nms-modding

[fresh arch]

If you're just checking it on 1 planet that happened to spawn bugs that can be already enormous, your perception might be skewed

You gotta check on multiple planets, preferably with some knowledge of animals and their sizes beforehand

[solid hawk]

If you look in your mods folder, do you see a folder named gCreatures Giants 10, on the assumption you picked the 10x version

Or do you see a folder called gCreatures Giants 10, with a long string of numbers after the 10?

[hollow hill]

this is written; "gCreatures Giants - 10x-1771-5-5-2-0a-1738416529"

[hollow hill]

i did not, i visited 3 different planets, in 3 different systems, all had spiders

[solid hawk]

ok, you extracted incorrectly. Instead of extracting the folder in the .zip, you made a new folder from the name of the zip with the correct folder in it.

[hollow hill]

i used Vortex

[solid hawk]

Go into the gCreatures Giants - 10x-1771-5-5-2-0a-1738416529 folder

[hollow hill]

the mod manager

ok

[solid hawk]

You should see a folder called gCreatures Giants 10

[fresh arch]

doesnt matter what you used, the mod was not installed correctly

Better to do manual installation, follow the article that was linked, Modding After 5.50

[solid hawk]

Copy or cut that folder and paste into MODS

[hollow hill]

ye it's here

[solid hawk]

Basically, as it is now, the mod files are one level too deep and the game can't see them

[hollow hill]

but like, all the other mods in the folder have a bunch of numbers too and they're working

[solid hawk]

In MODS, should have a folder called gCreatures Giants 10, within that will be two folders, called GLOBALS and METADATA. You see that, it is then correct.

[hollow hill]

i see them

[solid hawk]

I'm just telling you how it is and works. Believe me or don't completely up to you

[hollow hill]

nono, i belive, i was just curious about the numbers

[fresh arch]

you can post a screenshot of MODS folder, the whole explorer window, not cropped

And then a screenshot inside one of these folders with numbers in name

we will tell you if it's correct or not

[hollow hill]

ok, something happened

these creatures didn't spawn in this planet before

[solid hawk]

The numbers are a good indicator that things aren't right, because nobody names their mod folders like that, but the zips downloaded from NexusMods have those numbers in the names.

[fresh arch]

You can find some stupid people naming their mod folders like FF_ModName_ModVersion, then you will see short numbers that relate to game version, ex. 573

[solid hawk]

That's a good sign

[hollow hill]

wait i think the mod changed the pool of creatures in my planet

[fresh arch]

but yeah longer strings of numbers is from Nexus alone

[hollow hill]

oh, okok, ty

[hollow hill]

oooooooooooooooooooohhhhh

okok ty

but uh, i think i understood what this mod does, it is just replacing the creatures i find with big creatures, not making them bigger

it completely changed the pool of my main planet

[solid hawk]

But, within that zip is a folder called Fly Dangerous, which is what goes into MODS

[solid hawk]

No, you mess with the data tables, can cause a re-roll

Just one of those oddities of the game and how the procgen works

[hollow hill]

these things started spawning too!

[solid hawk]

Walking house

You install a mod that messes with creature spawning, it will mess things up on planets you've already been too. In worst case scenarios, can get Extinct species in Discovery, making it impossible to complete discovery.

[fresh arch]

highly unlikely that this mod caused this change

Maybe you got some other mods affecting creatures

[solid hawk]

But, you'll get your desired results on new planets you then go to, without issue.

[fresh arch]

And after troubleshooting they started to work

[solid hawk]

Changes to CREATUREDATATABLE can cause a re-roll, sorry to tell you

I used to make changes to that file with the ANTI mods.

No end of complaints, because the creatures would change.

[fresh arch]

ooofff

[solid hawk]

So I changed the methodology of the mod.

[fresh arch]

I thought it would happen only if we target parameters like rarity or frequency modifiers

[solid hawk]

nope

[fresh arch]

Not friggin size brackets

[solid hawk]

Now I only edit CREATUREFILENAMETABLE

[fresh arch]

Then Im kinda suprised there is no mentioning of that on mod page

[solid hawk]

You good now?

[hollow hill]

i am testing it a little bit

from what i noticed the mod just kind if... killed variety in the planet si am visiting

[solid hawk]

One planet, out of 18 quadrillion SYSTEMS

Not the best indicator, overall. 🙂

Visit lots of them

[hollow hill]

i am

[solid hawk]

Should, in general, see more bigger creatures now

[hollow hill]

i am on my second

[solid hawk]

Who knows, maybe you'll get a giant Scrat!

That'd be hilarious

[hollow hill]

third planet in a row i see a variation of this creature... i tihnk instead of making the creatures big, the mod is spawning big creatures

[fresh arch]

are you in purple star systems? cause those striders can spawn by the dozen in purple star systems

[hollow hill]

nope

yellow

then i think that's it

and forth in a row

yep

mhm, only these guys

well that was unfortunate :/

[ionic star]

Hey! So uh, I got a mod that's a .lua file, I didn't quite understand how to port it over to the current update, can anyone help me?

[vale iron]

It doesn't work like that. It might reroll the creature spawns, but it used to not do that. If I have time, I'll test it in a few hours

It increases the max creature size of every creature type so that they all have a wider range. It doesn't directly change the type chosen. And I believe I have a note on the mod description that says that it's not a linear increase; 10x is 10x the number in the file, not 10x the resultant size. It has diminishing returns

You can try cranking it up to 100 if you want. The biggest problem I found was that the collisions and pathing don't update to match the larger sizes, so the bigger they get, the more often you see them walk through terrain objects

[ionic star]

oh wait can't I just use AMUSS?

[vale iron]

You can, and then install the resulting created mod, but if it's an old Lua, there's a pretty good chance it won't work

[ionic star]

it's about 2 years old, is there a way i can update it?

[vale iron]

Not easily, without examining the files

What mod?

[ionic star]

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/2821?tab=description

This one. I want to change the VR Flight sensitivity as it's way too high for comfort.

[vale iron]

Try different regions. If the creature selection is being rerolled, it might be using the system index and/or region to seed the creature generation, which might bias towards certain creature types in the same system or region.

[vale iron]

That shouldn't be too hard to update. I'll look when I'm at a computer later

[ionic star]

okay thanks

[hollow hill]

But i mean, 4 planets in a row, one i went to a base 100.000ly from my main one, and travelled to the limit of my hyper drive, and i still found 2 planets with these creatures. I can test it out more but it really just seems like it is just spawning the biggest creatures that exist in the game and not making the creatures big

[vale iron]

It may seem like that to you, but that is not what it does

[hollow hill]

well, ok

[vale iron]

Weird, unexpected things can happen, but your explanation for a possible weird thing doesn't match how things work.

[hollow hill]

i'll install th emod again and see some more planets

this time i'll just go through a blackhole, try to get as far away form anything as i can

[vale iron]

No need, I'll test it soon

I need to update my client, though

And Europe isn't as fast on downloads as I'm accustomed to.

[hollow hill]

ok went through a black hole, i am literally as far away from anything i have ever been, haven't even came close to this part of the galaxy

.....game crashed

ye, game is crashing now

[vale iron]

Starting to test now

[vale iron]

There is some change happening, but it might just be re-ordering them in the list. I need to find the 2 now-undiscovered species to make sure.

w/mod

w/o mod

Most of the names seem to stay the same, so I doubt there's any kind of full re-roll happening. And I didn't have any striders added

[hollow hill]

then what happened? conflict with other mod?

[vale iron]

No idea. I'm still looking for those last two creatures to do a direct compare.

[cold sequoia]

What made the Custom ships mod possible?

[vale iron]

Hard work

I've done a little work getting custom freighters back to working, but not ready yet

And a lot of learning from Winder and others

[cold sequoia]

Yeah i can see hard work just been looking at the images I fought stuff like that can't really be done is its not on the game already or something like that

[hollow hill]

oh, i saw that mod, you made that? seems like a awesome project

do other players see the freighter too? or for them it's blank?

