nms-expedition

[left pivot]

authentication means nothing as far as I understand

[patent pollen]

I think it was on the paradise planet in the second warp system of the expidition.

[trail coyote]

Ended with a field goal

[grim fossil]

It’s not got the authenticated icon anyway, as it is just a fabricated ship.

[lusty slate]

Though mind you, I think gifting the parts as blueprints would be a nice idea. The base Autophage staff parts can crafted, there's a precedent.

[remote thunder]

he's cute 🤗

[remote thunder]

i think that could be a way to do it in the future

especially as the fabricator matures, gets expanded

[remote thunder]

with a bang! congrats 🙂

[indigo falcon]

yeah I have a little base there, was so happy to see those big gekbears

(they are over 5m tall!)

[timid ermine]

Yo got a question
For the restore crashed ship mission in phase 3,do sentinel ships count too?

[remote thunder]

they do

[timid ermine]

Ight thanks

[patent pollen]

I had my main base there for the expidtion. It just showed up outside my base midways through day2

.

[old fox]

can I build an outer ladder for that top piecfe instead of ramps?

[indigo falcon]

since that's a nice system for the derelict (for people who don't like bugs), I might build out the base a little bit and upload it

[remote thunder]

wait which system?

[indigo falcon]

a jump away from the starter system, "Yakjalj-Sek II"

[remote thunder]

hmm

[indigo falcon]

(meaning a jump away without any fancy upgrades and such)

[remote thunder]

(not that most would have any at that point?)

[indigo falcon]

exactly.

[remote thunder]

i'll try looking for it

use less uk was looking for a easier df layout

[indigo falcon]

okey dokey. just aboring little yellow star system, nothing fancy. lemme see which species has it, um

[remote thunder]

@wraith badge ^ in case you're still working on the dereliction milestone (bug free df)

[indigo falcon]

korvax, heh

[remote thunder]

bugs got vented out the airlock

[indigo falcon]

2 planets. one of those is a paradise world

I wonder what the starter system derelict is like

[remote thunder]

i don't think so no

[old fox]

I’m not a huge fan of the ramps, any suggestions on what I can do?

[remote thunder]

i'm claiming all the phase rewards on my current, leaving it running, going to build a plant farm, then farm some moneys and go DF hunting 😄

[indigo falcon]

I've claimed all but one so >I can do some post-run stuff to potentially help out other players

but df hunting is not on mytodo list 😛

[remote thunder]

what do you think about moving this conversation to #nms-base-building? i at least will follow.

let us know, feel free to ping me there again

[old fox]

Oh didn’t see it

[remote thunder]

because here it's likely to get buried, i almost missed the question at first

[remote thunder]

you're so nice and thoughtful 🙂

DF hunting is always on my list, basically

[indigo falcon]

I feel guilty after not being able to help out for so long, basically 😛

[remote thunder]

don't ofc 🙂

[indigo falcon]

well sure. but easy to say hard to do etc. anyways...

if you run some derelicts from the rend. systems, let us know, I think 3 is known bugs, dunno about the rest

[remote thunder]

i did it in rdv3, definitely has bugs yeah

[wraith badge]

I am but no idea if I'll get to it today ... off to Hospital soon for yet more tests.

[thin tangle]

What is DF, a new resource?

[indigo falcon]

derelict freighter!

[thin tangle]

Ahh.. I'll be honest I've never seen it put like that, that's my bad

[indigo falcon]

we love our acronyms in here, for sure

[thin tangle]

No doubt, I'll have to remember that one

You keeping well btw? Doubt you'd remember but we spoke before when i was more active lol

[indigo falcon]

it's been a while 🙂

I've had some health issues, just trying to take it real slow now

nice and easy

you?

[thin tangle]

Yes, I'm not great with keeping up with everything, that's for sure 😀

I'm sorry, I hope you're keeping well regarding that!
I'm good, thankyou

[lusty slate]

I take NMS breaks and vanish periodically. Life happens.

[idle warren]

how to get teh tall mountain quest?>

[remote thunder]

rendezvous 2 and 3 planets are suitable, and by the looks of it so is rendezvous 5 planet

lol, i dropped inside atmos in rdv5 almost immediately bumped into a really tall mountain

[lilac star]

thx

[indigo falcon]

don't forget that you can build a base and stack some walls or stairs on a mountaintop if it's a little too short, and jetpack from the top of that too.

[wraith junco]

All milestones are always along expedition route. No need to venture far from exp path.

[lilac star]

yeah someone build a stair up to heaven

[faint pelican]

Please do this! I am terrified of the derelict freighters.

[indigo falcon]

even when I do, you might not find my base in the listing because there are a lot of players uploading. however, it may well be that the starter world or r1 derelict is also "easy", we'll know in the next couple days I expect, and have the info here 🙂 (thanks in advance bk :-P)

[analog onyx]

yo guys where is the captain log usually found in?

[analog onyx]

put terraria corruption music on it and its not scary anymore

[remote thunder]

interact with the secure mainframe terminal

needs security credentials item, looted from a log snippet

[analog onyx]

got one, thanks

[faint pelican]

Okay gtk, I’ll hope for the “easy” one near R1 then or some updated info when I get to that part of the expedition.

[ashen shore]

I went for a black hole now I have no idea how far away from the rendezvous I am

[indigo falcon]

yah but go to a space station and look for space stations there with the name of the systems pinned in here as rend. systems (I dunno which rend. you were at but anyways)

[ashen shore]

I forgot entirely the portals exist

[indigo falcon]

(teleporters) yeah they are a great help when stuff like this happens. one of the reasons I go to every space station along the route

[last umbra]

The issue with making Deuterium on the starting planet was very frustrating. Now I can finally build a base. But how do I get a Freighter? I forgot to add Thruster Fuel to my starting ship, now I can't get the materials I stored on it.

[misty plinth]

for the most part exp 13 is fun. The only anoying part is the Find 12 waypoints to click. i dont mind the collecting ingredients to collect mats and make surge batteries. Its using the signal booster that uses em and sends ya to trade posts with no way point marker, abandonded buildings with save point markers that dont count, distress beacons with save markers that again, dont count. I thinnk out of 18 Surge batteries used. I actually got 1 waypoint marker to click on. so im at 1 /12 atm. talk about frustrating.

[frail pendant]

How do you get activated copper?

[grim fossil]

You would have hated pioneers, the first expedition had us chart 60 waypoints, this expedition did have a few milestones that haven’t appeared for a good while.

[grim fossil]

planets orbiting yellow stars, scan planets from space and locate one that says it has activated copper.

[misty plinth]

i know, ive done all the expeditions. its just anoying. i go through the trouble to collect the mats to make 20 surge batteries (thuinking thats enough). then to only get 1 actual way point maker out of 18 attempts talk about bad RNG

[grim fossil]

Easier way to do it than using the signal booster would just be fly in one direction, scan in your ship and head to structure markers that appear.

[last umbra]

I made 5 of the Surge Batteries, only to get 5 as a reward for another Milestone. What you can scan for seems to change on different planets. I got the Milestone for Ruins now so that doesn't bother me as much.

[grim fossil]

Signal booster should change the first option based on your current selected milestone.

[last umbra]

That makes sense

[grim fossil]

So when you say select the milestone “nameless history” to discover ruins it will change the first option to state that it will scan for ruins.

This is what I observed at least, could have been broken for others no doubt

[thin tangle]

That.. Is actually a great way to put it

[last umbra]

Anyone know how to recall a secondary ship that doesn't have enough Launch Thruster Fuel? I want to get materials off the ship.

[indigo falcon]

there's some on the other planet in the starter system

[indigo falcon]

the 5 it givesyou aren't enough anyways, you need at least 2 more

[deft lichen]

is there a reason why i cant really find anybody on the space station? like every so often there will be tons of bases, but rn i've only got 2 even though the parking spots are all full

the anomoly, i mean

[indigo falcon]

it's better to come across waypoints organically as you explore, or fly around looking for deposits etc... I got through the required number before even getting to the milestone

[misty plinth]

The NPCs were all removed for the expedition

[deft lichen]

right, i know that, i'm talking about player characters

[indigo falcon]

in the anomaly, try using your scanner 😉

[deft lichen]

i've already cycled multiplayer on and off in my network settings

[indigo falcon]

(it's not a bug it's a feature)

[deft lichen]

what does that mean??? im using my scanner and nothing is happening.

[indigo falcon]

scan like you would for resources (oxy, carbon), I think

then look around.......

[bleak ether]

How can I get Deuterium

[indigo falcon]

silicate powder plus dihy in the personal refiner mk 2

[bleak ether]

Ok thanks

[last umbra]

I have to say I REALLY like the personal refiner MK 2.

[indigo falcon]

pretty nice, sure wish it would make its way into the base game 🙂

[deft lichen]

i hope it's something we can get in normal saves, yeah

[bleak ether]

Di-hydrogen for dihy?

[deft lichen]

also wish they had added an easier way to get wiring looms for this expedition because i went to like 9 different market... things... and couldn't find any for sale. had to jump to a new system to get the ones i needed for my indium drive

yes

[bleak ether]

Ok

[indigo falcon]

no wiring looms at the space station trade terminals? hrm wonder if multiplayer can possibly impact that

[bleak ether]

Is there a way to turn off camera shake

[deft lichen]

yes under camera in settings

i had to turn mine down to 10% too

[bleak ether]

The starting planet is annoying with the camera shake

[indigo falcon]

I have mine turned down; it used to give me a headache (emergence, expd 4)

[bleak ether]

Oh

It has been way to long since I've started a new save

[indigo falcon]

I'm out of save slots so that's that

unless I get the game on another platform 😛

[bleak ether]

It would be cool if we could delete 1 save instead of all

[faint mesa]

Isn't that how it works?

[bleak ether]

I've never tried it so Idk

[faint mesa]

As far as I know you can delete one particular save

[bleak ether]

Oh

[faint mesa]

Never done it because I have unreasonable feelings for old expedition saves that I'll never touch again

[bleak ether]

How old?

