Those crazy cats at Hello Games have done it again; No Man's Sky has just received another free game update, and this one adds brand new, customisable player ships.

The update is called Voyagers, and it brings an all-new ship type to the sci-fi space game: Corvettes.

Previously, the only ships you can fly in the game are predetermined, procedurally generated vehicles that you enter to fly and take shelter from harsh planetary conditions.

With the Voyagers update, Corvettes join the party, and they're a completely different beast.

These are much larger vessels that can be completely customised by the player — think of it like your own mobile base.

You can add various rooms to your Corvette, including sleeping quarters, a mission radar, war room, and more. Then there's functionality like different weaponry, and of course can decorate it to your liking too.

When you're happy with it, you can fly it around the game as you would a normal ship — only in a Corvette, you can get up and walk around the ship mid-flight, and even exit the ship in zero-g to do space walks.

You can also group up with other players and all fly together in one Corvette as a crew.

Corvettes are introduced a little way into the game, though active players will be able to access them pretty quick. However, a new Corvette-focused expedition is also included that'll give all players a taste of these newfangled ships.

In a press release, founder and managing director Sean Murray says it's been a huge undertaking to get this update working.

"The team at Hello have been working on Voyagers for a long time. The technical challenges they have had to overcome to make any of this possible have been immense. Almost every part of the game has had to be reworked to accommodate these relative spaces. Having your multiplayer crew walking around, calmly editing your ship, as it travels at warp speeds towards a planet that is being generated as you approach. It's pretty insane what's going on behind the scenes to make that work."

You can check out the full patch notes through the link, if you're interested.

It sounds like another mammoth update to the game, and the appeal of creating your own spaceship (one large enough to inhabit as a real space rather than "just" a means of transportation) is easy to understand. Who doesn't want their own version of the Millennium Falcon?

Anyway, what do you think of No Man's Sky Voyagers and the new Corvettes? Tell us in the comments section below.