No Man's Sky: 16 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do

13. Avoid Being Blown Up Every 5 Minutes

Taken off from a planet with your pockets bulging from shiny elements and treasures, only to get shot out the sky?

It happens to the best of us.

These seemingly random hostile encounters actually trigger because you have so many fancy trinkets on your person. They're designed to give players that spec in the direction of being a marauding space pirate a challenge, but until you've upgraded your cruiser with better shields and cannons, chances are you'll get downed within minutes of leaving an atmosphere.

You can remedy this by making yourself less 'valuable' i.e. trading your fanciest items with on-world buyers before taking off. There's every chance you can make it to a space station with these objects (as trade prices are better off-world) but therein lies the risk.