The Biology of No Man's Sky

[@Shoyro]

This could be a series itself. So many planets, so many creatures. Perhaps we could be visiting worlds found by longtime players.

[@binarybiosphere]

Good idea!

[@GhostoftheSnow271]

There’s a world I created years ago, an ice planet filled with (at the time of launch when I got it lmao) really realistic and interesting animals

[@highlord2841]

Yes

[@confederatestatesofamerica8330]

i had the same thought

[@dynamaxchungus884]

Please lol 🙏🏻

[@MeekCrayon]

I love how you literally get to archive never before seen species on this expedition. Getting to name them and figure out their lifestyle from your own observations and experiences, rather than someone else's is a real treat to see!

[@dwarflanternsharkfriend6713]

Yes! It provides such an authentic feel of... authenticity!

[@astick5249]

George

[@spode2091]

well that's normal in the game

[@dutchthenightmonkey3457]

@@spode2091 I found a giant hopping pineapple one time lol

[@DaDa-kf4vp]

After 10 hours I started seeing the same creatures with the slightest variations. Got repetitive quickly

[@DraptorRonin]

Gotta love how he broke his usual documentarian persona to chuckle and name a creature “George”.

[@spinosaurusstriker]

Literally the first person on seeing. Platypus

[@СергійДємєнтєєв]

He named it like that because dickinsoniya(I hope I wrote it correctly) was already taken. Oh and btw, it's our ancestor and looks like sole

[@Man_Aslume]

Timestamp pla

[@Gr1m.reaprz]

@@Man_Aslume 18:44

[@Man_Aslume]

​@@Gr1m.reaprz thanks I thought you would be those type of people who just sleep on it

[@marxtheenigma873]

I like doing this as well - taking fictional critters and coming up with how they function in their environment, even, or especially, when the developers aren't even trying to be deep and sciency. I'm currently working on a challenging project of taking creatures from Kirby games, tweaking them to be more physiologically plausible, and thinking up facts about them.

[@nartsadiku8249]

Sounds interesting!

[@kjmudkipzofthemudkipdynast2657]

Cool

[@quempire2656]

Oooo that sounds cool

[@quempire2656]

Hope it goes well

[@funnybluemark]

Speaking truth here,this is a planet called 4546b, let's see who gets where this comes from

[@shadw4701]

No mans sky is one of the best games ever made imo. It still needs a few things here and there but if you're into scifi and space exploration I highly recommend it, plus there's other things to do like owning a pet or trying to collect space whales for your fleet

[@6KIWIDino5]

They got space whales now?

[@ProfessionalBabyEater]

@@6KIWIDino5 living frigates

[@shadw4701]

@@6KIWIDino5 Yes, they're called leviathans and I think they're really cool

[@Z00D0ct0r]

@@shadw4701 the leviathan was a exclusive reward for a expedition but there are more living frigates

[@mzamethodman7134]

Wait like actual space whales?!

[@chadgorosaurus4898]

No man's sky is the treasure chest of speculative biology. Litteraly you could be the first person to ever discover a creature in this game since there are almost infinite planets.

[@aqilaiman9739]

Are you serious?

[@chadgorosaurus4898]

@@aqilaiman9739 Yea there are more than a quintillion planets. You could find anything on them.

[@Kiirin_48321]

@@aqilaiman9739 the power of procedural generation my friend

[@aqilaiman9739]

@@Kiirin_48321 what is that?

[@aqilaiman9739]

But still how many storage do we need for this game?

[@Rhyme_Zil14]

An archivists natural habitat! No but actually there's literally infinite possibilities for videos no matter what with this game

[@eksprolek2924]

I hope for a video with living frigate and ship and how they could evolve

[@dungeonsanddragons7334]

Technically figuratively

[@idontknowmusictheory532]

The procedurally generated creatures are still generated from a pool of models, colors… so there aren’t infinite different creatures.

[@Seth-Halo]

And most creatures look bad or just to similar to others sadly

[@LineOfThy]

@@idontknowmusictheory532 technically

[@cadman2300]

I discovered a mineral-rich planet dotted with floating crystalline monoliths. Life on the planet appeared to be silicon-based living crystalline clusters that floated about and were quite shy whenever I came close to them. Also, due to super easy-to-find resources for assembly and awesome jumping capabilities, the Minotaur is my absolute favorite exocraft.