[cold sequoia]

What there also custom freighters also i did not know till now lol

[vale iron]

Nah, most mods are client side only

[vale iron]

Yeah, fewer of them, so easier to get up and running, so less intimidating

There's also Winder's Ships of Moar, which I believe is updated

[cold sequoia]

Really am sure i was just looking st that page and the images

[vale iron]

There are gShip Custom Ships and Ships of Moar

We have different tastes and usually don't do the same models as each other

[cold sequoia]

Cheers dude ill go take another look

[cold sequoia]

Yeah that great to hear it dude look at your ships also they are cool

Your is the first I had seen on the site

It's got me interested lol

Ive given in with settlement timer wait so I mite install the timer mod lol

@vale iron when Custom living ships lol

[vale iron]

Those would be really difficult, as they usually have animations, which we can't do much with

[cold sequoia]

Damn

[solid hawk]

They aren't really new ship types, which wouldn't be possible. More like "skins" over existing.

gShips Custom Ships uses the Golden Vector as the base, Ships of Moar uses Shuttles.

[cold sequoia]

That's cool

[hollow hill]

is there any mod that lets us use our freighter for freighter battles? like, i know mods can't add extra features, but would it be possible to make a mod that randomly deals damage to freighters we're fighting, and let us summon the freighter in a freighter battle, and our freighter just does an animation of dealing the damage?

or no animation and just a message of "Sending missile in XXs" in the corner?

[cold sequoia]

No

[hollow hill]

aaww maan

[cold sequoia]

Lol

Go back to sleep lmfao

Dream more

[hollow hill]

it' sso fucking sad!! i got warship bro, i wanted to war with it

[cold sequoia]

I know what you mean we need more for the ships we can get

@hollow hill Maybe we mite get something more todo with battles with the next update soon

[hollow hill]

i PRAY so HARD for that, space battles are so fckin basic it pains me,

but like, what is capable of doing damage to freighters? only player fire?

[solid hawk]

yep

[cold sequoia]

I feel you and I agree

[dusk saffron]

express your frustrations to HG, no one on here can change it 🙂

[hexed skiff]

Who has easy way to get singularity engine

[final hazel]

The easiest way would be to save edit it into your freighters' technology inventory, or unlock the blueprint for it if it has one via save editing

[cold sequoia]

Whats the singularity Engine?

[final hazel]

Freighter tech from Expedition 8 that allows you to speak to your freighter's captain to warp through a black hole

[cold sequoia]

Or wow thanks

[cold sequoia]

But what's so good about it lol

[final hazel]

It's purpose, which I have already described

Summoning a Black Hole at will

Saves time from warping to one and flying your Starship through it

[cold sequoia]

Yoo I don't think ive seen it with that mod that makes expedition and twitch stuff available

[final hazel]

Yes, because it is not an expedition reward

It is an expedition tech, it was only given to saves that were actively doing Expedition 8

[cold sequoia]

You said expedition 8

[final hazel]

It was not made as a phase reward, so it was not given to other saves

[cold sequoia]

I see ok thanks

Makse sense i guess

[hexed skiff]

Is there other upgades in this format i dont know of yet

[final hazel]

None that would have any uses I believe

There are many, but they are completely useless or harmful to install outside of their expeditions

[hexed skiff]

Kk

I would love to playthru all the expeds i guess

[fresh arch]

if you're on PC, you can

https://cwmonkey.github.io/nms-expeditions/

[hexed skiff]

Am and glorious tyvm

[hexed skiff]

So that to replay expeds,
Consumerism/communism for the goods,
What else for the avid gamer would you recommend, instant actions was a must pickup too

[fresh arch]

mods are highly subjective, there's no "must have" mod

[cold sequoia]

Lol

[fresh arch]

more like each modder does their thing, Lo2k has a metric fuckton and a half of QoL improvement and small fixes

[cold sequoia]

👌

[fresh arch]

Gumsk also has a wide variety of mods, Babscoole seems to be on a streak of updating old ass mods for current game version

really it boils down to browsing Nexus Mods, looking at recently updated / newly released mods and picking what looks interesting

[cold sequoia]

You guys are great keep up the great work

[trail nebula]

Where would be the best place to get mods from?

Idk if I'd be Able to do anything with them I just want know so I can look at what there is to offer

[fresh arch]

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/

All active mod authors post their mods only to Nexus Mods

[trail nebula]

I figured nexus would be good

Just wanted to make sure lol

[cobalt bay]

I wonder why nobody did the Arcadia from Albator
any idea ?

[trail nebula]

Do yk If there's a mod that would make the game run better on lesser hardware?

[solid hawk]

Because nobody thought of it or no good, copyright free existing model to use.

Only gFreighter Custom Freighters adds freighters from fiction and that mod is currently broken, due to massive model game file changes earlier in the year. Author is working on it, but slow going. Feel free to suggest the arcadia one in POSTS on the mod page on NexusMods or it'll never happen.

[cobalt bay]

do i need an account to post ?

hum i don't have one and don't quite want to create one
i'm cooked

[hearty wasp]

then don't post anything

just kinda how it be

[cobalt bay]

some forums used to have generated names for you to send msg even if you don't have an account

[fresh arch]

I dont recall any such mod, but this isn't a problem to solve with mods

use upscalers like FSR in graphical options

[trail nebula]

Yeah I gave up on trying to get it to run good on my laptop lmao

[fresh arch]

and ask around in #nms-questions what can be done further to improve the performance

[trail nebula]

I messed with every setting and it still Ran like dung

[hollow hill]

you can suggest mods in nexusmods? oh dayum!

[solid hawk]

I recommended that he request a specific ship be added to the one and only mod that would be applicable to.

I can't speak for other authors, but here's how I generally handle requests in POSTS on one of my mod pages.....

If the request has nothing to do with the mod it is being posted to, I will not consider it.

If the request is just a few subjective value adjustments to the mod, normally I will not do it. I include Lua scripts with most of my mods, where a user can adjust as they'd like then process the script through AMUMSS to generate the customized mod files.

[cobalt bay]

i have ideas like i played lot of space ship games but yeah turn off if i need an account on a platform i might use only once or twice for a suggestion

[dusk saffron]

I'm near senile, but figured out how to tweak a couple of mods that I use. If I can, anyone should be able to

[solid hawk]

People are welcome to ask for mods here, on the NMS modding discord, or the modding channel on the Creative and Sharing discord.

That being said, most of the time the answer will be not possible. Modding for NMS is restrictive. We can make value changes to existing properties. Can't add logic or changes during runtime. We can't really add something new that doesn't already exist in the vanilla game.

Then there's the time expense. Costs a user seconds to request a mod that could take many hours for an author make. The more complex or time consuming the mod will be to make, the more likely it'll be that nobody either can or will touch it, without a possible donation offer to go with it, to offset the time expenditure.

In no way is a donation required, but it's also not required for anyone to attempt to fulfill a mod request. 🙂

[solid hawk]

For the most part, what you see on NexusMods is what's possible. After 8+ years, it's not that some user is a genius with his\her mod concept which there's nothing like that on NexusMods. Same idea has been thought of by MANY before, it just isn't possible to do. Mod ideas have never been lacking, it's mod ideas that are functionally feasible which are the problem.

[wooden basin]

can someone help, i had consumerism working like a week ago and now it doesnt work for some reason

[round sinew]

define doesn't work

[wooden basin]

the game isnt seeing the mod. I dont get the mod warning anymore

[round sinew]

is it properly placed in GAMEDATA\MODS?

[wooden basin]

its in gamedata > mods

yeah

[round sinew]

post a screenshot of the contents of the consumerism folder

upload game install folder\binaries\settings\gcmodsettings.mxml

[wooden basin]

like open the file and post that or just the placement?

sorry you lost me there

[round sinew]

in MODS, there's a folder called consumerism, yes?

open that folder, screenshot

[wooden basin]

yes of course

keep going?

[round sinew]

no, that's fine

upload game install folder\binaries\settings\gcmodsettings.mxml

[wooden basin]

sorry im not sure what you mean by upload that, excuse my ignorance modding isnt really my forte

[round sinew]

just attach the file here

[wooden basin]

it says invalid file type

[round sinew]

nevermind then - delete that file, launch the game again

[wooden basin]

delete metadata?

[round sinew]

delete game install folder\binaries\settings\gcmodsettings.mxml, launch the game

[wooden basin]

when i copy that into the search bar it says no items match your search

[round sinew]

to get to the "game install folder", if you're on steam, you goto steam lib, right click nms, properties, installed files, click browse on disk

[wooden basin]

i have it thru game pass

[round sinew]

look at the game properties in there

there should be a way to find where you've got your games installed at

like, physically, in your pc, what folder

[wooden basin]

yeah its in the local disk

[round sinew]

find where it is

[wooden basin]

yeah i got it

this is where im at now

[round sinew]

binaries\settings\

[wooden basin]

ahhhhhhhh okay

so delete the gcmodsettings file

[round sinew]

yep

[wooden basin]

okay launching the game now

that worked, thanks for putting up with me being oblivious 😂

[round sinew]

nah, don't worry about it. glad we got it working

have fun

[wooden basin]

will do have a good night man

[round sinew]

you too 🙂

[steel crypt]

👍

[magic lava]

Can I play previous Expeditions?
Yes, you can use this app to customize and generate SEASON_DATA_CACHE.JSON to play No Man's Sky expeditions offline:
https://cwmonkey.github.io/nms-expeditions/

[cold sequoia]

My game just crashed soon as Sentinel capital freighter spawns in

[fallow meadow]

Disable mods, if the game has not done so itself after that crash (mod settings file). Then see if it still crashes.

