And here we go again! Barely a month into 2026, developer Hello Games is back with another major update for No Man’s Sky, kicking off its tenth anniversary year in style. Assuming your idea of style is trucking, hauling, and tossing stuff around with gravity guns. that is (it’s certainly mine).
All the above arrives today, 11th February, as part of No Man’s Sky new Remnant update – which, by my reckoning and terrible maths, is the exploratory space sim’s 39th major update. Following on from December’s Breach release, Remnant is all about hauling; or more specifically, it’s about industrial enterprise – processing scrap into “rare and highly prized resources”.
No Man’s Sky – Remnant update trailer.Watch on YouTube
That might not sounds as immediately enticing as, say, last year’s fully customisable multi-crew space ships, but read the fine print and it starts to get a lot more exciting. For one, Remnant introduces trucks, tipping flatbeds, and haulers players can construct and customise, cramming them full of salvage and debris to cart back to new Waste Processing Plants for reclamation. As Hello Games explains, “Build your own brightly coloured incinerators, spider legged sci-fi explorer, or heavily armed military vehicles with tank tracks.”
Key to all this hauling is the new Gravitino Coil, a powerful anti-gravity module for the good ol’ multi-tool that, says Hello Games, turns No Man’s Sky “into a physics playground”. With the Gravitino Coil equipped, players can hoist, fling, and carry large objects – which, continues the studio, creates a “fun and tactile new loop of searching for wrecks, loading trucks full of cargo and hauling across the alien landscape to industrial yards to gain new loot and rewards.” Just watch out for the highly volatile scrap during transportation. Oh, and if you were wondering, yes, it IS possible to use the Gravitino Gun as a weapon – just pluck up something heavy (Sentinels included) and throw.
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Last but not least, Remnant brings a new limited-time Expedition. This community focused event tasks travellers with tidying up and reclaiming a planet covered in wrecks and salvage. Rewards for completion include “dozens” of vehicle parts, plus a new armour set incorporating padded fabrics and ornate steam punk detailing. Full update patch notes can be found here.
As for what else Hello Games has in store for No Man’s Sky’s tenth anniversary celebrations, that remains a mystery for now. All it’s saying currently is its customary closing teaser, “More will follow… Our journey continues.” And might 2026 also be the year we finally learn more about the studio’s intriguing procedural planet sim Light No Fire? We shall see!
