‘No Man’s Sky’ Recipe List: Crafting Guide, Blueprints And Everything You Need To Know

By Phillip Martinez Published 08/10/16 EDT

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When you begin your No Man’s Sky journey, you’re left with only an exosuit, a Multi-Tool and a starship. However, while these are your default gadgets, you can install some awesome upgrades for all three. As you progress, you’ll want to find and install these upgrades to make you run longer, jetpack higher and have a more powerful arsenal overall.

There are plenty of recipes in No Man’s Sky and we have the basics of finding and building them, along with a list of the recipes in the game so far.

BASICS

To find recipes and blueprints, you’ll need to do a lot of exploring on planets. You can find them two ways, either by finding crashed pods that house these recipes, or receiving one as a gift from an alien.

If you find the same recipe more than once, the game will inform you.

The recipes will appear in your inventory menu, where you can build and install by clicking on an empty inventory slot. This makes finding inventory upgrades and better ships/multi-tools with more slots especially important, but we digress.

Each recipe will tell you what materials/elements you’ll need. The more powerful the upgrade, the rarer elements/materials you’ll need. You can mine for elements as you explore but certain materials will only be available through trading, initially. You can find recipes for those rarer materials later on, like antimatter for your Warp Drive.

You’ll also notice that most upgrades have four tiers. The first version of an upgrade is classified as Sigma and goes up to Omega. So the ranking of upgrades goes as such: Sigma to Tau to Theta to Omega.

You also don’t need “lesser” versions installed first to install the higher leveled ones, so if you’re fortunate to find a Theta or Omega level upgrade go right ahead and build/install them.

EXOSUIT

Your exosuit upgrades will include ways to boost your armor, jetpack and even your stamina. There are also specified shielding upgrades for your exosuit to combat any weather hazard, so be sure to find them.

The recipes are broken up into Health, Protection, Stamina and Utilities, and can be found below.

Health:

ShieldBoost Sigma

Shield durating and charge capacity is improved.

Zinc (15)
Platinum (15)
Thamium9 (15)

Health Module Sigma

Increases user’s health once primary systems have failed

Iron (50)
Plutonium (50)
Zinc (10)

Health Module Theta

Aluminium (200)
Plutonium (250)
Thamium9 (300)

Protection:

Thermic Layer Tau

Shielding against cold damage on frozen worlds.

Microdensity Fabric (1)

Stamina:

Stamina Enhancement Sigma

Increases stamina for longer periods of running.

Utilities:

Jetpack Booster

Lets you use Jetpack for longer, lets you go higher.

Iron (50)
Platinum (15)
Zinc (10)

STARSHIP

Your starship recipes in No Man’s Sky allow for stronger cannons and upgraded shielding for space combat. Not to mention the various drives for flying.

Starship recipes are broken down into Weapons, Health, Scan and Hyperdrive.

Weapons:

Phase Beam

Beam weapon and asteroid mining tool.

Iron (30)
Heridium (30)
Thamium9 (30)

Cannon Damage Sigma

Photon Cannon fires at an increased rate.

Iron (50)
Thamium9 (50)

Cannon Damage Tau

Iridium (100)
Copper (50)
Zinc (50)

Advanced Cooling Sigma

Photon cannon cool-down reduced.

Thamium9 (30)
Chrysonite (30)
Iron (50)

Advanced Cooling Tau Tau

Thamium9 (80)
Chrysonite (70)
Iridium (120)

Advanced Cooling Theta

Thamium9 (200)
Chrysonite (250)
Gravitno Ball (10)

Beam Impact Sigma

Phase beam laser destroys at an increased rate.

Thamium9 (50)
Chrysonite (50)

Beam Impact Tau

Thamium9 (200)
Copper (50)
Carbon (50)

Accelerated Fire Sigma

Increases Photon Cannon fire.

Accelerated Fire Tau

Nickel (100)
Platinum (100)

Accelerated Fire Theta

Thamium9 (300)
Iron (300)
Dimensional Matrix (3)

Phase Coolant Sigma

Phase beam cool-down reduced.

