nms-expedition

[wraith venture]

If you upload it, other players are still able to report it, so it can be hidden/removed from their save.

[silent radish]

Neato

Well i won't be using it too long

Also wooo walking across this planet to get 14 Copper lmao

what does parafinnium refine to?

Walked a thousand units

And I see copper

A thousand units away

[wraith venture]

Ouch. You haven't unlocked the exocraft geobay yet? I highly recommend it. Can go a lot faster than walking Make sure to read the tips in our pins. There's a mention on how to most efficiently use the exocraft.

[silent radish]

I just wanna make the damn ship station

I should have taken the extra time to make a geobay on this planet

Wait wait

[wraith venture]

Check this tip: <#nms-expedition message>

[silent radish]

There's parafinnium deposits all around me

And I have ion batteries

And metal plating

[wraith venture]

Nice

[silent radish]

Wait that's useless now because I'm 1000u away from base

Im gonna see if I can get to the Copper before my life support fails

[wraith venture]

Make sure to have enough metal platings at ALL times, especially for your geobay which you can dismantle each time you spawn your exocraft so you can build it again on the other planets

[wraith venture]

best of luck! you can always dig a hole and cover it if you need to recover. and you can also build tunnels to protect yourself from hazard to make it to your destination(s). a little time consuming but it could help during times of need

[silent radish]

Damn life support offline

I am digging through a mountain now

Aww still taking damage

Ill make sure to leave the hole before I die so it's easier for the next version of me to find

[wraith venture]

If you ever need to recover your health, you can eat plants if you find any nearby. The oxygen bit is the pain since you can't craft the oxygen support gel away from your base

for next try, do make sure to read that pin i mentioned above.

[silent radish]

Yeah

Aand I died

A couple hundred units away from the copper

[wraith venture]

i'm sorry

[silent radish]

Gen 5 boiii

Ah crap

No longer have ion batteriee

I'm gonna sprint to my body

Get copper

Get as far back as I can before I die aga

Repeat

Fuck

This Copper deposit has already been mined out

But there's another 800u away

That one is also moved out

Wait no I got like 20 copper

Neat

[lunar dune]

yes. didnt help complete the phase

[silent radish]

God damn it I need to scan a flying animal but there aren't any here

[wanton frigate]

It knows you're looking for it. Do something else, ideally during the day, and he'll fly over to figure out why you're not watching the skies 24/7!

[silent radish]

I'm currently going around in a nomad

I got flipped over by a sentinel that flew into me

And still no sign of anything in the sky

[silent radish]

Wandered planet 5 for several ingame days

Found no sign of any avian wildlife

Uncommon / flying /dinural

That's what it says

Uncommon my ass

It straight up doesn't appear

I have a recipe pinned but it's overridden by this compation egg screaming at me to open it

I am tempted to drop the fucking egg

[undone oyster]

Lol I saw all of the animals within like 5 minutes of landing of the planets

[silent radish]

I haven't seen anything fly on planet 5

[undone oyster]

I heard bird sounds and i looked up and saw them

[grand lodge]

yeah the bird was the last one I found but I did find it

[stiff jackal]

My biggest issue was hunting down those stupid plants

Or or

When i wanted to craft

[surreal cargo]

I thing the hardest thing about this expedition waa having enough copper to finish it

[stiff jackal]

But i was a foot away from my base so it just goes “sowwy you’re a moron who cant do this away from home 🥺”

[lunar dune]

copper was all over on the first planet

[stiff jackal]

You need an ungodly amount of copper

[lunar dune]

i just teleported from other planets to 1 when i needed more

[surreal cargo]

I couldnt find any copper on the first planet. I finnaly after an hour found a deposit with 800 copper. Then whenever i needed copper i would dismantle my gear slowly removing stuff to resume the expedition

[stiff jackal]

Normal base computer: 30 chromatic metal

Utopia base computer: 200

[lunar dune]

i didn't dismantle anything, had like 5 bases or whatever

[surreal cargo]

The whole expedition took me 4 hours. Which tbh felt weird to me as i have only done Pioneers and beachhead before which where both beefy expeditions

[stiff jackal]

After i beat the expedition and it threw me into the normal game;

It didnt reset the recipes lol

[lunar dune]

i left them for others labeling them "Planet Name - Safe Base with Teleporter"

[stiff jackal]

My current base is a reference to the expedition

In name

[surreal cargo]

I find it funny how in the main game you can cook the expedition food from the tendrils yet the recipe is nowhere

[stiff jackal]

I think my base names were all lazy

One was just a cylindrical room with a bunch of floor panels under it. Named it “the can”

The base on the volcano planet “hot box”

[surreal cargo]

Honestly i didnt give my bases names. I was just "speedrunning" this to go back to the main save. A save where i have 10000 chromatic metal

[stiff jackal]

The only one which i liked was the last base, which i built into the side of a hill like a hobbit. And i named it “finale hill”

[surreal cargo]

My first base was the only one like a house. The rest where just flooring and some walls here and there

[stiff jackal]

Immediately after beating Utopia

I got the “under a rebel star” quest-line

[surreal cargo]

Btw Fricc. Since you finished shouldnt you grab the utopia role?

[stiff jackal]

“Screw helping people i dont know. I want to rob people i dont know”

And i honestly thought i did

[surreal cargo]

sighs i wish my pc wasnt broken for as long as it was. It still hurts knowing i missed on 6 whole damn expeditions

[lunar dune]

I missed them all except this last one and I'm a day 1 player

[surreal cargo]

Oof

Tbh i am glad though i got to play the first one and be a pioneer

[lunar dune]

and this one considering its the first i'm really trying, i have to re-do to get the fauna again since it bugged, idk if I'll do it again or not

[stiff jackal]

Utopia’s reward is really good

Which feels weird given its the easiest exp ive done so far

[lunar dune]

its just a game, idc tbh about "one-time" items and stuff, I'm just in it to finish it, then it'll be uninstalled again lol

[surreal cargo]

I was not gonna do this expedition at the start. When i started utopia i accidentally broke my base. I gave up thinking the 4 in 4 weeks was days and by knowing beachhead and pioneers being huge i gave up. Theeen saw 1 hour speedruns and came back to check on it which made me finish it

Tbh i dont really care about the rewards. Its the experience that i like. I mean hell If it was the rewards about half of them you can get from other players. Even special ships. Just have a friend willing to make a new save just to "trade" you the ship through an npc

[lunar dune]

that's cool, i've tried to keep up with game events and stuff, but there's too many out there, I felt anxiety trying to do them all that I really wanted, so when I gave up one game (farm togethers holiday events) it was a huge burden off my shoulders and it allowed me to play games for fun again instead of feeling that need to be a completionist. Not yucking anyones yum, just for me having exclusives or timed rewards diminishes the games value

[stiff jackal]

After the “blighted” exp this one felt really weak with experience

[surreal cargo]

How was blighted? I really wish i could be there for it

[stiff jackal]

Blighted basically had you speedrun to the center of the universe

[lunar dune]

it was more important on this expedition that I created a cool safe base for others, so if you were running from aggressive sentinels on that one planet, and saw "SAFE BASE" you could hide out lol--- that was my fun

and i saw some cool player bases that helped me along the way

[stiff jackal]

I personally liked it.

Free Freighter, lots of space fights. Mid exploring cause some of it was underwater but whatever.

Plus you get a cool cape for it

[lunar dune]

meh, the only way I'll get the reward if they fix the bug for players who've already completed it, i'm not going to create a new character and walk back and forth from my ship several times on the 1st planet

i did everything else

and i'm 20/5

or 8 or whatever

[surreal cargo]

Btw may i say that i think nms got an update that let you drop the graphics more or something? Cause i have the same pc from when i started playing(it broke but everything was replaced with identical parts) and compared to when expeditions first came out my experience is much different. Like. Back then my game wouldnt load planets due to my gpu and i had to hover for 5 minutes. Now there is just some slight slowness and the game is perfectly enjoyable for me

[lunar dune]

I wish they'd optimize VR

[surreal cargo]

Tbh i dont really fare about vr. I just want to play the game 🤣

[stiff jackal]

Idk if letting you make the game look worse would qualify as an “update”

[lunar dune]

I have a 3080, i7, 32gb RAM, NVME SSD and it takes 5 minutes to load and then runs at 3FPS unless at low

[stiff jackal]

I play on a ps5

[surreal cargo]

I play on a laptop that barely runs the game

And it is an upgrade being able to drop the graphics. Cause people who cant afford a hardware upgrade can still enjoy the game

[lunar dune]

kind of expected on a PC game at least

i know its ported, but PC players would have a fit if it didn't have settings

[surreal cargo]

Due to my situation i appreciate games that let you downgrade them. Unlike some games that focus only on upgrading graphics. I literally stopped playing games i was a regular on cause i cant run them any more

[stiff jackal]

Nms used to run pretty bad on ps5 but some update seemed to optimize it pretty good

I barely get lag anymore

Colors dont glitch out in the character customizer

[surreal cargo]

When did the update happen?

If it was around 2 years ago or sooner then an optimization update throughout the entire game would explain how i play more stably

[patent canyon]

I tried Nomad exocraft today.... And it's finally fixed.

[quasi copper]

You have to exit and re-load the save for the base computer recipe to change back to normal. At least, that's what did it for me.

[green igloo]

Did anyone have the experience that, during expedition, it's much more likely to randomly encounter a Derelict Freighter (the explorable kind, not the "2 floating piece of cargo" kind) while moving around in star systems, without needing an Emergency Signal Scanner?

