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Supercharged Customizable Spaceships | No Man’s Sky Epic Update August 31, 2025
- Image of No Man's Sky, Courtesy of Hello Games

Cling onto your jetpacks, brave interstellar adventurers! No Man’s Sky has just released what could be its most magnificent update yet, and I’m literally burning with enthusiasm as I write this. The Voyager’s update has arrived, and it offers something we’ve craved since the game’s inception: custom-tailored spaceships you can build, cruise around in, and explore with your gang!

Build Your Dream Corvette from Scratch

Remember those cramped little fighters we’ve been zooming around in? Well, kiss those claustrophobic days goodbye! The new Corvette-class ships are absolute behemoths that you construct piece by piece, module by module. We’re talking about vessels so massive that you’ll need multiple friends just to feel less lonely wandering their corridors.

The customization system is absolutely bonkers in the best possible way. You’re not just slapping a new paint job on a pre-made hull – you’re architecting your own floating fortress from the ground up. Want a ship that looks like it crawled out of Star Wars? Go for it! Prefer something sleek and modern like the Enterprise? The galaxy’s your oyster!

The building process feels surprisingly intuitive, too. You’ll hunt down Corvette modules scattered across the universe – buried in salvage containers, floating in derelict freighters, or dropped by defeated pirates who clearly had good taste in ship parts. Each piece you collect becomes another building block for your masterpiece.

Walk Around Your Custom Spaceships Like a Boss

Image from No Man’s Sky, Courtesy of Hello Games

Here’s where things get absolutely wild – once you’ve built your custom spaceship, you can actually get up from the pilot’s seat and stroll around inside! No more being glued to your cockpit like some kind of space barnacle. Your friends can hop aboard, and suddenly you’ve got a proper crew exploring the galaxy together in your personally designed vessel.

The interiors are fully customizable, too. Want a meditation room with living walls? Done. Need a war room for planning your next pirate raid? You got it. Fancy a multi-story palace with staircases connecting different levels? The universe is literally your limit!

Three distinct aesthetic styles are available: Titan (for when you want to feel like a space marine), Thunderbird (because who doesn’t love that retro sci-fi vibe), and Ambassador (for those classy diplomatic missions). Each style completely transforms how your furnishings look, so your ship truly reflects your personality.

But wait – it gets even crazier! You can now step outside your custom spaceship and go spacewalking. Yes, you read that right. You can literally open the airlock and float around in the cosmic void, using your jetpack to drift between ships or dive toward planets below.

Picture this: you and your buddies park your respective Corvettes in orbit, then spend the afternoon floating between them like space dolphins. Or better yet, you can leap from your ship and skydive through a planet’s atmosphere while your friends watch from their custom vessels. It’s the kind of ridiculous fun that makes No Man’s Sky special.

Enhanced Performance That Actually Matters

Sean Murray and the Hello Games team didn’t just throw ships at us and call it a day. They’ve completely overhauled core systems to make these custom spaceships work seamlessly. We’re talking about crew members walking around inside ships traveling at warp speed toward procedurally generated planets. The technical wizardry happening behind the scenes is mind-blowing.

The update also brings DLSS 4 support, PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, and Intel XeSS 2. Translation? Your custom ship creations are going to look absolutely stunning, whether you’re admiring them from the outside or decorating their interiors.

Corvette Missions and Expeditions

Your custom spaceship isn’t just for show – it comes with its own mission system! Crew members can register for cooperative objectives, working together to complete challenges and earn rewards. It’s like having your own episode of Star Trek, except you’re the ones writing the script.

Plus, there’s a brand-new Expedition (number nineteen!) specifically designed around Corvette building. You’ll obtain exclusive rewards like new posters, decals, trails, and even a robotic Mecha-Mouse companion. Because, evidently, every space captain demands a mechanical rodent sidekick. Building Experience That Changes Everything. What actually differentiates these enhanced spaceships is not merely their size, but how they drastically alter No Man’s Sky’s gameplay sequence.

Instead of switching between temporary bases and cramped fighters, you now have a mobile home base that follows you everywhere. The Corvette Workshop terminals on space stations feature everything you need to create, modify, and enhance your ship. You can save work-in-progress designs, trade advanced modules with other players, and even store overflow parts in nearby caches when your inventory gets full.

The building interface resembles other ship designers you might know (looking at you, Starfield), but with Hello Games’ signature accessibility. You don’t need an engineering degree to create something magnificent – just patience and creativity.

Technical Marvel That Shouldn’t Work but Does

Image from No Man’s Sky, Courtesy of Hello Games

The engineering feat behind these custom spaceships is absolutely staggering. Multiple players walking around inside a ship that’s simultaneously traveling through space, landing on planets, and maintaining structural integrity? That’s the kind of technical challenge that would make most developers run screaming.

But somehow, Hello Games pulled it off. Your Corvette has specialized teleporters for beaming to planetary surfaces, autopilot systems for hands-free travel, and enhanced pulse drives that outpace traditional ships. Every system works together seamlessly, creating an experience that feels magical rather than mechanical.

Your Next Adventure Awaits

The Voyagers update represents everything No Man’s Sky does best – taking an impossible dream and making it a reality. These custom spaceships aren’t just vehicles; they’re expressions of creativity, friendship, and the endless human desire to explore the unknown together.

Whether you’re planning to build a cozy explorer for quiet journeys or a massive battleship for epic space battles, your perfect Corvette is waiting to be discovered. The galaxy has never felt more like home, and that home is now entirely your own design.

Time to fire up No Man’s Sky and start building the ship of your dreams. The universe is calling, and it’s time to answer in style!

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