No Man's Sky: How To Find And Fix A Sentinel Interceptor (2024)

Sentinel Ships have started falling from the sky as of the Interceptor update in No Man’s Sky. While you’d think this would make the universe safer for intrepid explorers, it’s actually made it even more dangerous for Travelers and Sentinels alike! Corruption has taken over certain planets, warping Sentinel drones into twisted abominations and causing Sentinel Interceptors to crash.

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The Sentinel’s loss is your gain! You can salvage those crashed Sentinel Interceptors and make them your own. Sentinel Interceptors offer increased firepower, unique technologies, and more value when salvaged than other crashed ships. You’re going to want to grab as many of these crashed Interceptors as you can, so here’s how you do it.

How To Find A Crashed Sentinel Ship

There are three ways to find a crashed Sentinel Interceptor. You can kill a Sentinel Dreadnought and use a Dreadnought AI Fragment, you can locate a Harmonic Camp and use its terminal, or you can just get the coordinates for crash sites from other Travelers.

Dreadnought AI Fragment

Getting a Dreadnought AI Fragment is simple: all you gotta do is destroy a Sentinel Dreadnought. The Sentinel Freighters that warp in after reaching the maximum wanted level are now destructible, although it takes an awful lot of firepower to take one out.

The surest and easiest way to get a Sentinel Dreadnought to warp in is to pick a fight with some Sentinels on a planet, hop into your ship, and then keep fighting the Sentinel Interceptors that warp in.

Destroy each wave of Sentinel Interceptors until reaching the fifth wanted level, at which point the Sentinel Dreadnought will spawn.

Destroying the Dreadnought will always reward you with a Dreadnought AI Fragment. Use the AI Fragment on a Corrupted Planet, and it will direct you to the nearest crashed Sentinel Interceptor.

Harmonic Camp

Every Corrupted Planet has several Harmonic Camps scattered across its surface. These camps offer resources, lore, and the new Sentinel Multi-Tool. They can also provide you with the exact location of a crashed Sentinel Interceptor.

First, you'll need to find the Harmonic Camp, which can be done by either flying around until you spot one or by destroying Corrupted Sentinels until one drops an Echo Locator. Use the Echo Locator, and it will direct you to the nearest Harmonic Camp.

Next, locate the camp's terminal and unlock it. To unlock the terminal, you'll need to solve a simple puzzle. Hit "Scan memory registers" for a hint at the three glyphs you'll need to unlock the puzzle.

When you go back to "Input override glyphs," input the glyphs from left to right that corresponds with each number from the clue.

Once you've unlocked the terminal, you can both unseal the Sentinel Multitool that's nearby and claim it for your own and ask it for the location of a nearby crashed Sentinel Interceptor. It’ll be marked on your HUD.

Get Coordinates Somewhere Else

Crashed Sentinel Ships are essentially the same as any other crashed ship in No Man's Sky. Once you have the system, planet, and coordinates of the crashed ship, you can just fly straight to it without having to muck about with Dreadnought AI Fragments or Harmonic Camps.

People post coordinates for crashed ships on the No Man's Sky Coordinate Exchange subreddit all the time, so head there for great intel on where to find a crashed Sentinel Interceptor.

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How To Repair A Sentinel Interceptor

Once you find your crashed Sentinel Interceptor, your next task is to repair it. Lucky for you, fixing a crashed Interceptor is a lot easier than fixing other crashed ships. To fix a crashed Interceptor, you will need:

• 3 Radiant Shards
• 1 Inverted Mirror
• 1 Harmonic Brain

Getting Radiant Shards is the easiest part. There will probably be a dozen or so around the crashed Sentinel Interceptor--just use your visor to track them down.

Inverted Mirrors are a little trickier. They can be obtained by destroying a Dissonance Resonator, which are the tall insectoid Sentinels that seem to be drilling into the planet's surface. Use the visor to locate one and then destroy it.

Getting a Harmonic Brain won't require a fight. The crashed Sentinel Interceptor will have several resources that can be harvested, and one of them is called a Hyaline Brain. This is what you will turn into a Harmonic Brain.

After you first interact with the crashed Sentinel ship, a new quest will pop up in your log that will direct you to the nearest Monolith. Head there with the Hyaline Brain in your inventory and interact with the Monolith to convert it into a Harmonic Brain.

Now return to the crashed Sentinel Interceptor with your three Radiant Shards, Inverted Mirror, and Harmonic Brain to craft a Pilot Interface. Congratulations! The Sentinel Interceptor is now yours.

Best of all, you won’t have to repair a bunch of broken technology like other crashed ships. The Sentinel Interceptor will come with ample technology and cargo space as well as unique tech that will put the Golden Vector to shame. And if you ever get bored with it, you can use these same steps to find a replacement. Happy hunting!

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