No Man's Sky NEXT: 15 Tips & Tricks The Game Doesn't Tell You

1. How To Get An Atlas Pass V1/2/3

Another one where mainlining the story will produce rewards, there are actually three levels to the mysterious "Atlas Pass", and you'll need all three to fully explore not only the locked parts of Space Stations, but storage containers and various outposts on planets too.

How to get them:

Pass V1: Given as a story quest reward from Polo (the Gek) inside the Space Anomaly. Just keep talking to Polo and taking new quests until he eventually gives it, though it should be the first reward from his first quest.

Pass V2 & V3: The jury's out on how much time you have to invest before these start to be random drops, but both the V2 and V3 passes are located inside "Manufacturing Facilities" or any overgrown, alien-infested terminals. You can locate them by inputting Navigational Data into a Signal Booster and then answering the "riddles" that pop up, but you might have to grind through a handful or more before the pass actually drops.

Best of luck!