nms-expedition

[ashen shore]

I do recall standing planters and I think it may have been the pillar I looted

was there a royal multitool?

[indigo falcon]

hmm I don't think it has a royal, no, I'd have to go back and check

[ashen shore]

I am running three saves right now (three different platforms) so it all runs together a bit

[indigo falcon]

lolol

[ashen shore]

PC run seems to be a bit cursed... just died to pirates for lack of sodium

[indigo falcon]

ouch!

you gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run 😛

[ashen shore]

haven't had much success with running in this expedition xD

but I'm far from an ace combat pilot

[indigo falcon]

too soon to be able to summon the anomaly I guess? oohhh summon the free freighter instead

[placid dew]

Sodium deficiency is bad for your health, both in real life and No Man's Sky.

[short sierra]

Ok Finished this the freighter was hard glad I had lots of soduim or would have died. Now this ending wants me to do the loops again. I don't need to keep doing loops do I?

[indigo falcon]

please explain a little. what step are you on now?

[short sierra]

ok the picture should say it all

Know I have the option of doing the xtra loops for better gear do I have to do this?

[indigo falcon]

oh!

ok so these are community miestones

[short sierra]

I didn't finish the optional choices. Well merry christmas

ok

[indigo falcon]

everyone together contributes a little

and what this impacts are people spawning in or respawning, for their starting gear, and class of new or unopened memory upgrades

so you can do more if you want to help others, or if you want a bunch of better memory upgrades, but you don't have to at all

you've done your bit 🙂

[short sierra]

Merry Christmas! That expedition was a bit easier at the end had a clear objective.

Almost died 3 times. Thank God I got past all of them.

[toxic mortar]

So, even if you buy blueprints at the anomaly you can't use them. That sucks. Wasted like 8K nanites.

[indigo falcon]

why can't you use them, sorry?

that's how you get the emeril drive for example

[toxic mortar]

No idea, it just won't let me build anything I bought. Even tried reloading.

[indigo falcon]

try tp or warp elsewhere, save-exit-reload, see if that makes a difference?

[toxic mortar]

Ok. I will once I finish this part.

[indigo falcon]

sure sure, no rush, get your business done

[craggy echo]

Ok died trying to get some whispering eggs lol

[fringe agate]

.rip @craggy echo

[azure kindle]

Rip Kit#4118
- Singular Gleam#4977

[meager scroll]

You're having lot of fun with that dont ya

[indigo falcon]

d'oh!

had you broken the loop yet?

[craggy echo]

Nope lol

[indigo falcon]

put some bases?

[craggy echo]

Nope

[indigo falcon]

welp 😄

[craggy echo]

lol all good

What good would bases do?

[indigo falcon]

no need to die again at least!

[craggy echo]

Landmarks?

[indigo falcon]

check the pins, it explains that some things are kept after death

so it would let you e.g. skip all the warping around

skip hunting for abandoned building or such, unless you're already using other player bases for those

[craggy echo]

Yep others’ bases have been very useful

Why did I die so quick to the swarm tho?

[rocky fern]

[craggy echo]

They’re not the least bit troublesome in my main save

[indigo falcon]

this is survival mode settings

hazards and hostiles do more damage

shields and hazard prot take more time to regenrate

[craggy echo]

Ah

I guess I shouldn’t be dealing with whispering eggs and sentinels until I’ve broken the loop

[indigo falcon]

this expedition introduces people to survival/perma levels of diffuculty, among other things

yes, you can put them off until then

[craggy echo]

It’s actually quite good playing at this level of challenge.

Don’t think I can turn my main normal save to this can I?

[indigo falcon]

you might decide that this kind of playstyle is for you, keep the save, and go on to do more of it

you can convert your normal mode to survival except maybe inventory, not sure how that would work

[craggy echo]

Ic

[indigo falcon]

you can certainly increase a bunch of the damage and hazard and hostile settings

[craggy echo]

I’ll check after I finish the expo

On switch so things might be different

[indigo falcon]

settings and levels will be the same for all

[craggy echo]

[vital otter]

the way I got the eggs was on a dead planet when I was using my ship to get some ferrite, spotted an egg, got it and got back into my ship and few off, repeat until I had 3 and all the ferrite I needed

[lusty slate]

For whispering eggs, it's best if you can find an abandoned building with eggs outside. Then you can duck inside the building and snipe the horrors off from the doorway.

I found one by chance, dropped a base there, and then returned after I broke the loop.

[indigo falcon]

there are several different tactics people use. another is: base computer, 4 walls around a cluster, hop in, shoot eggs, if a horror spawns in with you it will be forced out by the game, shoot and collect cores in that cluster, wait for horde to subside, remove walls and bc (I think you need very few eggs this time, one cluster should do)

or yeah leave the walls and bc actually "just in case"

[vital otter]

I didn't even shoot the horrors lol, just got the egg jumped in my ship and flew off

[indigo falcon]

oh yeah, shooting horrors is only if one gets on you and won't leave off

grab and run if ytou're doingit without enclosures

[toxic mortar]

Storm crystals from suspicious packages don't count towards goal.

[indigo falcon]

gotta harvest them from a storm yourself...

[lusty slate]

It's like the grav balls in Blighted, you have to harvest them for it to count.

[toxic mortar]

:/

[rocky fern]

What's the most efficient way to gather a bunch of Larval Cores?
I've tried the hole-diggin' method, but now I usually just tend
to grab one before I leave an area where they are in my ship.
I accidentally shot one while I was inside of a house once,
and the buggers just spit through the walls at me. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[indigo falcon]

you were in a base building?

[rocky fern]

aye

[indigo falcon]

did you take damage through the walls?

[rocky fern]

yeah

[indigo falcon]

huh, that's a bug all right. let me ask this, did you verify that the walls were solid i.e. they had collision, you couldn't walk through them?

sometimes that happens and a save-reload will fix it

[rocky fern]

honestly, I'm not sure

they were certainly there, but I didn't test to see if they actually existed 🤷🏻‍♂️

[indigo falcon]

in those cases the walls don't offer protection

when I put 4 walls (and usually I put a roof too to make extra sure the game knows it is an indoor structure), the worst that happens is a horror might spawn in for a second and then be booted out

you have to buy it, unfortunately

but you can sell off opened memory fragments that aren't useful, to help with that

hmm second community (i.e. optional) goal only at 27%. but there's the whole weekend of people doing the weekend mission, might bump that up some, even over the holiday

[toxic mortar]

So, do I just keep giving polo liquid sun?

[indigo falcon]

if you want to

you only need make 5 donations to complete the expedition yourself

if you want to help out more ("community milestones"), you can give more

[toxic mortar]

Hmmm, I made 5 but the optional ones didn't unlock.

[indigo falcon]

they are community milestones

[toxic mortar]

Ah. Ok.

[indigo falcon]

you know how the community together unlocks qs items at the anomaly? it's like that

you did your bit, all good

first tier already is done by "everybody"

[toxic mortar]

I'm on switch, we don't havve nexus so I'm unfamiliar.

[indigo falcon]

ah! I hope those come to you soon

[toxic mortar]

Ok. I did 2000 sun and 2 of the others.

[indigo falcon]

all you need to complete (and all you can complete by yourself) is the non-optional ones 🙂

[toxic mortar]

Also, completely closing and coming back didn't allow me to build my bought tech.

I csn build the drives, but not launch thuster upgrades, shield upgrades, or hazard protection upgrades.

Those seem to be a waste of nanites.

[indigo falcon]

hmmmmmm

what does it show whenyou pull up the install technology menu for the suit?

these are blueprints, yes? or they are straight up upgrades from the space station vendors?

[toxic mortar]

Nothing.

Blueprints.

[indigo falcon]

and it docked the number of nanites?

[toxic mortar]

Yup. Shows as known in anomaly too.

[indigo falcon]

and just to check, the blueprint is not installed already? because if not, you could document this with screenshots and submit it as a bug

[toxic mortar]

Correct.

[indigo falcon]

showing that it's already bought, the empty menu, the suit with it not installed

!hg

[unkempt kraken]

You can submit bug reports, suggestions or feedback to Hello Games here: https://hellogames.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

[toxic mortar]

Ok I will.

