The Biology of No Man's Sky
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2024
- A nature documentary deep dive into the aliens of No Man’s Sky. What sort of ecosystems will we discover in a procedurally generated universe?
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Across the infinite cosmos of the video game ‘No Man’s Sky,’ there are a similarly infinite number of alien lifeforms. Through the use of procedural generation, the game contains more than 18 quintillion planets to discover - many of which teem with extraordinary creatures. While No Man’s Sky had a rocky reception at launch, the developers have done persistent work making this virtual universe worth exploring.
So, for this entry into the archive, we’ll embark on a classic documentary-style expedition, exploring the lives of extraterrestrials on scorching worlds, frozen wastelands, and many others. I’ll also speculate on how the biology of each lifeform might feasibly work. I admit that there are a few too many total planets for this Archivist to document, so this documentary will focus on only the most interesting ones I’ve discovered.
Now, let’s set off into the unknown, and see what awaits us among the stars…
0:00 Biology of No Man’s Sky
1:10 Planet Rhea
5:58 Planet Boreas
9:16 Planet Nereus
13:59 Planet Helios
18:16 Planet Erebus
21:18 Goodbye to Infinity...
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Gotta love how he broke his usual documentarian persona to chuckle and name a creature “George”.
Literally the first person on seeing. Platypus
He named it like that because dickinsoniya(I hope I wrote it correctly) was already taken. Oh and btw, it's our ancestor and looks like sole
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@@Man_Aslume 18:44
@@Gr1m.reaprz thanks I thought you would be those type of people who just sleep on it
This could be a series itself. So many planets, so many creatures. Perhaps we could be visiting worlds found by longtime players.
Good idea!
There’s a world I created years ago, an ice planet filled with (at the time of launch when I got it lmao) really realistic and interesting animals
Yes
i had the same thought
Please lol 🙏🏻
I love how you literally get to archive never before seen species on this expedition. Getting to name them and figure out their lifestyle from your own observations and experiences, rather than someone else's is a real treat to see!
Yes! It provides such an authentic feel of... authenticity!
George
well that's normal in the game
@@spode2091 I found a giant hopping pineapple one time lol
After 10 hours I started seeing the same creatures with the slightest variations. Got repetitive quickly
I like doing this as well - taking fictional critters and coming up with how they function in their environment, even, or especially, when the developers aren't even trying to be deep and sciency. I'm currently working on a challenging project of taking creatures from Kirby games, tweaking them to be more physiologically plausible, and thinking up facts about them.
Sounds interesting!
Cool
Oooo that sounds cool
Hope it goes well
Speaking truth here,this is a planet called 4546b, let's see who gets where this comes from
No mans sky is one of the best games ever made imo. It still needs a few things here and there but if you're into scifi and space exploration I highly recommend it, plus there's other things to do like owning a pet or trying to collect space whales for your fleet
They got space whales now?
@@kayleighwukovich8318 living frigates
@@kayleighwukovich8318 Yes, they're called leviathans and I think they're really cool
@@shadw4701 the leviathan was a exclusive reward for a expedition but there are more living frigates
Wait like actual space whales?!
No man's sky is the treasure chest of speculative biology.
Litteraly you could be the first person to ever discover a creature in this game since there are almost infinite planets.
Are you serious?
@@aqilaiman9739 Yea there are more than a quintillion planets. You could find anything on them.
@@aqilaiman9739 the power of procedural generation my friend
@@Kiirin_48321 what is that?
But still how many storage do we need for this game?
I discovered a mineral-rich planet dotted with floating crystalline monoliths. Life on the planet appeared to be silicon-based living crystalline clusters that floated about and were quite shy whenever I came close to them.
Also, due to super easy-to-find resources for assembly and awesome jumping capabilities, the Minotaur is my absolute favorite exocraft.
I like focusing in the small details in no man sky too
An archivists natural habitat!
No but actually there's literally infinite possibilities for videos no matter what with this game
I hope for a video with living frigate and ship and how they could evolve
Technically figuratively
The procedurally generated creatures are still generated from a pool of models, colors… so there aren’t infinite different creatures.
