nms-legacy-ships

[devout hemlock]

Well that's a relief

[fathom olive]

does anyone know what time the expedition tomorrow will start being available? is it just "midnight local time"?

[modest hemlock]

last ones started at 2pm UTC

[fathom olive]

thank you!

[devout hemlock]

There's an expedition starting tmw? Which

[feral pewter]

Expedition 3 - Cartographers.

[devout hemlock]

Oh neat

[jolly vortex]

so on expedition 3 you do it mostly on the same planet?

[feral pewter]

Yes. Unless they change it for the redux.

You only had that and one rendezvous, which was only one other planet.

[cedar gorge]

multi-planet

[glacial furnace]

8 minutes to go

[grand tinsel]

Weeeee

[glacial furnace]

I'mma getting the family back home today, so I'll probably will only play it for an hour or so. Still looking forward to it!

[grand tinsel]

Yeah! And nice to have the family back 😄

[kindred kestrel]

the expedition is out now

[grand tinsel]

Yep!

[kindred kestrel]

there are two rendezvous

[winter obsidian]

Interesting

[glacial furnace]

What are the changes?

[jolly vortex]

hmm i'm getting the expedition complete 😦

[winter obsidian]

Are you using a new save for the expedition?

[modest hemlock]

advice given in -help should have fixed it, got no confirmation reply

[dusty vale]

any way to cheese the ship upgrades?

[main verge]

@kindred kestrel just two? There were 5 in expeditions 1 & 2!

[kindred kestrel]

no just 2 in expedition 3

[grand tinsel]

This one is a bit different, you will be on the same planet for awhile

[delicate gyro]

Should i use my s upgrades on the stock c class multitool rn I'm this expedition?

I mean, without my ship i can't really go find a better one

[delicate gyro]

Up

[main verge]

If you don't plan on using the save after the end of the expedition, I'd say don't even bother

[toxic gull]

I would suggest playing the game you're in, rather than worry about if it makes sense for the future. In other words, yes, go ahead and use them. You can buy more later (and upgrade the MT) if you decide to continue the save. Sounds like you need to make the most of what you have with you in this Expedition.

[winter obsidian]

I mean, you start with an exotic ship

You get some good rewards along the way

So I reckon some folks would like to continue this save after expedition ends

That's kinda the point of expeditions in the 1st place

Being a faster tutorial, offering good rewards

[jolly vortex]

man, this expedition seems a bit harder

no ferrite 😦

[winter obsidian]

Yup, that's the point of this expedition

You need a bit of know-how to get the materials you need

Eg. amonia can be refied into ferrite dust

[jolly vortex]

oow

well that makes things easier

[winter obsidian]

By looting Buried Chests you can get scrap items, you can break them down into materials like Rusted Metal

And refine those

Buried Mineral Formations are a great source of higher tier items

Including Herox, which is needed to repair some part of the ship

[jagged sluice]

What's the bot command that lists the latest expedition missions?

[grand tinsel]

!exptime

[karmic steeple]

enable Link Preview to see info

Expedition 3 - Cartographers ends January 4 (2pm UTC) in 1 week 5 days 18 hours

Must start new save at least one day before each expedition ends.

Remaining Revisited Expeditions...

Expedition 4 - Emergence
Jan 5 - Jan 19 (2pm UTC)

Completed Revisited Expeditions

Expedition 1 - Pioneers Ended
Ran: Nov 24 - Dec 7 (2pm UTC)

Expedition 2 - Beachhead Ended
Ran: Dec 8 - Dec 21 (2pm UTC)

[velvet crater]

Would using expedition save keep my exosuit unlocks and/or atlas progress?

[inner hedge]

Took me a bit to figure that one out, since it's not something I ever did lol

[winter obsidian]

Yes, all the progress made in expedition carries over when the save becomes Normal mode

@velvet crater ^^^

[velvet crater]

So atlas progress and base unlocks and stuff are independent of which save you use?

[winter obsidian]

No

IIRC only quicksilver unlocks, expedition rewards and player titles / banners are cross save

And maybe twitch drop rewards but I never did those so I can't really tell

[mortal holly]

I found a planet with a couple of the humming sacs

with the pearls

if u need units

i forgot the name

[jolly vortex]

is it normal for the minotaur to handle so poorly? 😒

i see some people complaining like 2 years ago

[severe ibex]

Yeah, those too

[prime grotto]

Trying the new expedition and there's almost no ferrite anywhere, is this expected?

[tepid vigil]

I've tried restarting this expedition (3) and get the same ship every time.

Anyone else try this?

[devout hemlock]

Say fuckin what

😩

[winter obsidian]

I think that is intended

[tepid vigil]

Damn. That's weak. I see other people with different ships.

Last time Exp 3 was on it was random every time.
The one I got is my least favourite.

[tepid meadow]

actualy, the same ship/startinglocation also happened on last exp3, unknown what exactly triggers a re-roll there. maybe using a different save slot (instead of "meh, delete, retry" in same slot) helps.

do we have a text version of the exp3r milestones yet?

[devout hemlock]

Do y'all prefer to play expeditions with multiplayer on or off? A friend told me they are better with it turned off

[grand tinsel]

Off

Less clutter

[steep abyss]

does anyone have a problem with not being able to get out of their minotaur

[devout hemlock]

Damn this acid storm is thiccc

[tepid meadow]

@devout hemlock actualy not just MP off, but ODS off too, which means pretty much playing offline. (there is no ingame setting to disable the base/beacon/settlement/commsball spam)

[tepid vigil]

Not true. I was able to reload and get different results in previous Exp3.

Different saves make no difference this time. I tried.

[severe ibex]

You may be thinking of exp 1 and 2, I as well don't remember the ships being rolled

[astral brook]

eff ferrite. eff cooper

[tepid meadow]

i personally had mixed results on that with original exp3. i did get different starts/ships at first, but after one of the panicky bugfix updates, that stopped.

so either a mechanic/trigger we dont understand, or they changed it.

[queen kettle]

This was my first expedition and I did it in under 6 hours! Had a blast

[devout hemlock]

What's ods

[tepid meadow]

online discovery service

(the central part of NMS that is actualy hosted by HG on azure instead by your platform provider)

[devout hemlock]

Why did someone says there's no ferrite dust? There's tons of it

[severe ibex]

Them's fighting words

[devout hemlock]

So far this is much easier than the last expedition

[fathom olive]

1.5h wandering around trying to find the last two minerals to scan before giving up for now 😦

Can’t fix my engines without that recipe

[tepid meadow]

herox? either get lucky with glowing minerals, or use a refiner.

[fathom olive]

No, I mean, scanning minerals for the Geology expedition goal

[astral brook]

did u try underwater?

[fathom olive]

I haven’t found any water anywhere near me; after wandering around for 30 minutes I ended up building a rover platform to move a bit faster but still haven’t

Almost an hour in the rover with occasional stops to scan for stuff and no luck

I’ll focus on trying to find water, I guess

[astral brook]

Was just a suggestion. I'm not there yet and I think i've found 3 minerals but i havent been in water yet :/

[dusky cedar]

anyone have a location for the hills are alive one? i cant find one with a 1325 elevation

[kindred kestrel]

are there all eight minarals on the starting planet?

I'm on 7 out of 8 minarals

[astral brook]

😦

[tepid meadow]

1325 u ?!

[dusky cedar]

yea

i figured it out lol

[main verge]

Exp 3 was quite hard actually! 😲

Did phases 1 to 4 tonight but had to glitch a few things (herox, ionised cobalt, cristals...)

Just to gain some time as I just do it for the rewards

But it was pretty cool to be on foot for a few hours, i rediscovered the game

Now two weeks before exp 4! 😴

[dusky cedar]

sad i missed exp 1

[main verge]

You can glitch golden vector if you miss it too much

[dusky cedar]

interesting...

[astral brook]

Will EXP 1 be doable again?

[edgy dock]

prob only HG knows at this point

[astral brook]

lol

[astral brook]

having the same issue now lol]

[kindred kestrel]

what does the first rendezvous look like

[astral brook]

Damn. At this point I

I'd be willing to give some Activitaed Iridium from my main for some Magnetic Resonators on this expidition

[plain pivot]

Just buy them

I feel like I started in such a bad place. No minerals anywhere to get even basic Ferrite Dust, just plants, and I can't find water to be able to launch

[astral brook]

buy them from?