[rain nova]

Apparently on Aggressive Sentinel planets, the sentinels guarding a supply depot do not attack on sight and there are no other sentinels nearby

I know because my base assignment was next to a supply depot on the third planet, no sentinel attacks near my base

[green igloo]

Apparently they are a different kind of Sentinel. I have seen the same thing happened with sentinels guarding a factory.

[boreal crag]

!exptime

[unkempt kraken]

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[minor laurel]

Has anyone else come across a Living Rock on the starting planet of the Utopia Expedition? I've had one squeal, pop up and run away twice now, once on my Switch and once on my PC

[fringe agate]

Yep, I did

[jagged sedge]

I have! It made a squeal and started scuttling away

[fringe agate]

Ferrite thief

[jagged sedge]

[flamethrower, please]

[silent radish]

leave planet to visit station

return

base signal not visible

Oh piss off

The word troll isn't banned is it?

Gif

Tenor

View

.com

Really?

[stiff jackal]

I think its just gifs in general

Not sure

[silent radish]

Then why won't it fucking say so

"Language prohibited" my ass

Also mother of god not only can I not find any flying animals but I also cant seem to find any gas hotspots

After I finish this actual living hell of an expedition I'm gonna take a break from this game

[stiff jackal]

Yeah this expedition honestly sucked lol

It was. Just chores

Literally JUST. Chores

“Make a base. Pick berries. Cook food. Build thing. Use thing once.”

X100

I beat it and the reward is really nice. But its just so boring imo

[cobalt shore]

I LOOOOVE the Utopia Speeder 😍

[stiff jackal]

Its a really nice ship

It lives up to its name, its fast as hell

[cobalt shore]

My least favourite expedition was 5 but the jetpack made it really worth it 👍

I think 5 was worse

[stiff jackal]

I liked Blighted. I love the outlaw cape. And fighting pirates was fun

[cobalt shore]

This one was pretty ok

My favourites were Emergence and Leviathan

Most people hated Leviathan

[stiff jackal]

I can look like the most basic traveller ever 😎

[short sierra]

Utopia seemed to be one of the shortest. Guessing most of the play styles I know how to do.

[grizzled thunder]

I’m currently on gama and being slaughtered by sentinels, is there game over when you die?

[short sierra]

Dig a hole and build base underground. Did most of the planet by walking around all underground.

[cobalt shore]

I finished it in one evening

[short sierra]

Mine was like omelet. Everything was mixed up. 6 hrs.

[silent radish]

Perfectly parked

Welp stuck in this position

Time for yet another fucking restart

If it failed to save after I made that warp cell I will scream

It had to make another warp cell

And I once again cannot fucking move my ship after getting airborne

My head is beginning to hurt

So to summarise

[lucid spoke]

Having an error where my game crashes when I try to start the expedition

[silent radish]

Three objectives left

Can't complete any of them because of this broken game

[lucid spoke]

Can start my other saves, but not the new expedition.

[silent radish]

Is multiplayer enabled

[lucid spoke]

I can’t even start the freaking expedition! It crashes as soon as it gets into the Initialize screen.

Ever since Waypoint I’ve been having multiple issues with performance and crashing on this game.

[silent radish]

Yeah this game is amazing but the devs don't seem capable of keeping it stable

[plush idol]

how do expiditions work?

im on the switch and im finally able to do nexus missions but idk what the expidition is

[silent radish]

You create a new save and it gives you objectives to do

[plush idol]

also why is everything black and red when i land on a planet for the mission

ohhhhh

[silent radish]

And some rewards from them are available on all saves

[silent radish]

Some planets are just sort of like that

Also worth notnf

Notinf

This expedition will make you want to cry

[plush idol]

coolio

[indigo thistle]

EXPLAIN, why did i start in a lake? is this normal?

[ionic birch]

its could be possible and its could be a bug

[indigo thistle]

I found it funny so it's all good

[ocean gorge]

It starts you in a random place on the planet, but ideally that should be on land. Your choice. You can proceed from where it put you, or you could quit and delete the save and then try starting the expedition again as a new save to see if it starts you on land

[indigo thistle]

that was a second run through

[ocean gorge]

You’re not the first one that got placed in water for the expedition. It sometimes happens😂

[frank scaffold]

i made the first planet and making the second one
the base computer was really expensive

[wraith venture]

it's happened to me i find it funny too. especially cuz one time i was able to walk on water

[wraith venture]

yeah, base computers are very expensive in this game

make sure to read all the tips in the pins

[grizzled thunder]

What happens when a sentinel kills you? Do you have to start over or do you respawn at last save?

[wraith venture]

you spawn with a grave nearby (but not exactly where you died, not sure where that'd be if in space tho , may have to inquire more in #nms-questions). and you gotta get your stuff back from that grave, that was lost in your inventory upon death.

it's most convenient to not die. and if you think you're about to, as long as you've got a recent enough save, you can close the game before or as the words about your death show on the screen i know, super cheatie, but it's a workaround if you don't wanna deal with the death and inventory loss hassle.

[grizzled thunder]

That be tough to retrieve my stuff, I had to jump into a volcano to finish the second planet 😂

[wraith venture]

aww did you die? cuz technically you didn't have to. were you able to get your stuff back from your grave?

[ocean gorge]

You only have to skirt the top of the volcano, enough to take heat damage

There’s some tips in pins, including ones about putting most stuff away in ship (or nomad, since it has lots of inventory slots) just in case of this happening (death in volcano) so if you do die, you don’t lose out on much so there’s less to retrieve, or worst case, you can’t find your grave…

[wraith venture]

maybe we need a repeat in here with a reminder to check the pins

[ocean gorge]

It’d be cool if there was a rotating timed reminder from Gunter in expedition channel that pointed people to check the pins for useful expedition stuff, if that could be done

Like how Gunter appears in the general channel from time to time

[glass stump]

Question on the Phase 2 milestone to climb to the crater of a volcano. Is there a way to do this and not die? Tried 3 times, and have died all three times so far.

EDIT: I see the note above an will go and look at the pins
EDIT #2: Pins answered my question. Thankis

[wraith venture]

[teal cove]

As I was hunting larva worms

It seems one of the parents didn’t take to kindly to my slaughter of its kids

[unkempt kraken]

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[atomic cave]

Do you have food? Specifically food and cakes that give you a hazard recharge?

I jumped into the volcano caldera and jetted my way out of that , but had the path already shosen before jumping in.

[shrewd pollen]

Are there any NPC pilots in the expedition? I'm at a trading post but no pilots are showing up.

[ocean gorge]

The Utopia system is abandoned

Won’t find any pilots

[shrewd pollen]

Yeah, I was thinking it was a lore reason

Makes sense

[wraith venture]

@remote thunder Sorry to bug you, do you know how this expedition's conversion works out? Does it auto-convert as soon as you finish the last milestone? Or do you have to claim the final reward before it converts? I want to make sure my expo doesn't convert in case I need to help someone at some point...

[remote thunder]

you never bug me. i had all milestones, all phase rewards claimed when i went to claim the ship at the end. when i claimed it, went through the process of adding it to collection, and immediately got the "you've completed the expedition, conversion is happening" dialog (player only gets the "Accept" "choice" though. side note: iirc in at least one of the past exps player could right click/exit out of this dialog but it would still convert)

[wraith venture]

Ooh good to know! Thank you! So as long as I don't claim the statship I should be safe, right?

[remote thunder]

yeah

[timber delta]

Silly question: Does anyone know if there are Colossal Archives on the Utopia paradise starting planet? Like after you finish the expedition.

[wraith venture]

Did you try checking our Pins There's a list of coordinates for points of interest. I think that could include a colossal archive from Phase 1 iirc

Or you can try running !Faq-ExpGlyphs in #bot-spam for those too

[timber delta]

Oh. Interesting.

I didn't even realize there were planetary coordinates!

[wraith venture]

Oooh, did you start playing recently? They're very helpful for cases like these.

[timber delta]

I’ve played on and off a few times, but this is the first time I have been more interested in doing things. 😆

[rich helm]

do people help with expeditions on here?

[wraith venture]

in-game? some may. i'd suggest #nms-lfg-or-trades for finding someone to join, but the response rate in either could be pretty slow right now. so i suggest patience. and checking in on and off.

this channel focuses mostly on answering questions. and providing helpful tips you can see in the channel's Pinned Messages

[unkempt kraken]

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[vagrant olive]

What do you need help with? I can try to answer

[steel pagoda]

With the hotspots do I just fly around and hope I get lucky finding one pop? The first one was electrical on me. And then I've landed 4 times since and no hotspot in sight.

[meager scroll]

Hotspots of different types are usually close to each other

[steel pagoda]

Thought there wasn't a gurantee to find all 3 in a triangle?

[meager scroll]

I've heard a method where you pick a direction north / south, go 1000 units in that direction, periodically checking the survey device for pings

[sly pond]

@steel pagoda all 3 with a centerpoint <1000u from each is always possible

[steel pagoda]

Possible but not guranteed

[sly pond]

4 usually is too, 5 is where you usually have to survey a few sites

@steel pagoda Always possible, 1 em, 1 mineral, 1 gas

[steel pagoda]

I forgot there were different tabs for each one lol

[sly pond]

But it does have to be <1000 horizontal units, with sheer terrain involved you can get screwed unless you know how to underworld build

[steel pagoda]

I haven't scanned for spots in like a year and a half

All good, I just finished seismology

The armadillo chickens are weird tho.

Wow neat reward

All done for now 😀

[ocean gorge]

If there’s no hotspot in range, turn slowly in a circle while staying in place. Listen carefully, and when the beeping changes pitch, it’ll indicate which direction to move for the hotspot (any kind, gas, mineral or power). It can be quite some distance away from you, but this works

That said, yeah, terrain can sometimes be a real pain in the ass on some planets

[gilded remnant]

Anybody playing co op ps4

[undone oyster]

So now that I have the utopia speeder, I can immediately get it for free on any save, is that right?

