No Man’s Sky Cosmos 7.04 targets expedition progression and station bugs

Hello Games published the Cosmos 7.04 patch notes on September 21, 2026, with fixes for mission progression, the Our Journey Continues expedition, player-owned stations, Corvettes, salvage, audio, visuals, and stability. The introduction contains a version mismatch, saying the fixes are included in patch 7.03 and that 7.03 is live on Steam, even though the page is titled 7.04. It does not provide a separate clear availability statement for 7.04 on other platforms.

Many of the fixes address Our Journey Continues, the 10th-anniversary expedition that began on September 16 and runs for approximately six weeks. Players who traded away their Multi-Tool before reaching the Beyond milestone will now know the Terrain Manipulator blueprint by default, while several expedition milestones receive corrections for missing markers, incorrect destinations, text errors, and reward ship costs. The expedition’s rewards and history were covered in the earlier Our Journey Continues coverage.

Cosmos 7.04 also fixes stations, Corvettes, and salvage

Outside the expedition, the patch raises the number of space stations one player can claim and improves Corvette spawn locations when teleporting to a space base. It also fixes external station collision, landing docks appearing on civilian frigates, salvage failing to enter a Corvette, and several deep-space points of interest behaving incorrectly.

Other changes cover VR controller input, alliance leaderboard number formatting, portal effects, creature navigation, underwater particles, the Space Anomaly interior, and cloud volumetrics on Mac. Hello Games also lists fixes for a memory crash, a rare reload hang, an audio threading crash, and memory usage on Xbox One and Switch 2. The patch follows No Man’s Sky 7.03, which focused on earlier Cosmos problems involving alliances, stations, and stability.

No Man’s Sky Cosmos 7.04 patch notes

Version 7.04 covers expedition progression, missions, stations, Corvettes, deep-space activities, audio, visuals, memory use, and crashes. The official fixes are below.

• Fixed an issue that could cause the first Atlas Path mission to repeatedly select itself.
• Fixed an issue that caused untranslated text IDs to appear in a conversation with Iterations Gemini and Hesperus.
• Fixed a minor text issue during fishing missions if the Fishing Rig is not yet known.
• Resolved a number of issues with collection and completion with deep-space salvage missions that could occur when having multiple of the same mission type active.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent In Stellar Multitudes from recognising the installation of the Atlantid Drive if playing with Crafting set to Free in difficulty settings.
• Fixed an issue that could cause mission markers on the Space Anomaly to fail to load if the game was saved on the Anomaly itself.
• Fixed an issue that caused platform-specific text to be missing from the developer notes gathered from the Our Journey Continues expedition.
• Fixed an issue that caused the new reward ships claimed during the Our Journey Continues expedition to charge nanites.
• Fixed a text issue in the Worlds II milestone of the Our Journey Continues expedition.
• Improved the visual effects of the vintage Sentinel Interceptor ship awarded by the Our Journey Continues expedition.
• Fixed an issue that prevented legacy space stations from appearing on the Star System Map during the Our Journey Continues expedition.
• Fixed an issue in the Voyagers milestone of the Our Journey Continues expedition that prevented the location of a Corvette Workshop from being indicated with a marker.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Nexus missions related to creature taming and fishing to be offered to the player during the Beyond milestone in the Our Journey Continues expedition.
• Fixed an issue that allowed Corvettes to teleport to and get stuck in legacy space stations during the Our Journey Continues expedition.
• Fixed a text issue that caused the Weekend Missions milestone of the Our Journey Continues expedition to suggest looking for Knowledge Stones in the Analysis Visor on planets with no Knowledge Stones.
• Fixed an issue that could block players on the Our Journey Continues expedition if they traded away their Multi-Tool before reaching the Beyond milestone. The Terrain Manipulator blueprint is now known by default.
• Fixed an issue that limited the number of space stations which could be claimed by one player.
• Improved corvette spawn location when teleporting to a space base.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the hint message about refunded corvette modules to persist after it was no longer relevant.
• Improved the collision for external Space Station decorations, fixing an issue that could cause ships to bump into invisible collision on very large parts.
• Fixed an issue that caused corvette landing docks to appear on civilian frigates.
• Fixed an issue which caused incorrect input processing on some VR controllers.
• Fixed an issue that caused some points of interest in deep space to have a disproportionately huge explosion when destroyed.
• Fixed an issue that caused Oceanus’ creature training battles to open the freighter inventory transfer page.
• Fixed an issue that could cause frigates around deep-space points of interest to spawn either too far away or intersecting with an object.
• Fixed an issue that caused incorrect scaling of UI elements in the Analysis Visor when playing with HUD disabled.
• Improved formatting for alliance leader board numbers.
• Fixed an issue that occasionally caused incorrect ambient audio in space.
• Fixed an issue causing overly loud audio in places.
• Fixed an issue that prevented portals from displaying all of their visual effects when activated.
• Introduced a number of improvements to creature navigation and IK.
• Fixed a visual issue affecting volumetrics from space and planetary clouds on Mac.
• Fixed a memory crash.
• Fixed a rare hang during reload.
• Fixed an audio threading crash.
• Improved memory usage on XboxOne.
• Improved memory usage on Switch 2.
• Fixed an issue that could cause underwater particles to appear visible even when the player is not in the water.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the Space Anomaly interior to appear foggy when it was placed inside planetary rings.
• Fixed an issue that could display a third-person character model before unlocking third person in the Our Journey Continues expedition.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent salvage from being pulled inside your corvette.
• Fixed an issue that prevented players from adding the vintage interceptor to their ship collection without exchanging it with another ship.
• Fixed an issue that caused incorrect positioning of log snippets from derelict freighters.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented the player’s first restored purple system from being promoted to the top of the teleporter destination list during In Stellar Multitudes.
• Fixed a rare issue that caused the portal in the Waking Titan milestone of the Our Journey Continues expedition to take the player to an incorrect destination.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the sky to flicker during the initilaisation sequence.

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No Man's Sky

Developed by Hello Games

No Man's Sky is an action-adventure survival game set in a procedurally generated universe containing over 18 quintillion planets. Players explore star systems, gather resources, trade with alien species, and upgrade their equipment while following an overarching narrative involving a mysterious entity called the Atlas. The game is built around four pillars: exploration, survival, combat, and trading. Since its 2016 launch, it has received numerous free updates adding multiplayer, base building, fleet management, and virtual reality support.

• Genre Shooter, Simulator, Adventure, Indie, Arcade
• Platforms Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation VR2, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation VR, PC (Microsoft Windows), SteamVR, PlayStation 5, Mac, Oculus Rift, Xbox One
• Perspective First person, Third person, Virtual Reality
• Modes Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
• Release August 9, 2016
• Publisher 505 Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Hello Games
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