This Trick Makes No Man’s Sky Inventory 100x Easier!

[@sideofgamingx]

I just wanted to clarify: This is *NOT* a Mod; it's simply Text Formatting, which is usable by all regardless of the system you game on. I know some see Nexusmods a few seconds in and think PC only, but that is *ONLY* where the individual who made the original guide posted it. ✌🫡

[@CreatorOfWorlds]

I prefer naming the containers with a single letter or icon. That way all tabs are visible at the same time and i can click directly on the one i want without scrolling.

[@sideofgamingx]

Hey, that's actually a really great idea! I never thought about doing that 🫡

[@mecongberlin]

@@sideofgamingx really depends on how you play. Like I myself for example, I never click, I always scroll through the containers - much faster using A-D and Q-E and the highlight of the existing spot/commodity - so I had plain 0-9 numbers, but now colors and names make it much quicker to scroll.

[@X862go]

Great idea 💡

[@X862go]

I'm gonna try 3 letters and see if it still works .

[@Cybercripplaysgames]

Over 400 hours played and only learned this today. Thanx man.

[@sideofgamingx]

I'm glad it could help, bro! Thanks for checking out the video.

[@7thsealord888]

This is amazing. Longtime Player (PS4 ) here, in blissful ignorance of this being even possible.. Thank you to Azure for ferreting this out, and thank YOU for sharing this. :)

[@sideofgamingx]

Lol, that's what makes a great community: one person figures something out, and people keep sharing it for all the galaxies. Thank you for checking out the video. ✌

[@JoelStephens87]

You've gotta be kidding... they baked old school text formatting into the game and didn't mention it anywhere.... What an insane game this is. I have 20 something days on my main save. Now I have to go through it all!

[@sideofgamingx]

Lol, oh yeah man, it brought me back as well. It’s definitely made organization a lot simpler, thanks for checking out the video.

[@Killerhurtz]

Short, sweet, to the point. You earned a subscriber for that. Thanks a lot for finding and sharing the tip as well, going to make life so much easier.

[@sideofgamingx]

I'm glad to hear the video helped you out, and the sub is much appreciated!

[@ClaudeCarignan-c8c]

I never left comment, but this video just arrive in time for in the game! Thanks. Also your short duration video … I love

[@sideofgamingx]

Well firstly, I appreciate the comment and support and I’m glad you found it informative and helpful!

[@aoihitori]

What I did was Icon + the number of the box on freighter.

[@sideofgamingx]

Ay, that's a really good idea! That’s why I have always enjoyed the community around this game✌🏻😁

[@Scaley_Reptile]

Yep, Between ability to Rename them helps... But to add color and icons makes it MUCH easier. Glad your helping others find it.

[@sideofgamingx]

Totally, the icons and colors are game-changer! Thanks so much for checking out the video.

[@MentalRaptors]

Ooh, nice tip! I only applied color codes to ships, carrier, frigates and weapons until now, never thought of the storage labels. Thanks, mate!

[@sideofgamingx]

Anytime! Doing it to storage really helps clean things up and makes it manageable if you are really into crafting, since that's one area I personally feel the game has always lacked.

[@projectbrodsky]

Thank you! Awesome video, looking forward to using it. Side question…. How do you get your storage rooms to be open like that with the refiners in the middle? I keep getting weird walls and pillars. Is that a mod like your bridge mod or something?

[@sideofgamingx]

Anytime!! I'm glad you found it helpful. No, there is no mod as long as you connect rooms from the Industrial section; whether it be storage, refiners, room expansions, etc., they shouldn't have any walls between them. If you try connecting rooms of different styles, there will be walls, and the floor won’t line up either. I hope that helps you out, and if you still can’t get it to work, let me know! ✌🏻

[@Scaley_Reptile]

Yep, when you look at you Freighter sections, you have industrial, tech agricultural ect.. So as long as your 'expansion' one matches the ones next to it... they will be open.. But if you put say your INDUSTRIAL (Refiners, exractors ect) next to a TECH expansion, will still be rooms. This is such a commmon question, a LOT in this game to learn... took me a little while to work this out too.

[@tonyz1241]

This is awesome content, I'll have to revisit this to take more notes. Thanks for the short, to the point, and really useful video. I'm gonna have to play around with my storage and ship names now! Inventory management has been such a brutal slog, especially when I come back from letting the game rest for a few months and don't remember how things were assigned.

