nms-expedition

[tired condor]

Ty

[final turret]

...Wow, I just realized, a few months back I had a dream where I was playing the exact same expedition that I'm playing right now. I only just realized it after turning in the egg milestone.

[remote thunder]

dejavu 🙂

[jagged charm]

@remote thunder did they fix the freighter class in the exp?

[remote thunder]

not sure, haven't rerun another save yet

[jagged charm]

aight lemme me know if other people post it

[remote thunder]

they released another exp patch today, but not patch notes

[jagged charm]

yeah

just read them

[woeful osprey]

there is a Sentinel quad sitting right before me and it has a blue dot over it

it was flouting a second ago

[remote thunder]

is it walking around though?

[woeful osprey]

no

[remote thunder]

blue dot over it is normal, if they're not aggrod or aggressive

[woeful osprey]

just hobbling

bobbling*

also
some fauna float as they walk

[remote thunder]

if you walk away from it, does it start walking around again in patrol?

[woeful osprey]

i'll check after the rad storm

oh and it don't turn only looking north on the dot

ok now he moving

the thing fixed now but before i move far enough away it was just locked on north not even bothered to look at me lol

[wanton raft]

Anyone have a good derelict freighter they would recommend? I think there's only one per system and, as I recall, some are really fun and some are annoying. I'd like to pick a fun one.

[lusty slate]

Okay, daily QS missions caught up on + Adrift care package assembled. Time to start!

[indigo falcon]

the starter system is reported to have an infestation free derelict (no bug nests). and with that, I'm out, have a great rest of your day, everyone

[woeful osprey]

enjoy ur day too

[remote thunder]

good night, get good rest 🙂

[remote thunder]

@wanton raft ^

[lusty slate]

Here we go, whoo

[remote thunder]

have fun, good luck

you'll do just fine

[lusty slate]

Annnd sandworm immediately in my face, hahaha

[remote thunder]

just wants a hug

[lusty slate]

I'd be more freaked out if I didn't have a titan burrow infested moon I hunt on when I'm bored...

[remote thunder]

(what did baby worms ever do to you hmm? 😉 )

[wanton raft]

Is there a way to preserve and not immediately use/loose the "Multi-Tool Class Upgrade" reward?

[lusty slate]

(I didn't realize only wormskin folio 1 dropped on main and not the rest, lol)

[remote thunder]

don't claim the milestone reward before you change to a tool you want to keep

[wanton raft]

Yep, that's what I'll have to do.

[unique glen]

Hi guys. This might be a dumb question, but if I copy my ship from my main game into the expedition (which is a much better ship) will I still have the precious ship and its cargo in my possession? Will I lose anything?

[remote thunder]

will I still have the precious ship and its cargo in my possession?
yes

Will I lose anything?
no

it's just a copy, not a move

remember, only tech inv gets copied, not cargo

[unique glen]

Cool 🙂 same with the multitool?

[remote thunder]

same with MT

[safe fog]

Yay. Finished.

[remote thunder]

congrats!

[unique glen]

I noticed you said something about a milestone, don’t accept the milestone until you have the multitool you want. I looked above to see what they asked about but couldn’t find it. I was wondering what you guys were referring too.
(Oh I found his question)

[safe fog]

Thanks.

[wanton raft]

In the previous expedition you could scrap the multi-tool which you copied over to the expedition in order to get it back to the main save. Anyone tried that this time? How it still works because I've put some upgrades into that MT.

[remote thunder]

p2m3: make do and mend - repair mt damage
reward: mt class upgrade; mt inventory slot x5; salvaged data x40; component crafting bps

p3m6: it's alive - discover 3 robo fauna species
reward: mt class upgrade; minotaur geobay bp; pre-packaged minotaur ai pilot; minotaur tech bps

[hidden flame]

congrats!

[remote thunder]

Anyone tried that this time?
that does work, yes

[wanton raft]

Haven't tried it yet, but I wonder of just renaming the MT out of the way might work too.

