nms-modding

[sweet trench]

for some reason i have mods installed but tehre not showing up on nms like giving me teh red screen help?

[hearty wasp]

#nms-modding message troubleshooting section

[sweet trench]

does vortex automaticaly update or do ia have to do it manually

[hearty wasp]

manually

[sweet trench]

ok thx

will my mods transfere?

[hearty wasp]

what do you mean

when you install mods manually?

[sweet trench]

nv but i updated and it still dont work

[hearty wasp]

updated what

are you reading the troubleshooting section

or just the installation

[sweet trench]

ahight did it ty

[marble pewter]

somone can make me a fiting staff

[empty trail]

Why did I read this as flirting 😭
Also if you mean a custom staff model I don't know if that's possible since mods can't add any new features. Maybe one could be done to replace the model of the atlas scepter?

[marble pewter]

idk i trying do a xmas staff

but idk how

[solid hawk]

How much do you know about modelling in Blender and making TEXTURES?

[ancient wagon]

tbh he does need a flirting staff

[coarse sky]

hello, i downloaded a mod from nexus, on googling how to intall mods i see i make a folder "MODS" in the PCBANKS folder but the it says the mods are .pak files... the mod i just downloaded is a .EXML file?

[final hazel]

This is heavily outdated information, please see http://tinyurl.com/nmsmodding550

[coarse sky]

dose anyone know if this is a mod file for no mans sky? on googling literally every result says the mod files are .pak files, i am a bit concerned about the safety of this file

ok thanks for the link

[final hazel]

That is indeed a file that will be inside of the mod folder's file structure

the mod folder's file structure must be maintained, all folders inside of the mod folder should resemble paths to the game's files

.pak files are no longer used for mods, the game will not read them. This has been the case since January 29th, 2025

[coarse sky]

thanks for the extra info , got the mod working fine with new method, thanks so much!

[raven ledge]

does anyone know how people get the small teleporter inside their corvettes?

[final hazel]

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/1096 or https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/2598 or https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/984

[raven ledge]

thanks

[marble pewter]

somone can help me get a seed for a green and red staff pls its for xmas

[solid hawk]

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/2976

one color though

[marble pewter]

i dont use mod to play w my friend that why i need a seed or file

you know how to get sum

[solid hawk]

Nope. It's a modding channel, so we do mods. Might try #nms-lfg-or-trades

[marble pewter]

alr np thx

[solid hawk]

Left you a reply on Creative and Sharing.

[marble pewter]

somone got a ship that match

[sturdy yew]

question please, i was messing around with the goatfungus save editor and somehow my save got deleted, but there is a backup made by the save editor. How do i upload the backup and restore the deleted save file please? im on pc gamepass btw

[fresh arch]

Should be just a matter of copying the files from backup into the working directory

!faq-savefiles

[hardy aurora]

-# 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

[solid hawk]

Better to put in #nms-lfg-or-trades . Less than 1% of NMS playters use mods and of those, people generally only check this channel when they need help finding or troubleshooting a mod. By posting in here, you are drastically limiting the number of people who will see.

[snow trellis]

Is there a mod/tool that will list all POIs within a certain radius (say 5k) with their co-ordinates? I would like to havea better view of waht is around me ^.^

[hearty wasp]

can't

[west solstice]

does anyone know a mod where you can rotate and place corvette parts by small angles instead of the usual 90°

[solid hawk]

Isn't one.

[viscid rampart]

If I were to use planetary generation mods will my friends see em or nah. I try to keep my mod usage to only specific features so I have no issues with crossplay.

[solid hawk]

Not unless your friends are using the same mod.

With NMS, all mods are local

[viscid rampart]

Alrighty, that’s all I need to know

thank you

Well actually last thing, know of any power generation mods that work for this current version?

[fresh arch]

What's a power generation mod?

Can't you just use option in difficulty settings to have always powered base?

[viscid rampart]

Ah, didn’t know that was possible, my save is over 10 years old

my B

[fresh arch]

Interesting considering the game barely had 9th anniversary

[round sinew]

just noticed that there's now a hgpaktool linux binary 🤩

monkeyman, not just because of that, but you're definitely included in my next round of donations, i'll at least buy you a cup of <your favorite beverage here>

[solid hawk]

@obsidian tree ^

[round sinew]

sorry, not sure why i didnt ping

ty Babs

[solid hawk]

No biggy. Now he'll see

He'll be wiping the blur out of his eyes in about 5 hours

[round sinew]

ah, still asleep 😄

[solid hawk]

Darned aussies

[round sinew]

hgpaktool is working like a champ hehe

was fast too 🙂

lol a simple oneliner beats using a windows vm any day

for file in `/bin/ls $nmspcbanksfolder`; do ~/bin/hgpaktool/hgpaktool-x86_64-unknown-linux $nmspcbanksfolder/$file -O $extractedoutputfolder; done

[viscid rampart]

Brother. Not all of us give all our energy to know how much time has passed, I played it in 2016, congratulations you wanna be technical about 9 years, 4 months and 8 days.

[radiant cedar]

Which save editor should I use?

[solid hawk]

Whichever you prefer

Neither is better than the other and gui feature set is not 100% duplicated between them.

Some stuff is bettter with Goatfungus, others NomNom

They are both free, so use both for a bit (one at a time though) and get familiar.

[obsidian tree]

could have just passed it the folder itself and it will do them sequentially 😛
No need to loop 😉

[round sinew]

sweeeet, thanks! 😄 hehe really appreciate this

[obsidian tree]

I was thinking of adding an option to run it in multiple threads or processes, but I'm not entirely sure if it would make it faster (because python).
I'm currently working on adding support for re-packing files, but at some point I might look at this and see if adding multithreading actually improves performance

possibly if I did the decompression in one thread and the file io in the other it might? Haven't profiles to see what the "bottleneck" is

[round sinew]

sounds like a possible way to

[frank pelican]

Can I do anything with the Intact Skeleton, besides sell it? Can it be put on display?

[scarlet bolt]

what are some good storage mods?

[round sinew]

hmm, did you mean to ask this in a different channel? you're in #nms-modding atm

[frank pelican]

Oops sorry...

[round sinew]

nothing to be sorry about 🙂 the intact skeleton sounds like some proc gen loot - did you get that from a milestone reward? then you can just sell it, it's not a base part like titanic trophy

[frank pelican]

Thanks!

[radiant cedar]

what is the name of the mod that allows you to place unlimited corvette parts?

[solid hawk]

Search NMS mods on NexusMods for the word corvette. It'll be in the results list.

[steel crypt]

What is the name of the mod that helps you hunt people that make gigantic corvettes that crash other people’s game?

[radiant cedar]

What

[final hazel]

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3721

[toxic notch]

guys is there a way to add custom soundtracks for ingame play..i don't want to play a seperate music like on spotify or yt music...its should be incorporated in game and the playlist could be random...shuffle...including nms soundtracks..

[snow trellis]

Beatbox Music ?

[solid hawk]

Nope

[round sinew]

check this out, perhaps this could help https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/2068

[empty trail]

Look into the bytebeat system

Not a mod just a

Feature in the game

[scarlet bolt]

thank you

[solid hawk]

Can't add additional music, only play the built-in

[final hazel]

But you can...

[solid hawk]

That's newer then. Cool

I stand corrected

[west solstice]

nah its been out for 5-6 years

[solid hawk]

Didn't used to be able to add external 3rd party music

[final hazel]

It's just bytebeat stuff

[solid hawk]

The theory was HG was avoiding potential copywrite issues

[teal fulcrum]

What do people think are the must haves to carry in your exosuit at all time? Which types of resources? Working on my inventory system and want to make sure I don't forget an essential (like ferite dust which I always forget)

[final hazel]

I don't believe that's related to modding, but resources like oxygen, sodium, life support gel, AtlasPass v3, maybe stuff for building etc are good ideas.
If you have the Matter Beam freighter tech then your freighter cargo inventory counts as an extension of your exosuit inventory, making it a great place to put stuff like that

[teal fulcrum]

Very nice.. Thanks, working on getting myself a bit organized before I continue my atlas path

[gusty stag]

Do you really need ALL that?

