Building the perfect No Man's Sky base just got a whole lot easier courtesy of a new base-building mod tool for the survival game itself. That's all about to change.
The No Man's Sky base-building app is a standalone tool created by Charlie 'DjMonkey' Banks, a developer working on indie survival game Tales From The Dancing Moon. It's based on the sorts of construction you might expect to see in city-building games such as Cities: Skylines or even the likes of The Sims build mode. You can position, rotate, and scale all the usual base parts and place them however you wish in a 3D environment to put your base together.
The app is based on open-source 3D graphics tool Blender, but Banks notes that it has been purpose-built for No Man's Sky, so it will be easy to pick up for players familiar with the game and there is no need to learn Blender skills to make use of it. You can export your current base from No Man's Sky using the save editor, work on it in the app, and then import it back into the game once you're happy with your creation.
It's an incredibly powerful tool that should really help players to create the No Man's Sky base of their dreams. The potential impact it might have is perhaps best summed up by No Man's Sky creator Sean Murray, who simply tweets, "Holy moly" in response to a video of the base-building app in action.
If you want to give the app a shot for yourself, you can get your hands on it at Nexus Mods. Banks comments that the app is "something very new, quite beta in fact," meaning that s should expect some potential bugs and a few missing things compared to Blender itself out of the gate. Nevertheless, we're sure many players will be eager to play around with the tool and start creating!
The play No Man's Sky without a graphics card, so there's never been a better time to take off on a new adventure.