Summary
A cleverNo Man’s Skyplayer has devised a creative method for constructing a set of bunk beds using alternative in-game items and tools. ThoughNo Man’s Skysupports a robust base-building and interior customization system, bunk beds aren’t available as from the standard furniture selection.
Despite an almost disastrous launch period in 2016,No Man’s Skyhas grown far past its original troubled roots, blossoming into an online multiplayer game beloved by its players. In the years since the original disappointing release period, developer Hello Games went far beyond the initial design vision for the game, adding new systems and refining existing ones over the course of dozens of updates, large and small. One of the most enduring systems added is the ability for players to build their ownNo Man’s Skybases and settlements, creating their homes in the game’s vast, procedurally generated universe. Players can add buildings to their bases and fill them with all manner of useful equipment as well as purely decorative furniture according to their needs and tastes.
One player, who goes by TrudyJudy69 on Reddit, demonstrated a clever method for building a set of stacked bunk beds using in-game materials. To achieve the build, TrudyJudy69 employed a common scaffolding item to serve as a base for the bunk bed. Scaffolding is usually used as an outdoor decorative item, since it can contribute to the appearance of a modern orcyberpunkNo Man’s Skycity. This piece of scaffolding lent a vertical structure and served as a platform to place the top bunk on, complete with an access ladder for whoever claims it. TrudyJudy69 also added wooden planks to the sides of the scaffold to contain the beds in a frame. The result looks like a convincing set of in-game furniture that looks like it could’ve been designed that way from the start.
No Man’s Sky Player Makes Use of Scaffolding to Construct Custom Bunk Beds
Bunk beds aren’t part of the usual selection of furniture items. However, they’re desirable to manyNo Man’s Skyplayers because their space-saving stacked form is a commonly used feature of sci-fi and frontier aesthetics. Even when aNo Man’s Skyfreightercan be massive and fit all manner of equipment and other furniture, living space can still come at a premium, making bunk beds an ideal way to communicate that a room is used by multiple crew members or residents.
Players praised TrudyJudy69’s creativity in repurposing existing items to create something new. Some players vowed to copy the design for use in their own builds. Others lamented some of the limitations of theNo Man’s Skybuilding system, with even TrudyJudy69 agreeing that it’s in need of an overhaul. A few worried that withHello Games also working onLight No Fire, some still-needed updates or unaddressed issues might fall by the wayside as focus shifts. Time will tell if the studio can manage to build a new game without leaving its existing community behind.
No Man’s Sky
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Lose yourself in a vast sci-fi odyssey as you explore a near-infinite, procedurally generated universe. Set out from the edge of the Euclid galaxy and carve out your own interstellar existence in a vast universe teeming with life, danger and near-endless mystery. No Man’s Sky is a hugely-ambitious, heavily-stylised, sci-fi adventure that spans entire galaxies all brought to life with procedural generation. Travel through an endless array of increasingly diverse and dangerous star systems, prospecting for rare materials, trading with alien life, populate planets and searching for clues to the meaning of the universe’s mysterious existence. How you survive is up to you. Assemble entire fleets of dreadnought-class freighters and tear across the universe; build sprawling habitable bases across planet surfaces, beneath the ground or under the ocean; buy and upgrade your own weapons and star ships and do battle with outlaw space pirates, hostile alien fauna or the mysterious sentinel fleets. The universe is yours to explore - trillions upon trillions of planets, waiting to be discovered.
