5 No Mans Sky Mods Players Can Try Out

Discover the top 5 No Man’s Sky mods that can spice up your experience and take your interstellar journey to the next level!

No Man's Sky Screenshot (Source: Hello Games) — No Man’s Sky Screenshot (Source: Hello Games)

No Man’s Sky has built up a considerable and loyal player base over the almost nine years since its initial release. Much of that is due to the constant updates and patches released by Hello Games to improve the overall experience for gamers. It also helps that the game generates worlds procedurally, and there are essentially endless planets to explore because of that.

Even so, if you are playing the game on PC, you can add even more content and customize your experience with a variety of mods. With hundreds of mods available, it can become overwhelming to understand which ones you should try out. In this guide, we’ll outline 5 of the best No Man’s Sky mods that you absolutely must try.

5 Top No Man’s Sky Mods

The following are some of the most popular mods to try out for the game.

Better Rewards
Better Planet Generation
Dud’s Sky – Colors
Fast Actions 7.0
JJs Better Ships

Let’s take a look at exactly how these mods will improve your experience in the game.

1. Better Rewards

One of the major issues with No Man’s Sky, which can hamper pacing, is that you tend to get nanite clusters, units, and quicksilver (in-game currencies) at an incredibly slow rate. So, it can sometimes feel like an endless grind to accumulate enough of these. Better Rewards is a mod that resolves this problem by increasing the rate at which you find currency. You will get five times the currency with the mod installed.

Besides currency, this No Man’s Sky mod accelerates the rate at which you learn words from non-NPC interactions. This means you will learn words three times faster from dictionaries and knowledge stones. Resource gathering also yields twice the materials compared to the base game.

You can download the mod from here.

2. Better Planet Generation

No Man’s Sky was one of the first games in the industry to use procedural generation to create an unlimited number of planets. However, if you have been playing the game for a while, you might have noticed the slight lack of variety when it comes to world environments. So, even when you travel from one part of a galaxy to another, you may encounter similar kinds of flora and fauna.

With the Better Planet Generation mod installed, though, you will notice a significant improvement in this aspect. The mod adds thousands of new and unique environments, creating more varied procedurally generated planets.

These changes are not just limited to planet surfaces, as the mod also changes subsurface biomes, such as caves and underground sections. This mod will help you feel like an intergalactic explorer who must adapt to drastically different environments when traveling from one planet to the next.

If you want to get in on the fun, download the mod from here.

3. Dud’s Sky – Colors

If you’ve ever felt that the planets in the game look too bland or uninteresting, Dud’s Sky-Colors is the perfect mod for you to try out. After installation, you will notice the changes almost instantly as the mod adds new and unique colors to sand, grass, snow, and much more. The new shades to almost all environmental aspects in the game can make the planets seem much more vibrant and alive.

While it may seem like an inconsequential thing at first, the mod’s more than 150,000 downloads show that players have enjoyed what it adds to the gameplay experience.

You can download this visual mod here.

4. Fast Actions 7.0

You might have faced an annoying feature in No Man’s Sky where you need to hold the interact button for a second or two before the interaction goes through. While on its own this doesn’t seem too bad, No Man’s Sky involves a ton of interactions, and the delay in input can slow down your game’s pace. With the Faster Actions mod, you get exactly what the name promises. Whether you are recovering technologies or transferring resources from or to your ship, each action will now be much faster.

There are two variants for the mod. The first one ensures that actions are instantaneous as soon as you click. The other version improves the speed of actions without making them instantaneous. You can choose whichever feels more natural for you.

Download this incredibly useful mod here.

5. JJs Better Ships

In the unmodded version of the game, you might have trouble finding rare S-class ships, while the most common ships are C-class ones. These are also the weakest ships in No Man’s Sky. If you install JJs Better Ships mod, all C-class ships are removed from the game. The only available classes, in that case, are A, B, and S-class ships. The mod also makes S-class ships much more easily obtainable. So, if you are a spaceship connoisseur, this mod is an absolute must-have.

Download the mod here.

These are just some of the No Man’s Sky mods you can try out. Visit Nexus Mods to explore all the mods that the game supports. Keep in mind that all of these mods only work in the PC version of the game. If you own the game on consoles, unfortunately, you can’t install mods as of this writing.

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5 No Mans Sky Mods Players Can Try Out