Cant go anywhere ship wont take off

need the magnetic resonators to get anywhere to buy something

[plain pivot]

Hm, I may have lucked into finding a settlement nearby

Then it was just a matter of collecting enough STorm Crystals to have money

[astral brook]

I'm not that lucky

nearest OP is 3H away

I mean ill buy some off of you lol

[plain pivot]

Oh for sure, if you ahve Crystal Sulphide

[astral brook]

i only have how many i need but ill get u more

DM for my NMS code

[plain pivot]

You can do that stuff across the planet? Don't need t obe nearby?

[astral brook]

Can you not travel across the planet yet?

[plain pivot]

No, I need the Sulphide to repair the other thing

[astral brook]

how ironic

[plain pivot]

Gotta repair both the Launch Thruster and the Pulse Engine to fly

[astral brook]

I have the sulphide but need the resonator

For the Sulphide go into water and look for volcano things

[plain pivot]

Yeah, I haven't seen the hint of water anywhere

The most annoying thing is I can't make so much stuff cause I can't find ferrite for Metal Plates

all the minerals I find are big ones, for Pure Ferrite

[astral brook]

i had a similar issue

Whelp. I need an expidition rescue. Anyone wants to help me out its just a magnetic resonator

I cant find these last 2 minerals

[severe ibex]

@plain pivot ammonia turns into ferrite, or rusted metal in containers and buried rock formations

[tepid meadow]

O_o ... is the 1325u for hills-are-alive just a broken description? that was 625u in the first exp3, so 325u for exp3r would make a lot more sense than 1325?!

[inner hedge]

I can't seem to find water either. Went in all directions.

Not to mention minerals to scan

[shadow mulch]

Same problem here

I feel silly and I need a sanity check. I'm doing expedition.

How find locations? I use Minotaur scanner and planetary data and I get stuff that is absurdly far away.

The signal booster deployable is helpful, but if it tags something useless, I'm stuck with it.

[ionic gazelle]

how do i do the stupid mountain climbing one

[ionic gazelle]

i finished repairs to the ship then did those

[inner hedge]

I gave up on minerals but found water after climbing high up.

I just kept using the Signal Booster until it gave me a Settlement and just bought the magnetic resonators

[ionic gazelle]

i just crafted them

[inner hedge]

How did you get the recipe? I didn't find all the minerals. Looks everywhere, best I got was 5 of 8

[ionic gazelle]

analyse 8 minerals

i then used a extractor to get ammonia, convert to ferrite

unlocked herox

[shadow mulch]

How'd you get your hands on uh... magnetic resonators?

[ionic gazelle]

crafting

[sleek depot]

(He said he crafted them)

[ionic gazelle]

underwater has the other 3 @inner hedge

[shadow mulch]

I meant how did you get the recipe for them

[ionic gazelle]

analyse 8 minerals

[shadow mulch]

HOW DID YOU FIND 8 MINERALS

[ionic gazelle]

rocks

[sleek depot]

She meant HOW did you do it

Lol

[ionic gazelle]

some are underwater

[sleek depot]

She? He? Ash.

[ionic gazelle]

this planet has 4 biomes

[shadow mulch]

What are they? :D

So far I've found, MOUNTAINS

WATER

that's it

[ionic gazelle]

forest, rocky, oceanic, large forest

[sleek depot]

Tree rock water

[ionic gazelle]

and biggie trees

im doing the rocketman and that mountain one now

[inner hedge]

I've looked in water, found only 1 mineral.

They could have made this a bit easier, give us some leeway, like 10 or something. Geez.

[shadow mulch]

There's a lot of QoL that's missing in this game which would make this expedition more sane.

[inner hedge]

Right now it seems like it's easier or harder depending where you start.

[shadow mulch]

Like scanning for locations needs a revamp, wow. Need some kind of mapping system for planets, at least to see what biomes are where. Aimlessly wandering in hope is... not really great.

yeah >:c

[quick herald]

iirc, the mineral milestone doesnt have to be done on the starting planet

[shadow mulch]

I can't get off the planet without the recipe the mineral milestone provides, unless I get lucky and find another factory

[quick herald]

which recipe?

[shadow mulch]

magnetic resonators

[quick herald]

if you find a minor settlement or a galactic trade terminal, they might have some

[shadow mulch]

Yeah I've been on the lookout

[quick herald]

specifically the lone trade terminal point of interest

[shadow mulch]

alas, finding specific things in reasonable walking distance is .... unlikely

[quick herald]

youve gotten the cave rocks already?

[shadow mulch]

I actually had a GTT right at my ship spawn.

I've been in several caves and scanned everything I can

[ionic gazelle]

i can bring some

[shadow mulch]

It's cool I've found the other biomes so I'm just gonna keep searching. I'd feel even more meh if I just caved this far. :3

[quick herald]

i havent spent much time on this expeditions planet yet (i did the origiinal exp 3 a bunch though).
Definitely scan water areas multiple times. Some of those minerals are really well hidden

[shadow mulch]

Yeah I believe it. I'm on my third pass of this area

At least I know what the forest biome mineral looks like. I restarted my exped save once for reasons.

[ionic gazelle]

oh ya chech caves

[inner hedge]

I've been in a dozen caves, under water a few times (not mentioning I had to look for water, that took way too long than it needed)

Still 5/8

[ionic gazelle]

been on the surface?

[inner hedge]

I've been up and down mountains valleys, name it, when looking for water.

[ionic gazelle]

i found some on those floating islands

[shadow mulch]

Well I already scanned them apparently

I'm in underwater caves lol

Usually I try not to affect ecosystems much, but I've been minotaur boar ripping this cave apart to make way because I am so fed up with this xD

[ionic gazelle]

how do i do the mountain one?

[shadow mulch]

ascend a mountain, when you're high enough, it'll click

[inner hedge]

I got that one when looking for water, didn't even know a out it

[ionic gazelle]

it sayse 1,350 U

where do i find a mountain?

[inner hedge]

I think the point we are trying to make is that so far this expedition needs a rework. I mean if you have to find a settlement to buy resonators because you can't find the exact 8 minerals, then it's broken IMO. If it was made properly, it should be so hard to do.

@ionic gazelle
I was surrounded by mountains. I guess you landed in a flat area lol

[ionic gazelle]

island

whats your coords i need mountain

[inner hedge]

-51.18, -148.31

[shadow mulch]

Been through a cave again, got everything. Still haven't found the mineral I saw before :V

[ionic gazelle]

do i do a freighter for the larval cores?

[shadow mulch]

Find a building with tentacles/whispering eggs

[ionic gazelle]

?

[winter obsidian]

Abandoned buildings

[ionic gazelle]

where on them?

[inner hedge]

Eggs outside. Attack the eggs to release the cores, grab them and run like hell.

[ionic gazelle]

gottem

[ionic gazelle]

finished in 5 hours

[deft cosmos]

How in the hell am I supposed to get water related items for my ship when I am nowhere near water… same for hiding in a abandoned building

The nearest village is 7 hours away

[devout hemlock]

The only water I found so far was a very shallow bit at the bottom of a cave that only had two plants in it lol

Can anyone tell me what exocraft would actually be most useful in this terrain? I've never used any really. Been using the minotaur and I fuckin hate it quite frankly. It handles like a dead hippo on ice

Quite possibly the worst mech I've ever had to use in any game

[modest hemlock]

any of the other ones

roamer, nomad (which can traverse water), pilgrim

[cedar gorge]

24min away

[tepid vigil]

I farmed Factories and unlocked the recipe early. Then got the remaining mi eral scans on another planet

[modest hemlock]

or complete geologist

[tepid vigil]

An earlier milestone gave factory overrides. That helped speed it up.

[tepid vigil]

You're missing the point./half the conversation

Scroll up

[modest hemlock]

yes, i know that players have been having trouble with mineral scanning.

we had the same thing happen with original exp3.

[tepid vigil]

Geologist was already brought up. With a giant screenshot

[modest hemlock]

that doesn't mean it's impossible

[shadow mulch]

This is what I should have done, and what I actually just recommended in another channel lol

[astral brook]

about to finish expedition

If someone DMs me a joke that makes me laugh I'll drop all the usefull loot i have on em

Alrightty... goes to someone random on starter planet then lol

[worldly nova]

Uhm.. anyone else had problem finding ferrite dust in the start?

[astral brook]

yes

wait till u need copper lol

[modest hemlock]

buried caches can be a good source of stellar metals

[modest hemlock]

remember that cargo drops often have rusted metal covering the lock, and rusted metal refines to dust

[radiant coyote]

Also remember that once you have access to a medium refiner, you can use oxygen to 'rust' ferrite to make more of it

[glacial furnace]

THis expedition requires more of me than previous ones. The poison atmosphere (and NO AMMONIA) makes hikes slightly more dangerous and where I landed, very scarce with minerals. I had to scrounge for Rusted Metal to get enough Ferrite Dust to eventually make Magnetized Ferrite and such. Now, at least, I have the advanced Mining Laser, because of course, there are at least some "big boulders" around.