[indigo falcon]

thank you, and sorry you got to live this bug, very annoying

I've not heard similar reports but will keep an ear out

[toxic mortar]

shrug carrying launch fuel and ion batteries is the annoying part.

Especially on a limited ibventory

[indigo falcon]

uranium if you can get it instead of the standard launch fuel

I don't know which is better on survival with the post 4.0 settings though, need to look into that sometime

[toxic mortar]

Once you upgrade to the regarging you don't need anything. Thats what I was going for.

[indigo falcon]

well you sometimes will want it if you don't want to wait around for recharge

"distress signal" (if they haven't changed the name), get 5

that covers all the types you might see, open maps until you get the right one, spam again if amap gives you error, don't go to the 'wrong'locations, just keep opening maps

enjoy!

[sinful aurora]

I hope it works for you, I opened 12 maps before I got the crashed freighter

[indigo falcon]

only open 5

do not go anywhere, just open the 5, if one errors, spam it again until it doesn't

one of those 5 will be the crashed freighter, a map cannot mark a type already marked

ok well that's an option too

nav data on space stations, the blue and yellow cubes and black discs on tables, desks, vendor desks, even the back room

[sinful aurora]

I dont know if mine glitched or something but the 5 didnt work for me. I stayed still and spammed. I finally got one and kept the coordinates for next time xD

[indigo falcon]

just plop a base computer by it in case you need to go back through

don't upload it

[sinful aurora]

Yeah I did that, i meant for next play through. I'll be redoing the expedition on my SOs account

[indigo falcon]

oh, I see!

[sinful aurora]

They want the rewards but refuse to play the difficulty xD

Did the second community quest get finished? I tried adding as much as possible yesterday

[toxic mortar]

facepalm just realized the Activated Emril you get as a reward adds it to the catalogue, which you can use to find an extreme world

[indigo falcon]

second one is not done yet, no

not even 1/3 of the way there last I looked

[indigo falcon]

you can, or there's pins, either way you can get it done

[toxic mortar]

I haven't seen this posted, but if you activate a swarm on a derelict then run out the main airlock it causes the swarm to disappear.

Also some festering pustules respawn.

[indigo falcon]

I have heard that if you tp out they despawn, but have not tried it

[patent canyon]

One thing which surprised me - I teleported to a Sentinel boundary base, turned sentinels off and left the place on foot. Meanwhile I forgot to take some ammo crates. And when I returned back some time later, they didn't despawn. I expected them despawn the moment I have left the place.

[toxic mortar]

Yup, saves A LOT of headache.

Also, if you pop too many nests the Switch struggles.

[indigo falcon]

I just go into slomo for those, I gotta admit

[plucky bone]

merry merry/happy holidays ganggg ❤️

[toxic mortar]

Just donated 3000 dust.

[cobalt tide]

Got my eggs nerve wracking

[toxic mortar]

What is?

[cobalt tide]

Getting whispering eggs

[toxic mortar]

Get 1, then walk inside the building and wait.

[lusty slate]

I still have a few days off with nothing but cleaning to do (I'm alone this year, all my family is out of state and I get panic attacks driving long distances). I might just solar ray grind a bit and turn some more liquid sun in to Polo if I get bored. 🙂

[short sierra]

Does that help the community?

[lusty slate]

Yup. Turning things in to Polo is what increases the community bar.

[short sierra]

Great I can feed the animals.

bored! Got to work tomorrow

[indigo falcon]

don't open the memory fragments you get from Polo now, wait until later, when more community tiers have completed, and they'll be higher grade

[vital solar]

oic

[broken solar]

What do I need to do to finish this?

[vital solar]

do you need the emeril drive to reach AP2?

[fringe agate]

Yes

[fringe agate]

It's community driven. Contribute by giving one of the three research items to Polo.

[vital solar]

damn, 2000 nanites

[broken solar]

So essentially I do not need to finish these to progress through the expedition like in others right?

[fringe agate]

Correct

[toxic mortar]

Found a system withing jump distance of AP5 with storm crystals. Building a base w/ both crystals and eggs.

[short sierra]

seems like metric to measure # of players in redux.

[short sierra]

couldn't find none of the galaxies with storm crystals from the pins. Thank God a player had a base with storm crystals in name. On PC is there a difference between console and PC planets or galaxies?

[indigo falcon]

no

all discoveries are cross platform

[cobalt tide]

So what happens when I get portal glyph set should I use on portal at Apple 2

Anchor point 2 that is

[serene kettle]

If you're having a hassle getting Whispering Eggs, you can dig a hole under the group of them, then hit them with the Mining Laser. The eggs roll down to your feet and the bugs that pop up to defend them can't get into the hole to hurt you. Just mine them one at a time and be quick to pick them up, since they disappear pretty fast. Then, just wait for the bugs to "time out" before you get out of the hole, so you don't have to deal with them.

[slate drum]

How I supposed to get to anchor point 2

I need emeril drive

[indigo falcon]

just put a base somewhere near (don't upload) so you can get back to it later if you want to. for example, to do a known easy derelict

[indigo falcon]

gotta buy it for nanites. consider selling memry fragments, once unpacked, that you don't need

[short sierra]

Captain Steve video on Youtube shows you that trick. I would just build walls around the nest and they can't shoot or kill you. But far to much a waste of time.

I fly up to the tallest building and hide up top. Then when they are gone steal a egg.

[cobalt tide]

I marked it with a beacon so I only need for easy derilict

[indigo falcon]

put a base computer anyways

somewhere on the planet

but better yet, right near the save beacon

in case something Bad Happens the base remains, save beacons, I'm not so sure about

[serene kettle]

That's how I end up taking out a bunch of Sentinels, as well. Dig a hole, aggro them, then they just hover above you. You can funnel them, so you only have to deal with one at a time.

[short sierra]

robot dog stay away from will go down in the whole and kill you.

[cobalt tide]

I just went to a pillar anddeactivated and got both

[serene kettle]

Still, only have to deal with the one, and those are pretty easy to take out.

[short sierra]

Tired the scatter blaster in the whole vs dog and it kills me pretty fast.

Does the ninja disappearing act.

[serene kettle]

I've never liked the scatter blaster. I usually use the Pulse Spitter or the Boltcaster.

[short sierra]

thanks for the tip. Might be game changer.

[serene kettle]

Pulse Spitter is really good, if you can get that early on. Really accurate from medium to short range.

[short sierra]

close order combat is what you end up with 90 % of the time with 5 on 1.

[oblique wharf]

Does anyone understand how the optional milestones work? I’m trying to close loop 2. I keep giving polo those ingredients but the % for tier 2 progress doesn’t move

[lusty slate]

It's a community effort. It's requires a massive amount of donations from everyone.

I'm currently working on a shelter for my storm crystal base as the planet's storms are pretty nasty. Will uploade when everything's sorted.

[indigo falcon]

the way we unlock new quicksilver items at the anomaly, as a community? same thing for these milestones

if you go to the #bot-spam channel and type !tier you can see how far along we are in the current one

btw quicksilver missions count towards that too I believe

so everyone doing the weekend mission moves the needle a tiny bit too

[oblique wharf]

Ahh okay thanks!

[candid token]

So I just gave polo 5,000+ somnal dust and it only went up like 1% 😢

[lusty slate]

There might be a daily cap.

[final bridge]

If you finish this expedition and jump to a new galaxy, do you get the permadeath achievement?

[meager scroll]

Aparently not, you get the survival achievement

Once the expedition is finished, this game save converts to survival mode, not permadeath

[lusty slate]

Okay, just uploaded my storm crystal base (user name Tanina). Here's a pic and system/planet details. Hopefully, it'll show up in visited systems lists. The storms have wall of flames, so the base computer is in a shelter above ground.

It's closest to the Anchor 1 system.

[candid token]

If you travel to a new galaxy while still in the expedition what happens ?

[final bridge]

Good question

[indigo falcon]

still survival I'm pretty sure

this is not true permadeath

[atomic ether]

So glad to be done with that expedition! It seemed like most of the POI were on top of a mountain.