[unkempt kraken]

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[remote thunder]

under that account, and by claiming it in the space anomaly/quicksilver shop/claim exp rewards

[undone oyster]

neat, I don't have to be doing with the starter ship anymore

[remote thunder]

once you unlock the anomaly, yep, can just go and claim this one

[wraith venture]

Btw, Bkay, this expo doesn't allow you to unlock the Anomaly till the save converts, right? Or do you know?

[sullen meteor]

ok time to load up NMS again and figure out everything that changed in the previous major update lol

[remote thunder]

yeah, space anomaly gets unlocked after converting - awakenings started after i visited a planet/got back up to space

[wraith venture]

Ty Bkay!

[woeful niche]

My grave is an the caldera of a volcano. I've died twice trying to get to it. Any hope for success, or am I done with this expedition?

[potent quiver]

is the expedition permanent death?

[woeful niche]

The second death was the most interesting. When I respawned I was still taking heat damage and died. Then I respawned, and died again. Three deaths and then the game finally crashed

No, but no way am I restarting from scratch.

[wraith venture]

Check the pins for tips on milestones like that one

this one... <#nms-expedition message>

[wraith venture]

Not this expedition That was Leviathan. All the others have been like Normal mode in respect to that.

[frank scaffold]

idk, i won't destroy pillars if the sentinels aren't agressive

just the matter of how much they will annoy you

[woeful niche]

I don't see anything about getting to your grave in the middle of the caldera. Any suggestions on how to do it?

[wraith venture]

Oh I meant tips to do it without dying if you try again. @remote thunder do you have any suggestions for this case? Can the grave really be that close to where they died? Isn't it supposed to be a bit away?

[woeful niche]

I'll try to get a screenshot later toady. Had enough for now.

[wraith venture]

Bkay says that if you died twice in a row before getting to your grave, there won't be any contents in the grave. If you have a backup save, maybe you can revert to that instead?

Normally graves aren't right at the location where you died. So right after the first your death, you can look for it with your visor, or it should show in your HUD. But not at the same spot where you died.

[ocean gorge]

Could you reload before you died, do you have a restore point?

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[ocean gorge]

True, if you died twice, you’ll be out of luck getting anything from the remaining grave, so unless you have a restore point from before the first death, that sucks

That’s why the tips say empty your exosuit inventory of almost everything and store somewhere else

Ship, or exocraft, I found I usually didn’t have much room in my ship so I used the nomad both to get up there, and to store most my things even before going up the volcano

If you try again, note you don’t need to cross over the caldera. You only need to skirt the outer rim, just enough to take some heat damage

[remote thunder]

the "grave" is actually where i took the last bit of damage that killed me - same icon as a space grave

[subtle meadow]

seems impossible to me ngl

not without S class hazard protection

and I'm fairly sure you take damage anyway

[remote thunder]

there's actually a traveler grave like object there; i was able to retrieve it by melee jetpacking on top of it, and as i'm falling down, i'm aiming at the grave to get the interaction prompt/start holding interact button while in the air still. i quickly jetpacked out after i saw the "retrieved inventory contents" OSD message.

[remote thunder]

yeah, doing this without any jetpack upgrades might be a bit tougher to pull off, and player is very likely to take damage

[woeful niche]

This is my situation as well. If the grave is empty then there is no point going back for it. I am assessing if I want to just quit... it will take too much time to start over

I did not read the pins until after I died in an attempt to avoid spoilers, but in this case the game itself was the spoiler 🙂

"...to take some heat damage." So installing the Coolant network tech was counter-productive? I actually had it on a supercharged slot. The X-class one as well. LOL

[quasi copper]

I'm not sure. Heat damage doesn't seem related to hazard protection; I've taken damage almost instantly landing on hot worlds, getting out of my ship, and discovering I was standing in fire.

[remote thunder]

you're able to take extreme heat damage even if you've got hazard prot/hazard prot shield bars

[woeful niche]

Found that was true when my jetpack was depleted, so stupid question by me.

[ocean gorge]

The hazard protection is good for surviving longer, such as in this case, on the surface of hot/volcanic planets
But you’ll still take damage from extreme heat sources, like fire on the ground, or in this case, contact with the top of a volcano

[serene kettle]

Geez. Discord is crashing every time you try and check any Pins.

[wraith venture]

Just by clicking on the Pinned Messages icon? Or when you try to Jump to each message? I can link you to the main one here if it helps: <#nms-expedition message>

That one links to the other main ones

[serene kettle]

I don't even see a pin icon. When you try to left swipe to the "pinned" section, it just up and crashes.

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[wraith venture]

Yikes. Discord app being a pain I see. I assume you're on mobile. Have you checked if there are any pending updates for your OS?

[serene kettle]

Just looked online. Apparently they're aware of the issue and working on a fix. Typical.

[ruby anvil]

About the expeditions rewards, I can't seem to remember ... The unlocks are tied to our local saves. Are those rewards backed up with steam ?

[mental geyser]

I have completed the Expedition but I still can’t call the Anomaly in that save. And the Space Station was “normal” only once and is back to abandoned. Do I have to wait for the end of the Expedition period or is it borked? I’d like to play around in the system but that freighter is a tug.

[ocean gorge]

You have to wait until you finish the expedition (leave the solar system and claim all the rewards) which you’ll get a pop up notice saying thanks for playing the expedition yada yada, then you should have a new mission to find your friends, Nada and Polo at the Anomaly. Should be able to summon then, once you’ve completed the expedition/left Utopia system @mental geyser

[mental geyser]

Ah, leave … got it

[quasi copper]

I had to exit and reload after that to make some things work properly. Until I had, I had the old base computer recipe, and couldn't recharge life support with anything but gel.

[glass stump]

I got through it. Thnaks

[stark dagger]

What's the quickest and most bare minimum way to do the expedition

[elfin sail]

no real shortcuts to the end, just stock up on a LOT of pure ferrite, carbon and chromatic metal, like a few thousand pure ferrite and like 2k chromatic metal

since base computer building costs are absurd

[median ember]

@fringe agate

Can you pin this

[fringe agate]

My name?

No

[median ember]

😂

No i have marked a sentinel tower on that purple planet

[fringe agate]

Need more info lol

[median ember]

In current expedition planet 3

[fringe agate]

Gimmie text form: Sentinel Tower on Planet whatever, at coords whatever

[median ember]

Aggressive sentinals one

[median ember]

I am booting up right now...had fever since yesterday...don't be a slave driver...just like @wraith venture

New sesto...planet 3

It has aggressive sentinals

This is an additional tower

Expedition system bakkin

[median ember]

Cords are this @fringe agate

[fringe agate]

Planet: New Sesto
Location: Sentinel Pillar
Coords: +9,57, +20.26
Courtesy of @median ember

[whole siren]

!expview

/exeview

?expview

[median ember]

Ironically this planet has no crazy sentinal on survival mode. It's only normal mode...lol... 🤣

[whole siren]

!expview

[median ember]

! exp-time

🤔

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[median ember]

Gunter slow

[fringe agate]

Nope, you didn't run the command right

That's a repeat that fired

!exptime

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!exptime

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[jagged sedge]

I have started [yet another] expedition, and I'm finding some things are different - MT is different, as well as the ship -- cool stuff

[stark dagger]

I'm currently stranded on a planet and I could use some help. Would really appreciate it if someone could save me

[jagged sedge]

Afraid all I could do is advise, the Switch version no have MP

[wraith venture]

Check our Pinned Messages here, especially the one titled No Man's Stranded. And as Kaveta mentioned, feel free to ask any questions that our Pins don't answer.
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[stark dagger]

So my best bet is to just hope that the 2 hours away base has a trading terminal

[jagged sedge]

What are you lacking?

[naive veldt]

I cannot find the flying creature on Endil 8

this a bug or just my bad luck?

[stark dagger]

The materials to make a base computer and the materials to make launch pad fuel

[jagged sedge]

They tend to come out to fly around dusk

[naive veldt]

that's the kind of info I was after! Epic

thanks

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[jagged sedge]

launch fuel is di-hydrogen, and ferrite dust - you should be able to gather those on any planet, or you might try to use quick menu to summon an exocraft, to make the trip to that other base take less time

[stark dagger]

I don't have the components for a base computer therefore I cannot craft

[jagged sedge]

Looks like you'll need to make your way to a base -- try sumoning an exocraft, it might help

[stark dagger]

I cannot summon an exocraft as I do not have the materials to craft a station and also no base so I can't craft

[jagged sedge]

Aw dude - looks like a hike is in store then

[stark dagger]

Someone told me that player assist could help

I'm just not really in the mood to walk for 2 hours

With the addition of no life support fuel

[jagged sedge]

Do you have a signal booster with you?

[naive veldt]

so, is there any particular way to tell it's dusk beyond it going a little dark?

never mind just found the bird - you're a legend

[stark dagger]

I have nothing but the resources provided on this planet

[naive veldt]

thanks again

[jagged sedge]

Activate your scan visor, it will display [among other info] the local time

[naive veldt]

been playing this a while but did not realise that was the local time!

[jagged sedge]

Did you bring any food items? Those can restore LS power

[stark dagger]

I died and lost everything

[jagged sedge]

Ouch

Can you go back for your stuff?

[stark dagger]

It's impossible

[jagged sedge]

So, your scan visor can show nearby buildings, you might be able to make your way toward a base using shelters along the way, including caves and such

[stark dagger]

Just did a double take and their isn't even another base in scanning range

Their is nothing for thousands of miles

[jagged sedge]

Which planet are you on?

