10 Strangest Lifeforms in No Man's Sky | Living Frigates and Multi-tools?

The universe of No Man’s Sky is filled with some of the strangest sci-fi life you’ll encounter in any game. While the game is famous for its procedural planetary fauna, the universe is home to many stranger things still. From living frigates to alien weapons, these are some of the most intriguing and just plain weird lifeforms NMS has to offer.
#NoMansSky #NMS #Kanaju
On this Episode:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:35 - #10 Gaseous Sentience
00:02:02 - #9 Living Metalloid
00:02:49 - #8 Sentient Plants
00:03:21 - #7 Alien Multi-tools
00:04:19 - #6 Asteroid Larvae
00:05:04 - #5 Living Ships
00:06:13 - #4 Stellar Intelligence
00:07:31 - #3 Nanite Clusters
00:09:03 - #2 Organic Frigates (Space Whales)
00:11:15 - #1 Travelers
00:12:32 - Outro
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[@furrysunny1300]

I once landed on a planet, where every animal and plant was just this weird round ball just standing, or rolling arround. There were tons of ruins on it and I was able to get a ton of loot. Problem was the planet was heavily guarded, so even being seen by guards would make them attack you.

[@sporeham1674]

That's oddly ominous

[@Jkooowb]

Was it a webbed planet? I love the webbed planets

[@sundown6806]

Ah yes aggressive sentinels

[@jaylegoninjago5615]

One lifeform(idk if it's alive) you missed is the corruption you find on abandoned space stations and abandoned terminals

[@Kanaju]

I thought about that. It's not really clear what kind of corruption they cause though. I sort of view it like mold or fungus. Yeah, it's gross, but not terribly strange in the grand scheme of things. Edit: Thanks for the comment though!

[@WingManFang1]

Actually I believe that’s a combination of Nanites, the Abyss and the different forms of living slime in contact with each other, because it’s the best way to farm for Nanites in early game play. A living Byproduct if you will. But still as interesting as it is disgusting, nonetheless.

[@garymcgaryson5039]

Missed the alien monstrosities you find on abandoned freighters and on dead planets which are pretty weird as well as anglerfish and sentient minerals i.e. rocks with legs. Other contenders include the loose energy beings you find on some worlds that look like will-o-wisps. Also I encountered a planet apparently populated by stick men once.

[@MoorganHart]

The definition of "life" is fuzzy in our universe too.

[@eeveeofalltrades4780]

Two words: giant cell

[@nolopada]

Thinking of an ethereal consciousness just floating and being ancient is both calming and existential crisis inducing at the same time. A lot of thought has been put into the concepts in this game and I love it. Great video as always!

[@lonewulfmo9128]

This game was birthed it was most panned and hated. IMHO it has evolved to be most epic, most loved by devs n most scientific. Star citizen is miles ahead of nms coz of technical feat but i promise u in terms of lore, customization depth it's far behind nms

[@Kanaju]

NMS' lore is definitely more subtle than most people realize. Often only breadcrumbs to go off of. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching!

[@High_Key]

I just came across a “Planet of Light”. There’s rocks but all the flora are beams of light that shoot up. Quite interesting. Another one I’ve been to was a “Mechanical Planet” and all the flora and fauna were like engine parts. I adopted a pet which is literally just like a ball of energy that floats around. Such an interesting concept.

[@lsswappedcessna]

oh come on you didn't adopt the pet Ford 302 Windsor small block?

[@seansimoneau3740]

One of the first creatures I encountered while building my initial base was an aggressive glowing tentacle-ball that killed me in like 3 hits while my multi-tool uselessly chipped away at it. Learned that every organism was a potential threat (except the lumpy jumping mushroom-looking dudes)

[@russianoftheinternet8907]

Someday, I wish we could start scooping up travelers from their graves to throw into the system with Artemis

[@Kanaju]

That's an interesting idea. It could offer us new philosophical dilemmas about letting the dead rest and such. I like that idea. Thanks for commenting!

[@Silverity]

I keep seeing giant jellyfish cruising around galaxies, they look neat.

[@Silverity]

Oop, I just watched another one of your videos and have learnt they are Children of Helios. Woo

[@suruxstrawde8322]

If I remember correctly the scientific definition if "life" is that it has to require nutrients, be able to grow, and maybe reproduce? But it's actually quite separate from the definition if conscious or sentient, those criteria actually only require an entity be able to perceive, understand, and react to things.

[@JossCard42]

"In an universe with infinite possibilities, anything you could imagine (and a lot of things you'd rather not), grows somewhere."

[@DarkroseV5]

Always had the idea in my head that alien multitools were infected. This strange goop does build up on machinery and can be refined into living slime and the like, not to mention the monstrosities have all their crap plastered over abandoned buildings. What if this stuff came in contact with an abandoned multitool and with time proceeds to infect and even change the tool?