[faint mesa]

Since the third one I think? So 3 years old give it or take

[bleak ether]

Damn, so the expedition are still kinda new?

[indigo falcon]

you can delete them, I just don't want to

[faint mesa]

Pioneers is from feb/mar 2021 if I recall correctly

[indigo falcon]

and yeah I have all my expedition saves and won't delete even if I don't play most of them

[bleak ether]

I managed to start the expedition next to an observatory

[elder yarrow]

so back online again... and looking at nanite acquisition... the only way to do the brain easily is to basically go down the list of interceptors at https://nmsge.com/ visit each one, grab the mats, cancel the quest, and bail

so basically, the sane way to get a bunch nanites is to go farm up radiant shards since each one will convert to 50 nanites, and you can do that a lot faster in the minotaur than most of the other methods to acquire nanite materials... except for the runaway mould farming

[deft lichen]

I haven't finished adrift yet, i'm on phase 4, but i can't help but wonder if this is what ||Artemis|| went through

[indigo falcon]

uh huh, except for Artemis there was no return (well depending on player choice etc)

[arctic rampart]

Hi fam, noob here. Can I lower the difficulty options on the expedition save and I'll still get all rewards?

Thx

[indigo falcon]

yes you can

[neat latch]

I was dumbstruck at the mention of ||Mind Ark.|| It is such a nice touch to the whole “empty universe” theme of this expd.

[indigo falcon]

but be aware that if you turn off enemy combat on foot, you will not get the miilestone for the collection of eggs; that has to be done with the settings, if not standard, at least something

[neat latch]

One level below Standard should work, it can’t be None.

[indigo falcon]

however.... if you do turn it off to pick up some eggs, that's a fast way to get some nanites (if you are comfortable with cheesing it in this way, everyone's constraints are different)

[neat latch]

Yeah.

[arctic rampart]

Thanks very much. I set it to minimal and hope I'll survive this!

[indigo falcon]

with the eggs, you can grab a couple and then head to the top of a building or just run off to ship and leave if you want, go on with the expd, you got this!

[arctic rampart]

Thanks!!

[faint mesa]

Personal advice, do it on the starter planet

Low atmosphere, easier to get away from the monstrosities

(Also jetpack regenerates while on air, which doesn't happen on "normal" planets -- and is very handful)

[indigo falcon]

you can fix up your ship first and have it in running distance for extra safety (or go back to starter world later after getting stocked up on uranium for your laaunch thrusters)

lots of ways to hedge your bets 🙂

[deft lichen]

whats the simplest recipe you can make to get the cook your own food thing lmfao

[analog onyx]

last mission

[faint mesa]

Select the milestone, it guides you through a simple recipe

It was quite easy on my run, not sure if it varies

[solemn bane]

mmmm poopbread

[deft lichen]

oh cool, ty

[indigo falcon]

it tells you, pin the mission (you will be making bread)

[deft lichen]

it keeps auto-selecting other missions instead of expedition stuff. like rn its continuously going back to "lost in space"

[indigo falcon]

ugh, I do hate when it does that

[lime vessel]

Do we just have to randomly roam systems to find the hill at 1600 units and the ancient bones?

[analog onyx]

adrift is complete

[deft lichen]

you can build a bunch of stairs

[remote thunder]

rdv1 system has a planet with bones; rdv2, rdv3 and rdv5 are on planets suitable for the height milestone

[analog onyx]

time to hug all my alien friends, i missed them

[deft lichen]

doesnt have to be a natural formation.

[indigo falcon]

some people built stairs going up a lot on top of a peak, if they were short some units

[lime vessel]

Your a star thank you

[remote thunder]

lol take your pick

[deft lichen]

somebody built a fricking base around this grave and i cant get to it. and my signal booster wont show me a different one

[remote thunder]

quick menu, scroll right, report

[indigo falcon]

at least it took a few days for the trolls to show up. luckily the base report feature takes care of that in a hot second

[deft lichen]

theres like nine bases available to report here 💀

[indigo falcon]

if you can't tell which one, report until the blocking one disappears

[ashen shore]

the expedition is available?

[faint mesa]

It is, until July 15th

Not on Switch though

[ashen shore]

hoki doki

[heady pilot]

I feel bad for Switch owners. All I can really say is that if any of them are able and willing the Steam Deck is a better option for portable gaming and would be a huge improvement for NMS as well.

[lusty slate]

I don't exactly have a lot of money to throw around these days, so.

[indigo falcon]

nintendo better get on the ball is all I gotta say. not cool at all

[lusty slate]

We have a month, though. Like, if the expedition was ending in a week, I'd be more concerned.

[indigo falcon]

6 weeks give or take

[heady pilot]

A month and a half....about six weeks left. So there should be plenty of time to still do the expedition.

[bold atlas]

I just went to a dissonant paradise planet on the expedition route that had tall mountains, found the tallest one and jetpacked in the air until I hit the threshold needed

[lusty slate]

I understand the frustration when it's released everywhere else. But I'm in my 40s with a job, I can busy myself until then.

[heady pilot]

You don't even have to do that. The rendezvous 2 and 3 planets have high peaks you can just land on with your ship. You might have to try a few or jetpack up a bit from one of those peaks if they are just short but it should be an easy milestone to complete.

[deft lichen]

i'm at the coordinates for rdv 5 and there's just one of these infuriating hills that are borderline unpassable

i can't find any ship like the pin mentions

wait i just found after like 1/2 an hour.goddamn

[heady pilot]

It's on a flat bit of terrain half way down the side of one of the peaks.

[bold atlas]

The worst part of this expedition was the beggining on the completely barren planet

Just skirting around the little worms around titan burrows looking for copper

And scavenging small rocks for carbon

[indigo falcon]

use the planetary coords (for the future), these were a lfiesaver for me

[deft lichen]

I did!!

XC

[indigo falcon]

hm, maybe you weren't low enough for the darn thing to render in?

anyways glad you finally got it

[deft lichen]

i was on foot OTL

i wish steam would give us achievements for expeditions so i could keep easier track of which ones i've done

next time i need to remember to start the expedition fomr the console not the mode select menu

now i cant transfer any of my stuff from my expedition save i don't think

[indigo falcon]

is this not from an existing save? if it's a new savw then yeah you can't

[deft lichen]

yeah it was a new save

🤡

[indigo falcon]

yeah your only bet now is to find a third party, and give them the stuff to trade, then have them meet your old save and hand over the items

[deft lichen]

yeaaah no, its nowhere near that important lmfao

[ashen shore]

ya yo yee

[deft lichen]

my new wishlist for nms functions is an armory where you can store multitools

and maybe a garage or a hanger to store more ships

we get a new ship every other expedition, 9 slots is not enough lmfao

[thick umbra]

did just finish it in rdv3

[thick umbra]

did finish DF in RDV3

[indigo falcon]

ah lol, I was wondering why I couldn't drop stuff in my personal refiner... had the emergncy signal scanner still in there (in case the doors were bgged, which they weren't, thank goodness)

[indigo falcon]

bugs bugs and more bugs, right?

[thick umbra]

no .. it worked ... did finish DF without a bug

[indigo falcon]

ah, maybe you interpreted bugs a different way. I mean "nests" not "game broken" bugs!

ok,added a couple useless carbon planters and one of those green crate things for life support gel, uploaded base with "Easy Derelict' in the name, hope it shows up for people

tomorrow I guess, it can take up to a day

[wraith badge]

It's easy ... only died once ... only problem is now I've completed the mission I cannot get out ... when I try to use the teleporter I cannot walk on to the pad to actually teleport, it's like there's a ridge I cannot walk over. If I try to leave the way I came in I get stuck in a corridor trying to access a ladder I just cannot get in to the area where the ladder is ... like an invisible wall is stopping me.

Not Happy!

[indigo falcon]

uuuhhh

[thick umbra]

haha ok yeah 🙂

[indigo falcon]

can you get out of the room at all?

[ashen shore]

Easy derelict would have been nice to find earlier. I actually had to turn the difficulty down to get through the one I found. I think it was a combination of turrets and those nests that won't let you move.

[lime vessel]

Has anyone else's game glitched to where it's saying your inventory is full even though you have loads of space and won't let you claim the rewards of a mission??

[quasi copper]

I was wondering whether that would work. Anyone know if you can just turn combat off for the derelict?

[ashen shore]

Was kind of nice sprinting from here to heater shooting things though

[rose veldt]

Switch to your C class ship or multi-tool

@lime vessel because you own a S class.. You can't accept the rewards to upgrade your ship or multi-tool

[wraith badge]

I was in a corner corridor that leads to a set of stairs ... I had trouble getting in to the corridor and then even more trouble getting in to the area where the stairs were ... ended up just rotating and moving towards the stairs and eventually found a way throught whatever barrier was there ... so managed to exit the DF ... on way to station now to make a save

[rose veldt]

Even A will do

[lime vessel]

Thank you!!!

[ashen shore]

I just did damage levels. But just turning it down once made a huge difference

I went from loudly crying to kind of sobbing

[quasi copper]

Heh. I sympathize. I hate derelicts.

[rose veldt]

I love them

[quasi copper]

You can have mine. :)

[grim fossil]

Weird, could I mayhaps lay a question down, is there an asteroid cluster around the DF?

[rose veldt]

The only problem, it's to short...

[rose veldt]

With pleasure

[indigo falcon]

not necessarily, I guess there can be

[wraith badge]

Nope ... activated the scanner and entered Pulse used a full tank of Tritium and once the tank was refilled and entered Pulse again a DF showed up ... so I was no where near anything ... ended up 7 minutes away from the station.

[grim fossil]

Hmm I only ask because these clipping into a freighter hanger or df can cause the exact issue you are having, it could be the reason.

But I’m just spitballing, got MP enabled?

If so any players in the system?

[wraith badge]

No.

[grim fossil]

Cool rules one out

[wraith badge]

I had to exit teh DF the way I went in as I couldn't use the teleporter to exit quickly ... I was unable to walk on to the pad again like an invisible wall was stopping me

[indigo falcon]

so weird but if you got out, that's the main thing

[grim fossil]

Yeh it’s strange, but final question, NPC freighter warp in at any time after you entered the DF?

