Generate your Tessera for the Mosaic

Your save, as a Story

Give it one save file and it gives back the story of your journey :)

🔒Your save is read right here, inside your browser. It never leaves your device and is never uploaded. Everything happens locally.🔒

All along, your choices and your privacy are respected. You decide what to share and what to leave out. It stays in your hands.

A story generated here is anonymous by nature: no personal data is kept in it.

1Choose your save

One file, one character: the save of whoever you want the story of. Look for a file named like save2.hg.

Drag your save file here

Nothing chosen yet

Finding your save
Press Win+R, paste %APPDATA%\HelloGames\NMS, and hit Enter. Windows opens the right folder for you.
On Mac, the saves live under ~/Library/Application Support/HelloGames/NMS/.

Inside there's one folder with an odd name, that's yours, open it.

Pick the save.hg (with or without number) file for the character slot you want. If you grab accountdata.hg or one of the mf_ files by mistake, don't worry, those aren't saves and we'll tell you.

2What is in there

Two ways to leave something behind. Both are yours to choose, and your story reads just as well without them, but the map and the mosaic only exist because travellers add to them

Coordinates found in your save join the public map of charted space. The only name that travels with them is the in-game credit of whoever first discovered each system.

Let my story appear in the public mosaicThe story is anonymous by nature. Ticking this sends a copy to us at the end, so your story can go on the Mosaic, a public wall of journeys. Your own link works straight away either way: this only decides whether the story also joins the wall, and a human reads it before it does. Nothing is sent if you leave this unticked. You can take it down later with your seal.

What you just shared

Systems, planets and black hole routes went to the shared map when you pressed continue. It is shown here so you can see exactly what left, not to ask you a second time.

Download Download, readable

See the raw coordinates

3Your names, your call

Everything you named out there is listed below. Keep it, change it, or drop it before it goes into your story. The rest of your journey is yours to include or leave out too.

Your receipt

Nothing is kept here. Close this tab and all of it is gone, your code included. If you want a trace, take one now: a file, or a printed sheet carrying your code, its QR, your seal and the same facts. The takedown page asks for this receipt, so it is the copy worth keeping.

Download the copy

See what the copy contains

Your Seal

Break your seal and this story is taken down.

Type it on the takedown page and the story stops being rendered, for good. It was minted here, in this tab, and never sent anywhere: we do not store it, we cannot look it up, and we cannot give it back. It's show once here, and a copy in your receipt. That's all.

It is included in the copy above.

Where to use it

4Your story is ready

Your whole journey now fits in a single link, a tessera. Open it, scan the code below, or keep either one somewhere safe: that is all your story needs to exist

Read your story

Your link

Download the QR

See what the code holds

What happens to your save

Your save is opened and read right here in your browser. It is never uploaded, not to me and not to anyone else: no copy of it exists anywhere but on your own device, and closing this tab is the end of it.

What happens only if you tick the share map and mosaic box yourself :
- Sharing your travels sends coordinates, and nothing but coordinates, to the shared map. And it's only a fraction of the coordinates present in your save file.
- Allowing the gallery lets your story appear there.
Both are off until you turn them on, and each button says plainly what it is about to do before you press it.

The story itself carries no one's name. Other players become nobody, you become "you", and anything you named in game is yours to keep, change, or drop beforehand. Nothing is kept on our side: your story lives entirely inside the code you leave with.

None of this counts for much as a promise, so I made it checkable instead. The code that reads your save is published for anyone to audit at :

github.com/hadsh/nms-tessera