[ocean gorge]

How do I satisfy Partners in Time? Do I just need to collect either more liquid sun/ancestral memories? I’m at 2 of 5 for Polo. I don’t want to do a derelict until I must do one, because I’ve never done one, and I don’t want to risk losing all this progress

[indigo falcon]

give 5 times to Polo, it can be all one thing and the same thing each time or a mix, whatever you want, you did 2 so 3 to go

[ocean gorge]

I don’t have enough, so yeah, that’s what I meant, I need to go collect more of either liquid sun or ancestral memories. Got it👍

[indigo falcon]

yep, whichever or both as you see fit.

[hot blade]

So how do I use this solar ray thing? Polo just lists materials he wants

[pastel star]

the solar ray, when equipped with override the terrain manipulator when you dig up resource deposits, such as copper

[hot blade]

Ah resource deposits

[toxic mortar]

Building my end of expedition base....may have gotten carried away....

[candid token]

Well your base will not ever run out of energy

👍

[toxic mortar]

Lol yup.

[ocean gorge]

What does this mean “you can safely run the derelict for Shattered Past it only has jellyfish” I never have run a derelict I have no idea what that means about having jellyfish

Do I need to go farm dioxite somewhere?

Will it be cold?

I don’t even have a cold protection tech module

So I guess dioxite wouldn’t help

[zealous nest]

@ocean gorge when the Jellyfish start screaming, RUN

[ocean gorge]

Run where? I’ve never done one of these

Is there a video walkthrough for a jellyfish derelict for those who never did one before?

[indigo falcon]

ok so

the kinds of hostiles that can be in a derelict are:

1. security drones. these look like sentinel drones but they are tougher

2. turrets. these are automated items at fixed locations with a sweeping light. if the light catches you or you shoot at them, they open fire.

3. infestation (bugs) these are from nests of goo, shoot one or move near one when it is lit, and the bugs burst out. any one of them is easy to kill but there can be several in each, and they add up to do you harm. then eliminating them after is a right pain in the... ahem. anyways

4. jellyfish. these are green glowing floaty things. nice and large, easy to see, shoot with mining beam and they are easy to kill. do not let them come to you, if they touch you they do decent damage which can add up

of these, finding a derelict that just has jellyfish is a great thing, you can shoot them all when you get in a room, go find the heater and stand next to it, then loot that room drifting back to the heater as needed. repeat for all other rooms (and of course read the logs, interact with the terminals, etc)

that is all.

[ocean gorge]

How do I make sure I get a jellyfish one

[indigo falcon]

go to a known one with jellyfish! a system derelict always has the same hostiles every time

so use your portal glyphs you got in phase 2

use some base you put near one of the anchor points (you did, right?) and go back to the portal

enter glyphs for a known safe derelict, go there, select the milestone, pulse, and it begins!

[ocean gorge]

I got glyphs, and I have bases for all anchor point worlds, but is there a specific series for the glyphs to enter

[indigo falcon]

there are a number of known 'easy' derelicts, one is in the pins, others are on the subreddit

etc

[ocean gorge]

This one?

[indigo falcon]

when you see a coordinate address in glyphs, you must put the glyphs in the order of the address

so here: bird bird spaceship baloon etc

that order

[ocean gorge]

Does it matter which portal you use as your starting point?

[indigo falcon]

nope, any portal will go to the same place with the same address

[ocean gorge]

Yeah, it’s sort of a rip off of Stargate lol, using a dial home device 😂

[indigo falcon]

now portals do not work across galaxies so if I have an address in e.g. eissentam and you use a euclid portal, you'll end someplace else. but always the same someplace else, anyone using that address in euclid would go to the same location.

[blazing jetty]

For the 2nd expedition how do I easily get an emiril drive?

[indigo falcon]

I've heard people make the stargate comparison often enough

[indigo falcon]

gotta buy the blueprint at the anomaly. but

[blazing jetty]

bruh its a lot of nanites tho

[indigo falcon]

you can open memory fragments and sell off the ones you don't want

that will help fund it

[blazing jetty]

o

crap

[ocean gorge]

It is, they really could’ve just give us the emeril drive

[indigo falcon]

they could have

[blazing jetty]

imma just use all of my exocraft ones and sell

[indigo falcon]

you can always give more liquid sun or whatever to polo and get more, sell those too

[ocean gorge]

Are these jellyfish kind of similar to those underwater jellyfish that spawn when you mine stuff underwater, I mean the looks of them

I have a scatter blaster, I don’t have a boltcaster installed, that should be ok, right?

I could make a boltcaster if I need to

[indigo falcon]

you don't need even a boltcaster, the mining beam will be just great

bring condensed carbon 😛

[ocean gorge]

What for?

[indigo falcon]

this is what I mean that they are easy, lemme find you a pic

[ocean gorge]

I’ve got some condensed carbon because it’s needed for all the friggin warp cells this expedition costs

[indigo falcon]

https://cdn.fanbyte.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/nms-derelict-freighter-guide.jpg?x48911 here

you might see several in a room, just shoot each one from a nice distance and that's it

they cannot hurt you unless they touch you and they do not zoom around or anything, they move slowish

[ocean gorge]

What’s the condensed carbon used for tho

[indigo falcon]

to recharge the mining beam 😛 you don't want to run out part way and then 'oh crap'!

I mean yes you could just leave the derelict but meh

[ocean gorge]

Oh, I got 500 condensed carbon rn

[indigo falcon]

especially if you're doing this for phase 5.

you're all set

[ocean gorge]

What do I need from the derelict as a minimum? Some somnal dust?

[indigo falcon]

loot everything. if you run out of room in the suit, toss stuff that's not as valuable, keep the dust, keep any security creds you get from logs.

hmm if you get nipnip buds that could complicate things so I would toss those too (contraband)

[ocean gorge]

How do you leave a derelict

[indigo falcon]

there are teleporters in several rooms, you activate them as you see them

at the end, last terminal, activate that one, do your business, get on the teleporter (these are ths hort range ones)

and it sends you to near the airlock. walk out, go to ship, leave.

[ocean gorge]

Enemies don’t respawn right

[indigo falcon]

not in derelicts no

you kill 'em, they dead

loot every container that is lootable. ("scavenge" it will say over the interaction symbol. that's basically all ther eis

oh and check the crate at the entrance too.

let us know how it goes!

[toxic mortar]

Just checking. Anything we name planets and animals disappears after the expedition, right?

[indigo falcon]

uh no

discoveries are shared across all modes

and they are permanent unless ods is busted, which it often is

[toxic mortar]

Ok.

[indigo falcon]

so you name something a silly name, that's it. and everyone will know that you (because it says who a planet or creature or mineral etc was discovered by) gave it that silly name. forever. 😛

[toxic mortar]

Hehe.

[indigo falcon]

if the names stick (ie. someone else didn't discover before you and their upload supercedes yours) then that's what everyone in all of nms will get. forever.

[ashen shore]

Honestly can’t imagine a more unfun mechanic than loosing everything if you die

Died one system after anchor 3

While collecting storm crystals

[toxic mortar]

It ends after you complete anchor 5. So just plow through them then go back.

[ashen shore]

No way… no way did it get rid of all the mile stones I’ve done

That’s actually it. I’ve never had so little fun in this game

Wasn’t even happy before I died. Just wanted to get it done.

[harsh niche]

so the universal loops

do I have to personally finish it

or is it a team thing

[ashen shore]

No

Team thing

[harsh niche]

okay so just log into the save again before it ends gotcha

[ashen shore]

Unless I piggy back off someone else I’m so tempted to give up

What’s so special about the leviathan anyway

As apart from the ship trail that’s all I really cared about

[harsh niche]

it's just unique looking

same as the normandy

[ashen shore]

Right.

