Few night landings in No Man's Sky rival dropping through the clouds onto a Beam anomaly. Identified from space by the titles Planetary Anomaly, Fissured, of Light, or Breached, these malfunctioning Weird worlds are strewn with cracked hovering boulder pods that fire towering cyan-and-emerald aurora pillars straight toward the stars. The entire horizon glows like a natural cathedral of vertical searchlights without a single blade of ordinary grass.
Collecting Light Fissure Reality Glitches
Beam anomalies are the sole source of the Light Fissure, one of the most popular Collectible Reality Glitches among base architects because its tall vertical shaft of light pierces right through multi-storey glass roofs as a dramatic beacon. Open your Analysis Visor and sweep for yellow question-mark icons: collectible Light Fissures emit a slightly warmer green-gold beam than surrounding rock props and can have their beam colour customised once placed at your base.
Living light fauna and glitched skies
Scanning the ground reveals the planet's single anomalous creature: sentient clusters of glowing light jets that erupt out of gravel beds and skim across hillsides like living sparklers. Log that lone scan to claim your instant 250-Nanite all-fauna bonus. Weather scans read as corrupted anomaly strings, so keep a modest stack of Sodium or Ion Batteries handy in case an electrical disturbance or gravity storm passes overhead.
Mining and dissonant overlaps
Because Beam worlds carry no agricultural crop or biome earth element, surface mining revolves around Ferrite rocks, Gold, Cobalt caves, and the local sun's stellar metal. When a Breached or Fissured planet also rolls Dissonance Detected, violet Atlantideum crystals and Radiant Shards mingle right beneath the cyan sky-beams for unforgettable screenshots.