Also, 1 fauna left in the milestone and all of the undiscovered ones are "underground" SMH.

Seems like I was doing something right to dig for stuff.

[radiant coyote]

Instead of relying on ammonia, another option is buying batteries from trade terminals

Granted, a settlement may be difficult to find immediately, but just wanted to give some food for thought

[worldly nova]

found a ton of this mineral on top of a mountain.

[glacial furnace]

Oh, buying batteries.

RIght. The Floating Rock above my settlement. Worth trying to get to? It's like a floating island in the sky.

[modest hemlock]

those are found on top of stuff like this as well

[modest hemlock]

if you haven't completed geologist yet, yes

[worldly nova]

Thanks. completed geologist

[glacial furnace]

Ah, Sweet. But my jetpack has fuel like a half-blown balloon.

[modest hemlock]

use terrain manip creation tool

[glacial furnace]

I build a bridge?

[modest hemlock]

sorta yeah, or steps, so you can wait for jetpack to recharge

[glacial furnace]

A stairway to heaven?

[modest hemlock]

eheh, well, yeah 😄

[glacial furnace]

I'mma put it on as I build it

Does NMS have "Air guitar" gestures yet? Like You know Bill & Ted?

[modest hemlock]

nope

[glacial furnace]

uninstalling

unplayable

[cedar gorge]

sweet water

[main verge]

@ionic gazelle same here

5 hours exactly

Hardest was ****ing rock scanning

[delicate gyro]

Did anyone simply bought a starship somewhere during the expedition, before finishing to repair the exotic?

[cedar gorge]

easy rocketman

[inner hedge]

I had ammonia nearby but I still found it irritating. There's a lot wrong with this one. Too much reliance on good rng for starting location

[inner hedge]

Doesn't let you, I tried 😩

I skipped rock scanning and focused on finding a small settlement and bought the magnetic resonators instead.

Fudge me if I could be bothered to find 2 left. Needle in a haystack.

[delicate gyro]

Yeah, to good to be true

I refined everything lol

On top of the mountain

There are the last rocks

[inner hedge]

I went on mountains and found nothing new.

[delicate gyro]

:/

[inner hedge]

Anyhow, I finally launched the ship. Just took a few hours too many

[delicate gyro]

Game changer in the exp was building the large refiner, galactic trade hub and the oxygen harvester

[delicate gyro]

Lmao... I'm just wondering, you know all those stranded lifeform missions? All those ships flying above our heads, NO ONE WILLING TO HELP

[inner hedge]

Yeah it's easier to unlock those rather than do the tasks.

I unlocked the mineral harvester in the construction thing. Easier than mineral scanning.

At least we get two weeks to do it.

[delicate gyro]

If you do some refining you'll get very fast though it

I just wish I found a copper deposit... Found an S CLASS FAECIUM instead. That's ridiculous

[gloomy rampart]

That's some high quality 💩 there.

[delicate gyro]

Best shit hole ever found

[gloomy rampart]

Well, fullest anyways.

[delicate gyro]

Remember gold+silver+copper to get the most chromatic Metal out of the few copper we got

Sorry for this really unfancy pic

[gloomy rampart]

Storm flare?
I really wish that wouldn't affect the visuals when you were inside.

[delicate gyro]

Exactly... I built my base on a settlement

Effortless

Under the shelter there's good lightning, solved lightning problems

[devout hemlock]

Huh, I have tons of copper deposits

[delicate gyro]

I mean, the ones you use industrial extractor with

[devout hemlock]

Thing pissing me off is I hav the formula for herox in the catalog, and I have the elements to make it, but it won't let me make it because I haven't found the formula

[delicate gyro]

Use the refiner

Triple input

[devout hemlock]

I tried it won't let me

[delicate gyro]

Ridiculous, tried reloading?

[devout hemlock]

Ye

[delicate gyro]

:(

[winter obsidian]

Use Buried Mineral Formations

They can break into a number of resources, including Herox

No need to learn the recipe / refine

[inner hedge]

Copper was not a problem, plenty of deposits where I was.

[delicate gyro]

Idk, i hated to go around and search for depots

[inner hedge]

I had many ammonia and copper deposits very close by. And as I walked to do other tasks I would pick up more I came across.

[devout hemlock]

Yeah still haven't found any in those

Me whenever I find a geode

Actually I just say this in my head

[delicate gyro]

What about if we renamed this expedition, instead of "the cartographer" a more suitable "THE BROKEN GEK"

[inner hedge]

Honestly, I like the expedition and how it makes you think how to refine, etc. But honestly, that mineral scan is BS. Everything else can be done without too much effort. That said, it really depends where you start.

[lusty dove]

how do I get crystal sulphide in the exp, there's no water on the starting planet and i need it for my starship

[kindred kestrel]

there is water on the starter planet in the western and southern hemispheres

[inner hedge]

There is, just not everywhere.

I had to walk a long way to find any.

[kindred kestrel]

lol i feel so sorry for y'all

[lusty dove]

the beachhead expedition was much more fun than this

because this is basically one planet until phase 5

and the planet always storms and doesn't have many resources

[cedar gorge]

🏂

[quick herald]

Glowing Minerals will drop them occasionally. You can get glowing minerals from Buried Mineral Deposits and Floating Crystals.

[lusty dove]

oh, i didn't know that, thanks

[gloomy rampart]

Took me a bit of walking to find water. Read, "puddles". I managed to find the sulphide vents hiding in some submerged cave structures.
But yeah, so far, the mineral scans are the worst. I thought when I started that this starter planet was less 💩 than the last starter planet for Ex3. Nope! It's just as 💩, just for different reasons.

[devout hemlock]

Oh sweet mother of God I found a trade terminal. But of course I left my most valuable selling items at my base on the opposite side of the map

[winter obsidian]

Mark that shit with a save beacon or base computer or whatever

[devout hemlock]

Uhhhh so I finished installing one upgrade in the minotaur and now it's refusing to move unless I finish installing a different upgrade as well. But it moved fine before. Is this a bug

This is some bullshit wtf

My minotaur just out of commission for no reason

I had that same mod on it but not fully installed before and it didn't affect anything

[gloomy rampart]

Is it the fuel economy one?

[devout hemlock]

Yes

[gloomy rampart]

I've had problems with that one on all of the exocraft. It seems like if the game finds that before it finds the main engine module, it reads the economy upgrade's fuel level instead of the engine's.
I don't know if they're ever going to fix it, so unfortunately it's best to just always keep the engine core mod in the top left slot.

[devout hemlock]

Man that's some bs

[gloomy rampart]

Yup.

[devout hemlock]

If I move the engine core mod to top left will it work again?

[gloomy rampart]

It should.

If you consider the mod slots to be like a long tape, it just needs to find the engine first.

[devout hemlock]

On the plus side I randomly found crystal sulphide in a buried mineral formation

[delicate gyro]

Anyone got the coords for that 1325 mountain base?

[devout hemlock]

Why do sentinels get so butthurt about sac venom

[winter obsidian]

If you're trying to get the Rocketman milestone or whatever it is called

You can also build a base with a wall and a ceiling

And jetpack into that

[winter obsidian]

Lore

You have to be airborne for some time, not fall the height

[delicate gyro]

??

[devout hemlock]

I think they just ain't want you to have money. Tryin to keep the lower class down

[winter obsidian]

No they’re a ||sub protocol of that atlas to maintain and preserve its creation and disruption thereof from interjecting species||

Oh wait does the rerun have the Rocketman milestone

Or is it just the climb mountain one

[delicate gyro]

Both...

I've got an altimeter

[jagged eagle]

Ok are there no minerals on the exp 3 planet? I cant find any ferrite dust to craft metal plates.

Hello?

[devout hemlock]

It still don't work

[delicate gyro]

What's your username in game i can bring you some rn

You have to refine it all

Keep all the rusted metal from containers

Refine pure ferrite with oxygen and then refine the rusted metal

Refine ammonia

[jagged eagle]

Ah ok

thx

[delicate gyro]

Now imagine if a random jock claimed a base on the 2nd rendezvous so now one can set commstats anymore

[gloomy rampart]

I found some sick little humor in the ferrite rock that I did actually find.
It also provided faecium. 💩

[inner hedge]

I had that happen for my roamer once I installed the upgrade that is supposed to recharge. For the minimal cost of carbon it's not really a big loss but it should be fixed.