[cold sequoia]

I don't want to disable them

[fallow meadow]

You will have to, and see if you can find the mod that causes it.

[cold sequoia]

Because I have infinite item stack mod installed

[fallow meadow]

Disable all other mods, then start adding/enabling again until you find the one?

[cold sequoia]

It mite be one of building mods maybe idk

Ive nit been crashing until just before

It's just one off random crash

[fallow meadow]

If you really need to keep a mod. Then I suggest you keep it, and remove all other mods. Also remove the settings file to have it regen correctly with each change. If you then have a lot of mods, you can add back half the amount at a time, to speed up the reduction process to find the culprit

[fallow meadow]

It may have run into a situation where it did conflict with what the game tried to do.

[cold sequoia]

Thats what ive done ive just deleted mod file

[fallow meadow]

If you now get the freighter spawn without issue, you likely found the mod issue

[cold sequoia]

Am going to load back up if I get crash again then I'll remove mods and not iis

Thanks anyways

[fallow meadow]

Alternatively, you might be able to backup the save files, to be put back after

[fallow meadow]

All good, I'm sure you'll work it out, if not, do not hesitate to ask again

[cold sequoia]

Thanks mate

[dreamy tulip]

Hey fellow travelers,

Following last month's early teaser, here's significant progress on the Multiverse project.

What this is: I'm fundamentally rewriting No Man's Sky's core engine systems—without source code. Through 9+ years of reverse engineering, I'm rebuilding terrain rendering, shader systems, procedural generation, and visual pipelines at the assembly/C++ level & so much more. This isn't mere modding; it's engine reconstruction.

Recent breakthroughs:

• Terrain rendering overhaul: Completely rewritten rendering with enhanced texture fidelity and diverse visual styles (also now supports the faceted/polygonal look of prerelease NMS)
• Expanded universe generation: Solar systems with up to 20 suns, hundreds of new star types (reminiscent of classic scifi paintings), procedural ring nebula variants, new crescent planets, new sun styles, cosmic space anomalies, reality glitches, heatwave distortion effects on hot planets, environments that feel like they breathe, new wind effects, animated terrain visuals, fractal-like space visuals, much more!
• Cosmic creatures: Procedurally generated space entities like jellyfish and manta rays, microscopic-esque space organisms that remind of a petri dish... using shader mathematics.
• Advanced post-processing: 220+ new shader-based effects, including an optional "Film Gate" that transforms the sharp 3D world into something painted and dreamlike and feels like you're playing through an old TV or camera.
• Strange new planetary ring types
• Atmospheric reimagining: Perspective fog systems that create layered, alien atmospheres with distance-based color shifts
• Rare cosmic horrors inspired by scifi classic paintings (eg. the cosmic eye)
• A new dev tool: Built a specialized Terrain Array Texture Editor that makes it possible to import new terrain textures to the game. Additionally, the engine's handling of terrain visuals has been redesigned at a fundamental level to dramatically improve how the game renders them.
• Much more!

The vision remains: golden age sci-fi aesthetics meets pre-release NMS atmosphere, but with fundamentally transformed engine capabilities. Solar systems construct themselves as you explore, worlds transform dynamically, and visual fidelity pushes far beyond vanilla limitations.

This month's progress: https://imgur.com/a/nms-multiverse-dev-features-experiments-screenshots-clips-months-work-jun-10-2025-july-10-2025-18HJtaT

More game-changing features still in development. New showcase video coming soon.

[cold sequoia]

Holy ship alot lol

[cold sequoia]

Are you a NMS Dev worker at HG ?

[dreamy tulip]

Nice to meet you, DynastyRogue27!
I am not staff with Hello Games. Just a fellow traveler & NMS enthusiast ☺️

[cold sequoia]

Or damn thats cool you almost sound like a dev for them lol

@dreamy tulip maybe they mite get you to work with them next lol

[fresh arch]

Ray is a man on a mission from god

[dreamy tulip]

I'm flattered haha

No Man's Sky is such an awesome game.
Kudos to Hello Games for continuing to work on it... especially, for free. 👍🏼

[cold sequoia]

Me and all the other travelers agree abd they still selling to gane as well and I don't see any reason to not support thus great game

[solid hawk]

If he was, he'd be fired now for posting in public

HG employees are under strict NDA and may not post anything game related in public, ever, without prior permission from management.

This is why you don't see HG staff interacting in public.

Not allowed. Just admitting you work for HG without permission is enough to lose your job and face possible lawsuit.

Basically only one with permission is Martin Griffiths

[cold sequoia]

Thats true did not think of that lmfao

[flat kelp]

Anyone know if theres a mod that prevents missions from constantly changing? I'm getting tired of having to re select the same mission over & over & over, i couldnt find anything on nexus mods regarding this

[flat kelp]

😭

[dusk saffron]

creative hub has SOME frigate seeds. Link is in Pinned

[hearty wasp]

are all frigate seeds are just numbers 0 to 14 quintillion or someshit

in hex obviously

[solid hawk]

Living and Pirate 1 (0x1)
Normandy has a Seed of 0 (0x0)
Ghost frigate is 666

[main mesa]

Hey been trying to use mods but it seems no work like the one for ship parts in galactic trader

[fresh arch]

http://tinyurl.com/nmsmodding550

see the section about troubleshooting

[cobalt bay]

Hello
can someone tell me if they ever try to make a json of interceptor ship from scratch or an existing ship and tell me if i can create my own easily with some explanations
also i tried to find the flying udder pet but since i'm out of luck maybe someone has a file of the pet that i can freely edit
thanks

[fresh arch]

"make a json of interceptor ship"

all ships are stored in JSON save data, that's what any save editor works with

If you're asking about assembling your own interceptor from parts like we do fighters, explorers and other ships in starship fabricator machines, that will not happen

Because there are no descriptor groups for interceptor ships defined in vanilla game

[cobalt bay]

so only seeds work. i thought it would be easy XD

[solid hawk]

It's NMS. Easy not part of the vocabulary. lol

[cobalt bay]

random seeds XD

but pets are easy to do

[solid hawk]

Can find seeds posted for various ships on the Creative and Sharing Discord

[fresh arch]

if it were easy, someone would do that before I made the mod that added interceptors to starship fabricator

And that was weeks worth of work

and for seeds, there's only 1 person who cracked the code lol

[cobalt bay]

i mean i have time
it's hexadecimal from 0 to 0xFFFFFFFFFFFF
i took some notes but not on every one then check occurrences
i kinda want to know this person

still my research didn't help me crack the code yet

also updates are not helping it's changing some values of files i've made in the past so they don't work anymore

[solid hawk]

This person a) doesn't want to be known b) would tell you nothing about reversing the seeds. under NDA agreement with HelloGames to divulge nothing.

[solid hawk]

As long as the files are in the new (5 months old) EXML patch format, most are fairly update resistent.

If your files are full file replacement, MBIN or EXML with the entire file contents, then will break frequently.

[fresh arch]

or if they push whole ass structures and HG decides they feel like changing some property names rendering those structures unusable

but that's kinda an edge case but still happened and Im still pissed about it

[solid hawk]

Nothing new there

[hollow hill]

is there any mod tha tmakes all buildings destroy terrain? like, floors destroy terrain, is there anything that makes walls, stairs, roofs, and the stuff destroy terrain?

[solid hawk]

Nope

[cold sequoia]

[cobalt bay]

for some reasons the pet files are still usable tho i didn't have any issue with those

it might have been missed but i never encounter this kind of pet
i'm looking in euclid and that might be why, maybe someone with the file .cmp or .pet can help me ? i want to try colors for it.

