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No Man's Sky: All Exotics and How to Get Them

We show you the complete catalog of exotic products available in No Man's Sky and how to get each of these rare objects and materials with various uses.


In No Man's Sky, there is a huge catalog of resources for crafting systems, including raw materials, blueprint manufacturing components, curiosities, and more... But without a doubt one of the most interesting categories of objects are those known as exotic products; a series of elements of various types (often associated with the different alien races of the galaxy) that we players can obtain in very varied ways and that have uses of all kinds.


In this entry of our guide, in case you need help knowing how to get each of these objects, we are going to show you all the exotic products that exist in the game and what their methods of obtaining are. See the list below for more details:


gravitino ball

gravitino ball

The gravitino ball is a tradable commodity, an extremely rare and valuable cluster of supersymmetric particles that glows brighter as you approach it.

  • How to get it?: It can be found on planets where there are hostile sentinels, it is highlighted in yellow by the analysis viewer. They can also be farmed by planting Gravitino Host, obtained as a reward from frigate expeditions, or found in ancient ruins.

Korvax Case

Korvax Case

The Korvax casing is the metallic shell of a disconnected electronic lifeform that was too distant from its own species to be renewed with a new entity. It can be sold for 22,000 units.

  • How to obtain it?: in damaged containers, monoliths, rewards from frigate expeditions or it can also be purchased from some NPC's at trading posts.

walker brain

walker brain

The walker's brain is a cluster of nanites sewn together with thread filaments. An ominous purple light seeps from deep within its wiring. It can be sold for 35,000 units.

  • How to get it?: By eliminating Bipedal Walking Sentinels and also as a reward in some Nexus missions.

Hyaline Brain

Hyaline Brain

The Hyaline Brain is the central processing unit of an Interceptor sentry ship and a vital component for any entity wishing to build its own pilot interface. It can be sold for 35,000 units.

  • How to get it: Can be obtained as a guaranteed loot reward from crashed Interceptor Sentinels on planets or as a loot reward for destroying enemy Interceptor Sentinels in space (15% chance).

sulfide crystal

sulfide crystal

Sulfide crystal is a compressed mineral formed in the fiery, incredible high-pressure planetary cores. They have a wide variety of industrial uses.

  • How to get it?: It can be found next to the underwater vents of planets with water, in large green crystals that sometimes generate explosions of hot water.

storm crystal

storm crystal

Storm crystal is a valuable and unique curiosity, a rare cluster of crystals that form in stormy conditions and naturally attract rays of light. It is found exclusively on planets with extreme climates.

  • How to achieve it?: It can be harvested on planets with extreme climates during a storm; the analysis viewer highlights them in yellow with a lightning bolt symbol. Not all planets with extreme climates have these storm crystals.

Crystallized heart

Crystallized heart

The Crystallized Heart is a functional core of a quadrupedal sentinel unit but warped beyond all recognition. It can be sold for 37,000 units.

  • How to obtain it: Can be obtained as a loot reward by defeating medium and large corrupted quadrupedal sentinels, which appear on corrupted planets.

Korvax Convergence Cube

Korvax Convergence Cube

The Korvax Convergence Cube is a device used by the Korvax for the storage of historical and cultural information. It can be sold for 13,063 units.

  • How to obtain it?: in damaged containers, monoliths, rewards from frigate expeditions or it can also be purchased from some NPC's at trading posts.

Divergence cube

Divergence cube

The divergence cube is a vibrant data unit that fails. The cube seems to harbor a silent scream.

  • How to get it?: It is part of the quest thread related to Artemis.

vortex cube

vortex cube

The vortex cube is a commercial product and a dense metal object. It is extremely rare and valuable and long ago materialized in underground networks throughout the galaxy.

  • How to get it?: They can be found in the surroundings and inside some caves on certain planets. Sometimes also on the surface scattered anywhere. Picking up one of them alerts Sentinels to your position.

Vy'keen Dagger

Vy'keen Dagger

The Vy'keen dagger is a primarily ritual weapon. It is a vital part of Vy'keen tradition and culture. It can be sold for 11,688 units.

  • How to obtain it?: in damaged containers, monoliths, rewards from frigate expeditions or it can also be purchased from some NPC's at trading posts.

Vy'keen Effigy

Vy'keen Effigy

The Vy'keen effigy is a small wooden icon carved in the shape of an unmanned Sentinel ship, it is used by Vy'keen warriors to enter a temporary trance state that eliminates the need for sleep in their species.

