Back to Foundations

Back to Foundations
Author	Jenga
Version	1
Compatibility	Current Version

Back to Foundations is a mod created by Jenga that aims to revert No Man's Sky's terrain and planets back to their appearance in the Foundation Update. It is compatible with the latest updates to No Man's Sky, at the time of writing this is the Fractal Update.

More information can be found on the mod's page at Nexus Mods.

Download BTF_Terrain Enables terrain generation from legacy NMS versions (Foundations) for all planets except Prime types. File: BTF TERRAIN-980-1-1638714393.zip (7 kB) (info)

There is also a Visual mod that restores the colours, however this current only supports up to No Man's Sky version 3.75 (Expeditions Revisited) and does not yet work on the latest update.

Until this is updated, you can install version 3.75 following the How to Install Old Versions from Steam guide, and using this command with DepotDownloader (changing UN and PW to your username and password): DepotDownloader -app 275850 -depot 275851 -manifest 5184063076020885755 -dir "no_mans_sky_v3.75" -username UN -password PW

(Complete list of manifests on SteamDB)

Download BTF_Visual This will bring back some colors from Foundations version on lush planets, activate all legacy sky colors, increase fog on planets and enable vintage filter. Also it activates legacy trees on all non-prime lush planets. File: BTF VISUAL-980-1-1631914517.zip (37 kB) (info)