[unique glen]

I don’t remember losing any items I copied into the expedition, like my ship and MT, isn’t already there when you come back to your main save?

[remote thunder]

that MT class upgrade gets auto iniated, so have to have the tool you want equipped already

[wanton raft]

Rep. That's a bummer!

[remote thunder]

yes; what they're saying they want to do is take a multitool copy into expedition, upgrade it in expedition, and then how to bring it back to main save? return to primary before ending expedition, scrap MT in main save, so that you can copy the one (more upgraded) from expedition back into main save

the game won't let you copy back gear to main if that gear already exists, basically

[unique glen]

Ohhh, I see. That’s sounds kinda complicated. lol

[remote thunder]

a little

this only happens when started from existing save, btw

[unique glen]

Are any of the upgrades like super-special exclusive expedition stuff, or just standard S-rank fancy stuff?

Cuz I have S rank, crazy good upgrades already for pretty much everything.

[remote thunder]

standard stuff, nothing that really needs bringing back

[lusty slate]

Oh, they give you free 2 life support gels, fancy.

[unique glen]

Perfect, thanks. 🙂

[remote thunder]

i especially liked 5x advanced ion batteries

[unique glen]

Do we even need the advanced ion batteries in our main save? Are they special or different somehow?

[remote thunder]

adv ion batteries hadn't been in the game for quite a while, so for some it was like a trip down memory lane

[wanton raft]

I recall that one of the vehicle scanners easily located ancient ruins. Anyone recall which vehicle that was?

[remote thunder]

i found all the ruins using the signal booster+surge batteries

[lusty slate]

Oooh, I'll save a few and see if it'll let me take them back to main. Love collecting legacy stuff.

[wanton raft]

Yes, but was curious if it could be done with a vehicle.

[unique glen]

They don’t serve a purpose though, do they?

[remote thunder]

you'd want to scan for ruins yeah, so any ground exocraft not minotaur+radar power resonator tech upgrade can then directly scan for ruins

[remote thunder]

recharging stuff - i just glanced over them but i think these we get can be used. well, it's a relic at this point

got removed with the origins update

[ashen shore]

When do i get access to anomaly omg TTwTT once i get access things will go faster

[remote thunder]

after first warp

[ashen shore]

Oh ok BET

[trail iron]

pretty sure it's after you do the comms tower goal

[remote thunder]

i checked after first warp, and it was there

[trail iron]

i didnt have access to it after the first or second warp i needed to hit the comms tower

[remote thunder]

hmm

[trail iron]

also the comms tower one ends with the "some kind of anomaly" dialogue

[remote thunder]

timestamps

[trail iron]

I may be wrong. I didn't take screenshots.

But I very clearly know i didn't have the anomaly until i did the tower.

[remote thunder]

i remember double checking as it's often a question asked

20240530002713_1 file name on the anomaly shot above, transmission tower 20240531133838_1

[cerulean olive]

Oh nice. I see the exped is live on Switch now? Cool. If I can pry myself away from another game, I'll jump in tomorrow

[heavy merlin]

How to get Nanites for copying ship/multitool?

[dim saffron]

I can't find there damn robofauna anywhere!

[remote thunder]

zoology (scanning all fauna on planets, then hitting the extra nanite reward button), refining vile spawn/fleshy rope (drop from baby worms), larval cores (from whispering eggs), radiant shards (from dissonant worlds)

[remote thunder]

have you seen the pinned posts? these might help. be sure to be using the lifeform filter of the galaxy map

[dim saffron]

Ah okay...thats when im missing!!

Thank you.

[remote thunder]

some players want to find things on their own, but we all have our limits, our lives, etc

nothing wrong with a little help, especially if one's been at it for as long as you.

personally, i stuck around rdv systems, and was able to find some quite quickly tbh

[dim saffron]

rdv?

[remote thunder]

sorry, rendezvous

these <#nms-expedition message>

[wanton raft]

So I take it tht all Harmic Camps don't unlock during the expedition?

