No Man’s Sky – The Complete Navigation Data Farming Guide

This guide covers all the methods of nav data farming I have found to date.

Quick Guide to Navigation Data Farming

Nav Data is important in No Man’s Sky. You need it to find useful things like portals and crashed ships. There are several ways to get Nav Data. This guide will show you how to find it.

Space Stations

This is perhaps the easyist and most strait foward method, however it is slightly time consuming. Fly to the nearest space station, and enter it.

Check the tables!

On both sides of the station you will find encypted nav data. I have found it in 3 forms:

• Orange floating cube.
• Blue rubix cube like shape.
• Flat disk.

There may be more, but the best practice is to go from table to table holding E. It is also worth noting that these will only sometimes provide nav data, and other times nanite clusters.

Once you cleared out all the tables, go to the vender stalls, and check there desks.

Finally, go into the small rooms through the closed doors near the back of the station, and check the tables in there.

From the station, you may get 1-3 pieces of nav data. They will not respawn for a long time, so re checking will be a waste of your time. Instead, go to a new system, rinse, and repeat.

Cargo Drops

Light Poles

You can find these at crashed ships and manufacturing facilities. They look like tall white poles with a light on top. You can save your game here and always get Nav Data.

Cargo Barrels

These are at cargo drops. You need an Atlas Pass v1 to open them. When you open one, you have a 46% chance of getting Nav Data.

Barrel Fabricator

You can buy a blueprint for this at the Anomaly using salvaged data. Put it in your base and open it every hour in real time. It has the same chance as cargo barrels to give Nav Data.

Minor Settlements

At minor settlements (directions can be bought from the mapgek for 1 nav data (comirshal settlement or inhabited outpost). There will be a tech merchant who may sell you nav data. at that location you will find a merchent who may sell you nav data. There will also be items in there that may grant nav data.