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Current version

Do you want to create planets using New Horizons? Then check out our website for all our documentation!

If you want to see examples of what NH can do check out the examples add-on or real solar system add-on.

Check the ship's log for how to use your warp drive to travel between star systems!

Incompatible mods
Supported mods
Development
Contact
Credits

Incompatible mods

Quantum Space Buddies.
OW Randomizer.

Supported Mods

New Horizons has optional support for a few other mods:

Discord Rich Presence: Showcase what New Horizons worlds you're exploring in your Discord status!
Voice Acting Mod: Characters in NH can be given voice lines which will work with this mod installed. Try it out by downloading NH Examples and talking to Ernesto!
Achievements+: New Horizons and its addons have achievements you can unlock with this mod installed!

Features

Load planet meshes or details from asset bundles
Use our template Unity project to create assets for use in NH, including all game scripts recovered using UtinyRipper
Separate solar system scenes accessible via wormhole OR via the ship's new warp drive feature accessible via the ship's log
Remove or edit existing planets, including what they orbit around
Create custom planets from heightmaps/texturemaps
Create stars (and supernovae), comets, asteroid belts, satellites, quantum planets/moons, and custom Dark Bramble dimensions.
Add stock planet features to custom ones, such as geysers, cloak fields, meteor-launching volcanoes, rafts, tornados, and Dark Bramble seeds/nodes.
Binary orbits
Signalscope signals and custom frequencies
Surface scatter: rocks, trees, etc, using in-game models, or custom ones
Black hole / white hole pairs
Custom dialogue, slide-reel projections, translatable text, and custom ship log entries for rumour mode and map mode
Funnels and variable surface height (can be made of sand/water/lava/star)

Development

If you want to help (please dear god help us) then check out the contact info below or the contributing page.

The Unity project we use to make asset bundles for this mod is here.

Contact

Join the Outer Wilds Modding Discord if you have any questions or just want to chat about modding! Theres a New Horizons category there dedicated to discussion of this mod.