No Human being's Sky has everything y'all would await from a game fix in outer space: starships, space exosuits, aliens, quintillions of planets, star systems, and a vast amount of out-of-this-world species and materials. Like whatsoever game that relies on exploration, it provides players with a tool that will help them with specific tasks; in No Man'due south Sky's case, that function goes to the Multi-Tool. Yous can use the Multi-Tool for a wide array of things: scanning, as a weapon, for mining and collecting resources, and for terraforming the land.

The kickoff version of this item y'all get your hands on will be a very basic one. It volition take a specific amount of update slots, and once y'all make full those out with all the options y'all accept to cull from, yous have to know which upgrades to go on. That's the reason why upgrading is a pregnant part of your Multi-Tool, as information technology volition help you do more with information technology.

multi tool from no man's sky

New (and much better) Multi-Tools than the one yous first with at the showtime of the game can be acquired at different Infinite Stations; you lot just demand to find a Multi-Tool Technology Merchant, who volition sell new models. There's also a chance yous tin can purchase a new Multi-Tool from the Infinite Anomaly.

Better Multi-Tools can as well exist found at Outposts or can be granted to y'all by a actually generous NPC. Multi-Tools with default functions and fifty-fifty modules already installed can be purchased with units.

But like it happens with the ships, each Space Station has a certain quantity of default Multi-Tool models, with their corresponding classes and number of slots, and so you tin can only be offered a limited number of Multi-Tools each time you load before they are repeated.

Upgrade Station for the multi tool

However, if y'all want to upgrade the one you already take, head over to the Multi-Tool Upgrade Station. There, you lot tin can upgrade the Form of your Multi-Tool to increment its performance in commutation for a certain number of nanites.

There are a few things yous should go on in mind before deciding to upgrade your Multi-Tool:

  • To install each module, you'll demand a free slot and the right materials.
  • You tin can purchase new functions from the Anomaly (in substitution for Salvaged Data)
multi tool class S and class C

Multi-Tools also come in classes, from C (the worst 1), through B-Course to A-Course to Due south-Class (the best 1). Each player tin can own a total of three Multi-Tools at the same time.

The cost fix by the Multi-Tool Upgrade Station to go from grade C to B is 10k nanites; to go from B to A is 25k nanites; and from A to S-Class is near 50k nanites. Class Southward is the level that will make your Multi-Tool smooth with its full potential.

Higher classes will grant better and meliorate bonuses, including how many slots they'll accept initially. The Multi-Tool that yous start with is C-Form.

The specialization "Type" of a Multi-Tool determines the distribution of their bonus in the Mining, Damage Potential, and Scanning categories. Those can exist either Low, Medium, or High. For instance:

  • Experimental Types have high scanning bonuses, medium to high slots, medium impairment output, and medium mining bonuses.
  • Rifle Types will ordinarily have medium damage bonuses, medium scanning bonuses, and medium to loftier slots, equally well every bit always having low mining bonuses.
  • Pistol Types have loftier mining bonuses, low scanning bonuses, and low to medium slots, too as always having no harm bonuses.
  • Conflicting Types have high harm bonuses, medium mining and scanning bonuses, and medium to high slots.

Each specialization Type works all-time for different gameplay styles. Equally long equally a weapon is upgraded to S-Class, it tin can have 24 slots, and so this shouldn't be as much of a concern as other factors when deciding on which Multi-Tool yous'd like to use.

Class Bonuses Are Measured In Percentages

Scanning bonuses determine the size of the radius that your scanner covers. Impairment bonuses increase how much damage your Multi-Tool weapons, including the Mining Beam, will deal. Mining bonuses increase the speed of mining.

One way to increase the Damage Potential of a Multi-Tool is by installing higher course weapons and upgrading them every bit much equally possible. For instance, one of the weapons with the highest Impairment Potential is the Scatter Blaster.

Adding More Inventory Slots

Multi tool's inventory slots no man's sky

Once a Multi-Tool is an S-Course, information technology can have its number of slots upgraded to a certain maximum. This way, the role player can have more inventory space for companion units, add more than functions and upgrade modules, and install other technologies.

The histrion can buy more inventory slots using units, again, in a Multi-Tool Upgrade Console, also chosen Multi-Tool Upgrade Station, located in Space Stations.

Multi-Tool Engineering science

There are technological improvements that tin can be added to a Multi-Tool, which touch some of its primary functions. These are the unlike technologies that can be installed:

  • Advanced Mining Laser
  • Amplified Cartridges
  • Analysis Visor (installed in purchased Multi-Tools)
  • Animus Beam
  • Butt Ioniser
  • Blaze Javelin
  • Boltcaster
  • Boltcaster Ricochet
  • Boltcaster SM
  • Gainsay Scope
  • Geology Cannon
  • Incinerator
  • Mass Accelerator
  • Mining Beam (installed in purchased Multi-Tools)
  • Optical Drill
  • Personal Forcefield
  • Plasma Launcher
  • Plasma Resonator
  • Pulse Spitter
  • Pulse Spitter Ricochet
  • Scanner (installed in purchased Multi-Tools)
  • Scatter Equalizer
  • Shell Greaser
  • Solar Ray
  • Survey Device (useful for hotspots)
  • Terrain Manipulator

Players have a wide range of options to choose from. Each of these has various upgrades (called modules) that the player can add, depending on the Form, only the maximum number of modules/upgrades that tin exist added to a Multi-Tool per function is three, so cull wisely. Functions that tin be upgraded include the weapon techs, scanner, and mining beam.

Upgrade Modules

Upgrade Modules for your Multi-Tool can be found at Space Stations, in Trade Posts, and directly purchased from technology merchants with nanites. You lot tin likewise discover them in Outposts. These are the available Upgrade Modules in the game:

  • Scanner: Upgrades for this function increase the scan radius or provide you with more than units for scanning flora and animate being.
  • Mining Axle: This module has iv bonuses: Mining Speed (which increases the impairment the Mining Axle does to minerals and flora); Heat Dispersion (which slows the rate at which the Mining Beam generates heat); Fuel Efficiency (the charge drain decreases); Overheat Reanimation (the absurd-downwards rate for the Mining Beam decreases).
  • Boltcaster: This upgrade module can provide half-dozen different bonuses to your Multi-Tool. Those are: Prune Size (you'll exist able to fire for longer before y'all need to reload); Damage (each shot volition deal more than damage); Burn Rate (decreases the time betwixt shots); Reload Time (you lot'll reload new clips into the Boltcaster faster); Burst Cooldown (decreases the time betwixt each burst of shots); Shots Per Burst (yous'll shoot more shots per burst).
  • Blaze Javelin: This tech'southward upgrades tin can give the post-obit bonuses: Time to Full Power (the required time to reach full damage volition be reduced); Damage (the Multi-Tool will deal more impairment).
  • Pulse Spitter: With the Pulse Spitter Upgrade, you can enjoy at least one of these bonuses: Clip Size (allows the Pulse Spitter to accept more than than 80 shots); Meliorate Burn down Rates, slower Reload Times, and more Damage.
  • Scatter Equalizer: Upgrades for this tech can provide improved Harm, Reload Time, Burn Rate, Clip Size, and Burst Cooldown.
  • Plasma Launcher: With this module, your Multi-Tool will deal more Damage, have a meliorate Explosion Radius, an improved Projectile Velocity, and better Bounciness Potential.
  • Geology Cannon: This module improves the Multi-Tool Harm, Explosion Radius, and Projectile Velocity.

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