How to select a different kind of galaxy?

[AxeMan]

I've finished the purge questline and travelled to another galaxy. But this galaxy is ... full of life. I need a barren galaxy with little life and I can only choose the type of the galaxy if I finish the purge quest, I think.

So is there any way to start this quest again? Or how do I select a new galaxy after you've already selected a galaxy and didn't like it?

Thanks in advance!

[Lindy Bomber]

You can travel to the center of the galaxy to make to the next galaxy. Repeat until you find an empty galaxy, or find player with a base in an empty galaxy and teleport to their base.

[AxeMan]

So there is no way to select a galaxy after you finish the purge questline?

[Krash Megiddo]

Check out this page:
https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Galaxy

Click on the galaxy name to see what type it is. Then you find the galaxy nearest you and make a plan to get to it. There are many ways to do this, some take longer than others.

[Dirak2012]

Also, there no "barren" galaxy.
There is one with more lush planets, one with more extreme planets, one that it's balanced, and one that has more exotic planets.
All of them are full of life.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

All the galaxies have to support the missions that can be assigned to a player, so they all have some uniform elements. Depending on the galaxy you go to, it will have slightly different percentages of system types.

Honestly, if you did not know ahead of time what type of galaxy it is, it can be hard to tell the difference between the galaxy types.

[BigGrayGolem]

Go visit the Anomaly and check the main transporter. Search the bases of other players and you might get lucky and see one from another galaxy.

The benefit of that method is that you can jump to that player's base, in the other galaxy, without having to travel to the galactic core and without getting any ship damage.

Otherwise, you have to get to the core of your current galaxy and make the jump the old fashioned way.

[Grimmslayer73]

There is really not much difference between galaxy types.... Lush galaxies have a very slightly higher chance of paradise type planets, Dead galaxies have a slightly higher chance at dead/airless planets, etc... if 1 out of 10 systems has a paradise planet in a normal galaxy then 1.02 out of 10 will have a paradise in a lush galaxy. All galaxies contain life and every type of planet...

[SirWrath]

so i have all the Universe/ galaxies Titles like calypso,essantiem.. etc titles i assumed i got them from typing random coordinates into the portal and visiting a ridiculous amount of random planets. can you do it that way or am i under a false belief

[Lailantie]

Originally posted by SirWrath:

so i have all the Universe/ galaxies Titles like calypso,essantiem.. etc titles i assumed i got them from typing random coordinates into the portal and visiting a ridiculous amount of random planets. can you do it that way or am i under a false belief

You can not get to another galaxy via a portal (the huge black building on the planet where you enter glyphs). You can however go to another galaxy if you teleport (circular blue shiny thing on your base) to a base of another player which happens to be in another galaxy.

[Grimmslayer73]

Originally posted by SirWrath:

so i have all the Universe/ galaxies Titles like calypso,essantiem.. etc titles i assumed i got them from typing random coordinates into the portal and visiting a ridiculous amount of random planets. can you do it that way or am i under a false belief

Not sure I understand your question but you can go to a portal and enter random addresses. If you don't enter a legit address it will error out and send you to the closest match. I do this sometimes when I'm board.

[taniwhat]

Teleporter in the Anomoly, last I checked one of the player bases was in a fairly harsh galaxy (Xoberung .... something like that)

[BigGrayGolem]

I am collecting galaxies, and currently have bases in 30 of them. About 10 of thise I did the hard way (center of galaxy A to get to galaxy b) but the rest I did by visiting bases of other people in the Anomaly.

[Rexxer]

Originally posted by AxeMan:

So there is no way to select a galaxy after you finish the purge questline?

When playing solo, except for the initial questline option at the center of the Euclid Galaxy (Galaxy 1), you can only reach other galaxies by traveling to them, in sequence, "2, 3, 4....255". Once you have a base or station in each galaxy, you can randomly switch between them just by going to your base or station listing in any base teleporter. First time though you have to "discover" them the slow sequential way.

In muliplayer though, you can group with people at the Anomaly who already have access to other galaxies and they can teleport you to any galaxy they have bases on.