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NMSE (No Man's Save Editor)

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License Platform .NET

NMSE is a free, open-source desktop application for editing No Man's Sky save files.
It boats the most complete set of editable features among editors and supports every platform the game ships on;
Steam, GOG, Xbox Game Pass, PlayStation 4 & Nintendo Switch.

Download Latest Release Β· See The Website Β· Report a Bug Β· Request a Feature
User Guide

Latest Supported Game Version: 6.34 Xeno Arena


✨ Features Summary

πŸ‘¨β€πŸš€ Player & Stats

  • Edit health, currency, units, nanites, quicksilver
  • Switch game mode and difficulty presets
  • Modify player state and galactic coordinates
  • Unlock words, glyphs, and discoveries
  • Full milestone and journey milestone editing
  • Edit multi-tool inventory, type, class, and seed

πŸ—οΈ Bases, Settlements

  • Edit base inventories and storage chests
  • Settlement stats, production, and perks
  • Edit corvette cache and salvage containers
  • Edit fishing inventories and cooking ingredients

🦎 Companion Pets

  • Companion editing
  • Custom creature builder
  • Pet battle editing

πŸš€ Starships, Exocraft & Fleets

  • Edit starships with full inventory access
  • Change ship type, class, seed, and name
  • Corvette editing, part reverse lookup, export and import
  • Manage exocraft inventories and tech
  • Full freighter inventory editing and room listing
  • Manage frigate fleet stats and traits
  • Squadron pilot and ship editing

πŸ—ƒοΈ Inventories & More

  • Visual inventory grid editor for every slot type
  • Drag-and-drop item management
  • Auto-stack items from exosuit/starship to freighter/chests/starship
  • Sort inventory
  • Import/export practically everything (cross-editor compatible)
  • ByteBeat music library editor
  • Recipe browser with full crafting trees
  • Raw JSON tree viewer for advanced editing
  • Export/import editor configuration profiles

For a full breakdown of all of the features, refer to the User Guide

🌍 Multi-Language Support

NMSE is localised in 16 languages: English (UK), English (US), French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Dutch, Portuguese, Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Any help in making language support more natural is welcome!


πŸ—ΊοΈ Roadmap

You can view the NMSE development roadmap here for upcoming, planned and dreamt about features.


πŸ“Έ Screenshots

Player Inventories Corvettes Companions
Fleet Catalogue JSON Editor Localisation

πŸ“₯ Installation

Windows: Quick Start

  1. Download the latest release from the Releases page
  2. Extract the zip to a folder of your choice
  3. Run NMSE.exe
  4. Select your save slot and click Load
  5. If you save location is not auto-detected; use the Browse... button or File > Open Save Directory to locate your save directory

πŸ’‘ Tip: NMSE auto-detects your save file location for Steam, GOG, and Xbox Game Pass

Linux & macOS:

Wine based AppImage and DMG are available from the release page.
See the cross-platform guides for running NMSE via Wine:

A native cross-platform version is planned.


πŸ“– Documentation

  • User Guide - How to use NMSE panel by panel, feature by feature
  • Developer Docs - Architecture, core logic, data layer, IO, models, and UI internals
  • Contributing - How to contribute code, report bugs, and submit pull requests
  • Code of Conduct - Community guidelines
  • Support - How to get help

πŸ“„ License

NMSE is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License - see the LICENSE file for details.


πŸ› οΈ Building from Source

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/vectorcmdr/NMSE.git
cd NMSE

# Restore and build
dotnet restore
dotnet build

# Run tests
dotnet test NMSE.Tests/
dotnet test NMSE.Extractor.Tests/

Requires: .NET 10.0 SDK Β· Windows or cross-compilation via EnableWindowsTargeting


πŸ’– Support the Project

If NMSE has been useful to you, please consider supporting its development:

GitHub SponsorsΒ Β  Ko-fi

Your support helps cover hosting, tooling, and the many hours of development and testing that go into each release.
Every contribution - big or small - is greatly appreciated. ❀️

Public Sponsors:

Thanks to these users for their generous support:

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🀝 Acknowledgements

Contributors:

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Made with ❀️ by vectorcmdr

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