[final hazel]

They're extremely common in purple star systems, and not found outside of them

Fauna chances aren't a feature dictated by galaxy type, besides the biomes that lack fauna completely being more common in some I guess

[cobalt bay]

they hide from me then XD

[final hazel]

I have a paradise giant with them on it that I could share the coordinates

rare/flying/alwaysactive my ass, they appeared the moment I teleported here lol

[cobalt bay]

i don't think i was going a lot in purple star system maybe that's why

thanks for the coordinate

[fresh arch]

I was talking about mods files like MBIN or EXML

not some exported pets

[cobalt bay]

since my freighter got bugged and some npcs got moved how can i get them back to their places

[fallow meadow]

How do you mean they got moved?

Are you referring to this: #nms-questions message ?

[cobalt bay]

yeah crew missplacement inside freighter

[fallow meadow]

I don't see how they are misplaced though

There are 5 crew total at the bridge, all the same

[cobalt bay]

they aren't next to each other tho
it was like days ago i edited my freighter to have better looking crews and color and it moved two of them

[fallow meadow]

Did you edit this: CurrentFreighterNPC ?

[cobalt bay]

where do i found that ?
unless nomnom might have messed the file i don't use any mods beside editing software

[fallow meadow]

Ah, you used NomNom, let me check

[fallow meadow]

You made changes for this?

Which basically does the same thing as I showed, just easier, without editing the JSON

[cobalt bay]

i've only edited crew seed

[fallow meadow]

That will change the appearance of the freighter crew you find at the bridge, there are 5 total, the Captain, the 2 NPCs you showed, the Navigator, and another NPC at the upper level above the bridge entrance

These 5, which in my case were changed to Robots. They will all look identical and match the seed/race you use there

The image you showed, has the 2 Gek, the captain and the others will look identical to those Gek. They are not misplaced.

Nothing to worry about

[cobalt bay]

wasn't there one on the left of the admiral and one on the right ?

and two on the top floor

[fallow meadow]

No, it has always been like this

[cobalt bay]

why i always see one about there then ?
which isn't there because he's on the other side

[dusk saffron]

are those still interacting? mine quit a long time ago on one of the updates

[fallow meadow]

I'd have to check actually.

[fallow meadow]

You are right, even though I can interact, the expected options for the role are not present, just animation or nothing, to then be thrown out or have to exit out again. So that's a shame 😢

I expect the regular races to still function? Just the fun replacements like the robots, no longer allow for this?

Maybe some of the NPCWorkers still work, or also failing now?

[dusk saffron]

@fallow meadowif I remember right, all the exotics are unavailable for interaction roles

but it has been over a year since I have changed any into anything non-vanilla

[hexed skiff]

just installed like 25 more mods pray for me

[dusk saffron]

Dear God, please help Eldsvadod find more important things in life to ask help for than video game mods. 🙂

[hexed skiff]

I asked to pray that my game starts lol but ok

[fresh arch]

New mod released: https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3625

[cold sequoia]

Say what now

Yeah am not needing this mod my ponds are fully upgraded lol

Or I see what you made happen

The terminals can now produce fishing bait thats cool

[fresh arch]

New mod released: https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3626

[cold sequoia]

👍

[pine copper]

Weird question, but is there a mod out there that changes the colors while using the scanner? I don't believe I have any vision problems, but I can barely tell the difference between "scanned" and "not scanned". I don't need any other changes, but increased contrast would be welcome.

[cobalt condor]

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/1928?tab=description

[maiden kernel]

Why is this not in the game?

This feels like when Minecraft modders add 50 things in one mod that would take Mojang 800 years to add

[sullen ridge]

Sadly true

[pine copper]

Perfect, thank you!

I guess I should have broadened my search; I was looking in Gameplay specifically.

[solid hawk]

Nobody here would have any idea.

[maiden kernel]

It's mostly a rhetorical question but still a serious one like bro that seems like a great addition to the game

[cold sequoia]

Lol

[slim aurora]

I think many mods do be like that for NMS honestly... One good example is integrated planets, which actually makes the planets blend in a nicer way with the space

[maiden kernel]

Imagine Minecraft mods but for nms. More trees and more blocks (walls and roofs and stuff)

[final hazel]

Oh I understand not having that one be default, everything just looks one color with that one

Planets be less colorful and whimsical and more generic scifi movie

[maiden kernel]

🥺

[final hazel]

The gradients look nice but every ball would probably look the same :<

Mods are cool cuz options

[slim aurora]

I'm mainly considering using Enjoyable Quicksilver

back when I played years years ago (i couldn't afford it so it was just a gog version a friend gave me lol), I remember that expeditions were just beginning so I used a few mods for the quicksilver to be earnable offline, and for rewards to be purchasable

It does feel good to own the game nowadays but damn, earning quicksilver long term can be tricky

but i think that adding it as a reward to a few default quests might be fun

[empty egret]

@solid hawk How long did it take you to figure out how to make the Sentinels Passive?

Hello Everyone 🙂

[solid hawk]

As that one is a remake of an old dead mod, had a base to work off of. Properties had changed in the intervening years though. Took me longer to find an aggressive sentinel planet to test on than it did to tweak the property settings.

[cunning sinew]

is that...

the sky booba

💔

[tawdry furnace]

I want to find out how likely it is to find s-class upgrade modueles at ss vendors. Is this information available in the save files? Can't check, I'm on console

[fresh arch]

It's not stored in save files, it's stored in game files but it's not defined as % chance

The tech vendors are guaranteed to have limited selection from C class upgrades

Anything past that is pulled from a list which includes all upgrades from all standard classes

By which I mean no pirate X class or trash ! class modules

[final hazel]

Would be really funny to replace some with the ! class modules

[tawdry furnace]

thank!

s

[fresh arch]

Unfortunately it ain't that simple

Reason being the trash tier upgrades work in a specific manner

The dedicated "package item" can open into a variety of modules

Can roll between ship, multitool and exosuit upgrades if memory serves right

There is no way to force a specific outcome so if you add this item to let's say ship tech vendor, you might end up getting multi tool upgrades which would be weird

[empty egret]

Oh ok Cool Wow

[slim aurora]

Unironically just now I noticed the person currently working on the mod reacted hehe

I enjoyed how it makes mundane things actually earn quicksilver so it becomes a rather "passive" income of sorts

Its super fun to find more ways to earn quicksilver

[solid hawk]

Glad you enjoy. I'm here on a daily basis. 🙂

[vale iron]

Yeah, tweaks like that are really good. I did one that made Salvaged Frigate Modules spawn less from freighter raiding and more from other legit sources. It's not that useful anymore since HG tweaked the loot tables, but I enjoy mods that do that style of thing.

[slim aurora]

Yeah, I remember back when I used your mods a whole lot years ago, hehe

I currently aint using as many mods honestly but im still around the 50 count, mainly using lo2k's mods and a few others from other authors

[vale iron]

Yeah, Lo2k is a good source

[slim aurora]

On god dude, so many qol stuff that constantly gets updated pretty much

[vale iron]

Most QoL stuff survives updates now

[slim aurora]

Mhm, until some are implemented

But tbh not a lot of them are implemented by the developers

[vale iron]

I mean we can do a lot with EXML mods now, which survive most updates

Since 5.50

Really 5.58

[slim aurora]

Oh yeah, I heard EXML doesn't require as much merging as it did with pak, is that right?

[vale iron]

Not just that, they survive updates better

Some things can't be done with EXML, but most things can

They are like patch mods, that only change the desired lines, so they work better with other mods and can be applied the same across most updates

[slim aurora]

ahhh I see

thats why this update didnt break all my currently installed mods

[solid hawk]

Still a smattering of mods with badly formed EXMLs (contain full file contents, not just changes) and as mentioned those which must remain MBIN files, that will require updating, as HG changes stuff in game files. For the most part though, moving forward, it should be much rarer to have to update mods, unless something with the mod is getting changed (code change, something added or removed).

There's a small number of mod authors who are updating mods even when they don't need to be updated, in order to farm DP, but NexusMods will catch up with these people, as that's in violation of the ToS.

[slim aurora]

Ahhh

[slim aurora]

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/2302

this mod unironically is the one I want to use the most nowadays, sadly stopped working altogether

there is one fork of it, but sadly it doesnt use my fav preset for it which is the right-shoulder one

i'll do some studying later to see if I can update the right-shoulder preset

[solid hawk]

I see, he made as a .pak. You can run the Lua script through AMUMSS to generate an updated version of the mod files.

ok, from downloaded, Lua script did require a little surgery to be current compliant.

Here's the fixed version.

Updated mod

[slim aurora]

Holy shit youre amazing

thank you!

