No Man’s Sky Update 7.0 Adds Deep Space Exploration and Orbital Bases

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No Man’s Sky Update 7.0 significantly expands space exploration with new deep-space points of interest, space hulks, orbital construction, Space Station Directorship, Galactic Alliances, and expanded spacewalking. Players can also look forward to the Our Journey Continues Expedition, new Twitch Drops, and additional Corvette functionality.

The update also delivers extensive rendering and performance improvements, including support for NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 and Intel XeSS 3, improved terrain, water, clouds, and planetary visuals, and numerous CPU and memory optimizations. A wide range of gameplay, Corvette, multiplayer, VR, base-building, and quality-of-life issues have also been fixed.

No Man’s Sky Update 7.0 Patch Notes

Deep Space Mapping

• Added a local star system map accessible from the Quick Menu.
  • The map displays local celestial bodies, the space station, and other deep-space points of interest.
• Added new deep-space points of interest, including:
  • Rocky and icy asteroid belts.
  • Inhabited and infested deep-space outposts.
  • Procedurally generated deep-space hulks.
  • Debris fields.
  • Asteroid platforms.
• Added points of interest at system stars.
• Deep-space points of interest can be stripped and mined for resources including comet dust, gelatinous fibres, and contaminated metal.
• Raw materials can be processed at deep-space outposts into items for sale on the Galactic Trade Network or use in space station construction.
• Deep-space points of interest appear on the star system map after a save reaches the Space Anomaly for the first time.
• Added the Signals tutorial mission to introduce the star system map and deep-space navigation.
• Outposts are managed by alien quartermasters who trade maps and salvaged materials.
• Outposts contain salvage and delivery terminals offering deep-space contracts.
• Added new player titles for accomplishments at deep-space points of interest.
• Some deep-space anomalies can now grant rare station decoration blueprints.
• The Dream Aerial has been converted into a reusable product that can be crafted and consumed multiple times to locate individual living frigates.
• The Living Ship encountered during the Starbirth mission chain now patrols around infested outposts and can be actively sought during the mission.
• Added new deep-space music tracks for asteroid belts, stars, hulks, and space outposts.

Shipbreaking

• Space hulks contain potentially valuable items but can melt down and explode when their structural integrity is disrupted.
• Added the Tractor Beam Corvette utility part.
  • The Tractor Beam gathers physical cargo into the Corvette hold.
  • It can be purchased at the Corvette Workshop in space stations.
• Improved the Gravitino Coil’s controls, animations, and crosshairs.
• The Gravitino Coil can now be equipped in Space Stations.

Space Station Directorship

• Players can become directors of Space Stations by proving themselves to local authorities.
• Directors can shape external decorations, interior layouts, and ancillary compartments.
• Added large exterior decoration modules for Space Stations.
• Directors can remove and adjust existing station decorations.
• Existing base parts can be used to reshape and redecorate station interiors.
• Directors can expand their Space Station by adding rooms to the main hangar.

Galactic Alliances

• Station directors can establish their own alliances.
• Players can join alliances by visiting their owned Space Stations.
• Alliance systems can be accessed through the teleporter.
• Players can join up to three alliances.
• Alliances are graded according to member activity.
• The largest and most active alliances appear on a leaderboard at the Space Station core.

Orbital Constructions

• Players can construct orbital bases anywhere in space.
• Natural asteroid platforms can be used as starting points for orbital bases.
• Players can also claim empty volumes of space for construction.
• Added new corridor base parts for orbital construction.
• Added numerous station decoration parts that can be unlocked from the Construction Research Terminal aboard the Space Anomaly.

Spacewalking

• Added an eject button for non-Corvette starships through the Quick Menu.
• Expanded spacewalking with true six degrees of freedom movement, including roll.
• Improved transitions when landing on and taking off from objects with gravity in space.
• Space explosions now knock players back.
• Spacewalking drains exosuit cold protection technologies unless the player is close to other hazards, such as hot balls of glowing gas.

Our Journey Continues Expedition

• Expedition Twenty-Three, Our Journey Continues, will begin shortly and run for approximately six weeks.
• The Expedition celebrates 10 years of No Man’s Sky.
• The Expedition journeys through the game’s evolution since launch.
• Developer commentary read by Sean Murray is available for each milestone.
• Unlocked commentary remains permanently accessible in the Collected Knowledge section of the Catalogue.
• Nostalgia-themed rewards include framed commemorative art, decals, titles, and several additional rewards.
• Rewards include a golden edition of the original Rasamama 36 starship, an astronaut bobblehead, the Starbound v0.27 multi-tool, and a vintage Interceptor ship and diplodocus pet.

