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Values in the table are in thousands of units. This table reflects the values of ships as of the Visions update, which included a significant reduction in the cost of freighters.
   
 
==Crashed starships==
 
==Crashed starships==

Revision as of 08:10, 19 April 2020

The subject of this article is from the Living Ship update.
The information from this article is is up-to-date as of 6 April, 2020.
Exotic squid AgorideraS42

Agoridera S42 - an exotic Squid ship

A Starship is the major means of travel in No Man's Sky.

Summary

Starships, or ships, play a major role in No Man's Sky. They are necessary for gameplay progression unless a player plans to stay on one planet the whole game. Starships allow players to travel between planets and solar systems, fight in space battles, engage in space encounters, reach the centre of the galaxy, store resources, and trade. The player begins the game with one starship and can acquire additional starships later, up to a maximum of six starships at any one time.

Players are not the only entities that use starships. NPC-controlled starships, including pirates and Sentinel Interceptors, populate the skies on planets as well as the interplanetary space within star systems. In addition to acting as a primary source of new starships, NPC starships carry valuable resources and products for sale, and they can be followed to locate certain inhabited points of interest.

Due to the static nature of the seed in No Man's Sky, a well documented ship will always be able to be found again. A system that spawns a rare design - for example an exotic - in its first armada landing on a space station or trade port will always do so on revisit or reload. The same goes for the wait timers on stations or ports until a ship type shows up. If a particular ship has piqued your interest, finding a station or port it lands on as part of the first group is the best grinding spot.

Starship Catalogue

Yakomaku S79

Yakomaku S79 / Radiant Pillar BC1

For a list of Starships to scroll through, compare, find locations to buy, and to collect detailed information about, refer to the Starship Catalogue page.

Notable ships

Characteristics

All ships are defined by the following main aspects:

  • inventory spaces
  • technology spaces
  • damage potential (base: 53.8)
  • fuel efficiency (launch costs are doubled in Survival and Permadeath Game modes)
  • hyperdrive range (base: 101 light-years)
  • shield absorption (default: 165.0; bonuses are calculated as 165*(1+0.007xB%))
  • maneuverability, depends on a ship type and class

All of these can be upgraded with technology blueprints. These aspects can also have modifiers based on a ship's type and class (see below).

Starship Archetypes

NmsShip Water Flight

Into the wild blue yonder

There are six types of starships: Shuttle, Fighter, Hauler, Explorer, Exotic, and Living Ship. Among these archetypes are four letter-grade classes: C, B, A, and S.

  • C-class ships have the fewest inventory spaces, and if there is a class bonus, it will be no more than 20%.
  • B-class ships take up the three inventory sizes below the maximum of the tier size, and they have a 20% or more class bonus.
  • A-class will have either the maximum number of slots or one slot less than max, and has a 35% or more class bonus.
  • S-class ships do not necessarily have the max amount of inventory slots. You can have an S-class ship with fewer slots than other ships of the same type (fighter/explorer/etc.). [this fact confirmed as of Sept. 2019]
  • S-class ships have a 50% or more class bonus (excluding exotics).
  • Note: Due to the game's mechanic of always rounding down, a 59.99% ship will still display 59%. Finding a 'seemingly' perfect ship in any class is thus as likely as winning the lottery. Collectors, don't try!

Every star system has 21 different ship designs: 7 shuttle types, 3 ships of each specialist type (Fighter, Hauler, or Explorer), 1 Exotic, and 4 other specialist ships based on that system's dominant race. S-class ships will spawn more often in rich economies. Note that a ship's properties are randomized each time it lands. The only consistency is in the design and thus tier. If you are already in a wealthy system, it can be beneficial to wait for your favorite design to have a good dice roll. During multiplayer an NPC ship can have a different class for each player. The properties are rolled for each one individually.

Spawn chances based on economy:

Economy Template:C Template:B Template:A Template:S
Poor 60% 30% 10% 0%
Average 49% 35% 15% 1%
Wealthy 30% 40% 28% 2%
NMSShipInventory

The Class line gives the number of inventory slots, then the number of technology slots.

Each type of ship has three tiers of inventory sizes: a small, medium, and large, though Shuttles do not have a large size inventory. The sizes can be identified by the style of wings (or the size of the fuselage for the Shuttle) or by scanning the ship using the Analysis Visor. (See images below to identify traits of ships with large inventory as well as how to interpret Analysis Visor output.) The archetypes and their major differences are as follows:

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Images of a few ships

Shuttle - Low & Balanced Bonuses

Ships of this type have balanced stats, with no significant class bonus compared to the other archetypes. These ships look typically blocky with a rectangular canopy, but some ships in this class have a tubular fuselage. Shuttles do not have a large inventory tier, but are great for starter travelers due to their cheap cost and increased low-tier inventory space.