[harsh niche]

it's not especially good in stats and you'll end up feeding it at some point anyway

[ashen shore]

So it’s a piece of biological junk

[harsh niche]

no it's a collectible

[ashen shore]

If I need to put in that much work for it I’ll just get a modded to give me it

[harsh niche]

if you don't want to collect it then like.. don't

[ashen shore]

I have already dont all the work

[harsh niche]

you cannot give frigates

[ashen shore]

I know

But eventually it will probs be possible for one to do it

[harsh niche]

probably not

[ashen shore]

Right

Welp. Unless anyone has completed it/ is getting close and is willing to take me on a quick taxi service im@gonna give up

[harsh niche]

a taxi likely won't help

since only one mission per set even requires warping

[ashen shore]

Yeah but it’s the fuel

• going to locations

• knowing what planets can help

[harsh niche]

people cannot Taxi you to planets

[ashen shore]

• fire power

[harsh niche]

you can only be taxid to a system or galaxy

[ashen shore]

I know but they can taxi straight to the systems that have what I need

So a taxi to anchor 1,2,3,4,5

Etc etc

[harsh niche]

or you could just warp youself

[ashen shore]

Don’t have the fuel

[harsh niche]

make it

it's not hard

[ashen shore]

That takes a lotta fuel

And time

[harsh niche]

if warp cells are holding you back maybe you're not ready for expeditions friend

[ashen shore]

The first 2 pages of chalanges are so annoying I’m giving up

[ashen shore]

I’ve done 3 already

[harsh niche]

they're incredibly simple tasks

[ashen shore]

It’s not that it’s an issue

It’s just another added annoyance

[harsh niche]

it's literally a part of the game

[ashen shore]

So?

[harsh niche]

so deal with it or don't do the expedition

[ashen shore]

It’s still an annoyance when my ship guzzles it

[harsh niche]

it takes 30 seconds Maybe to mine what you need for a warp cell

this just sounds like you don't want to do the expedition

[ashen shore]

That’s exactly it?

[harsh niche]

then don't

[ashen shore]

I wanted the leviathan

So I was putting up with it all

[harsh niche]

obviously you do not

[ashen shore]

I do other wise I would have given up days ago

[harsh niche]

typically people who want something are willing to perform simple and mundane tasks to get thing

[ashen shore]

And I was

Until I found that page 1 and 2 are extremely annoying

[harsh niche]

then you Did want the leviathan

also past tense

[ashen shore]

I did

Now I’m not sure if I care enough due to the time lost

I don’t have enough time to play all of that again

[harsh niche]

then don't

but no one's gonna do it for you best you'll get is advice

[ashen shore]

Yup I know

[indigo falcon]

you don't feed it, this is not like the organic frigates.

[ashen shore]

Just a bit pissed off I died due to the most stupid reason too

[harsh niche]

then how do you repair it

you have to die to complete the first set

[indigo falcon]

any chance you put down bases at any of these?

[ashen shore]

Would have lived but the weird hit box on my ship meant that I hit the tail

[ashen shore]

Only on the infested

[indigo falcon]

it cannot be damaged ever. it can fail a mission like the Normandy but it cannot be harmed.

[ashen shore]

Do bases carry over lives?

If so I’ll give it one final shot

[indigo falcon]

yes, please take a few minutes and look at the pins, especially the one about getting things done, and the one about persistence after death

these will help you a lot

[ashen shore]

Thanks

[harsh niche]

you only Have to die once tho

as far as I know

[indigo falcon]

I know how it feels, putting a bunch of hours in and getting reset. happened to me on anchor 4 first time through, after 14 hours.

[harsh niche]

there are 3 hidden objectives

[indigo falcon]

techinically one can get this done with one death, that's not the fast way so it's not the way described in the pins, players who want more of a challenge/grind can do a run that way though.

[harsh niche]

it's easier for me

since miltiplayer causes the game to Explode in fire

[indigo falcon]

yeah I basically never do these in multiplayer, though many people do

[harsh niche]

I Would

[ashen shore]

Wait so should I just make a bee line for every anchor?

Because that breaks the loop right?

[harsh niche]

but last time I couldn't approach rendezvous without crashing

[ashen shore]

I could in theory just use the portals so warp there

[indigo falcon]

all of phase 1... all the graves... all of phase 5.

[ashen shore]

So just phase 1 and phase 5 + graves?

[indigo falcon]

like it says. and any milestone that the reward is helpful and it's easy, if you like.

[ashen shore]

Ok

[indigo falcon]

this is absolutely why you put down bases at anything useful. abandoned building for eggs later? check. crashed freighter? check. etc.

[toxic mortar]

That's why I put down my storm crystal and egg base. Plus there are 2 radon towers and a magnetized ferrite tower.

Hopefully they help people.

I got lucky I found those hotspots together. People can make tons of uranium.

[indigo falcon]

sweet!

[toxic mortar]

The cool part about those two is they make uranium (launch fuel), then Uranium + Di-Hydrogen = 2 Condensed Carbon.

And 3 radons = Nitrogen. Nitrogen + Magnetized Ferrite = Sodium Nitrate.

So, Fuel, Carbon, Sodium. One stop shop for most charging.

[indigo falcon]

nice!!

[soft kiln]

ngl this expedition was kinda boring

got done with it within the first like 3 hours

[toxic mortar]

I struggled witg materials and inventory space.

[indigo falcon]

you could try going back through with increases to the difficulty settings, there are several that can be made tougher

you could also set some constraints for yourself, like "don't sell memory fragments for nanites, get them by othe rmeans only" or whatever

[soft kiln]

already on it lol

but good idea with the constraints

[soft kiln]

it was definitely the most annoying part

[indigo falcon]

so what did you think about the narrative (without spoilers please)?

[soft kiln]

it was pretty interesting

its my first time playing through the expeditions so its pretty fun seeing other things that you can do whilst doing the tasks

[indigo falcon]

🙂

[ashen shore]

Whoever set up a nip nip base on the first planet love you

Got done with 3 of my things on one go

[indigo falcon]

bear in mind that you are getting a condensed version, with some milestones reduced to let people get it done in the shorter timeframe.

[soft kiln]

damn

:/

[indigo falcon]

it's the only way they can rerun the year's expeditions all together

[soft kiln]

it makes sense though

so they can make the timeframe shorter

[indigo falcon]

yup

[soft kiln]

hope 1-4 will come out in 2023

[indigo falcon]

I would guess not. if they hold true to form (based on two data points but oh well) we'll see 9-12 and then a rerun of those late in the year

[soft kiln]

so 1-4 will never be back?

[indigo falcon]

hm only 42% of teh way through the second optional. well maybe by the end of the weekend

[indigo falcon]

I would guess not. But I'm not an HG dev to know for sure

[soft kiln]

fair enough

lets hope so

i want my golden fighter jet lmao

[iron radish]

theres plenty of systems that have half gold half white fighter jets that imo look better

[indigo falcon]

save editor, mods, or get someone to trade one to you , you can fix the class and tech later

the golden vector has not the greatest stats tbh, so it's really about the looks anyways

[soft kiln]

ho

oh

i thought it was good lol

[iron radish]

does it even compare to an exotic

i know the hyperdrive doesnt in the slightest

[indigo falcon]

I mean it is an S class ship and you can get it on every save as soon as you reach the anomaly, so for that reason it can be helpful

[soft kiln]

then how can i get an exotic?

[iron radish]

3 star outlaw systems

best chances

[indigo falcon]

exotics spawn into every system with roughly the same chance

there is no such thing as a three star outlaw system

[iron radish]

ok outlaw systems then

[indigo falcon]

economies of outlaw systems are not rated, they are simply "black market"

iirc the chances are slightly better there but not much

[soft kiln]

then how do i know if its an exotic

is it visible or do i have to check them

[indigo falcon]

there are two types of exotic, the 'ball' type, with tall top fin or without, and the 'squid' type

they will of course be S

when they come in they have a very distinc and loud landing sound

[iron radish]

looks exotic

[indigo falcon]

different than all other ships.

[soft kiln]

ooh okay

thank

[indigo falcon]

you can see on the pads two of the ball type with short fins in this pic, at a distance

[iron radish]

if its an exotic itll look like a variant of this

[soft kiln]

oooh

they look pretty cool tbh

[ashen shore]

Just confirming, I only need the emeril drive once right?

[indigo falcon]

yes, for the one green star planet

[ashen shore]

Ok thx

I’ll use the portal for that

[indigo falcon]

or 0 if you have a base there already

[iron radish]

stats are pretty good too

[soft kiln]

sheesh

[indigo falcon]

I presume that is after a full set of upgrades etc

[iron radish]

yes

but base stats are still s class across the board

[ashen shore]

Nope I don’t

[iron radish]

dont need to sacrifice anything

[ashen shore]

That’s what I’m making sure to do this time

[indigo falcon]

put one this time.