[wraith badge]

Oh! I nearly didn't ... was VERY, VERY close to rage quitting.

[wraith badge]

No NPCs in Expedition.

[indigo falcon]

a squeaker! but a win's a win!

[grim fossil]

lol that’s true haha

[urban lion]

Is the expedition available on switch yet ?

[wanton raft]

Does one of the milestones give you the two slot backpack refiner?

[indigo falcon]

no; I expect it will be in the nms-announcements or nms-news-ticker channels when it shows up at last, hopefully soon

[remote thunder]

yes, phase 1 milestone 2

[wanton raft]

thanks

[urban lion]

Ok thanks !

[indigo falcon]

note that we have the phases and their rewards pinned in here so you take scan through them from time to time easily, see what could be useful to do early.

[faint pelican]

Wow cool! Thanks!

[wraith badge]

@indigo falcon @remote thunder Thanks for the help with the DF ... couldn't find that system you mentioned, I did change the filter to race and looked/checked all the Korvax systems and still couldn't find a system of that name. So just ended up doing it in the starter system, as I too was curious to see what type of DF would spawn there, turns out it was an easy one ... no Bugs, unless you count the one in specimen cases. Still not a fan of DFs.

[indigo falcon]

good, that makes it easy for us to direct people, just send them to starter system. tysm for the report back!

what hostiles were in there, so we know?

(besides no bugs)

[wraith badge]

just jelly things and a few security drones

[indigo falcon]

ok same as my one then, we're probably in the same small region for df enemy generation

[faint pelican]

Oh that is helpful to know the starter system has an easy DF!

[indigo falcon]

can anyone in the expd in game now that got the seedpacket blueprints (I already shut down everything meh) check their build menu and tell me what ones are in there?

[faint pelican]

I have never done one, so terrified. Maybe after this expedition one I won’t be so scared on my main save.

[soft fractal]

So uh, think im stuck in hyperspeed atm

[wraith badge]

Don't quote me but I think you get all except Grav Host, Venom Urchin, Albumen Pearl and Nip Nip

[indigo falcon]

your main save probably has a lot more gear than this save does. I'm no fan but I got through with one lousy cold protection C (we get from a milestone the blueprint), and the scatterblaster and upgrade they give us

[indigo falcon]

hmm funny how they leave those out, heh

[dusty elm]

Hi! I was headed to Rendezvous 5 to get to a system that has the robotic lifeforms I need for mission: It's Alive. When I got to Rend 4 I thought I'd go ahead and knock it out, but when I approached the site to claim it, the icon disappeared and I couldn't claim it. Do I need to complete Rend 3 before I can claim Rend 4 & 5?

[soft fractal]

Been staring at the hyperspeed rainbows for 5 mins now

[indigo falcon]

and you can't exit?

[soft fractal]

Ye

[indigo falcon]

any controls work at all?

[soft fractal]

Nope

Cant open menus or nothing

Phun

[faint pelican]

I don’t think I have cold protection, but I’ll check, and I only have boltcaster, been dismantling things for resources. lol

[quasi copper]

Maybe a key's stuck down or something? If you're on PC, try tabbing out and typing in Notepad and going back in?

[soft fractal]

Nah ps5

[indigo falcon]

there's a c class blueprint we get given at some point iirc and it's not so expensive to make. also use your supercharge slots for hazard, it helps

[indigo falcon]

oh crap. so force game quit is just about your only option, any idea when your last save might be? last time you got out of your ship?

[soft fractal]

When i installed the drive itself

[quasi copper]

I don't think you'd normally need to do them in order. Is it one of those where you now have to use the scanner to find the real spot?

[indigo falcon]

yes, all of teh r points once you land at the so-called location, you need to use the location scanner and walk (or low fly) there, extremely annoying

[soft fractal]

If it keeps happening can someone report it as a bug?

[indigo falcon]

I truly wish the location scanner would die the death. permadeath

[soft fractal]

Im not sure how too

[indigo falcon]

absolutely.

you can report it in fact

!support

[elder yarrow]

what are good suit techs to supercharge?

i'm drawing a blank atm on that XD

[dusty elm]

I did the scanner on foot and was following it, then it took me to a crashed freighter. Not sure why though.

[quasi copper]

I'd do Life Support on the first planet; I think you get a module fairly early on that will go nicely in a supercharged slot. Might want to move that to hazard protection later.

[blazing fossil]

!hg

[unkempt kraken]

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

[quasi copper]

Does that milestone come with a ship or tool class upgrade? If so, you might be trying to claim it while using an item that's at max.

[soft fractal]

Cheers for the link

[indigo falcon]

yeah I had to look it up and then I couldn't find the bot-spam channel, just a complete mess today, never mind me 😛

[soft fractal]

Nah no wuckas you helped out

[quasi copper]

Huh. No, it doesn't mention any upgrades. Maybe you didn't claim the freighter yet? There's a bug related to that, though it might be patched now?

Yeah.

[soft fractal]

@indigo falcon okay, force quit fixed the issue. If it pops up again ill report it

[indigo falcon]

yeah that's a woops. did you at least say 'claim later'?

[soft fractal]

Cheers again

[quasi copper]

I think there's supposed to be a fix coming so that you can still claim Phase 4.

[indigo falcon]

well... shoot. yeah it's a known and reported bug, just do the rest and wait for a fix to drop

(also feel free to report it yourself!)

you can do everything else so that's the only issue you have left, sure

no

[quasi copper]

I don't see anything in the pins -- did I miss it? If it isn't there, it might be helpful to put something in about not rejecting that freighter.

[indigo falcon]

I don't think you even can

you can do all other milestones, collect all other rewards (and end phase rewards) and just leave that one thing

[indigo falcon]

we don't have a helpful tips pin yet, I've been collecting some info, that should definitely go in

a sort of 'known bugs' section

while we're on that topic, what else is known and a big deal (like, "don't do X, it may soft lock you")?

[quasi copper]

Don't know about soft-locks, but using silicate powder to get deuterium is holding up a lot of people.

[indigo falcon]

yeah I have it in my notes list

[meager scroll]

reading the tooltips is holding up a lot of people

[indigo falcon]

so far I have: a couple planets with ancient bones, one with activ. copper, some with various other resources (cobalt, gold, etc), tall mountains, easy derelicts, stuff like that

[quasi copper]

Heh. I had to ask, myself.

[indigo falcon]

it does (go to a blue star, I mean honestly)

[meager scroll]

Have something for "Locate Substance" from Catalogue and Guide?

Yeah blue star was bullshit, valid point

[indigo falcon]

no but not sure it's needed, everything is on the route

need gold? salt? cobalt? uranium? all on the route....

[meager scroll]

I did most of stuff in starting system and 1 neighbouring one

Then spend the last hour just jumping between RV systems

[indigo falcon]

atlantideum I have a system/world for, should probablyl get a pic because it's not in starter or rend. system, it's a jump away from one of them, I'll have to check later

I mostly got materials as I saw them, I think I hadto go back for extra copper and cobalt but that was it

well and I forgot to get radiant shards 🙄

[quasi copper]

I'm on a Dissonant world near the start right now. I can't remember how to do the emoji for glyphs.

[dusty elm]

Galaxy map not showing expedition route and I have it selected at the top. What might be wrong?

[quasi copper]

NVM: found it.

[uncut sigil]

Hey all! I'm stuck on 'It's Alive' the galaxy map sent me to a planet with only two species and even though that planet is a half dozen jumps back the quest keeps trying to send me back. How can I change the planet?

[indigo falcon]

we need the name and a pic of it on the galaxy map in relation to the starter system. glyphs won't help expeditioners unfortunately

[quasi copper]

Dissonant world: It's Runeusi XIV in the Zeligt-Ipes system.

[indigo falcon]

ignore the darn thing, enter free look and find a red star, (planet info starts K,L instead of G,F for yellow), use the life form filter up top and make sure the star system is white (uncharted) with that filter

I would leave it alone. do not collect. wait and see about a fix for the freighter issue

[indigo falcon]

can you get us a pic of it on the galaxy map and how far the nearest system on the route is from it (starter or r1, whichever is closer)?

[quasi copper]

Yeah -- I'll get that in a few minutes when I'm leaving here, then.

[indigo falcon]

ah ok! sorry sorry

[uncut sigil]

ok.. in game tip says Blue stars though.. no wonder I have not found any

[indigo falcon]

yes, in game the hint is, well, not wrong but horribly incomplete

there are many many more red star uncharted systems than blue, and they can have robofauna just like the blue star ones

(plus also the drive to get to red star systems takes a lot less work)

leave it in expd mode. do nothing. wait a few days, let's see what happens

e.g. I saw that a new internal branch went to steam about 45 minutes ago

[uncut sigil]

kk.. ty

[indigo falcon]

so one hint, when you get into a system where there are robofauna, if you have the mission pinned, it will tell you in the lower right. if not, move on.

oof too big. oh well

also that's the wrong tooltip, it will say 'in nearby planet' or something when you enter the system

[uncut sigil]

ah.. that's handy. thanks

[indigo falcon]

here's the right tooltip, sheesh

[elder yarrow]

anything i should be aware of with dying on this expedition?

[indigo falcon]

gotta get back to the grave site to collect yer stuff, the usual.

[elder yarrow]

ah, so it's not going by survival death rules... i kinda got stuck and screwed myself....

[indigo falcon]

ouchie... no this is not a survival mode save unless you yourself changed the difficulty settings

[elder yarrow]

ok, this was launched from my survival main save, why i was asking... it's normal difficult (thankfully)

[indigo falcon]

well that should not matter, expd mode is separate. go to options and check difficulty settings

[elder yarrow]

yep, just did

[indigo falcon]

and?

ah good. good.