  • Base Launch Cost: 1/6 (16.666...%)
  • Maneuverability: Medium (245-310)
  • Inventory:
Size General Tech
min max min max
Small 18 23 3 6
Medium 24 28 5 8
  • Type bonus (+%):
Class Damage Shield Hyperdrive
min max min max min max
Template:C 0
Template:B 0 5 0 5 0 5
Template:A 5 10 5 10 5 10
Template:S 15 20 15 20 15 20

Fighter - High Damage Bonus

Tier3Fighter

Wing shape of Fighters with large inventory

Ships of this type feature a damage potential class bonus. These ships are the mascot ships of No Man's Sky, and are also the primary starships of pirates across the galaxy.

  • Base Launch Cost: 25%
  • Maneuverability: High (350-430)
  • Inventory:
Size General Tech
min max min max
Small 15 19 2 4
Medium 20 29 3 5
Large 30 38 5 12
  • Type bonus (+%):
Class Damage Shield Hyperdrive
min max min max min max
Template:C 5 10 0 0
Template:B 15 30 5 10
Template:A 35 50 15 20
Template:S 55 60 15 25

These ships are more commonly found in Vy'keen systems.

Explorer - High Hyperdrive Bonus

Tier3Explorer

Wing shape of Explorers with large inventory

Ships of this type feature a hyperdrive range class bonus. These ships usually feature abstract shapes connected together with many thin, slender pieces with smooth surface, giving it insectoid or arthropodic look.

  • Base Launch Cost: 12.5%
  • Maneuverability: High (350-430)
  • Inventory:
Size General Tech
min max min max
Small 15 19 3 5
Medium 20 29 5 8
Large 30 38 8 12
  • Type bonus (+%):
Class Damage Shield Hyperdrive
min max min max min max
Template:C 0 0 7 15
Template:B 0 8 20 30
Template:A 10 15 35 45
Template:S 20 25 60 80

These ships are more commonly found in Korvax systems.

Hauler - High Shield Bonus

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Wing shape of Haulers with large inventory (1)

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Wing shape of Haulers with large inventory (2)

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Wing shape of Haulers with large inventory (3)

Ships of this type feature a shield absorb class bonus, and they also boast the highest possible inventory spaces. These ships are the largest out of all the other starships, and may or may not have wing features on them.

  • Base Launch Cost: 25%
  • Maneuverability: Low (150-230)
  • Inventory:
Size General Tech
min max min max
Small 25 31 2 4
Medium 32 39 4 6
Large 40 48 6 8
  • Type bonus (+%):
Class Damage Shield Hyperdrive
min max min max min max
Template:C 0 12 20 0 5
Template:B 0 5 25 35 5 10
Template:A 5 10 40 50 15 25
Template:S 10 20 65 85 30 35

These ships are more commonly found in Gek systems.

Exotic - High & Balanced Stats

Exotic is a special ship type. Ships of this type stand out for their unusual features, high class bonuses and high prices for a small sized ship. All exotic ships are also S-class.

  • Base Launch Cost: 25%
  • Maneuverability: High (390-440)
  • Inventory:
Size General Tech
min max min max
Small 15 20 4 6
  • Type bonus (+%):
Class Damage Shield Hyperdrive
min max min max min max
Template:S 35 50 55 60 50 65

Living Ship - Large Tech Inventory / Low Shields

Living Ship Class

Living Ship

Ships of this type feature large amount of technology slots with emphasis on damage output and hyperdrive range. They are categorized by their "Organic" looking architecture, with many parts moving during flight. They were first added in the Experimental Branch on 18/02/2020, then were officially released on the Living Ships update. The Living Ships can only be obtained through purchasing a Void Egg and following its questline. After the first, subsequent Living Ships cost 10,000 nanites to obtain, rather than building it from scratch.

These ships utilize Biotechnology to function, being completely incompatible with synthetic ship technology, both constructed and procedurally generated, and all technologies use different fuel than their synthetic counterparts. Being an organic being, no new technology can be "installed", but upgrades can be obtained via Space Encounters. As of 2.30, unlike other ships, it is impossible to expand Living Ships' inventory.