[ashen shore]

Almost finished with page 1

[indigo falcon]

great!

[ashen shore]

Just need the grave

Sorry for actually like a brat lmao

[indigo falcon]

you were frustrated, I get it

on the original run, the hell planet was anchor 4

[ashen shore]

Not a great look 😆

Yeah anchor 3 was AWFUL

[indigo falcon]

extreme weather, extreme wind events (cyclones), sheer cliffs near vertical for maximum chance to fall, and aggro sentinels

[ashen shore]

Yup

[iron radish]

i was trying to get storm crystals on that planet for like an hour

[indigo falcon]

imagine you get 1-3 done and some extra from 4 then die at ap4 grave. I mean...

[iron radish]

im so surprised i didnt die

[indigo falcon]

and it killed a lot of players

[iron radish]

the derelict got so many people

it was the biggest curve ball

[ashen shore]

My tip for those planets

Dig

[indigo falcon]

if you don't know how to prepare, it can definitely get you

[ashen shore]

Nothing is stopping you from landing and just digging the entire way

[pastel star]

derelict almost got me this run

[iron radish]

materials

[indigo falcon]

some players did try to tunnel right through mountains to get where they needed (but someplayers hit bedrock too.... always a catch :-P)

[ashen shore]

I did that

[iron radish]

@ashen shore yea just an fyi when you get on the derelict do not try to fight the bugs

[ashen shore]

Should have seen me, other players even joined in

[iron radish]

and if the sack starts to pulsate stop moving

[ashen shore]

Yeh I know

Don’t hit the sack or they get angry

[indigo falcon]

have a pile of batteris and some gels and you'll be fine

[iron radish]

i started blasting and then realized i couldnt kill them so i reloaded

[soft kiln]

man

i just got muted

for calling a planet "amongoose"

bruh

[iron radish]

good

[blazing jetty]

Anyone know where to find storm crystals

i can't find any extreme worlds lol

getting them from suspicious packets or friehgter wont count ig, you have to physically collect them

[iron radish]

#nms-expedition message

[indigo falcon]

do check the pins in here, they have a bunch of useful info (like a link to a couple storm crystal worlds)

[blazing jetty]

Im a ways away, im right at the 5th milestone system

[iron radish]

i was in the same situation

finish the expedition and then do the storm crystals last

use the anomoly teleporter to teleport to either the systems space station or one in a nearby galaxy

[ashen shore]

Woah… my frames have just tanked

I’m on a pS5???

[indigo falcon]

this is why you go to space stations in each anchor point, so you can get back to the system fast (besides buying suit slots)

[ashen shore]

That was so strange. Did nothing out of the ordinary other than get the call of the void challenge done during a fire storm on anchor 1

[indigo falcon]

recovered?

[ashen shore]

Yep

Got out my ship and ran a few feet to the right

And all went smooth again

[indigo falcon]

weird

[ashen shore]

Yeah very

In fairness there was a TON of creatures

• crazy terrain

• players

• fire storm

So I guess that’s what did it in?

[indigo falcon]

multiplayer I have definitely seen frame drop even without storms, in mp. too many creatures and it can all go sideways

[iron radish]

ive noticed it gets really bad when theres 5+ people in a system and all of them are at trading docks

npc ships really take a toll on frames

[ashen shore]

Page 1 done! again

[blazing jetty]

Bruh I found a activated cadmium extreme storm planet, no storm crystals

i stg

I guess if it has aggro sentinels and grav balls the crystals just dont spawn

[indigo falcon]

it could have, I think anchor 4 might have had them in the original run

[ashen shore]

HAHA YES

Past me was a genus!

[indigo falcon]

oh??

[ashen shore]

I built a base on an infested world that had preditors

And it was only one stop from anchor 2!!£

[indigo falcon]

excellent!

[ashen shore]

That’s the bit that really annoyed me, the trip from anchor 1 - 2 was annoyingly long for me

I’m much happier now

Heh. It’s actually easier to go for the max level hyper drive then the one I need

[indigo falcon]

well do that then 😛 😄

[ashen shore]

Wait.

The game was taunting me

I have activated

Is it possible to deactivate it

[indigo falcon]

no

[ashen shore]

Hard way it is then

Guess who is putting a base on a red star

[indigo falcon]

good point

but also put one on ap2 and you never have to warp there again!

[ocean gorge]

Uh, I don’t know how to enter a portal address.
Do I need to charge all the glyphs? The easy derelict portal address two of the same glyphs at the beginning, how am I supposed to enter two of the same glyphs at a portal?

[ashen shore]

Actually that’s just a all together better idea

You need to charge all the glyphs

All of them

And after the portal let’s you input the code

[ocean gorge]

Ok thanks

[ashen shore]

Anytime

[indigo falcon]

it's like entering letters from an on screen keyboard only it's the glyphs, enter one 12 times if you want

[vital otter]

something fun happens if you put in the first glyph 12 times
don't do that now mind, just get the expedition done but bear it in mind for normal play

[ashen shore]

Now I’m interested

[broken solar]

Can somebody suggest an easy system to get the storm crystals? I haven't managed to find a single system with activated metals so far

[indigo falcon]

be interested later 😄

see the locations pin in here for a link to a post about storm crystal worlds

[ocean gorge]

Uh, I haven’t entered an address yet. Is it supposed to say this?

[vital otter]

you'll want to chose activate portal

[ocean gorge]

You activate it BEFORE you enter the address you want?

That doesn’t make sense to me, so I’m just checking

[blazing jetty]

Fellas I'm trying to locate the sentinel pillar but the map I was given keeps locational interferencing on me

do i have to force it by going to wanted 5?

[sly pond]

@blazing jetty Youre likely in an uncharted system - charts cannot work there

[vital otter]

get this planets address just gives you the portal glyphs for the planet you're on
activating the portal is the 'on' button

[blazing jetty]

bingo

[sly pond]

(No Space Station/affiliated race = Uncharted)

[blazing jetty]

I knew i was in an uncharted system

just didnt click that charts dont work lol

[sly pond]

Signal Booster works

[ocean gorge]

So now that I went through the portal, do I just pulse around to find the derelict with the jellyfish?

[indigo falcon]

select the milestone, pulse, and wait for the encounter, yeah

[ocean gorge]

A Shattered Past, right?

[indigo falcon]

yes

[ocean gorge]

Tysm for all the help

[indigo falcon]

let us know how it goes!

[ocean gorge]

Hopefully smoothly xD

[ashen shore]

Anchor point 3 here I come

Inn doing so I’ve almost finished page 2

All I need is either the freighter or the optional one

[ocean gorge]

Unstable container, open or no?

If it spawns enemies I’d like to leave that shut

[ashen shore]

No

Actually wait

Yes

But only if your super close to it

And low health

definitely won’t explode

[iron radish]

DO NOT

[ashen shore]

^^ this guy

This guy learnt from experience

[ocean gorge]

I looked it up. Yeah they explode, I’ll pass

[indigo falcon]

unstable container explodes, leave it alone unless you want to stand a ways away and shoot it to damage some hostile by it

[indigo falcon]

waiting to hear back from @ocean gorge ..maybe real life intervened.

[toxic mortar]

Or maybe they got exploded.

[hot blade]

Will the quad egg count for one of the expedition milestones?

[indigo falcon]

as what?

which milestone?

[ashen shore]

Probs the preditor one

In which case probs not

Think someone tried it with the horrific egg one and didn’t work

[indigo falcon]

the horror has traditionally worked for it. but in any case a non hostile to players creature on the starter world works

its info is in the pins

[ashen shore]

Yah

[hot blade]

Yeah the predator milestone

Ok

[cosmic quail]

Does anyone still play no man’s sky a lot on ps4?

[indigo falcon]

seems like plenty of folks

I got to get some sleep now soI'll be back tomorrow, hope to hear how Shadow Echo's derelict went. 'night!

[cosmic quail]

Well is it worth buying the game? I don’t want to play it alone

[ocean gorge]

No I made it, just went back to my freighter to make the flute
The derelict wasn’t too bad, but the suspense about gave me a heart attack, just waiting to see where there’d be enemies😬

Have a good night apergos

[ashen shore]

@indigo falconcan't find your base again so far, so I think we can assume NMS is working as intended

[vital otter]

and Leviathan is done!
that's me done for expeditions this year too as I caught Polestar first time round
have fun everybody!

oh and don't forget to spend any qs you get on expeditions, the things you buy will be available on all your saves

[lusty slate]

Did non Switch players get QS?