Twitch Drops

• A new package of Twitch Drops will begin shortly.
• Rewards include exotic base parts, high-tech starships, fireworks, appearance modifications, and more.

Rendering Improvements

• Rewrote the block compression encoder for textures to reduce artifacting and colour banding.
• Improved runtime procedural model texture quality.
• Added new particle effects to deep-space points of interest, including electrical fields, mist, stardust, smoke, debris trails, and biological slime.
• Improved terrain tessellation quality.
• Added spotlight support for transparent props, particles, and volumetric fog.
• Improved the player torch’s appearance on smoke, fog, and other atmospheric effects.
• Improved clouds viewed from space with upgraded textures, lighting, ambient tint, and shape detail.
• Added volumetric fog volumes and particles around deep-space hulks.
• Added support for Intel Xe Super Sampling XeSS 3.
• Added support for NVIDIA DLSS 4.5, including Frame Generation 5x and 6x.
• Added foveated rendering support on PCVR.
• Improved water and water foam.
• Fixed abrupt water foam loading when flying toward it.
• Fixed blurry island edges.
• Improved underwater and above-water lighting and post-processing.
• Improved fog and water transitions between space and atmosphere.
• Reduced water popping during transitions from space to atmosphere.
• Improved planetary fog density and consistency.
• Improved the swirling atmosphere of gas giants.
• Improved planet shapes when viewed from space.
• Reworked asteroid generation to improve draw distances, distribution, and performance.
• Fixed overly opaque water surfaces.
• Fixed underwater reflection issues.
• Fixed water reflection issues when resolution scaling is below 100 percent.
• Fixed reflection and shadow movement when TAA is disabled.
• Improved colour gamut handling.
• Fixed clipping with highly saturated out-of-gamut colours.
• Fixed incorrect colour space use during HDR rendering.
• Fixed HDR output being clipped to a fixed limit.
• Improved FXAA anti-aliasing quality.
• Added support for HDR with Frame Generation.
• Improved lighting on models displayed on frontend screens.
• Applied various shader fixes.
• Fixed visual fringing around planetary rings.
• Fixed distant planet shimmering with FSR2 enabled.
• Fixed orange mesh flickering when restoring terrain with the Terrain Manipulator.
• Improved offline texture compression and mipmap downscaling.
• Fixed minor visual issues with distant terrain.
• Added roughness scaling to address overly glossy distant objects.
• Fixed normal map issues that could cause lighting inconsistencies.
• Improved light culling and sorting to reduce light popping and flickering.
• Improved parallax occlusion mapping materials.
• Improved lens flares.
• Fixed inaccurate sun reflections on clouds.
• Improved ship trails.
• Fixed speed lines intersecting the camera.
• Fixed visual jitter at 8K resolution on PlayStation platforms.
• Fixed multiple terrain visual seams.
• Added support for anisotropic materials to improve directional lighting on brushed metal surfaces.

Performance and Optimization

• Added support for bindless textures, samplers, and buffers on Xbox to reduce CPU usage during engine rendering.
• Optimized inventories.
• Optimized multiplayer to reduce latency between players.
• Added CPU optimizations, particularly at Settlements.
• Optimized file handling, improving console load times by 6 to 9 percent.
• Optimized HUD markers when many markers are visible simultaneously.
• Optimized loading and querying of bases and base power.
• Improved planetary object distance fading to reduce visible popping, particularly on Nintendo Switch.
• Added memory optimizations for procedurally varied models.
• Fixed a PC-only input latency issue when V-Sync is enabled.
• Optimized recurring missions.
• Optimized animations.
• Optimized multiple freighters in multiplayer.
• Optimized mission activity queries.
• Added deferred node unloading to smooth framerates during environment transitions.
• Optimized procedural generation to improve loading times for complex objects.
• Fixed motion blur remaining enabled while the game is paused.
• Optimized mesh data, reducing mesh file sizes by approximately 13 percent.
• Optimized terrain tessellation.
• Added asynchronous base updates to improve performance and reduce framerate hitches in complex builds.
• Optimized texture loading.
• Fixed several minor memory leaks.
• Fixed several out-of-memory crashes.
• Added additional memory optimizations.