[slim aurora]

ignore the messages I deleted, I basically had the old mod files zipped as well and ended up opening the wrong one, assuming yours also used .pak

[solid hawk]

No, .pak will NOT work with current versions of NMS

[slim aurora]

I figured hehe

I presume thats why you are working on updating mods lately, as I've seen with you updating quite a handful of mods

[solid hawk]

.pak mod won't work for NMS past 29 January 2025

[solid hawk]

Yeah, after I got all of my mods, except one, updated to current, I started going through old mods that could be updated and dragging them into the new NMS modding system.

Mostly ones dead from 2020-2023

Only a few from 2024 that I'd consider doing, but also giving the original mod authors time to come back and update on their own.

Ones abandoned for years are less problematic

[slim aurora]

Thats great because many old mods could still be relevant despite being deprecated, a good example was enjoyable quicksilver which as i read on the description, the source was passed to you so you could continue updating

or natural skies too

[solid hawk]

Yeah, I did take that one over last year.

[slim aurora]

it been long since i returned to NMS so when i discovered the modding format was replaced i was really happy with it

[solid hawk]

Thankfully, with the new modding system, in theory, most mods will hardly need to be updated. Now that I'm carrying a load of around 200 mods, would be impossible if they all needed to be updated every couple of months, like before.

[slim aurora]

oh hell yeah, plus the amount of merging would be a nightmare

[solid hawk]

The other advantage to the new EXML patch mod format, if done correctly, users shouldn't have to worry as much about merging, the game EXML parsing engine takes care of that.

For the most part, only need to worry about merging is if there's conflicting MBIN files.

[slim aurora]

I mainly enjoy going vanilla plus-esque so I'm only running 50 mods which are mainly quality of life and change small aspects, but most mods if they don't affect specific lines of code with other mods, are just pretty much plug-n-play

[solid hawk]

Example, both lMonk and myself have mods which change the sentinel ship cockpit SCENE file. SCENE have to be MBIN. So, to use both of our mods together would need to merge.

[slim aurora]

oh yeah, that reminds of lMonk's mods that make stuff procedural, I need to check those again

I remember first time i used the ship interior one though my radiant pillar ended up with a yellow interior LMAO

that was so long ago though

off-topic but I never sell or exchange the radiant pillar, as much as it occupies one of the owned ship slots

It's just a cozy ship imo

But yeah, i'll give monk's mods a check again

[cold sequoia]

How come the regular mods never needed updating since the new patch came out i thought normally we would need updates to mods that are none Exml

[final hazel]

Because the files those mods replace weren't changed in the update

[cold sequoia]

👍

Good

[solid hawk]

Soon after an update is released, can always find a list of the files changed on the NMS modding discord in the #mod-resources channel.

[cobalt condor]

The 'globals' files get updated pretty much every update, but there is no reason to not use EXMLs for those in mods. Aside from them, updates don't often touch files that aren't related to the new or changed features so if an MBIN heavy mod doesn't do anything related to the update it will probably be fine.

Globals were the main thing that made so many mods need updating for every update before.

[uncut owl]

does anybody know if I can get a black royal ship?

big noob here

[fresh arch]

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3007

This mod has an option to fabricate a black exotic ship

[hexed skiff]

Make a mod pack 💯💯💯🫡

Iv been tinkering with 20-30 smallish ones so far as a newer player would love to see what you recommend

[slim aurora]

Nahh im not a fan of modpacking
At best i'd list the mod names

[hexed skiff]

Same same lol

@slim aurora

❤️

[slim aurora]

Bet, give me a sec

[cold sequoia]

Cool

[slim aurora]

Im gonna take a nap and then send it, i need some rest

My apologies

[hexed skiff]

No sweat

[slim aurora]

Im awake, gonna work on it

[slim aurora]

Did a few revamps to my own mod-list and organized it in this document file, all the mod names & authors should be there @hexed skiff

[hexed skiff]

Tytyty

[woeful geyser]

Hi i tried to have mods on gamepass version but it dont work, someone can help me step by step?

[fresh arch]

http://tinyurl.com/nmsmodding550

Follow this guide, has steps for installing mods and troubleshooting

[woeful geyser]

Thanks you!

[woeful geyser]

Someone have a mod to unlock X.O suit in the game???

I have one but the last update on nexus mod is 2018

[solid hawk]

Think Consumerism might

[fresh arch]

I was gonna suggest your profile for unlocker mods

Or Winder's Getting Head

[hearty wasp]

Getting Head doesn't unlock shit anymore because HG hid em behind unlocks in the exe

so you have to have em in knownproducts i.e. unlock it w/ consumerism or otherwise

[woeful geyser]

What is that?

[hearty wasp]

mod

[woeful geyser]

I have it in know product but its not in my game, idk why

So consumerism is a mod?

[hearty wasp]

yes

[woeful geyser]

What this mod do?

[hearty wasp]

search on Nexus and read the mod description

also if you're using any other race than anomaly you can't use the xbox helmet

[woeful geyser]

Oh ok thanks you

[woeful geyser]

Maybe thats why i dont see it in the custom menu

[hearty wasp]

yeah that's what Getting Head's for

[woeful geyser]

If i use this mod for the XO helmet, can i keep it if i delete the mod? Or it will lock all item?

[woeful geyser]

Nvm i got it, i was using another race thanks alot for the help

[hearty wasp]

the game will reset your head if you uninstall it

you can just always keep it installed

it's easy to just not touch it after installing it

[cold sequoia]

Hello guys

[slim aurora]

That is a wild mod name

[solid hawk]

You think that's wild, check out RecTUM

[cold sequoia]

Lmfao

Rectum needs that head lmfao

[empty egret]

@solid hawk I landed on a planet and the Sentinels attacked me with the Pacified Sentinel Mod installed

[hearty wasp]

1. link the mod
2. why not just use the difficulty setting

[empty egret]

See

[hearty wasp]

neither of those is a link

you can right click on the mod in Vortex to open the mod's page in your browser

[empty egret]

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/1015

[hearty wasp]

it's old as fuck

and also not maintained by Babs

try https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/1245 maybe

next time when you're looking for a mod on Nexus sort by "Last Updated"

[empty egret]

Ok Sorry everyone

I Apologise

[hearty wasp]

no need to be sorry

not everyone knows old mods don't work

[empty egret]

@hearty wasp See Babs does have it

I linked the wrong one

[hearty wasp]

yeah that's not the one you linked nor the one you installed so

[empty egret]

This is the one I use page looked the same https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3586

@hearty wasp

[hearty wasp]

I did tell you to go to the mod page through vortex so I expected you to have gotten to the page that way

if you did then you installed the wrong mod

[empty egret]

I went in via Nexus Site

[hearty wasp]

can you confirm this is actually the one you installed by doing it through vortex

[empty egret]

Like this?

[hearty wasp]

yes thanks

[empty egret]

Yvw

[hearty wasp]

go to MODS folder

and take a screenshot of it like this

include all the details highlighted

[empty egret]

Is that what you wanted?

[hearty wasp]

Ye

Looks to be in order

Go to the No Mam's Sky folder

Go into Binaries\SETTINGS\ and delete GCMODSETTINGS.MXML

Then try again

[empty egret]

@hearty wasp I Deleted it went back into NMS and they attacked me again

[hearty wasp]

You may want to try to install the mod manually

[empty egret]

Would that make a difference?

[hearty wasp]

Could

#nms-modding message installation section

Post another screenshot of your MODS folder after installing

[empty egret]

@hearty wasp As you see I removed the game from Vortex

[hearty wasp]

Cool

Now install the mod manually which is unrelated to this

[empty egret]

@hearty wasp Here is what's going on and installed manually

[hearty wasp]

I dunno why you deleted your previous MODS folder screenshot but I can't read any of your other mods' names clearly from the video

But test in game first ig

[empty egret]

I am VERY protective of what I show on my Computer

[hearty wasp]

Cool

I still need to be able to read what's in your folder

[empty egret]

So things like that get Deleted after Use sorry

[hearty wasp]

Do you know where the other mod folders are from?

[empty egret]

Nexus

[hearty wasp]

Yeah but which mod

If they're not ingame customisation related I'd suggest trying without those mods as well

[empty egret]

They are Ingame Customization

I need those for my Cruise Control and that

[hearty wasp]

I mean things related to the customisation mechanic in game

Things like ship building/base building/character customisation

[empty egret]

@hearty wasp

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3354

And

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3348

[hearty wasp]

Yeah yeet em

[empty egret]

Yeet?

