No Man’s Sky is still going strong more than a decade after its original release, and the game’s latest big update, Forsaken, is a seasonally appropriate horror show. Hello Games just dropped the full patch notes and a trailer for the 7.10 update, which is available today.

Forsaken promises to let intrepid pilots explore the “darker side” of the game’s universe, with a focus on scavenging for bizarre curios. Players will encounter traders who request haunted tech and biological horrors, requiring them to scavenge from “derelict hulks, abandoned freighters, dig sites on planets, or infested outposts.”

Tracking these parts down will net the player biomechanical corvette modules that will make their ship look like it came right out of the Borg Collective or Yuuzhan Vong. There will also be new cockpits and a disquieting ship interior set. Beyond corvette parts, players can trade for new weapon and space suit styles, including a larva tank helmet and a “wriggling grub cannon multi-tool,” which sounds appropriately gross.

Here's how Hello Games' founder Sean Murray describes No Man's Sky's latest update:

In Forsaken, players will begin searching for rare haunted tech or biological horrors. Finding these means visiting the spookiest parts of No Man’s Sky, like derelict hulks, abandoned freighters, dig sites on planets or infested outposts. These strange and haunted mementos have attracted a number of enigmatic traders from all corners of the universe, all set upon gathering the samples for their collections, and looking to trade.

Any traveller brave enough to venture into these dangerous wrecks may salvage mementos and trade them with collectors for new biomechanical corvette modules.

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