  • How to obtain it?: in damaged containers, monoliths, rewards from frigate expeditions or it can also be purchased from some NPC's at trading posts.

inverted mirror

inverted mirror

The Inverted Mirror is a watchful crystal panel, salvaged from the smoldering remains of the corrupted swarm's dissonant resonators, emitting more light than it reflects.

  • How to get it: Can be obtained as a loot reward by destroying Dissonant Resonators that appear on Corrupted Planets.

Radiant Shard

Radiant Shard

The Radiant Shard is a type of vitreous life force fragment, extracted from a larger formation, whose dynamic intermolecular bonding gives it a strangely flexible and sinewy quality.

  • How to get it?: It can be collected from mining with an extraction laser, shooting at purple crystal formations found on corrupted planets.

Gekito

Gekito

Gekito is an edible product loved by the Gek, which allows them to release packets of gas for a long time, these are considered an art form and the truest representation of the Gek soul.

  • How to get it?: in damaged containers, monoliths or it can also be purchased from some NPCs at trading posts.

Vy'keen Stone Slab

Vy'keen Stone Slab

The Vy'keen Stone Slab is a special slab of the Vy'keen that contains lines upon lines of complex runes. The words are unintelligible, belonging to a dialect that has been forgotten, except by the oldest of the species.

  • How to get it?: It is part of the quest thread related to Artemis.

shielded engine

shielded engine

The Armored Engine is a complex mechanical unit that was once the central combustion chamber at the heart of a rigid-frame Battle Mecha unit. It can be sold for 28,000 units.

  • How to obtain it: Can be obtained as a loot reward by defeating enemies Rigid Frame Battle Mech (be careful not to destroy the frame to avoid losing the part).

larva nucleus

larva nucleus

The larval core is a vibrant, gelatinous orb, a slimy sphere hot to the touch. Its smell triggers a primitive fear in mortal beings.

  • How to get it?: It can be collected by destroying Whispering Eggs, although they disappear a few seconds after opening (in addition to these eggs, hostile biological horrors emerge).

Hadal core

Hadal core

The hadal core is a highly pressurized fleshy orb. It can be felt to recoil when touched, a flash of bioluminescence stirring in its black core.

  • How to achieve it?: It can be harvested from a type of plant that exists underwater and is known as a seductive specimen (the analysis viewer highlights it yellow), although sometimes there is the possibility that hostile abyssal horrors appear that They destroy the rest of the surrounding flora.

hypnotic eye

hypnotic eye

The hypnotic eye is a strange cold, almost frozen eye. It is impossible to escape the feeling that he is somehow still alive. Prolonged exposure to your gaze is not recommended.

  • How to achieve it?: By defeating an abyssal horror at the underwater bottom, although it must be collected quickly as it disappears after a few seconds.

albuminous pearl

albuminous pearl

The albuminous pearl is a marketable commodity, a gemstone formed over the course of centuries within the egg of a super-incubating species.

  • How to get it?: It can be found inside the reddish hummingbird eggs found in caves and underwater areas. On some planets they are also found in sensitive plants highlighted by the analysis viewer. They can be grown by planting an Albuminous Pearl Orb.

living pearl

living pearl

The living pearl is a semi-sentient gemstone that grows inside huge shiny mollusks in the underwater depths.

  • How to get it?: It can be harvested from the inside of armored clams that live on the seabed on planets with water. First you have to hurt them so that they open, revealing the pearl.

Gek Relic

Gek Relic

The Gek relic is a metal figurine of a creature with a coin placed in its beak. It is popular with many merchants who see it as an emblem of fair trade and peace. It can be sold for 23,375 units.

  • How to get it?: in damaged containers, monoliths, frigate expedition rewards, Gek rewards or it can also be purchased from some NPC's at trading posts.

poison sack

poison sack

The poison sac is a marketable product, a stabilized poison sample originally produced by the plants known as poisonous sea urchins.

  • How to get it?: It can be found on some planets with water, highlighted in yellow by the analysis viewer. They can also be grown by planting Poisonous Sea Urchins.

Quad Servo

Quad Servo

The quad servo is a spring-loaded servo arm recovered from the interior of a Sentinel patrol unit. It can be sold for 20,000 units.

  • How to achieve it?: Eliminating Quad Sentinels.

Recovered glass

Recovered glass

The Recovered Glass is a sinister shard of purple glass, salvaged from the destroyed remains of the sentinel machinery. It can be sold for 6,000 units.

  • How to obtain it: It can be obtained randomly by destroying sentinels and opening combat supply containers.

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