Microdensity Fabric (2)
Thamium9 (200)
Platinum (25)

Health:

Deflection Enhancement Sigma

Shartship energy shield is strengthened.

Carite Sheet (6)
Heridium (500)

Scan:

Hyperdrive:

Pulse Jet Sigma

Provides increased maneuverability and longer boosts during spaceflight. Also improves user’s Thamium9 consumption.

Pulse Jet Tau

Nickel (100)
Thamium9 (50)
Neutrino Module (2)

Hyperdrive

FTL propulsion drive that allows starship to attain warp speed and jump between neighboring systems.

Dynamic Resonator (1)
Heridium (200)

MULTI-TOOL

The Multi-Tool is the gadget you’ll use most often in No Man’s Sky and, as the name suggests, it gives players multiple actions and uses.

Multi-Tool recipes are broken down into Laser, Projectiles, Grenades and Scan.

Laser:

Beam Intensifier Sigma

Mining Beam is strengthened to speed up terrain destruction.

Titanium (30)
Plutonium (25)

Beam Intensifier Tau

Copper (60)
Iron (200)

Beam Intensifier Theta

Copper (120)
Iron (100)
Iridium (100)

Beam Focus Sigma

Faster Mining Beam processes.

Iron (20)
Heridium (20)
Plutonium (25)

Beam Focus Tau

Plutonium (50)
Chrysonite (100)

Beam Focus Theta

Plutonium (50)
Chrysonite (200)
Platinum (200)

Beam Coolant System Sigma

Reduces cool-down periods of Mining Beam.

Iridium (50)
Heridium (20)

Beam Coolant System Tau

Iridium (200)
Heridium (100)

Beam Coolant System Theta

Attains longest span of uninterrupted element extraction possible.

Aluminium (20)
Heridium (100)

Combat Amplifier Sigma

Mining Beam laser damage increased during combat.

Titanium (30)
Carbon (30)

Combat Amplifier Tau

Platinum (100)
Titanium (50)
Chrysonite (50)

Combat Amplifier Theta

Heridium (400)
Iron (200)
Radnox (20)

Projectile:

Boltcaster

Combat-focused used for killing targets.

Press R2 to activate

Iron (25)
Plutonium (25)

Reload Accelerant Sigma

Boltcaster’s ammunition reload time decreased.

Iron (20)
Heridium (15)
Zinc (10)

Reload Accelerant Tau

Chrysonite (50)
Zinc (100)
Plutonium (50)

Reload Accelerant Theta

Calium (50)
Zinc (100)
Plutonium (50)

Boltcaster Clip Sigma

Boltcaster’s ammo clip increased.

Plutonium (50)
Titanium (20)
Iron (20)

Boltcaster Clip Tau

Plutonium (50)
Zinc (20)
Nickel (10)

Boltcaster Clip Theta

Plutonium (50)
Zinc (50)
Nickel (150)

Wideshot Adaptor

Boltcaster shots are granted a wide cone of destruction. Reduces devices range and rate of fire, which encourages close proximity fighting.

Copper (40)
Heridium (100)
Iron (50)

Rapidfire Sigma

Boltcaster rate-of-fire system upgrade.Takes repeated shots in fast succession.

Nickel (50)
Iron (20)

Rapidfire Tau

Titanium (200)
Platinum (100)
Aluminium (100)

Rapidfire Theta

Aluminium (100)
Platinum (200)

Impact Damage Sigma

Boltcaster shots deliver added physical damage upon impact. Grants additional kinetic energy to the user’s ionised plasma distribution systems.

Iridium (50)
Iron (50)
Platinum (100)

Impact Damage Tau

Iridium (50)
Iron (50)
Platinum (100)

Impact Damage Theta

Iridium (200)
Radnox (80)
Platinum (200)

Impact Damage Omega

Copper (200)
Aluminium (200)
Heridium (400)

Recoil Stabilizer Sigma

Boltcaster experiences reduced kick-back upon firing. Internal dampening field increases Boltcaster stability, and decreases muscular strain in upper body if user is of a conventionally structured species.