Case study

NMS Shipwright: reconstructing No Man's Sky ship generation and saves

NMS Shipwright investigates No Man's Sky ship generation and save structures through the user's installed game. It reads game archives, runs the game's generator code offline with Unicorn, finds seeds for chosen ship designs, locates ships in star systems, and edits ships and other save fields after creating a backup.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 9
Last commit: 2026-11-09
Language: Python

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code, documentation and a download method observed; no demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-08

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Requires the user's own No Man's Sky installation and save data.
Prerequisites: Building from source requires Windows and Python 3.11 or later; a Linux AppImage is also described.
Limits: The app refuses save writes while the game is running; Steam Cloud can restore an older save over an edit.
License: MIT license.

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BibTeX

@misc{nms-shipwright-case,
  title = {{NMS Shipwright: reconstructing No Man's Sky ship generation and saves}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/S-T-0-7/NMS-Shipwright}},
  url = {https://github.com/S-T-0-7/NMS-Shipwright},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/nms-shipwright-case/}}
}

Plain text

NMS Shipwright: reconstructing No Man's Sky ship generation and saves. https://github.com/S-T-0-7/NMS-Shipwright (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/nms-shipwright-case/

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README.md GitHub · S-T-0-7/NMS-Shipwright · Revision 49102ea