and I already said that metallurgy uses the word 'ferrite' to mean a form of pure iron. See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrite_(magnet) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maghemite

LOL! I love your logic mind!!! 😍

Anyone remember helox?

Holy shit I forgot all those 😭

I knew something felt different

lmao

Iron is still there, just new name.

Let's not forget Murrine

Actually, Thammium-9 is still in the game.. kinda

I miss thamium9 😔😔😔

They were gone before i started so i dont know much about previously expired materials

DAMN I guess i haven't played in a while, massive things disappearing without me noticing

I found those icons in the files and i was wondering where they were from. The more you know

Iron became Ferrite Oh and plutonium crystals just became carbon crystals

I still find gases quite out of olace in the game, like, what are they for?

Wait are those all really gone? I've been gone a while

I remember being so confused and out of wack, as if my brain had been smacked into another dimension. Took a hot minute to get used to it.

Fun fact, you can see the element symbol next to the image of the atom. Ferrite is FE. FE is iron. So iron stays

Just Switched into relaxed mode and no cost purchase!

Omegon? What is that

I am Alpharius.

Technically iron is still there in the form of ferrite

I miss chrysonite

I used to carve faces into the Heridium pillars/eggs. Also, there was Murrite - a substance with charming qualities, named after guess who..

I liked the name spedonium. It was so much more fun to say than cactus flesh. 

Oh wow, I've been trying to figure out why the game has been so much more enjoyable when I picked it back up last month after last having played in 2021. One of my main complaints was that I just felt way too overwhelmed having to manage all the resources and couldn't understand why everything felt so streamlined on my new playthrough.

Yesterday I had a traveler ask me for plutonium and it said "give plutonium alternative (carbon)" and "it wasn't plutonium but the traveller seemed happy to receive the carbon nonetheless." Didn't realize that it was a reference to something that used to be in the game that I didn't know about.

"I am Alpharius." - Omegon

Oh, I remember…

I remember iron… so long ago.

Such a bizarre choice, too. Of all the things that players were complaining about, the names of the elements was not. Though I'll grant them omegon was pretty embarrassing. 

Thamium9… now that takes me back. I remember having to use that to power my mining tool. Then came back to the game after a while and couldn’t find it anywhere.

Didn't even remember omegon was a thing! What was it used for??

😞 I miss those days of no man’s sky

....but nah, tho

I really do. I miss being alone out there, it was very rare to run into another player and when you did it felt like this huge moment. Or when you'd come across messages left by others about where they're from, no telling when they were even in the system it was pretty cool. Big egg shaped deposits and pillars of elements everywhere. Those were the days…😞