I think I’ll just stay in early game forever😭

[final hazel]

No, but I could need random bits of it at any specific time

[teal fulcrum]

Apologies, was in the wrong channel

[radiant cedar]

Custom music player!?

[final hazel]

Exclusively using things created with bytebeat devices

[radiant cedar]

Ah I thought it was mod that allowed us to play our custom songs in game

[solid hawk]

faecium

[lament aspen]

this mod im installing says copy a PAK file

but i dont have a pak file

[final hazel]

Pak files are no longer used for No Man's Sky modding, refer to http://tinyurl.com/nmsmodding550 to up-to-date modding info

[final hazel]

That readme is simply outdated

[lament aspen]

im still confused tho cuz the mod didnt work

i hope its not oudated

[final hazel]

You have it one folder too deep.

[lament aspen]

last updated sept 2025

[final hazel]

Move _MOD.IMonk.Mech Customizing.2.25 to inside of GAMEDATA/MODS

[lament aspen]

do i take everything in the folder and place it in the mod root

[final hazel]

No, just the _MOD.IMonk.Mech Customizing.2.25 folder

[lament aspen]

what about lua

[final hazel]

luas are for rebuilding mods using an external program

[lament aspen]

oki ima see if it works

rt

tr

ty...

❤️

no way

pholus is now cyan and red

[lament aspen]

is there a mod to lengthen the time of day?

[final hazel]

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3319
https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/2760
https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/992
https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3585

[lament aspen]

ty

is there a mod that allows you to rotate corvette windows

[final hazel]

Not in the way that you would probably be hoping for

[lament aspen]

aw

i want that area right there to be a balcony

[final hazel]

Then you could get rid of that upper hab all together and place interior stairs up to there

[lament aspen]

that would ruin the shape

oops

[fair crown]

Is that visible to other players?

[final hazel]

Not other players that do not have the mod installed I believe

[vale iron]

I notified lmonk

[solid hawk]

Via semaphore

[vale iron]

I was setting up for smoke signals, then Sean showed up yelling at my fire

[pale crypt]

Is there a mod available that adds more snap points and rotation options to base parts? I'd especially love to be able to snap freighter pieces to my corvette. I already have a mod that lets me place base parts in corvettes

[vale iron]

@fair narwhal I'd say delete the file, try re-uping it, if it still gets quarantined, delete and try as zip

I've had mods a couple of times get quarantined for no reason and an immediate delete and re-up worked

[fair narwhal]

Maybe I didn't upload it right

The rar only contains GCCHARACTERGLOBALS.GLOBAL.EXML

I'll do what you said

[vale iron]

And switch to NP++

[fair narwhal]

Oh why ?

[vale iron]

A billion times better

If you plan on ever doing any serious text editing, you need NP++ or VS Code

[fair narwhal]

I've got those but I don't like how the colors are all weird with ++

Yeah sorry I'm not the brightest bulb

I've used ++ before

[vale iron]

You can customize all that

This is mine

I should make the blue a little darker

[fair narwhal]

I like the fallout style terminal text u use

[vale iron]

Oh that's just default

[fair narwhal]

Actually I wonder if it can do that

Black and green

Black background green text

[vale iron]

Yeah, that's easy

But not the easiest on the eyes for me

[fair narwhal]

I can't imagine how much mine hurt to look at

Both the mod itself and the notepad lmao

[vale iron]

black text on white is awful, particularly on good monitors

(my monitor is not good)

[fair narwhal]

I have you to thank by the way for basically letting me know that all that you need for any mod is an exml file , non of that complicated .pak bullishit

[vale iron]

Not any, but most

Mods that most people start with are all EXML

[fair narwhal]

I'm a beginner

[vale iron]

This is better

[fair narwhal]

Does colour and color matter?

[vale iron]

yes

The game can't find it if it doesn't match

[fair narwhal]

Thats why something I did didn't work...

It has to be spelled like the UK spelled

[vale iron]

even capitalization can matter sometimes

[fair narwhal]

So it is required for stuff to have it's UK spelling

[vale iron]

It has to be spelled however they do it. They have someone dyslexic working there because some things have misspellings in the middle of variables, with just two letters swapped

[fair narwhal]

Hahaha

[vale iron]

Like MAINDROR was one for a while

something like that

[fair narwhal]

Also I edited the death messages and some of them didn't work, particularly the ones with swearing in them

[vale iron]

Disable profanity filter in gcdebugoptions

[fair narwhal]

Ahahaha

Thanks

Anyway yeah this games mbin files are a literal treasure trove of variables you can mess with

It's extremely fun

[vale iron]

Start looking at DDS files and making reskins

Not too difficult and fun

[fair narwhal]

Does a console command thingy like with source engine games exist for nms

So I can edit variables without exiting the game every time I wanna change something

I wanna do something crazy like replace the projectiles that weapons fire

Like imagine if the boltcaster fired rockets or something

The .dds files being like textures , why would do that when only you can see it ?

[vale iron]

There, fixed it up a little to make the important stuff more legible

[vale iron]

You need the enable hotswap mod (or do it yourself) and it only works on globals and a few metadata files

[fair narwhal]

I love editing that particular exml that you are editing

I recognize it

[vale iron]

Changing skins is for people that play and want to look at something different. Not all people care about what other people see. For example, yap yap can't be seen by others

[fair narwhal]

No it can't ... Aww man

Still funny to me

[vale iron]

Like this, though I need to update it

[fair narwhal]

But people can see when I do stuff like move around super speed , and when my submarine is flying midair , I know this because I watched myself while on console while simultaneously on PC

People do see when I fly around in space at warp speeds

[vale iron]

Yes, what is seen is variable

[kindred remnant]

Does anyone have the titanic boneworm eggs? I want to have 1 if possible

[vale iron]

#nms-lfg-or-trades

[kindred remnant]

Alr

[vale iron]

Or the creative and sharing hub probably

[fair narwhal]

Ok so you know that spacewalk mod you made? Don't get mad at me but I set the maximum speed to 4294967295, and now I can go from planet to planet and outpace a player who's entering a mini warp

[vale iron]

!creativehublink

[hardy aurora]

https://discord.gg/AEXcap6

[kindred remnant]

Eh

[fair narwhal]

4,294,967,295 is the max unsigned 32 bit and max units

[vale iron]

That's why it's EXML, so you can make it do whatever you want, and it survives updates 🙂

[fair narwhal]

I found out that when I set spacewalk speed to that I'm now able to go faster then every ship

[fresh arch]

Keep in mind, that "complicated Pak bullshit" isn't compatible with current game version

[fair narwhal]

I don't even like using a ship anymore atp

[fresh arch]

HG changed the modding system early this year, mods had to be redone to be complaint with the new system

[fair narwhal]

Wish my exosuit had hyperdrive

[fresh arch]

So no point in looking into PAK mod files unless you're dying to update some old ass mod manually

[fair narwhal]

Mxml are the most fun things ive edited in any game

It's so versatile and open

Well versatile anyway

Why do some of y'all make lua files when that isn't necessary

[fresh arch]

Sometimes old habits die hard

[fair narwhal]

Unless the lua serves as a guide as to wtf I'm editing

[fresh arch]

And since the game doesn't care about Lua scripts, no harm in leaving them in

[fair narwhal]

Like a cheat sheet

[fresh arch]

Especially when mods have been updated with AMUMSS once and left at it

[fair narwhal]

Dds files can just be edited with paint.net

Eh textures are probably harder then metadata and globals

[fresh arch]

I use photopea online

No need to install stuff if a free web service can handle it

Though there are some specific textures requiring some Nvidia plugins or something like that

[fair narwhal]

One time my mods didn't work so I went and deleted something called modsettings.exml , it's not called disablemods anymore afaik

[fresh arch]

http://tinyurl.com/nmsmodding550

[fair narwhal]

You have no idea how many times I've read that

[fresh arch]

An article covering the basics of modding, including troubleshooting steps

[fair narwhal]

But thanks nonetheless

I like how modding after 5.58 you don't have to have any complicated shit when it comes to simple mods

No pak bullshit like I said

Oh and Nexus mods quarantined my first mod lmao

[fresh arch]

Yeah I saw that

Prolly didn't like the rar archive

[fair narwhal]

So you can't even download it?

