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10 Best No Man’s Sky Mods to Enhance Your NEXT Experience

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Jetpack Overhaul

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10 Best No Man’s Sky Mods to Enhance Your NEXT Experience

One of the coolest things about your exosuit in No Man’s Sky is the ability to hover around with your handy jetpack. While it won’t keep you up in the air forever, it’s a great way to get around and reach new locations. That said, some players might have trouble with how the jetpack works and operates, especially when if it feels a bit too stiff to control. This Jetpack Overhaul mod adjusts how this tool works, making it feel a bit more light and fluid as you soar through the air. On top of that, the mod aims to make the jetpack a better mode of transportation instead of simply being a niche item.

Fewer Storms

10 Best No Man’s Sky Mods to Enhance Your NEXT Experience

Nobody likes stumbling across storms when exploring planets in No Man’s Sky. Unless you’ve come prepared, there’s usually not much to do when one of these natural calamities comes swinging by in the area. If you can’t stand having storms in your game, you can lessen these occurrences with the Fewer Storms mod. Having this in your game moderately reduces how many storms that will happen across all of the biomes in No Man’s Sky. That way, you won’t have to always worry about staying trapped in one area while some crazy storm rages on.

Creatures Revamped

10 Best No Man’s Sky Mods to Enhance Your NEXT Experience

No Man’s Sky is teeming with wildlife, which is what breathes life into the universe. If you’ve wanted to control these creatures for yourself, this mod lets you tweak their sizes, spawn rates, planet probability, and more. Here are some of the things included in this package:

  • Creature Spawns: Have been increased. More creatures spawn in 1 Square KM (x1.25 times).
  • Creature Planet Probabilities: Have been tweaked to increase variety on each planet. Dead planets are still dead but other planet types will have a bigger variety of creatures on them.
  • Bird Group Sizes: Have been increased.
  • Prehistoric Animals: Have increased spawn probabilities on Low, Med and Full planets.
  • Flying Snakes: Have increased spawn probabilities on Low, Med and Full planets.

HQ Water – Effects

10 Best No Man’s Sky Mods to Enhance Your NEXT Experience

As the name implies, this mod is all about busting out those gorgeous water textures and bringing them to No Man’s Sky. Water has a way of invoking realism in almost any game, and seeing some cheaper liquid floating around really kills the immersion. This mod overhauls all of the water effects and even includes new textures for a better, serene atmosphere. It’s the simple things that really bring a game to life, you know?

Walk- Sprint- Swim Speed Increased

10 Best No Man’s Sky Mods to Enhance Your NEXT Experience

Following the recent NEXT update, players are definitely hustling as they explore different planets and look for new items in No Man’s Sky. That said, if the walking and running speeds are too slow for you, you can use this No Man’s Sky mod to bring you up to speed. Generally, this mod gives you options to toggle how fast you can go, from x1.5 walk speed to x2 sprinting speed. The same also goes for swimming, because we all know there are treasures just waiting to be found underwater. Similarly, this package also comes with a nifty stamina mod that grants you as much stamina at your disposal. If you’re always in a rush, this No Man’s Sky mod is definitely worth looking into.

Profession Explorer and Trader

10 Best No Man’s Sky Mods to Enhance Your NEXT Experience

No Man’s Sky is packed with different ways on how to get rich quick; however, if you’re a trader or explorer yourself, you might not get enough money to keep up with all of your other expenses. This mod aims to mix things up by rewarding your for exploring by putting a higher price tag on discoveries. On top of that, shops have more items to sell and can have up to 300x – 1,000x of any type of material. Similarly, star items are also more valuable now as well, around four times as worth as their original price. With this mod, you can travel and make money at the same time.

Clean UI for NEXT

10 Best No Man’s Sky Mods to Enhance Your NEXT Experience

The No Man’s Sky NEXT update has brought plenty of new features to the table, including a cleaner-looking UI. Things definitely look less cluttered, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be improved. This No Man’s Sky mod tweaks the NEXT UI quite a bit, making it look much more polished by doing the following:

  • Removes top screen vignette (darken) effect
  • Removes top screen scanlines
  • Removes top screen chromatic aberration

Instagram Filter Remover

10 Best No Man’s Sky Mods to Enhance Your NEXT Experience

No Man’s Sky uses a smooth, tinted filter that’s quite easy on the eyes, but removes the game’s natural color palette. If you don’t like the Instagram-esque filter the game forces on you, this mod will do its job and restore the world’s natural colors. Shades pop out and look much more natural, to say the least, and not to mention it will make the world look a bit less hazy. All that said, a little goes a long way with this No Man’s Sky mod.

ShutUp

10 Best No Man’s Sky Mods to Enhance Your NEXT Experience

If you’re the kind of player who prefers silence and solitude when playing adventure games, then maybe the ShutUp mod might be right up your alley. No Man’s Sky is filled with different verbal messages and warnings, and it can be pretty jarring when you’re just trying to take a peaceful stroll through a planet. If you want to disable all forms of voiceovers in the game, which can all be toggled depending on what you want drowned out.

Aliens World 4NEXT

10 Best No Man’s Sky Mods to Enhance Your NEXT Experience

This mod is catered specifically for the NEXT update in No Man’s Sky, adding more fully-explorable biomes to the game. These different biome types range from barren, lush, frozen, scorched, and radioactive, which are all hand crafted and not procedurally generated. These added features don’t stray too far from the other biomes in the game, adding a sense of familiarity when exploring these different areas. If you need some new scenery in the game, this Aliens World mod spices things up without completely changing everything.


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Irwyn Diaz
Irwyn was a Staff Writer for Twinfinite from 2017 to 2019 covering as many RPGs and action games that he could get his hands on. He is a diehard Final Fantasy fan who just can't stop playing Opera Omnia. Playing Games Since: 1998, Favorite Genres: RPGs, Horror