No Man's Sky Forsaken Guide: Start With the Traders
This No Man's Sky Forsaken guide starts with the one thing that matters most: the Forsaken Traders. Update 7.10, Forsaken, is a free Halloween update that adds mysterious traders at deep space outposts. They want haunted tech and biological horrors, and they pay in biomechanical corvette modules, new cockpits, a living weapon and a helmet you will either love or find deeply unsettling. The loop is simple to describe and easy to mess up: find a trader, learn what it wants, go scavenging in the spookiest places in the game, and get back before the things you disturbed catch up with you.
Where to Find Forsaken Traders and Mementos
Forsaken Traders can be summoned at deep space outposts, so head there first and check what each trader is asking for before you fly off on a scavenging run. Mementos come from four kinds of location: derelict hulks, abandoned freighters, dig sites on planets, and infested outposts. Derelict freighters are the classic No Man's Sky horror location, tight corridors and bad surprises, while infested outposts and dig sites tend to be faster to clear if you are short on time. Do not treat every site the same. Bring hazard protection, keep an escape route in mind, and clear one site properly rather than half clearing three.
How to Harvest Safely (and What the Horrors Do)
Harvesting mementos carries a real risk, and that is the point. Prolonged exposure to the samples can attract hostile boundary horrors, so the longer you linger, the worse your odds get. Work fast, grab what you came for, and leave when the game starts telling you that you have overstayed. If you are playing with a corvette, keep it close and ready, since a long walk back to your ship is where runs fall apart. Stock up on life support and hazard supplies before you start, and do not start a harvest run with half a tank of anything. The horror theme is cosmetic until it is not, and boundary horrors are not a warning you should test twice.
No Man's Sky Forsaken Guide: Rewards Worth Chasing
Trade your mementos for biomechanical corvette modules that make your ship look grown rather than built, with new cockpits in Vantage, Hornet, Viper and Mantis classes, plus Legion class habitation modules and extra hull components. The headline rewards are the Larva Cannon Multi-Tool, earned by gathering enough preserved grubs, and the Larva Tank helmet, plus the Mind Harvester title for dedicated scavengers. If you like building ships, the corvette parts are the real prize here, because they change the silhouette of your ship in a way few updates manage. If you prefer gear, prioritise the Larva Cannon first, then the helmet.
Courier Missions, Seamless Warping and Quality of Life
Forsaken is not only about horror loot. Space Courier missions let players with a corvette and a Gravitino Coil take long distance package delivery contracts from deep space outposts, which is a calm, profitable change of pace after a horror run. Seamless warping is the quiet game changer: stars in nearby systems now show up as targetable destinations in deep space, so you can warp straight to them without opening the Galaxy Map. Add a minimal HUD mode that trims the compass, hazard bars and mission notifications, a radial wheel for switching Multi-Tool modes, Holo-Arena creature battles in deep space, and the option to upload off planet bases for other players to visit, and this is a much smoother game to play than it was a week ago. The update also brings the full game to iOS, which is why a Minecraft Switch 2 native launch style platform expansion matters: more players, more shared bases, more reasons to keep your fleet tidy.
A Sensible Forsaken Route for Your First Session
Do this in order. First, visit a deep space outpost and summon a Forsaken Trader to see the current wants. Second, pick one nearby derelict freighter or infested outpost and clear it cleanly, then trade in immediately instead of stacking risk. Third, take a Space Courier contract on the way home, since it pays for the trip you were making anyway. Fourth, spend your first modules on a cockpit you will actually see every session, then save for the Larva Cannon. Forsaken rewards patience more than speed, and the players who do worst are the ones who try to clear every horror site in one run. For more on the update itself, see the coverage from Polygon and Inven Global. If you are new to big update weeks in general, our ARC Raiders beginner guide has the same first session discipline: learn the loop, then optimise it.