[fresh arch]

Pretty sure the nexus tells you it accepts zip and 7z archives

On the add files page

[fair narwhal]

Oh right

Well it's not too late

[vale iron]

I'm still seeing the upload from 14 hours ago

[fair narwhal]

I didn't change it yet

So let me get this straight, it can't be downloaded by anyone?

[fresh arch]

No joy here

[fair narwhal]

Aw damn

[fresh arch]

Yeah I know I'm not logged but still it shows it's quarantined

Reupload it as ZIP archive, anyone can extract those

[fair narwhal]

Yeah will definitely

[fresh arch]

While rar is more proprietary

[vale iron]

You didn't need to remove the whole mod, just the file 😛

[fair narwhal]

ok its safe to use now

i reuploaded

i reposted the whole thing so its no longer quarantined

[fresh arch]

1. seriously "New folder"?

People gonna see it, assume it's an empty new folder they created by accident and delete it

2. pretty sure exml patches for globals files need to go inside GLOBALS folder

[vale iron]

Name the zip and contained folder what the mod name is so people can find it. And yeah, exml globals need to be in GLOBALS subfolder

[stuck portal]

#nms-questions message

Anyone can help with this?

[fair narwhal]

i know

should i just give up on this tbh

[vale iron]

Nope, just fix it

And remember

[fair narwhal]

I'm making myself look like an idiot

i mean its in that now

[vale iron]

So? You think anyone is going to remember or care in a week? Just fix it.

It's what I tell students scared of presenting. No one really cares. Just do your best

[fair narwhal]

it was a mistake

[vale iron]

FF is just blunt. We NMS modders aren't particularly...gentle with each other

[fair narwhal]

i know

not my first rodeo in modding games

i used to mod Team Fortress 2 for the xbox 360 back in the day

[vale iron]

This community is more just blunt, not actively mean. It's a good community, but doesn't accept mistakes

[fair narwhal]

I am glad

It is my first time uploading to Nexus tho

No excuses I know

[pure mulch]

Whomever made/maintains AMUMSS needs a payrise (i know they dont get paid). Not played nms for 6 months, updated all the mods i use easy as pie, no compatibility issues, even updates mods pre changes with lua. Mind blown n thankyou to whomever makes it.

[fair narwhal]

Indeed

It was so easy , even a dummy like me could do it

[pure mulch]

Yer i used to get compatible issues and have to merge 10 mods into one. None of that for me this time.

[fair narwhal]

Modding has become a lot easier hasn't it

[pure mulch]

Dunno i dont mod, just use them, but i try to update myself using lua instead of relying on creator.

[fair narwhal]

You don't even need to use lua

Just edit the exml

[pure mulch]

Some dont have exml

[fair narwhal]

They don't ? There's not a .pak?

You cant just extract that ?

[pure mulch]

One i use use from 2021, pak but has lua

[fair narwhal]

The game now recognizes just plain .exml

Which can be messed with using notepad

Here's one , warning bright screen

[pure mulch]

Yep like i said, i dont really understand all that, last time i programmed, i used BASIC, im a dinosaur

[fair narwhal]

See all them names

And numbers

Edit those numbers for different shit to happen

Where it says value

The number adjacent to it

That can be whatever you want

Now what I wanna see is an automatic building maker

Like , a script that will automatically create whatever you want while ur in game

So you dont have to painstakingly do it

[fresh arch]

No, the values cannot be whatever you want

Just because you put 9999999999999 as some value in text based mod file doesn't mean the game will accept it

There might be some internal limits enforced by the game's executable which we have no insight into

And the only way to see what values work is trial and error

[fair narwhal]

I've never put a number that high man

I know there's a 32 bit integer thing

I didn't mean literally whatever you want

Like you said trial and error , it can be as high as you want , you'll learn what works and what doesn't work that way or at least that's what I do

I figured that 2147483647 is the max for a lot of stuff

And it's even higher for units

[vale iron]

PAK files don't do anything anymore. You need EXML for patches or MBINs for full replacements

(plus resource files like images or sounds)

[fair narwhal]

No I was telling them they can maybe make an old mod work again themselves by extracting the pak

Am I mistaken?

[vale iron]

Ah, possibly, but it takes some effort.

Depends what it is. If it's editing tables or globals, probably won't work

[fair narwhal]

You know that for sure ?

[vale iron]

I said probably, so I know it for probably

[fresh arch]

Over the years HG updates the game not only by changing the values of parameters but also by changing the structure of the files

The older the mod, the higher chance of seeing those structural changes

Then you can't just take that old file and load it into current game version

Updating old PAK mods usually involves some manual surgery

Even if the mod was created by processing a lus script, those need to be updated to reflect the new structure as well

[vale iron]

I would only halfway trust reskin mods, and even those won't be as good as they were on release, because channels have changed a bit

If they work at all, since some DDS have changed compression type

[fresh arch]

Not even those if material files were involved

[rapid sandal]

If it has a lua you may be able to have amumss process the lua to generate an updated version of the mod. The lua is just a text file that describes what mbins to mod and what fields and values to change ... it basically gives amumss enough info that it can do text search and replace in the xml version of the mbin.
If you are lucky the field(s) in the lua still exist and haven't been deprecated. If not then you'll have to figure out the new fields to use to achieve the same result.
It would help if you include a link to the nexus page for the mod so we can see what it does.

[pure mulch]

Sigh, how has it got to this, my initial post was just to thank and praise the creator/maintainer of AMUMSS nothing more, nothing less. Its come a long way since i used it 6 months ago. I was just praising how it will even upgrade very old mods, to be functional in the game now. I dont need any help with any mods atm.

[pastel crane]

Out of curiosity, has anybody figured out what the “META” end-game Starborn Phoenix would look like?

I’m attempting to make a YouTube video, and I wouldn’t mind modding in every best Module that is possible in NMS, fitted into that ship.

Any help would be great, thanks.

[final hazel]

IMO this is what that would be, or this second one if pulse drive time and/or weaponry is cared about (or moreso maneuverability isn't cared about)

Could supercharge pulse engine instead of the pulse engine upgrade on the second one for even faster pulse speeds but that's cutting into maneuverability too much imo

I don't think more than 4 trails/bobbleheads to surround polo are necessary whatsoever since they don't add maneuverability

They increase boost, but that is capped low to where you can reach the max without supercharging anything and without trails/figurines #nms-questions message
This really isn't related to modding though tbh at all

[quartz patrol]

I'm looking at designing my first corvette through blender. I've heard that using it to increase the size oof parts will help loading in the anomaly. Especially since I'm planning on "trying" to make a pretty long, capital ship. However, I have never used blender, or designing anything. I do however have a base image I would use as a reference. But anything beyond basic putting parts down, and move things until they look like it goes there, is beyond me. Any help would be appreciated!!

[fresh arch]

!djmonkeytoolslink

[hardy aurora]

https://next.nexusmods.com/profile/DjMonkeyUK/mods?gameId=1634
https://discord.gg/ucBhfd2vK9

[fresh arch]

They made the blender plugin for base and corvette building, maybe try asking there

[quartz patrol]

I'll contact them there. Thanks!

[hearty blade]

Would it be possible for a mod to make it so player can sort the order of their ships as well as multitools?

Or is there already a way to do it and I'm just blind

[final hazel]

You could just do this with the Starship and Multi-Tool Archives, or by using a save editor if trying to reorganize corvettes

[hearty blade]

Starship and multi tool archives?

[final hazel]

You can archive up to 18 starships and 18 multi-tools

[hearty blade]

Is this a mod or a new in game feature?

It's been a few years since I've been able to play on PC, and a year since I played on the switch version

[final hazel]

A vanilla in-game feature, added in Worlds Part II https://www.nomanssky.com/worlds-part-ii-update/

[hearty blade]

Ooh nice, thank you so much!