[remote thunder]

it should be possible to echo locator in abandoned systems

as long as they're suitable, ofc

that said, i did get a sentinel ship, but i didn't need to use either carrier ai frag nor echo locator

pulsing in a dissonant system triggered the distressed sentinel ship space encounter, which leads to a sentinel ship site

[lusty slate]

Expedition: ...will you fix your launch thrusters already?
Me: shooting worms Yeah, yeah, in a minute.

[vale knoll]

What happens if you don't accept the freighter on the expedition?

[cerulean olive]

Don't forget to grab the larval cores from them eggs on the starter planet. Tons of them and easy escaping the horrors too.

[remote thunder]

if you're not on 4.71.1 iow on steam, then you'd have this bug:

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 don't see a reason why not to accept the freighter, tbh

[lusty slate]

Ooh, curious deposit

[cerulean olive]

Yups!

[lusty slate]

Me: swipes larval cores
Bio horrors: SCHREEEE
Me: jetpacks straight up because airless planet Lol. later, losers.

[vale knoll]

To be able to wait for a S class freighter mostly

[last umbra]

I lost everything in my Inventory going through the Portal to complete Amidst the Stars Milestone.

[thorn talon]

Why can't I find the rdv 4?

Been jumping for the expedition line and ive been jumping back and forth

[remote thunder]

huh? i didn't lose anything fwiw. try to reload restore point and go again?

[remote thunder]

did you visit the station of rdv3?

System: Yulint-Cungg

[thorn talon]

Yup

[remote thunder]

i'd suggest teleporting back to it

then making sure reach rdv4 milestone is selected, then open galaxy map and make sure expedition route is selected at the top

@thorn talon ^

[last umbra]

Both of my saves went to after the that. I must have died on the destination planet, I was in a station with nothing.

[remote thunder]

possibly due to planet hazards

[last umbra]

it was late, perhaps I fell asleep. At least i got both ship's Launch Thrusters fueled beforehand, now I can call them both. but No I have to rebuild all my materials and there are no Sodium deposits.

[remote thunder]

sodium crystals, sodium plants, cave hazardous plants, refining marrow bulb cave plant

[lusty slate]

Okay, fine, I'll leave the planet now...

[last umbra]

Thank you for reminding me avout Marrow Bulb refining. I accidentally landed on a planet with Activated Copper. Now I can use the gave systems to reload.

[lusty slate]

Me: dismantles rocket launcher because she needs more copper and is lazy

[sonic shale]

could someone in the expedition tell me what the recipe for surge batteries is?

[last umbra]

14 Sodium Nitrate, 20 Gold, 20 Magnetised Ferrite

[tired hatch]

hey I received some multi-tool expansion packs while in the expedition, because I stupidly clicked through the milestone rewards too fast. Is there no multi-tool upgrade rack in this expansion?

[last umbra]

There are some Multi-Tool racks in Minor Settlements and other buildings, but I don't know if that option is there. I made the same mistake on ship expansions, fortunately there were more of them from other milestones.

[tired hatch]

Thanks! Yeah though I was getting attacked so I clicked through way too fast. 😢

[sonic shale]

thanks

[worthy beacon]

I know that no one can be sure or know to any great detail, but I still wanted to ask other opinions. Fathoms Below is bugged for me and wont turn my class A ship to S. (which I was wanting to take back over to my main save). I have let the devs know about it through a bug report.

I am just curious on peoples opinions of the odds of this getting patched and working for me or do you all think I should just go hunt another Class A ship I like in hopes it works on it?

[lusty slate]

Right, picked up all my stuff. No more worrying about survival with a ton of ion batteries and life support gel

[hidden merlin]

wowzers

[solemn bane]

Your landing pad appears to have worms. I recommend Ivermectin.

[hidden merlin]

5 stars

[sleek siren]

Looking for landing pads on Airbnb be like

[sonic shale]

bets on whether bringing a mind ark into the expedition breaks an objective somewhere?