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[stark dagger]

AAHHHAHAHAHAHA

I HAVW AN UDEA

IDEA

Nevermind I'm still screwed

[stark dagger]

DOUBLE NEVERMIND

I DISMANTLED ALL OF MY OFFENSIVE AUGMENTATIONS AND USED THE SCRAP TO BUILD THE COMPONENTS NEEDED TO CARRY ON

IM GONNA LIVE

[stark dagger]

Feels good

[worn valley]

you can re-name ships????

[fierce pollen]

yeah

ships, freighters, companions, and frigates

[jagged sedge]

And multi-tools

[fierce pollen]

I did not know that one

[dense lynx]

Anyone got a base with a lot of chromatic metal or copper

[sullen meteor]

just started. Can't find my starship anywhere?

[fierce pollen]

its a while away. just do what the guide tells you and it'll lead you to it

[sullen meteor]

Is it far away?

[fierce pollen]

quite

[sullen meteor]

I don't have a waypoint for it tho which is odd considering I can see bases on other planets lol

is it like through a portal?

[fierce pollen]

Just follow the guide

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[flat ocean]

U can reach it once u unlocked exo craft

[sullen meteor]

ehh but I like being able to pop into my ship to recharge my hazard protection lol

[flat ocean]

Just do the milestones

[fierce pollen]

Just do the dang guide. the ship is physically useless right now anyway

[sullen meteor]

reeee

ooh this planet is pretty at night tho

[flat ocean]

Yes it is

Can I give you a small tip?

[sullen meteor]

just the tip?

I guess :p

[flat ocean]

Start farming copper on the first planet

[kindred minnow]

And do not wander too far away from bases

[flat ocean]

Yes

[sullen meteor]

well that's a bit difficult considering it started me in the middle of nowhere

[flat ocean]

Do the milestones and you'll get your ship

[kindred minnow]

It's one of the harder/more tedious expeditions

[fierce pollen]

This is arguably the easiest one from what ive seen

[kindred minnow]

But the ship is so worth in my opinion

[flat ocean]

It Took me 3/4 hours

It can be pretty easy

[flat ocean]

Yes

Beautiful snow speeder haha

[sullen meteor]

why should I "not wonder too far away from bases"? This planet seems to have no hazard, storms, or hostile fauna

[kindred minnow]

It can be up to 10 if you don't accidentally land your ship 500 miles away from a base ahah 😅

[fierce pollen]

have you tried crafting anything by any chance?

[kindred minnow]

With no launch fuel

[flat ocean]

I had that Problem too on that rocky Planet

[sullen meteor]

No but I did read the tooltip that says no crafting out of base

[flat ocean]

That was real pain

[fierce pollen]

thats why

[kindred minnow]

The mountainy ones are brutal

[flat ocean]

Yes you need to build a base

[flat ocean]

That was real pain

But I had a mantis like creature on the previous lava planet that made it a bit easier to climb the mountains

[kindred minnow]

Thats a good idea, I always forget mounts

A good flying creature seems to be much faster than any exocraft

[flat ocean]

It can be yeah

But exo crafts are very understood

They can get really fast

[sullen meteor]

is this world uninhabited?

[flat ocean]

Which one

[sullen meteor]

the starter world

[kindred minnow]

The system is uninhabited

[flat ocean]

Yes

[kindred minnow]

Only players

[sullen meteor]

good to know, I'll stop wandering around looking for a npc base to build my base next to then lol

[flat ocean]

How far are you rn @sullen meteor

[kindred minnow]

There are some structures here and there just no npcs

[sullen meteor]

about 2 minutes

[thick smelt]

I was today years old when I realized you can have more then 1 base per solar system

[flat ocean]

Lmao

[sullen meteor]

uhh since when can you not recharge life support with oxygen

[flat ocean]

It's for this expedition

To make it more challenging

[sullen meteor]

but you can still go into the settings and make... some things easier but not others

🤔

baffling

[flat ocean]

Idk I haven't played with the settings

[sullen meteor]

ok I guess I'll just throw this thing down any old place lol

[flat ocean]

Rip

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[sullen meteor]

turns out I chose wisely, the caldera I dropped my base in had all of the planet's fauna in it, so I got 3.2k nanites :3

[worthy horizon]

Which planet has metal fingers again?

[fringe agate]

They have been found on the first three planets afaik

[worthy horizon]

Okay thx!
Im running around on planet 1, not finding any.
Maybe i try nr 2.
Oh whats the best way to get pure ferrite on this exp?

[fringe agate]

Refining

Mining a crap ton of ferrite, and using your personal to refine to magnetized and then pure

Your personal refiner works anywhere so you can just kinda keep doing that as you go around doing other things

[remote thunder]

@worthy horizon , what gleam said above, and also remember that geodes can drop from mining rocks, and these often drop pure ferrite when analyzed

[worthy horizon]

Okay thanks guys!

[short sierra]

Glad I already finished the expedition. Look like many of you are just starting to heat up the playthrough.

[wraith venture]

What ya mean heating up?

👩‍🍳

[fringe agate]

[fallow nymph]

Thankfully only takes a few hours to complete the expedition

[sullen meteor]

the first planet has big rocks made of pure ferrite on the surface

needs adv mining laser but you get that from milestone

[jagged sedge]

My thanks to "Deejmeister" for having a magnificent base on New Kehille -- excellent work

[wraith badge]

Loving the variation in the roids now 😄

[sullen meteor]

well that was interesting
I closed out my expedition save at outpost beta, parked on a landing pad
when I loaded it up again I was in the air above the pad and immediately crashed into the building

[jagged sedge]

I just adopted a crashed shuttle - literally anything is better than that POS hauler we start with

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[sullen meteor]

"Reach the crater at the top of a volcano.
Warning: Traveller proximity may provoke volcanic activity!"
Because of course it does

"Screw that guy in particular!" - volcanoes, apparently

[tulip aspen]

3rd planet, the sentinels are fucking nuts btw

[wraith junco]

I got lucky and found sentinel pilar when i reached 3rd planet, so i turned them off

[tulip aspen]

Yeah, that's what I'm trying to do now. I found the coordinates in a pinned chat but idk how to look for them? 🤷

[sullen meteor]

you can easily defeat them at the planetary archive it sends you to

just aggro them and get to the high ground. they will struggle to find you and you can easily pick them off one at a time

and the colossus will have absolutely no idea what to do about your nonsense

[wraith junco]

You can see +- coords in your ship cockpit and on foot when using scaner visor

[tulip aspen]

Oh damn, that's what I get for flying in 3rd person lol

[worthy horizon]

This monstrosoty purge milestone from phase 4...
Cant find my purge site
Is it sentinels? Or something underwater?

[fringe agate]

Abandoned building

Not underwater, or shouldn't be anyways

[versed timber]

I had an Abandoned building mission were it was underwater tho?

[jagged sedge]

Was the mission you speak of in expedition?

[fringe agate]

This mission requires the biohorrors

[versed timber]

Ah

[worthy horizon]

Got it, thank you guys

[lapis axle]

So what planet do you get the Cactus Plants? Trying to get the An Aquired Taste mission

[manic trellis]

you get it from barren planets

[lapis axle]

Well, from what I can gather on my solar system, there are no barren planets

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[lofty igloo]

I'm having a hard time tryi9ng to find Phosphorus on the 2nd scorched planet. What gives?

[short sierra]

Bought this from a station. If memory served me correct.

[lofty igloo]

Yeah its what I ended up doing. Thank you.

[short sierra]

No problem been a week since played expedition.

[frosty jasper]

took all of like 30 mins for me to strand myself on another planet with no base and no launch feel

[dawn basin]

hey anyone wanna help with this new expedition?

ive played for 2 years first time learning of a discord for this game

[oblique ice]

there's always a discord

[hot blade]

Love to help but I’m on switch so no multiplayer

[wanton frigate]

No multiplayer but you still get the "privilege" of having your HUD clogged with other people's bases, and when you name a planet a few days later the game will notice it already has a name and reverts, so your home base is now established on " Hurr Hurr Your Ma IX" and there's nothing you can do but move. Truly the Switch lives on the darkest timeline.
Still loving it though.

[lofty igloo]

its amazing it even runs on the switch

[floral blade]

Hi all! I just finished the expedition. Do I need to collect the ship as a reward in the expedition save? This is my first time doing this.

Also I don’t have a regular save file yet.

I know about getting them from quicksilver.

My question is actually completing and collecting reward within the expedition. That’s a must correct? Just trying not to screw this up.

[green igloo]

you need to collect all the rewards to "truly" complete the expedition IIRC

[green igloo]

yes, collect that, and the game will offer to convert the save to a normal save

[floral blade]

Thank you. Done.

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[floral blade]

Do you have to keep the expedition (normal save) to get your rewards? Or can it be deleted eventually?

I’m going to keep for now but just curious.

Is the helmet a reward for the expedition or was that a Twitch drop?

[crystal iris]

Sooooo. I got the exosuit slots 3.. How do I install them?
Went to the SS but it was abandoned. Didn't find a way on there.

[crystal iris]

Any tips?

[remote thunder]

wait - aren't these the consumable ones?

[sullen meteor]

iirc all of the milestones can be completed on that phase's milestone planet. IIRC cactus plants are on the really mountainous planet

[sullen meteor]

you might be able to install them at a drop pod

it's supposed to install them when you get them but if you exit out of the ui I think you need to find a drop pod, or the suit upgrade thingy on a space station or the anomaly (which aren't options in the exp until you're done)

[crystal iris]

What do you mean?