[@justjohn1461]

In honorable mentions you forgot to mention all the horrific creatures, you know the ones that have Horror in their name such as the green jellyfish horror, the creatures that come out of the spawning sacks and the horrors that come out of eggs on planets... oh and just because the game says they don't have souls that doesn't mean they don't have Consciousness because it's obvious they definitely do. Btw loved the video Eh 🖖👽

[@energizedgoop2940]

Should've included the rocks that run away when you mine them :P

[@Kanaju]

That's true! Those would definitely fit the bill. Thanks for commenting.

[@ThMindFdr]

I burst out laughing when they starting rolling away when i tried to mine them i just had a Homer "hehehe" moment running after them 😂😂

[@BatteredWing]

OOOOH I thought those were hermitcrabs and I was just dumb 😂

[@commando5872]

Finally! Expeditions finally came to switch! Happy days! Been playing this since Friday last week and it's been a blast to just explore other people's bases and complete the quests (hate the egg quests though)

[@369Sigma]

Come check out my main base! Been working on it for over 2 weeks. Not finished yet, but what I do have is pretty snazzy. 0EFE:007C:07D7:016E Misfits Mountain Resort Shameless self plug

[@Kanaju]

The egg milestone is probably my least favorite of any expedition. If not, in my top 5 least favorite milestones. lol Thanks for watching!

[@commando5872]

@@Kanaju your welcome bro! Been binge watching all your vids because I don't want to be caught lacking in NMS

[@jaamoe_]

Dude I love your stuff. I’m really new to the game and I have learned so much about the lore from your videos. Thank you so much. Your creativity is very inspiring.

[@ghostinng274]

I love this game for things like this. Just weird random stuff to find

[@sleeperyjeemtoybox]

Cutest one i can across was a small dog beast with a fly head, explored 168 systems an only came across it once.

[@WysteriaASMR]

I’d say the Titan worms are definitely a strange form of life in NMS if they are even alive at all, if the Vykeen cult around them is true, it’s capable of completely rewriting the genetic code of organisms and turning them into one of itself

[@calebgulick7240]

Been playing for about a week now and I'm addicted! Happy to have found your videos, I can't really get into the other NMS guys. My only regret is not picking it up at launch.

[@eternaldarkness3139]

As a Day1 player, who still loves NMS... odds are you would not have liked iteration 1.0. It was dull and tedious. Hello Games deserves every ounce of praise for how much they've done at no additional charge. Welcome to the 'Verse.

[@calebgulick7240]

@@eternaldarkness3139 Ha, thanks man! You've made a good point, I think I regret it cause I'm in the honeymoon phase with it and I have all these toys to play with lol.

[@echo9932]

Im prerty sure i have megalophobia, because seeing the Asteroid Larvae is making my fight or flight kick in, and its hard to even look at them

[@michaelhill6453]

Another outstanding video. Thanks.

[@Nitin-Ace]

I love your videos as much as I hate hazardous floras 😉 Really, this is one of the nicest video you have made. Thank you 😊

[@Kanaju]

Thanks! That means a lot. Especially since I also hate hazardous flora. lol

[@saintvoorhees4807]

The gaseous form kinda makes me think the korvax convergence or something like it is responsible and that is their way of travel. Astral travel but as a hivemind... or even worse, Korvax souls wandering aimlessly without shells?

[@Larotian]

Your videos are SO AWESOME!!!

[@madeinheven3984]

This is strangest plant life cannot wait for the video

[@braedenbumaro828]

It's also interesting how other species can Become a Traveller, like Iteration: Mercury, who I believe says he was Vykeen?

[@Kanaju]

I'm not entirely sure what Mercury's story is. I know they used to have skin, but I forget how they lost it. I'm not sure other species can become travellers though. Nada and Polo are both divergent, but neither consider themselves travellers. Gah, this just makes me wish they'd give us more backstories! Thanks for your comment. 👨‍🚀

[@nightlydrugs6927]

They look Vy’keen but they don’t say much unfortunately.

[@meaningfulmindfulness15]

I've always been so into the weirdness of what NMS has as far as living creatures. 🤘👽 [Edit]-- I had never considered that information about nanite clusters. Didn't even realize they had legs. Lol Always dig your content, brother!

[@Chris_winthers]

They are alive, and they are the reason we know about half of what we do about the gek and korvax

[@Coinz8]

Kanaju, I love your content. I know you love NMS lore and I have a few pieces of lore if youd like to look at them.

[@vrabo3026]

Here's a goofy idea for a video: showcasing all the different types of new exotic asteroids xD

[@DrywallMorty]

i think that no mans sky is amazing. great video.

