Nanite Cluster

The subject of this article is from the NEXT update.
The information from this article is up-to-date as of 28 October, 2018.

Nanite Cluster is an alternative form of currency in No Man's Sky.

Summary

Nanite Cluster () is 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 vendors in space stations.
• Payment during certain NPC missions.
• Specific crafting.
• Payment to Travellers for information including the location of Traveller Graves.

Location

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.

Refining

Nanite Cluster can be refined using a Refiner with the following ingredients:

• Runaway Mould, 5, 1, 1.5 xRecycle Waste Materials  →   Nanite Cluster xRunaway Mould,5,1,1.5,Recycle Waste Materials  ( sec./unit output)
• Platinum, 5, 1, 0.6 xReality Warping  →   Nanite Cluster xPlatinum,5,1,0.6,Reality Warping  ( sec./unit output)
• Hexite, 1, Coprite, 1, 1 x0.5  →   Nanite Cluster xHexite,1,Coprite,1,1,0.5  ( sec./unit output)
• Pugneum, 10, 1, 0.7 xReality Filtering  →   Nanite Cluster xPugneum,10,1,0.7,Reality Filtering  ( 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.

Release history

• Pathfinder - Introduced as a resource, which can be used as a currency.
• NEXT - Reworked as a currency, therefore no longer takes up inventory slots, cannot be purchased or sold. Classified as Raw Material according to the in-game guide.

Gallery

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  Information panel from in-game guide
  (NEXT)

• NmsMisc Nanite Cluster.png

  Icon used as a resource
  (Pathfinder)

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  Information panel
  (Pathfinder)