Every star system, planet, moon, animal, plant, and mineral you are the first Traveller to scan logs into your pause-menu Discoveries archive. Before sharing a favourite paradise world or bizarre diplo with the wider community, select its entry and choose Rename and Upload so your custom name locks permanently onto Hello Games' online Discovery Services servers; once uploaded, names cannot be edited again. When you simply want fast passive Nanites after warping through several systems, clicking the single Upload All arrow on the main system overview sweeps every pending system, flora, mineral, and individual creature entry into your nanite balance at once.
Claiming the hidden Fauna Completion nanite jackpot
One of the most lucrative nanite sources in No Man's Sky sits inside a button that Upload All deliberately does not press for you. Every time you scan 100 percent of the animal species native to a planet, open that world's Fauna tab inside Discoveries and click the flashing Tap to claim bonus banner at the top of the species list. That manual claim pays a flat 250 Nanites multiplied by total species count, meaning a twelve-species lush world awards an instant 3,000 Nanite payout on top of individual scan uploads, while single-species anomalous glitch planets hand over an effortless 250 Nanites in thirty seconds.
Finding rare underground and hemisphere fauna
Closing out the final missing animal on a planet comes down to reading the exact spawn conditions listed on its greyed-out Discoveries row. Entries marked North or South only spawn in that half of the globe, which you can verify immediately via the planetary latitude readout inside your Analysis Visor or starship cockpit view (positive numbers are North of the equator, negative numbers are South). For elusive Rare Underground cave species that refuse to spawn in tiny hillside tunnels, fly to Minor Settlements, Observatories, or Ancient Ruins whose flattened terrain pads slice open wide natural cave mouths; waiting thirty seconds beside exposed building caves reliably triggers underground spawns.
Cataloguing Wonders and holographic projectors
Particularly striking creatures, glowing minerals, or extreme record-breaking planets can be pinned into one of twelve Personal Wonder slots directly from your Discoveries pages. Any entry saved to Personal Wonders can then be displayed at full scale inside planetary bases or aboard your freighter bridge using buildable Wonder Projectors, turning favourite fauna into living animated museum exhibits or ambient base lighting.