And most creatures look bad or just to similar to others sadly
@@idontknowmusictheory532 technically
Another video on the biology of the living ships, horrors of the derelict freighters/stations, the mutants that can be found on the planets with no atmospheres, aberrant exotic type worlds, and the occasional random entity moving through space would be greatly welcomed additions to the archives. They are rather curious entities after all.
That sounds really cool, I've never played NMS because I assumed it was just a generic space game, but that sounds really interesting
@@emmahealy4863 definitely consider giving it a shot! it's improved a lot since launch and gets regular content updates. the most recent one was adding sentinel ships you could gut and repurpose into your own.
13:25 the thing with animals like abyssal horrors are that they exist on all ocean planets too, regardless of the local ecosystem. it's possible that they, and the other seemingly omnipresent organisms are hyper invasive species that have been spread from planet to planet by starship travel and a deep history of galaxy wide civilization. those little resource plants might also be an example of this, seemingly spreading from planet to planet as their seeds or spores are picked up by traveling starships and merchants. without spoiling too much of the lore, it isn't crazy to think that some of the types of lifeform you can encounter are not natural examples of evolution.
Could it be possible that they and the biological horrors are pests from the Gek or Korvax homeworlds which spread slowly across the galaxy with the advent of space travel? Those two species were mentioned to have dominated the galaxy before the Sentinels came about
In reality, the abyssal horrors are probably the young of asteroid larvae. I think they spend the first phase of their life growing attached to the seabed attracting prey, then detaching and starting to wander in space feeding on asteroids (or the creatures that live in asteroids). Instead to explain the hostile plants and other living beings that are found everywhere I like your theory a lot.
Komodo dragons aren’t actually a result of island gigantism. From what I understand, they’re the last of an informal group of sizable monitor lizards. Compared to their now extinct relatives, they’re actually relatively small.
That group of sizeable monitor lizards are a result of island gigantism, they originated in Australia and spread elsewhere.
They related to megalanias found in Australia that was absolutely massive and lived on earth only 2.5million years ago and is structured almost identically to komodo dragons. Except megalania was 23 feet long!
Komodos confirmed for reptilets
@@alcyon7536 I'm sorry if I'm misinterpreting the comment, but isn't Australia a continent? Last time I checked it was too big to count as an island.
So, if they originated in Australia, it isn't island gigantism because Australia is not an island, just a very, very, very isolated continent.
@@gabrielabatista6016 The continent is Oceania,Australia is just a huge island
NMS is the perfect game for this channel, its a great vessel for stories, I wish I could give you the address of a very sad but interesting planet but I've long lost it. (tho that probably doesn't matter as this was before several updates )
I once ended up on a planet that looked like a deserted dirt wasteland, nearly no plants and there where only a handful of animals around 1 lonely pool , the pool looked like it had once been a big lake, but now it was the measly watering hole of what looked like the planets last inhabitants, running around, calling out.
it was really disturbing.
I know that in practice landing elsewhere on this planet there would be animals spawning in but I desided not too, because what was happening there looked too genuine, like it really was a dying planet. it actually felt like I was the sole witness of a plane't's ecosystem dying breath.
damn this comment hit hard thanks for sharing your travels!
Imagine the existential dread you feel knowing you were the only outsider in the whole universe to witness a particular planet's literal demise
Reminds me of the great dying of the Permian.
The possible events every planet has undergone and how life was affected is very interesting to imagine in this game
@@WAVE0025 existential dread is the right word for it !
There's a planet in my home system called Tapaul XI, it's a metallic planet with strange floating clusters of these metal formations that are everywhere, the only living things there are these electric orbs that "remember faces" and always seem to be closing in, I once found a crashed freighter that indicated the planet was possibly terraformed, I dread going to that planet because of how unsettling it is, every time I have a mission off planet I pray I don't see the marker fall on that ringed planet, and when I do I always fall silent
omggg YES!!!!! I love making stories for the creatures I find! The possibilities are endless
Could we have a look at the biology of the Half-Life franchise? Particularly the aliens and plant life of Xen, as depicted in the Black Mesa fan-remake.
Oooo I like this idea
And the xen infestation in half life alyx is interesting too.
If he does, don’t expect it to be more than a two parter.