[@Rxgn-edits]

I like focusing in the small details in no man sky too

[@ArkainSpawn74]

Another video on the biology of the living ships, horrors of the derelict freighters/stations, the mutants that can be found on the planets with no atmospheres, aberrant exotic type worlds, and the occasional random entity moving through space would be greatly welcomed additions to the archives. They are rather curious entities after all.

[@emmahealy4863]

That sounds really cool, I've never played NMS because I assumed it was just a generic space game, but that sounds really interesting

[@lvndr9838]

​@@emmahealy4863 definitely consider giving it a shot! it's improved a lot since launch and gets regular content updates. the most recent one was adding sentinel ships you could gut and repurpose into your own.

[@purplehaze2358]

Komodo dragons aren’t actually a result of island gigantism. From what I understand, they’re the last of an informal group of sizable monitor lizards. Compared to their now extinct relatives, they’re actually relatively small.

[@alcyon7536]

That group of sizeable monitor lizards are a result of island gigantism, they originated in Australia and spread elsewhere.

[@douggaudiosi14]

They related to megalanias found in Australia that was absolutely massive and lived on earth only 2.5million years ago and is structured almost identically to komodo dragons. Except megalania was 23 feet long!

[@D0NU75]

Komodos confirmed for reptilets

[@gabrielabatista6016]

@@alcyon7536 I'm sorry if I'm misinterpreting the comment, but isn't Australia a continent? Last time I checked it was too big to count as an island. So, if they originated in Australia, it isn't island gigantism because Australia is not an island, just a very, very, very isolated continent.

[@PLNTGMING]

@@gabrielabatista6016 The continent is Oceania,Australia is just a huge island

[@an8thdimensionalbeing142]

13:25 the thing with animals like abyssal horrors are that they exist on all ocean planets too, regardless of the local ecosystem. it's possible that they, and the other seemingly omnipresent organisms are hyper invasive species that have been spread from planet to planet by starship travel and a deep history of galaxy wide civilization. those little resource plants might also be an example of this, seemingly spreading from planet to planet as their seeds or spores are picked up by traveling starships and merchants. without spoiling too much of the lore, it isn't crazy to think that some of the types of lifeform you can encounter are not natural examples of evolution.

[@jonathand.t.5051]

Could it be possible that they and the biological horrors are pests from the Gek or Korvax homeworlds which spread slowly across the galaxy with the advent of space travel? Those two species were mentioned to have dominated the galaxy before the Sentinels came about

[@just_jack_2181]

In reality, the abyssal horrors are probably the young of asteroid larvae. I think they spend the first phase of their life growing attached to the seabed attracting prey, then detaching and starting to wander in space feeding on asteroids (or the creatures that live in asteroids). Instead to explain the hostile plants and other living beings that are found everywhere I like your theory a lot.

[@frostreaper1607]

NMS is the perfect game for this channel, its a great vessel for stories, I wish I could give you the address of a very sad but interesting planet but I've long lost it. (tho that probably doesn't matter as this was before several updates ) I once ended up on a planet that looked like a deserted dirt wasteland, nearly no plants and there where only a handful of animals around 1 lonely pool , the pool looked like it had once been a big lake, but now it was the measly watering hole of what looked like the planets last inhabitants, running around, calling out. it was really disturbing. I know that in practice landing elsewhere on this planet there would be animals spawning in but I desided not too, because what was happening there looked too genuine, like it really was a dying planet. it actually felt like I was the sole witness of a plane't's ecosystem dying breath.

[@freezingphoenix7512]

damn this comment hit hard thanks for sharing your travels!

[@WAVE0025]

Imagine the existential dread you feel knowing you were the only outsider in the whole universe to witness a particular planet's literal demise

[@pinetorch7876]

Reminds me of the great dying of the Permian. The possible events every planet has undergone and how life was affected is very interesting to imagine in this game

[@frostreaper1607]

@@WAVE0025 existential dread is the right word for it !

