Earlier this year, Hello Games proved once again that it is completely dedicated to updating and providing unique experiences for No Man’s Sky with the release of Worlds Part II. Today, the developers showed that 2025 will be another banner year for the hit space survival title, revealing the next update, called Relics.
No Man’s Sky Relics will take players back to prehistoric times, introducing a wide variety of bones, expeditions, and crafting elements all centered around the new fossil mechanics. The update is full to the brim with new content, as there are over a million possibilities for finding and reassembling creature skeletons in the patch alone.
You’ll be able to find these skeletons by creating dig sites or going on expeditions, with Expedition Eighteen set to begin within the next few days and run for approximately six weeks. Rewards from these include new posters, decals and titles, a living stone suit customisation set, the unique Basilisk Crown staff, a mysterious skeletal companion, and the exclusive Living Stone jetpack.
Any fossils and skeletons that you find can be put back together and put on display or traded with a collector, who will barter for items in their collection, allowing individual inventory items to be swapped. Titanic Bone Worms, Stone Guardians, and Skeletal Lifeforms are located on particular planets, each set to protect dig sites from those who look to exhume them.
Not everything is out to hurt you in the update, as players can unlock an exclusive living fossil companion: a loyal, fleshless creature of animated bone. Bone-based recipes are now on the menu for crafting, featuring health and protective benefits, or they can be presented to Interation: Cronus for critique, judgement, and potential remuneration.
Abandoned Mode is also getting a handful of improvements. Derelict space stations now feature functional upgrade stations for the Exosuit, starship, Multi-Tools, and salvage boxes with valuable upgrades. You’ll also be able to get more technology from planetary buried caches, and purple systems will automatically show up on the Galaxy Map.
You can view the full list of changes and quality-of-life updates coming alongside No Man’s Sky Relics right here. The sci-fi exploration title is currently available on PlayStation 4
PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and Nintendo Switch starting at $59.99.
