No Man's Sky Cheats on PC
No Man's Sky cheats are game settings. Creative mode removes resource costs, and since the Waypoint update of 2022 a Custom game lets you change survival, combat, crafting and costs from the pause menu, at any time. There is no console and no code screen. What the settings never hand out is money: Units, Nanites and Quicksilver are still earned.
Takeaways Three ways to bend No Man's Sky on PC
- since 2016 Creative mode Build and craft without resource requirements. A preset, chosen per save.
- pause menu, any time Custom settings Free crafting, damage, hazards, death penalty, stack sizes. Most switches work in any mode.
- 25 cheats, 3 free Trainer Units, Nanites, Quicksilver, infinite hyperdrive, decode all words.
Cheating in No Man’s Sky means changing the rules of the save
No Man’s Sky has had no developer console on PC since its release in 2016, and no code screen. There is nothing to type. What it has are game modes and, since 2022, a page of settings that can be changed while you play. Both are deliberate, both are free, and Hello Games describes them openly in its patch notes.
Creative mode is the oldest of them. It came with the Foundation update in November 2016, and the idea has not changed: explore without limits, build and craft without resource requirements. If what you want is a base without the mining, that is the whole answer.
The Custom game, and what you can turn off
Waypoint, update 4.0 from October 2022, turned the modes into presets and added a Custom game in which every setting can be adjusted. The Waypoint notes list what is covered. The ones that work most like cheats:
- Free crafting on or off
- Damage from combat and from the environment
- Life support and hazard protection, how fast they drain, or switched off entirely
- Death consequences, from none to permadeath
- Fuel use for technology
- Item and upgrade costs, and the range of shop items
- Maximum stack sizes in the inventory
- Enemy health for ships, Sentinels and creatures, and how often fights start
- Warp drive upgrades, whether specialized drives are needed for certain star systems
Between Normal and Creative sits a preset Waypoint introduced for players who want less survival, called Relaxed. The notes describe it as the full Normal game with a much smaller need to manage survival systems, lower danger and less grind. In Relaxed, ammunition, the mining laser and the terrain editor cost no fuel, while the rest of the technology still has to be fed. For many players that is enough, and nothing else in this guide is needed.
The useful part is that you do not have to start over. According to the same notes, the vast majority of difficulty settings can be changed at any time, in any mode, from the pause menu, and switched back again. Permadeath keeps some restrictions of its own.
The current version is COSMOS, 7.0 of 9 September 2026. It reworked space, with a new star map, hulks to salvage and space stations, and its announcement does not mention the difficulty settings. The full list of changes is in the COSMOS notes.
Units, Nanites and Quicksilver stay earned
Look at that list again and one thing is missing. You can make crafting free and items cheaper, but no setting puts money in your pocket. All three come from what you do in the game, and none of the sliders touches them. A starship you want, a better multitool, a freighter upgrade: each still costs currency the save has earned.
The other thing settings cannot do is language. Alien words are learned through play, a few at a time, whatever the difficulty says.
What the trainer adds
The No Man’s Sky trainer has 25 cheats. The three free ones are infinite sprint, infinite jetpack and set selected item to max count, the last one a quick way to fill a stack of whatever you just mined.
Four of the premium cheats go straight at the gap from the last section: add Units, edit Units, increase Nanites and increase Quicksilver. Decode all words solves the language problem in one click. The rest splits between the ship and the suit. For the ship, infinite hyperdrive, infinite pulse engine, infinite ship starts, infinite deflector shield and no photon cannon overheat. On foot, godmode, infinite life support, an infinite scanner, mining laser, terrain manipulator and blaze javelin, no multitool overheat, infinite ammo and grenades, no reload, one hit kill and no wanted level for the Sentinels.
Settings or trainer
The Custom settings answer most of what people mean by No Man’s Sky cheats, and they cost nothing. Switch on free crafting, turn hazards off, set death to no penalty, and the game is a sandbox.
The trainer earns its place where the settings stop. It is for your own save in single-player; No Man’s Sky has a large shared multiplayer side, and that is not where a trainer belongs.
| You want | Settings | Trainer |
|---|---|---|
| Free crafting and building | Yes, Creative or Custom | Not needed |
| No hazards, no death penalty | Yes, Custom | Godmode, infinite life support |
| Units, Nanites, Quicksilver | No | Add Units, increase Nanites and Quicksilver |
| A full alien vocabulary | No | Decode all words |
| A hyperdrive that never needs fuel | Only with fuel use turned down | Infinite hyperdrive |
Infographic Three ways to bend No Man's Sky on PC Click to enlarge Are there cheat codes in No Man's Sky?
No. No Man's Sky has no console and no code screen on PC. The built-in way to cheat is Creative mode or a Custom game with the difficulty settings turned down.
Can you switch to creative mode on an existing save?
Hello Games' Waypoint notes say that the vast majority of difficulty settings can be changed at any time, in any mode, from the pause menu. That includes free crafting. Permadeath keeps some restrictions.
Is there a No Man's Sky money cheat?
Not in the game's settings. You can lower item and upgrade costs, but Units, Nanites and Quicksilver are only earned. The trainer adds Units and increases Nanites and Quicksilver.
Does No Man's Sky have console commands on PC?
No. There is no developer console to open. Everything that works like a command sits in the Custom game settings in the pause menu.
What changed with No Man's Sky COSMOS?
COSMOS, version 7.0, arrived on 9 September 2026 and reworked space: a new star map, space hulks to salvage and space stations. Its announcement does not mention the difficulty settings.