[@soundwavesuperior7522]

There's a planet in my home system called Tapaul XI, it's a metallic planet with strange floating clusters of these metal formations that are everywhere, the only living things there are these electric orbs that "remember faces" and always seem to be closing in, I once found a crashed freighter that indicated the planet was possibly terraformed, I dread going to that planet because of how unsettling it is, every time I have a mission off planet I pray I don't see the marker fall on that ringed planet, and when I do I always fall silent

[@Frankabyte]

Could we have a look at the biology of the Half-Life franchise? Particularly the aliens and plant life of Xen, as depicted in the Black Mesa fan-remake.

[@6KIWIDino5]

Oooo I like this idea

[@majorzbombasu21]

And the xen infestation in half life alyx is interesting too.

[@pailhorsegaming6762]

If he does, don’t expect it to be more than a two parter.

[@quempire2656]

@@pailhorsegaming6762 the combine though

[@carized8852]

@@quempire2656 I think what he said is supposed to be a joke about Valve not making a 3rd Half Life

[@Alteori]

omggg YES!!!!! I love making stories for the creatures I find! The possibilities are endless

[@Lumberjack_king]

I find it fascinating that you’re naming and explaining randomly generated planets and creatures 18:55 lol George I love him

[@catpoke9557]

Actually that's how you're supposed to play this game. Explaining not so much (the game explains a lot of it for you when you scan the organisms) but naming is encouraged. It's an actual feature in the game. There's so many planets and species that almost every one you encounter is new anyways, so people will always have an abundance of things to name in this game. Which is why it's a feature.

[@_apsis]

@@catpoke9557took me a good while of exploration to find a system discovered by someone other than myself

[@TheaSvendsen]

Would you consider doing a part two or more of the fascinating creatures in No Mans Sky? I absolutely LOVED this entry into the archive! Also, did you come across any pre-discovered planets or were you able to play the name game on all of them? You really rocked that, by the way ;-) Plus I chuckled pretty hard at the “Georges” species.

[@Cwronaga216]

You should keep this series up as long as you keep discovering something new to talk about as you play the game. Not to mention it's endless free content

[@jannanos8739]

I've always liked the implementation of exploration in NMS, since the beginning. With the overview of one paticullar Starsystem, zooming in on the planets, gaining your first information from orbit and then explore on foot or by exocraft. You really get that fealing of being a field researcher yourself, completing a page of your journal and contribute it. Always being able to view your progress with added extra-information in your log, which feels like a high-end version of a pokedex. This game is and has been phenomenal

[@PestilentAllosaurus]

Finally a video of NoMan'sSky after my own heart. Since day one, it's what drew me to the game which only improved. My very first planet was a unforgiving cold storming planet. Which had two layers. The surface level which had HUGE megafauna which looked fat enough to endure the cold storms, and aggressive dragonic sabertooth wolves. Protected by thick carapace hides. It hinted at a ecosystem all on its own. Then a unique part of my first world experience; the ENTIRE planet was also a cave. Pocketed with surface openings. In the caves, there was mostly hostile crab and spider like fungus creatures species in their own separate ecosystem. I had to risk the hostile fauna to escape the frequent storms which was easy to escape due to the entire planet being basically a cave system as well. I think I hot lucky in that manner. Now, ofcourse NMS is so so much better, and the updates destroyed my first world to being different which is sad. But it's for the better. I do this myself when exploring.

[@catpoke9557]

My first planet was a desert covered with crustacean, ostrich-like predators and skittish herbivores. There was no water on that friggin planet or anything. It also had a lot of steep ravines with annoying radiation in it. You'd fall into those, get attacked by two ostriches, and then need to get out as fast as you can while scaling a steep cliff because of the radiation

[@TrueLadyEvilChan]

I hope this is a series. This would be so fun

[@eksprolek2924]

Everyone wants it to be a series sonit prob will

[@Bluedinoaur]

I can picture you as some inter dimentional traveler with a Rick and Marty style portal, cataloging the new worlds you find and reporting back to some science base on your home planet. So cool, love this channel

[@SomethingClever18]

I love this, the way you named the creatures, narrated like a nature documentary, and used the in-game camera made these worlds feel so real!

[@Littlekoji-df1cf]

Hearing him laughed is just heart warming🤣

[@katiebabyxx6207]

I'd love to see you do a Biology video on The Eternal Cylinder. It's the perfect game for you.

