Weekly Nexus Mission and Quick Functional 2x2 Base

[Licoricemint]

I know most people just do the weekly Nexus mission for the quicksilver rewards and like to get it done as soon as possible. Whenever there is a new weekly Nexus mission, I set up a quick base in the target system and just spend my time in that system for the whole week until there is a new mission at a new system. I delete the base of course whenever the Nexus mission changes as the base is only meant to be temporary.

Here is what I have observed. There appears to be a culture that creates bases in Nexus mission systems every week. So I spend the week planet exploring, ship hunting, interceptor hunting if its a dissonant system, visiting player bases, 1 derelict freighter run since it is a new system, and fishing. I have also observed there is currently a preference for bases to be fishing huts, fishing shacks, or fishing platforms. Multi-player appears to be disabled at the moment, but you will definitely run into players more frequently as long as you follow the weekly Nexus base building pilgrimage.

I know everyone has their huge favorite base on a beautiful paradise planet. But here is a quick functional base that I use for the weekly Nexus missions. The goal is functionality but to also make it look like a lifeform actually uses it to live in. The base is 2x2 with 2 cuboid rooms and 2 curved cuboid rooves as the base. The 2 cuboid rooms are capped with cuboid roof caps. It is powered by 3 solar panels and 2 batteries. The solar panels and batteries are all on the roof. The roof also has a meterological spinner and a dish receptor antenna, these are just for aesthetics. The room pictured in the center is the kitchen.

Here is the front door. The room has 2 hydroponic trays. In the background is the alternative ship landing pad.

This corner contains the teleport module.

This is the bedroom.

Here is the view from the inside of the entry room. There are 2 hydroponic trays growing star bulb and fungal mould.

Here is the base teleport module. The flora containment is just for aesthetics.

This is the kitchen. It has a food processor. The table, chair, station billboard, and bubble duct are for aesthetics.

This is the bedroom with a save point. Posters, decals, and standing planter for aesthetics.

I find that I don’t need storage containers for this quick temporary base as I use my ship to store inventory. I would like the base to have more functionality so I’m experimenting with slightly more rooms. I’m also trying to design a quick base using the ragged tent as its basis. But this 2x2 base can be setup so quickly and it has been my goto quick base design for a while now.

[toddumptious]

Thanks for sharing this insight into the Nexus Missions Nomadic Culture. It’s like a little weekend burning man you guys are putting on together

I used to do this the odd time on my PC playthrough,(generally if it’s the one that asks you to build a base) some I’ve kept as they remind me of something good that happened that particular week.

I fell out of practice and then hit the base part limit when I got hooked on the PC Desktop Builder app '^_ ^

I must take the practice back up again on console. I have also been making nothing but fishing huts

[Mad-Hatter]

I hadn’t considered being a Weekend Event Groupie following the crowd.

I rarely have more than 2 ‘lavish’ bigger bases but I have regularly made ‘camps’.
I used to just ponk down a modular cylinder base equipped with the basics of power & teleportation.
These days its the resizable autophage tent & sometimes a few random extras for fun.
Although I think it ‘steals’ some materials to do it, I often just delete the whole base & rebuild using the Base Salvage thingy.

[sheralmyst]

I saw Stu had a base for this. Stu turns up everywhere.
This is one of those things that makes me wish we could have a few saved base patterns stored so we could just plop it down, all ready to go.
I usually put out a tent like a field camp.

[jedidia]

@sheralmyst

This is one of those things that makes me wish we could have a few saved base patterns stored

I’ve been wishing that for a long time, because I can’t be bothered to build intricate bases, and sharable templates would be an absolute blast for me. Just take a neat design that someone else made and plop it down, pay the resources, done.