Atlas Rises

No Man’s Sky Atlas Rises v1.3 patch notes
GENERATION

    Increased variety in weather, planet and structure names
    More base building parts have unique names
    Prevented trees spawning on sheer cliffs
    Improved object placement on slopes
    Improved grass placement and density
    Changed the default starting ship model
    Regenerated galaxy to remove differences between survival, normal and creative game modes
    Improved building distribution
    Increased distribution of heridium deposits
    Improved generation of beaches along shorelines
    Repositioned player bases to accommodate generation changes

EXPLORATION

    Improved balance of hazards between planets
    Improved settings for hazard damage and strength
    Reduce cave hazard recharge times
    Added Shielding Shard to the starting player inventory
    Limited the depth at which buildings can spawn underwater

GAMEPLAY

    More tech available in tech shops
    Balanced tech shop standing requirements
    Standing lights have a proper name when you interact with them
    Increased robustness of systems for locating buildings
    Increased number and types of objects which can be scanned
    Increased information available about scanned foliage and creatures
    Improved planet resource lists
    Craftable products now sorted by most recent use
    Improved differentiation of weapons
    Fixed pinning product recipes and technology guides
    Continued story unlocked through abandoned buildings
    Added interactions and dialogue options for many structures and characters
    Overhauled secondary character interactions
    Joint exploration has been introduced allowing 16 players to see visual representations of each other in game. Joint exploration does not require PS Plus, and is not currently available on GOG Galaxy.

TRADE AND FARMING

    Alloys, farm products and new gas products now form separate branches of a larger craft tree
    Added new valuable higher tier craft products
    Added new harvester to harvest atmospheric gases
    Added new trade specific products
    Added new farmable “Star Bramble” plant
    Added larger 4 plant hydroponic tray
    Increased contrast between picked and unpicked resource plants to more easily tell them apart
    Balanced priced of alloys, farm products and gases
    Improved distributions of resources on planets
    Improved scan ranges for resources on planets
    Added scan markers on more smaller plutonium crystals to aid resource gathering

FREIGHTERS

    Balanced freighter prices
    Fixed collision on freighter bridge
    Added freighter classes
    Added ability to warp in your freighter
    Fixed floating turrets on capital freighters

SPACE

    Improved space heavy air
    Added requirement to scan planets in order to reveal their names
    Improved planet name display as you enter orbit
    Fix for massive carve radius when mining asteroids

GALACTIC MAP

    Updated galactic map UI
    Improved galactic map controls
    Improved star names gathered in galaxy map flythrough
    Improved distribution of different coloured stars
    Added interstellar scan events

STARSHIPS

    Added ability to summon your ship from the quick menu
    Refined ship reticules
    Added new holographic cockpit HUD elements: mini map, pulse drive warning and target ship
    Added new ship technology
    Balanced space combat
    Balanced ship weapons and technology
    Updated ship weapon projectile effects
    Updated ship hit direction markers
    Improved flare graphics on ships
    Improved loot containers dropped by AI ships
    Improved effects on damaged AI ships
    Balanced crashed ships broken slots and repair costs
    Added a more convenient swap inventory button for moving items between new/crashed ships and storage units
    Updated design of Atlas pass icons
    Added ability to look around the cockpit when landed
    Allowed player to remain in ship cockpit after landing
    Improved spawning and distribution of AI ships
    Improved ship altimeter
    Added in-ship communicator
    Added button prompt for ship zoom
    Fixed a bug where your ship could become invisible by visiting the galactic map
    Improved Pirate systems including the ability to negotiate or call in support
    Added low flight mode
    Improved landing code

UI

    Divided options menu into several pages
    Revised Journey page
    New Gek, Korvax and Vy’keen medals
    New medals for the merchant, mercenary and explorer guilds
    Revised log page
    Fixed animation on markers as they are removed
    Improved binocular UI
    Updated journey milestone icons
    Overhauled discovery log
    Added cardinal directions to compass
    Added distance markers to compass
    Fix for “redeem content” showing twice on Steam menu
    New trade and product icons
    Revised combat ship markers
    Improved ship tracking arrows when flying away from targets
    Overhauled conversation interface

GRAPHICS

    Improved HBAO filtering around edges
    Improved TAA handling of grass blade edges
    Introduced depth of field effect during interactions
    Added LOD meshes and imposters to various props
    Fixed texturing on the buildable door
    Reduced HBAO shimmer
    Reduced shadow acne
    Fixed artifacts with imposter shadows
    Improved double-sided normals for foliage
    Improved terrain texturing and texture blending
    Improved grass colour blending and integration with terrain
    Improved grass and leaf materials
    Improved colour palettes across several biomes
    Improved planet night skies
    Fixed z-fighting on small glowing plants
    Various graphics optimisations and fixes
    Visual improvements to Atlas stations
    Replaced all terrain textures with higher detail and quality variants
    Added new higher detail foliage variants to several biomes
    Upgraded textures on several cave props

AUDIO

    Four new sets of soundscapes by 65 Days of Static
    Reworked space combat audio
    Reworked space explosions
    Added new ship weapon sounds
    Added weird biome soundscape
    Added new music and sound effects for story mode
    Lots of new UI sounds
    Minor mix changes and optimisations

LANGUAGE

    Various minor language fixes and improvements