[@nrdkraft]

7:21 “So the snow snufflers have sniffed their way” wonderful alliteration🤣

[@DrawzeDrawing]

18:46 I think this was the first time I heard him giggle a bit.

[@marxtheenigma873]

You should look at an old ps2 game called Scaler. I love it for the detailed environments. Its nice to just stop and pay close attention to things. In one level I've even seen a plant mimicking a dangerous predator. Of particular interest is a massive flying boss called the rattle crab. For such a big thing to fly, I believe a portion of it is hollow, decreasing weight and doubling as hidey holes for its little babies.

[@Alberad08]

Reminds me somehow on my absolute favorite book when I was a little boy 50 years ago: "The Voyage of Herzog Ernst". It's a medieval tale where the protagonist journeys through far lands and encounters similarly strange live forms. It's written in a very fantastic and entertaining way.

[@elizabetho.7484]

Oh wow, already love this!! Was so hoping you'd do this game!!

[@Vekuyo]

I knew they would end it on an exotic world but that was one of the tamest examples of such. I was hoping for animals that were just literal rolling eyeballs or floating scrap metal or something. I loved stumbling on exotic worlds cause they were often so bizarre and illogical. This really would make a phenomenal series to squeeze in between other projects from time to time. The format is perfect for the channel.

[@ImreHardeman]

Never stop making these amazing videos please!

[@bigbadwolfstudios1]

Would you ever do a compilation of all of your favorite aliens and organisms you've covered through the history of the channel so far? It'd be fun to see all of the greatest hits of the things you've covered.

[@Shatterverse]

Actually at least one theory for some sauropod feeding was the stand and sweep method, where it would keep its head down and sweep it in an arc, eating everything in that arc, then take a step and repeat. Minimum energy expenditure for maximum consumption. The specimens in question had neck vertebrae that would have only really let the neck rest horizontally rather than diagonally or vertically up.

[@Cat-On-Wabdermelon]

Luv you curious archive keep up these videos, I get so exited every time you post 🙂

[@jums8224]

I love how the Archivist had difficulty staying cool on Planet Erebus Truly a beautiful planet, I need a george plush

[@Thegoopguy]

GEORGE PLUSH YEP

[@purplehaze2358]

19:26 I did not realize scallops were kind of terrifying.

[@Readydaer]

been waiting for this episode! love just wandering planets in this game to observe the fauna. you're one of my favorite channels, CA!

[@lapiras1054]

I've been looking forward to a NMS video from this channel for so long, super exited to watch!

[@eksprolek2924]

I never expected to see one but was hoping for one. I am super glad to see one

[@FalconWeasel3113.yeryarro]

‘George’ 😂😂😂😂😂 That was so hilarious and left me rolling hehe

[@AudenLonginus]

I’m not sure if this is your sort of thing, but I think a video about the civilizations within the Three Body Problem Trilogy could be really cool!

[@Thatbakedjedi]

Have you seen the game Warframe? They have three regions, Earth, Venus, and Deimos, all with unique biology thousands of years in the future.

[@meli-melo9759]

18:44 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Oh my God! That's the first time I hear you laughing. This is great. And sure that creature is so funny looking.

[@FishIronLung611]

The awkward George

[@baddieboombalatti2523]

So happy you got around to this game! Maybe you can leave coordinates if you do another chapter so players can visit the planets you've explored.

[@ken287]

Love the vid and was just wondering if you’d continue your monster hunter series?

[@benjamindebo9283]

This channel never disappoints

[@AfrosCanBeCool]

Curios Archive makes boring things amazing

[@prototypelq8574]

You come up with some really cool and creative creature names! Snowsnuffler is a personal favourite. If you had fun doing this video, I'd love to see a couple more episodes on NMS, the random generation creates some truly unique designs.

