No Man’s Sky Save Editor – How to get and use

The absolute joy for many players in No Man’s Sky is exploring an infinite galaxy, completing the Expeditions, and unlocking cool new ships and features. I fondly remember how happy I was when I got my Golden Vector. Outside of or as part of this, though, there can be a lot of grinding to find and collect the right resources. So, if grinding grinds your gears, you may well be on the lookout for a No Man’s Sky Save Editor that allows you to edit the number of particular resources you have on the fly. Or pretty much anything else, for that matter!

How to get the Save Editor for No Man’s Sky

Let’s be clear right away. The No Man’s Sky Save Editor is a third-party mod that is in no way approved by game developer Hello Games. If you decide to download and install Save Editor, you do so at your own risk, and we in no way endorse or recommend it. However, if you do want to try it, the mod can be downloaded via GitHub. It has been around a long time and has not been shot down or condemned directly by Hello Games.

Installing and using it has been blamed (rightly or wrongly) for saving fails and also for breaking quests, but it can equally be used to fix things. Again, we stress that you use this type of mod completely at your own risk.

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Note that to use Save Editor, you’ll need a working copy of No Man’s Sky installed on either PC (Steam or GOG), Xbox (Game Pass), or PS4 (you’ll also need Save Wizard, which is linked from the GitHub page above), along with Java Runtime Environment 8. To install, you download from GitHub, run the exe file and extract its contents, then run the bat (or jar) file. When the main window opens, select the folder you downloaded the Save Editor files and choose the most recent, and away you go.

How to use the No Man’s Sky Save Editor

Once installed, Save Editor can alter an impressive number of in-game values within your saved games. The UI is simple to use, and while some will use it to cheat, other players have used it as a one-time solution to fix some of the issues that have come up with their ships and stations after patches have made negative alterations. Or it can be used to revert to an earlier part of a mission that has bugged out.

The data values you can change include currencies such as Units and Quicksilver, base stats for everything from freighters to multitools, settlement populations, milestones achieved, and even the specific words you’ve learned in languages. You can also move or give yourself various technologies and resize inventories. It also has an automatic backup system for if things go wrong (did we mention you’ll be using this at your own risk…?).

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