[hearty wasp]

Remove

[empty egret]

I can't

I need them for my Cruise Control

[hearty wasp]

I'm not asking you to play the game without them

[empty egret]

Oh ok

[hearty wasp]

I'm telling you to test the game without them so you get to know if they are interfering with it

If you do not want to you are free to use the other mod I linked above or accept that you are going to get angry cops in your game

Cool

Do you wanna try the other mod I linked?

[empty egret]

I didn't see it

[hearty wasp]

#nms-modding message

Also, from the comment section

Since you had to pick up a thing to aggro the cops

[empty egret]

@hearty wasp I got this when using the Mod you sent to me

[hearty wasp]

it shouldn't

try yeeting GCMODSETTINGS.MXML again

happens sometimes

[empty egret]

It did I took it and game loaded fine

Could you just say delete please I am not used to slang I am old

[hearty wasp]

meh it's just a faster word to write

[empty egret]

See

It did it again

[hearty wasp]

I just tested it and it loaded in fine

at this point it's either the mods you still have installed, you didn't yeet MODSETTINGS, or your game is somehow corrupt

have you tested with a new save?

[hearty wasp]

when I said new save I mean creating a new save slot in the save select screen

[empty egret]

It is not letting me get that far

[hearty wasp]

then describe how far the game got

mod warning screen? mode select screen?

[empty egret]

Right past the Modding Warning

[hearty wasp]

if it's crashing before the No Man's Sky splash screen then it's likely not the mod's fault

you may want to try verifying game integrity on Steam

but other than that and yeeting the other mods you have before testing there isn't much else you can do I don't think

it's known that the mods you still have installed are pretty expansive in scope and it's very possible that it is interfering with one or more of your other mods

so if you want to keep them then you should have the expectation of them overriding any mod that you may find not working

[empty egret]

See

[hearty wasp]

yeah verify game integrity

hmm actually

do you have the No Random Sentinels And No Pirates Ultimate version installed?

if so you may want to try the non-ultimate ones

[empty egret]

Yeah I do

Is there an issue with the Ultimate one?

[hearty wasp]

it edits a lot more files which may have been broken in recent updates

[empty egret]

Oh ok

[hearty wasp]

the other ones only edit 1 file which is basically update-proof

[empty egret]

Oh ok

Ultimate just sounded good LOL

[hearty wasp]

that's fair

[empty egret]

I know of a Discord Server that actually worships the Sentinels

I used the unultimat one and got in

@hearty wasp This is with the No Sentinel Mod installed

[hearty wasp]

looks working

[empty egret]

They are attacking me

[hearty wasp]

it says searching on top right

also have you tried on another planet

[empty egret]

Wait they are just ticked off like Sentinels always are LOL

[hearty wasp]

if you are not being shot at then it works

[empty egret]

Oh ok

Good then I can Raid this Planet for the Glow Orbs

[hearty wasp]

you may have just had a different expectation of what the mod functions in practice

[empty egret]

I expected No Sentinels

[hearty wasp]

with the one you originally had installed I mean

[empty egret]

I have the NO Sentinels one installed and am still seeing Sentinels

[hearty wasp]

from the description

may be worth reading the description of the mods you get

[empty egret]

Ultimate don't work LOL

[hearty wasp]

cool

[empty egret]

How is not working Cool?

[hearty wasp]

the mod you have installed is functioning as expected

feel free to report the ultimate version as broken in the mod's comment section

[empty egret]

I don't have the Ultimate

[hearty wasp]

I didn't say you have the ultimate version installed

[empty egret]

Ok Cool

[hearty wasp]

I said the one you have installed is functioning as expected

[empty egret]

Yeah true

[hearty wasp]

cool

[empty egret]

Modders Gas Giants should look like this LOL

[solid hawk]

We can't do that, so good luck.

NMS modding is HIGHLY limited as to what is and isn't achievable

The above is not a modder thing, it's an HG thing.

BTW, you're right about that Ultimate mod. It's the ENTITY causing the crash. Was never updated to take into account major file structure changes.

I have a sneaking suspicion Noob will be contacting me soon about fixing that up. haha

[empty egret]

@solid hawk The No Sentinels Ultimate Mod?

I reread and see now

[hearty wasp]

actually I think the atmosphere from space is just a texture like clouds from space

so it's technically possible if there is an unwrapped texture somewhere out there

if anyone care to do it is a different matter of course

[empty egret]

See what I start LOL

[solid hawk]

May be shader involvement as well.

I did misspeak. Technically possible, but nobody is going to go anywhere near that, due to the MANY hours it'd take. Deep dark rabbit hole of pain and frustration.

[cobalt condor]

Gas giants are just using flow maps to get the liquid effect of their atmospheres. Nothing too special, but you need to know what those are and how they work to replace them. I doubt any modders would care to do it or even have the skill to make working flow map that actually looks better than what HG already gave us

[solid hawk]

What need to happen is solid landing surface need to be removed and if you get too close to one, you die of radiation poisoning, just like reality. 🙂

[empty egret]

I found a Pink Gas Giant and named it Hello Kitty

[hollow hill]

is it possible to get a walker as pet??? just got a pet of the quad thingy

[untold swan]

trying to change some colours on my main staff, is there a way to find the 255 value instead of this number/convert from 255?

[cobalt condor]

The values are only stored as 0-1. You just have to multiply it by 255, though that is more of a pain the more colours you're dealing with

[south orbit]

Quad pet was past expedition reward.

[dark pasture]

Is there a mod that makes your ship go a little fast when pressing shift to get around faster when on a planet

[solid hawk]

There are ship flight mods which increase speed

Galaxy S Flight and Fly Dangerous, but there's others

[dark pasture]

Like on Nexus mods?

[cold sequoia]

Yes

[solid hawk]

That's the ONLY reputable source for NMS mods

[cold sequoia]

@solid hawk hello how are things with you mate ?

[solid hawk]

A bit rough today, but muddling through. Updating a really large and tedious mod. Kids not letting me concentrate and focus.

[cold sequoia]

I feel you on this witch mod isit ?

[sick bloom]

Hey are there any good performance mods? My PC kinda struggles with the VR mode even on standard settings. It's not terrible but the performance isn't great. I saw a mod that removes clouds but I think it's outdated

[solid hawk]

Script, for somebody else's mod, so can't say without the authors permission. Got about 1/3 of the way done today. Hoping 2/3 after tomorrow.

[short wolf]

@round sinew is it possible to see your base glyphs using a save editor?

[cold sequoia]

I understand mate

[fresh arch]

The base data in save data contains galactic address which can be translated into glyph address

[round sinew]

@short wolf see reply from FriendlyFire above

[short wolf]

@round sinewi've downloaded nomnom, how do i use the app?

[round sinew]

i'm not familiar with nomnom, but basically look around bases section, see what you can see, if you want me to help you'll have to give me screenshots of what you're seeing

[short wolf]

oh shit

my bad

i download an npkg file idk what that is instead of exe file

[round sinew]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/what-is-nuget

Put simply, a NuGet package is a single ZIP file with the .nupkg extension that contains compiled code (DLLs), other files related to that code, and a descriptive manifest that includes information like the package's version number.

[short wolf]

where is the savefile/savedata in no man sky stored again? i used xbox gamepass on pc

[round sinew]

!faq-savefiles @short wolf

[hardy aurora]

@short wolf
-# to view info below, enable embeds

<:atlasnmscord:1269532093076078658> **Save File Locations**

Steam
%appdata%\HelloGames\NMS\st_<Steam64ID>\...

Game Pass
%LocalAppData%\Packages\HelloGames.NoMansSky_bs190hzg1sesy\SystemAppData\wgs\...

GoG
%appdata%\HelloGames\NMS\DefaultUser\...

Linux & Steam Deck
$HOME/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/275850/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Application Data/HelloGames/NMS/st_<Steam64ID>/...

Mac
/Users/<yourname>/Library/Application Support/HelloGames/NMS/st_<your steam ID>/

When sharing saves in a report to Hello Games, it is best to create a package/archive of the full folder shown for your platform above (.zip/.rar).

Contributors: Devilin Pixy#9298, bkay201#1943

[short wolf]

where is it?

i'm a bit confused.

[round sinew]

open the containers index file itself

[short wolf]

how do i get to my bases glyphs?

my old base had 2 the meatballs location only 600u distance

i hadn't played in a month, i forgot things

[round sinew]

select a save, then click edit

[short wolf]

this is the base. It is called "nanites base". What do i click to get me my glyphs?