[@BierBart12]

Imagine how frustrating it'd be to travel through space for aeons just to find a station full of alien people who won't even tell you about themselves

[@D0NU75]

but they do, some tell things about other species and also their past: The Gek used to be brute-sized bird/lizard people who enslaved the korvax and basically committed genocide for the sake of farming their guts. Then the Korvax forced a solution of Nanites (think of this as their blood) down the Geks making them into the small, profit obsessed polite bird people you see. The other race, the Vi'ken raged war against Sentinels, another robotic lifeform who police the dimension with an iron fist, and this happened over centuries and millenia to present, at the same time that they also waged war against the old Gek. A few things that are shown and not told: A Korvax entity isn't strictly tied to their physical body or "shell", a Korvax might seem to fade off or be turn off only for a new digital entity to take over their shell, effectively making it a completely different person. Gek are traders and they secrete smells, pheromones they use to their advantage to be more pleasant to others, or to express fears or even to induce hallucinations for the sake of showing something. Vi'ken are warmongers, but they have a strict code of honor, as much as their behavior might come as aggressive they can be equally loyal and reliable, they hold tradition and lore close to hearth and they also know to let go of grudges, seeing how many of them live along Gek just fine.

[@Insanity_TM]

18:47 - 19:42 I love how you can hear that he’s struggling not to laugh

[@trademarkshelton]

This must be your first video where it fell to you to name and describe the creatures involved. Must have made a fun twist on your usual format. Anyway, as an NMS player myself, I’d love to visit some of the planets you featured here, if you could share their coordinates, just to know I’ve been to the same spot(s) you have. (In case you don’t know: the coordinates of the planet show up as a series of symbols in the lower left of the screen when you look around in photo mode.) Great work! Thanks for taking a look at one of my favorites!

[@Mate397]

I love how he nearly breaks character when a "George" shows up.

[@getter8294]

More of this please! I love how you put in a bit of your own creativity here, and it really works with all your speculative biology experience already. I’m speaking solely for myself here but i would love to see this become a sort of series you do every now and then!!

[@wingedsn8670]

Yoo I remember requesting this!!

[@Phantomfile]

I would like a part 2 to this series, please! I’ve been playing NMS for a long time and I think there are still more you can discover! You could even cover some other things like the giant worms, infested planets, living ships, pirate encounters, numerous space anomalies and probably much more. You could even consider doing one of the expedition events whenever they are on and build a full story from that. Either way your call, and I think I am speaking for everyone that we want a part 2.

[@CossackGene]

Not to be dramatic but I would die for the "George"

[@andrewkilmer4988]

Yes always love these make more documentaries!

[@marcobell1250]

I am so glad you did this

[@BierBart12]

"I will call these the Arachnomantis. Because.. well.. I can." You would make a great real world biologist

[@IvanoForgione]

NMS procedural text, and even written story and lore, while being mostly detatched from gameplay, offer so many opportunities for role play. I love it for that. And this video is brilliant, of course!

[@jend26]

I'd love to see a sequel to this--while there's no way you can explore every planet, you could try to explore a planet from each possible biome!

[@PloverTechOfficial]

What a wonderful analysis! You did such an amazing job at describing choice parts of infinite biological diversity! Good job!

[@gabiausten8774]

I just love following these animals around. I’m on a planet with white, elongated, spiral 🌀, twisty kinda things that fly and dig (imagine a flying fish, just that the water is earth) in a wave form.

[@sannana7594]

Videos like these make me sad that I probably won't be alive when humans discover extra terrestrials

[@declanrex9435]

i love no mans sky because its the only game where you can truly explore and find unseen things. I get to feel like a biologist in a far future space faring civilization

[@naytaylor3509]

You should do a video about Space Engine, exploring some of the procedurally generated planets there

[@VerySpicyMemes]

I love this idea! An entire series based on certain creatures on all the varying planets would be awesome.

[@kittydranae1762]

i am late but i just want to let you know how essential you are to my writing and art process, i have found such a love for speculative biology over the last couple of years and with your videos help i am putting together a worldbuilding project and i will forever be thankful for your videos putting me on this path

[@MakkuRavella]

it mightve been over 1 year but i love this man and every video he has made

[@expandranon]

I'm so used to being an ordinary being among extraordinary beings that I played NMS a long time before it occurred to me that I was the extraordinary being.

