No Man's Sky Cosmos
Recorded: Sept. 9, 2026, 4:01 p.m.
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Cosmos Update - No Man's Sky Menu Latest patch notes Hello Games Cloud Cross-Save Twitch Drops Buy Release log News Merch Galactic Atlas Cosmos: Introducing Update 7.0 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. Buy now on More purchase options » Direct a Space Station 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. Alliances 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. Deep-Space Outposts 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. Orbital Construction 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. Derelict Hulks 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... Shape Your Station As a Station Director, personalise and adorn the exterior of your space station. Design a cosy, welcoming flightpath, or impress visitors with opulent decorations. 10 Year Anniversary Expedition 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. Alliance Leaderboards 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. Framed Commemorative Art 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. Star System Map 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. Renovate Station Interiors 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. Diplodocus Companion 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. Hulk Meltdown! 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… Deep-Space Looting 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. Starbound v0.27 Multi-tool 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. Space Exploration Re-Invented 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. Asteroid Belts 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. Enhanced Terrain Details The rendering system for planetary terrain detail has been overhauled, with improved tessellation techniques, higher detail, and enhanced textures. Vintage Interceptor Participate in the Our Journey Continues expedition to claim a vintage Sentinel Interceptor, reconstructed from pre-release trailer footage for No Man’s Sky. Infested Outposts 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… Astronaut Cockpit Figurine 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. Reach The Sun 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. Hundreds of Decorative Station Parts 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. Developer Commentary 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. Orbital Platforms 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. Outpost Missions 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. Extra-Vehicular Activity 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. Tractor Beam 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. Ice Fields 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. Biohazard Cleanup Operations 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. Jettison Corvette Cargo 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. Expand Your Station 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. Enhanced Particle Lighting 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.
Hulk Shipbreaking 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… Twitch Drops 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. Improved Clouds From Space The visual quality of planetary clouds as seen from space has been greatly enhanced, with upgraded textures, shape detail, and lighting.
Golden Rasamama S36 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. Buy now on More purchase options » 7.0 Patch notes A map for the local star system is now accessible from the Quick Menu, displaying local celestial bodies, the space station, and other deep-space points of interest. Shipbreaking Space hulks often house lucrative items, but they are volatile, and are likely to melt down and explode if their structural integrity is disrupted. Space Station Directorship Prove yourself to the local authorities to become director of a Space Station, gaining rights to shape its external decorations, interior layout and ancillary compartments. Galactic Alliances Station directors may found their own alliance and seek like minded travellers to join their collective. Orbital Constructions Construct orbital bases anywhere in space - utilising natural asteroid platforms as a starting point, or staking your claim on any empty volume of space. Spacewalking Added an eject button for non-Corvette starships, accessible from the Quick Menu. Our Journey Continues Expedition Expedition Twenty-Three, Our Journey Continues, will begin shortly and run for approximately six weeks. Twitch Drops A new package of Twitch Drops will begin shortly. Sign up and connect your platform accounts on the Twitch Drops page, then tune in to Twitch to earn exotic base parts, high-tech starships, fireworks, appearance modifications, and more. Rendering Completely rewrote the block compression (BC) encoder for textures, reducing artifacting and colour banding for textures generated at runtime for procedural models. Significantly improves the quality of textures throughout the game. Performance and Optimisation Added support for bindless textures, samplers and buffers on Xbox, significantly reducing the CPU usage with engine rendering. Corvettes Fixed an issue with recolouring Corvette-class ships in VR. Other QOL and Bug Fixes Planetary terrain deposits which have been completely depleted no longer appear in the Analysis Visor, and are no longer tagged by the scanner. Contact Twitter |
The Cosmos Update introduced extensive new systems and mechanical depth to No Man's Sky, fundamentally expanding player interaction with space exploration, construction, and social dynamics. A core aspect of the update involves the introduction of significant management and exploration opportunities, allowing players to assume roles as directors of space stations, participate in galactic alliances, and engage in deep-space salvage operations. Players can establish and customize their space stations by styling lobbies, expanding ancillary rooms, and designing exterior decorations, giving them control over the station's aesthetic and function. Furthermore, the update enhances exploration through a new interactive star system map, which details celestial bodies, points of interest, and unidentified signals, facilitating navigation and providing context for deep-space discovery. The update introduces novel methods for resource acquisition and interaction with derelict structures. Players can navigate and strip colossal derelict hulks for valuable technologies and cargo, though this process involves risks related to structural integrity. A new mechanic, the Tractor Beam, is implemented for Corvette-class starships, allowing them to efficiently collect and refine physical salvage and minerals from deep-space points of interest before hauling them to outposts for trade or use in station construction. Deep-space outposts serve as critical hubs where players can process salvaged materials, trade with alien quartermasters, and sign up for salvage and delivery contracts. Social and community features are expanded through the establishment of galactic alliances, allowing station directors to form their own collective and seek out like-minded travelers for coordinated exploration and competition over territory. These alliances are ranked based on member activity, with the most expansive and active groups featured in the space station core leaderboards. The community aspect is further reinforced by the Our Journey Continues expedition, a ten-year anniversary event that offers nostalgic rewards, including framed commemorative art, the vintage Rasamama 36 starship, and unique companion items like the diplodocus. Exploration mechanics have been significantly reinvented, featuring more realistic star systems populated with varied points of interest such as asteroid belts, inhabited outposts, debris fields, and anomalies, which spawn at fixed locations. Players can mine these asteroid belts for rare minerals and crystals, and explore the hazards they present. The visual fidelity of the game has received a major overhaul, incorporating enhanced terrain tessellation, improved texture rendering, and significantly improved cloud appearance when viewed from space, alongside new particle effects for phenomena like stardust and biological slime. Advanced traversal and ship capabilities have been augmented. Spacewalking has been enhanced to grant true six degrees of freedom, including roll, and equipped with an eject button for non-Corvette starships, improving the overall feeling of movement in space. Furthermore, the system supports reaching the sun, introducing lethal but spectacular celestial bodies as destinations. The update also addresses the mechanics of harvesting and surviving in deep space, introducing infested outposts where players can encounter biological horror, requiring the use of tools like the Gravitino Coil to clear pathogenic masses and extract valuable, horrifying samples. Players can also harvest stellar ice from ice fields and engage in biohazard cleanup operations. Significant performance and optimization efforts were integrated across the game. The update implemented optimizations for CPU usage, file handling, and loading times, particularly for settlements and complex base constructions, resulting in noticeable reductions in latency. Rendering quality was drastically improved through a completely reworked block compression encoder, enhancing texture quality, and the introduction of advanced rendering features such as support for Intel Xe Super Sampling and NVIDIA DLSS4.5, which utilize machine learning to boost performance and image quality. Visual effects were further enhanced with support for volumetric fog and particle systems, increasing atmospheric realism. Various quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes were also implemented. These included fixes related to Corvette ship functionality, improved collision detection, and numerous corrections concerning UI elements, multiplayer interactions, and procedural generation. Specific fixes addressed issues related to physics, text localization, and the accurate display of in-game data, ensuring a more stable and visually consistent experience for the player base. Finally, Twitch Drops were established, offering an additional avenue for earning in-game rewards by engaging with streaming content. |