[hexed badger]

how often are expeditions, usually?

[solemn bane]

2-5 months maybe? Looks about as random as anything hg does

https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Expeditions

[heady pilot]

Nevermind my last reply, I misread your question. Expeditions used to be 4 per year in the first couple of years but rewards were quite lack-luster and underwhelming like one unique pet and some base decorations for a bunch of them. Since last year Hello Games have shifted to 3 per year(and I believe this year will be 3 as well) but they have greatly increased the rewards, especially this year. So my guess is the next expedition this year will be around August and then in November/December there will be the usual redux runs.

[final turret]

Finished 3 out of 5 phases in Adrift and did 3 milestones total across Phases 4 and 5 (Getting 1600 Nanites, Scanning 32 creatures, and destroying 9 hazardous flora, to be exact)

[minor breach]

when i finish the expedition it says optional milestones left, there arent any are there?

[heady pilot]

Probably a bug, there are no optional milestones in this expedition. But you should be able to close it out regardless, if it is linked to you main save in the expedition terminal you can say you are sure you want to end it and it will close out.

[minor breach]

alright yeah thats what i thought just making sure

thx

[sonic shale]

i am awfully disappointed to report it won't let me bring in a mind ark

[ashen shore]

Oh btw thanks BK i got my stuff i was confused at first

Currently on the 16 larvae eggs milestone

Its torturing me

[unreal nymph]

the it's alive mission is killing me.

[heady pilot]

I found that easiest to do on the starting planet because the airless atmosphere meant that I could nab an egg, jetpack up, and because I fall so slowly my jepack power would recover well before I hit the ground and I could stay airborne pretty much permanently. I'd go from egg to egg, grab and fly.

[heady pilot]

Which one is that? The 8 worms at nest sites?

[unreal nymph]

3 synthetic creatures

[heady pilot]

There are many locations and tips for that in the pinned section.

At the top of this page, look at the pinned messages.

[ashen shore]

Yeah mostly what i did i just found the buggers annoying

Shit now i need to get up high at least 1.6ku

[heady pilot]

Rendezvous 2 and 3 planets have very high peaks that are at least close to that limit and then you can jetpack up a little bit or try a few different peaks until you hit the milestone. It should be easy.

[ashen shore]

Easier said then done i just wanna get to the more interesting parts of the story like the ghostly frigate story

[wise forge]

How rare is a mountain that's 1600u?

[heady pilot]

It's very easy to do...it doesn't really get much easier than land on a few mountain peaks until you hit the milestone. At most you might have to craft an bit of launch thruster fuel. This milestone is as low effort as it gets and being able to conveninetly get it on planets you HAVE to go to anyway...it's literally a freebie.

[ashen shore]

Usually depends on the planets biome

Wait actually thinking about it maybe i can get the height needed at rendezvous point 1

[sonic shale]

Alright time to do the expedition again on a different save!

[heady pilot]

Very common on Rendezvous 2 and 3 planets. Most peaks are at least close(like 1400+) and then you can eyeball the peaks around you to see which are a bit taller and you'll get it in no time. You can also jetpack up from the 1500+ peak and if you break 1600 before your jetpack runs empty you get it...but you don't have to do that if you find it too tedious...just land on a few more peaks until one is 1600+.

[ashen shore]

I understand these are easy task im complaining about but its the fact that they are easy and yet not being easy for me and becoming tedious lmao im a little impatient

[lusty slate]

I actually did the 1600u on RD1.

[hexed badger]

Not rare. Go to the planet in the 2nd rendezvous system and the mountains there are around 1600u

[tough chasm]

Yeah I had the same feel... Complained a couple times in a NMS Facebook group but the people there encouraged me and gave me tips. Thanks to them I was able to finish this Expedition.

[winged flower]

Can I join you?

