Mountains of fossils beneath nothing
- by Jim Norman
No Man’s Sky has been expanding its universe outwards for several years now, but how about exploring inwards? What lies beneath the surface of these endless planets we’ve been investigating, and what treasures might Animal Crossing: New Horizons‘ Blathers discover while sifting through the valuables hidden away?
This is where the game’s newest update, ‘Relics’, steps in—not the Blathers part, mind you, that’s something you’ll have to manage on your own. In this fresh update, Howdy Video games is allowing us space explorers to fulfill our paleontologist dreams by filling planets with countless bones, fossils, and other treasures just waiting to be uncovered.
Since this is No Man’s Sky, there’s an extensive variety of different skeletons available, and you can arrange them however you desire, curating a collection of only the rarest finds or piecing together various body parts to create some of the most bizarre displays.
However, not every digging site is guaranteed to be safe. Certain excavations carry the risk of unearthing all kinds of lurking threats like Stone Ghosts and Golems—who knew that archaeology would involve so much combat?
You can find some screenshots from the new Relics update below—not taken from the Switch version, of course—and Howdy Video games has also published the full patch notes on the No Man’s Sky website and a trailer on YouTube.
The Relics update is set to launch across all platforms today, though keep in mind that past NMS patches have taken just a little longer to arrive on Switch, so temper those paleontological expectations just a bit.
What do you think of this latest update? Will you be digging into it soon? Share your thoughts in the comments.
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