[elder yarrow]

normal

[indigo falcon]

so one option you might have (but it might not help and could just waste materials) is to put down a base computer outside there, using the build camera, then a chair just outside but close enough you could interact with it when placed, to sit in it...... (assuming the swarm has subsided by now)

and see if you can sit in it. to unstick yourself

[dusty elm]

Can you please post a link to report a problem. The Expedition route is not being shown at Rendexvous 4. I went to check at Rendexvuos 1 and it was showing up there.

[indigo falcon]

!hg

[unkempt kraken]

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

[elder yarrow]

I've just started the expedition, so i don't have access to that

was playing hide and seek to get eggs XD

[indigo falcon]

can you try save-exit-reload, go back to the r4 system and see if it shows up?

[indigo falcon]

ah dang. not coming up with any other bright ideas...

[elder yarrow]

yeah, use the jetpack to kill myself

[dusty elm]

I did that and was the same, not there

[indigo falcon]

set a custom waypoint from r1

(for that system)

then go to r4, then select 'custom waypoint' instead ofo expd route?

[elder yarrow]

and... respawned...

[indigo falcon]

it might still not give you the r5 icon, unclear. but at least you could get into the system properly

[old fox]

can I seriously not get mining lasers for my exocraft with this expidition?

[indigo falcon]

unless you shipped them over from your main save, I think not. anything that needs an npc to get, you're out of luck

[woeful osprey]

got excited when i saw a new message in the ticker
now im just sad

[old fox]

Hello Games really chose every possible way to make this expedition grindy and annoying

[elder yarrow]

and that's why i'm glad i shipped in a full mod compilation for the nautilus along with a ton of resources

well, will be once i get to the anomaly

[indigo falcon]

it's meant to be a throwback to early game days, definitely not everyone's cup of tea

[old fox]

its nothing but grind grind grind grind

like ffs at least let me use my exocraft to make mining less boring

[indigo falcon]

note that you can buy some resources, and the trading posts have some resources the stations do not (like cobalt)... though I did mine most things. I admit to buying carbon and rusted metal virtually every time I stopped at a station, to save time

and especially after the experience of the starter world 😄

[quasi copper]

Is this what you need?

[elder yarrow]

yeah, the starter world is definitely unforgiving

[quasi copper]

The other planet in that system is the only thing that pushed me back to the starter. I hate both places. I got to a lovely little world one system over, and it's so wonderful I hate to leave. It's only a little radioactive.

[dusty elm]

How to I set a coustome waypoint from r1? Once I get the r4 and select custom waypoint how do I continue on to r5?

[indigo falcon]

maybe I did not understand right, but you see the r5 marker when you are in the r1 system, yes? in the galaxy map? so select that system and then set custom waypoint on that system, then go to r4, and instead of expd route you choose 'custom waypoint' in the galaxy map

then you will have a path towards your waypoint (the r5 system you selected), that works like any other galaxy map route. just follow it.

[dusty elm]

When I'm in the R1 system, I see the Exp route line to R2 on the galaxy map.

[indigo falcon]

er wut

and uh, let me just be sure. you've gone to r2, claimed the reward, all that?

[dusty elm]

Yes, all in R1, R2 , R3 I'm missing It's Alive. Reason I'm missing it is because I watched a YT video pointing out at R5 there's a system I can get the robotic lifeforms SShot attached. I made it to R4 and thought I'd go ahead and claim I reached R4. Well I couldn't do it because the location, while I was walking with scanner showing me where to go disappeared. This was all last night. Today I signed on and to try again and still couldn't find R4 claim spot, So thought I'd try and go to R5, then noticed no Expedition route highlighted.

[indigo falcon]

I found myselfa little mountainous paradise world one stop away from the starter system and set up shop there. .pretty pleasant

[pliant skiff]

the objective that gives the minotaur has upgrade blueprints for it as well. cannon, terrain masher, and miner

[indigo falcon]

oh... yeah ok so. r4 at least you can go to the system and use planetary coords, they are in here in the pins, tedious but you can get there.

after that you should be ok for r5

[quasi copper]

Other planets are just so nice. I don't want to go to Rendezvous 1. It's a wretched worm hive.

[dusty elm]

Here's where the robotic lifeforms suppose to be

[indigo falcon]

also: there are some systems in here pinned near r2, r3 that you could look for too if you like.

hm right, Isee. well you won't get the guide to r5 until you clear r4, so gotta get that done first

[old fox]

at least theres something, aight ty

[dusty elm]

Pinned? Where are the pins?

[indigo falcon]

are you on via mobile? I think kyou need to swipe down or up or something, ugh it's been too long. or select the channel name it it lets you get more info and the pins are there? (sorry,it's just been way too long)

[dusty elm]

I see pinned messages at the tip

top

[indigo falcon]

ok! there. there's one with all rend systems and the planet name and the thing you look for and the coords

so you can always check that for reference. also the other pins for how to find various things, we'll add more info over time

[dusty elm]

thank you👍

[summer nest]

I like to make pies and hand them out at random in the anomaly

[indigo falcon]

if you're not used to navigating via planetary coords (oh btw please select the 'get to r4' milestone before you go)... here's how to do it https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Planetary_coordinates#How_to_find_a_location_again_using_coordinates

[faint mesa]

lol I received some in the past. These days I give them sometimes, but not sure if all players know what to do with that

At least they are valuable

[dusty elm]

There's glyphs there. How can I get glyphs quickly in an expedition? is it possible?

[indigo falcon]

no. use the planetary coords, get to the system space station, pulse down to the planet the old boring way

[summer nest]

Was it around thanksgiving (USA)? That’s when I was doing it

[dusty elm]

I'm lazy and spoiled with glyphs😁

[indigo falcon]

aren't we all! but this will get you back on progress, even if a bit tedious to do. but do please set the right milestone before heading off. just in case. you know.

[faint mesa]

No glyphs on this expedition (which is unusual, but in tone with the rest of the story I guess)

[summer nest]

Still can’t decide if I want to play this new save or open my old main and play that again

[wraith junco]

No need to travel far so glyphs are not needed i guess

[dusty elm]

Thanks for the help!!

[indigo falcon]

until you lose the portal you were supposed to pass through, or a location marker vanishes, or etc...

[wraith junco]

But u dont need to pass through portal in this exp from what i remember or go far from expedition route.

[indigo falcon]

you do. there's exactly one portal you must use, and it can be in an arbitrary system

[remote thunder]

you do go through a portal for a milestone (phase 2 milestone 2)

[summer nest]

Don’t need glyphs for it

[wraith junco]

Oh. Ok

[indigo falcon]

you need glyphs if you wind up leaving before passing through

(and didn't place a base computer/save beacon)

[remote thunder]

we did help that other player giving them coords

[faint mesa]

Yeah, that portal part reminded a lot of ||The Purge|| -- I wonder if it was intentional

[indigo falcon]

already had two players in that predicament while i was in here...

[indigo falcon]

a lot of folks I think are dreaming of Artemis or Ariaadne on this expd.

[old fox]

Whats a good way to get a lot of chromatic metal? Im thinking activated indium plus fure ferrite in a refiner

[indigo falcon]

it's fine. or just acftivated copper, or if you prefer not extreme worlds, just a ton of regular copper. whatever you like

[old fox]

IDC about the world itself, likely gonna build a base on an activated indium world after the expedition is over

[indigo falcon]

I think I used just regular copper the whole way, mined up 2-3 deposits worth and that was that

I coulda used the activ. copper, I had a bunch left over but meh

[old fox]

btw I probably asked but forgot LOL

when Im done the expedition can I exit it without finisshing it and still get my rewards?

Got a friend doing the expedition a lot slower than I am but still wanna help em out

[remote thunder]

just leave 1 milestone unclaimed

i left phase 5 milestone 4, for example

[indigo falcon]

I left the robofauna one unclaimed

[remote thunder]

doing that will let you claim all phase and final rewards, and still keep the save on expedition

[old fox]

so I cant claim that vulture starship if I wanna still access the expedition?

sad

[remote thunder]

you can - final reward

phase and final

[old fox]

thats what Im doing the expedition for LOL

[indigo falcon]

just as long as something is unclaimed.

[woeful osprey]

what's the community rewards at?

[remote thunder]

i claimed every phase reward, and the ship at the end, and my save is still on expedition - see the phase 5 notification for "new reward"?

[old fox]

howd ya do that? dont gotta claim everything for that?

[remote thunder]

there is no community research milestone in this expedition

[indigo falcon]

as long as you did all the things, the game knows. it always knows...

[woeful osprey]

ah mk

[remote thunder]

click this button

[woeful osprey]

skeletune

[remote thunder]

completing milestones is one thing, claiming is another

[old fox]

ahhh smart I see

[remote thunder]

completing milestones unlocks phase rewards buttons

and completing phases unlocks final

[old fox]

Phase 5 rewards are pretty ass so Ill just skip collecting one of those

[indigo falcon]

lol

[old fox]

these robotic whatevers are rare?

[indigo falcon]

they are only on worlds in uncharted systems

[old fox]

damn so I guess i gotta head to the 5th rendevouz then

[indigo falcon]

there's pins in here with some near to r2, r3

[lusty slate]

Phase 5 titles and decals, etc are unique to the expedition itself though. No way to obtain those outside of Adrift.

[old fox]

ahh okay ty

didnt wanna warp so far to finish phase 3 cause the order is weird

[indigo falcon]

sure sure

[summer nest]

That’s why I’m thinking of running a main save through it after all

[indigo falcon]

but those are available on every save once you complete, no?

[lusty slate]

Pretty sure, yes.

[summer nest]

Well then, main save shall stay retired

[indigo falcon]

now if you want the personal refiner mk 2 on your main save, then take it through!

[lusty slate]

I was mainly replying to leaving it unclaimed period.

[indigo falcon]

oh yeah this is temporary unclaimed so player can stay in expd mode with a friend

[summer nest]

Personal refiner mk 2 was with the last update, wasn’t it?

[indigo falcon]

it's an expedition special I think... or maybe not????? hmmmm!

[lusty slate]

New save or on existing save? Existing you can chose to end, unless they changed it?

[faint mesa]

I may be misremembering this, but wasn't a time in which you could choose to stay on expedition mode or revert to normal save after completing / claiming everything?

