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The Sentinel achievement in No Man's Sky

The Sentinel

Attain 'Everlasting' status in Extreme Survival

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How to unlock the The Sentinel achievement

  • MISahnovMISahnov
    13 Aug 2018 13 Aug 2018 04 Oct 2023
    UPDATE: My initial guide was written in 2018, prior to that major update that changed a lot of game mechanics. For the most part my guide is still useful, but you cannot hide in shelter or dig a hole anymore. You might still be able to use Trading Post, but I'm not sure. Bring enough resources to charge your Megawatt Filters if you are not able to hide out in Trading Post. Good luck!!

    Original Guide:
    This is the last part in Extreme Survive Milestone. You are required to complete 32 SOLS. This is basically 32 day cycles on a extreme planet. I did my on a Acidic planet. Make sure the planet you choose has extreme weather. Find a safe space like a Trading Post or any other building on the planet or claim your own base, build a quick building and wait out 32 planet cycles. Depending on the planet 1 day can be 15 min or 30 min, so be ready to do something else while you wait. Remember to move your joystick on the controller once in a while to keep it from going idle. Once it goes idle the game pauses and no progress would be made until you unpause the game.

    This would be a perfect time to pickup a book to read or write one while you wait. Have fun and good luck!!

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    TheCOMEBACKxKIDWhat portion of the difficulty settings contributes to the spawn rate of these planets?
    Is it survival elements?
    Survivial difficulty?
    Both?
    Or neither?

    If someone knows could you pm my gamertag please
    Posted by TheCOMEBACKxKID on 22 Aug 23 at 15:49
    Mr MahHaGo to the catalogue & guide menu and pin the challenge. That way it continuously updates on your screen without having to pause the game. I tried using the terrain Manipulator and going a little bit into the ground. Sometimes the counter went up but most of the time it didn’t. The best/guaranteed way (in my opinion) is to build a exocraft platform and sit AFK in it. Also go to the anomaly and buy the “Megawatt Heater” upgrade or whatever weather condition you need and that’s it. Once the weather related upgrade is installed you can just AFK and you will take no damage and you don’t have to recharge anything
    Posted by Mr MahHa on 24 Aug 23 at 17:57
    FeonyxFor anyone else out there that was constantly recharging there Megawatt Filters and or can't find a trading post on their planet. Just go to the difficulty settings and turn Survivals settings to Health Only, Relaxed. You still get the achievement without worrying about accidentally dying.
    Posted by Feonyx on 18 Sep 23 at 01:11
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  • Crims0nScorpionCrims0nScorpion
    06 Aug 2018 28 Jul 2018 03 Aug 2018
    This is actually much much easier than it sounds as this method still works on Xbox One just as it did on PS4 at launch. The easiest way to get this achievement is to play on Permadeath or Survival as this will increase the chances of encountering an Extreme Survival planet (my 2nd planet in my starting system was an Extreme Survival planet). The best planet to use for this is the ones with Extreme Sentinels, on these planets Sentinels will attack you on sight. After landing and exiting your ship, in the analysis of the planet in the bottom left hand corner it should be bolded in red, this will indicate it's the correct planet. Now for Sentinels it will label them as HOSTILE and this is the best case. Simply enter a building or build a makeshift base and just wait. Make sure to move your character every so often so your Xbox's idle mode doesn't kick in because that will pause the game. Each planet's Sol is different, some are longer some are shorter but so long as you just wait it out eventually you'll reach rank 10 in Extreme Survival and you'll earn The Sentinel Achievement and Stranger In A Strange Land Achievement

    you need to reach 32 Sols on Extreme Planets, but as stated above each planet's Sol is different
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    SashamorningYou can get in your ship to bank your time. I found a station on a planet, and ran to my ship a few times in case something happened to my game. Each time, the time ticked up when I got out of the ship.
    Posted by Sashamorning on 06 Jul 20 at 03:27
    XennialDanThis was how I got the achievement. Found an extreme sentinel planet, found an empty building and waited it out. Took a few hours of waiting but it eventually popped for me.
    Posted by XennialDan on 01 Oct 20 at 23:55
    Guds SkyfallThe planet I’m on says sentinels are “threatening” rather than “hostile”. Does that count as extreme?
    Posted by Guds Skyfall on 09 Jan 23 at 10:53
  • SquiSquiSquidioSquiSquiSquidio
    24 Jun 2020 26 Jun 2020 06 Aug 2020
    A lot of good information in both guides already, but they're missing some stuff that I had to figure out on my own. Specifically, how to spot an "Extreme" planet and what to do if your progress isn't counting up.

    The two easiest ways I found in spotting an "Extreme" planet were 1. From orbit if it says AGGRESSIVE SENTINELS in red text. or 2. On the planet it will say "EXTREME" above the hazard bar (the one that has either fire, toxic, freeze, poison) - red text for weather does not always mean it is an Extreme planet, please double check with the hazard bar to make sure or just choose a Red Aggressive Sentinel planet to be sure so you don’t waste your time.

    At one point I was trying to finish up this achievement, but noticed my progress wasn't moving up. It turns out, if you die after making some progress, it resets, but the progress counter does not show that. In the case you were at 6.3 sols and die, you will have to redo those 6.3 sols in order for it to catch up and start showing progress again. I thought this might be the case and took a chance on an Aggressive Sentinels planet and left it overnight (I sat in one of those skinny bunkers you usually find in twos, on planets with weather you can also dig into the terrain and make yourself a hole that's deep enough to prevent any hazard damage). Woke up in the morning with both achievements after having already spent an hour there with no progress counting towards the numbers I already had.

    If you want to leave this overnight, plug your controller into your xbox and rubberband one of the analog sticks. The important thing here is plugging the controller into the xbox and not just a power source. Plugging into a power source will cause the controller to go idle, even if rubberbanded. Plugging into the xbox will not.

    Hope this helps fill in any missing information for those that are having any trouble with this achievement.
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    DurchschnittI found that some planets that have red weather text don't actually say extreme when storms are occuring. I even deleted all of my hazard protection to see if that would make the extreme pop up (it did not). These planets WILL NOT make the counter go up. I did an aggressive sentinel world and the counter started going up immediately. So either go for a sentinel world or ensure you actually have EXTREME on the screen by your hazard protection.
    Posted by Durchschnitt on 04 Aug 20 at 14:38
    SquiSquiSquidioI went ahead and edited the red extreme info just to clarify more. Thanks for confirming. Let me know if anything else doesn’t make sense.
    Posted by SquiSquiSquidio on 06 Aug 20 at 01:49
    Un SubjectI've seen some conflicting information about doing this achievement, so I'd like to add that having unlocked it recently (August 2022):

    - The planet will say 'extreme' when you are on the surface
    - The 'dig a shallow hole' and wait approach does work
    - Rubber-banding a controller so that your character keeps running led to my character (at some point) glitching through their hole and onto the surface, where they died who knows how many times and I lost a lot of resources (!)
    - I got the achievement in the same hole from where I died, but I had to run back from a short distance away due to that death
    - The controller plugged in with the quick action menu (down on the D-pad) and the B button pressed down seemed to work - the game didn't go into standby mode
    - My SOLS number did take quite a while before it moved, so it might well be 'total survival on one life', or there is some other kind of delay on it
    Posted by Un Subject on 28 Aug 22 at 10:37
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