[crystal iris]

When I look at them in the exosuit. There is no install option.

[crystal iris]

Yes, I think I exited out too quick

[remote thunder]

then yeah, going to need a drop pod to apply them then

what Trogdor said reminded me as well - this was a thing with past exps too

[crystal iris]

Oh ok. Thank you both

[remote thunder]

actually - if you still have more milestones that reward more inv slots, you might be able to apply all of them then

not sure, but iirc that was a thing as well

[crystal iris]

I'm only on #2 do you remember which one?

I'm practically full now.

[remote thunder]

p1m7, p2m6, p3m7, p4m2, p5m5

p=phase, m=milestone

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[crystal iris]

Ahhh ok.

[teal cove]

The new helmet be ugly

Ngl

Clean ship tho

[sullen meteor]

I'm definitely not a fan of the red and green tubes in the back tho

[teal cove]

It’s too thick

And big

Looks@like darth bucket from space balls

[shut mango]

That was one of my first thoughts when I saw it.

[wraith junco]

Dork voider

[teal cove]

Duth vuda

[sullen meteor]

nobody show this guy the blazing orbit helmet.
or any of the helmets really, most of them are pretty chunky

[fallow nymph]

Helmet had potential but it’s pretty bad. Ship is dope tho

[ocean gorge]

Just wish the ship wasn’t mostly gunmetal grey

A ship like that, would’ve been cool if we could recolor it the way we like

[eternal heath]

Anyone has coordinates for Utopia?

[fringe agate]

In the pins

[wraith venture]

We have them in Pinned Messages but you can also run !Faq-ExpGlyphs in #bot-spam

[bold atlas]

Noo I can't send funni Spaceballs gif

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[heady steeple]

!expedition

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[crystal iris]

I'm on the Caldera milestone.. Any tips

[whole siren]

!expedition

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[crystal iris]

I did it!!

[wraith badge]

3 Guesses what's missing ... 😉

Clue there should be 3 but there's only 2.

[timber trench]

oh god this graphics 😍

[ocean gorge]

If it’s a ruin, there should be 3 grav balls at the site, somewhere (one usually up top of the stairs thing, the other 2 are usually buried)

That’s only thing I can think of that exists in a set of 3 at ancient ruins

There’s more keys than 3 at ruins

[gilded remnant]

Anybody want to co op play on some nexus missions ???

[ocean gorge]

This is the expedition channel, for those looking for some assistance with Utopia expedition etc. Check #nms-lfg-or-trades if you’re wanting to play with someone

[crystal iris]

Is it possible to get the glyphs during the Exped?

[earnest pivot]

how do i get haz-mat gauntlet to collect the Star bulbs?

[finite owl]

Will the Expedition still be there after the 21st of March or will it be out of time?

[quasi copper]

It will be there. Run !exptime in #bot-spam whenever you wonder, but it ends Apr. 4.

[finite owl]

Alright, thanks, have exams until that time and was worried I would miss it

[quasi copper]

Without a save editor, I don't think so, unless you find a lot of traveler graves.

[quasi copper]

You receive plans for it when you complete the Albumen Spawn milestone in Phase 2. You then have to install it in your multi-tool and supply the parts it wants to finish building it.

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[visual crane]

Yo, um, I can't find my own base after getting to my starship (first planet) Ideas?

[meager scroll]

Your base has a black marker, other players' bases have purple markers

So just take your time to look for it

You could also make a save, quit the game, go offline for a moment, then start the game again

[visual crane]

yeah well I reloaded save, put my progress back and still can't find my base

I need to craft things for the ship...

so gotta get back

[quasi copper]

You can craft on any base you can find. And if they have a portal teleporter, you can teleport back to yours.

[meager scroll]

Teleporter, but yes

[visual crane]

Oh wow, thanks!! good to know...

[meager scroll]

I forgot you can use other players bases

I played it alone

[visual crane]

found my base on the map... welp, too bad it's not more highlighted
not sure how seeing a million other bases that are 4 hours away helps but... okie xD

[quasi copper]

Glad you found it.

You can change your base computer's color if you want a different color icon.

[visual crane]

I'm glad so too 😄 and thanks for the help and patience

[meager scroll]

Glad you found it

[visual crane]

and well, at least I've learnt the Nomad exocraft can scale cliffs 😮

[meager scroll]

I highly recommend getting a pet

You may lack materials to build an exocraft summoning station

[visual crane]

I did! and then realized it was a stage 2 milestone haha oops

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[meager scroll]

But you can always summon a pet on any planet

And ride it out of ravines and such

[quasi copper]

Never thought of them that way. Emergency transport. If it's riding-size, of course.

[meager scroll]

Yeah either riding one or flying one

But I find the ones which we can ride on easier to control

[visual crane]

f...lying? 😮

[meager scroll]

There are flying pets in the game, dunno if in this expedition system

[visual crane]

guess I still have a lot to learn ^.^ sincerely amazed at the amount and quality of updates

[crystal iris]

I don't mean to ruffle any feathers or be an annoyance.
But, why are the glyphs in the pins for each milestone if we cannot get the glyphs during this Expedition?

[meager scroll]

Good question, my guess would be

Either because we are using an established format of message for this pin (planet overview) and didn't bother to change it

Or because that info can be used lets say in save editor

If your save gets fucked, maybe you can save yourself by putting the planet address in save editor

[crystal iris]

I tried that. But couldn't interact with the refiner or the nutrient processor.
Stated in use.
But it wasn't, as I was the only traveler around.

[quasi copper]

That's weird. I'd try switching MP vs. single-player. Otherwise, not sure. But you can at least make things like launch fuel.

[crystal iris]

Oh ok.

[crystal iris]

I have it disabled. Multiplayer that is.
I didn't try to craft anything from within inventory though.. Good point.

[fringe agate]

And for people that want to take their other saves there

[meager scroll]

Who needs Utopia when we have Distira

Nah it's a valid use case

[crystal iris]

Oh ok.
If you visit after the Expedition, will the environments be the same?
Because during the Expedition.... There are limits or allowances in play, right?

[fringe agate]

If you are in normal, creative or relaxed the environments should be the same. Survival and perma may alter sentinel behaviour

The restrictions for building and crafting will be gone, that's all expedition mode

[crystal iris]

Oh ok

I'm on phase 4 today. Read the pins, I can go back to the lovely Paradise planet and complete the milestones?
Do I build the base 1st before leaving?

[fringe agate]

I would, but you can fly around now so not a big deal probably

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[visual crane]

yeah the sentinels are not letting off

[quasi copper]

Bolt toward space station if you can't recharge. Usually I'd run for the anomaly, but I don't think you can do that until you finish the expedition.

[visual crane]

I flew to the 2nd planet and now I'm stranded, on foot they're too strong so I'm sitting in a ship that can't take off, rip

[quasi copper]

Hop out and dig a hole.

Terrain manipulator. Go down a bit, and maybe do an angle, and hide. They'll give up eventually.

[visual crane]

I think you just saved me 😮

well, this was all because I did a planetary chart...

[quasi copper]

If I aggro them on-planet, I usually just dig. "He bravely ran away. He bravely ran away, away!"

[visual crane]

that was honestly more thrilling than any shooter game xD

oh wow, they're actually STILL there...

[quasi copper]

LOL. But a chart got the Sentinels on you?

[visual crane]

yeah....

[quasi copper]

Yeah, but if the alert expires, you should be fine to just waltz out and brazen it through on the second planet.

[visual crane]

yeah well, no idea how I'm gonna progress now if I can't get to my ship, nor can I craft things to refuel... maybe I'll try going to the outpost?

[quasi copper]

Why can't you get to your ship? I thought you were just in it.

[visual crane]

I had to get out because they were bombarding it with walkers, going underground saved me

[quasi copper]

If you're not on the third planet (aggressive sentinels), as long as you don't have any red wanted-level icons in the upper right, they won't attack you.

When they lose you and get over it, they don't re-aggro. Except on aggressive sentinel worlds.

[visual crane]

oh well, I'll try to get back, worst case guess I can try to get to the outpost and summon the ship... if it can take off with 9%

[quasi copper]

Very likely can't take off with 9%.

[visual crane]

yeah I couldnt' take off

[quasi copper]

I think if you have navigation data, you can summon it to a landing pad without paying fuel. You can take off from landing pads free.

[visual crane]

ok didn't reaggro. phew xD

that was crazy tho. Thanks for the help

can I teleport from outpost?

or craft in there?

[quasi copper]

I think that's no to both. You can only craft at player-created bases. You can use the teleporter in the space station -- it's up to the left. The place is creepy, but the trade terminal and the teleporter work.

[visual crane]

yeah I should prolly start a new save lmao

[quasi copper]

Got 65,000 units? If the outpost has a trade terminal, you may be able to buy fuel.

[visual crane]

yup! well

[wraith badge]

could someone also on a expedition save not join you and give you some ship fuel?

[visual crane]

Hmm, no clue how to go about that but I will probably restart. Sentinels are everywhere o the new planet and the closest thing is the outpost, 10 min walk but as soon as I start the icon disappeared lol

[quasi copper]

If it's not the third planet, mostly don't use the mining laser in front of them. If they catch you, dig another hole and wait for the heat to die down.

[quasi copper]

I hate it when stuff like that happens. Is finding that outpost your current milestone? If it is, try the target sweep mode on the scan visor.

[visual crane]

yup just did

[quasi copper]

What's it say?

[visual crane]

well I'll get there and figure out what I can do next... if anything >.<

guess I just got really unlucky

[wraith badge]

If you want @visual crane add me and once the game download that's in progress is done I'll fire up NMS and come rescue you, I have some spare launch fuel ... my NMS Friend Code is

[visual crane]

Wow, you're super kind, thanks!!

