Topic for posting and discussing Steam 3xperimental updates or patches for NMS Origins.
The previous NMS Beyond topic can be found here:
A patch was released to the Steam 3xperimental branch:
So my problem is actually different. My base is in a yellow system. Just a standard plentiful planet
Hello Everyone,
First of all, thanks so much to everyone who has already spent time playing No Manâs Sky and letting us know about any issues youâve experienced.
Steam users are able to opt-in to the Experimental Branch, where we have pushed a patch to address some problems. Weâll be rolling out these fixes to other platforms as soon as possible.
To play in Experimental, right-click on No Manâs Sky from the Steam library page and select âPropertiesâ. Among the available tabs will be the âBETASâ tab. Enter â3xperimentalâ in the textbox and press âCHECK CODEâ, then select it from the dropdown menu.
The patch notes are as follows:
Experimental Branch 24/09
Fixed an issue that counted extinct creatures towards the planet total in the Local Information Register.
Fixed an issue that caused new creatures to be marked âExtinctâ when discovered.
Fixed an issue that caused incorrect creatures to spawn on weird biomes.
Fixed an issue that allowed Exocraft to destroy volcanoes and other large objects.
Fixed a crash that could occur when an NPC ship took off from the planet surface.
Fixed an issue that allowed some traders to continue to sell deprecated items.
Fixed a number of crashes specific to AMD video cards.
Introduced a significant optimisation for large bases.
Fixed a crash that could occur when being hit by a projectile launched by an entity that was destroyed before the projectile hit.
Upgraded OpenVR to the latest revision.
Fixed an issue that could cause Nexus mission to be abandoned as if the player was AFK, even though they had taken off before the AFK timer finished.
As always, thank you to all players who use Experimental and take the time to report any issues you encounter.
Please note there is the possibility that experimental builds may introduce new issues that havenât been caught in test. Weâd like to recommend that all players back up their save files, by making a local copy of the st_[userid] folder found here: %appdata%\HelloGames\NMS\
Note that we donât anticipate any issues here. However, performing your own backups could mean the difference between resuming play immediately, or waiting for the next patch.
If you decide to opt out of experimental and return to the main branch, we strongly recommend resuming from a backed-up save from the main branch, rather than taking an experimental branch save back to main, which may cause unexpected behaviour.
Feedback and reports of new bugs/issues being found on Experimental are welcome, so please reply to this thread or submit a ticket to https://hellogames.zendesk.com/ with the phrase âSteam Experimentalâ in the ticket title. If you are running any mods for the game, please list them along with your bug report.
Experimental Branch Update 25/09 
This one fixed my base
@sheralmyst and @gunnar: I turned the Patch notes headers into direct links to their respective Steam page discussion.
Hmmm. We may have to travel to a different hemisphere to find some fauna now. I had not noticed that before.
Yes. I had an uncommon animal that was active all day and lived in the north. Very helpful.
Did you see there is a specific mission to keep tabs on how many animals, creatures and minerals you scanned
Yes. Lovinâ it!
Also, you now get a Version Mismatch notification if you try to join MP when the public and 3xp branches are out of sync.
Sometimes it doesnât seem to work, though⊠I was on a planet yesterday where I had found 6 out of 0 minerals⊠The counter kept increasing, but apparently the mission was of the opinion that thereâs nothing to discover.
It worked on another planet, but there I couldnât for the life of me find the last mineral and3 flora typesâŠ
I have planets showing example 10/2, 19/7 for flora and creaturesâŠKinda wish they had done a reset but just given ways to back up basesâŠthink this 2 different system stuff will lead to issues.
Discovery Services have stayed down for the last few days
Iâm finding that extinct species seem to be quite happy to be walking around. When you scan them, it counts towards one total but not on the discovery panel. So if Iâve got 7/8 and I scan a crab creature on the sea floor Iâll get a message saying all creatures scanned, but the panel will still show 7/8. I know itâs extinct because it shows in the discovery panel as extinct with exactly the same name.
Now you mention it, I think the discovery panel is bugged and should show 7/7 rather than 7/8, although how an animal can be extinct when itâs walking around is⊠confusing.
Have to put in some bug reports soon.
Yes. The living extinct animals have been removed in 3xperimental. However, the count issue still remains. I suspect that is why discovery services are down.
They donât seem to have fully fixed it as Iâm still getting them. Admittedly only one per planet, so far, and it always seems to be the seafloor dwelling creatures. Maybe theyâve fixed it for land animals but not for sea? Or maybe a side effect of the fauna count being off by one? All seems a bit mixed up at the moment. I scanned a flying trilobite and the discovery panel said it was ground only. It was kinda shuffling in the sky.
As soon as Discovery Services returned, all has been corrected
I find the âother notesâ somewhat interesting. For one theyâre only visible in exactly this view, nowhere else. I assume they are just some additional flavour, but I wonder if they intend to use them as hooks of some kind in the future.
I was on a planet lately that had âevidence of ancient mass gravesâ⊠Didnât find any unfortunately, but it did feel a bit creepyâŠ