[round sinew]

what do these buttons do?

[short wolf]

1. Description
2. Take a picture
3. Not available
4. Discord creative hub

[round sinew]

thanks; and this one?

[round sinew]

ah

[short wolf]

who here use nomnom? please help 😦

[round sinew]

okay, then we do need to use the raw json editor

[short wolf]

okay

[short wolf]

it is locked for me

maybe because i deleted the game from xbox gamepass?

[round sinew]

post a screenshot of what you see

[short wolf]

my old account is xbox gamepass. I finally have the money to buy from steam now and i bought it

[round sinew]

you need to get back to main editor window

[round sinew]

i installed nomnom to be able to find out

[short wolf]

@round sinewi got in. What am i looking for? to find my base glyph?

[short wolf]

click file,settings, click advanced mode, hit apply and ok

[round sinew]

basecontext, playerstatedata, persistentplayerbases

[round sinew]

yeah figured that was going to be it

[short wolf]

and then? is this it?

[round sinew]

that would be converted to this

i think

[short wolf]

Okay

I think that's on Euclid galaxy, I'm pretty sure but just want to check?

Now. How do I know the exact position of my base again?

Latitude and longitude?

[round sinew]

what exactly are you trying to do again?

[round sinew]

5th and 6th chars in the galactic address are 00, so that would mean euclid

[short wolf]

So, in my old account I have a nanite farm base that is super convenient

I want to make another base at the exact same spot in a new account

I just need the location

[round sinew]

i'd just export base layout from old save and import into new save

but i'm trying to learn/understand how to get such info from the save editor

[short wolf]

Oh

[final hazel]

You could just ctrl + a and copy all the base data, then paste it over a dummy base on the save you want it on

[short wolf]

Haven't you done that in the save editor before switching to nomnom?

[short wolf]

Will it cause any problem?

[final hazel]

It has not caused any problems for me, besides the obvious loss of the base you replace it with

[round sinew]

you may need to fix the teleporter endpoint

[final hazel]

That fixes itself

[round sinew]

ok

[final hazel]

At least in all the times I've done it

[heavy merlin]

I think you may need to copy your new user ID into it, otherwise it'll still be owned by the old account

[final hazel]

Oh that too maybe

[short wolf]

I'm not really a tech guy, I dun wanna tinker things ya know

[final hazel]

I forgot this was two different accounts

[short wolf]

Yes yes mhm mhm

[final hazel]

But you could just paste the base data into a text editor and replace all the instances of your old name/ID/platform with your new name/ID/platform

[heavy merlin]

But if you uploaded the base with the old account, you can probably see it there already, and making a second version of it in the same place may not be a good idea

[short wolf]

Just a quick question

[final hazel]

Yeah that may be awkward

Though you could report the base

[short wolf]

If I install NMS on steam. Will it delete my save file on Xbox gamepass?

[final hazel]

No, they should be stored completely separately

[heavy merlin]

IIRC they store the saves in different places, so it shouldn't... but backups are a good idea anyway

[round sinew]

@short wolf not sure if it's working properly or not, but nomnom literally has a full save migration wizard, all it needs is a few manual inputs to make it work. so you could literally migrate all progress from existing GP save to an empty steam save

idk if that's overkill or not

[short wolf]

is this a clue to latitude and longitude?

okay bk

[round sinew]

those are relative to base comp, or probably base comp original claim position actually

[short wolf]

does it translate to latitude and longitude? if it is, i may have a lead

[round sinew]

i dont know how to work with these into latitude and longitude sorry, that's what i was trying to learn

personally, i'd just either full migrate or just copy full base layout code

because if you copy code and paste it in to steam save, you should at least be able to see it and teleport to it, that would easily get the location

[short wolf]

Okay

[round sinew]

remember, these should be matching the ones on the steam save base you're going to overwrite though

PTK=ST might be standing for "steam"

not sure about that

[final hazel]

PTK is platform, for gamepass it is XB

[round sinew]

yeah that makes sense ofc

[hearty wasp]

No

#nms-modding message

[vale iron]

Yeah you can't translate into latitude and longitude relative to the surface, since it's distance from the core of the planet in 3 axes

[hearty wasp]

Unless you have the skill and mental fortitude to do a Mercator Projection ig

[steel crypt]

I did stupid amounts of trig (that I’m not good at), on a napkin, to do manual transforms on some models.
I’m a caveman. A person with a normal brain should be able to do the Mercator no sweat.

Also, I have the fear of folding clothes.

[hexed skiff]

So i love mods for my normal save- is there an easy way to toggle them for a permadeath save i dont wana use some on? Or is really moving out of folder b4 launch only way

[fresh arch]

No easy way to toggle them from game

Either use a mod manager with different presets

Or make variants of the mod settings MXML file with mods disabled and swap that file before launching the game

[brittle reef]

It is on my planet here, and it took me a long time to find this guy

[brittle reef]

Name what you want in return

[solid hawk]

Just use companion pet mod

[brittle reef]

I don’t even know what kind of animal that is bro

[uncut owl]

anybody know if there is a list of different companions on this site?

like that i can find via portal or seed

[steel crypt]

!creativehublink

[hardy aurora]

https://discord.gg/AEXcap6

[spare linden]

Oh

[steel crypt]

There is here (at link above) creative hub

[round sinew]

@hazy patrol see <#nms-modding message>, grab a save editor, backup your save folder (!faq-savefiles in #bot-spam )

[brittle reef]

I don’t have a pc though and I want the fairy mf 💀😭

Rip

[hollow hill]

can someone teach me how to save edit? please? ;~;

is it possible to edit Ship Atributes with Save Editor?

[fresh arch]

Yeah you can edit innate bonuses to core stats like damage or handling from a save editor

[hollow hill]

is it possible to edit the speed of the ship ?

[fresh arch]

No, speed is not a parameter stored in save data

Each ship uses one type of predefined flight control schemes stored in game files

So you would need to look for mods that modify those values

[vale iron]

Speed is modified a bit by maneuverability, but do NOT edit maneuverability by more than like 10% or so in the save editor. If it gets too high, you start spinning out of control. Otherwise, you need a mod to affect speed.

[fresh arch]

You will not find any answer in modding

Only 1 modder that I know of that plays in VR

And mods don't have anything to do with input signals

[hardy atlas]

i see thanks

[whole prairie]

Where do I get a AtlasPass?

oops wrong channel sorry

[final hazel]

You can buy the blueprint for it from the Space Anomaly's Synthesis Laboratory using Nanites

[whole prairie]

Thanks

[hollow hill]

how i change the creature size with Save Editor?

can i do that?

[dusk saffron]

I think it is here, but it's been a while since I have done it. And I am not sure it can still be done, as they nixed it for character.

[hollow hill]

Idk where that is ;p

[hearty wasp]

you can search for strings with crtl f

so you can just search for the headers and param names shown in the picture

[hollow hill]

No but like, whats that window he has open, the "JSON Editor"

[hearty wasp]

the Edit tab on top left

should have an option to edit save json

[hollow hill]

i can't find the "Pets" tab, actually there's almost nothing in the tab

[hearty wasp]

not the account json

[hollow hill]

and the ctrl+F thing isn't finding it

[hollow hill]

then what?

[hearty wasp]

the raw json

[hollow hill]

ok found it, ty

so after editing i just close the tab and save like normal?

hmmm, he's big in the hologram version

but is still small

[dusk saffron]

I just checked a save where I had edited a pet really huge, and it is not huge anymore

[hollow hill]

oooh ;~;

[dusk saffron]

this is what it was 2 or 3 years ago

vanilla it was still pretty big, but now it is shorter than my character

[hollow hill]

so.... no way to do it anymore...?

[dusk saffron]

if there is, I don't know what it is

[hollow hill]

GAAAH i am always late for the fun stuff 😭

[dusk saffron]

there were no sentinel ships, utopia speeders or starborn runners then 🙂

[gusty blade]

I'm trying to get AMUMSS, in the pdf for it's how to it says I need .NET6, do I need to have .NET6 specifically or should I get the latest which in this case is 9.0

[lilac crow]

Is there any mod that adds a bit more colors to ships? Like i would like more shades of purple. Everything on nexus seems outdates so i thought i might ask here. All i want is more colors to ships.