[@sideofgamingx]

Thanks; I appreciate it and am glad you found the content helpful! I agree about inventory management; it has been an area the game has lacked for a long time now. Being able to sort all the material by color has been game-changing for me, especially when it comes to crafting. It doesn't matter how long I'm away; when I return, everything is right where I left it.

[@mecongberlin]

When I do this for my freighter or settlement, in some windows - teleporter for example - it won’t show the name but the machine string starting with for example. Any idea? Doesn’t bother me much, but still😂 otherwise I love it. Especially when you scroll and not do the “mousing”, it works amazingly well. You can handle it with your peripheral view, saves a ton of time.

[@sideofgamingx]

Totally normal! 😊 What you’re seeing is just how No Man's Sky handles text formatting. Not everything in the game can be displayed with images, or colors, especially for things like teleporters. So, instead, it shows placeholder strings like .

[@mecongberlin]

@@sideofgamingx yeah, makes sense, thanks.

[@judahgamermedia]

Great video!! super helpful. Found you in Jasons discord community!! You got a sub from me for sure!

[@sideofgamingx]

Wait, JasonPlays?! 😳 … thanks so much for checking out the video and the sub!

[@mecongberlin]

Some of your members are talking about how to make money. If you don’t want to use any glitches👍, the easiest way to make a ton of honest money is on dissonance worlds with water. Find the right one, build a base, use your Nautilon sub, and go for it. If you try only 1-2 sentinel ships per week, you have enough money. But at times I do 5 a day, which can be up to 150 Mio U. Some planets ONLY have sentinels under water, but you have to find them. I suggest combining that with a new galaxy. Things tend to change between galaxies. Good example are the derelict freighters, they can be very different between galaxies, but so can planets. However I have one base, Havelcourt Galaxy, I can go out and find 4-5 sentinel ships within an hour. They are only far between, so take your starship with you.

[@flash1259]

I used to have a good way to make money. I never used it myself I have it for other players. I relocated my 700k unit activated indium base to a paradise planet another player found for me. I had to downsize it because of constantly hitting the build limit. It was bringing in 500m/day. Since activated indium has been nerfed it's around 50m/day now.

[@xetholtic]

dude why is your freighter upgrade control room is that big and open

[@sideofgamingx]

My studio app says I replied, but it's not showing up, so if this posts twice, that's my bad. To answer your question, it's a mod by JJhookah called JJs Bridge. If you play on PC, you can head over to Nexusmods and pick it up. Hello Games has a mod folder natively in their install file. I try not to mention mods in my videos so the content I create can be used by everyone, regardless of PC or console.

[@xetholtic]

@@sideofgamingx it didn't come twice. Thanks, i will try that mod today then.

[@sideofgamingx]

Awesome! Let me know how it goes for you. There’s another bridge mod that looks even better, but it hasn’t been updated for Worlds 1 yet and requires you to recompile the .LUA file yourself.

[@Lycanthrope77]

Great info, Thanks!

[@sideofgamingx]

I’m glad you like the video! ✌

[@hashishi9]

Thank you! I had no idea of this feature :)

[@sideofgamingx]

Hey thanks for checking out the video! A lot of travelers didn't know text formatting was a thing, so I'm glad to hear the video added something to your NMS journey! ✌️🏻😁

[@thanerial]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing!

[@sideofgamingx]

You bet! Thanks for checking out the video.

[@impatus]

wow. i preordered the game on playstation before it came out and I bought it on PC when it got "fixed" and I'm finding this out now :D

[@sideofgamingx]

lol gotta love the little hidden things that have the biggest impact

[@sgmccolm]

this is interesting. thankyou 🙏

[@sideofgamingx]

Thank you for checking out the video! ✌️

[@mackenzie377]

Can u do a tutorial video for this and the codes for color and organization? I'm on ps5

[@sideofgamingx]

Hey, so this video as a whole is the tutorial. Since all this is text formatting, it will function the same regardless of the system you play on. So, with you being on PS5, if you follow the steps in the video and the formatting steps shown starting at 2:22, you should be good to go! Now, as far as the Organization goes, all I do to organize my inventory is this: after color coding my boxes, anything red goes in the red box, anything blue goes in the blue box, anything green goes in the green box, and so on. I hope this helps you out. Thanks for checking out the video! ✌

[@VanCliefMedia]

Dear god I was wanting a good way to organize this is amazing I had no idea thankyou for this

[@sideofgamingx]

Any time! Glad it helped you out and thanks for checking out the channel!