[supple wing]

Does anyone know which .MBIN file handles the Collected Knowledge portion of the Catalogue?

[final hazel]

I think METADATA\REALITY\TABLES\STORIESTABLE.MBIN

[supple wing]

Aw sweet thanks!

[thin shard]

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3928 this any good I have that goat fungus save editor too

[thin shard]

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3936 also do I just download this then import it over and unlock all fish

[fresh arch]

This one should be good since it's made by an actual mod author

It's tailored to work with NMS, not a generic mod manager for any game

[thin shard]

I see

Might downlaod it

[thin shard]

the fish mod it says if I import it in goat fungus I'll have all the fish then

[fresh arch]

And?

I was talking only about the Singularity mod manager

[fair narwhal]

will this work?

holy shit it works!

WOW

[final hazel]

SkipUITimers is a fun one

makes space stations/freighters a bit scary

[fair narwhal]

my ship in boost moves as fast as a pulse

faster

wow!

its hard to control

i cant land/cant go in space station/cant go into space anomaly without multiple tries

where's the brakes on this thing

[thin shard]

any other mods that'll help unlock things

[untold arch]

Is the atmosphere glow being detached from the planet surface a problem with my game or the game? I'm sure it wouldn't be that hard to fix, but I can't figure out where the model or something for this would be found

[frank bridge]

Does anyone have a mod that changes the GCSOLARGENERATIONGLOBALS.GLOBAL.MBIN file, or has a copy of it (plus its path)?

[cobalt condor]

Its a problem with the game and it absolutely would be hard to fix, because it would require editing the shader

[untold arch]

I see. Thank you

[final hazel]

https://github.com/monkeyman192/HGPAKtool

or https://github.com/NMSCD/nms-archive if you somehow don't have your own copy of the game to decompress, or the space for the decompressed game copy

[cobalt condor]

Because it's a global, the path has a slight quirk. In MBIN form, it would go at the root of the mod (and is at the root of the pcbanks in the game files) but in EXML form, it would go in a GLOBALS folder at the root of the mod.

You can technically include it as an MBIN in a mod, but there's no reason to. It should be EXML because there are a huge number of pros with no cons in doing so

[supple wing]

Aw cool, glad someone here downloaded my mod!

[supple wing]

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3496

[supple wing]

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3581?tab=description

[supple wing]

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3441

[supple wing]

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/s/lpIxhME7fU

[vale iron]

Which things do you need unlocked?

[marble pewter]

somone have file for op ships like op stat

[thin shard]

Everything in collections

[digital jackal]

is there a way to use sentinal ship tech inside corvette ?

[vale iron]

No, they aren't sentinel ships, except with mods

If you want to change either the corvette ship type or the item technology type, you might be able to make it work

[knotty briar]

I asked this in another thread, but as this one's dedicated to modders, it hope that it's ok to ask here?
Hi, I'm new to NMS, around 2hrs in so far. I have a Quest 3 and pc with Virtual desktop running. GPU RTX 3080/ CPU i9 , I'm wondering if anyone with a similar setup has got tips for getting better resolution in headset? I have looked online, but I know that some advice is probably out of date, so I thought I'd ask on the official Discord in case someone has been there and done that already in 2025. Thanks

[vale iron]

Almost no modders for this game can afford VR and definitely don't have information on performance for VR

[knotty briar]

Cost of entry's pretty low these days. Ok, well I asked anyway. Thanks

[round sinew]

@solid hawk hi 🙂 about exo's and bab's grass fix, when in known side effects it mentions "Grass Fix will re-randomize the species and positions of flora.".. just to make sure, when it says re-randomizes species (...) of flora, that doesnt mean that the planet gets different flora species in terms of discoveries right?

[vale iron]

Only flora I believe

[round sinew]

oh sorry duh, i meant flora ofc

uhm.. so if i goto a certain planet with and without the mod, i'd have different flora discoveries to make? like does the mod create new flora species that i could upload?

how does that play with the ODS server though?

[final hazel]

I think the ODS is fine with normally nonexistant entries IME

It can't differentiate, so it treats them like any other. Those with the mod will see the discovery of the mod's reshuffled stuff but those without it will never know those exist

[round sinew]

hmm ok thanks. i rather not use it then, if it's uploading stuff others wont see

would confuse me as well probably, seeing different discovery lists

[thin shard]

I take it for the mods you sent me just put in mods folder?

[thin shard]

is it the nexus or space station I go to

[solid hawk]

Absolutely zero difference than any\every other biome mod. 🙂

Mods are local and are only going to change property values for you.

[round sinew]

gotcha yeah. another of my concerns is that i sometimes play with and without mods, but seems like using grass fix and going to a planet would give me a certain group of flora species, compared to visiting that same planet without mods.

i prefer to not have that. if it was just repositioning of the same assets the unmodded planet uses, i'd be okay with that, but if it's totally different species on upload then that means that if i went back to that planet without mods i'd have to discover all of them again

or if someone else went there, they wouldnt see anything uploaded if i understood correctly

[inner aurora]

so i am trying to install a mod to help me harvest my server farm but when i follow the instructions to install the mod the game doesn't open

steam says it is running briefly then just stops. I would really appreciate help with this

this is the link to the mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3350?tab=posts

[thin shard]

nvm i done it

[solid hawk]

This one does work https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3572

[inner aurora]

Thanks. Is there a way to not have it effect grow times? And can i play with friends with the mod installed?

[final hazel]

You may play with your friends with any mods that you want installed #nms-modding message

[thin shard]

known tech/buildiong parts mod?

[supple wing]

For that I just used NMSSaveEditor, just go to the Discovery, scroll through both the Technology and Known Products sections and add whatever you don't have in the game

[thin shard]

I did that but still have a few things missing

lemme reboot

oh okay

[supple wing]

What things are missing?

[thin shard]

booting game up now and I'll send ss one sec

these I want to do

fossils not so much

forgot to do recipes thing you sent oops

not bothered about unlocking planets and such

[supple wing]

Could send a screenshot of the things that are still greyed out, so I can figure what happened?

[thin shard]

well I've not installed the reciepe mod yet I just want to know if there's a mod that';ll unlock all these

about to install reciepe mod now

[supple wing]

Now, there's Fish List mod (.txt file) I've made that unlocks the fish in catalogue (though I don't it gives you the helmet or titles)
You can use the Save Editor to get all the helmets
But there is a mod to Unlock all the titles via a space station terminal (I'll send you the link again)
Then there's a mod that allows to unlock the missing fossils in the game (I'll send the link as well)
And there's a reddit post explaining how to get the mutated plant

[thin shard]

all helmets?

tbh I have all helmets unlocked I think

[inner aurora]

Is there a way to turn off the modified plant growth times and maybe all the features aside from the harvesting all plants option? I appreciate the help. And thank you for the answer to my other question Grouch

[supple wing]

You can unlock any helmets that might have not unlocked via the Known Products section of the Discovery page in NMSSaveEditor

[supple wing]

Space Station

Here's the fossils mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3441

[thin shard]

idrc for fossils

but I'm more wanting to unlock these

[supple wing]

The fossils needed to complete part of the Wonders portion of the Catalogue
But there isn't a single mod to complete the entire Catalogue, I haven't found any mod for the Collected Knowledge section, but I do recommend checking NMS resources to help you where to look, it's helped me get most of it done, I got only like 54 entries to go...
The glitches, you're going to have to find in the wild (to my knowledge at least), just go to any weird/eery looking planet, roam around scanning until you find an object with a question
Everything else you should be able to unlock via NMSSaveEditor, just go to the Discovery, scroll through all sections to see if you have everything, and save changes on the main page before launching the game

[thin shard]

mk

[whole kestrel]

anyone know how to put the freighters inside blender?

[solid hawk]

NMSDK plug-in

[signal musk]

How to set values to 1 on we mod?

[solid hawk]

we mod is not a mod, it's a trainer. Doubtful anyone else here uses or would know. You'd be better off asking on whatever support forum we mod offers.

[radiant cedar]

Is there a mod that zooms out from your corvette?