[wise forge]

What planet is the first rendezvous system,by the way? I went through the portal in Phase 2,and am trying to find my way back now.

[lusty slate]

I always hit the space stations ASAP so I don't have that problem.

[wise forge]

Well,I'm not experienced with Expeditions.

[sonic shale]

i kind-of assumed MP was disabled for this expedition but I don't mind if you hop in. i probably won't be playing long this session though

[quaint urchin]

I made my way to rendezvous 5, but can't interact with the crashed ship. Any tips?

[lusty slate]

Also kinda hoping they do another remix this year...

[winged flower]

Ah okay. I'm up to phase 4 at the moment. Wish I brought more warp fuel because this ship is chugging alot of it

[woeful osprey]

when i running im taking damage

i go offline now

[lusty slate]

Hazardous flora.

[heady pilot]

I imagine they probably will with the 3 expedition plan they seem to have now. I certainly expect a 4th redux that is some kind of remix. But holy crap did the rewards hugely step up this year. During the first two years it was really slow going with rewards...we had five or six expeditions where all we got was a new pet and some base decorations. But this year we got two new ships, a multitool, jetpack, helmet, ship paint sets, etc. New pet was minor milestone reward not big expedition payoff.

[lusty slate]

crosses fingers for Emergence remix

[sonic shale]

oof, i brought a super efficient ship the first time around so i didn't need to bring any fuel

plus you really don't need to warp much in this expedition

[lusty slate]

I brought 40 hypecores, I'm good.

[heady pilot]

I am hoping for a redux of the expedition that had the unique freighter blueprint tech that was basically an on-demand black hole jump without without risk of damage. I forget which one it was or the exact name of the tech but I want that one because now I could transfer that tech back to my main save and I want that so badly.

[lusty slate]

Polestar, #8. I played that one as the redux for expeds 5-8 released just a few months after the Switch debut. Still have my save with the singularity drive.

[heady pilot]

Yeah that one...it was so frustrating to have that tech locked to the expedition save.

[lusty slate]

The terminal is great. And they keep bringing back legacy stuff with the expeds this year. Taking the Withering Manuscript back to main, might as well.

[heady pilot]

Oh yeah, I definitely did that. Not that it was a huge fixation for me, not like the Singularity Drive, but I didn't pass up the chance to bring that back to main save.

[lusty slate]

It's the only Cursiosity in the item catalog that you can't obtain normally. Now, it can look all filled and pretty.

I'm also going to see if it'll let me bring the advanced ion batteries too. Just for collector purposes.

[heady pilot]

I wouldn't do that. The Surge Batteries only serve one purpose: to make the Signal Booster work in expedition...but the signal booster is completely free to use on non-expedition save. So my concern is that introducing them to a save that normally doesn't require them might confuse the game into requiring them, but you can't craft them on non-expedition saves. So if the game bugs out and starts mandating them it might mess up the signal booster. Plus they would serve no purpose at all.

I was considering crafting a stack and sending back to main save for the same reason but I ultimately decided against it because I didn't want to risk confusing the game into mandating them when it shouldn't.

[lusty slate]

Aren't the surge batteries and the advanced ion batteries two different things?

It's late though, probably not thinking that straight.

[heady pilot]

I assumed you meant Surge Batteries because Advanced Ion are obsolete old items that do nothing. I don't remember then even being in this expedition.

[lusty slate]

Milestone rewarded 5 of them.

[ashen shore]

Yeah we get awarded advanced ions

[indigo falcon]

yep, might bring them back(the adv ion batteries) just as a colletible 🙂 haven't used any, so...

[lusty slate]

Yeah, I took a stash of regular ion batteries with me, so I've just been using those.

[heady pilot]

That has got to be some kind of bug. I can only assume HG intended to reward Starshield Batteries or Surge Batteries there as those are actually useful.

[indigo falcon]

no, I think it's intentional. they have various items awarded in the milestones that aren't useful in the game, just collectibles 🙂

[heady pilot]

My guess is Advanced Ion Batteries still exist in the game files and Hello Games clicked the wrong thing when they assigned the Advanced Ion as the reward for that milestone.

