How's the base building?

[Itharus]

How intricate/cool/diverse is the base building? Is it simple and limited, or is it pretty deep?

[Zigamus Wizard]

Originally posted by Itharus:

Can someone explain "glitching"? I like building in games like Conan, 7DTD, and Valheim, all of which have some pretty solid base building mechanics in them. How do NMS's compare to those? Thank you.

Check out 'Beeblebum' videos on YouTube, he is one of the masters of glitch building!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FurKLVb534A&list=PLKbWFBQprmOer0M7n2duRtkJbfm7cnAgX&index=1

[Johnny in the Clouds]

There are many, many amazing bases made by players in this game over the years. Just have to Google the last six or seven years of content. Featured bases are a thing in the game chosen by Hello Games as entertaining examples to check out at the Anomaly Space Station.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3046961396
The picture above (is not great) but shows a portal address to a final Expedition Rendezvous planet and lots of players often build on expedition rendezvous planets if you want to visit many building examples. There have been 16 expeditions so far, so it can be worth checking the No Man's Sky wiki for a list of Rendezvous planet addresses to check out some cool builds.

There are also plenty of links on reddit, or NMS discord with information on specially themed planets players meet up to build on and lalso a good start is the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) and check Sean Murray's gracious posts of extraordinary player content.