[lusty slate]

As long as they're not consumables.

[hot blade]

Is there any reason not to take just any ol freighter on this expo?

[lusty slate]

You have a freighter already by default when you start.

[hot blade]

Ooofles

[vital otter]

I did the weekend mission on my expedition save and then one milestone gave qs too

[lusty slate]

How much did other platforms get?

[hot blade]

The one I rescued is better tho?

[lusty slate]

I mean, if you can afford to swap it, I don't see why not.

[vital otter]

I'm PC and I got 1800
no idea about other platforms

[hot blade]

Oh i have to pay😢

[lusty slate]

Cool. Just curious, I know from Blighted that the Switch QS reward amount is different to compensate for the lack of cape.

[vital otter]

I think switch does get more because they don't get the cape and also can't do nexus missions

[hot blade]

It’s a sad existence

[lusty slate]

We got 6000 from Leviathan.

[vital otter]

what do you have to pay for?

[slender tulip]

Yo how do i get a hermetic seal

[lusty slate]

Die. No, really.

[slender tulip]

Damn thanks

[lusty slate]

It's a milestone reward for dying once.

Just in case you think I was being rude, whoops.

[slender tulip]

Oh

[vital otter]

one of the milestones gives you 6 blueprints and I'm pretty sure hermetic seal is one of them

[slender tulip]

I Got kicked from my save tf

[lusty slate]

From getting killed?

[lusty slate]

Not from that one, that gives you others like the solar mirror. Hermetic seal blueprint is from dying.

[slender tulip]

Yeah

I lost my progress too

[vital otter]

gotcha, I knew you got it from somewhere

[lusty slate]

That's part of the expedition. Were you early on? The starter planet?

[slender tulip]

Yeah but still

[lusty slate]

Leviathan is a survival/permadeath hybrid expedition.

You will lose almost all progress when you die, but a few specific things remain. You'll have to play very carefully.

[vital otter]

Leviathan is like a roguelike where if you die it's sends you back to the start and you have to redo the milestones
there's useful info in the pins but a good tactic is to beeline the 5 graves, put down bases on every anchor planet and do your best not to die apart from the one needed for that milestone

[lusty slate]

You do HAVE to die at least once for a milestone, which rewards the hermetic seal blueprint to fix your ship.

As for what actually carries over. Here:
#nms-expedition message

[warm frigate]

I never actually died in this expedition other than the one time where I had to

If I had died and lost all my progress I prolly wouldve quit nms forever

[clever wren]

hello, sorry for not reading the pinned post, im trying to avoid spoilers. I have a question, are these polo missions compelted by everyone playing the expedition? That means that by the end of the expedition it's more likely we will complete it ?

[hot blade]

On switch we give him materials and it’s pretty much a solo thing

He kinda acts as a gacha, giving different value rewards for different materials

Question:
Does this expo reward the personal refiner or should I go ahead and buy it?

[placid dew]

Personal Refiner? I've completed the entire expedition and I haven't received any Personal Refiner as a reward, neither blueprint nor pre-packaged.
While you can just unlock that blueprint in the expedition (at ten times the price), you can also be lucky (like me) and find one in a Memory Fragment.

[hot blade]

Right
Buying it then

[placid dew]

Speaking of expedition, I've got tons of Emergency Signal Scanner from collecting and submitting dem dusts. I wish I could transfer these items to my other main save, since those scanners are expensive.

[hot blade]

Use the ebr trick and never buy a scanner again

Step 1
Acquire the daily free scanner from Helios on the anomaly Buy scanner from scrap dealer for 5 million woolong

Step 2
Scan for freighter

Step 3
Land on freighter and put the scanner in your personal refiner

Step 4
Unseal the door. Wait for door to be unsealed.

Step 5
Move scanner back into inventory only after handing the log and manifest in

[clever isle]

Can anyone help me with the expedition its only my 2nd

[hot blade]

I call it my five step plan

[summer karma]

Do we start out with a C class freighter in this expedition? Thought I was going to get my free one but only had the option to exchange.

[hot blade]

Yes there is a C class starter

[hot blade]

@placid dew
Read dat^

[placid dew]

Okay....
But if you don't have the active scanner, won't the option to unseal the door be greyed out?

[hot blade]

Lemme ask you this
Have you followed those instructions and had that happen?

[placid dew]

No....

[hot blade]

Well…

[placid dew]

I'll try that, then.

[sly pond]

@hot blade Helios no longer gives out free EBRs, and you needed to complete a derelict before they began handing em out anyways lol

[hot blade]

No more freebs? Whack

So it’s a 5 million woolong buy in?

[sly pond]

Also, you cannot remove from Personal Refiner as early anymore, I wait til after handing in Manifest and Log, though I've seen reports one can do so after taking off from the derelict.

[hot blade]

Oof so you gotta keep it in there until you hand everything in welp
@placid dew
Read DharhanWulf’s addendum to my five step plan^

[placid dew]

I still have my scanners in my inventory, and the units to purchase one, I can do it.

[hot blade]

How long ago did they patch it?

[sly pond]

@hot blade 4.0

[hot blade]

Ooofles

Wait a minute tho

It was one of the first things I did on switch

[sly pond]

May work differently there, else it was temporary between patches

[hot blade]

I distinctly remember it working because it was the same time I discovered somnal dust mining

#nms-media message

[finite rover]

hrm. is it possible to heal yourself through means other than getting lucky and finding med kits?

[pastel star]

build a base with a health station?

[ocean gorge]

How do we do the whispering eggs? I tried it in a regular save the other day (someone said just stand on top of the abandoned building and you’ll be safe from the horrors, which worked very well, but after shooting the whispering egg with the mining laser from up there, it didn’t collect anything so what gives)

[pastel star]

when whispering eggs break, they drop a small green glowy ball called a larval core

[ocean gorge]

There’s no way I want to be on the ground with those things. One of them ran into me and sent me flying 300 u away

[pastel star]

so you have to quickly swoop one and get out, people recommend digging a hole underneath, i just never had much luck with it, they get in the hole

best luck ive had is to break an egg on one side of the building so they spawn in, then try and harvest real quick on the other side since there usually isnt many or any spawned on the other side

[ocean gorge]

This stupid expedition just WANTS me to die I swear

[pastel star]

it does give us plenty of milestones that are intentionally possibly game ending for sure

[finite rover]

that is the point of it. :/ :)

[ocean gorge]

I’ve finished the phase 1 and 5, so at least it’s not supposed to be as bad if I die now, right?

[finite rover]

you start over

[ocean gorge]

But keep my milestones is what I read

[finite rover]

I haven't.

[ocean gorge]

#nms-expedition message
According to this pinned message, since I’ve broken the loop, I keep progress even if I lose my items

[finite rover]

but with the eggs, shoot with the mining tool, grab the egg and run like the dickens.

[finite rover]

oh. ok.

I died before completing a phase.

[ocean gorge]

Yeah I did too on PS5, I’m doing this on Xbox as a trial run, seeing if I can make it thru, it’s such a pain in the ass. The people at HG who designed this expedition should be fired lol

Ok maybe not that extreme, but something tortuous xD

[rocky fern]

Phew, I just finished Phase 5. This Expedition only took me about twenty-four hours!
||I'm glad I happened to have several stacks of Carbon on me and I'd just made about fifty Ion Batteries right before doin' that last Freighter. ||

[iron radish]

if i do the expedition over can i get the 1800 quicksilver again

seeing as its a consumable

[rocky fern]

Maybe if you do it from scratch with a new character. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[iron radish]

why not

would be fucking dope to be able to pump out quicksilver like its worthless

[short sierra]

weekend nexus mission 1,800.

[iron radish]

i just did like 8 missions they all only gave 400

3rd iteration has to be completed

@short sierra also do nexus missions compile

like if i go 4 days without doing them does that mean i have 12 available missions

[short sierra]

Well you must have done the weekend special.

weekend event at Nexus is every weekend

[ocean gorge]

All I need now (other than the optional ones which are community-bound) for my Xbox One save is storm crystals

[finite rover]

couldn't find medkits so I bathed in the blood of sentinels until I was healed.