Well, I just found fuel in the outpost, as someone here said before it's 65k... almost all my units but what can I do >.<

[wraith badge]

just wait

[visual crane]

Hey at least it's a challenge 😛

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[willow geyser]

im kinda annoyed at the fact that when u finish the expedition now the save immediately gets turned to a normal one

i mean it's cool that you dont have to wait till it's over for it to turn, but id love to have the opportunity to choose :/

even for a dumb reason as i forgot to take a screenshot of this

i had to redo it all

bcz the option just disappeared

[quasi copper]

That is some serious dedication to getting a screenshot, but congratulations on getting it!

[willow geyser]

thanks ^ ^'

i have been collecting them

couldnt simply stop it

[wraith badge]

@visual crane download/update is now done ... firing up NMS

[visual crane]

Aww thanks!! But you don't have to 😄 I sold some stuff, bought fuel and am heading back to my ship... just a long walk and watching not to knock any small creature cuz sentinels are eyeing me everywhere lmao

[wraith badge]

OK ... I'm off the Planet 3 ... wish me luck!

[visual crane]

It was quite the hill but I got over it 😛

ooo good luck! Make sure you don't annoy the sentinels haha

[wraith badge]

Oh! I'm making sure I'm all stocked up so can get the base built quickly and hopefully without much trouble from the sentinels

[quasi copper]

I recommend using the pillar. They'll stay off as long as you don't reload, crash, or leave the planet for long.

Plus you can pick up sentinel drops from the ones that drop dead at the pillar.

[wraith badge]

Oh! Yeah I have the warp drive so can visit another station, never thought to see if I could buy a map to locate a pillar ... I'll have to check that

[quasi copper]

You can't buy those maps, but there are coordinates in the pins.

[wraith badge]

yeah you get the coords from sentinles don't you

[visual crane]

it's also pretty cool how you can see the whole system by just looking up to the sky 😄

[quasi copper]

Yeah. Sometimes you get lucky and pillar bases show up on teleporters for you, too.

[willow geyser]

i killed them both times

the relief of being able to grab as much gravitino balls as u want and not having anything stopping you is awesome

:D

and the invis cloak is way too op

[quasi copper]

At that point, I mine for spite.

[visual crane]

Oh wow... well, I am unable to do any of that on this save yet...

[quasi copper]

I keep forgetting to try that thing out!

[willow geyser]

it gives u enough time to reload

which is all u need :D

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[wraith badge]

well get to location on planet 3 place base computer and game crashes 😦

[willow geyser]

does anyone know if u can change the colour of the robot companion from the expedition

[wraith badge]

well all done and didn't have much trouble at all with the little darlings on planet 3 ... 😉

[wraith venture]

Assumption's no. Since other companion bots' colors can't be changed. But maybe also check #nms-modding about save editing them.

[visual crane]

man I'm on planet 3 having 10x the trouble I had on 2 😦

[wraith venture]

Make sure to check the pins in case tips there help, in respect to sents especially

[wanton frigate]

If like me you can't fight for toffee and standing up to the Sentinels is not an option : The base doesn't have to be at the site they send you to, which tends to be crowded with unfriendlies. Drop your base computer anywhere, claim the site and drop a floor, 4 walls and a roof around yourself to keep the sentinels at bay. Can also dig a hole and hide in it. Switch to the Build camera to expand your cell to a decent sized base with a doorway. Dismantle the cell. Scan as many plants as you can see through the door - hopefully it's 8 or more. Get in your ship and fly back to planet 1 to get living pearls, scan aquatic fauna and make some tea. Done!

[wraith badge]

Never had a problem, other than the game crashing when I first placed the Base Computer, but a reload and a quick place + build was not a problem ... a sentinel did turn up but by then I had a complete structure to hide in ... it was also handy it wasn't far from a water source

[visual crane]

Wow thanks a lot for the details 😄

yup moving on to stage 4 now. And yeah it crashed for me as well

[crystal iris]

Ok, logging on now.
Phase 4 and on!!

Ok, so my assigned construction site is the side of a mountain.
Do they want me to create a base here??

Let me check the pins.

[crystal iris]

So if I'm understanding what I've read in the pins about phase 4..
I can go back to the comfy paradise planet and build the base?
And do the rest of the mission also?

[quasi copper]

Not sure about building the base on a different planet, but you definitely don't have to build it on the spot they give you.

[crystal iris]

Yeah, I went ahead and built it on the mountain, dug out a small cave.
Now, I have to find whispering eggs. That really don't whisper, they practically scream and yell to wake up the biological horrors that babysit them.

Do they ever give you MultiTool slots?
Or Starship slots?

I'm out of space on Starship and one slot left on MT.
Should I not have installed everything they gave?

[crystal iris]

Ohhhhh duh.
You'd think this was my 1st rodeo.
I just built a storage container!!
Forgot they gave 4 or 5.
I'm OK with the Starship now.. But that MultiTool is still fully equipped.

[exotic fulcrum]

redo the entire expedition?

i finished the expedition this morning, thank god for shadowplay to clip the ending lol

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[prisma shard]

Is there a usable suit kiosk in the expedition?

[willow geyser]

yea

[crystal iris]

If you mean a pod where you get slots. Yes.

How do I make the Syrupy Viscera?

[crystal iris]

Wait, does the companion app have the recipe?
I need to start utilizing the tools I have available.

[toxic mortar]

The game will tell you, if you make it early it doesn't always work right.

[sullen meteor]

specifically, the milestone quest in your log and its tooltips should tell you

basically you're just refining the stuff you collected for the other milestone on that planet

one's like star bulb and... something... and the other's the cactus and tentacles

[glass stump]

So will the Utopia Speeder only be available available in the expedition save, or all saves after it over?

[meager scroll]

All saves you own

Phase rewards and main rewards can be redeemed on any save

From the Quicksilver vendor at Space Anomaly

[glass stump]

Cool. Wasn't sure as the singularity dive didn't work thst way.

[meager scroll]

If it aint listed in the Quicksilver vendor, it can't be redeemed on other saves

[prisma shard]

Do i jump into the volcano? It said to go to the crater at the top. I went and nothing updated

Ne… nevermind…

[remote thunder]

@prisma shard still kicking?

[crystal iris]

Yeah, it kind of didn't tell me how.. But the App did. Thank you.
Phase 4 complete!

I'll come back complete phase 5 tonight.

[remote thunder]

(just take a little of extreme heat damage and it should complete the milestone)

[prisma shard]

In agony as the lava killed me

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[remote thunder]

ok so - a tip: go up to the top of the crater, then melee jetpack over the caldera, but not low enough to get trapped/actually touch the lava.

from one side of the crater, to the other, melee jetpack over it

caldera has a bigger "hitbox" above the physical 3d model that still deals extreme heat damage

this works much nicer if you have 1-2 jetpack modules installed

remember that you still need to have some jetpack fuel left in the tanks to stop the fall on the other side

[remote thunder]

congrats! keep it up, almost there! 🙂

[sullen meteor]

I don't remember taking extreme heat damage from that milestone, I think just standing up there for a sec should count

[ocean gorge]

I never crossed the entire caldera. I just sorta skirted around along one side, it’s risky to go all the way across. You might die in the middle and not be able to reach your grave. Just hang around the rim and see if it’ll award the milestone; be sure you save right before you attempt this (I took the nomad up the side of the volcano and got out and saved immediately before proceeding, you can use the Minotaur as well if you prefer).

As mentioned in the pins, store almost all your stuff in exocraft just in case you die.
Do keep a life support gel and an ion battery with you…but put the rest of your inventory in exocraft so if you can’t get to your grave you won’t be missing much

[floral blade]

Finally finished expedition on Switch and Steam versions. Now I can finally start me a save file on each. lol looking forward to the story and tutorials. One for my normal PC and one for on the go while traveling.

[ocean gorge]

Nice! Finished on PS5 and Series X myself, working on Switch now, taking it a bit at a time since Switch is running a little behind for patches so I’m in no rush🙂

[floral blade]

I have been really pleased with my experience on the Switch. It’s amazing to have all of that in handheld. I know Steam Deck is a thing but I don’t have one yet. So this is wonderful with the hardware I do have.

[crystal iris]

Ok, going in... Phase 5!!

[ocean gorge]

I agree I think they did a great job getting NMS on Switch

(Actually runs better on Switch than my old Xbox One X lol, which used to crash so much especially during expeditions)

[crystal iris]

Awwwwww.... It's over??!!

I'm at the final milestone. Warp away.
But I don't want to... Yet.

One thing. Anyone know which planet might have Storm Crystals!

[crystal iris]

Well I didn't find them.. Too anxious to look really.
So I just warped into the next system.
It's done!

[hot blade]

Storm crystals require planets with extreme weather conditions

You have to wait until the storm happens and then get out and look for ⚡ on your visor

[jagged sedge]

If you really need some crystals, you can dismantle the icarus fuel system from your exocraft

[meager oyster]

Agree. I'm blow away by how much they are able to do on Switch. When Switch first came out, I thought all of the games would be like blocky/chunky looking. I never expected to get a game that looks as good as this.

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[crystal iris]

Ooooh that would have been cool.
But alas, I am no longer in need of the Storm Crystal.
I have warped away from Utopia forever.

[sullen meteor]

What do you need storm crystals for in the exp?