[@specrtre]

The ones on/in the ground are my favorite

[@giornogiovani3769]

The weirdest species I found what on a collumed planet and it was shifting rocks

[@Kebab136]

As for plants it IS different than carnivorous plants. I mean, we have carnivorous plants on Earth, everyone's seen a plant like Venus Flytrap, Drosera, or a Pitcher Plant, either IRL or on the internet. There's a high chance some of you own or owned a Flytrap at some point, cause they're just awesome. And there's no indication of them being capable of having sentient thoughts as they lack neural network necessary to achieve it. So the fact that the sentient plants are described as sentient is key here, their general shape is also different from other plants as they're always rather spherical and lumpy, having enough 3d space inside them to be able to form some sort of plant based neural network. They also behave differently from other plants, and react in a way indicating sentience, as carnivorous plants generally don't react to their environment in a way that indicates any sentient thought, it's all just reaction based on some mechanical receptors. Carnivorous plants IRL and their counterparts in NMS react via proximity switches, such as a few sticking out spikes in case of Venus Traps that cover the inside of their trap parts, which trigger them to close when something touches it. Sentient plants on the other hand are capable of movement and will generally run from a player once they got damaged. There are also plants IRL that react to being touched or damaged, but they never move, they will always act via same mechanisms as carnivorous plants and for example close all of their leaves for better protection, but they never move. And even the plants that do move, such as Tumbleweed, they will just roll with the wind and gravity, but the sentient plants here move away from the player. That means they know where the danger comes from and can move accordingly to it. It might indicate sentience or it can also indicate that these plants have some receptors that allow them to see something that's not directly touching them via distance, so either sight or vibrations detectiors like some insects have on their antenae.

[@danielwalker1589]

Great video as always Kanaju! Beautiful thumbnail as well. I appreciate the fact that you don’t want to spoil things for your audience, but some of us want to know those spoilers! For instance, I would love to learn more about the anomalies (appearance and all) as well as the other travelers. I would also love to see a video (spoilers and all) where you discuss the lore of the Atlas and the universe in general. But I do understand the difficulty and large workload that would accompany such a video.

[@bored77551]

If you finished an expedition and claimed all rewards on that expedition, is it safe to remove that save? Or are there factors to take into account? The save is already reverted to a normal save as considered expedition complete, but is deleting it while the expedition event is still ongoing a bad idea? tnx

[@nicked_fenyx]

It's safe to delete. I just did so with my expedition file a few hours ago. Just make sure you've made a manual save on that file (jump in and out of your ship) before deleting it. If you want to play it safe, do like I did and go to whatever your primary file is and claim some of this expedition's rewards, just to make sure they're registered properly with your overall account. I did that, then deleted the expedition file next time I booted up the game. No issues.

[@TrollfaceDarkBruhLmao]

So strange :)))))

[@cmr2004]

Plz make a video about sentinal and abise

[@pauline_f328]

I always found it so odd that we trade things in nanites and that the Korvax aren't creeped out by it. We're trading in Korvax blood, in a way. This leads me to several theories: 1. The darkest but less probable one is that the currency was instated while the First Spawn had inslaved the Korvax, and it is a remnant of that past 2. Or maybe the Korvax just don't take it personally. We donate blood after all. We can live without it. I wouldn't be creeped out if I saw blood pouches at a hospital. Maybe also their science-based culture influences that too 3. The nanites exist independently from the Korvax, and they just happen to have integrated them into their bodies the way we have integrated bactria into our digestive system and now can't live without them In general, I have a lot of questions about the Korvax. Beyond how they are able to even for a Convergence in the first place, how does one end up being part machine on a species level? It's not like they're cyborgs - or are they? Maybe they are born without machineparts but immediately put into a casing and they grow and developin a way that takes that into account...? I would love to know more about how the different species in NMS evolved and what their life cycles are like. The three mainalien species don't look particularly sexually dymorphic, at least not that I've been able to tell - so do they just not combine genetic material like we do? So many questions... 3.

[@heliummaster6628]

i once found a life form that was literally a living, thinking, bleeding bubble

[@gabyyyyyyyyy]

i have one of those as a pet companion

[@madhatter1787]

Nanite Clusters remind me of the Replicators of Stargate SG1.

[@eternaldarkness3139]

Hey Kanaju... You forgot about 2-Eyed Geks. Those things are Freaks!

[@Kanaju]

🤔

[@eeveeofalltrades4780]

What? 2 eyes isn't the norm in Geks?

[@Savvylemon]

Was this written by a Vykeen?😂

[@eternaldarkness3139]

@@Savvylemon a 4-eyed Gek 👁👀👁 🤣

[@nubbmarr1774]

I mean Ive found a sentient rock in NMS. Id say the sky is the limit after that! Lol

[@TheAustralianMapper5378]

I like the Gaseous lifeforms.

[@jestoreothefirst]

Ooh I’ve found most of these

[@Cliffsidual]

The gaseous conscience knows that the universe is made for the traveller which is why it says "through you", I think.