[scarlet ocean]

[finite rover]

hahahaha. my life support is damaged. EXCELLENT. :)

[finite rover]

don't knock it. it works!

I was down to 1 pip and now I'm back to 7.

[iron radish]

just popped up

oh yea i already did that on my main save

i can do it again through the expedition tho?

[finite rover]

nice of the anomaly not to fully materialise.

[finite rover]

does it matter if I don't gather somnal dust?

[rare raft]

one of final items in game requires it to craft, you can ignore it until then

[ocean gorge]

I’m going to wait until there’s some pinned places for storm crystals, not feeling like searching them out rn, I’m exhausted. What a day

[winter whale]

there is pinned places

[ocean gorge]

Not for storm crystals

[winter whale]

yes for storm crystals

[rare raft]

there a couple pinned, but near the start of the expi, otherwise can try to find some when on the long multi jumps on way to another anchor

[ocean gorge]

Oh ok, found it. Maybe tomorrow

[finite rover]

poop. my derelict mission vanished. :(

[rare raft]

you outta get another one later on, wont have to pay for one, but 5m near the end is do-able if you have to buy coords

[finite rover]

we'll see how it goes

[hot blade]

Am proud to report EBR trick still works as expected on switch

[still siren]

Second anchor point needs emirl drive, any easy way to get that?

[fleet meadow]

Yeah; search for community bases that offer nanites from mould farms or whispering eggs from abandoned buildings.
There's at least 2 mould farms in the very first system iirc.
Grind those out until you can afford the bps from the anomaly; doesn't take too long.

Alternatively, you can get the solar ray from one of the expedition objectives then just grind out liquid sun for the mods, then sell the mods for nanites.
Either way works, the liquid sun method just takes longer. [Oh, and ancestral memories too.]

[vital otter]

if you can find all creatures on a planet that gives a nice nanite bonus too, more creatures means bigger bonus but even the planets with just 1 creature will get you 250 nanites
just scan as you go as you're doing stuff on a planet

[indigo falcon]

need storm crystals? see the locations pin in here for a link to a post with two such worlds and how to get there

[toxic mortar]

Also go to the starion portal and look at bases people made.

[steady ridge]

does phase 2 anchor point normally require an emeril drive or am i just unlucky?

[indigo falcon]

it does and you are just as unlucky as everyone else that is doing the expd 😄

[craggy echo]

Which type of buildings sell blueprints again…?

[indigo falcon]

minor settlements have tech vendors, markets at settlements have them, and there's one at planetary (colossal) archives too

[toxic mortar]

Be warned, you may not be able to build them all if you run into the same bug I did.

[serene kettle]

Is there any way to get carbon without a mining laser or refiner (since I need carbon to fuel it)?

Completely out and can't see a way to get some.

[meager scroll]

Punch plants with melee

Q on PC, dunno how on controllers

[serene kettle]

Thx.

[fringe agate]

RB

[serene kettle]

Can you summon the Death Star thing from the first system or do you have to jump first?

[toxic mortar]

First system.

[finite rover]

nice of the game to keep giving me warp hypercores

[atomic laurel]

Would anyone be willing to help run me through the expedition this week?

[placid dew]

Right now? I can.

[remote thunder]

have you seen the pinned posts? 🙂 but sure, whatever you need to ask, feel free

[placid dew]

I wonder how many somnal dusts I need to submit in order to move the Tier percentage (not the whole bar percentage) by 1%?

[meager scroll]

I think there is a daily (?) limit on amount of stuff you can give to Polo

[placid dew]

What?! Then I've wasted hours of my time collecting them dusts!

I guess I should give others them dusts, then.

[vital otter]

before this expedition I always wondered why the goo mounds in derelict freighters said they gave somnal dust when they actually gave you runaway mould
now I know

[placid dew]

Why does that happen, if I may ask?

[vital otter]

leftover from the expedition I guess
you do a derelict freighter in the normal game and the mounds say they give somnal dust but when you shoot them you get runaway mould
I always wondered what somnal dust was

[golden condor]

Yeah they should have done something like they did with liquid sun. Make a mod for the multitool so that it doesn’t get mixed with normal play

[meager scroll]

Over time some of the items that were previously expedition-only made their way to other game modes

Eg. worms and their drops from exp 4 can be found on infested planets in any mode now

But the stuff the community wants most - unique starship tech from exp 3 and Singularity Engine for freighters from exp 8 - are still expedition only

(they do carry over once save converts to Normal mode)

[indigo falcon]

you will all have to run a derelict in phase 5 so you'll get your own somnal dust regardless

(as far as gifting it to people goes)

[hoary willow]

What are and what do expeditions do?

[finite rover]

a5 system at last. the end is in sig*dead*

kidding :)

[indigo falcon]

.rip @finite rover

[azure kindle]

Rip Hogarth#3538
- apergos#5337

[toxic mortar]

If you punch them they still give dust outside the expedition.

[unkempt kraken]

Expeditions 101

What is an expedition?

It is a community event run during a specific time period. For the revisited expeditions, each one will last two weeks. Every player starts with a fresh save, in the same planetary system and usually on the same planet.

Each expedition has five phases, each consisting of multiple milestones you must accomplish. You can do these in any order, except where a unique item is required from one before doing another. Each milestone gives rewards to help you on your way; each phase gives rewards that can be claimed on all saves later, as can the reward for completing the entire expedition.

Why play expeditions?

You can get special rewards that are not available through other means; bragging rights; exposure to new content or new aspects of NMS gameplay that you may not have encountered; each expedition usually has a fun narrative and/or lore.

Where can I get more information?

See [Expedition Tips](#bot-spam message) for more!

contributor: apergos#5337 shared by: apergos#5337

[finite rover]

I feel like I'm about to do something truly stupid and just plain die

[hoary willow]

O

[finite rover]

hopefully nothing happens like on the initial expedition where I got to a4 mid-extreme storm, got picked up by a cyclone and smashed against a mountain and died. All before I could go wtf?

[indigo falcon]

crossing fingers on your behalf. we've already given you the tombstone as insurance so now you shouldn't need it, right?

[lusty slate]

I hate cyclones.

[finite rover]

it'll be a good place to rest once I finish the exp :)

[finite rover]

I, also, take issue with their existence.

[lusty slate]

My very first experience with them on main was getting abruptly lifted into the air and smashed like a pancake.

[finite rover]

My first experience with them was at A4 in the initial release of this expedition. Imagine my shock and surprise and the astounding level of "wtf just happened?" :)

[turbid compass]

If i use tainted metal on emblems and stuff in an expedition, would it carry over to my main save?

[finite rover]

hahaha. a base name of "A5 S" violates the profanity filter. I can see why but still funny. :)

aaaaaaaand crash. woo

[indigo falcon]

the items you buy from the scrap dealer that are not consumables (so decal and such) are claimable on other saves, or at least they were last time I looked.

[indigo falcon]

still with the crashes? how's phase 5 treating you?

[turbid compass]

Aiight. Just wanted to check to know if tainted metal on expedition is worth it.

[indigo falcon]

sure, if you can get it with relatively low risk

[fleet meadow]

Leviathan Expedition complete!
Also just learned that quicksilver-bound items you purchase on one file get unlocked for all your saves, so I went back to the Blighted file &, combined with this journey's earnings, got almost all the visual customizations I wanted.❤️

[indigo falcon]

yes, quicksilver items other than consumables are account-wide 🙂

[fleet meadow]

That makes me really happy.
It's still not as good as being able to do Nexus missions for QS, but it's better than missing out entirely.
Got the nice armor set near the list's bottom, finally. Looks so much better than vanilla garb.

[indigo falcon]

glad you're enjoying it! and yeah I'm pretty sure the reason switch players are getting the extra qs bonus from expeditions is exactly that 🙂

[fleet meadow]

Thought so.
I've seen some posts claiming you can also find small bits of QS in "ice asteroids", but so far I haven't experienced that, so I'm assuming that's yet another source Switch players can't access.