Until the end of expedition season that is

[lusty slate]

The only reason in Omega people were holding off claiming on a current save exped was because of that crash bug.

[indigo falcon]

the auto-or-not-convert rules have changed a few times. I always just assume if you claim all the things then you'll be pooted out into normal mode again

[faint mesa]

Yep, I got caught off guard the last couple of times when completing expeditions

The save immediately turned into a normal one, and I wasn't expecting it

[indigo falcon]

uh huh

[lusty slate]

Ahhhh. Gotcha. Complete it and it turns to Normal automatically. But you still have to finalize at the terminal to return.

[faint mesa]

Oh, I always play on a separate save

[lusty slate]

With the Omega bugs and community milestone drama last time, I forgot.

I don't. Sometimes there's rare stuff I can take back to main.

[faint mesa]

I do regret a bit 😅
But old habits die hard I guess

[old fox]

theres only 2 species on this planet?

if theres a 3rd id rather search for it then warp to another system lol

[faint mesa]

Robotic fauna is always two in a planet, yep, but check the rest of the system

Most of those found by players have them in two planets, which makes 4 total lifeforms

[old fox]

gotcha, ty

[elder yarrow]

there any way to sell off the mods for nanites?

[old fox]

without npc? probably not

[old fox]

can I display pets like in a cage or habitat or something?

[indigo falcon]

robofauna are always 2 fauna per planet. always

[faint mesa]

You can't

[tribal nova]

How to get wiring loom

[old fox]

so claiming both horses as pet is a waste, gotcha

[elder yarrow]

are there any NPCs in the anamoly?

[indigo falcon]

nnnooooooo! omg. no cages. but you can adopt as companions and feed them to get them to trust you. and ride them around, if a little aggressive they might help defend against predators, etc

[indigo falcon]

buy in space station at terminal

[indigo falcon]

there's .05 of one

[old fox]

I wanted a mingerie of roboe fauna xD

[tribal nova]

The stations are abandoned though?

[faint mesa]

Sort of... ||just Nada, but only physically (Nada is not "there", only a shell)||

[old fox]

minigerie(?) however tf its spelled

[indigo falcon]

eh just build a base there and watch them run free 😛

[lusty slate]

Menagerie

[indigo falcon]

terminals still work! buy and sell at will!

[tribal nova]

This would have been nice to know awhile ago

[old fox]

eh gonna have so many bases for the sake of having bases LOL

[elder yarrow]

great.... so basically this isn't going to be a great nanite generator this time around....

[faint mesa]

You can make decent nanites, but by other methods

[dusty elm]

I think they are somewhere rare. They are my favorite in game creature. I have a collection of the horses.

[old fox]

theres more than 2 variants?

[faint mesa]

They make great pets. Can get crazy fast, which is great when you need to do something on foot

[indigo falcon]

need units? cursed dust (starter world), very lucrative

[quasi copper]

You can kind of display creatures with the Wonder Projector.

[tribal nova]

I can’t find the terminal where is it?

[elder yarrow]

and out of dumb luck fly straight into a crashed freighter XD

[indigo falcon]

um lessee, when you look away form the entrance, go up the stairs to the back and right. walk up there into the little area, look in the room

[dusty elm]

I don't know if we can get them in the expedition, but in the regular game I display my robotic horses in the wonder projector.

[jagged charm]

another question if anyone might have spotted or not, if you get shipslot expansion reward from completing aphase did you also get the upgrade tokens?

[tribal nova]

Found it

[indigo falcon]

which milestone(s)?

[jagged charm]

idk which anymore

could be a bug (another one)

[indigo falcon]

ok, well uh... which upgrade tokens? 😄

[old fox]

Kinda funny the game recs blue stars but they seem most common at red stars

[indigo falcon]

i got memory fragments from one thing, various upgrades from other things.....

[indigo falcon]

yeah the game hint is not too helpful in this case

[jagged charm]

don't mind the thing to the left XD

[indigo falcon]

oh hm... I don't remember getting those tbh

[jagged charm]

hmm

mmkay

[indigo falcon]

anything I got was memory frag or prepackaged something or an actual (c,b,a,s class) upgrade

[chilly trench]

Hi guys how to find robot life

I go to every blue star but can’t seem to find them

[indigo falcon]

see pins in here for systems that have them near r2, r3

[jagged charm]

should be marked if you have the mission active, on the galaxy map too

[indigo falcon]

red star systems uncharted... if you want to find your own: set filter to life forms, look for white stars with K,L (red) or whatever the blue indicator is if you really want

just as long as uncharted and red/blue

[jagged charm]

welp guess ill hvae to scarp 2 from my mod then

[indigo falcon]

only the blue star ones are, and it can take a few hops to get to those... kind of a waste

[old fox]

the pins are very very helpful

[faint mesa]

Saving this because I want a robot in my main save 😅

[indigo falcon]

but it is helpful to have the mission pinned regardless, since as soon as you enter a system it will tell you if there is robofauna there

and it will do the same on a planet, i.e.

if you don't see that for the system, leave; if you don't see that for the planet you try, leave and go to the next one in the system, etc.

[chilly trench]

Thanks guys

[indigo falcon]

g'luck!

[old fox]

for the companion eggs can I transfer those to my main save if ive already opened them on the expedition?

[indigo falcon]

if you mean the expedition reward, you can claim that at the anomaly like the rest of the end phase rewards

on any save.

[old fox]

aight epic

[west lagoon]

Hey, I can’t get off the planet because i need tritium, which I believe only comes from asteroids right?

[quasi copper]

You can use silicate powder instead.

[elder yarrow]

Q: ||are all of the stations in this expedition the older style abandoned stations?||

[dull aurora]

silicate powder and blue crystals forgot the name

[indigo falcon]

dihydrogen

[quasi copper]

If you still needed the seed packet info, Use Less UK is correct; you get Fungal Cluster, Frostwort, Gamma Weed, Echinocactus, Star Bramble, Solar Vine, Gutrot Flower, and Mordite Root.

[indigo falcon]

oohhh thank you, yes gonna add it to my phase rewards text file so we have actual rewards spelled out

[tribal nova]

Do not all systems have space stations?

[quasi copper]

Uncharted don't.

[indigo falcon]

because no species ever went there and set up shop... hence, uncharted

[elder yarrow]

there any way to salvage a ship?

[quasi copper]

Sentinel interceptors are probably your best bet.

[elder yarrow]

are you referring to finding a ship, or scrapping one?

[indigo falcon]

if you want to scrap for parts, that isn't available at these abandoned space stations

[tribal nova]

I’m on a planet with bones how do I find them

[elder yarrow]

i'm looking to scrap the ship for credits

[indigo falcon]

use your HUD, look for icons that have the same shape as the buried tech ones, but say 'natural burial site' and are yellow

[indigo falcon]

not doable in the expd.

[elder yarrow]

eh well.... guess i'm going to be building a garage of ships then...

[surreal raven]

i need upgrades for my ship to get it to blue stars but i dont have space on my ship's upgrade inventory, any tips or tricks to get more space?

[indigo falcon]

some milestones give slots

[faint mesa]

I mean... you can after the expedition is finished 😅
In case you already have a few ships

[indigo falcon]

or if there'sa piece of tech you don't use, package it up to get a free slot

did you install cadmium and emeril drives already?

[elder yarrow]

This is on the main save... so once it's done, it's going to be deleted (basically)

[surreal raven]

trying to get the cadmium and thats the only one i have space for

i think i accidentally used the storage milestones on the storage

[indigo falcon]

ok well: you can just go to red star uncharted systems (ignore the game hint) and all you need is the cadmium drive for that

and all you need for that is chromatic metal

[faint mesa]

Ohhh, I see... rip! 😕

[surreal raven]

so, i dont need to go to a blue star?

[faint mesa]

Nope!

[indigo falcon]

nope. proof: see pins in here, with several red star systems with robofauna!

[surreal raven]

thanks!

[indigo falcon]

#nms-expedition message see this for finding your own

[elder yarrow]

Yep, that's why (at the end of the save) I want to condense everything down to a single ship/MT and vendor the rest of the inventory that's not getting sent back

[indigo falcon]

that single ship better be the iron vulture!

[surreal raven]

god the iron vulture is gorgious

but yeah, thanks! any good way to find the planets? portals are kind of out due to lack of people and such

and recycling my ship is also not an option

[indigo falcon]

these are mostly within a jump of some rendezvous system so just go to that system space station, galaxy map, look for it (note the name and ly distance before getting into the map)

[clear moat]

how do I reach 1600 height?

build ramps?

[indigo falcon]

tall mountains in r2 and r3 planets, can buildupa bit or jetpack up to make up the difference if it's small

[clear moat]

whats an average mountain size? is it important to search for a high altitude planet?

ok

[indigo falcon]

have fun!

[quasi copper]

Lots of places have mountains. Even the first world has mountains high enough. Just fly around in your ship and look for tall-looking things. Land and get out (make sure you have launch fuel).

[indigo falcon]

(uranium deposits from starter system other planet, ftw!)

[clear moat]

IF I go back to my primary save

can I change ite ms shared?

I had no idea what was I doing, no atlass pass , no wiring looms

[indigo falcon]

too late now. next expd run

note you can buy wiring looms as usual

[quasi copper]

You can buy the Atlas Pass formula at the anomaly, and trade terminals in the space stations work. You can also deconstruct techs you don't want.

[clear moat]

wait where I can buy formulas?

[tribal nova]

We’re to find crashed ship? For phase 3

[indigo falcon]

the synthesis lab station at the anomaly

[quasi copper]

Space Anomaly. Can't summon it until after your first hyperjump, and no one's alive there, but the terminals for base recipes and for components never had NPCs. They work.

[indigo falcon]

if you pin the mission, what does the tooltip tell you in lower right?