Yes I have a huge corvette(2300 parts) and it blocks my view

[solid hawk]

Yep

On Nexus Mods, search for keyword corvette

Shouldn't take you more than a few seconds to find

Did you find it, zCam?

See how much quicker and easier it is doing a quick search than asking here and waiting hours for a response?

Enough teaching to fish for the day. 🙂

[radiant cedar]

Yes I did

[abstract zodiac]

is there a mod i can install that will let me prob one planet and it analyizes everything ?

[hearty wasp]

can't

[final hazel]

Mods cannot add new functionality like that, no

[hearty blade]

I'm using a mod that gets rid of fog, and bloom on stations but is there one to get rid of the fog on freighters?

trying to give a bit of a boost to my performance, I found the mod that got rid of the bloom and fog on stations helped a bit

[abstract zodiac]

what mod is that? id love to get rid of bloom

[inner aurora]

Thanks i really appreciate it

[hearty blade]

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/1752 this is what I'm using

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3623 Also this

[abstract zodiac]

i found it dl'd it but looks complex to install

[hearty blade]

All I did was download it through the vortex program and that worked for me. I'm not smart enough for more complex stuff. Sorry

[abstract zodiac]

i manually install my stuff

[solid hawk]

Extract the downloaded archives contents to GAMEDATA\MODS. Nothing complex about it.

You then should have a folder in GAMEDATA\MODS called AntiBloom6.1x, then should be good to go.

[inner aurora]

that mod does the same thing, it crashes out the game before it even loads

i would appreciate help with this

[solid hawk]

I just loaded up the game with the mod, no crash here. You running latest version of the game? What's it look like in your GAMEDATA\MODS folder?

[inner aurora]

well steam doesnt say there is any update i havent done. and withing the gamedata folder i have INPUT, MODS, PCBANKS, SHADERCACHE< and a text file called FullLog.txt

[solid hawk]

Screenshot GAMEDATA\MODS please. 🙂

[solid hawk]

You've extracted incorrectly. Created a new folder named for the .zip and extracted into there.....

[inner aurora]

Right

[solid hawk]

Go into that folder, there will be one called Ultimate_Production_harvest_All in there...

[inner aurora]

If im using 7 zip how do i do it correctly?

[solid hawk]

Move that up one level into GAMEDATA\MODS

Then can delete the folder with the long string of numbers in the name

[inner aurora]

Like that?

[solid hawk]

Yes

[inner aurora]

Ok thanks for the help with this

[solid hawk]

In that folder, should look like this:

If so, should be good to go

[inner aurora]

I think it looks like that except that i am just using notepad++ to open the text files

And actually never opened a .lua file so i have no set program for that

[vale iron]

lua is just a text file and doesn't matter

the game can't read it

[solid hawk]

Thinking maybe you chose

Which creates a new folder and extracts into that. Instead should just Extract Here

[inner aurora]

When i downloaded it i chose extract… and routed it to the MODS folder in gamedata

[solid hawk]

I use NPP too, but doesn't matter as long as that folder is there and the two loose files. Just lets me know file\folder structure is correct

[inner aurora]

Oh i see, so maybe i should have extracted it to gamedata and then renamed that file MODS?

[solid hawk]

See where that checkmark is, need to uncheck that in this dialog

[inner aurora]

Oh ok i wasnt aware of that

Does that mean it will create a new folder for the extracted items?

[solid hawk]

Your path will be different, but this is what it should look like correct:

[inner aurora]

I see, thanks

My controls seem to have reset?

[solid hawk]

No crash?

[inner aurora]

Yeah no crash

[solid hawk]

Cool

[inner aurora]

I really appreciate the help

[solid hawk]

I don't know about the controls though. This specific mod makes a single value change to one game file which has nothing to do with game controls.

[inner aurora]

It crashed now

It acted like there was too much to process. I will shut down my other game and try again

It still crashed

do i just have too many plants?

[solid hawk]

Not necessarily. I know NOTHING about what you're system is or the load it's under, nor should I. 🙂 Not about number of plants, it's a radius effect thing. Let's try making the number a bit lower than default....

In the mod folder, click into all the folders until you hit the files named INTERACTION.ENTITY.EXML

Then open that file up in NPP

[inner aurora]

right

[solid hawk]

Let's try 2000.000000

[inner aurora]

ok thats done

[solid hawk]

Give it another shot

[inner aurora]

ok

[solid hawk]

🥁

[inner aurora]

it still crashed :(

[solid hawk]

ok, ok

We'll start from the other end of the scale then...

[inner aurora]

is there a way to run through harvesting anymore?

[solid hawk]

Go back to that file, change to 100.000000

Save the change and try again

[inner aurora]

right

It crashed again and then my computor black screened

[solid hawk]

Black screen would only be caused by either physical or driver disconnect of monitor.

[inner aurora]

well im on a laptop

something changed relatively recently that made it so i cant even run through the rows to harvest anymore

is there a way to fix that?

[solid hawk]

Me too. Had thousands of mod crashes during 9+ years of NMS, Never had one take out the monitor. Have had said happen due to a bad GPU driver update. Not saying that's the case on your end, just personal experiences.

[inner aurora]

Yeah fair

[solid hawk]

No idea what the cause would be, so 🤷‍♂️

[inner aurora]

Its been a while since i updated drivers

[solid hawk]

How about this: You on Steam?

[inner aurora]

Yeah

[solid hawk]

Game file verify

[inner aurora]

Right

[solid hawk]

Generally not a bad idea when things are seeming wonky

Should only take a few minutes

[inner aurora]

Right

looks like thats done

[solid hawk]

ok, let me get a file ready for you

[inner aurora]

ok thanks

[solid hawk]

We'll try this. It's the lowest modded value. 8.000000

Unmodded value is 6.000000

If this doesn't work, then want to take a deeper dive into game version. Number in lower left corner of this screen

Should be 156355, for latest public version of the game. Mine is different because I run Experimental

[inner aurora]

that does seem to work and would alow me to once again run through harvesting plants

[solid hawk]

Cool. 🙂

[inner aurora]

the version number is the same

[solid hawk]

Progress

[inner aurora]

yeah thanks for that

[solid hawk]

Ok, then you can try increasing until you get a crash, to find the sweet spot on your end.

[inner aurora]

right

[solid hawk]

Maybe try 12 next, double default vanilla.

Then so on. 🙂

Glad I could help. Just a pain needs all these additional steps for you

[inner aurora]

yeah, my farm is huge and makes a lot of money but when i cant sprint through it it gets a bit hard

[hearty blade]

My game self destructed, there was an error that said something about possible mod incompatibility and now noneof the mods are running

uninstalling and installing game, because I didn't get to see the error long enough to give more info

[solid hawk]

Have you added any "new" mods since last time you ran the game?

[hearty blade]

yeah

it just randomly self desturcted after a battle with some sentinels

[solid hawk]

Well one or more of them is going to be the root cause of the crash. BTW, the exact info it gives is worthless for telling what the exact issue is. It's very generic.

To get mods re-enabled....

Go to No Man's Sky\Binaries\SETTINGS

[hearty blade]

🫠

[solid hawk]

Delete the file called GCMODSETTINGS.MXML

[hearty blade]

I just deleted everything and re-installed oops

I guess that might work too? lol

[solid hawk]

It'll be recreated when you restart the game

Hehe

[hearty blade]

I'll remember that for next time though, thanks!

[solid hawk]

Then a matter of pulling mods out until the crash goes away.

[hearty blade]

fun, I just disabled them all.

[solid hawk]

I run a LOT of mods, so when I have to do this, I pull them in batches.

[hearty blade]

Is the singularity mod program better than vortex?

[solid hawk]

Usually (but not always) crashes are caused by mods with .MBIN type files in the mod folder, as these generally need to be updated more often than .EXML type.

[solid hawk]

I can't say. I have been playing around a bit with the Singularity one, as I know the author, but I normally just install manually and don't use a mod manager for NMS. Supposedly is better now, but traditionally, for years, Vortex has been problematic with NMS.

