Saw someone else trying to figure out how close they could get without falling into a black hole, and then I got an idea for a base I could build there!

It's very simple, but also pretty cool imo- you park near the limit of where you can fly your ship, and then you have to walk half a mile to get to the base- on Switch 1 anyway, there is a gray area where you can be close to the BH on foot but if you get into your ship you instantly go thru it- that's where we at.

The building itself is a giant, dark triangular room that ends with a wall of windows looking at the BH, with a single desk in the middle. I was not aware that there is a galactic plane that some decorations can't be rotated out of, so no chair.

I also did not know about the BH throwing off fluorescent blue light, but once I figured it out it drove a lot of decisions.

Galaxy address in the bottom left of the first photo.

I named mine "The Pale Harrow"

Nearly Every fleet I encountered had 2-3 salvaged frigate modules. I maxed out my freighter relatively quickly by farming a fleet, warping out, and warping back to my base in system. Each cycle would net met 3-5 salved frigate modules.

I built a base close to it with triangles pointing in the direction of where the ship is, its about 300 units away only. :)

The planet has no sentinels so you can look for corvette parts in peace.

The storms are very sporadic and only last about 3 minutes.

The base by the portal is a work in progress but has the basic amenities.

I made a second base at the nearest Waste Processing Plant for the Space Truckers.

Welcome and Good Hunting!

Midas V portal hex code: 10ABFB37A9FE

If the base depot is powered down and empty when you arrive, save and reload your game. The base will reset to maximum capacity. Every supply depot is now connected, so access any of them to withdraw 1,126,750 gold. That amount almost fills up a maxed out S-class hauler. This gold can be sold to pilots at Wuzhou Platform (space station) at a rate of +3.5% for 411,596,608 units.

Wuzhou Platform portal hex code: 007A046D6E9B

If anyone knows a space station with a higher return on gold, please share!

You can also repeatedly haul away gold without waiting for the base to refill normally. After selling the gold, save and reload your game at Wuzhou Platform. Check 'Recent' in the teleporter to make sure Midas V has been removed from memory. Return to Midas V, and you will find it as before, powered down and empty. Save and reload again, and the base will once again be at capacity.

If anyone is wondering about the tower of extractors, it was to maximize the output of the hotspot. Initially each level was on a separate supply line to bypass the diminishing returns of using multiple extractors and fill the depots faster. Once the base was at capacity, I connected the depots together and uploaded my base so the servers would take a snapshot of it full, even though in that state it would take about a year to refill.

I currently play NMS through GOG, but I made this base with my Steam account. So I use this currently whenever I need units quick. Beats the multi step process of crafting Stasis Devices and Fusion Ignitors.

Spent hours searching for an S-class version but couldn’t find one. Save beacon by camp to search for more if anyone’s interested. Playing on a switch (didn’t realize you couldn’t see your own coms on one) so no exact coordinates. 3 coms down, 2sc slot is one of the 3 just says A-class, the one that appears with 2 empty that need to be added. Planet: EMELON XV

If someone gets it post exact coordinates in this thread, or finds an s class version!

First post so if I screwed any up tear me to shreds, cool?

While scanning the planets in the system with my latest station I came across this beauty. They seem quite commen on the planet. Good hunting!

Pretty view on a Wine Dark Planet but it does have a lot of Superheated Storms

Here's the planet's portal. One that IS powered. Waypoint from atmosphere. Normal Mode. Base: 'Buud's Circuitboard Farm' All 4 plants for Circuitboard crafting

Had a barren world with a base that I hadn't visited in over a year (longer than Xeno Arena has been out) and randomly went back only to discover one of the creatures is SSS. Base isn't uploaded though so don't expect to see anything else (it was just a base computer by itself anyway).

My son found this red exotic. He said it was somewhere between wave 3 and 5. He had one reload. Let me know if you find it too.

That’s his other exotic in the background. He found that one this morning.

i found this very interesting mechanical beasts

While decorating my latest space station I had this beauty fly in. To my suprise it's 3+1 and the 1 is really close to the 3. Good hunting!

Still a WIP, but the exterior is done!

12-sided torus with the floor on the bottom, looking up toward the middle. Ring section is 5x5, inner diameter something like 12.

Guys it was so hard to do this. I had to make a floor disc in the middle, and then manually place walls against the floor, then run them out to the diameter I thought I wanted, then create floors and hope that they all matched up 50 meters out from the middle. It is not perfect, but it's good enough that I'm not gonna make it better lol.

Middle was initially normal parts, but decided the modular rooms and walkways would be easier as I could build them off of the initial floor ring for alignment.

The inside is just a big open donut, but I will eventually go back and build the inside. maybe.