Key Takeaways
- No Man's Sky has improved greatly with new content, but mods continue to enhance the game experience in different ways.
- Mods like Jetpack Overhaul, Word Rewards Enhanced, and Multi Biomes add new features and quality of life improvements.
- Better Rewards, Better Ships, and Start With TARDIS mods offer players more options, rewards, and customization within the game.
No Man's Sky is a game that had a rough start. Its launch version was far from being the game that players were so excited about playing. To fulfill what they wanted from the game, or to at least improve it a bit, many players started modding it early.
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To everyone's surprise, No Man's Sky never stopped releasing new content. Today, the game is everything that it was meant to be and much more, but it did not stop the mod community. There are even more mods that are responsible for tweaking and improving the newer aspects of the game, as well.
Updated on August 18, 2024, by William Quick: No Man's Sky reaches far beyond the horizon with a universe that expands into whatever machine you're playing it on. It continues to go through various updates and patches to keep the big game running smoothly so as never to return to the dark days of the launch period. While the official additions to the game have improved it in many ways, the community has been very active in improving it in its own way. That's why you should consider these mods.
16 Jetpack Overhaul
Take To The Skies Without A Ship
No Man's Sky is already impressive in so many ways and there's a lot of fancy futuristic technology that you'll discover and get to handle while playing. Among them is the jetpack, which still carries a lot of weight even when you're flying across the universe in a custom ship. When you're on the surface, the jetpack is the way to go.
With the creativity of ATaXiA, this mod makes your jetpack the best that it can be, so that you can soar freely across all the planet's skies. You can make it unlimited if you just want a seamless flight or just improve things like raising the max speed, responsiveness, and acceleration. There are also restrictions like raising fuel consumption just to counteract all the boosts.
15 Word Rewards Enhanced
Get More From Putting In More
If you've ever played an RPG game, you've learned that books don't only contain lore and background details of the universe you're exploring, but can directly improve your character. There's an emphasis on learning languages in No Man's Sky from all the sources you find like books, rocks, and even conversation. However, it can be slow-going.
That's why Umaroth put this mod together to make the process more rewarding... literally. Now, whenever you take in new words, you'll receive increased rewards to help your character grow faster, and it also affects the amount of Salvaged Data you'll get upon discovering it.
14 Multi Biomes
Each World Is More Diverse
The biggest selling point of No Man's Sky is the size of its universe, which generates new planets for you to discover and visit at your leisure. Some are peaceful, others are dangerous, but they all provide something, whether it's just a few materials here and there or whole new lifeforms to study. The problem is that planets tend to focus on one biome and commit to it hard.
To remedy this, trevix came in with this mod to increase variety on the planet itself. Now you can visit planets and have a chance to encounter all sorts of biomes in the same place. It mainly covers the vanilla biomes like mountains, so as not to be too demanding, but it changes planet exploration quite a bit.
13 Better Rewards
Work Hard And Get A Better Payout
Just looking at No Man's Sky fills you with a sense of weight, since you know that you have a full universe to explore. You could spend hours traveling and doing various activities and never get anything worthwhile. The creator of Better Rewards, MrTracki, feels the weight as well and has worked to give you a more rewarding experience... quite literally.
Just add this mod to your game, and you'll find that all your opportunities to get rewards will be changed for the better. You'll end up picking among more quality items and more as you feel a greater sense of accomplishment for all the effort you've put in to get you that well-deserved loot.
12 Better Ships
Only The Best Ships For You
No Man's Sky without ships would be like Minecraft without a pickaxe: it just wouldn't be playable. You're not going to experience an important chunk of what the game has to offer without getting and piloting a ship. You may be stuck with common quality models for a while, but JJhookah shows that it doesn't have to be this way.
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By messing with the laws of generation, this mod changes the kind of ships you'll find on your travels. Say goodbye to all the C-Class ships and look forward to encountering the B-Class or even better. S-Class ships will become more commonplace, so make use of them wisely.
11 Start With TARDIS
It's Smaller On The Outside!
The longest-running sci-fi show goes to the fast-talking, hyper-intelligent ancient alien with a flying blue box, Doctor Who. Whether you're a fan or couldn't care less about the show, it's no doubt iconic with a lot of its influence felt across gaming. The most notable aspect of the ship is that blue box, the Doctor's special time-travel ship called the TARDIS.
Thanks to the efforts of RemingtonRyder, you can pilot this unique ship through the No Man's Sky Universe. Aside from adding a whole new roleplay element to the experience, this mod adds some extra flavoring by removing the tutorial (when playing on Normal difficulty) and gives you the fluorescent blue-green trail to streak across space. Doctor who? Doctor you.