Comes down to whatever works best for you

[hearty blade]

looks like I ended up havign to delete that file you mentioned anyway

unfortnately singularity isn't working for me. I keep getting in error that says "could not read--- can't see the rest of the error

I guess I'll go back to vortex, since I got it to work consistently

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/2491 This was the last mod I downloaded. Looks like it hasn't been updated since march. Oops

Guess I made it go boom with that

[solid hawk]

Should work, being EXML patch mod, but can't say with 100% certainty without doing a deep dive. Without that one, does the crashing stop?

[hearty blade]

I dunno it only crashed once lol

Now I have to test

[solid hawk]

Gotcha

[hearty blade]

I'll be sure to give an update if it crashes again

[solid hawk]

EXML patch mods can be more update resistent. That is don't necessarily need to be updated as often, but updates sometimes are necessary. Fully dependent on what HG has changed in the applicable game file(s).

There's some mods with EXML which are still running without updating since 29 January 2025.

[vale iron]

Should still be fine

Ping me if it's not, please

[hearty blade]

Oh since you're here I have a question regarding the trader frequency mod. Does it not work at pirate stations? I also noticed that only one way seems to come to normal stations too?

and sure, if it doesn't work I'll let you know

[vale iron]

Other waves will eventually come, but they are extremely slow. It's much better to go to a trade outpost for ship hunting. I don't recall seeing anything different for outlaw station spawning.

[hearty blade]

Alright thanks! It doesn't change the seeds of the systems, just the spawn rate, yeah?

[vale iron]

Correct

[final hazel]

Very happy that someone made this https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3957 (I tried making it but doubted that there were globals that were causing it, how wrong I was lol)

[vale iron]

Oh I was looking for those settings the other day. I remembered they existed, but couldn't remember where. I was trying to explain to someone that the HUD values weren't accurate

[final hazel]

My least favorite thing is having to argue with people telling me that their ship is actually 1,300u/s and that optimizing boost is the most important thing in the world

so now I can just say "the values are inflated, this mod fixes that"

I always thought it was a bug tbh, it's really just a wacky design decision

[hearty blade]

The other day I mentioned in one of the main channels that I was seeing storms and clouds inside the ship cockpit. Is this a common bug and something that can be fixed with a mod without having to get rid of storms and clouds all together?

I guess I could file a bug report but I wanted to know if others were experiencing this as well

[solid hawk]

It happens occasionally. Report to HelloGames. Although probably already reported thousands of times, one more wouldn't hurt.

[hearty blade]

Thank you, I'll do that

[hearty blade]

Actually I have a question for you. https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/1197?tab=files&file_id=43760 I'm trying to see if this mod works, and I'm trying to use the common battle folder but I can't tell if the mod is working at all. I feel like I warped for about 2 or 3 hours through several systems and haven't seen battles. I just deleted it and I'm trying to put the common folder in mods without using the vortex manager and hoping that works.

I guess my question is, How "common" is commons supposed to be

Saw on the forum you mentioned deleting a file in another folder. That file didn't exist

[solid hawk]

Vortex wouldn't have worked well, as it would have installed all versions, which are in the same .zip. In that case, Rare wouldn't have been the working version, as it would be the last applied. Make certain those other versions, than the one you want, aren't still in GAMEDATA\MODS

[hearty blade]

So just drag the common folder into the mods folder?

[solid hawk]

Common:

Variable numbers at the top

Two warps, but also a one hour cooldown

[hearty blade]

So if I'm reading that right I should be seeing at least 2 battles in an hour? -ah you beat me to it

[solid hawk]

No, one hour cooldown.

[hearty blade]

Oh

[solid hawk]

You can change the values to whatever you wish, in the Lua, then process the script through AMUMSS to make a custom version of the mod, if you so wish.

Say, with an HoursBetweenBattles of 0.5

[hearty blade]

Neat, I may have to learn how to use that program.

[solid hawk]

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/2626

[hearty blade]

thanks!

[hearty blade]

@vale iron https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/2870 This didn't work, only one engine on my sentinel ship had a trail.

[round sinew]

@winter thicket not sure if... this https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/1879 will have all that you wanted.

[solid hawk]

NO mod last updated prior to 29 January 2025 will work

[hearty blade]

Oh dang

Good to know

[winter thicket]

I feel like it has potential! I'll check it out :3

Thanks again bk!

[hearty blade]

@vale iron Sorry to bug you again, but any idea why the sigularity mod manager doesnt like your Custom Ships mod but vortex didn't mind it?

It won't accept the zip file and it refuses to acknowledge the files in the mod folder

Same for the summoner

I did some kind of shenanigans and they finally appeared. Hopefully they work

[solid hawk]

Custom Ships is NOT updated either. Singularity will NOT work with mods in .paks and mods in .paks will not work

[hearty blade]

ah

[solid hawk]

Stop messing with mods last updated prior to 29 January 2025. They WILL break your game

[hearty blade]

I didn't know that it didn't take .paks thanks!

I'll remove the mods that aren't updated or have paks

I'm still pretty new to modding games, well relatively new. I used mods when I played on pc 2 to 3 years ago, but thats a while

[solid hawk]

Gumsk is working on getting those updated, but it is a very lengthy and time consuming manual process to do so. Like gShip Custom Ships will take dozens of man hours to update.

[hearty blade]

Yeah I've seen how many mod projects you and they have.. There's a lot of you two put up

[solid hawk]

Yep. HelloGames made major changes to how NMS work on 29 January 2025, hence that cutoff date.

[solid hawk]

After that change, took me almost 6 months to get all of my mods fixed up. One alone took 7 weeks, with hours every day put into it.

[hearty blade]

It must be a nightmare to update mods with how often HelloGames updates

or in the case of the switch version, kept breaking it

[solid hawk]

Ones dealing with models or textures take the most amount of time.

[hearty blade]

I was so mad when my ships got over written by "ghost ships" and I couldn't do anything to restore them because I was stuck on the switch version

[solid hawk]

Not too bad, once converted to the "new" system, but getting that done was rough.

Gumsk still has his big model and many texture based mods to do. He's working on it, but a slow process

[hearty blade]

Yeah I can't imagine how rough it must be.

[solid hawk]

Last we discussed, he was poking at his custom freighters mod.

[hearty blade]

I don't know a thing about programming it breaks my brain.

[hearty blade]

I guess I shouldn't request the Great Fox from starfox then lol

[solid hawk]

Not a lot of actual programming involved actually, as the decompiled game files are just xml. The formatting of the game files changed greatly though, so in some cases it can be a complete redo from scratch.

[solid hawk]

You can, just won't be anytime soon.

With the texture mods, HelloGames changed the compression method used, so custom textures have to be redone.

Some of Gumsks texture mods have a couple of dozen custom textures.

[hearty blade]

Ouch

Yeah his Samus ship model is really shiny

[solid hawk]

Between work and family, only so much time for NMS stuff. 🙂

I'd imagine he'll get a few more updated during the holiday break.

[hearty blade]

Well thanks a lot for the input it's really helpful for a newbie to this stuff

Oh that right I had a question for you

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3571 But do you mean by "without being cheaty"

[solid hawk]

Without super rediculous stats

High end of normal stats ranges

[hearty blade]

Ah neat!

You have a lot of QoL mods

Do you know if your Curiosity scanner mod is compatible with that GPS mod?

Also do you know if your colorized icon mods conflict with this?

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/1661

[solid hawk]

Probably.

[solid hawk]

Guessing would, but you'd need to check the icon names in both mods if they match. That is both changing the same .DDS files.

[jaunty cairn]

if my buddy buddy pal friend homie

is using mods

can he join me (no mods)

im game pass, hes steam

[jaunty cairn]

will there be consequences

[final hazel]

#nms-modding message

[jaunty cairn]

oh ok

[solid hawk]

You may just not see the same things. Fully depending on what the mod is. All NMS mods are local in nature.

Example, if your buddy is using a terrain mod, he may be on a mountain, while you're in a valley, at the same location.

[vale iron]

Probably because that mod isn't updated and won't work. Vortex is installing it but it's not doing anything

The trails mod isn't updated yet either. I might get to it very soon, finishing off the semester this week. Just a lot of grading

[hearty blade]

Thanks for getting back to me!

