Starship
Starships are the main means of transportation between locations in the No Man's Sky universe. Starships also provide inventory storage, protection from the elements, and access to special technologies.
Starship Types
Starships can be divided into the following basic types.
- Exotic: One model per system; only rarely is encountered
- Explorer: Basic ship type; more common in Korvax systems
- Fighter: Basic ship type; more common in Vy'keen systems
- Hauler: Basic ship type; more common in Gek systems
- Shuttle: Basic ship type; chance to be replaced by Solar starships
- Solar: Chance to replace Shuttles; most common in Pirate systems
- Interceptor (Sentinel, Robotic): Only found on Corrupted worlds. One model design per system.
- Living Ship: Require completing specific story quests to obtain. One model design per system.
Each inhabited system will have all of the basic starship types including a single Exotic type. A system's controlling faction determines the composition of other basic starship types found there. Gek dominated systems will have more Haulers, Korvax systems will have more Explorers, and Vy'keen systems will have more Fighters.
Known Starships
For a list of known starships, see here.
Documenting Starships
New starship discoveries can be added using the Starship Form.
Starships Documented by Class
The following chart compares how many starships have been documented of each ship type. This chart includes all starships documented on NMS Discoveries.
Additional Information
- Drone ships are the older Sentinel starship type which were later replaced by Interceptors. Drone ships can only be obtained through modding.