[@garfish307]

A drone system with supply and demand like Planet Crafter would be ideal

[@sideofgamingx]

I've never played Planet Crafters before. Would you suggest I check it out? How Similar is it to No Man's Sky?

[@garfish307]

@@sideofgamingx I enjoy it. The inventory management is really neat, as previously mentioned. I found the game to be much simpler than NMS but similar. Its a terraforming game so that was a new twist… worth a play

[@AlexanderosD]

Never knew this after years of playing! Has Hello Games ever mentioned this?

[@sideofgamingx]

Honestly, I don't think Hello Games has ever mentioned anything about it since all this is simple text formatting. Often, things like this are found by an individual and then shared amongst the community. Thanks so much for checking out the video; I'm glad it helped you out!

[@higgs923]

Very helpful indeed! Thank you. Inventory management is one of the few weak areas of the game.

[@sideofgamingx]

You're very welcome, and I definitely agree with you!

[@dashboarddevil4713]

Very cool! I dig it

[@sideofgamingx]

Glad you enjoyed it! It definitely makes a difference.

[@dashboarddevil4713]

@sideofgamingx I've used colors on bases before, but didn't think about it for sorting cargo. Great tip!

[@KOKOS-ing]

Hell ye man!!! Thats the best tip i have heard so far for nms thx so muchhhhh

[@sideofgamingx]

Any time man, glad to hear it helped!

[@stephenboulanger7084]

your destroyer looks sick!!! nice one

[@sideofgamingx]

Thanks bro, much appreciated!!!

[@mattk6719]

The NMS devs must be fans of the Starcraft franchise.

[@MrCorvou]

damn this was awesome, I had no idea you could do this ingame.

[@sideofgamingx]

Ay happy to hear you found it helpful!

[@WdyWP]

Great tip!!! How did you scroll through the containers? It drives me nuts to have to exit one and look to the next, and then move down when I want to go to more containers.

[@sideofgamingx]

If you're on controller, use the left and right buttons on the D-Pad to flip through the containers. If you're on mouse and keyboard, use Q and E. 😁

[@WdyWP]

@@sideofgamingx I'm using keyboard mouse. I've often thought about grabbing my controller to try and use it. Which is easier to run the game? Next time I log in I'll check to see if I was just blind for how to switch between containers. Thanks for your help

[@sideofgamingx]

@@WdyWP For general play, I prefer controller, especially with flying. It's really strange, but when I played M&K flying made me motion sick lol. Now when it comes to building I use M&K for that all day. You’re more than welcome, any time you have question feel free to ask and Im always down to game with anyone in the community!

[@illnameitlater]

@@sideofgamingx WHAT?! AGH! I wish I knew this sooner

[@sideofgamingx]

@illnameitlater lol, well, now you no longer have to struggle my friend!

[@volant3]

Thanks For the help but could you tell me what's the aspect ratio of your video?

[@sideofgamingx]

Anytime!! The aspect ratio is 21:9; I play on a 34” Ultrawide.

[@reinoldwalser8501]

If I may ask, how were you able to create a 30,469.1 hyperdrive range? The most I have ever done is a little over 5,000. Is it a mod? Also, thanks for the video. I have been frustrated with all the scrolling just to find an item in a container. I just subscribed.

[@sideofgamingx]

Firstly, thanks for the sub, it's much appreciated! So the light year range is modded with a saved editor, I changed the default value for the range and nothing else, my true range is a little over 5800 ly. I believe after Hello Games reworked everything the max you can get is around 6400 when the stars align on super charged slots.

[@KOKOS-ing]

I also love your character so will u mabye share some tips how to get it???

[@sideofgamingx]

Lol, quite a few people have commented on my Gek, so I guess it's time to make a short video of what I use to get the look.

[@sideofgamingx]

Character Showcase kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGqbaqSAmKZ3q9E

[@shanky.y]

You character looks so cute there at the start !!!

[@sideofgamingx]

lol thanks! 🩵

[@qor072]

Did I miss where you linked both reference images with the list of colors and icons?

