Do black holes and portals teleport everyone to the same place?

[IsoPossessive]

If I and my two friends all go into a black hole or portal, will we all end up in the same place?

[dashiichi]

Black holes, yes I believe that's correct.

Portals, yes for a given set of portal coordinates you'll end up at the same portal on the other side.

[JumpingBarista]

Black hole destinations are consistent with the one entered, so yes. They’re the same in the same one.

Portals are different because they can be used to input specific coordinates to virtually anywhere in the No Man’s Sky universe (That’s ALOT of destinations). My first Portal was random button presses basically, and you can do the same if you couldn’t care less about your destination.

[IsoPossessive]

Ok, thanks for the info! JumpingBarista, how do the coordinates work? Can you only teleport within your galaxy, and can you even teleport to/near the center if you want?

[Johnny in the Clouds]

Not sure how this might turn out in multiplay if you are networked with your friends. BUT Portal addresses will send you to the same System with the one caveat, if it is a random address being used you may not all end up on the same planet. This is because all the planets in a system are sequenced and if no portal has actually been discovered there by a player the planet destination is randomly chosen. Entering it a few times you should end up on the same planet but it may be simpler just to meet up once you all get to the system.

The planet number forms part of the first four glyphs in a full portal address. The glyphs correspond to a Hexadecimal space coordinate.

[IsoPossessive]

Originally posted by Johnny in the Clouds:

Not sure how this might turn out in multiplay if you are networked with your friends. BUT Portal addresses will send you to the same System with the one caveat, if it is a random address being used you may not all end up on the same planet. This is because all the planets in a system are sequenced and if no portal has actually been discovered there by a player the destination is randomly chosen. The planet number forms part of the first four glyphs in a full portal address. The glyphs correspond to a Hexadecimal space coordinate.

Oh, so you have to input known coordinates of another portal?

[Johnny in the Clouds]

Originally posted by Lynch Loretta:

how do the coordinates work? Can you only teleport within your galaxy, and can you even teleport to/near the center if you want?

You can only teleport to the current galaxy. Though expect this to change (hopefully in an update one day...) Black holes will get you closer to the center. Just don't go through black holes that take you away from the center. Check the distance to the center after each black hole jump and repeat with a different black hole to make closer jumps. (You have to first find another of course).

If you have visited a destination through a portal then then discovery will be logged. But you have to return back through the portal in solo play, then only get there by marking the system as a waypoint and 'hopping' there. Multi-play will give you a teleport destination I think, I'm not quite sure. In both situations destinations have to be in your galaxy for teleports and waypoints to work as expected.

[Johnny in the Clouds]

Originally posted by Lynch Loretta:

Oh, so you have to input known coordinates of another portal?

If the Portal has been found and opened by at least someone, then I think getting there holds true. There used to be a deliberate red message pop up warning about a 'Portal Transmission Error or something when I went through some random portal address or somewhere I had not visited. I think because the first glyph, if it represents a Zero in the sequence and not planet 1,2,3,4,5,6 or maybe 7, then it chooses a random planet to place the portal user on. It's a written warning adding to the tension of 'uh oh here we go...' kind of thing, 'I wonder where we'll end up'

I guess any other glyph 'number' other than nought would send you all to the same destination. Most found and published Portal addresses will be from a discovered planet so by default the number is already there. I think the Glyph that represents Zero is the Sun/Sea glyph. Try entering 000000000000.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

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