[indigo falcon]

these are called "stellar ice", they are a pulse encounter, and one of the 10 things I guess it is that they can drop. I fhey do drop it, it's 100 qs, so small amounts. some people farm that by going to known systems where that is a fast pulse encounter, save, pulse, and reload-pulse until they get the right drop. then leave, come back, repeat... very tedious.

switch players can encounter this, it's just rare

[fleet meadow]

Stellar ice... is it those blue chunks inside the giant skulls?
Because I get a "gift" from that encounter each time, but no amount of shooting breaks the blue chunks inside the skull.

[indigo falcon]

no it's not. although those are nice too

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/nomanssky_gamepedia/images/1/1b/Condensed_stellar_ice.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20200717205330

looks like that

[fleet meadow]

Hmm, guess I haven't encountered that yet, then.
Neat; guess there's still more to find then.

[vestal spruce]

Anchor point 2 is located in a green star system? Where do i get the emeralt hyperdrive?

[pastel star]

have to buy it from the anomaly

[vestal spruce]

OK, so i have to get nanite clusters first

[pastel star]

yes

[indigo falcon]

you can sell off unwanted opened memory fragments for some

[finite rover]

oh boy.

that derelict mission was... interesting.

[indigo falcon]

get through it ok?

[finite rover]

yeah. down to 2 pips from 8 :)

[indigo falcon]

oof!

[finite rover]

but I'm pretty sure I got all the things

seriously. prep yourselves ppl. bring the sodium and the ferrite dust. bring ALL the sodium and ferrite dust :)

[indigo falcon]

batteries and gels

[finite rover]

also

(good)

luckily I didn't need oxygen

never fix a broken life support :)

[indigo falcon]

lolol

[finite rover]

does it matter what I do with the normal derelict pickings?

[indigo falcon]

nope

[pastel star]

i almost got it from the derelict cuz my brain stopped working, kept trying to use "E" to use the last teleporter and thought it was broken and i wasnt going to have enough stuff to get out, was slightly stressful

[finite rover]

like the crew log etc?

cool

[indigo falcon]

sell for tainted metal, why not

[finite rover]

I get mixed up teleporting. kept bouncing between two points trying to get out and figure out where I am whilst I had no shields and thermals had gone :)

that, too, was slightly stressful :)

also things were shooting at me. very "ffs!"

[lusty slate]

I just portaled to the pinned derelict system because I was kinda over the expedition at that point.

[indigo falcon]

how did it work out?

[finite rover]

1122 somnal dust a decent haul?

[indigo falcon]

quite nice

keep 32 of them at least

[finite rover]

i'll be spending on polo last :)

[finite rover]

yaay! :)

[indigo falcon]

you'll get a bunch more signal scanners that way for more derelicts if you want them

[finite rover]

not until dying stops being deadly :)

[indigo falcon]

sure!

[finite rover]

flute sorted. whee. good thing I was paranoid about the worth of that stuff.

[indigo falcon]

yay

so close now

[finite rover]

best time to fumble it :)

[indigo falcon]

made a restore point yet? 😛

[finite rover]

eek? :)

eek!

it dumped me

ffs. I hope no one with an aneurysm or a weak heart plays this.

[indigo falcon]

lolol

crash?

[finite rover]

it dumped me out of the game!

[indigo falcon]

better go load the save

[finite rover]

I did. got the quest. but jesus.

[indigo falcon]

😄

[finite rover]

I almost died!

[indigo falcon]

you should have seen some people on the first runthrough

anyways...

congrats!!

[finite rover]

thanks :) just gotta feed polo now and it's all done. :)

[indigo falcon]

good good!

[finite rover]

oh. and find a damned fish in the south ;)

thanks for the fishing pole. fish found. :)

[indigo falcon]

you're...welcome? 😄

[finite rover]

aaand polo's been fed :)

*dance* :)

[serene kettle]

For added info, the planet Loydon K25 in the Starting System, counts as an Infested Planet for the achievement to build a base on an Infested World (huge sand worms traveling the planet). There are also Whispering Eggs along to ground, easy to find and harvest.

[indigo falcon]

yep, any of the anchorworlds or the starter planet will do

[finite rover]

how weird. just picking up the rewards I didn't pick up and one of them contained the plans for the ||whaleflute||.

[indigo falcon]

lolol

a glitch in the ||simulation||, I won't tell if you don't

[finite rover]

sure sure. after all this I'll roll with it. ;)

[indigo falcon]

go claim all that stuff on your regular save now!

[finite rover]

I have more to feed polo. for the cause!

crap. anomaly misrendered.

[indigo falcon]

booooo

anomaly being anomalous

[finite rover]

lets see if it does it again.

yup. it's insistant.

i'll feed polo tomorrow

[indigo falcon]

go to another system, feed there 😛

or, like you say, take a break

[finite rover]

it's 3am. :)

[indigo falcon]

tier 2; 66% oof

[finite rover]

and that took me 27 hours to complete. how's that for mucking about? :)

[indigo falcon]

if you enjoyed it, then it's just fine!

[finite rover]

except for the first 8 hours (where I died 4 times) yes. :)

I know I was supposed to die only once but I wanted to get it /just right/.

[indigo falcon]

practice makes perfect? 😄

[lusty slate]

I haven't had a single anomaly rendering problem. One good think about the Switch's anomaly ghost town.

It's going to be so weird if we do get MP. It's going to feel crowded lol.

[indigo falcon]

it will! and you too will be able to experience the "stuck mid-landing, can't get out of my ship" bug!

[finite rover]

Exactly!

[lusty slate]

Joy!

[indigo falcon]

@lusty slate you didn't tell me how the pinned derelict was

[finite rover]

Had that happen once. It was an experience!

[indigo falcon]

had it happen multiple times. I make sure not to go there with mp on for anything important, ever.

[lusty slate]

Oh, the pinned derelict was a breeze. But I stacked up on batteries a bit before. A2 spooked me and I landed somewhere near afterwards and hyper prepared.

[indigo falcon]

another happy customer!

[lusty slate]

Barely had any problems aside from mountain scaling after A2

[indigo falcon]

ok sweet

[lusty slate]

And the worst sandworm scare on A4. I actually posted that to nms-media, it was crazy.

[indigo falcon]

they do well with the jump scares, that's for sure

[finite rover]

I believe that was when I simply decided to turn MP off. The universe is lonelier as a result but a lot less salty which is good for its arteries.

[indigo falcon]

I put it on for special events and that's it

[lusty slate]

#nms-media message

I have no clue how I didn't plummet in terror and die. None.

[indigo falcon]

I can't play the video with discord via the browser it seems, but I will take your word for it!

[lusty slate]

Summary: sandworm jaws flying right towards my face and barely missing me.

[indigo falcon]

😄

[lusty slate]

Like, I know they can't actually attack you, but geez.

[indigo falcon]

the cake may be a lie but the jump scares are real

[misty rivet]

Where can I find some storm crystals

[indigo falcon]

the locations pin in here has a link to a post with two storm crystal worlds and how to find them

[misty rivet]

Where's the pin

[indigo falcon]

alternatively, player bases visible in the teleporter at any of the anchor point space stations may have them

uh it's in here with the pins

are you on mobile?

it's the 'locations' one

[misty rivet]

Ok and idk we're that is in this chat like how long ago did y'all post em

[indigo falcon]

the pins. like

swipe to move the messages screen to left. then you should see a screen with the pin icon among others, hit that.
you might be able to click on the channel name at the top to bring the pins and other icons screen to view too.

those.

[misty rivet]

I can't find the systems the map is to big

Any portal cords possibly

[ashen shore]

Does the anchor point 3 system have storm crystals or is it in another system

[misty rivet]

Yea can't find shit with those pics any portal cords please I have ADHD can't sit here and look threw systems all day

[indigo falcon]

ok so, do what the post says

go to anchor 1 space station

[misty rivet]

I am

[indigo falcon]

check discovery tab, look for either of those systems in the list

[misty rivet]

And guess what still couldn't find it

[indigo falcon]

find it, set custom waypoint

you should have a huge pile of systems you didn't visit

[misty rivet]

But thanks so helpful not really

Yea not going to spend a hour looking threw systems

[indigo falcon]

well, try player bases then at the teleporter, that will be faster

[misty rivet]

Like that's why I'm asking for help

But your talking to me like I'm stupid