  • Base Launch Cost: 25%
  • Maneuverability: Average (~200)
  • Inventory:
Size Storage Sacs (General) Organ Chamber (Tech)
Medium 22 21
  • Type bonus (+%):
Class Damage Shield Hyperdrive
min max min max min max
Template:S 35 50 13 50 65

Freighter

Freighters are considerably more expensive (and much larger) than any starship, with prices ranging as high as 178 million units. Unlike the above starships, Freighters cannot land on planets or be flown by the player. They contain a large amount of inventory space, and can be used as a mobile base, including farming and other base-related functions. Only one Freighter can be owned at a time; however, the player may trade in their current Freighter for one within a Space Fleet if they have enough units to make up the difference.

  • Inventory:
Type Cargo Tech
min max min max
Standard 15 19 4 ?
Capital 24 34 4 9
  • Type bonus (+%):
Class Hyperdrive
min max
Template:C 0 9
Template:B 10 19
Template:A 20 30
Template:S 31 40

Buying a starship

To purchase a ship, players must visit trading posts, space stations, outposts, or freighter hangars. Ship prices depend on the archetype, number of slots, and class. Ship prices do not depend on the number of technologies installed or damaged, on the type bonuses for a specific archetype and class, on the vendor, or on your standing with the faction of the vendor.

Once a ship has landed, players may trade with the owner, preview the ship's capabilities and if desired, offer to purchase it. Due to the ships being procedurally generated, players may never encounter the same type of ship with the exact same configuration twice, though fighters are more likely to appear as duplicates since there are fewer possible design configurations. Even starships that are similarly designed may not have the same amount of inventory space offered. By reloading a save, you can force new ships to appear, rather than waiting for the current ones to leave.

The prices of ships in No Man's Sky are listed in the Price Catalogue.

To purchase a new ship at a trading post or a space station, you may trade-in your current ship as part of the deal. The new ship's value is as shown in the table, and the trade-in value of your current ship is 70% of the value in the table. If the new ship's value is higher than the trade-in value (this is normally the case), you must make up the difference in units. If the new ship's value is lower than your trade-in value, then no units are exchanged (i.e. you do not collect the difference). If you are trading in a Crashed Ship, the trade in value will be reduced by the percentage of Damaged Component slots.

For example, suppose you want to trade in a 38-slot B-class Hauler for a 48-slot S-class Hauler. The new ship costs 126 million units as per the table. The trade-in value of your current ship is 23.8 million units (70% of the table value of 34 million), so you must supply an additional 102.2 million units to make the deal. If 19 of the 38 slots on your B-class Hauler contain Damaged Components, the trade-in value will be reduced by 50% to 11.9 million units.

Trade-in values did not exist prior to the Pathfinder update. Ships obtained prior to the Pathfinder update have been classified as C-class and assigned a monetary value based on the amount of slots. The maximum possible value for a pre-Pathfinder ship is 49 million units.

If you want to shop for a new Starship inside the HUB Region or other Civilizations etc. refer to the Starship Catalogue to find the ship that suits you the best.

Starship by price

Values in the table are in thousands of units. This table reflects the values of ships as of the Visions update, which included a significant reduction in the cost of freighters.

Crashed starships

For additional tips

From time to time, a player may encounter a crashed ship. If the crashed ship is larger or of a better Class or design than the current one, the player may wish to consider abandoning the current ship and taking over the crashed ship. However, the player can just purchase it for 0 credits and keep both.

At first, it might seem that getting a bigger or better ship for free is always a good deal. However, a crashed ship needs extensive repairs to be fully functional and can drain a player's time and resources.

Several of the crashed ship's base technologies are damaged. Further the crashed ship always has damaged inventory slots that require more resources to repair before they can be used. The unit cost associated with items needed for inventory repair alone may be more than the net cost to purchase an equivalent vessel at a space station. There is also the cost to dismantle your old technologies and rebuild them in the new crashed ship or rebuild them from scratch to keep them for both. Finally, you will have to refill the empty hyperdrive, pulse engine, launch thruster, phase beam or other weapon, and deflector shield. Even after all this, though, repaired weapons have half the damage output of never-damaged weapons, so you will want to add a new weapon if you plan on using the ship in space combat.

On the other hand, if you find a damaged ship that is much larger than something you could otherwise currently afford at a star station, you can keep it and switch over now and repair the slots one by one as you gradually accumulate more units and resources. Paying a few extra units now to repair a crashed 48-slot S-class Hauler might save a lot of time waiting for one to show up at a star station, if that's what you ultimately want.

