Stage 2: One Small Step

You're still here? Fine.When you first boot up the game, No Man's Sky will dump you on a random planet in front of your damaged ship, with a basic multi-tool and some loot scattered around you. Follow the tutorials that are presented to you and follow the main path until you are confident that you know what you are doing. At the very least, follow the main mission path until you unlock the Anomoly as this is a vital tool to completion, while also offering you an opportunity to meet other people and complete missions together.As you walk around gathering resources to repair your ship, keep an eye out for creatures usingand use theto engage the radar, looking out for white dots - those usually signify undiscovered fauna (animals & creatures). Also, don't forget to look up and below - the skies and oceans are full of life as well. An important tip for discovering creatures is the fact that you can zoom-in the Analysis Visor, using the same buttom you use to run, which if you've been following this guide to the point, is. Since you're going to spend quite a bit of time on your starting planet anyway, spend some extra time and find every creature so you can get the A Scanner Darkly trophy. Another important moment is that the creatures can be really small. There are planets where some of the species are literally a pea sized firefly, so it can take a while to find every single one. Some creatures can also look uncannily similar, so be extra careful to scan creatures you may think you already analyzed.The trophy you will most likely get first will be Babel-17 or Contact . There's not much else to say other than explore - every planet is different, after all. As soon as your ship is repaired, start flying around the planet, looking for green question marks, learning words and talking to aliens.After you're done with your first planet, then you'll want to go out into space, and while you're there try to kill a random space ship to get the trophy. By now you likely have quite a bit of (expensive) resources in your inventory - go to a space station and sell them, rinse and repeat until you get the trophy.After you finished the tutorial section for the hyperdrive & warp cells, you should normally get an anomaly detected notification that will guide you to the nearest Atlas Interface. It's normally a few solar systems away, so by the time you get there, you should receive the trophy.From now on, you're mostly on your own.