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Rye Encoke Apr 29, 2023 @ 11:07am
What does the portal in the anomaly do?
I have seen the portal and talked to the alien standing there but never attempted to use it. What does it do?

If it was something that sent you to a random universe/galaxy I might step into it just for kicks.
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Pagafyr Apr 29, 2023 @ 11:14am 
It can get you to any port including some that are beyond your ships ability to reach until you have used your Warp drive a lot. Your base, any space station, and of course to galaxies far away.
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Rye Encoke Apr 29, 2023 @ 11:19am 
Originally posted by Pagafyr:
It can get you to any port including some that are beyond your ships ability to reach until you have used your Warp drive a lot. Your base, any space station, and of course to galaxies far away.


do you get to choose? or is it random? Is it possible to choose a new random galaxy?
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Mr. Bufferlow Apr 29, 2023 @ 11:28am 
Technically, it is a teleporter. Portals are the galaxy specific large stuctures that use glyphs.

The teleporter in the anomaly hosts a selection of other player bases (if you have MP on)that you can visit. It changes depending on the 32 players you get auto-grouped with in the Anomaly. So, if you leave and come back quickly, you may have an entirely new listing of bases.*

*There are some featured bases that don't change very often that are inserted by HG. They usually are a bit more outstanding or at least HG thinks they are visit worthy.

There are some other minor features, like you can auto-return from one of the sites if you get trapped by some evil player during your explorations with it.

Example shot from a Giant Robot Base that was featured awhile back.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2770875896
Last edited by Mr. Bufferlow; Apr 29, 2023 @ 11:30am
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Rye Encoke Apr 29, 2023 @ 12:07pm 
but you can teleport to a random galaxy far far away?
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The guy from Ace Attorney Apr 29, 2023 @ 12:17pm 
Originally posted by Rye Encoke:
Originally posted by Pagafyr:
It can get you to any port including some that are beyond your ships ability to reach until you have used your Warp drive a lot. Your base, any space station, and of course to galaxies far away.


do you get to choose? or is it random? Is it possible to choose a new random galaxy?

You can choose from any bases you have set up, or a bunch of the space stations you visited (not sure if you have to specifically interact with the teleporter in the space station to warp to it). The Anamoly teleporter will not send you to a random star system, but you can use black holes or the Glyph Portals to do that. Although technically with the Glyphs, you have to input a sequence that will send you to another portal, but if you just select a bunch of Glyphs randomly, that's basically the same thing.
Last edited by The guy from Ace Attorney; Apr 29, 2023 @ 12:18pm
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Mr. Bufferlow Apr 29, 2023 @ 12:21pm 
Originally posted by Rye Encoke:
but you can teleport to a random galaxy far far away?
If you find a player base in a galaxy far away listed...YES. It is luck of the draw of who is in the Anomaly when you arrive. AFAIK, it is rare for the HG featured bases to be in another galaxy. Have not really paid attention to that.

AFAIK, using a teleporter or other method to get to another galaxy will not trigger the Steam achievement(s) related to changing galaxies. You have to do the Artemis mission or go to the center and switch galaxies to get that achievement.
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Pagafyr Apr 29, 2023 @ 2:50pm 
Yes! You get to choose to visit any base or space station that is in the teleporter's list.

You can see your base, and all the other peoples bases if you scroll down looking at all the available bases. Space Stations are in the list too.

Twelve Towers Castle was visible, a Coffee Cafe was there and another that are featured for us if we've a desire to go get a closer look at the builders work.
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NZ.Zero Apr 29, 2023 @ 3:47pm 
It's disassembles you into atoms, moves these across space faster than the speed or light by bending space, then reassembles your body in another location.
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Creative Guy1 Apr 29, 2023 @ 10:42pm 
NMS Save Editor will take you to any Galaxy of your choice.
https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Galaxy
Last edited by Creative Guy1; Apr 29, 2023 @ 10:42pm
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Pagafyr Apr 29, 2023 @ 10:44pm 
Originally posted by Creative Guy1:
NMS Save Editor will take you to any Galaxy of your choice.

How do you get NMS Save Editor and How we use NMS Save Editor to take us to any galaxy of our chosing?
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Creative Guy1 Apr 30, 2023 @ 1:56am 
Originally posted by Pagafyr:
Originally posted by Creative Guy1:
NMS Save Editor will take you to any Galaxy of your choice.

How do you get NMS Save Editor and How we use NMS Save Editor to take us to any galaxy of our chosing?

Firstly...
https://github.com/goatfungus/NMSSaveEditor
Secondly...
Select your game save then select Edit then Coordinate Viewer, you should be able to work out the rest ;)
Last edited by Creative Guy1; Apr 30, 2023 @ 1:57am
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Pagafyr Apr 30, 2023 @ 2:07am 
Originally posted by Creative Guy1:
Originally posted by Pagafyr:

How do you get NMS Save Editor and How we use NMS Save Editor to take us to any galaxy of our chosing?

Firstly...
https://github.com/goatfungus/NMSSaveEditor
Secondly...
Select your game save then select Edit then Coordinate Viewer, you should be able to work out the rest ;)

Thx
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