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The subject of this article is from the Beyond update.
The information from this article is up-to-date as of 27 November, 2019. |
The information from this article is up-to-date as of 27 November, 2019.
| Nanite Cluster | |
|---|---|
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| Category | Special |
| Type | Technological Currency |
| Rarity | Rare |
| Used for | Upgrading |
| Symbol | ∞ |
| Updated | Beyond |
Nanite Cluster is a resource and an alternative form of currency in No Man's Sky.
Summary
Nanite Cluster (∞) is a resource and one of the special elements. It is also a secondary currency (
) in No Man's Sky besides Quicksilver, with units being the primary.
Game Description
A dense miasma of Nanites, undulating in its potentiality. These clusters are stable, but unrestricted nanite foam can produce undesirable runaway reactions in the presence of organic matter.
Used in the construction of advanced technologies. Highly valuable to specialist traders.
Usage
Blueprint Trader at a Gek Station
- Mainly used to purchase blueprints from Blueprint Traders and Upgrade Modules from Technology Merchants.
- Payment during certain NPC missions.
- Payment to Travellers for information including the location of Traveller Graves.
Source
Nanite Cluster can be acquired by:
- Searching abandoned shelters on planets.
- Uploading Discoveries.
- Feeding certain animals, which will lead you to a buried object that yields them.
- Searching Damaged Machinery.
- Destroying Sentinels.
- Destroying certain types Freighter cargo containers. For some reason it says the type is Exotic.
- Trading Gek Relics, Korvax Casings, and Vy'keen Effigies to the respective race.
- Reward for completing missions.
- Can be found in storage containers while exploring Crashed Freighters.
- Selling Upgrade Modules to Technology Merchants.
- From refinement, the resource type Nanite Cluster will be converted to currency.
Nanite Cluster can be refined using a Refiner with the following ingredients:
Runaway Mould x5 → Nanite Cluster x1 ("Recycle Waste Materials", 1.5 sec./unit output)- Platinum x35 → Nanite Cluster x1 ("Reality Warping", 0.6 sec./unit output)
- Hexite x1 + Faecium x1 → Nanite Cluster x1 ("Alchemical Construction", 0.5 sec./unit output)
- Pugneum x25 → Nanite Cluster x1 ("Reality Filtering", 0.7 sec./unit output)
- Larval Core x1 → Nanite Cluster x50 ("NOT RECOMMENDED", 0.6 sec./unit output)
- Hadal Core x1 → Nanite Cluster x50 ("Doom Cycling", 0.6 sec./unit output)
- Salvaged Data x1 → Nanite Cluster x15 ("Nanite Extraction", 0.8 sec./unit output)
Lore
In the storyline quest Patterns in Time, the Explorers Guild's representative, a Korvax, uses Nanite Cluster manipulation to reveal to the player glimpses of their race's past. They suggest that these clusters come from Sentinel casings.
Later in the same quest, the Merchants Guild's representative, a Gek, uses their pheromones to reveal to the player the truth behind the fall of the First Spawn. The enslaved Korvax entities sacrificed themselves in the spawning pools of Balaron and used the Nanite Clusters from their bodies to rewrite the biology of the Gek. This led to the downfall of the First Spawn Empire.
The Travellers often utilize and manipulate Nanite Clusters.
Acquisition Tips
Salvaging spaceships
Late in the game, it may be significantly easier to amass credits, e.g. by crafting expensive Trade Commodities, rather than Nanite Clusters. A decent way of converting the former to the latter is to purchase Starships at space stations and then immediately scrap them. This operation usually yields 1-4 upgrade modules, with grade matching the grade of the salvaged ship, which may be sold to an upgrade merchant for Nanites.
Some classes of ships appear to be generally cheaper than others, like shuttles versus haulers, which can be utilized to increase cost efficiency of this method.
Salvaging higher grade ships also gives a significant chance of receiving a Storage Augmentation module.
Release history
- Pathfinder - Introduced as a resource, which can be used as a currency.
- NEXT - Value changed, previously it was worth 137.5 each. It can be refined. After refinement the resource type Naninte Cluster no longer takes up inventory slots and converted immediately to its currency type. It cannot be purchased or sold. Classified as Raw Material according to the in-game guide.
- Visions - Hidden changes: The information panel has an additional icon indicating its purpose.
- Beyond - Hidden changes: Value is removed from the information panel. Conversion for Platinum > Nanite Clusters changed from 5>1 to 35>1.
Gallery
Information panel taken at a Refiner interface
(Beyond)
Information panel taken at a Refiner interface
(Abyss)
Information panel from in-game guide
(NEXT)Information panel
(Pathfinder)
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