[@jebediahkerman117]

I just realized no man sky might be a horror game with all this creepy stuff

[@Der_Gewagte]

What we need in No Mans Sky is: -Portal Gun -More items -New Construction

[@WasCoderman]

I found a white glowing ball His name is Daminy 😃

[@Criscrosaplesos]

Cant believe we haven't met yet. Dig you stuff, keep it up!

[@Greenwood4727]

and now theres the Autophages and corrupter sentinels

[@Johan_S4]

Asteroid larvae is literally abyssal horror isn't it?

[@oldfaithless8615]

Pretty much

[@itol2201]

I think it has a frigate engine attached to it, and hidden on the back end to give it the thrust effect.

[@Kanaju]

Pretty much. Although it does have those squiggly things on the sides. And that booster in the back.

[@jacksunstone8771]

😎👍

[@Kanaju]

😎🤙

[@FHT1883]

12:01 that's a thing that gets revealed?

[@kevinamos3797]

Astroid larvae look like big abyssal horrors

[@BigMoon23D-gn1md]

I looked at some eggs once and they exploded into some kinda crab demon

[@deadlyhydra]

What do you mean what anomaly looks like under the helmet

[@nathanpfirman625]

What about the sun group of travelers called the anomaly’s and are the atlases attempt at making it’s creator.

[@hooliganhammond486]

Do the Korvax count? Are they just an AI?

[@lonewulfmo9128]

Please help Two! Two things I'm curious about in no mans sky 1) Are humans totally extinct w the smarter races? 2) how many intelligent races r there exactly is it 4? Vax, gek, vyk n sentinels? Or more. Coz in space station there are cat lyk races n other races which not gek or vyk even or r the cat race a sub species of vyk? There also races that don't have heads

[@joseangelmonterroza9364]

For something to be considered alive It needs to have a metabolism, that's it

[@joseangelmonterroza9364]

Some species can do cryosleeping (either by own choice or not), in wich it's metabolism stops, thus, becoming unalive, until they defrost and start metabolising? Again and becoming alive again

[@lonelyPorterCH]

Wait, nanites are alive?^^

[@Theoneandonlyguy]

I found a weird humanoid yesterday

[@magnitudedsry8473]

nanites look like hexbugs

[@TheCaptainRetro]

Sentient gasses secretly teaching Zen Buddhism

[@stijnVDA1994]

The asteroid larvea can be killed, when their eye is open you can hit them easily

[@austinplatt]

Orbs of confusion.

[@pyritepirate3991]

I went looking but i don't see anyone calling it out so i guess i will. Leviathans aren't the living frigates. If you actually own a leviathan when you first encounter a living frigate it will actually give you an option to ask about the leviathans to which they will just flat out tell you that they aren't the same. Nope trying to ruin the video, i genuinely enjoyed it. Just trying to also make sure what you say is true. (Or maybe I'm wrong, Who knows!)

[@bsg75husker]

how to i obtain living frigates and ships?

[@Silverity]

The living ship requires you to get 3000 quicksilver and buy an egg while visiting the anomaly, it's a long quest line but so worth it :)

[@bsg75husker]

@@Silverity thanks

[@iamarizonaball2642]

Speaking of multi tools, I have made one which does over 100,000 damage.

[@TheStrvggler]

I only find it annoying that all travelers have the same body but have widely different heads. It would be more interesting and believable if they had the same variety of body types rather than just “human” shape.

[@hemlocktea6643]

Oops I shot the gaseous things. Didn't know they were sentient I just blew them up

[@gabyyyyyyyyy]

how did you not know they were sentient? they literally talk to you

[@lukeb8878]

the E is larvae is silant just saying

[@friendlyrussiangamer5608]

Hey how rare is a planet with bubbles, pink tress and orange sea with mountains for gorgeous views?

[@Kanaju]

Hmmm...uncommon, but not terribly rare. It sort of depends on the types of systems you visit, but mostly it's down to individual luck. lol I've seen quite a few myself, but everyone's experience is different.

[@friendlyrussiangamer5608]

@@Kanaju Ok thank you, i dont know if its a big deal anymore but I found a planet similar to the one you showed the terrain generating in boxes but vertically into the ground.

[@creatorsremose]

"Conventional definitions of life are fuzzy when it comes to the NMS universe" ... well, it's fuzzy everywhere. It's through religion that we've manufactured this conceited "dominance" over intelligence and/or life. It's this "fuzziness" that makes defining Emergence in science so difficult. Intelligence is a spectrum, not a true-false scenario. I actually think that NMS embracing this was extremely smart as it also allows for far more creative creatures than the biblical "us and them" dichotomy.

[@thehudverse]

Who else at least has a void egg?

[@thepyrokitten]

Why is this twink so cute