No Man's Sky player discovers planet with razor-sharp mountains and water-level chasms

A longtime No Man's Sky fan decided to return to the game after several years and discovered a planet with extreme terrain unlike anything encountered before. The player, known as Osyraa, loaded an old Survival mode save with 70 hours of playtime and stumbled upon a Quagmire-type world featuring incredibly sharp mountain peaks and deep chasms.

The planet's distinctive feature is its mountains reaching so high they nearly touch the atmosphere boundary. The peaks are so narrow and sharp that walking on them is barely possible – the player fell off ledges multiple times while exploring the terrain. Between the mountains lie massive chasms descending all the way to water level. Interestingly, flying creatures on this planet inhabit areas significantly below the mountain peaks – roughly at mid-mountain height.

The community highlighted the main problem with such worlds – scanning fauna becomes a nightmare. Another player shared an experience of being unable to find even one of four required land-based creatures for complete scanning on a similar planet. Such worlds simply lack flat areas large enough for ground fauna to spawn, and underground creatures are nearly impossible to locate due to terrain generation mechanics – uneditable landscape extends deep into mountains, preventing tunneling through.

Other players suggested searching for underground fauna near points of interest, where the game automatically creates flattened areas with possible cave intersections. However, as one player noted, their "pointy" planet had no POIs whatsoever – not on the surface, underwater, or anywhere else.

Beyond this unusual discovery, the player mentioned that the same star system contains an isotopic planet with gravitino balls scattered everywhere, making the system interesting for exploration despite the navigation difficulties posed by the extreme terrain.