10 Deep Space
Put Yourself Under A Dark Sky
A lot of work went into making No Man's Sky and even more went into redeeming it in the eyes of the public. However, it has always had an expansive universe. However, despite all the technical efforts, it's not the most realistic space experience. For those who want a more real space-exploration affair, TheEMMETTBROWN has you covered.
This mod bumps up the realism of space, making it darker and less colorful. It bumps up the emptiness of the universe with the main goal of overall reducing the noise and making the atmospheric elements more detailed and less stylized. Bring the harshness of our universe to this universe.
9 No Man's Connect - Online Location Manager
Figure Out Where You Are
Trying to revisit places in a procedurally generated game is like trying to find a minnow in the ocean. This mod, created by user jaszhix, has received regular updates, works offline, and allows for teleportation to manually registered locations on a PC.
It's a great addition for those who want more options when it comes to retracing the steps and trying to find the perfect pet or starship.
8 Fast Actions
Speed Up Your Interactions
When crafting, clicking an item will trigger a quick animation. It doesn't take long, but when too many items are needed for any reason, it adds up. Other things in the game take an unnecessary second to be completed. Transferring resources, entering a ship, and gathering small plants are a few examples.
This mod is a very simple quality-of-life mod that everybody should try out. It just removes the time it takes to realize some actions. It makes crafting faster, but players who do not know much about it might still need some pointers.
7 Better Planet Generation
Encounter More Interesting Worlds
User WoodyMontana created this mod to assist with creating better, more interesting planets. Think of it as a supplemental resource to make your game more enjoyable rather than scoff at the developers' hard work on the game.
This mod is a no-brainer for people whose favorite part of NMS is simply seeing what the engines can create randomly.
6 HD Clouds
Fill The Skies With Nicer Clouds
Although some patches came with an update on cloud textures, it was not a complete overhaul. The game uses atmospheric cloud textures for distant planets. The dynamic clouds will not appear unless players are close enough to a planet. When that is the case, the game will switch to dynamic clouds.
This mod increases the quality of the textures for mid-range and distance ranges. That way, space looks consistently nicer and planets might feel more alive and less repetitive by far.
5 Fine LOD
Bump Up The Details
No Man's Sky is an awesome game, but it is far from perfect. When traveling around on foot, ground textures might take a while to load. Sometimes the fps might drop because of it, since the game might be constantly loading it. Besides all that, there is this well-known issue with the water height. For some reason, the water will show up much lower than it is.
Fine LOD fixes all that, though. This mod makes textures load from further away, increasing the beauty of the game. This is a must-have mod for PC Gamers who can run it.
4 Exosolar's Expanse
Expand The Universe Even More
The sci-fi fantasy of exploring new systems throughout space is amazing as it is, but there is room for improvement. Some would enjoy a more accurate feeling of space itself. There are a lot of colors, stars, rocks, and nebulas in No Man's Sky that might cause space to feel busy and sometimes even bright.
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Exosolar's mod changes the appearance of space in No Man's Sky. You can have a completely dark space with distant nebulas. There is also the option to add distant nebulas to contrast a bit with the never-ending blackness.
3 Argh Water
Make The Water More Inviting
Thanks to the graphical updates by Hello Games, NMS is looking prettier than ever. But some of the textures and motion animations still don't feel quite right for some players. This mod by user Argh seeks to fix that with new water shaders.
The mod adds tons of stuff for wave generation; water's color, reflections, highlights, and foam. Along with mods like the Better Planet Generation mod or graphical update mods, this will make NMS an even more beautiful sandbox to explore.
2 Exosolar's Beyond Base Building
Build Even More Base
No Man's Sky made players very happy with the base-building system. It provides more than 400 different pieces for players to mix and match to create their dream outpost. However, the game many times considers the position of those parts invalid, frustrating a lot of creative minds.
This mod is meant to fix that, and nearly all parts can be placed in almost any way players want. Building a base with this mod is significantly more fun since it allows the most creative base designs to take form in the game. Many nice things can be done to create an outstanding base.
1 Dud's Sky Colors
Paint The Skies Red And More
The procedurally generated planets of No Man's Sky have enough variations for the whole galaxy, but they can have even more. Dud's Sky adds new colors to grass, plants, sand, water, snow, and much more.
For instance, icy planets will no longer need to be all white. There will be plants with colors never seen before. That only adds variety to the experience, making some planets stand out and have this truly unique feature. This is one of those mods that makes you wonder why it had to be a mod, since it would be very nice if it was a standard feature of the game.
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