[inner hedge]

If you have ammonia deposits, use that with the refiner

[modest hemlock]

if you don't have ammonia deposits, rusted metal covering cargo drop locks also refines to dust

[modest hemlock]

another easy cheese for this one is dig a tunnel, go in, jetpack against tunnel ceiling

[delicate gyro]

I'll gonna refine some Herox and distribute it to broken geks

[winter obsidian]

is anyone else having problems with finding crystal sulphuride? i keep finding water that's way too shallow to spawn anything. i'm in the middle of a mountain area, and i travelled for like an hour, to look for some deeper lakes, but still no luck

i thought it would be smart to go to a trading station, and just buy a ship, but the game prevents you from buying any ships

[delicate gyro]

Keep trying, it's rare

[modest hemlock]

@winter obsidian look for buried mineral formations; those drop glowing crystals; glowing crystals can drop sulphide

[winter obsidian]

ohhhh, that's good, i didn't think of that. thank you

[modest hemlock]

i was reminded of the same earlier by roar

[winter obsidian]

i thought about refining for some crystal sulphide, but unfortunately there's no way to do that

[modest hemlock]

yep, no refiner recipe for that

[winter obsidian]

but thanks for the advice, that's actually a really smart way to get around it

[inner hedge]

After the headache of the mineral scanning I will happily cheese

[winter obsidian]

yh, why are the minerals so rare

usually i'm annoyed by how many minerals are, whenever i scan a new planet

but this one barely has any

[inner hedge]

Scroll up and you will find lots of suggestions to get around that.

But yes, minerals are hard to find, frustratingly so.

This expedition has an obsession with using the refiners. You'll see 😂

Which is not all bad, but my goodness, that mineral scanning nearly broke me.

[rare solar]

I will have to try this 🧀!

[inner hedge]

Worked great for me

[jagged eagle]

Why am I being forced to use ammonia deposits? Each one gives me like 20 ammonia. I need way more ferrite dust than that. Not really a big fan of the way HG structured this expedition.

[inner hedge]

Join the club. I didn't like it and many other will say the same.

Depending qhere you land, ammonia deposits could be far away. I was lucky there were many nearby

[jagged eagle]

Well I suppose I can always use the save editor. I truly hate it when games add lots of grinding. Who has fun doing the same task over and over for 4 hours.

[quick herald]

Change the terrain manipulator to the smallest setting

Youll get like 400 per deposit that way

[jagged eagle]

oooh

good tip thx

[quick herald]

The largest setting is very inefficient

[inner hedge]

The things you find out even after hundreds of hours lol

[quick herald]

Haha, yeah, surprising isnt it

This one might help too

[karmic steeple]

Locating a Specific Resource
[Link to guide »](#nms-questions message)
Shared by: @quick herald

Contributor: roarinflames#8123

[inner hedge]

I mean I knew about changing the size to create, didn't know it affected collecting

[quick herald]

The only real exception to this is gathering silicate powder for building.
In those cases, use the flatten setting since efficiency doesnt really matter as much as speed

[modest hemlock]

what's the base building parts that use powder?

[quick herald]

Stone

[modest hemlock]

hmm.. yeah, those aren't unlocked by default

[quick herald]

If that suddenly changed, im going to backflip

Oh right, i just meant it as a general tip

[modest hemlock]

i was thinking about - yeah 😄 no worries no worries

[rare solar]

I did not know this. I'll have to try it!

[devout hemlock]

Fuk exocraft, who needs 'em

No words, should have sent a poet

[devout hemlock]

Omfg I just found 2 herox in buried mineral formation

See you in hell acid planet

[inner hedge]

lol

[gloomy rampart]

Can confirm. I did this on an ammonia deposit and walked away with over 1.2k.

Granted, I had to refuel the terrain manipulator 3 times. 😆

[deft cosmos]

Uhm

Where is the ren point for this expedition… or how do I find it?

[gloomy rampart]

With your scanner, when you're on the right planet.

[deft cosmos]

Fuck

[modest hemlock]

@deft cosmos visor > target sweep

!faq-expglyphs

[karmic steeple]

enable Link Preview to see info

Expedition 3 - Cartographers Revisited

Starting Planet
System: Ogawat.
Station: Ogawat Station Sigma.
Planet: Dice V20.

Rendezvous 1
System: Ogawat.
Station: Ogawat Station Sigma.
Planet: Westa Minor.
Point of Interest: Colossal Archive.

Lat/Long: +46.98, +141.07.

Rendezvous 2
System: Ozawak.
Station: Ozawak Station Sigma.
Planet: Ucossy Eppu.
Point of Interest: Portal.

Lat/Long: +23.58, -24.76.

Contribution by: bkay201#1943, Devilin Pixy#9298, Codevasco#2558

[modest hemlock]

coords here ^

[deft cosmos]

Aight

[inner hedge]

I just found the spotd by flying low and slow near the marker.

I remember one of the expeditions the scanner was borked and didn't work. Looks like it does this time from what I could see.

[restive harbor]

Does anyone know how to get crystal sulphide on the starting planet?

[signal nova]

you get it from the vents on ocean floor

[restive harbor]

Where would I find an ocean

[cedar gorge]

on planet

[inner hedge]

Depends where you were dropped.

I went to the top of the mountains the game dropped me in the middle of and there wasn't a drop of water. Had to hike in 1 direction a long way.

And still, wasn't deep enough, had to keep searching.

[restive harbor]

Any landmarks would help

[past notch]

There's like no rocks on this friggin planet.

Been getting most of my ferrite dust from rusted metal.

I'm considering cheesing the expedition by spawning in my preorder ship. Worried I'd lose where the expedition ship is parked, though.

[tepid meadow]

oh, thats not erally cheesing it. it also doesnt help.

(wait, or does it? how do you spawn the preorder ships? the "doesnt help" assumed its like redeeming expedition rewards. 😅 )

[pastel sonnet]

I can't find Rendevous 1. it's not showing up in my game......?

[edgy dock]

do you have the milestone selected? there should be an icon showing in the galaxy map if you're not in the system

[pastel sonnet]

ahhh. lol. thank you so much. I didn't know can do that

[wild island]

this was done in normal play? or creative? either way just wow :O

[deft cosmos]

Question

Where in the fuck am I supposed to find larval cores?

[devout hemlock]

Normal

Wait I didn't build that if that's what you meant

[pastel depot]

https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Larval_Core?so=search

[devout hemlock]

Yeah I remember when I came upon some whispering eggs in my first couple hours of ever playing nms and yeah that was fun

[deft cosmos]

I dont

Remember them too much

This may sound dumb but

What exactly do I need to do for the industrialist thing besides just put a mineral extractor on the minerals

[devout hemlock]

I built a house for my creature friend but it can't go in inside

😫

Does the power generation one require a specific kind? Because I've generated way more than that with solar panels and nothing happened

[deft cosmos]

I just made 3 panels and connected it to a teleporter

And got it

welp time to go play PS4 while these extractors take an hour to mine salt

[devout hemlock]

Also my construction thing now suddenly has much less stuff available to research and I can't build storage units anymore?

[deft cosmos]

I feel ya there

[devout hemlock]

Why did that happen

[deft cosmos]

I hope I don’t need some storage thing for these mineral extractors

This is like one of the last 3 things I need for this expedition

[rare solar]

Hmm I can't place a comm station at the final rendezvous. How are other players able to?

[main verge]

Heard the alien companion from exp. 3 is really fast

Is it worth it?

[regal ridge]

Yes

[fresh jewel]

Are they doing a redux of #4 too?

[grand tinsel]

Yes

Starts the 5th of January

[fresh jewel]

I got this one done on my PS4. Between now and then I'm going to redo this on the PC.

[grand tinsel]

Sweet

[fresh jewel]

I wish I could have the ship I've been flying in this expedition to spawn in every save instead of the vector in the first expedition.

[grand tinsel]

I really hope the tech makes its way to the other game modes

[winter obsidian]

Is there anything special about that expedition specific ship? Or just higher base stats

[grand tinsel]

The tech is what is special afaik

[lime dome]

i cannot find an alien structure to go to with the scanner.... idk what to do

[edgy dock]

you've tried the alien charts from cartographer at the space station (which you can get for nav data)?