[@Kcaedenn]

Great video as always! You’ve inspired me to make my own speculative biology world

[@landoncube769]

Your subnautica videos make me wish subnautica was as vast as no man's sky. I love the underwater theme of it

[@Game_Hero]

bigger doesn't mean better

[@dwarflanternsharkfriend6713]

This was a great video! I appreciate your channel's consistent tonal formality, but a moderated amount of lightheartedness is extremely welcome! It was nice hearing you laugh :)

[@26th_Primarch]

Anybody else agree with me that the Georges should become the channel mascots?

[@theheavyflamer6383]

Could you make a sequel of this? THAT WOULD BE EPICLY AWESOME!

[@landtrout755]

Curious losing it over the George’s was hilarious

[@rygktransrights]

ive seen all of these creatures in my game over and over

[@1ndium]

i screamed when i saw this video because honestly, at this point, no mans sky has become its own universe

[@brokenbiscuit3609]

My favorite No Man's Sky memory is when I was in my 'time to document shit' phase of my gameplay. Where I was in a desert planet currently going through a super hot sandstorm and I kept seeing these dead giant beetle creatures with skin that looked like boiled chicken, which I named "Boiled Chicken". At first I thought the sandstorm or some kind of unseen predator was killing them cause I kept hearing animal dying noises. Then I found out my mech companion was killing every single Boiled Chicken I passed.

[@alvorsmith699]

More of his please it’s basically endless content

[@ThrottleKitty]

_"Which might be a bit much, but I'm excited"_ lmao I love that honesty

[@thetophatnerd2664]

This game has come a long way, and I’m proud of it

[@AI-nm1pq]

Gotta say replaying no man’s sky is absolutely amazing thanks curious for peaking my curiosity on no man’s sky again

[@idkwhattoputhere134]

Its nice to know that more ppl are getting into this beautiful and endless game, it has helped me when i needed it the most and now even with all these events I still keep exploring. I like to build outposts in secluded systems where no entity other than I have set foot on. As well as the occasional mining or gas extracting outpost to help fuel my adventures, either way it is quite fun :)) Also if anyone wants the portal address i am happy to share my findings

[@headwreak1768]

You know what this is amazing,we NEEED A SERIES ON THIS

[@astick5249]

11:05 Small correction: Komodo dragons aren't actually a result of insular gigantism, rather they are the last remnants of a group of massive lizards that used to live in Australia. I just had to correct it since thats one of the coolest things about them in my opinion.

[@tranqilparade]

Please make a sequel to this, there’s so much more

[@in-craig-ible6160]

I'm surprised this game hadn't been covered by this channel yet. What a great combination.

[@GreatAukEntertainment]

I really need to ay this game, it's really evolved over time

[@afterschoolproductions5132]

Bro make this a whole series I beg you

[@matroar5829]

You need to make a video on the eternal cylinder is so good and it’s crazy biologically

[@jackmurray764]

Just here to push the comment up

[@kaiseralermann2562]

I would really appreciate a full series on no man's sky creatures

[@andersonrusnell3102]

This game always looked fun, with infinite planets and animals so lots of cool things to find.

[@andersonrusnell3102]

I discovered that this game will come out on Nintendo Switch on October 7 with all current updates

[@bobbobbins4877]

The procedural generation of animal species is somewhat underwhelming. Once you've visited a dozen or so planets, you start noticing that you're seeing the same creatures, but with different names.

[@kickbrosmasher5155]

This could be it's own series exploring some no man sky's planets

[@RocketPawcalypso]

I would love a series just on no man's sky, endless discoveries here! I love your narrations so much :)

[@OmolonFluidDynamicsEnjoyer]

You should archive the behemoths of the game Dauntless. I think it would amazing to see these documentary-styles videos done for dauntless as well.

[@skipping88]

agree!

[@admiralrichardsexplores]

#WeLoveGeorge!! WE STAN GEORGE Love the video as always! Keep up the great work :D

[@mrtoto9749]

This episode was amazing, there are so many planets and galaxies in this game which can bring out so many unique stories, can’t wait for more!

[@ThatOneKnight07]

And to think that as of yesterday, (july 17, 2024, update 5.0.0 “Worlds, Part I” launch date), the species of NMS are even more diverse and advanced

[@matteste]

I said it before, but I do hope that you one day give the world of Made in Abyss a whirl. Especially with how much it puts ino its unique setting and how the wildlife plays off it.