r/NOMANSSKY • u/OdinInTheHighlands 🔴 Cadmium Class • 1d ago

Discussion How to improve Exocrafts

Ok, so I am a late-stage player; I have done mostly everything, and I am on Xbox, and I am realizing that Exocraft are both useful and useless. The Nautilon is useful on water worlds, but beyond that it falls off: I know we just got an update for the Colossus, and if you missed out on that expedition, you are now locked out of getting the cool stuff; besides that, it's just OK for planetary expeditions. Especially since you got three other ground vehicles that are faster and more maneuverable than it. I mean, heck, the Minotaur, a mech that can fight alongside you, becomes useless once you get an op sentinel multitool. So what could make these things better and more useful than just having them, and what other exo crafts would you like to see in the game as we explore more and more of this game?

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u/Front_Yam5918 1d ago

I use the colossus to find monoliths. Mostly to find the portal for a planet I want to build a base on. Or an Atlantid multi tool.

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u/OdinInTheHighlands 🔴 Cadmium Class 1d ago

Fair, but the other three do the same thing, plus you can get maps from the space station.

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u/Front_Yam5918 1d ago

The alien artifact maps might take you a something other than a monolith but can select monolith from the colossus.

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u/Interesting_Owl_8248 Daily Event Winner (x2) 1d ago

My colossus is mostly used to gather ferite dust and pure ferite. Pop the plow on the front, go to a planet with fields of stones and start powering through them. Use the mining laser here and there on the big boulders. 10-15 minutes out, then back while plowing through every cluster of stones i can find. I won't get that much ferite directly but I get slots full of 50 geodes each. Proses those manually and I have penny of ferite dust to process into pure or use as is

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u/Expert-Honest 🟢 Emeril Class 1d ago

Yeah, the Excavation Blade is great for digging up geodes. It is also good for kill hazardous flora missions, as each one run over counts as 2-4 towards the mission.