@@pailhorsegaming6762 the combine though
@@quempire2656 I think what he said is supposed to be a joke about Valve not making a 3rd Half Life
Would you consider doing a part two or more of the fascinating creatures in No Mans Sky? I absolutely LOVED this entry into the archive! Also, did you come across any pre-discovered planets or were you able to play the name game on all of them? You really rocked that, by the way ;-) Plus I chuckled pretty hard at the “Georges” species.
I find it fascinating that you’re naming and explaining randomly generated planets and creatures 18:55 lol George I love him
Actually that's how you're supposed to play this game. Explaining not so much (the game explains a lot of it for you when you scan the organisms) but naming is encouraged. It's an actual feature in the game. There's so many planets and species that almost every one you encounter is new anyways, so people will always have an abundance of things to name in this game. Which is why it's a feature.
@@catpoke9557took me a good while of exploration to find a system discovered by someone other than myself
18:46
I think this was the first time I heard him giggle a bit.
You should keep this series up as long as you keep discovering something new to talk about as you play the game. Not to mention it's endless free content
I love NMS, but I wish we'd have a way to increase the amounts of species that can appear on a single planet.
Five animals and three plant species per planet just doesn't feel right
Yeah, but it makes sense it wouldnt be too high cause of restraints
I've found more than 5 and animals and 3 plants on planet
I found a planet with 25+ plants and 13 animals.
I'd love to see you do a Biology video on The Eternal Cylinder. It's the perfect game for you.
Hearing him laughed is just heart warming🤣
Finally a video of NoMan'sSky after my own heart.
Since day one, it's what drew me to the game which only improved.
My very first planet was a unforgiving cold storming planet. Which had two layers. The surface level which had HUGE megafauna which looked fat enough to endure the cold storms, and aggressive dragonic sabertooth wolves. Protected by thick carapace hides. It hinted at a ecosystem all on its own. Then a unique part of my first world experience; the ENTIRE planet was also a cave. Pocketed with surface openings. In the caves, there was mostly hostile crab and spider like fungus creatures species in their own separate ecosystem.
I had to risk the hostile fauna to escape the frequent storms which was easy to escape due to the entire planet being basically a cave system as well.
I think I hot lucky in that manner.
Now, ofcourse NMS is so so much better, and the updates destroyed my first world to being different which is sad. But it's for the better. I do this myself when exploring.
My first planet was a desert covered with crustacean, ostrich-like predators and skittish herbivores. There was no water on that friggin planet or anything. It also had a lot of steep ravines with annoying radiation in it. You'd fall into those, get attacked by two ostriches, and then need to get out as fast as you can while scaling a steep cliff because of the radiation
I've always liked the implementation of exploration in NMS, since the beginning. With the overview of one paticullar Starsystem, zooming in on the planets, gaining your first information from orbit and then explore on foot or by exocraft. You really get that fealing of being a field researcher yourself, completing a page of your journal and contribute it. Always being able to view your progress with added extra-information in your log, which feels like a high-end version of a pokedex. This game is and has been phenomenal
I hope this is a series. This would be so fun
Everyone wants it to be a series sonit prob will
You should look at an old ps2 game called Scaler. I love it for the detailed environments. Its nice to just stop and pay close attention to things. In one level I've even seen a plant mimicking a dangerous predator. Of particular interest is a massive flying boss called the rattle crab. For such a big thing to fly, I believe a portion of it is hollow, decreasing weight and doubling as hidey holes for its little babies.
I can picture you as some inter dimentional traveler with a Rick and Marty style portal, cataloging the new worlds you find and reporting back to some science base on your home planet. So cool, love this channel
I love this, the way you named the creatures, narrated like a nature documentary, and used the in-game camera made these worlds feel so real!
Reminds me somehow on my absolute favorite book when I was a little boy 50 years ago: "The Voyage of Herzog Ernst". It's a medieval tale where the protagonist journeys through far lands and encounters similarly strange live forms. It's written in a very fantastic and entertaining way.
7:21 “So the snow snufflers have sniffed their way” wonderful alliteration🤣
Oh wow, already love this!! Was so hoping you'd do this game!!