[lime dome]

im stuck on the planet with a broken ship

[cedar gorge]

ok

[lime dome]

its like the 5th part of phase one

[modest hemlock]

so, "any port in the storm" milestone, phase 1. use your signal booster to "locate nearby structures". alternatively, walk towards one direction and from time to time, use your visor to sweep the environment looking for "unknown building" icons. use photo mode as a drone camera to try and locate a building nearby.

that being said, milestones don't have to be complete in order.

[lime dome]

yea if i had a ship or craft to travel it would be easier

[modest hemlock]

you can focus on milestones that will allow you to repair your ship's launch thruster, pulse engine and life support.

[edgy dock]

if you can't fix thrusters which is all you'd need to fly to space station.

[modest hemlock]

in this case, the three techs i mentioned need to be fixed to fly

normally, just launch thrusters+pulse engine would be enough, but this ship also requires life support tech to be fixed

and there's still plenty of time left to finish. ask for more guidance if needed, ofc

[gloomy rampart]

In the absence of an exocraft, I recommend taming the local wildlife. It's not much, but it's a bit easier than walking.

[grand tinsel]

Good tip

[fast gorge]

finally got off this atlas forsaken planet

[fast gorge]

the way I like to do this is to just build a simple base and then stack about 3 levels high and then remove all the walls for the top levels so you have to jetpack on top

if there is a path for the horrors to walk to get to you they will, but not if it's disconnected and they have no range

at that point you can just pick them off at your leisure

so 1.) Grab egg, 2.) jetpack up to sniper perch 3.) slaughter horrors 4.) repeat

[cedar gorge]

or just grab

[fast gorge]

yeah that was my 1st contact with them when I had no shields and basic boltcaster

so for The Hills Are ALive milestone does it count if I land on top of a tall mountain in my ship and get out?

[cedar gorge]

yes

[fast gorge]

nice

man IDK why but my FPS is in the 🚽 today

wonder if it's the expedition lagging because there wasn't an update and nothing else changed

wait why can't I warp to the space station

is that disabled because of the expedition? that's dumb

I was able to warp from the station to my base

[cedar gorge]

is it

[fast gorge]

IDK I'm asking here because I don't know 😄

brb gotta crash the market on storm crystals 😂

[cedar gorge]

which phase are you in

[fast gorge]

I've completed the first 3 and I have some of 4 and 5

fixed the ship enough to get to the space station

[cedar gorge]

alright just keep a look out for water =)

[fast gorge]

huh?

[rare solar]

Try turning off multi player, if you have not :-)

[fast gorge]

I did and it helped a lot

I think it was the 500 map markers

[rare solar]

Yeah

[restive harbor]

Does anyone know how to get herox on the starting planet

[fast gorge]

you can refine it with gold amonia and cobalt with a large refiner

or do the mineral extrator part and it gives you the recipe (no refiner needed)

[restive harbor]

Thanks

[fast gorge]

also I believe it can be a random drop from those burried mineral formations

[restive harbor]

The buried mineral formations is what I’ve been trying but only one has dropped out of the 50 I’ve collected

[fast gorge]

yeah it's better to just refine

that's what I did

I didn't get the recipe until after

because it takes minimum 45 minutes after you build the mineral extractor to get the milestone

and it takes hella power so you better have a bunch of panels and batteries

at least 2 of each

I put mine on a switch so it's not draining my batteries

[silver ermine]

Everywhere I want to build base on starting planet there is some previous registration already there. How to find free spot?

[fast gorge]

oh that sucks

my spawn was 8 hours out from the closest player

[cedar gorge]

[fast gorge]

Did I spend too many units on a shitty class C just because it has a recharger?

yep!

🙃

improvise, adapt, overcome

wait you can put solar panels inside and they still work rofl

is there anything wrong with me using some other random's base as my own? 😂

this one is way nicer than anything I've ever built

[restive harbor]

Does anyone know how to find biological horrors for Larval cores

[winter obsidian]

Abandoned buildings and no atmosphere planets.

Look for eggs, shoot them and regret waking them up.

[restive harbor]

Thanks

[winter obsidian]

np

[analog panther]

Um.... i can't build a base. terminal said that there is already registered base before. Wtf?

[modest hemlock]

there's probably a base computer from another player nearby. first, disable multiplayer, then save+reload, then try again. if it's already disabled, either move away from that area until you can build and claim your own base computer, or try to find the parts that belong to the other player base computer, and report that base via your build menu.

[analog panther]

Ok, i'll try, thanks :)

[devout hemlock]

This mf built a base with hazardous flora clipping inside of their entrance room

Also wtf this wasn't here last night at all lol

It's directly next to where my disabled ship started. Last I was on the closest player base was 15 hours away lol

[modest hemlock]

as spawn points get reused for more and more players, that will happen more and more frequently

one of the reasons why i don't like uploaded bases in exp planets.

[devout hemlock]

Does anyone know why my construction research unit initially had a whole bunch of things to research but now it only has a very limited list? Like it had all the different geobays but now it doesn't list any

[modest hemlock]

as soon as you fix your ship's launch thruster+pulse engine+life support, space anomaly gets unlocked, and construction research unit goes back to its normal self

[devout hemlock]

Man that's wack. Cause I still haven't fixed one of the engines so I can't get off planet

[modest hemlock]

hyperdrive isn't required to fly

and i'm pretty sure that CRU only goes back to normal CRU once the ship can fly.

[devout hemlock]

My waveform engine isn't fixed yet

Just the pulse

They didn't really think through people doing things non-sequentially when they made this huh

[modest hemlock]

milestones don't have to be completed in order at all

[devout hemlock]

So why did I get locked out

[modest hemlock]

waveform engine is the pulse engine

i don't know why you got locked out - some sort of bug. in any case, you don't exactly need the CRU to complete the expedition.

[modest hemlock]

yeah, can see what's going on there

ime, only when i fixed all 3 did it revert CRU back to normal

perhaps that trigger is actually just life support.

[devout hemlock]

😩

[modest hemlock]

ship can't fly without all 3

in any case, just fix pulse engine

keep going

almost there

[devout hemlock]

Yeah I only need 1 sulphide. I was hoping to fly over to where they might be though instead of making the forever trek back on foot

My minotaur also got locked out due to a very similar thing

[modest hemlock]

use photo mode as a drone camera to try and find the next water puddle

[modest hemlock]

what do you mean?

[devout hemlock]

I marked where it is with save beacon already

[devout hemlock]

Won't let it move because I added (but didn't install) a mod that it's reading as the primary engine instead of the actual engine

Or some such thing

[modest hemlock]

move icarus engine to another slot

[devout hemlock]

I did

Didn't fix it

[modest hemlock]

dismantle it

[modest hemlock]

fixes the "engine won't recharge" bug on normal exocrafts, that's why i suggested it

also, underwater vents aren't the only source of crystal sulphide

buried mineral formation/glowing crystals can also drop it

[devout hemlock]

That one the cursor is over is preventing it from working

[modest hemlock]

ah

so you don't have the icarus engine tech installed?

[devout hemlock]

I have Icarus fuel system and Daedalus engine. At the top left there

[modest hemlock]

and moving icarus to another slot doesn't fix it, you say

gotcha

i'd just try to dismantle self greasing servos, or moving it to another slot

[devout hemlock]

It won't let me 😫

Fingers crossed I find some more buried mineral clusters nearby

[modest hemlock]

i guess you will just need to unlock acid

and craft it

or buy it

and complete the install

[fast gorge]

anyone got tips for rocket man?

[devout hemlock]

Elton John

[fast gorge]

😑

[modest hemlock]

<#nms-legacy-ships message>

and hold it for 20s

[pastel depot]

I dunno, I think it's gonna be a long, long time.

[fast gorge]

yeah but I don't have enough jetpack even with 5 upgrades

[modest hemlock]

jetpacking against a ceiling doesn't deplete jetpack

[fast gorge]

oh tricky!

[modest hemlock]

exploiting a game mechanic basically

[fast gorge]

doesn't work in the back room of the space station

must be on planet only?

[modest hemlock]

see the ramps in the back?

in the landing pad area?

[fast gorge]

huh like to go up to the shops?

[modest hemlock]

yep

jetpack below that floor panel at the top of the ramp, facing the back wall

[fast gorge]

it worked in my base

thanks!