[tribal nova]

I kinda forgot u could do that my fault

[indigo falcon]

no worries, in general for this expedition it is very useful to pin the missions, they take a different technique than usual

[clear moat]

Can I go back to regular save, have some actual fun for a change and then go back to the chore expedition is? :D:D

[indigo falcon]

I believe so (minus any items you might have put in the stash at the terminal for your expd save)

[quasi copper]

Yeah, you should be able to go back and forth from expedition to normal -- you just only get one chance at the beginning and end to move things. YMMV, but I like this expedition so much better as soon as I leave the starting system.

[tribal nova]

Ok I’m confused do I have to repair all of this or only the essential stuff

[faint mesa]

For me it was the opposite... start was good, then it went downhill fast... 😆
(My personal playthrough, not the expedition itself)

[heady pilot]

You only have to repair the launch thruster and pulse engine, that will complete the milestone.

[indigo falcon]

is the mission pinned? if so, it should highlight the two (usually) things you need to repair

[heady pilot]

Two: launch thruster and pulse engine...basically, enough to make the ship ambulatory.

[tribal nova]

Good to know also can I keep the ship in my primary save

[indigo falcon]

you can only transfer one ship back and that should be (imo) the iron vulture

[tribal nova]

Ok

[indigo falcon]

one player reoprted needing to repair three things, no idea what the third item was

[heady pilot]

That had to be wrong. Maybe he repaired something unneccessary first. You can spend all day repairing the ship, but the quest will only complete when you repair the launch thruster and pulse engine so that player probably repaired something else first and thought repairing three things was necessary.

[indigo falcon]

they were doing it according to the items highlighted by the pinned mission, if I remember right. for me it was the standard two items, who knows (edited to say what I meant instead of whatever my fingers abbreviated it to)

[heady pilot]

Though personally, for this milestone I strongly recommend ignoring regular crashed ships and getting a crashed interceptor instead. Getting an interceptor will count, doesn't need any repairs at all, and is much better than the shuttles you are likely to find crashed...and it's an instant upgrade over the starting shuttle you can use immediately. You can even refuse to claim the milestone rewards that upgrade ship class until you have it and have it upgraded to B or A right off the bat.

[elder yarrow]

Interesting, you can still scrap MTs

[indigo falcon]

are you getting free ones from somewhere? guess that could pay off then

[heady pilot]

I guess you could though I can't imagine any reason to do that during the expedition. You don't really need units for anything in this expedition.

[indigo falcon]

can save time buying some things

[clear moat]

erm

so a guy went up my super high 1600 ramp

as I was deconstructing it

[indigo falcon]

oh my

[clear moat]

and yet he was able to build back up again?

did I reach base limit? doesnt make much sens

[heady pilot]

I don't think you can buy much from the broken stations. Maybe wiring loom I guess?

[indigo falcon]

as long as they got the milestone 😄

[clear moat]

?

[indigo falcon]

for 1600u!

[indigo falcon]

trading posts have a different set of resources than the stations too

[clear moat]

oh so I deleted my part and he kept building up and sticked some flags ontop

[clear moat]

Its hard to wrap my head around devs being so caring

[indigo falcon]

oh, I thought you meant the player was climbing up it! 😄

[heady pilot]

I never felt I needed anything from any shop in this expedition. We didn't need a whole lot of anything really. What did you feel you had to buy?

[elder yarrow]

Importing my own into the expedition and want to at least get something for the one I started with

[clear moat]

well he was and tried to tell me something but then he just kept building

[indigo falcon]

things to save me time, effort, or just as a security blanket after the starter world grind.

[remote thunder]

you're not on steam right? 4.71.1 out on steam:

Fixed an issue that prevented players from claiming the Ship of the Damned if they had permanently declined the freighter rewarded by an earlier milestone in the Adrift expedition.

i'd wait for this. claim everything you can, but leave at least 1 milestone completed, but unclaimed - don't finish it till you get the patch

[heady pilot]

You should not scrap that one because there are milestone rewards that upgrade your multitool and if your is S then you can't upgrade and can't claim reward. There is a patch for that coming but it's only out on Steam right now. Do not get rid of the starting MT.

[heady pilot]

Like what? You can't buy life support gel or batteries or carbon.

[indigo falcon]

I did indeed buy carbon. at every single station 😄 😄

[remote thunder]

same

[elder yarrow]

too late XD

replacement tool is S class

[heady pilot]

They sold carbon in the expedition? Weird. They don't usually sell carbon anywhere. Not that it's an issue after you get off the starting planet.

[indigo falcon]

they did/do. and yes the items sold were .. interesting to say the least 🙂

[heady pilot]

You stop needing carbon after the first planet almost entirely.

[indigo falcon]

I needed it for various things incl base parts

[heady pilot]

Why even waste time building a base in this expedition? It does nothing but waste time and delay you completing the expedition.

[indigo falcon]

because I'm not speedrunning it. and I wanted a base worthy of upload for other players

you have a dfferent playstyle, that's fine... luckily the game accomodates us all

[remote thunder]

should be able to get a lower class one from the anomaly MT cabinet

[quasi copper]

I do it so I can get back to a nice world easily in case I need more stuff, and for the storage. Some people like building bases.

[heady pilot]

Unless a milestone requires me to build a base in an expedition I won't.

[indigo falcon]

as longn as you're enjoying the game, good enough

[heady pilot]

Everything I do is for my main save. I do expeditions to unlock/transfer unique rewards into my main save and I do those as fast as I can so as to return and work on optimizing all the new stuff in my main save. I am busy with other things at the moment but I will be looking to craft a custom Iron Vulture that is actually good unlike the reward base one next.

[indigo falcon]

there's some games where these time limited events I definitely feel that, like "get it overwith to get back to normal gameplay", but not the expditions so much. shrug

[wanton turtle]

Well, exp finished .. I loved all the expeds I played so far but this one was garbage. (I mean the rewards are good, simply talking about the tasks and such.)

[indigo falcon]

I still try to complete them early and in a few days so I am in a position to help others (when I am active around here anyways), but I don't have to be too efficient for that.

[heady pilot]

For me it's not so much about when the expedition ends, there's loads of time to do it before it expires. For me it's about not spending time in the expedition that I could be spending working on stuff I have to do in my main save.

[clear moat]

wow just learnt the hard way items get deleted

[indigo falcon]

uh oh...

[heady pilot]

What items? What did you do that caused them to be deleted?

[clear moat]

good to know others were better. I am not having fun either

[clear moat]

lost backpack fuel when jumping of a cliff

[indigo falcon]

I have the hot take on this exp I guess, liked the mood a whole lot. kinda chill experience

[quasi copper]

I love the idea. I could do without these foghorn worms.

[hidden flame]

you just need to go where you died....your stuff should be there. There is a marker

[heady pilot]

Ah, items lost on death. Yeah that happens. Don't worry you'll learn with experience where the game's limits are. I'm still learning after 7,000 hours lol. I almost got killed by eye bots on the derelict freighter...I forgot how fragile you are without any shield/health upgrades. But I managed to survive lol...will definitely remember that and bring suit upgrades into next expedition.

[indigo falcon]

remembering to shoot from cover: priceless

I forgot to bring my feline livers I'd gotten earlier... was ok though, just duck back behind and wait. all good

but I didn't have bug nests

[wanton turtle]

Yea, some were really good in the past.

But it was like most of the tasks were just to waste of time as they are probably ran out of ideas or idk. Look at the Sky for 60 seconds one for example while the tip in the corner says "you enjoy the peace" or something like that .. Its like they tell you - "Hey, you are having fun now you know that right?!" No, I'm not. When I'm in the mood, i just enjoy the scenery, but not when I'm told I must. Same with the dreaming ones while pulse driving ..

[indigo falcon]

heh the 60 second star watching was one of my favorite milestones tbh

[clear moat]

👍

[remote thunder]

same

[hidden flame]

yeah that was p;retty cool

[heady pilot]

You can't really take cover but you can kind of hide around a corner and peak out to shoot. I was more caught off guard that I had to even think about cover at all. I can't remember the last time I had to do that. But really what caused me the most trouble was the eyebots kept glitching into the ceiling so they'd float down, shoot, and immediately go back into the ceiling. That meant I couldn't kill them for quite a while as they took pot shots at me.

[remote thunder]

that was exactly how i felt - serene, after looking at the sky for 60s and imagining

[indigo falcon]

well you can't duck low. but you can get behind, as you say. and it gets the job done indeed

yeah the game glitches are no good...

[remote thunder]

but i took the milestone when i wanted to do it, not because i was forced to do it as i made my way through progression

[indigo falcon]

the feeling of being utterly alone in a vast expanse (well, except for comm balls, other bases, etc :-P).... really great as a change

[wanton turtle]

I'm not trying to take away your fun, I just personally didn't like it as a task.

[heady pilot]

At least the com balls were disabled during the expedition. You could walk around them and they wouldn't pester you with nonsense.

[indigo falcon]

yes! love it, give us a setting for that please

[quasi copper]

Wow. I didn't notice that. And it was glorious not noticing comm balls.

[indigo falcon]

I absolutely DID notice it and I want it. permanently. right now. 😄

[quasi copper]

Hear, hear.

[summer nest]

Comm balls are the pollution of NMS

[remote thunder]

and i wasnt trying to you know, say that you had to or anything ofc 🙂 i was just kinda reporting how i felt about it

[remote thunder]

yeah for me that was pretty cool as well

seemed that discouraged many as well

[summer nest]

I don’t think I’ve ever made a comm ball. Maybe years ago, but I don’t remember

[remote thunder]

used them a few times, but very rarely

never where there were already like dozens

[indigo falcon]

I found one once near a base I'd put, thanking me for the direction (it was to some S mt I think)... literally the only time I've liked a comm ball

[brazen radish]

Do the fans on tge new ship glow as in the video?

They didnt for me for some reason

[cursive bone]

Is there any way to find synth animal species?

I've already found 2 of 3 but there's no luck with the last one. I tried a dozen or more blue stellar systems

[quasi copper]

Don't bother with blue; go red. Check the pins if you like; there are systems there.

[cursive bone]

Red, huh?
The mission log says blue

[indigo falcon]

they currently don't, I don't know if this is a bug or not

[quasi copper]

It is a lying liar.