I love how the Archivist had difficulty staying cool on Planet Erebus
Truly a beautiful planet, I need a george plush
Actually at least one theory for some sauropod feeding was the stand and sweep method, where it would keep its head down and sweep it in an arc, eating everything in that arc, then take a step and repeat. Minimum energy expenditure for maximum consumption. The specimens in question had neck vertebrae that would have only really let the neck rest horizontally rather than diagonally or vertically up.
More of this please! I love how you put in a bit of your own creativity here, and it really works with all your speculative biology experience already. I’m speaking solely for myself here but i would love to see this become a sort of series you do every now and then!!
Luv you curious archive keep up these videos, I get so exited every time you post 🙂
been waiting for this episode! love just wandering planets in this game to observe the fauna. you're one of my favorite channels, CA!
Would you ever do a compilation of all of your favorite aliens and organisms you've covered through the history of the channel so far? It'd be fun to see all of the greatest hits of the things you've covered.
I've been looking forward to a NMS video from this channel for so long, super exited to watch!
I never expected to see one but was hoping for one. I am super glad to see one
Here are my favorite aliens from each planet:
Rhea: Rhealopes and Arachnomantis
Boreas: Chillmanders
Nerues: I liked everything from Nerues
Helios: Heliostriders and Cragspines
Erebus: *g e o r g e*
Never stop making these amazing videos please!
Have you seen the game Warframe? They have three regions, Earth, Venus, and Deimos, all with unique biology thousands of years in the future.
Imagine how frustrating it'd be to travel through space for aeons just to find a station full of alien people who won't even tell you about themselves
but they do, some tell things about other species and also their past: The Gek used to be brute-sized bird/lizard people who enslaved the korvax and basically committed genocide for the sake of farming their guts. Then the Korvax forced a solution of Nanites (think of this as their blood) down the Geks making them into the small, profit obsessed polite bird people you see. The other race, the Vi'ken raged war against Sentinels, another robotic lifeform who police the dimension with an iron fist, and this happened over centuries and millenia to present, at the same time that they also waged war against the old Gek.
A few things that are shown and not told: A Korvax entity isn't strictly tied to their physical body or "shell", a Korvax might seem to fade off or be turn off only for a new digital entity to take over their shell, effectively making it a completely different person.
Gek are traders and they secrete smells, pheromones they use to their advantage to be more pleasant to others, or to express fears or even to induce hallucinations for the sake of showing something.
Vi'ken are warmongers, but they have a strict code of honor, as much as their behavior might come as aggressive they can be equally loyal and reliable, they hold tradition and lore close to hearth and they also know to let go of grudges, seeing how many of them live along Gek just fine.
You come up with some really cool and creative creature names! Snowsnuffler is a personal favourite.
If you had fun doing this video, I'd love to see a couple more episodes on NMS, the random generation creates some truly unique designs.
Excellent video as always! I was very happy to see you posted a No Man's Sky video as I've been hoping you'd make one at some point. I hope you do more from this game!
This must be your first video where it fell to you to name and describe the creatures involved. Must have made a fun twist on your usual format.
Anyway, as an NMS player myself, I’d love to visit some of the planets you featured here, if you could share their coordinates, just to know I’ve been to the same spot(s) you have. (In case you don’t know: the coordinates of the planet show up as a series of symbols in the lower left of the screen when you look around in photo mode.)
Great work! Thanks for taking a look at one of my favorites!
So happy you got around to this game! Maybe you can leave coordinates if you do another chapter so players can visit the planets you've explored.
I’m not sure if this is your sort of thing, but I think a video about the civilizations within the Three Body Problem Trilogy could be really cool!
I knew they would end it on an exotic world but that was one of the tamest examples of such. I was hoping for animals that were just literal rolling eyeballs or floating scrap metal or something. I loved stumbling on exotic worlds cause they were often so bizarre and illogical. This really would make a phenomenal series to squeeze in between other projects from time to time. The format is perfect for the channel.
Great video as always! You’ve inspired me to make my own speculative biology world
I would like a part 2 to this series, please!
I’ve been playing NMS for a long time and I think there are still more you can discover!
You could even cover some other things like the giant worms, infested planets, living ships, pirate encounters, numerous space anomalies and probably much more.
You could even consider doing one of the expedition events whenever they are on and build a full story from that.
Either way your call, and I think I am speaking for everyone that we want a part 2.