[modest hemlock]

also works inside a base yes

[devout hemlock]

Well only had to travel half of the 40 mins to the water before finding my last sulphide in a mineral formation. I guess that's something

[fast gorge]

you tryin'a tell me there are no biological horrors on this atlas forsaken toxic planet

[devout hemlock]

Don't think so

[fast gorge]

gotta go to the ice planet 😩

[cedar gorge]

ice is gud

[fast gorge]

discovered a dyson lens

what the heck do I do with this

[winter obsidian]

Nothing

You can destroy it and get a level 5 wanted level if you want

[fast gorge]

yeah I looked it up

glad I did before I destroyed it

ughhhhhhh

so I have killed 5 whispering eggs

and 3 out of the 5 I missed the thing

it despawns

[winter obsidian]

Yeah

They’re supposed to despawn

[fast gorge]

yeah but it just seems like a "F you" from HG though?

why would they despawn

it's a physical thing, things don't just cease to exist

[winter obsidian]

Removes challenge

If it didn’t respawn, you could pick it up after beating the monstrosities

Having to go in to pick it up while the bad guys are sprouting adds a hint “challenge” for a reward

[fast gorge]

yes that's how it should work??

nothing else in the game works this way

anyway I just got my 3rd one, this isn't #nms-bitching 😅

sorry

[pastel depot]

If that doesn't normally happen, could just be a bug.

[winter obsidian]

It does normally happen

[fast gorge]

I've never had to get them before

[winter obsidian]

Larval cores always despawn

[fast gorge]

yeah I wasn't saying it was a bug

[devout hemlock]

@modest hemlock I made it off planet

[fast gorge]

finally out of this horrible system

[devout hemlock]

Should I just sell all the navigation data I have.

Wait, can it even be sold for money

[vocal gazelle]

why sell? are you keeping this save?

[fast gorge]

that expedition was awful and I hated it 😠

so january 5th is the next one?

[winter obsidian]

!exptime

[karmic steeple]

enable Link Preview to see info

Expedition 3 - Cartographers ends January 4 (2pm UTC) in 1 week 3 days 13 hours

Must start new save at least one day before each expedition ends.

Remaining Revisited Expeditions...

Expedition 4 - Emergence
Jan 5 - Jan 19 (2pm UTC)

Completed Revisited Expeditions

Expedition 1 - Pioneers Ended
Ran: Nov 24 - Dec 7 (2pm UTC)

Expedition 2 - Beachhead Ended
Ran: Dec 8 - Dec 21 (2pm UTC)

[fast gorge]

😄

[devout hemlock]

Cause I have like 50 of them and i don't need them. Unless you are specifically looking for an alien artifact or something they seem pretty useless

[fast gorge]

they're useful to summon ships that don't fly 🙃

I used a bunch of them for the expedition

[devout hemlock]

What I want with a ship that don't fly? Inventory space?

[fast gorge]

you didn't do the expedition?

the first half of the expedition is fixing your busted ship

so it makes sense in that context

and we're in the expedition channel

so 🤷‍♂️

[devout hemlock]

I did but I still don't get why I'd need to do that

I guess if I wanted to bring it to where I found the stuff to fix it

Either way I don't need 50 of em

Does anyone else get unreasonably annoyed when there's a substantial looking plant or geological formation that isn't scannable

[rare solar]

I actually enjoyed it. It was a challenge to me. Finished it in about 9hrs played :)

Looking forward to expedition 4 redux, as it seems to be Dune inspired. :-)

[devout hemlock]

Like how this thing not scannable

[rare solar]

👀

[devout hemlock]

Kinda looks durian-ish lol

[rare solar]

🤣

[devout hemlock]

Dis planet got mf jackal-headed-shark-tailed-stegosaurus animals

[fast gorge]

hah that was just a little joke, it was tough and horrible (but I want more) 😄

[devout hemlock]

These ice planet beetle things straight up bullying me for creature pellets

[rare solar]

😅

[devout hemlock]

FYI there are whispering eggs on the bountiful planet at some abandoned buildings. That way you don't have to deal with hyperactive sentinels and shitty wildlife on top of the abominations like you do on ice planet

[timid grove]

Has anyone seen an interloper named _Moonlightfurry currently on a search party for them

[junior vault]

they seem like my kinda guy

[restive harbor]

Do mountains that reach 1,325u actually exist?

[modest hemlock]

in the starter planet? yes, it's possible to complete hills are alive on it

[restive harbor]

You’d think it’d be easy to find something that big but I’ve been looking for hours

[modest hemlock]

have you fixed your ship yet?

remember that you don't need to complete milestones in order

being able to fly your ship will help a lot with finding a suitable location to complete hills are alive at, imo

[inner hedge]

If you can find the magnetic resonators. Scanning all 8 minerals is near impossible depending where you land. That and finding water. Fixing the ship is not exactly easy to do.

[bronze verge]

so what's ironic is right as I asked that, I climbed a plateau and found 2 more minerals on a huge circular cliff outcropping

they hadn't shown up ANYWHERE else. It was infuriating, lol

[bronze lynx]

A big tip for finding minerals is to look for 4 areas: normal landscape, cave, underwater, and strange land formations (for example, craters landing from space bringing new minerals). I know you finished already but maybe it will help somebody else

[past notch]

I can't find an eighth mineral on Dice V20.

Anyone able to do so?

[modest hemlock]

@past notch yes

see reply right before yours

strange land formations also include "plateaus" like

[past notch]

Ah. I gave up and raided a manufacturing facility.

[royal girder]

if anyone wants help on exp3 feel free to @ me

[solid lark]

If you could bring me a warp hypercore I'll pay you the resources for it

[winter obsidian]

are they hard?

Expeditions?

[novel night]

Need some help finding "Larval Cores", they can be found by abandoned buildings in "Whispering Eggs"

Problem is I can't find any abandoned buildings

Would anyone know where I could find the buildings?

[void heath]

If you have done all the other milestones leading up to this, you should have access to the Pilgrim exocraft. Install all the scanners and search for abandoned buildings. Alternatively you could try your luck on cartographers maps, but that will take longer

[devout hemlock]

There are none on the starting planet. There's a few on the bountiful planet, but the easiest way to find them is on the ice planet where they're just all over the place in the environment

Unfortunately that planet also has aggressive sentinels and fauna

[solid lark]

Abandoned building can be found through distress signal charts iirc

I found them on the starter planet

[devout hemlock]

Huh really

[solid lark]

Yeah

I can't remember which chart it was but I'm pretty sure it was the distress signal

Yeah just checked, distress signal

[devout hemlock]

Yeah, all the others are for non abandoned places.

Distress signal also returns crashed friegters and ships and malfunctioning factories though so you might have to do it a bunch

[solid lark]

Yeah

But they'll never give the same type twice

So you can just stay in one spot and spam them

[devout hemlock]

Not true lol

[solid lark]

Yes true

If you have a crashed freighter marked from a chart it won't give you another crashed freighter until you clear that one

[devout hemlock]

I've had the same type twice many times

[lilac salmon]

Storm crystals. Good or bad grind for units?

[solid lark]

Bullshit beema

[devout hemlock]

Uh

[solid lark]

It literally says "target type already scanned"

[devout hemlock]

Yeah

That's the same thing twice

[solid lark]

Yes

Which means it won't let you find two crashed freighters at once

[devout hemlock]

.

[devout hemlock]

They are easy enough to get. There's other stuff that sells for way more though

[lilac salmon]

Could you recommend such items? Im doing this expedition as a re bound.

Like, my first, very very op save got wiped so im just now coming back to nms

[devout hemlock]

I think there's a list a bot in here can pull up

I don't know the command offhand

[karmic steeple]

How to Make Units

• [Tips for Beginners »](#nms-questions message)
• [Tips for All Stages »](#nms-questions message)
• [Trade Routes Guide »](#nms-questions message)
• [Mineral Farming Guide »](#nms-questions message)

Contributor(s): Parad9x#1003, Blapor#3042, Qyrae#7849, roarinflames#8123

[devout hemlock]

Use your scanner to find anything with a gold icon. That stuff either sells for a lot or refines in to nanites

There's a bunch of ancient bones you can find buried on the starter planet. Those sell for a lot

[lilac salmon]

Thank you

[devout hemlock]

Storm crystals work fine though since they are all over the place

[jagged sluice]

They do, but if you happen to be near bones they're worth more and there are usually a few bunched near eachother.

[modest hemlock]

ancient bones, depending on rarity, might not be worth more than 1 storm crystal - there's bones worth 50-90k, 1 storm crystal is worth 125k item card price

[lilac salmon]

Im noticing a lack of rocks on the starter planet... So now I'm having ferrite dust issues LOL

[lilac salmon]

As for the whole bones and crystals... I've got around 6 stacks of storm crystals in the high cap inventory. I wasn't finding many bones

[modest hemlock]

any ammonia deposits around you? mine those with your terrain manip set to lowest size, then refine ammonia to dust

[lilac salmon]

Again, thank you friend.