[lusty slate]

I mean, there's no real practical reason to give you a Withering Manuscript. It's just there.

[heady pilot]

That one at least has lore though and if nothing else I AM a sucker for lore.

Plus the Writhing Manuscript has the really special and unique item icon too. Advanced Ion are literally useless and they look the same as Starshield Batteries so that might actually confuse me at some point.

[indigo falcon]

to (many) early game players though they have a meaning.

[heady pilot]

I mean, I'm as "early game player" as anyone here. I literally started playing the game the evening of August 8th 2016 since my digital copy unlocked a few hours before midnight, and I've followed the game very closely since its first trailer reveal on December 7th 2013 at the VGX. I was watching live when this game was first ever shown and followed every word of news about it since, months before we even had any clue what platforms it would even launch on.

[indigo falcon]

sure. not everyone has that same view of early game items, that's why I said "many". but I can't count how many times someone has said they keep a lilttle stash of this that and the other long since useless resource from then because .. nostalgia? collectible? whatever you want to say.

and I've heard that from peple about this very item in this expedition too. so...

[woeful osprey]

nuh like a lot with no knockback

[ashen shore]

Without multiplayer when i get to the end of the expedition am i able to redeem my Iron vulture AND clone the one from the expo save Twice to be able to rebuild the vulture but recolor it???

[indigo falcon]

yes you can, as long as you came in on an existing save, how to do it: #nms-expedition message

[heady pilot]

Yes. Hello Games have never forced multiplayer on anything in NMS. All the expeditions and all the quicksilver missions can all be done solo with multiplayer completely off.

[ashen shore]

Oh no im a switch player i dont have multiplayer but sometimes theres items i wanna get that are best traded to me but i cant trade so im asking in advance if i can rebuild the Iron Vulture to 100% identical just a different color

[blazing fossil]

You can

[ashen shore]

Also thanks apergos

Cant wait to make my Black and crimson ship >:3

[heady pilot]

Yes. But you have to play expedition from a main save and you have to make sure that you either don't end the expedition completely or that the Iron Vulture is your active ship when you do finish the expedition if you want multiple copies of it. You can mess it up to where you end up missing the ability to import multiple to main save which would deprive you of the ability to get all its parts.

[lavish cedar]

I had some issues with fuel, but remember that on the starting hyperdrive, a full charge on the warp drive is 5 jumps (20% of your fuel every jump) Just muck around, get some oxygen, shoot some asteroids, and get ferrite dust and you should be perfectly fine.

[ashen shore]

Already am :3

[lavish cedar]

I picked up a spare ship on the expedition, and I wish I hadn't, cause it's even more of a piece of junk than the one you start with. Damaged tech EVERYWHERE

[heady pilot]

Well you have to do that for a milestone anyway, but I typically recommend players recover an interceptor over any other crashed ship type because interceptors don't have any damage and are much better ships than the shuttles you are likely to find at other crash sites.

[lavish cedar]

Wish I'd had someone tell me that earlier, lol

I need to get a base built, anyways.

[heady pilot]

You don't. Building a base is not necessary at all this expedition. It will only lengthen the time it takes you to complete this expedition.

[lavish cedar]

Hmmm? No, in the main game

I already finished early last week, anyways

This expedition was actually my first venture back to NMS since 2016

[heady pilot]

Ah ok, in your main save sure, you should build a couple bases.

[rough mica]

Should I be doing the expedition on its own save, or my main?

[terse dust]

If you want to send stuff in, you'd be using your main :p

[rough mica]

Send stuff in?

[terse dust]

Yeah, the new console that allows you to give your Expedition-self items once they reach the Anomaly.

Behind the Nexus.

[rough mica]

Oh! Nice!

I'll start over and give that a whirl.

[heady pilot]

Definitely from main save.