[indigo falcon]

red uncharted systems work just fine and there are many more of them than blue ones. the game hint is just... well, let's say misleading

[cursive bone]

Thanks.
By the way, is it me or this expeditition feels extremely grindy?

[quasi copper]

Some people are definitely finding it grindy. I'm taking it very slowly and enjoying the atmosphere mostly.

[indigo falcon]

I got lucky and avoided various little hiccups and bugs, well except for spawning in the dang derelict... so all in all, not very grindy for me. but your mileage (and tolerance) may vary

[quasi copper]

I suspect the more you just want to get through it and get the rewards for your main save the more grindy it will seem.

[cursive bone]

Yeah, the atmosphere is great, but I wish there was more focus on recent update features like new space stations and ship customization

[quasi copper]

That's true. I wish abandoned stations were wrecked versions of the new ones.

[cursive bone]

Thanks for the info, second or third red star gave me the last synth

[indigo falcon]

so, see... this is from 2017 (?) https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Space_Station?oldid=282684&file=NmsSpace_Station_Inside.png

[quasi copper]

I think it's true the theme is partly nostalgia, but the new stations would make awesome ruins.

[indigo falcon]

maybe in a future expd!

[warm sigil]

Personally I think they'd look best as derelict versions of the previous space station layout.

Particularly with that Aeon core in the back of the station.

[elder yarrow]

Hah, someone built a platform to make it easy to get the mountain objective, for those curious... || Issiugr | Iapezuk | +19.92, +154.58 ||

[cursive bone]

There are also a lot of player bases which offer 1600 units elevation completion

[elder yarrow]

this is definitely a lonely expedition

[ashen shore]

It really is but I'm totally digging the whole feel of it

And I don't know if it's just because I'm unlucky but like I swear every planet I come across is like Baron of all life to include flora and fauna minus one or two planets that just have way too much life

[quasi copper]

There's a dissonant world in a system less than 20LY from the starting system that had ten above-ground creatures. A couple were rare, but I got them all without even noticing some were supposed to be scarce. Maybe others will have good luck. Zeligt-Ipes system, Runeusi XIV.

[elder yarrow]

forgot how much range this ship has with warps... just did R1 => R2 XD

[quasi copper]

Wow. I think that took me six hops.

[elder yarrow]

that's prolly not a good thing, tho

[quasi copper]

To get there quickly and efficiently? Why not?

[elder yarrow]

cause sometimes you need the hops to find stuff along the way

[indigo falcon]

you can always veer off from the rend. systems later

[quasi copper]

I just landed on the space station, turned around, flew back out, and made the next jump. Maybe there were some great worlds there, but having finally decided I was ready to go back to a wormworld I wanted to do it.

[drowsy thicket]

Uh... Don't mind if I do...

[elder yarrow]

three years of refining later....

[drowsy thicket]

"It's been 84 years..."

[quasi copper]

All life in the galaxy was destroyed during the previous refining spree. The rusted metal was finally ferrite dust, and he looked around at a changed universe.

[quasi copper]

I don't need to keep all these bones I got for Bones to Dust for anything, do I?

[jolly maple]

why did the expo autoend for me

[quasi copper]

Did you start it from a new save and complete all goals?

[jolly maple]

nope

on my main save

[quasi copper]

Did you complete all goals?

[jolly maple]

just logged in and it said the expidition ended

no

none

[quasi copper]

Maybe it was Omega or something?

[jolly maple]

nope

bc i started on the abandoned planet

[quasi copper]

That is really bizarre. It probably won't let you start it again, but it's worth a try to go to the terminal.

[jolly maple]

i did, but it said the thing had ended

no 10k nanites for me ;-;

ill do it on a new save for stuff ig

[indigo falcon]

nope, sell sell sell

[quasi copper]

Bug report it, and, yeah, if you want to do it, try again on another save. Sorry that happened to you.

[blissful gust]

is there a workaround for the "inventory full" bug?

[indigo falcon]

did it say that you completed the expedition, or tht it was over (like, the time period is over)? I've heard this reported by other people

[jolly maple]

idk

[indigo falcon]

if it's the one where you have an S class ship and would get a class upgrade, get one that isn't (a crashed ship will do) and try again

[quasi copper]

If that's when trying to collect the frigate, you probably didn't claim the freighter, and you should wait for a bugfix or start over. If it's claiming a goal with a class upgrade attached, switch to something that isn't S-class.

[quasi copper]

Is the clock/calendar on your system maybe set wrong?

[dusty elm]

How do I summons a Nautilon Submarine for the Fathoms Below Milestone?

[indigo falcon]

if you try to select from the mode select screen and get into the expd mode (new save), does it appear to let you? don't actually initialize it, just to see

[jolly maple]

also, the marker for randevu 1 still showed up on the galaxy map, but not in the system

[indigo falcon]

you should have got the geobay plans for it, build that underwater, also the high sonar radar. and then scan

[jolly maple]

and the ghost frigate was also there

[jolly maple]

nope

[jolly maple]

ill check later

[indigo falcon]

this would be the way to tell if there's something weird about the servers thinking the time is over; this happened a couple days ago for ..an hour or so? at least for some players

[dusty elm]

Would that be a Nautilon Chamber?

[blissful gust]

ok, my Emergency Signal Scanner isn't working. I activate it, pulse, get the signal, stop, and nothing appears

oh, finally appeared, glitchy expedition :(

[indigo falcon]

yes, the geobay plans for it. you got them from, hmm, maybe signs to nowhere (phase 4 milestone 1?)

[dusty elm]

Well, I'm looking at the rewards and it says: Adv Equipment BP, Supreme Submarine Drive Upgrade, underwater survival bp.

[indigo falcon]

did you claim those? and do you have the geobay in the build menu for the nautilon?

[dusty elm]

yes

[indigo falcon]

that's what you want then; just gather the materials (and also you do need that sonar radar installed)

[dusty elm]

There's instructions showing in right corner saying to find in build menu. All that's there is the Nautilon Chamber bp

[indigo falcon]

it's a big round circular thing right?

when you place it (must go underwater) the actual vehicle will spawn in sitting on top of the geobay (the round part)

[dusty elm]

Yes, and has what looks like the underwater chamber you drive around under water.

[indigo falcon]

perfect.

when you drive the vehicle off it (which honestlyl you don't need to do at all, but if you did) you can summon it back to the geobay from one of the little panels on it

[dusty elm]

It's saying to use it to find an underwater wreck.

[indigo falcon]

best strategy is: place in water in a large ocean (by shore so you can easily access it), install radar, scan for sunken ships or whatever it is, then mark teh location, pick up th egeobay and fly to the location, find somewhere very close to land, so it's only a few hundred u away, then swim out, investigate, done

[remote thunder]

radar aka high powered sonar

[dusty elm]

awesome 😉

[indigo falcon]

yes, ty. my brain is wanting to shut off, getting .. done got late here actually

[remote thunder]

go get some rest

[indigo falcon]

in fact think I'll sign off, see folks tomorrow (probably) 🙂

[elder yarrow]

any leads on the dissonent sentinels?

[remote thunder]

good night sleep well 🙂

[remote thunder]

wdym?

[elder yarrow]

need find atlantium

[remote thunder]

goto galaxy map, find a dissonant system, then the planet

[elder yarrow]

well yeah... but aside from wandering round....

[remote thunder]

but this isn't wandering around

this is the way to find them

[quasi copper]

If you scroll up, I posted a screenshot of my galaxy map with one, if you don't have Enriar in your potential waypoints.

[remote thunder]

Enriar isn't even near expedition route btw

just an example

[worthy beacon]

how do you beat the milestone that talks about looking at the night sky for 60 seconds?

[remote thunder]

select milestone, goto planet at night time,

[worthy beacon]

have you heard of anyone doing this milestone on VR?

wait

[remote thunder]

havent heard anything, but it should be easy to test

[worthy beacon]

is it a specific planet? I was just doing any one

[remote thunder]

any planet, at night time

you can see it counting or not

on the hint

[worthy beacon]

does it reset to 0 when you look down?

[remote thunder]

don't know didn't test sorry

[worthy beacon]

in VR I cant see the message while looking up

but I laid on the couch looking straight up for atleast 120 secoonds

and when I sat up it was still 0/60

[remote thunder]

idk, since i don't play vr

[worthy beacon]

hmmmm

[remote thunder]

sounds like a bug

[worthy beacon]

you dont have to of had all the previous milestone rewards accepted or anything by chance right?

I haven't acetped thee one that gives you the class upgrade in hopes they accidently fix the bug soon >.>

[remote thunder]

you have to complete all milestones in order to get all phase rewards in order to get final reward

just load in non-vr already on the planet and complete the milestone

[worthy beacon]

ah ok, but not to be able to complete this specific milestone. I didn't think you did just trying to think what the issue might be

[worthy beacon]

I know II could do this and I will if it comes to it. I am just a full time VR player and like the thought of not having to cop out and just play on PC to beat things

it will be my last resort though

[remote thunder]

!hg

[unkempt kraken]

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

[remote thunder]

i'll keep an eye out

[worthy beacon]

I hate submitting bugs as I normally just assume its me. That I am the issue (as most of the time I am)

[remote thunder]

well, from where i'm standing i can see 1 possible bug, and 1 improvement to suggest

[worthy beacon]

if I cant figure out a way to beat or find someone that has I will though

I need a bat signal for all VR players

[remote thunder]

submitting a bug report that's inaccurate happens, but that's part of having a game out, have to deal with false positives sometimes

[worthy beacon]

all 6.5 of us

[remote thunder]

!exptime

[unkempt kraken]

to view info below, enable embeds

Expedition 13: Adrift

Event ends <t:1721048400> (<t:1721048400:R>)

See Pins in #nms-expedition & run !Expedition in #bot-spam

[remote thunder]

imo, best to submit a bug and it turns up not to be a bug and then you just add another comment saying please ignore

that it being a bug, no one submitting the bug report, and it goes under the radar, time passes, expedition almost ending, people are forced to use non-vr

[elder yarrow]

How are you getting that overlay on the warp map?