Thank you! This is exactly what I've been looking for (and trying to do in my own head when I play). I really hope you do more.
it mightve been over 1 year but i love this man and every video he has made
This episode was amazing, there are so many planets and galaxies in this game which can bring out so many unique stories, can’t wait for more!
Yes always love these make more documentaries!
I would love a series just on no man's sky, endless discoveries here! I love your narrations so much :)
This was beautiful, there was this feeling of a quiet adventure with discoveries wondrous and terrible both, I would love to see more.
A new video from curious and im off for the weekend!!!! Best Friday ever!!
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This was a great video! I appreciate your channel's consistent tonal formality, but a moderated amount of lightheartedness is extremely welcome! It was nice hearing you laugh :)
Very nice video! There is an amazing diversity of liveforms in that procedural universe. Just yesterday I thought I'd seen most of it by now, then the next planet had flying mushroom cap creatures. Nice touch using the exocraft to get around! I'd definitely enjoy another video like this
I am so glad you did this
I love this idea! An entire series based on certain creatures on all the varying planets would be awesome.
This was fantastic, do another video about no man's sky biology!
18:47 - 19:42
I love how you can hear that he’s struggling not to laugh
Gotta say replaying no man’s sky is absolutely amazing thanks curious for peaking my curiosity on no man’s sky again
You know what this is amazing,we NEEED A SERIES ON THIS
NMS procedural text, and even written story and lore, while being mostly detatched from gameplay, offer so many opportunities for role play. I love it for that. And this video is brilliant, of course!
Just what I was hoping from this video, bravo
i am late but i just want to let you know how essential you are to my writing and art process, i have found such a love for speculative biology over the last couple of years and with your videos help i am putting together a worldbuilding project and i will forever be thankful for your videos putting me on this path
been waiting for this one!
The amount of exploring and research into this is FANTASTIC, especially appreciate the connections to our own earth based lifeforms😄👏👏👏
This is such a fun series and I love your naming. Very creative and goofy
Awesome!!! Was hoping for this one
Thank you so much for your bravery and awesome field work, Sir Archivist.
We all appreciate your dedication to your work 😄
Please make a sequel to this, there’s so much more
Please make a series of this!
Him breaking out of the persona and giggling at the multi-eyed land octopus is healing my heart
Love the vid and was just wondering if you’d continue your monster hunter series?
Been waiting for this
This channel never disappoints
Could you make a sequel of this? THAT WOULD BE EPICLY AWESOME!
19:26 I did not realize scallops were kind of terrifying.
Amazing video! The randomness of this game is awesome.👍
Great, now I gotta download No Man’s Sky again, great video as always
I'm surprised this game hadn't been covered by this channel yet. What a great combination.
More of his please it’s basically endless content
NMS is one of my most beloved games of all time. I've been subbed since the birrin video, so cool to see you do a video on this hidden gem of a game!
oh god I was about to ask you to do this this is so cool
please do a part 2 to this. the fauna in this game can be very interesting. from flying centipedes to eyes with tentacles
Its nice to know that more ppl are getting into this beautiful and endless game, it has helped me when i needed it the most and now even with all these events I still keep exploring.
I like to build outposts in secluded systems where no entity other than I have set foot on.
As well as the occasional mining or gas extracting outpost to help fuel my adventures, either way it is quite fun :))
Also if anyone wants the portal address i am happy to share my findings
Your biology videos are always interesting.
Yessssss please keep this in mind I have thousands of hours logged into this awesome game there is legit infinite story potential
What a wonderful analysis! You did such an amazing job at describing choice parts of infinite biological diversity! Good job!
Very well made video. Thanks!
Could you maybe make a whole series on this? It's be so cool to see a full documentary season on the planets in this game
Thanks for making this video. Videos such as these will perhaps inspire Hello Games to make more awesome creature variables for the game!
Make a series of this!
I'd love to see a sequel to this--while there's no way you can explore every planet, you could try to explore a planet from each possible biome!
I'd like to see more stuff from No Man's Sky cause it gives you a chance to just keep going and seeing what strange creatures can pop up.
Howdy I love your videos and how wonderfully fascinating they are
Woah this is a coincidence. I subscribed to your channel this week and also started playing No Man's Sky!
These videos fuel me in knowledge and spirit.