No Homo's Heaven has over xviii quintillion planets to discover, but sometimes you but want to shape the ground on a detail planet and make it your own - whether it be to better your base or to dig through the surface.

Luckily, the Terrain Manipulator is a tool you tin acquire very early on in the game and is pretty hard to miss if you tackle the beginning missions in your Log. Here is what you need to know to get information technology.

What Is The Terrain Manipulator?

No Man's Sky Four Tiles Showing Modes of the Terrain Manipulator

The Terrain Manipulator is an upgrade for the Multi-Tool that volition allow you to shape the terrain around you. More specifically, yous tin can:

  • Create: Add and build varying textures of terrain
  • Mine: Destroy terrain and minerals
  • Flatten: Level an area so that the footing is even
  • Restore: Disengage terrain changes yous have made

It will too let you to mine metallic deposits on various planets, such as Copper and Gold. When you switch to your Terrain Manipulator, yous will default to the add terrain option.

Y'all can aim a sphere in front of you to indicate where you would like to build or destroy, and adjust the size of the sphere to make larger or smaller changes.

Where To Get The Blueprint

No Man's Sky Ship Warping Through Space Towards Waypoint

Shortly after repairing your ship and leaving the planet at the start of the game, you lot volition receive a transmission whilst in space. Answering this volition straight you to a signal on a nearby planet.

Travel there and land in the indicated expanse. In one case on foot, you volition need to use the assay visor to locate the precise location of the signal.

No Man's Sky Player Using Visor To Locate Signal

In one case you find the source of the signal, interact with information technology to receive the next transmission. This volition provide you with the blueprints to build both the Base Estimator and the Terrain Manipulator.

The Terrain Manipulator is required to mine metals, which you will need in society to build the Base figurer and continue your quest.

How To Build The Terrain Manipulator

No Man's Sky Multitool Page To Install Technology Menu

To arts and crafts the tool, navigate to the inventory carte for your Multi-Tool. Hover over an empty slot and yous'll see the available upgrades to install. Select the Terrain Manipulator.

No Man's Sky Menu Beginning To Install Terrain Manipulator

At present you'll need to provide each material: 1 Di-Hydrogen Jelly, and 2 Carbon Nanotubes.

Di-Hydrogen tin can exist gathered from blueish crystals around the environment, and you will likely have a fair corporeality of this already. This can then be used to arts and crafts Di-Hydrogen Jelly in your inventory.

Carbon Nanotubes tin too be crafted from the inventory, using Carbon gathered from flora such as copse.

No Man's Sky Installing Required Materials for Terrain Manipulator

With both of these required materials, you can go alee and consummate the upgrade on your Multi-Tool.

Now your Multi-Tool will be complete with a Terrain Manipulator. The meridian-right of your screen will contain the HUD information for the Multi-Tool, including the push button you demand to press to switch between modes. Pressing this will swap your Multi-Tool into Terrain Manipulation, assuasive you to then create, mine, and flatten to your heart's extent.

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