[weary ruin]

.net 6 specifically, it is required by MBINCompiler
all .net major version are independent of the others

[gusty blade]

When I ran the bat file it automatically got net5 as it suggested it. After a few errors finally got the mods running

Although not all worked perfectly, whenever I went in the anomaly with said mods it crashed the game, wish it told which specific mod causes the issue

[solid hawk]

Outdated one, most likely.

[gusty blade]

What are PAK files and where are they in mod files? There are some mods which don't have lua so how do I compile them in amumss

[cobalt condor]

PAK files are no longer used in mods. They are the compressed archive format that the game files are stored in

If a mod has no LUA it can't be compiled in AMUMSS

[fresh arch]

http://tinyurl.com/nmsmodding550

[gusty blade]

So I can just run it directly through vortex without any issues?

[cobalt condor]

Depends if it is up to date 🤷‍♂️

[gusty blade]

Do mods work in the anomaly? My game kept crashing whenever I had mods. After removing all the mods and going back it worked fine

I tried putting a few mods back on through vortex but they weren't working anymore

[fresh arch]

Mods do not prevent players from being able to do multiplayer stuff

Refer to the guide I linked, it explains that only mods updated past January this year have even a chance to work

Also stick to manual installation to make sure mods get unpacked correctly from ZIP archives

[gusty blade]

So I should keep an eye out for upload dates on nexus? Anything before that won't work?

[fresh arch]

Yes, browse through recently updated or newly released mods

[gusty blade]

Alright I'll try removing everything and starting over again

[fresh arch]

Don't go past January this year

[gusty blade]

Okay

Thanks alot

[solid hawk]

29 Jan 2025 to be specific

So, that great mod you want, last updated 28 Jan 2025....it's toast

[gusty blade]

That's a pretty tight spot for a game that has 2k mods

[fresh arch]

The game is still in active development, things change with major updates

It's still better than what it used to be, in some cases we had to update our mods even for consecutive minor patches

Now with the new system most of simple mods can be made as EXML patches making them more update resistant

[solid hawk]

On 29 Jan 2025, HelloGames made changes to the modding format which made all prior mods unworkable.

[dusk saffron]

and yet, THANKFULLY, the people here making mods adapted and overcame to keep bringing players new free mods to improve their gameplay. I have gratitude for that.

[slim aurora]

Its sad that one of my fav mods is nowadays outdated

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/1722

This one was a nice alternative to black space

As it still had colors but not aaaas blinding as the vanilla game

Plus the option to not entirely remove the speed lines but reduce em

I'll see if I can study it in amumss but knowing me I probably wont be able to update it 💀

[slim aurora]

I THINK i may have updated it successfully

[midnight venture]

@random shuttle

[hallow fossil]

Just realized why nms never really clicked with me - the floaty and unresponsive movement.

Just played Satisfactory for a while and it feels so much snappier and better to play.

Are there are mods to NMS to make it feel better to play? Thanks

Shame that it falls off because of that, seems so good otherwise 😦

[slim aurora]

I managed to update part of the mod, if anyone wants it lmk

[hearty wasp]

Specific examples will be great but otherwise can't think of anything that can be changed regarding the control smoothing the game does

[hallow fossil]

Shame :/ Hard to explain, but to put it more clearly, nms feels floatly, a bit unresponsive and generally bad to play. It's similar to some games where the first person view is based on the 3rd person's views inputs with the same intertia etc. Tricky to explain, but trying Satisfactory back to back with nms made it super clear

[fresh arch]

I don't think there's any Mo's that would make the game "snappier" if that's what you wanr

!hg

[hardy aurora]

Submit bug reports, suggestions or feedback to Hello Games here: https://hellogames.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

[hallow fossil]

Alrighty, I'll post a feedback req. Thank you

[hearty wasp]

turn on nvidia reflex ig

I think the game just applies a smoothing to camera in general

[gusty blade]

Is there a mod to fix the slow exocraft 1st person sensitivity?

[dusk saffron]

try searching exocraft at nexus mods

[gusty blade]

Alright

Found one

Will try it later

[round sinew]

@robust iris if you're on pc, you could give https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/1906 a try. read notes, pros and cons.

[robust iris]

thx bro i will

[round sinew]

@atomic oriole fairly simple. download the program, point it to save folder, select save file to edit, navigate around to get the info you want. check pinned posts

[atomic oriole]

ok ty

[round sinew]

even if you're just using it to view, not actually edit, and even if you werent going to save edit anyway, it's always a good idea to have up to date backups of the save folder. anything just ask

[obsidian tree]

So since some people in another channel were talking about my mod, I figured I should probably share it here since I forgot: https://github.com/monkeyman192/NMS-Newton
This is my mod which makes planets move in NMS! This works for the latest version but will not work properly in multiplayer (as in, the planet locations are not sync'd over multiplayer sessions)
I'd recommend saving in a space station before installing and running the mod as all planet positions are changed for the mod.
Would also recommend backing up your saves too just in case!

[sleek axle]

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/1644

[slim aurora]

oh i have that already

[sleek axle]

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/1098?tab=description

[slim aurora]

i think its mostly for interiors

[sleek axle]

hold on

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/358

here u go

these 3 work extremly well together

[slim aurora]

this one I never saw

[sleek axle]

u can see how it fixes the atmosphere rendering

[slim aurora]

i think it would prooobably kill my 1660 lol

[sleek axle]

so they dont look yk

covered

nah it doesnt lower the fps at all

it only fixes the broken shader hello games addded lol

[slim aurora]

oh wait, its not a LOD mod

[sleek axle]

its a must have mod

[slim aurora]

ahhhhhhhhh

[sleek axle]

its not yeah

it only fixes the atmosphere shader, u can see for ur self how good it looks now

[slim aurora]

man (correct pronouns if must) thank you for that genuinely!

ill try it rn!

any more mods you'd recommend? im currently running a decently sized modlist with most QoL mods

[sleek axle]

trust me it will make ur screenshots look epic

[slim aurora]

but i never heard of that one before!

[sleek axle]

atm am just prefering vanilla

mods

that doesnt change the game

[slim aurora]

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/1722

another mod I enjoy using @sleek axle

[sleek axle]

there was a mod i used to have that adds sub biomes to planets

[slim aurora]

its un-updated but I did tinkering and revived it

i have the files if you want

[sleek axle]

making planets not often repeat

[sleek axle]

i mean i want it to look vanilla so i can know well what i see is what others see

[slim aurora]

ahh gotcha gotcha, that is very fair

[sleek axle]

just enjoy the game and look at the atmosphere after u got it installed

make sure to take pics

[slim aurora]

is fine lod still remotely necessary lately?

i was considering getting it but idk if its still as needed as it used to be

[slim aurora]

ill make sure to send one to you if you dont mind!

[sleek axle]

if u like to use it, use it

[slim aurora]

WAIT, so thats why i felt something was wrong with the planets all along! @sleek axle

[sleek axle]

ye they are bricked

lol

[cobalt condor]

vanilla night planets are particularly bad

Really its just a nighttime problem, but they're coloured with the night fog which is always black/dark blue instead of the space colour

[slim aurora]

dead planets may actually look nice this time around lol

[sleek axle]

They peak with that mod

[slim aurora]

My issue with dead planets is that they still have a massive fog

So despite having no atmosphere planets are hard to see

[scenic leaf]

Hey, just got back to NMS after a bit of a break (last time I played was when they added playable sentinel ships), and I want to know if some of older mods I used
a) will work
b) are even needed
c) are actually working to not mess up my older saves
and if using vortex is viable, or will I will have a lot of problems not installing mods manually and merging them through ammums (which I don't remember how even works)

Also, I'll welcome any new cool mod recommendations for newer content :V

[solid hawk]

See the answers to your cross posted questions at #215569912121262080 message

[cobalt condor]

a) The modding format has changed, so the game wont be able to load any mods that haven't been updated for the new format
b) We don't know what mods you're talking about, so 🤷‍♂️
c) A mod can't mess up your save, no matter how broken that mod is

[solid hawk]

I was a bit wordier, but about the same info. 🙂

Twisted minds think alike and all that, haha

[cobalt condor]

haha yeah

fortunately very easy cookie cutter answers for these questions

[warm spoke]

What's this channel for? Adding mods?

[solid hawk]

Adding, removing, questions, answers

Official take, in the channel header is

[warm spoke]

O ok

Can I also ask about game rules here?

[solid hawk]

What do you mean by game rules?

As long as you're not griefing others, can play as you wish

[warm spoke]

Just because I have been seeing some vids about duping and they're very alluring, not sure if I could get banned for it

So just asking

[solid hawk]

Nope, nobody cares about that