[@sideofgamingx]

Possibly, 1:29 shows the icons, and 1:35 shows the colors. Also, check in the description for a link to the written guide on Nexusmods. 🫡

[@ryanrohner]

Thank you for the detailed instructions. This is gonna help out a lot. Definite like and subscribe. Cheers.

[@sideofgamingx]

Anytime! It’s always good to know when someone finds it helpful, and thanks for the sub! ✌🏻😁

[@WilliamEllison]

I've been playing this game for a while and have no clue why he has a freighter. Is this needed?? I've never got one.

[@sideofgamingx]

Hey! Freighters aren’t absolutely necessary, but they can be super helpful, especially as you progress in the game. 1. They serve as mobile bases, which gives you a massive boost in freedom since you can warp and have your base with you no matter where you go, and your storage containers, refiners, nutrient processors, etc., are onboard and always readily available. 2. While it's not much, once you have a freighter, you can start recruiting frigates and sending them on missions. These missions can bring back resources, money, and special items while you’re off doing other things. 3. As I mentioned above with a freighter, you can warp between star systems, which gives you a lot of flexibility for exploration , especially if you want to bounce between different areas as an S Class Freighter can (I believe) get close to 6000LY fully kitted depending on supgercharged slots. (Someone please correct me if I am wrong below) I recommend grabbing one when you get the chance, but ultimately, if your current play style works for you, it's all about what makes your experience fun!

[@WilliamEllison]

@@sideofgamingx thank you. Very good information.

[@jeffreypurcell4681]

Nice !

[@sideofgamingx]

✌

[@Volcan-kf3oz]

Does anyone know if this works on Switch?

[@sideofgamingx]

I’ve never played on Switch, but if I were to guess, I would say that it should work because text formatting should function the same regardless of the platform. Definitely get back to us and let us know if it does by editing your comment! ✌🏻

[@Volcan-kf3oz]

@@sideofgamingx i got home and tried it out and it does work on switch as well

[@Volcan-kf3oz]

@@sideofgamingx it does work on switch but someting to keep in mind is switch has 32 character limit

[@sideofgamingx]

I believe the 32 character limit is a game limitation not anything to do with the switch. I have ran into character limitations on PC as well, so you just have to play around with color and icon combinations that get within the range. thanks for letting me know!

[@mecongberlin]

Brilliant idea! Just reorganized my freighter. Also really a good video, straight to the point. Thanks for that. Will your future videos be more in this way as well? Ah…I subscribed for now.

[@sideofgamingx]

Thank you so much! I’m really glad the video helped you reorganize your freighter, and I genuinely appreciate the sub! As for future videos, the length will depend on the topic I’m covering. Some, like the upcoming video on crafting, will naturally take a bit longer because of the detail involved, but I always aim to keep things straight to the point and concise without losing the quality I try to provide. Thanks again for your support!

[@mecongberlin]

@@sideofgamingx You bet. Excellent, sounds good👍👍

[@geoffreyhebel2438]

Will they ever realize that inventory management is not gamepkay

[@sideofgamingx]

I think everyone views gameplay differently. If you play the game solely for planetary exploration, then yes, this video is not "Gameplay." Still, suppose you are big into the crafting side of the game. In that case, organization is key, especially when it comes to storing, managing, and organizing the necessary materials to craft major items like Stasis Devices.

[@XDragarX]

Some games would have a problem if this would not be gameplay. Examples are God of Weapons and Supermarket Simulator.

[@vakeervondelecruax8526]

Game changing...😅

[@sideofgamingx]

Ground breaking features 🤣

[@mrmateusz5188]

Lemme guess, having a freighter with cargo? Colored freighter cargo??

[@sideofgamingx]

Omg you’re such a great guesser!

[@bennym1956]

Already re-named my storage units.... THought this vid was going to be how to handle full storage....lol

[@sideofgamingx]

So you want someone to tell you how to organize YOUR storage?

[@IliumGaming]

could have mentioned that the trick is mods. this is useless for console players

[@jonathansantiago792]

If you watch the video he says it's not a mod - it's BAKED into the game. You can use it on console if you follow the guide (it takes just a few seconds to do this)

[@sideofgamingx]

I state it's not a mod around the 1:44 mark. Azure just wrote the guide for color and image codes and put it on Nexusmods. I hope that clarifies everything and that you find this helpful to your journey in NMS!

[@sonalita_]

It’s not a mod though. It’s text formatting built into the gsme