If you do decide to exchange your current ship for a crashed ship you can also just trade it in for a fully repaired ship. Even a beat up massive Hauler can be worth 10 million units and offer the chance to attain a decent Fighter. Of course you can dismantle as many upgrades in the ship as you want beforehand to gain resources.

NMS has significantly changed the way crashed ships are handled with each game revision, and much of the early advice pertaining to crashed ships is now obsolete.

  • Foundation - transmissions can no longer be picked up by signal scanners, making finding crashed ships much more difficult than it was in the initial release.
  • Pathfinder - ship classes now affect inventory space, and as such, a crashed ship is more likely to have a totally random number of slots.
  • Atlas Rises - removed the exploit whereby a ship with multiple damaged inventory slots could be traded in for the same price as an undamaged ship.
  • NEXT - players do not have to exchange their ship for a crashed ship and can't reattain their own ship if they did exchange it. However, they can just purchase it and keep both to salvage the entire ship or just parts.
  • Synthesis - added a capability to scrap starships, including the crashed ones.

Starship components and technology

NmsShip Shield

Ship control panel

Starships typically come with five key components preinstalled in their inventory: Launch Thruster, Pulse Engine, Photon Cannon, Deflector Shield and Hyperdrive; additionally, some starships also come with Efficient Thrusters and/or a second starship weapon. Freighters always have a Freighter Hyperdrive in the technology inventory.

Living Ships have equivalent key components: Neural Assembly, Pulsing Heart, Spewing Vents, Scream Suppressor and Singularity Cortex. Additionally, they have Grafted Eyes which are an equivalent of Phase Beam.

Many starship components can be upgraded, including drives, weaponry, fuel capacity and defensive mechanisms. The upgrades available will vary based on the type of ship being modified. These can all be upgraded by collecting necessary resources and crafting the technology. To upgrade the ship's components, open the starship's inventory. There are four technology upgrade categories for ships:

As of the Pathfinder update, new technology for starship upgrades can be purchased with Nanite Clusters from Gek traders located in space stations.
As of the NEXT update, these traders also sell Upgrade Modules for Nanite Clusters which contain procedurally generated starship technology upgrades.

Upgrading a starship

Players can upgrade their ship with additional inventory slots or class upgrade using the Starship Outfitting Terminal. Core stats will be upgraded following the archetype's rules and based on the unique seed for the ship, which means they'll always be the same for a given ship.

Starship destruction

As of the NEXT update, ships are no longer damaged by the environment (planetary surface, rocks, plants, or asteroids in space). This combined with low flight allows for more risky and uncommon manouvers, such as flying a ship inside a large cave. Flying at props in high speed will destroy them.

If your starship is destroyed in space, don't worry! You will spawn in the nearest space station in your ship. You will lose all the resources stored in your ship's hold, unless you follow the "grave icon" (atlas shaped icon). Once you get there you will be able to collect your resources. It is possible that pirates loot your grave before you arrive, and you will lose all those resources. Your ship may have technologies damaged (except for pulse drive). Your pulse drive will also be refilled when you respawn.

If your starship is destroyed in space while in Survival Mode things are a little different. You lose your ship inventory permanently, and wake up a good distance away from your crashed ship on the surface of the nearest planet. Like Normal Mode, your ship will also have several damaged components.

Starship destruction in Permadeath mode results in the game ending, and your save being deleted.

While not in a battle, the shield recharges on its own. While in battle, some of the containers from destroyed ships will recharge the shield, or you can recharge it yourself with catalysts.

Version Differences

  • Atlas Rises allowed ships to fly lower than before. Crashing ships in the ground or in props could damage them.
  • NEXT allowed for even lower flight, removed environmental ship damage and reduced the average damage caused by pirates.
  • Living Ship added the Living Ship archetype, hatched from Void Eggs.

Pre-order starships

Two different starships were available as bonuses for pre-ordering No Man's Sky. PlayStation 4 players received Alpha Vector (known in-game as the Domanish s84) and PC players received Horizon Omega.

Pre-release starships

For a list of pre-release ships, refer to the Pre-release ships page.

Additional Information

The looks of the ships, like everything else, are procedurally generated.

Before the Pathfinder update, the technologies and storage space were dependent on your current progress of the game and the kind of ship you currently owned.

Gallery

External links

References