[devout hemlock]

If you go to one of those massive stone formations there's usually a ton of small ferrite rocks lining the ground around them.

I think I used most of the ammonia I found to recharge my acid shielding lol

[rare solar]

I found a waypoint with a galactic terminal, sold my storm crystals and bought all the stuff I needed, incl. ferrite dust 🙂

[lilac salmon]

Nearest trade post is 1 Day away from me. I need to scan 3 rocks that I can't find for a magnetic resonator

Thank you rngjesus.

[cyan temple]

I figured out I can refine metal scraps for ferrite.. saved my bacon!

[cyan temple]

rusted metal*

[fresh jewel]

Having a hell of a time finding 8 minerals for the milestone on my PC expedition. Looked underwater in caves and above ground. Traveled hunderds of u in all directions. Any suggestions?

[modest hemlock]

<#nms-legacy-ships message>

[cyan temple]

oh that's really helpful, ty!!

[modest hemlock]

those plateaus and floating islands had the last 3 minerals i needed

only found 1 mineral underwater

[fresh jewel]

Yeah, don't think I tried plateaus yet. Thx

[cyan temple]

Definitely didn't think to look there

[cyan temple]

I've obviously picked the wrong direction to go in to find a deep body of water in this thing... it's been all day 🤣

[near remnant]

I'm still trying to fix my ship haven't found the quantum computer blueprint :(

[cyan temple]

pretty sure that one was a reward for completion of something... have a loot at the various rewards!

[near remnant]

Yeah but I can't fix the visor to find electric hotspot

[cyan temple]

Ahhh I did it with ||solar panels||

[near remnant]

Didn't think of that that thanks

😀

[cyan temple]

np!

I ended up doing 2, and then doing a carbon one just for the last boost

[near remnant]

👍

Amazing that I didn't think of that I guess I like doing it the hard way

[cyan temple]

It do be like that sometimes 😂

[cedar gorge]

o.o

[cyan temple]

👀

[devout hemlock]

I think I wound up finishing the scanned minerals one when I got to another planet

[fresh jewel]

For me the key to finding all the minerals was looking on a plateau and also finding one or two berried minerals.

Now I've completed this expedition on two platforms (PC and PS4).

[cyan temple]

Last one for me was an underwater ball thing in a cave

[magic glacier]

I tried to cheese around the giant cliff achievement by making a literal stairway to heaven. At 1000 distance up it crashed NMS and I lost two hours of resource farming to make it 😦

What did it cost? Everything.

[lyric pewter]

Ouch. I got the summit milestone after I repaired the ship - just found the highest point, flew to it, looked around, found a higher peak, flew to it, jumped out, milestone achieved.

Then, I jumped off and goosed my jetpack a few times, saw a blue flower on the ground, did a cool swooping maneuver while holding "E" to collect the flower, and used it to fly all the way back up to the mountaintop - that got me the milestone for spending 20 seconds in the air.

[bronze lynx]

check warp list, there might be a base 1320u mountain or something

i made one but don't know if u can see it, maybe somebody else made one as well

[devout hemlock]

Vid or it didn't happen

[lyric pewter]

Well then I guess it didn't happen? I don't have any sort of replay software set up.

Just completed the expedition though - only done Beachhead and Cartographer at this point, but I've gotta say I had a lot more fun with Beachhead.

[devout hemlock]

I like that they focused on different aspects of the game and try stuff you might not normally go for

[royal girder]

if someone i still stuck at exp 3 you can @ me for help

[near remnant]

I liked that this focused mainly on the planet you start on

[silver ermine]

I'm quite stuck at phase3. Can't get remaining two minerals to be able to repair the ship (found one on plaeau one underwater, but two still missing). Any alternative routes besides geologist to repair ship? I traveled for half an hour across the planet to find distress signal to have another ship, but i was not allowed to claim it 😦

[royal girder]

tried caves?

and the floating plateaus?

[silver ermine]

caves yes. Got i think one or two minerals there.

[royal girder]

hmm

i could give you the repair parts tbh

[silver ermine]

floating plateau no, just a very high cliff plateau

ok, will go later to search for accessible flying plateau

[royal girder]

you can just dig up

or build a base below it and staircase up

😄

but i hadn't had much trouble finding rocks

[silver ermine]

ok, will do this somehow. hope there is two new rocks worth it 🙂

[royal girder]

also tiny trick on hills

[silver ermine]

yeah, thanks for the offered help, i just wander if there are no other routes get it - buy blueprints somewhere, or trader

[royal girder]

depends which

you can always get blueprints from factories

or resources like herox from a depot

[gleaming totem]

I know there’s water on this planet because the fauna list has underwater animals, but is there any way to find out which direction it is?

[hot oyster]

Walk downhill, sometimes you need to look for caves, every planet has a water level, that you need to get bellow

[rancid mica]

i can't for the life of me find the god damn 8th mineral to scan

[modest hemlock]

<#nms-legacy-ships message>

[rancid mica]

yep been high been low been caves been underwater. not sure of 'strange land formations' i guess

[magic glacier]

Woop woop on attempt number 2 I was able to build my stairway up to the 1350 mark. On my main save I’m going to see how high I can make a stairway. Something I have yet to try.

[hot oyster]

Go to another planet and scan one

[inner hedge]

Do like me and look for one of those small settlements with a landing pad. The merchant in there will sell you those resonators. Might need to revisit depending how much are for sale. That's how I got around it.

But even that depends where you landed. Some player had put a base computer near one and called it trader, which let me find one.

[rancid mica]

I couldn't leave the planet without herox, and couldn't get herox without finding the 8th mineral. I have found it since however.

[hollow schooner]

well, I didn't think I'd come to this, but can anyone please help me and give 3 sulfid crystals?

I can give umm storm crystals in return I guess

[zinc snow]

I'd help but I'm already in bed however you can find what you seek underwater

[hollow schooner]

duh, I know they're underwater, but I can't succeed in finding deep enough underwater all this time

[zinc snow]

Check a youtube guide since its an expedition someone probably knows a close place

[barren loom]

If anyone's having trouble getting The Hills Are Alive and\ Rocketman, I've set up a base near the Expedition 2 site on a 1325u+ mountain

[quick herald]

Alternatively, select Hills Are Alive and the tooltip will be activated. Then fly around the starting planet until you find a mountain thats above 1325u, land and exit your ship.

[quick herald]

Glowing Minerals can drop Crystal Sulphide, so look for Buried Mineral Formations or Floating Crystals. There's a glitch method to ensure you get more Sulphide from those Glowing Minerals too if you want to know it.

[hollow schooner]

thanks for sharing!

what's the glitch?

[quick herald]

Sec, going to a keyboard so i can type it out

[quick herald]

You need at least 1 Crystal Sulphide (or whatever mineral you need dropped) in your inventory.
You cannot have any other mineral that's dropped from Glowing Minerals in your inventory, so put them in your ship and walk far enough away so your ship inventory is not accessible (or hide them in a refiner, etc).
Split up a random stack of resources so that it block up your entire inventory (for example, 1 silicate in each slot). Make sure the Crystal Sulhpide (or Herox, etc) is also in a slot. Then start analyzing any Glowing Minerals you have. It will give you "Inventory Full" warnings, just ignore them, keep analyzing.
Eventually it will analyze a mineral and put another Crystal Sulphide (or whatever) into the slot where you already have one.

[hollow schooner]

oh yeah I know what you're talking about

thanks

where do I find glowing minerals btw?

[quick herald]

What's happening is the game is checking for an available inventory slot for the item it just rolled. Since you don't have an available slot, it skips that roll and says "Inventory Full".

I mentioned that already above

Buried Mineral Formations or Floating Crystals

[hollow schooner]

oh right, sorry

[quick herald]

no worries

[hollow schooner]

thanks again

[quick herald]

yep

[crisp hedge]

this last mineral is actually killing me! not in a cave, not underwater, where is it?!?!?

[modest hemlock]

@crisp hedge check on top of things like these (and on floating islands too)

[crisp hedge]

youre my hero! thank you ❤️

[crisp hedge]

it feels so good to finally be off that planet!

[hollow schooner]

yeah I can't wait to finally leave it

sigh I really need to find deep underwater asap

[sage wraith]

It looks like this rn but when I find more people im gonna make it bigger

[grand tinsel]

Sweet

[sage wraith]

Very sweet

[cedar gorge]

Sweet

[mossy sigil]

Triple sweet

[sage wraith]

@grand tinsel

[grand tinsel]

I love the way it is going - let's use #nms-photomode-gallery for any more though 😄

[sage wraith]

Oh k thx

[sage wraith]

What's this channel for?