[stiff jackal]

What Hello Games expected everyone to make in Utopia

What everyone actually made:

[wraith junco]

💯

[austere meteor]

that is the truest thing I have ever seen

I made a meh base for final phase

but that's about it

apart from a box with decorations

[sullen meteor]

One day NMS is going to have to confront the fact that the base building in their base building game isn't very good

there needs to be more snapping so that it's easy to align things so that they look good, at the bare minimum

lighting is also a problem

and yeah my bases were even simpler, just two solar panels, a battery, a teleporter, and some wires (since wires count towards the upload minimum). I built my main "base" inside a planetary archive

base building isnt fun and this isn't my main save file, so there's no reason to put any effort in

[stiff jackal]

I like the actually building part

I hate all the resources you need

[sullen meteor]

you can fix that with creative mode

[fringe agate]

I made a base for each planet, and took my time

[austere meteor]

Deffo, and freighter bases need to be upgraded, even just allowing more placeables that are allowed on planetary bases would be nicer.
I want to be able to build this without mods or specific orbital base placements
https://youtu.be/kz4AEEOM5lA

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[austere meteor]

without save editing either

[glass stump]

I'm OK with the base building. In VR it has many more strugles than flat screen, but it's OK. I like my massive freighter base and my now less than $$$$ Activated Indium base.

[sullen meteor]

like you can't even move stuff that you've placed in any kind of grid system

it's all 'aim with the mouse and hope for the best'

'oops, parallax error!'

[stiff jackal]

I made 2 actual bases and one base when i actually got out of the system, but on planets 3-4 i just placed 14 wooden floors and one cylindrical room

[sullen meteor]

also
I don't think the point of the expedition was really to build bases

from the last few milestones you learn that the utopia project || not only failed || but || keeps failing and restarting endlessly ||

also || at least a couple of the planets have titan worms so building 'utopia's on them seems ill-advised ||

[stiff jackal]

||the fact that the final step of the final stage is to literally just leave the system, in the FASTEST ship Utopia can provide, i think its your character just saying “yeah this system is garbage” and nopeing tf out||

[austere meteor]

||They're just saying:
"Well sh- this went trash, welp. They're not needed anymore, let's just give them the fastest non commercially available speedster and tell them to go somewhere else"||

[stiff jackal]

Activating the STUPIDLY EXPENSIVE utopia base computer and it just displays

[sullen meteor]

you don't get the ship until you've already left tho

[austere meteor]

Well they tell you to first, it's more like
" good, take this and go further "

[sullen meteor]

does it even come with a hyperdrive?

I forgot

[austere meteor]

Yup, no upgrades though.

[sullen meteor]

I guess you can take the ones off your old ship now

[austere meteor]

Yup

[jagged sedge]

It would be cool if a few players were willing to keep their base on New Kehille, so others might be able to check out those amazing little recipe machines

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[quasi copper]

I wish there were one more of those machines, the one with the component recipes and the metals and so forth, so I wouldn't have to go to the anomaly and walk forever to get to them. And why do I always get the furthest parking spaces when I'm the only one there?

[willow geyser]

holy...

[crystal iris]

Wait, what do you mean "keep their base on New Kehille" When I was going through the exped, I saw a lot of bases even visited a few that were more than a Base Station and floor boards.
Are you insinuating that once we complete the Exped, the bases and everything disappear?
How were those other bases still there?

[crystal iris]

Oh and using the Nutrient Processors left on bases don't show you recipes or what the player has inside, only shows you what you have in yours.

[crystal iris]

I was thinking the same thing. But then it would eliminate most of the Anomaly's functionality.
But I definitely enjoyed using the machines on base.

[jagged sedge]

I have read that once the final reward is claimed, the expedition save becomes a 'normal mode' save, and the players still doing expedition will no longer be able to see them

[crystal iris]

ooooh they could add teleporters.

[jagged sedge]

However, the new 'normal mode' bases, where the machines I spoke of were, will still be there, only now fellow normal mode players can see them

[crystal iris]

Oh really? WOW. But all the bases I saw... Those travelers were still in the Exped?

[crystal iris]

So that means they will still be in our Build menu?
We can build new ones in our other bases? The Freighter even?

[jagged sedge]

I beleive they can be built in planetary bases [after exp. is over] but not sure about freighters

[ocean gorge]

I think they purposefully made it in this expedition to where you can’t use other people’s bases, at least the ones I saw, there wasn’t anything useful to them (but I didn’t exactly go visiting many of them). And when I did have a teleporter for use at my own base, there wasn’t anything to distinguish anyone else’s base from yours or another’s, since they’re all named Utopia whatchamacallit base. In past expeditions people would return after finishing and build amazing bases to help new players and you could tell by the names, stuff like “Best Player Start” or “32k Player Gold” and so on. So yeah, I’m sure people have tried to set up helpful bases but I’ve never been able to find any of them doing the expedition twice myself😔

[jagged sedge]

I did, once, try to build a base in a spot that had already been claimed [in exp. 9] but altho no base was visible nearby, it said the spot was taken - the good news was, it let me pick up the [expensive AF] base computer and deploy it elsewhere

[crystal iris]

So, I had a similar but different experience. When looking via the Teleporter, the bases were hard to distinguish. But I did find a few names that indicated what they were.
But when flying on planet, the Base Names were prominent. Though some names didn't really reveal much, when I visited, like I mentioned previously, some bases were elaborate. But I could not use the Refiners or Processors, someone else here, thought I should have been able to, not clear on that.
But it did help with getting from planet to planet.

[jagged sedge]

I labeled mine 'Utopia 1' and Utopia 2', and so on - Also, in the Switch version, no-one else was ever around, so I was able to use any machinery I found 😁

[ocean gorge]

I’m just now working on my switch run, so it’ll be interesting to see how things are different from my PS5 and Series X runs😁

Maybe I’ll find some helpful bases, who knows

[jagged sedge]

I'm afraid mine are gone now, but I'm sure you will find other helpful spots

[crystal iris]

Wait, so Switch players can now see other Platform bases?

[willow geyser]

do you know what teh blue light wall in the middle is ?

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[ocean gorge]

Switch has always been able to see other stuff because ODS is shared with all platforms

So uploaded bases can be seen, you just can’t visit at same time as someone else since there’s no switch MP

[crystal iris]

WOW, I bet I visited yours. I saw 2 Bases with Utopia in the title. Like Utopia something.. travelers name
but, the bases were non memorable, if I recall correctly, there was only a base station and a few pieces.

[jagged sedge]

Perhaps not tho, I think all the bases had Utopia in the default name - but it is slightly possible

[crystal iris]

look at this: #nms-expedition message
None of those has Utopia in the title.
But that's not how I saw the names when I looked via the Teleporter.

[crystal iris]

Your image shows a totally different view of the bases I saw. wow

[quasi copper]

I'm on a second playthrough of the expedition and am hardly finding any bases, including my old ones (not that I have a good way to look for them if I don't luck into getting them in the teleporter list). Haven't seen the third planet sentinel pillar base I used in the first playthrough, either, and I really miss that one.

[jagged sedge]

Welp, you two have inspired me, I'm gonna do it once again, this time, for experimenting!

Oh, I'm starting under water this time!

[quasi copper]

Post base coordinates somewhere maybe?

[jagged sedge]

OMG the MT is totally different too

Oh nooo - the ship is stupid looking

[jagged sedge]

I can share if you like, but I literally just started, so it will be a bit

First, I must wander around and look for a spot that says 'build a base here!'

[unkempt salmon]

can i still get the new speeder ship?

[crystal iris]

What?? We can do the Expedition more than once under the same account?

[crystal iris]

underwater?? I'm going to try and redo it too!!!

[jagged sedge]

If you get rid of the previous file, yes -- this will be my fourth run, lol

[quasi copper]

Is that a Switch thing? I just start a new save. Still have my old, finished one.

[crystal iris]

ut oh... what do you mean get rid of the previous file? I'm on Xbox

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[jagged sedge]

Can Xbox users have more than one save?

[crystal iris]

I don't think so. I'm not aware.

[jagged sedge]

Hm - I just found a resource depot here

[crystal iris]

@quasi copper @jagged sedge So Both of you have restarted the Expedition? I'm going to try. Should we attempt to meet up? I guess this time I have to have Multiplayer on though. First time I had it off as suggested in the Pins.

[jagged sedge]

Switch no have MP tho

[crystal iris]

oh wait, you're on the Switch? We can't join then. It's not cross platform with the Switch yet. Right?

[jagged sedge]

MP is not, but we can visit each other's bases

[crystal iris]

Are you sure?

[jagged sedge]

100% sure

[quasi copper]

So far, my bases are useless and a bit ugly. I wish we started with more base options, and that they'd made the base computers take something other than Pure Ferrite, which so many of the more advanced base objects need.

Pure Ferrite's been easier for me to get than copper, though! Somehow I could not find more than one copper deposit on New Kehille. I went looking so far from my base it would have taken half an hour in the exocraft to get back.

[crystal iris]

Are you on Switch also?

[quasi copper]

PC. I mostly don't do multiplayer, but let me know if you need help.

[crystal iris]

Ok, Don't think I'll need help. Was just going to do it if we could find each other and do it together.

[quasi copper]

Yeah, I started a couple of days ago, so I'm on the third planet now, and halfway done there. : /

[crystal iris]

oh ok, so you don't see any bases? What the 3rd planet?

My bases are numbered. 1st base, 2nd base, and 3rd base... then would have my nick on the end.
3rd base 704 or 3rd Exped Base 704

[quasi copper]

Not seeing many bases. Like, maybe 5 on the first planet, and one or two on the second and third. My halfway useful old one was Utopia something-or-other Paraffinium. Set up a mineral extractor there. Thought it might be useful for people who wanted to set up multiple geobays.