[vale iron]

Just woke up 🙂

[hearty blade]

Do you happen to know how the JJ's better ship mod works when it comes to what spawns in to a trading post or station? I know combined with your frequency mod they appear more often making trading post more lively

I see a couple exotics, living ships and sometimes sentinel ships land, but are they true to the seeds of the systems?

Also good morning!

[vale iron]

Do you have a link?

[solid hawk]

Make a POST on the mod page and ask JJ

Always best to ask the author directly.

Nobody else should be expected to dig into someone elses mods.

[scarlet bolt]

are there any inventory management mods

[vale iron]

Not in-game

[final hazel]

Not really, besides ones like https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/2068

[vale iron]

The vanilla game has some sorting options now, though

[scarlet bolt]

idk i just would like one like "dump inventory"

"dump similar"

idk?

auto put in storage

[vale iron]

Can't be done with mods. Mods can't directly access the save file, which is where inventory is

[final hazel]

!hg

[hardy aurora]

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

[scarlet bolt]

is there anything that can?

[vale iron]

Save editor could, but doesn't have any quick options like that

[scarlet bolt]

painful...

[vale iron]

Yeah

[scarlet bolt]

i wonder how this is still an issue so many years later

[vale iron]

I've come to the conclusion that the upper HG levels simply don't play the game the same way we do

[scarlet bolt]

i guess so...

i only have like 40 hours or something

and its an issue already...

[vale iron]

For example, they consider derelict freighters to be horror and difficult. They are neither

It has issues. It just has a lot more good stuff to make up for it

[scarlet bolt]

yes

it should have a terraria style inventory sorter

idk if u know how it works there but

why are all the mods only cheats like what

why would u mod

[vale iron]

They aren't

[scarlet bolt]

i mean like 50% is

[vale iron]

Look at the Better NMS collection. None of those are cheats

At least in my opinion

[scarlet bolt]

where doi find those?

[vale iron]

https://www.nexusmods.com/games/nomanssky/collections/7qowkp

[scarlet bolt]

hmm im nots ure but

i guess so

how do i get like a planet scanner in my corvette

is that modded?

[vale iron]

Yes, one sec

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3779

[scarlet bolt]

hgmmm

im not sure if ill use it but thank you

i think i wanna play without mods

[vale iron]

I'm going to make versions that split all the functions to different items, but haven't had time or motivation yet

No problem

[scarlet bolt]

what language are the mods made in?

i fear c++?

[vale iron]

Either modified EXML snippets for patch mods or compiled full EXML files for full replacement mods

markup

[scarlet bolt]

ouchhhhhhhh

thats mainful

[vale iron]

example\

[scarlet bolt]

thats horrible...

[vale iron]

really? Looks simple to me

Here's a minimalist patch mod

[final hazel]

Yeah, some mods can be just a few lines, small internal settings that HG leaves for either them or us to raise, lower, enable or disable

[vital siren]

hey would someone be able to send me NMSARC.CE8DDE7C.pak? Im trying to rip the model of the default anomaly you start out as and make it a wearable VRchat model

[vale iron]

That's a huge archive that contains tons more than just the player model

[vital siren]

or anyone got the model

yo where?

[vale iron]

And the player model is ALL options for the player model all bundled together and you need to delete what you don't want'

[vital siren]

I just want the main player model and default multi-tool

[vale iron]

Yeah, those aren't solitary models

[vital siren]

yeah its torso and legs sepeate and armor ect..

[vale iron]

Yes, it's one of the biggest models in the game

[vital siren]

I used to do this stuff with the 3ds

[vale iron]

You need NMSDK plugin for Blender'

[vital siren]

got it downloaded already

[vale iron]

As long as you have the most recent version and not the beta of Blender, just follow install instructions and you should be able to get the model imported

[vital siren]

Im about to just download it through steam

okai dok

my issue is however

im on a 2nd gen intel

laptop

cant afford anything newer hopefully my collage can help me out. starting the 5th of January!

[vale iron]

If I have time later this week I'll see if I can do something, but no matter what it's going to be a huge model. What format do you want it in?

@vital siren

[pale crypt]

Which save editors and tools would be most recommended for editing unconventional corvettes? I'm experimenting with inserting freighter corridors and rooms into a corvette

[final hazel]

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/2598 or https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/984, combined with any save editor that supports raw json editing (both goatfungus and nomnom support this)

[solid hawk]

This .pak no longer exists. Hello games changed the .paks a long time ago. You would have them in your game install in GAMEDATA\PCBANKS.

[vital siren]

:/ I got locked out of my steam account cuz of steam guard

[solid hawk]

So, you're saying that you have a VERY old version of the game

[vital siren]

That's that's not what I said at all

I used that particular number because I found a reference sheet an old one

Didn't realize it was old

[solid hawk]

Yeah, now they look like this

[pale crypt]

Good stuff, thank you. Right now my experiment build has a free-placed legacy freighter hallway (It looks like a school bus—it's great lol) but it's not totally lined up of course

[vital siren]

Oh I need that entity scene Mbin

[cobalt condor]

Would also need MeshCommon

and whichever pak has the textures

[solid hawk]

Be aware, often times files may be found in .paks other than what would appear to be the "correct" one based on naming.

If you want to ensure having all the files you'd need, you'll want to extract all of them.

[solid hawk]

@vital siren PLAYERCHARACTER.SCENE in .BLEND format. Contains all playercharacter models and accessories, because that's how HelloGames does things.

[frank bridge]

I like having really deep gas giant oceans (way deeper than they need to be)
https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3961

[vital siren]

Oh my lord thank you so much 🙏

Very excited to make this VR chat character going to make it public for all :)))

[fresh arch]

Uhhhhh

You think it's ok to take the game's assets and distribute it like that?

[vale iron]

It would violate copyright, but I don't think HG would probably mind. Nintendo, that would be different

[cobalt condor]

VRChat has had a number of users port the nms traveller models to it over the years, the channels are there for HG to DMCA if they care to but they haven't yet

The game is similar to GMod in that its full of stuff ported from other games

[hearty blade]

Are there any mods that modify the behavior of the quick menu? I don't know about anybody else, but the flight quick menu defaulting to the galaxy instead of recharge is kind of a annoying when in combat

[fresh arch]

Nope

Most of quick menu is hardcoded

We can just add player emotes

[hearty blade]

Likewise I think on foot it defaults to gestures?

oh darn

[hearty blade]

Awesome this helps me!

I think I used to be able to change the base NPCS (overseer, etc) I guess not anymore?

[vale iron]

You might be able to, but I don't know how to off the top of my head

[hearty blade]

It looks like there's a mod that changes the priority of charging items, but that's not really what I'm going for. Ah well

I found a mod that removes the smoke from stations, unfortunately it doesn't seem to remove it from pirate stations, or is that fog in them different thing altogether?

[fresh arch]

Different stations have different scene files and the fog / smoke is embedded in those

There's no one global thingy that would control all fog

Which we could disable for all stuff

[hearty blade]

Darn, that's a bummer. I think the reduced bloom and fog in normal stations was helping my performance a bit, also hurts less to look at.

thankfully pirate stations are already pretty dark, haha

and thank you all for the information! It's neat hearing about what's under the hood

[stuck portal]

Is there a mod that shows the true shape of buildable area of a base while in building mode? Or is such a mod possible?

[hearty blade]

Oh my god all the planets in this system are ridiculously bright

time to try to find a mod for this

Unless you folks have some suggestions

[solid hawk]

Could use the brighter sunlight mod, but adjust the value down, instead of up. Although could just be a monitor calibration thing.

[west solstice]

is there something like buildframe sacs that doesnt require some shitty extra stuff that takes hours to set up?

[hearty wasp]

no

read how to use AMUMSS

#nms-modding message

[west solstice]

this is what i mean

[hearty wasp]

does the link not work

[west solstice]

its a literal mod, it changes stuff in the game not on your pc why would i need 50 softwares for a random mod thats barely useful

[hearty wasp]

because it's also used for hundreds of other mods that have various levels of usefulness

does the link to dotnet 6 desktop runtime work?