[remote thunder]

the expanded info panel? the galaxy map HUD should tell you, on kbm it's R

[elder yarrow]

ah, that makes things MUCH easier XD

[remote thunder]

eco data requires eco scanner, conflict data requires conflict scanner ofc

or visiting the system then looking at the panel

[remote thunder]

easier to navigate and stay focused? yeah, i do agree

[elder yarrow]

yeah, that's what i was missing, ship has all the scanners

[ashen shore]

Help. Trying to turn "it's alive" but it says my inventory is full. It is actually empty. What do

[warm sigil]

Found an oversight. Frigates still have people, apparently.

[remote thunder]

switch to a multitool that's not s-class

!hg @warm sigil

[unkempt kraken]

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

[ashen shore]

Lol the reward explained why before I could even ask

Ty

[blissful gust]

I would totally relax and gaze at the stars... if you'd stop popping up useless crap in the corner

now I'm irritated. I'm 1.5km away from rdv5, can't build a vehicle because there/s a base here... somewhere, and if I try to fly in any direction, it just says I have to go back to the marker

[quasi copper]

You could try reporting the base.

[blissful gust]

It's not working. I choose report, take a screenshot, then nothing happens

[quasi copper]

Just head for the coordinates of the rendezvous from the pins?

[cerulean olive]

reload the save.

[blissful gust]

I really don't want to try and run 1.5km on this mountainous sentinel hole

[quasi copper]

Fly to the coordinates. You don't have to go through the whole search process if you happen to head right to it.

[blissful gust]

Right, I land, it says it's 1.5km south, so I get in my ship go south to the next ridge, and it points me back at the original waypoint

[quasi copper]

Yeah, get the actual coordinates from the pins here.

[blissful gust]

due to the mountains, it wasn't even registering that I had made it into the search zone it seems

[quasi copper]

Mountainous areas do seem to confuse either it or me. I got to the point that I just get the location and landmark type from the pins and try to spot it from the air.

[remote thunder]

@blissful gust not sure if you still need help on this, but latitude+longitude coordinates are posted here <#nms-expedition message>. try using photo mode as a drone camera.

[blissful gust]

I do my damnedest to do expeditions on my own

[flint ledge]

At the Call of the Void milestone. Is there a corrupted world in the system where phase 2 ends or do I need to hop around until I find one?

[hexed badger]

hey guys, having trouble completing the mission where I have to chart a bunch of waypoints

[alpine rune]

Should I hold onto the bones and all the other items you need for missions in adrift. Or should I sell them

[blissful gust]

any point of interest with a flag counts

[hexed badger]

thank you, but i cant seem to find any settlements. i cant seem to install an economy scanner on my ship. i dont have the blueprint and i cant buy anything from the nexus

[blissful gust]

it should give you a waypoint on the galaxy map

[blissful gust]

Any point of interest, shelters, abandoned buildings, holoterminals, etc; anything but ancient ruins/plaques/sites

[hexed badger]

I know, how do I find them? just fly around for awhile until im done with it? are there worlds that have more POI's than others?

[blissful gust]

if in doubt, craft some surge batteries and use your signal booster

[hexed badger]

oh

[sick jay]

what counts as discovering ancient ruins? because one of the expidition jobs requires that you find 5 and one of my freighter ships will give me coordinates to one every time I land on it but going to ones my freighter pings doesnt count towards quest progress

[elder yarrow]

and really glad i have my fighter with me... just took out a sentinel frigate XD

[blissful gust]

use the signal booster

[sick jay]

which setting do you put the signal booster on

cuz it give you 2 options

[elder yarrow]

yeah, i'm on taht... planning on using the nautilon to go explore and scan for stuff underwater

[blissful gust]

if that's the active milestone, the top option should be specifically for ancient sites

[median ember]

This expedition seems pretty easy so far...
I finished first phase in mere an hour

[faint mesa]

It really isn't hard I think

[noble roost]

Hmm where would I find some tritium on the first planet?

[elder yarrow]

use silicon instead

[noble roost]

well I need deutrium

[faint mesa]

Refine di-hydrogen and silicate powder

[noble roost]

really? I never knew that one

[faint mesa]

I had no idea too, expeditions are useful for learning new stuff 😆

Cartographers was one expedition I remember that required some knowledge on mixing materials

[terse dust]

You never knew it cuz it's not real, y'all

It's for the Expedition

At the very least, the recipe didn't exist prior to this.

[faint mesa]

Really? After it was mentioned here I got the recipe from the wiki

Thought it was older

[terse dust]

Recipe's on the wiki by now. :p

[faint mesa]

Ohh... ok

I should have read the notes lol

[terse dust]

But yeah it was literally just added. It's all good.

Tritium is kind of annoying to gather, so I get it

Though Deuterium is generally only used for installing the radiation shield on exocraft and the Pulse Spitter.

[heady pilot]

Yes. It resets to 0 if you look down, if the sun rises, or if a random sentinel bumps into your head lol...yes they all happened to me when I was trying to do that milestone.

[flint ledge]

So all empty planets have robotic life?

[heady pilot]

No. Not even close to all empty planets. Very few...and robotic fauna isn't restricted to empty planets either though they are more common in uncharted systems where there are typically no buildings or structures.

[flint ledge]

I’m going by what the “It’s Alive” milestone details and it states that they are “only” found on empty worlds. I’m just trying to figure out how much exploring the galaxy I’ll have to do to find these 3 life forms

I’m not stating that you are wrong the wording is just confusing me

[heady pilot]

That doesn't mean all empty worlds have it and it also depends on what definition of "empty" we're using here because empty typically means barren of vegetation and airless as the starting planet of the expedition is. But that's not the case...planets that have robotic fauna can even be paradise planets but if they have robotic fauna they don't have any organic fauna, those are mutually exclusive. I'm not sure if robotic fauna is exclusive to uncharted systems...it's possible, but I'm not 100%. It may be that by empty they simply mean planets without structures on them.

[heady pilot]

Anyway for this milestone the best way to do it is to have it as your active milestone and warp to uncharted blue systems. If the milestone says to go to blue systems after entering one, then there is nothing there, warp to another. If it says robotic fauna detected on nearby planet then start landing on every planet and moon until the milestone tells you the planet you are on has robotic fauna.

[flint ledge]

So there will be a notification that states robin fauna?

As soon as I reach a system?

[heady pilot]

Yes, the quest tip box at the bottom right of the screen will tell you as soon as you enter the system.

[coral steppe]

What do you get for this expedition?

anyone have a pic of it?

nvm I have google

[heady pilot]

The big reward is a unique hauler called the Iron Vulture which if scrapped for parts can also give its unique parts for ship crafting. Beyond that we also get two sets of ship paint for haulers and fighters, a unique frigate for our fleet, and a bunch of base customization parts, player title, banner, etc.

[coral steppe]

ahh Ty, how does ship crafting work i haven’t played since January but hoping to get back into it soon

[heady pilot]

New massive station at the back of all populated, non-pirate space stations. Basically you can scrap haulers, fighters, and explorers for a ship customization part(you only get one part per ship scrapped) and you can pick between wings, engines, and cockpit. Once you have enough parts you also need to buy a ship power core(from the ship module vendor), the core class determines the ship class. You can then put the parts and power core in the ship fabricator, select desired paint, and craft the ship.

[heady pilot]

You can see the Iron Vulture and unique frigate you will earn as rewards in the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVy8Wj0CdlA&ab_channel=HelloGamesTube

[faint pelican]

I am having a hard time locating the holo terminall, not sure I understand how to use the signal booster. Keep trying nearby structures, then if I try for a second one on the same planet it says I already have a structure, go to the structure try again... what am I missing?

[heady pilot]

Make the milestone as your active quest, go to quest marker.

[hidden merlin]

anyone else having trouble with whispering eggs not registering into Stirring the Nest?

[heady pilot]

What does that mean? What do you mean by that?

[hidden merlin]

mine the egg, collect the hadal core from the whispering egg, the quest does not go up

[faint pelican]

Have the milestone active, it says to deploy a signal booster, so I do, use the surge battery and it finds beacons or settlements, not the coms tower thing I need.

[heady pilot]

Do you have the correct milestone marked? If it counts to 16 then it's whishpering eggs, if it counts to 8 then you need to find giant worm nests and kill the giant worms rooted to the ground.

[hidden merlin]

when i destroy the egg and collect the hadal core it does not count

and the swarm of green things does not spawn either

[heady pilot]

You need to make the milestone as your active quest and there will be a new option to scan for holo terminal specifically.

[hidden merlin]

weirdly

[heady pilot]

If you're getting hadal cores you're mining the wrong things. You need Larval Cores from these things: https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Whispering_Egg

[faint pelican]

Okay, I hear you, and maybe I am a complete idiot, but I have the milestone highlighted. I build the signal booster, I scan for nearby structure (my only option I see) and there I am

[heady pilot]

You're supposed to have another option for holo terminal. Maybe there are none on that planet. Try another system or another planet.

[hidden merlin]

horrific nesting site located

[faint pelican]

Okay, I will stop waisting my surge batteries and wait for that specific thing. Thank you. 🙂

[open sand]

If I Restore Freighter Command when I complete the expedition am I able to choose if I keep my original or the expedition freighter?

[heady pilot]

No. If your expedition save is tied to your main save you cannot transfer the expediition save freighter to main save when it is deleted at the end.

[open sand]

Thanks! I want to keep my main save frieghter over this one so that works for me

[lusty marsh]

Can the things that I forgot the name of (on dissonant planets, supposed to drop inverted mirror or echo locator) be found in this expedition?

[heady pilot]

Yes. And they work. I used both of those items to find and claim a crashed interceptor to complete the milestone for fixing a crashed ship.

[lusty marsh]

Ok, thank you. Now I keep looking for even longer for one :|

[coral steppe]

Preciate it

[warm sigil]

The ending ||was a bit disappointing.||

[sick jay]

is there a way to get portal glyphs in the expidition