[grand tinsel]

For tips and help on the current Expedition

[sage wraith]

Oh k

[jagged eagle]

Anyone know if there's a way for me to use the save editor to discover all the minerals on the expedition 3 planet? There's no way I'm spending any longer searching for some goddamn rocks.

[modest hemlock]

@jagged eagle did you check on plateaus/floating islands?

[toxic gull]

Unless you can’t yet get off the planet, I need the magnetic resonator which you get from scanning all the minerals, you don’t need them before you fly off.

[jagged eagle]

Well thats why i was trying to get the expedition reward

[modest hemlock]

got no reply, but i'll relink the image that was posted to exemplify what i meant

@jagged eagle check on top of these things <#nms-legacy-ships message>

[cedar gorge]

3 days or so left for expedition
Nows the time to complete it

[winter obsidian]

!exptime

[karmic steeple]

enable Link Preview to see info

Expedition 3 - Cartographers ends January 4 (2pm UTC) in 3 days 19 hours 49 min

Must start new save at least one day before each expedition ends.

Remaining Revisited Expeditions...

Expedition 4 - Emergence
Jan 5 - Jan 19 (2pm UTC)

Completed Revisited Expeditions

Expedition 1 - Pioneers Ended
Ran: Nov 24 - Dec 7 (2pm UTC)

Expedition 2 - Beachhead Ended
Ran: Dec 8 - Dec 21 (2pm UTC)

[jagged eagle]

Any tips for how to find all the creatures? Ive got 9/10

[edgy dock]

have you tried flying to a different side of the planet? or reload your save too. creature spawn sometimes gets annoyingly random. can try underwater if there's water in the planet or caves too.

[gleaming totem]

Def check underwater. If you check the log, it tells you where the undiscovered ones spawn

[near remnant]

Does the list give you any hints to what or where it is.

I normally miss the flying ones that are diurnal

[tepid meadow]

ping @modest hemlock @quick herald @white relic @gleaming minnow

same session. same (wrong) name, different discovered-by.

[quick herald]

sometimes the name is slightly different between platforms

i think its Dice K20 on steam iirc

[tepid meadow]

@quick herald not a platform issue as such. note the discovered-by in the first screenshot. 😄

[quick herald]

not sure on the discovered by part though

[tepid meadow]

(actualy, it seems it was Dice K42 in a different fully offline session (listing me as discoverer) too)

so the name part may indeed be platform specifc. interesting.

[sly geyser]

Hey all, first off happy new year to everyone! I'm having an issue where when I load up my expedition save my game crashes withing the first few seconds, could I add someone on here and try joining up on them and see if that helps to fix it?

[tepid meadow]

would recommend trying the opposite, as in, trying if it works when you load it while offline.

[sly geyser]

Lemme give it a try, thanks!

[jagged eagle]

Guys I need some help how in the world do I spend 20 seconds airborne

I tried jumping off a mountain, it didnt work

[old widget]

build stair on top of a mountain

[craggy oyster]

Well if u dig a hole and walk right up to the end. And hover ur jetpack while facing the wall.. u can hover and complete that milestone/mission.@jagged eagle

[gleaming totem]

Build two walls and a roof, jet pack in the corner works as well

[near remnant]

Was about to suggest that

Or if there's a storm you can jetpack for longer in storms

[winter obsidian]

During high temp. storms - yes

Dunno what kind of storms there are on the expedition planet

[gleaming totem]

Toxic ones I believe

The 2nd rendezvous planet has high temp storms tho

[lime dome]

Im trying to find a high altitude location, does it have to be on the toxic planet?

[quick herald]

Select that milestone, then fly around until you find a mountain where the tooltip says its over 1325u

it can be on any planet too btw

[spiral quest]

hello i'm trying to complete autodiagnostics 3 on the cartographers expedition and cannot for the life of me find an ocean anywhere to get the crystal sulphide 😦 anyone able to offer advice/some crystal sulphide?

[fading pagoda]

Same question here, I'm not sure how I'm supposed to find the crystal, as well as the larval core-

[signal nova]

you gotta find water - might be a long walk. get up as high as you can and look around.

[signal nova]

Laravel core from whispering egg - find an infested building

[modest hemlock]

photo mode can help sometimes, @spiral quest

[spiral quest]

been looking for 3 hours now and made like 8 mountain bases 💤

only water near me is little ponds :/

[spiral quest]

how does one do this?

[modest hemlock]

getting an abandoned building will be easy once you can take your ship to the station

i meant, using photo mode as a drone camera, to help you navigate the landscape, trying to find water

[spiral quest]

yeah i'm a new player for the expeditions @modest hemlock was asking how to turn that camera on

[modest hemlock]

ah sorry

quick menu, camera icon

[spiral quest]

ahh got it thank you 🙂 is there a way to make this move faster?

[modest hemlock]

not that i know of

[heavy nest]

I've been looking for hours to find the 2 last minerals to scan on Dice K42 :(

Can't craft a stupid Magnetic Resonator without that :/

[gleaming totem]

Have you tried: underwater, underground, and on top of the large flat rocks?

[quick herald]

which ones are you missing

[heavy nest]

Akovicheite and Fuettine

[quick herald]

Akovicheite is found on floating islands (and plateaus) with rough rocky terrain
Fuettine, I found this in a basin where there were shallow pools of water, but it was in the grassy area

[heavy nest]

Thanks for the hint

One down, one to go

Found Inamaite instead, near water as well

[quick herald]

did you find the Akovicheite yet?

its very small but theres tons of it

[heavy nest]

Nope, but I got 8 which is all I needed :)

[quick herald]

the pointy ones in the back (pic by bk)

oh cool, congrats

[heavy nest]

Finally off this forsaken planet.

[keen token]

I am having a really hard time finding deep water for crystal sulphide. If I post my latitude and longitude, would it be possible for someone to help me what direction I should head to try to find some?

[native urchin]

Ngl go for a ocean planet

[snow moat]

So I completed the expedition and I went to collect my rewards in my main save. I thought we get to keep the ship from the expedition as a reward. But all there was waiting for me was that egg, some organic deco and fireworks. Don't we get to keep the ship?

[winter obsidian]

The unique exotic you started the expedition with is not a reward

So it doesn't transfer to other saves

[snow moat]

Awww

[winter obsidian]

However, after the expedition ends, the expedition save turns into normal mode save

And you can continue playing that and you will have access to that ship

[grand tinsel]

I want that tech added into the other modes so bad

[snow moat]

😥

[winter obsidian]

Why sad face

[snow moat]

Technically it's called disappointed:relieved that's kinda apt as I am disappointed I can't have the ship in my main save and relieved I still have access to it.

[winter obsidian]

You prolly could find coords for the same model of the ship on NMSCE and get it on your main save

However it won't have the expedition unique tech like the waveform engine or others

[snow moat]

It exists in the main game then?

[winter obsidian]

What does exist? The exotic?

[snow moat]

Oh, the unique tech was part of the cool features. Frameshift catapult

Someone on my stream said we get to keep the ship and it's got the best jump range in the game. They rather mislead me there.

[winter obsidian]

You do but on the expedition save

You won't get it on other saves

[snow moat]

I might have played things differently had I realized but never mind.

[true ether]

WRT folks searching for Crystal Sulphide: Unless I got lucky & randomly picked it up, I thought I got the sulphide as a reward from one of the other expedition missions. Possibly as one of those stones you have the option to "break open" in your inventory for loot.

I definitely did not do any resource harvesting underwater, although I spent hours roaming the sea bottom walking my exosuit to the "nearest outpost" 2hrs away -_-

And anyone having trouble with eggs (Larval Core): You have to use the Roamer's scanner to "Scan for Abandoned Buildings". I don't like the Roamer so when it gave me the bay I totally ignored it. I was happy with jet-slamming across the land in the Mech, didn't know that the different Exocraft can detect different POIs... I had my eggs in 15min once I got in the Roamer.

[sleek obsidian]

I can’t find any deep enough water where vents would be to find crystal sulphide. All that’s around me is mountains and shallow water. Is there any way anyone can help me?

[winter obsidian]

Try mining Buried Mineral Formations and opening them in your Inventory, they can drop Crystal Sulphide among other resources

[rugged dome]

Could someone help me out? I cant find enough minerals to get the magnetic resonator so im kinda stuck

[quick herald]

#nms-legacy-ships message

[rugged dome]

?

Ohh

Akovicheite fuettine paartibe and reibaite