Corvettes

• Fixed an issue with recolouring Corvette-class ships in VR.
• Fixed issues with Corvette-class ship stat displays.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Corvette-class ships to judder during flight.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Corvette technologies to change positions when warping between galaxies.
• Fixed issues with the Corvette ramp state when loading save games.
• Fixed an issue preventing Corvettes from landing in the Space Station and Space Anomaly.
• Added support for exiting the Corvette pilot seat when cruising very close to large space objects.
• Improved Corvette hull collision accuracy.

Quality of Life and Bug Fixes

• Depleted planetary terrain deposits no longer appear in the Analysis Visor or scanner tags.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent the starfield from rendering when jumping through a galaxy’s centre.
• Improved Exocraft UI readability in VR.
• Fixed an issue preventing animations from other players’ ships from playing in multiplayer.
• Fixed faded mission paths on the Galaxy Map in non-Euclid galaxies.
• Fixed an issue where pressing Back during dialogue could select an option not visible on the UI.
• Fixed a timing issue involving the ship communicator while exiting a ship.
• Removed an erroneous number displayed on damaged technologies.
• Fixed an audio issue when landing on frigates.
• Fixed an issue that could change frigate damage without repairs.
• Improved Brood Mother navigation around buildings.
• Improved biological monstrosity navigation within settlements.
• Fixed large bipedal creatures becoming stuck on slopes.
• Fixed various creature behaviour issues.
• Fixed text clipping in the technology popup in some languages.
• Fixed an issue causing too few creatures to populate planets in abandoned systems.
• Fixed frigates awarding fewer resources than intended.
• Improved the algorithm for calculating available Frigate Expedition difficulty.
• Fixed base parts that could not be recoloured.
• Fixed planetary terrain deposits yielding incorrect resources.
• Fixed multiple industrial scrap recycling issues in multiplayer.
• Improved guidance in the In Stellar Multitudes mission for players who have travelled far from their first restored purple system.
• Fixed an issue preventing Under a Rebel Star from progressing when handing in the Forged Passport.
• Added messaging to fishing missions warning players that a fishing rig must be installed.
• Fixed missing localization for FRONT DECALS in the Exocraft customizer.
• Fixed missing localization for the default GOG username.
• Fixed robotic eggs displaying organic egg descriptions.
• Fixed invalid pre-installed technologies in Twitch rewards.
• Improved messaging for unavailable Quick Menu items in the Space Anomaly.
• Removed an item that was hiding in plain sight on a familiar planet.
• Fixed default camouflage textures on the Pilgrim and Nautilon Exocraft.
• Fixed a minor material issue with the Pilgrim Exocraft.
• Fixed Exocraft inventory objects being counted twice in some UI elements.
• Fixed a rare issue preventing HUD markers from displaying their text labels.
• Fixed an issue preventing planetary discoveries after reporting an offensively named creature.
• Fixed Sentinel interceptor ships failing to despawn after their pursued player landed on a planet.
• Fixed variable Settlement costs always rolling the maximum value.
• Fixed an incorrect duplicate Large Ruined Archway entry in the base parts Catalogue.
• Fixed several minor base-building issues.
• Fixed several minor player title issues.
• Fixed several minor reward issues when scrapping Staff and Sentinel Multi-Tools.
• Fixed minor medal guidance mission issues.
• Fixed minor pinned substance mission issues.
• Fixed post-battle surrender notifications failing to take priority in the bottom-right notifications panel.
• Fixed player jitter during terrain manipulation.
• Fixed temporary Lorem Ipsum text when repairing the ship at the start of the game.
• Added additional support for modding trigger actions.
• Fixed HUD and off-screen markers appearing in incorrect positions when far from the Space Station.
• Fixed inverted yaw controls in Photo Mode after flipping the camera upside down in space.
• Fixed a rare issue causing Space Anomaly NPCs to be missing on old saves.
• Fixed Space Station lights appearing pure white instead of coloured.
• Fixed ambient lighting from space leaking into Space Stations.
• Fixed a VR black screen issue when GTAO was disabled.
• Fixed the Switch Base controller binding on PSVR Move controllers.
• Fixed reversed up and down arrow keys during keyboard input on Nintendo Switch.
• Applied various text fixes.

No Man’s Sky Update 7.0 is available for the game’s supported platforms. No Man’s Sky was developed and published by Hello Games.

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