[ocean gorge]

My first run, on PS5, there weren’t much in the way of copper deposits near where I spawned. I walked a LOT😂 In retrospect, I really should’ve made the nomad much earlier lol😬 Would’ve saved me so much time, but that’s ok, it’s not like I need to rush this or anything else really😆 But yeah in comparison, when I played on Series X, there were a ton more copper deposits near where I spawned on the first planet

Sometimes those buried cache boxes can help you out, anything from nanites to one I actually got some indium from, which is a much better conversion rate of chromatic metal than copper. Didn’t get a lot of it, but still, was nice Sure, sometimes you get junk but it never hurts to check the stuff near you

[sudden anchor]

Stupid question….wheres my ship?

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[ocean gorge]

Did you just start the expedition?

[sudden anchor]

Yeah I found it

It spawned 8 minutes away

[ocean gorge]

Yeah it’s pretty far away, they expect you to use an exocraft first and find it that way

The nomad will be really helpful for this expedition, so there’s tips in the pins, I suggest reading them over

Stuff like being sure to dismantle the exocraft geobay once you make it, since you want to have the materials to build it on the next planet (you’ll have the exocraft with you on the planet until you build and summon at the next planet; deleting the geobay doesn’t delete the exocraft itself)

[sudden anchor]

That’s exactly what i did

Oh damn quagmire planet lol

Gigity

[green igloo]

There's a trick to it. If you use the smallest target size for the Terrain Manipulator, you can extract much more from a mineral deposit. It still takes a lot of fuel and time though.

[ocean gorge]

Yeah I already know that trick. Doesn’t help if you don’t find any deposits close by😅

[willow geyser]

what is the reason on making the expedition rewards unobtainable when they are over

i mean sure would push people to play the expedition, but wouldnt it be a good idea to have them obtained as a reward for completing the expedition and when its over a purchasable item in the qs shop?

[fringe agate]

I think we will see that at some point

Or a static Expedition mode where you choose which you want to do

[willow geyser]

:o

that would be the best thing ever

[jagged sedge]

This would be much appreciated, as we Switch players had no access to the first 4 -- This gets my 'thumbs up'!

[jagged sedge]

My new base on New Kehille is called 'Utopia 1' -- not much there yet, but you should be able to find it - so far, I have nutrient processor, star bulbs just outside, and a cave with humming sacs, enough to get the hazmat gauntlet unlocked -- drop by any time! More amenities will be added once I unlock them, lol

[floral blade]

There is no multiplayer for switch @jagged sedge

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[jagged sedge]

This is true, but we are connected to the ODS so we can visit each other's bases

[floral blade]

May I ask what the ODS is?

[jagged sedge]

'Online Discovery Service' -- connects all platforms

[floral blade]

And 2 Switch Players can connect using this?

[jagged sedge]

All NMS players are connected with it

[floral blade]

Then why do people say there is no multiplayer for Switch?

[jagged sedge]

Because MP and the ODS are separate services

[floral blade]

I need to test this between the two Switches in my home.

[jagged sedge]

In the Switch version, you can see and visit other player's bases and grab stuff from their storage silos and planters, but there won't be anyone else there

[floral blade]

I understand.

[jagged sedge]

One more condition - you would have to use separate user accounts to commune with bases

[floral blade]

Thanks for the info. Playing mp would be best so I’ll hope for that one day.

[jagged sedge]

IMO multi player is ok, but kinda over-rated - NMS is a mostly single player game anyway

[floral blade]

Not if you want to play with your wife. 🥺

[jagged sedge]

My own wife has no interest in space games, so - you lucky human, you

[floral blade]

We both did the expedition on Switch and started a save file. I also play on Steam version when I am able.

[jagged sedge]

I've read the Steam version is quite good, but I have no device with Steam

[floral blade]

I have a Desktop PC for gaming. It works really good on it. I don’t mod. Just vanilla install.

[jagged sedge]

Sounds good, I prefer the vanilla experience also

[quasi copper]

Can't find your base, @jagged sedge . Not appearing in the teleporter list, and flying around only shows me a handful of bases. Did find a place called Owl's Nest that has some mineral extraction of copper going nearby, so that was nice.

[jagged sedge]

Welp, I only uploaded it recently, it may take some time for the list to update - also, if you reload, or leave a system and come back later, the list will update

[quasi copper]

I'll try again later, then. Mine are still kind of useless and ugly -- I'm working on getting more parts -- but they're called "Utopia <random-proper-noun> - Hylarion <#>"

[jagged sedge]

Your bases only need to be there for your purpose, so don't worry if they're not pretty

You should see the ship I started with, it's the ugliest contraption I ever laid eyes on

[quasi copper]

Oh, yeah, I got this incredibly awkward hulking bird sort of hauler.

[jagged sedge]

Some haulers are cool, but mine looks ridiculous

[quasi copper]

Probably about as ridiculous as my random appearance.

[jagged sedge]

Wings with big engines angled downward, looks like it would hit the ground immediatly

But no worries, all this can be changed later

[quasi copper]

Yeah, I think we got the same hauler. It looks like it stoops on its prey ... and then sits on it for the kill.

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[quasi copper]

LOL. I just got a multi-tool expansion slot from a buried cache. Never knew they could contain those. But I can't use the thing until after the expedition.

[jagged sedge]

You might consider just selling it, the MT we start with is usually C class anyway

[quasi copper]

I might, but those are so hard to come by ...

[jagged sedge]

It's up to you really, but you can just stash it in storage for later

[jagged sedge]

I have added a build station, a medium refiner, and an oxygen collector -- Lots of crafting going on here now, lol

[quasi copper]

Nice. I just put up an appearance modifier. Strange priority, perhaps, but there it is. Seeing whether I can make it smaller and have it still work.

[jagged sedge]

Sounds like something I'd like to try, what's your base called?

[quasi copper]

Utopia Suchi - Hylarion 1 - Storage, I think.

So, yes, you can shrink the appearance modifier (with a save editor). But now it puts the camera outside the building, and you can't actually see the appearance you're making. Brilliant! This will take work.

ETA: think I fixed it.

[jagged sedge]

Cool, I'll see if I can find it

No luck yet, but I found one called 'beef base'

[quasi copper]

Anything interesting there?

[jagged sedge]

I'm apparently getting the hyperdrive blueprint kinda early, lol

Welp, the first thing I'm gonna build is the launch thruster auto charger - that will save a lot of trouble

[quasi copper]

Hear, hear.

[jagged sedge]

Welp, real life calls, I must log out a while -- ttyl

[shy dagger]

just started the expe

should i do something that can help me at the start?

[meager scroll]

Stockpile ferrite and copper on 1st planet

Refine copper into chromatic

You will need like 2000 units of chromatic minimum

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[meager scroll]

Don't leave the planet until you do have that

Check the pinned messages for other tips and tricks

[shy dagger]

i created a base but its not giving me the milestone

[shy dagger]

what do i do ;-;

[shy dagger]

it says to add 4 base pieces and i am way over that

[quasi copper]

Did you add the specific pieces it wanted? Did you upload the base? What's it say to do when you click on it in your quest log?

[sullen meteor]

You need like 15 base pieces in order to upload a base and therefore complete the milestone
But those 15 pieces can be wires which are free to build assuming you have them unlocked

[shy dagger]

yeah solved it

[shy dagger]

So uh, reached 2000 chromatic, what now?

[quasi copper]

Make sure you have some extra launch fuel.

[jagged sedge]

I like to stock up on food items from the nutrient processor, they can recharge your LS power, and restore health also

[tender current]

how much % can super charger boost this damage? assume the one I got is a 6% when its not boosted. I put it on and its shows8%, is it the highest?

[jagged sedge]

What even is that?

[sullen meteor]

its a picture of an upgrade module for the infra-knife starship weapon

[jagged sedge]

Oh ok - I've never used that one

[sullen meteor]

I'll check for you with save editor in a bit

[tender current]

thank you!!

[meager scroll]

@ashen shore

!faq-expedition

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• Game Mode Explained: Expeditions are an alternate time-limited, season-like game mode with a set of challenges rewarding exclusive items that can be claimed in any and all of your saves, in any game mode account-wide. When you finish the expedition you may convert your save to a pre-determined game mode -- most expeditions convert to Normal, with the exception of Expedition 7 which converted to Survival. At the end of the event, the game forces the conversion.

• Saving: Although the game autosaves, make sure to synchronize your restore save point often, by exiting your starship and using save beacons/points.

• Save before claiming a reward, in case the reward glitches. Save after receiving the reward, in case the game crashes after.

• Don't hoard stuff early on. Exosuit storage is not abundant when you start out. Before you can upgrade storage, only keep items for active quests or what you need for survival (e.g., oxygen or life support gel, sodium or sodium nitrate for hazard protection). Sell or discard everything else. Hover over loot you come across, the item card says what you can use it for.

Double check before getting rid of items received from milestones, as they may be useful for other milestone requirements.

• Update Multiplayer configurations: Disable PvP and Base permissions to reduce potential headaches, like being griefed by other players. If you experience glitches, especially in heavily populated areas, including the Space Anomaly or warping with your freighter, disable Multiplayer and reload your save. See multiplayer visual guide »

• For more expedition tips, see Pins in #nms-expedition.

• For gameplay or technical questions, also check #nms-questions.

• Bug Reports: Type !HelloGames for HG Helpdesk links, including the bug report form.

• Other Commands helpful during expedition events:
!ExpTime - Active Expedition time remaining.
!Faq-ExpGlypys - Latest known Rendezvous points coordinates for active expedition.

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[jagged sedge]

Welp, I've gotten to the part of the mission that has to do with volcano climbing, I think I might skip that one

Looks like I can't progress without doing it -- welp, here we gooo!

[quasi copper]

Good luck, but you can skip it for now!