[west solstice]

would also be nice if most of the mods wouldnt be a security risk

[hearty wasp]

yeah but then you lose a lot of flexibility

but at least you have the choice of not using it

[west solstice]

i dont want flexibility, just make a version of sacs that works with all the default colors

[hearty wasp]

unfortunately SACS requires that flexibility because the game mechanically restricts what you can have so you are required to choose

and again at least you can choose to not use it

[west solstice]

btw i found a bug on buildframe rectum where it unlocks everything inside an expanded category, including limited stuff.

[hearty wasp]

oh cool

dunno why it'd do that

p sure there're vanilla folded objects that are purchased separately

it's either that or the game crashes whenever you open the build menu tho

[wide stump]

are there any mods to increase the building limit on corvettes?

[final hazel]

https://www.nexusmods.com/games/nomanssky/search?keyword=corvette

[hearty blade]

Anybody have a clue what could be going on? I booted up the singularity manager and now my mods folder is purged except for a few mods?

Last thing I did lpreviously waas turn off all my mods, booted up the game, saved but then went to bed because I was too tired to play

[solid hawk]

Nope, the Singularity author doesn't hang here. That's who you should contact

[hearty blade]

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3694?tab=files @solid hawk I don't know if it's an intended effect but it's amusing seeing swarms of angry creatures in an area I love it

It's amusing, does it work on the little swarm creatures? I haven't noticed

All I know is a had a bunch of angry pillars of light chasing me on a light world, and whatever those flying shell fragment things are on a shelled world. Kept me on my toes

[radiant cedar]

How can I unlock all of the glyphs using a save editor?

[hearty blade]

So why doesn't this mod do anything for mechanical creatures? Robot dogs and living buildings out to kill me sounds interesting too

[radiant cedar]

Is there a mod that colors star systems based on their economy levels?

Like Green for level 3 star systems Yellow for level 2 and red for level 1

[south orbit]

U can just use in game filter in galaxy map

[hearty blade]

Yes

[radiant cedar]

But does it show the level of the economy?

[hearty blade]

I'll go get the link to the mod

[radiant cedar]

Thanks

[hearty blade]

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3914

[radiant cedar]

Put free bird as background music

[fair narwhal]

no because im evil

thats not evil villian music

[radiant cedar]

Bad to the bone?

[fair narwhal]

have you ever seen a machinegun geology cannon?

i invented one

[radiant cedar]

Nk

*no

[fair narwhal]

and now i can tear the land apart

im so happy it works

i didnt know it would

ive always wanted one of these and i had to do it myself, because nobody on nexusmods would be a jerk enough to create something so destructive and abusive.

id never use it on people dont worry

that would be horrible

[solid hawk]

Intended effect? Even says right there.

That's what the mod does 🙂

[hearty blade]

Oh no I meant so many appearing at once

I didn't expect that part

when I turned it off they weren't all swarming, so it's funny

It's like a pack of lions haha

[solid hawk]

Mod makes no changes to spawning numbers or herd sizes, that's vanilla. 🙂

Few or many, they will all hate you. haha

[hearty blade]

oh dear o.o

So why doesn't it effect the mechanical creatures?

robot apocalypse too terrifying?

[solid hawk]

Don't Worry, Be Happy. Be ironic.

[solid hawk]

Yeah, I just made a design decision to not include robots. Lack of emotion sort of thing.

[solid hawk]

Addon to the main mod. Just extract into GAMEDATA\MODS, like any other mod.

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/edit/?step=files&id=3694

[hearty blade]

@vale iron In regards to your squadron damage mod, which damage multiplier would to say is complimentary to player damage but doesn't really overshadow it?

Thanks babscoole!

[solid hawk]

If you've upgrade modules, player damage will always overshadow squadron.....and squadron members aren't exactly accurate.

[hearty blade]

ah true, but I'm only earl-midgame so I'm wondering from that perspective

[vale iron]

To get fairly close to player damage is going to depend on modules as Babs said. I would say probably around x7 or x8. I usually play with x5.

[hearty blade]

I saw a mod that improves freighter and pilot Ai I think, but it looks like it was discontinued or just hasn't been updated in forever

[vale iron]

So they have an effect, but I'm cooler

[hearty blade]

Yeah, just like the wingmen in starfox, though slightly more aggro haha

But hey I saw slippy kill a starwolf pilot once!

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/3777?tab=description So I think this is great because there's been manu times the game had gotten me trapped in something. But what would be nice is if somebody made a version for the ship. Unless the emergency warp works when somebody is trapped in an object?

Yesterday I was playing with the better freighter tractor beam mod and I got trapped after crashing. Got launched backwards and was stuck in an endless spin. Happened twice!

My only option was to reload. I don't have the emency warp tech, but I was in a state where my ship was acting like it was in the beam and trying to land while spinning so I don't think it would have helped anyway

I posted what happened to me on the nexus forum

[solid hawk]

General rule of thumb. If you don't see an existing mod for something, it's not because you're the first person to think of an idea, more likely not possible.

[hearty blade]

Ah

[solid hawk]

We can't add new features, potentially, repurpose what's already there.

[hearty blade]

I'm learning!

[vale iron]

I have a mod that adds the teleport function to the Atlas Pass and you can use that while in ship, but animations get screwed up as a result

If done while in the ship

I think Babs's is less prone to bugs

[solid hawk]

If in a corvette, can use Unstuck by getting out of the seat

[hearty blade]

what happens with animations?

[vale iron]

You're basically stuck in the seated position until a reload because you never exited the cockpit, which puts you in standing position

You might be able to enter and exit a ship to reset it; not sure if I tried that

[hearty blade]

ah so basically would have to reload anyway

[vale iron]

Well, you could teleport, save at station, then reload'

[hearty blade]

hmm that would have been a nice option

[solid hawk]

See similar with Astros Bridge, when activating freighter warp from the mini-console, if seated in the command chair. lol

[vale iron]

I wish we could hotkey items. One of the great things about adding to the emote menu is being able to bind a key to the action, but I feel it's more future proof on items

[solid hawk]

Getting attacked by hordes of robot antelopes yet?

[hearty blade]

yeah I was struggling to find the warp emote while in ship only to remember... I was in a ship...

[hearty blade]

I'll have to find a robot planet to check

I forget what kind of systems they're in

[solid hawk]

Excuses, excuses. You asked for it. haha

[hearty blade]

XD

[vale iron]

Babs, is there a boolean for available in ship, like above water/below water?'

Still getting used to the new keyboard layout and have trailing ' everywhere

[hearty blade]

I'm currently redownloading all my mods because apparently I break things in unexpected ways. Singularity spontaneously cleared out all my mods and the maker said they never encountered it the way I did when they tested

..... and it just did it again

[solid hawk]

Sorry, what's the context?

[vale iron]

Being able to teleport emote while in ship

oh no emotes

nevermind

[solid hawk]

Yeah, was just thinking that

Emote menu is only on foot

[vale iron]

Yeah, that's what I just realized

[solid hawk]

But not in VR apparently

[vale iron]

You can emote in ship on VR?

[solid hawk]

No, there's no emote menu in VR, at all

[hearty wasp]

you can have underwater emotes but you need a duplicate w/ AvailableUnderwater=true

[solid hawk]

So I've been told

[solid hawk]

I used to do that, but ditched doing so earlier this year

[hearty wasp]

HG was doing something with the menu a month or two ago too

had a report or duplicate emotes on land indicating they unhid underwater emotes on land

but then they reverted it

[vale iron]

Oh, maybe a mistake then

[hearty wasp]

yeah

[vale iron]

Not sure why they require double, just use both booleans on the same emote

[hearty wasp]

some literally use different anims

[vale iron]

That's a good reason, though would be better to have UWANIM and ANIM fields then

[hearty wasp]

and it's left over from underwater emotes were first available

[hearty blade]

So they won't conflict, right? It's an add-on? I forgot what you said already

[vale iron]

One is organic creatures and the other inorganic, I believe.

[final hazel]

even if the robots one has both, it can't conflict with the same thing but less