Cosmos Update - No Man's Sky

Become director of a space station, join a galactic alliance, construct a space base and discover deep-space marvels in No Man's Sky Cosmos. Navigate space with a new star system map, strip colossal hulks for parts before hull integrity fails, recover and haul physical salvage to remote space outposts, celebrate 10 years of No Man’s Sky in the Our Journey Continues expedition, and much, much more.

Prove yourself to the local authorities to become director of a Space Station. Style your station’s central lobby, expand it with ancillary rooms, and decorate its exterior to welcome - or deter - visiting Travellers.

Join a galactic alliance to make friends, co-ordinate exploration, and compete for the most expansive territory in the galaxy. As a station director, you can found your own alliance, and design a name and banner to propagate across the universe.

Alien lifeforms have established deep-space outposts in inhabited systems. Visit these remote buildings to process rare minerals, trade with the quartermaster, and sign up for deep-space contracts.

Establish a free-floating base anywhere in space. Deploy a deep-space base computer and claim a volume as your own to construct your dream orbital habitat or celestial city.

Colossal shipwrecks can be found drifting in the depths of space. These huge derelicts are a dangerous maze of rusted chambers and narrow chokepoints, only navigable via careful spacewalk. Pluck valuable technologies and cargo from their skeletons, but be wary of disrupting structural integrity...

As a Station Director, personalise and adorn the exterior of your space station. Design a cosy, welcoming flightpath, or impress visitors with opulent decorations.

A new community expedition, Our Journey Continues, celebrates ten years since the release of No Man’s Sky. Each milestone represents an update or moment in time in the history of the NMS journey - from launch through to Cosmos.

Nurture and contribute to your in-game community, and rise to the top of the alliance rankings. The most populous, active, and expansive alliances will be featured on the ranking leaderboards, accessible from the Space Station core.

Join the Our Journey Continues expedition and earn a beautiful set of framed artwork, featuring the book cover images from some of No Man’s Sky’s biggest updates.

Navigate deep space with an interactive star system map, plotting the location of celestial bodies, deep-space points of interest, and unidentified signals in your current system. Mark any planet or POI on the map to enable starship navigational assistance.

Decorate the central hub of the space station, shaping its atmosphere and flow. Re-arrange pre-existing furnishings and add new parts to create a truly unique environment for visiting Travellers.

Complete your pilgrimage through No Man’s Sky history in the Our Journey Expedition, and adopt the majestic diplodocus companion. This prehistoric beast has been resurrected from pre-release footage, and completely retextured and reanimated.

Push your luck as you strip derelict hulks for salvageable technologies and forgotten loot. These colossal shipwrecks are unstable, and liable to explode when disturbed. Prudent explorers will prioritise the most valuable loot first to make a timely escape…

Well-prepared Travellers can find rare resources at the new points of interest. Using a Gravitino Coil and a Corvette-class starship equipped with a Tractor Beam ensures that you will be ready to salvage anything you come across. Load your Corvette up with loot and haul it back to a deep-space outpost for processing. Sell this salvage for good profit at stations and outposts or save them for customising the exterior of your own space station.

Sign up for the Our Journey Continues expedition and claim the vintage Starbound v0.27 Multi-Tool, lovingly designed from original No Man’s Sky concept art.

Star systems are more interesting and more realistic, with outposts, abandoned freighters, asteroid belts, anomalies, and other points of interest spawning at re-visitable fixed locations.

Visit beautiful, dense belts of rare asteroids, mine them for extraterrestrial minerals and strange crystals. You may find you are not the only visitor - these high-value locations tend to attract space prospectors, traders, and outlaws.

The rendering system for planetary terrain detail has been overhauled, with improved tessellation techniques, higher detail, and enhanced textures.

Participate in the Our Journey Continues expedition to claim a vintage Sentinel Interceptor, reconstructed from pre-release trailer footage for No Man’s Sky.

A number of deep-space outposts have been infested with an invasive, spreading, biological goop. Courageous explorers can investigate these nightmarish structures to extract useful, valuable, yet horrific pathogen sacs, gelatinous fibres and more…

This synthetic polymer companion for your starship's cockpit has been fashioned from a long-forgotten curio. Join the Our Journey Continues expedition to earn this nostalgic bobblehead figurine.

Stars in each system are now reachable via long-haul flight. These burning spheres of plasma are bright, spectacular, but ultimately lethal. Reach the sun at your own risk.

Unlock monumental decoration modules at the Space Anomaly to shape and personalise the exterior of space stations under your directorship. Rare pieces may also be bestowed to Travellers who discover anomalies deep in space.

Each milestone in the Our Journey Continues expedition is accompanied by a collection of developer notes from Hello Games, read aloud by Sean Murray, sharing facts and anecdotes about that moment of time in No Man’s Sky history. Once unlocked, these notes are permanently filed in the Collected Knowledge section of the Catalogue.

Establish a home in the stars on natural rock platforms in deep space. Nestle your base constructions in these stunning terrain formations for beautiful, interesting backdrops.

Space outposts face hardship and adversity, and offer generous recompense to Travellers willing to assist their survival. Sign up for salvage and material recovery contracts at the salvage and delivery terminal to earn standing and rewards.

All pilots, not just those in command of a corvette-class starship, may now leave the safety of their ship and explore deep-space. Use the Quick Menu to leave your ship at any point while in space.

Spacewalking has been greatly enhanced, giving advanced jetpack operatives true six degrees of freedom while in space.

Upgrade your Corvette-class ship with a versatile new upgrade: the Tractor Beam. This new hull attachment sucks in and refines the physical salvage and minerals extracted from deep-space points of interest. Launch salvage at the beam with the Gravitino Coil for storage in the Corvette hold. Excessively large objects will be processed for ease of storage.

Space is garnished with glittering ice fields, yielding valuable resources. Harvest stellar ice, and encounter the wandering miners, traders and pirates drawn to these locations.

Brave some biological horror among the ruins of Infested Outposts. Skill with a Gravitino Coil is needed to clear a way through viral mass that envelops these outposts. Rare and valuable samples are there for the taking, for Travellers with a steady hand and strong stomach.

Corvette tractor beams come equipped with automated venting systems, capable of quickly gathering and ejecting all collected cargo in a matter of seconds.

Note: automated venting systems are not recommended for use on sentient objects.

Station directors can add additional rooms to their space station with a dedicated construction area. Create entirely custom layouts using room-sized pieces, and furnish them with the full range of decorative parts.

Particles and other transparent objects are now part of the lighting system, picking up colour and light from dynamic lighting objects (such as the Multi-Tool’s torch), greatly increasing visual fidelity and atmospherics.

Every part stripped from the creaking remains of a space hulk is a valuable piece of industrial salvage. Salvage operatives should take care to preserve the integrity of their finds, and to avoid triggering a chain reaction…

Join the audience on Twitch, and claim an exciting assortment of in-game rewards just by watching streamers play No Man’s Sky: Cosmos! Earn base parts, starships, Multi-Tools, alien creatures, fireworks, and more. Visit the Twitch Drops page to learn more and sign up.

You can earn rewards even if you don’t own No Man’s Sky yet. They’ll be waiting in your inventory to claim at any time. Just connect on the website and watch any of the No Man’s Sky streamers with Drops Enabled from Thursday 10th September to Monday 14th September.

The visual quality of planetary clouds as seen from space has been greatly enhanced, with upgraded textures, shape detail, and lighting.

Journey through past iterations of No Man’s Sky in the Our Journey Continues expedition, and earn an exclusive golden edition of the classic Rasamama S36 starship.