[terse dust]

Tips on Gifting to Your Other Self

• Don't pack in mods to sell for nanites; there are no merchants to sell to. Instead, send in some Larval Cores to refine.
• As ever, if you bring some Indium, you can upcycle to make infinite metal by doing Indium + Chromatic Metal to make more Indium, then cooking it back into Chromatic Metal. Make sure you keep at least one Indium.
• Don't assume you can grab any of your old Expedition rewards. The Atlas multitool, Starborn Runner, and all the others are inaccessible due to the absence of the Quicksilver Vendor. Pack in the multitool and ship you want, knowing you can't fall back on the reward ones.
• You can bring something to sell. NPCs are gone, but the market terminals are still around, and mandatory.
  Other Notes
• A new recipe has been added for Deuterium, since it's needed to get started. Di-hydrogen + Silicate Powder
• The game will send you looking for robotic fauna. To find them, filter the galaxy map to local race, and find the ones without any race listed. Robotic fauna only spawn in uncolonized systems: No space station at all. The tooltip on the quest will let you know if there's a suitable planet when you warp in. The mission will aim you to your first system, but you may need to find a second on your own.
• You'll get a freighter when you finish the milestone for raiding a derelict.
• If you need to locate Points of Interest, don't forget to pin their respective milestone. Your Beacon will have an option for that specific PoI when you have its mission pinned.

[indigo falcon]

@terse dust robofauna are only found in uncharted systems (no species) , so you can just say that. great tip list btw

[rough mica]

Haven't been on my main save in a bit. I've got a ton of mods stacked up. Will probably do a Nexus giveaway soon to clear out room.

[terse dust]

Do all uncharted systems lack a space station?

Also tbh, I always send myself three S-class Movement Modules. That's the first thing I wanna remedy at all times.

[rough mica]

Good idea.

[indigo falcon]

yes they do. so the only way to leave is via anomaly or warp.

[tidal mantle]

i need help with my expedition

[indigo falcon]

what are you stuck on?

@tidal mantle ^^

[tidal mantle]

im in an awkward situation, i started the edpedition last night, but, i dont have enough deuteium and magnetised ferrite to repair my ship

im currently stuck on a nuclear planet and cant reach the player-built base because its in the air and I cant jet-pack high enough

my advanced mining tech is 30 copper short so I cant install that either

[indigo falcon]

ok so: do you have enough carbon, oxy, sodium to get around and mine things ok?

[tidal mantle]

i dont have the terrain mining mode...thing either

[indigo falcon]

you should; the terrain manipulator is available at the start of the expd. no need to install anything, it's just there

but you have to switch the mode of the mining beam

[tidal mantle]

nuclear storms are ever few minutes, which is annoying

[indigo falcon]

right, not so helpful I am sure

[tidal mantle]

i haven't played the game in a while

how do I switch multi-tool modes? press the mouse wheel?

[heady pilot]

Deuterium you can craft in Personal Refiner Mk. 2 by putting in di-hydrogen and silicate pwder.

[tidal mantle]

i cant use a refiner, im too close to a player base

[indigo falcon]

the ui should tell you in upper right what to press (I'm on ps5 so I can't tell you for pc)

[tidal mantle]

i only have the basic one

[indigo falcon]

the personal refiner mk 2 takes two items, so if you have that, you're good

[heady pilot]

Personal refiner Mk 2...the one you install in your suit with two slots that lets you combine things...you can use that anywhere.

[indigo falcon]

hmm if you haven't installed the adv mining laser yet, you won't have that refiner yet. so let's get that done first

[tidal mantle]

i only started this last night, so im pretty screwed lol

[indigo falcon]

but very first, check how to switch to the terrain manip.

[meager scroll]

Unpopular idea: start the exped on a new save, stick only to milestones, dont go wandering off, read every tooltip the game displays in bottom right corner

[tidal mantle]

storms in progress and i have no sodium

ive only got 1 save and i am NOT starting over, ive got a carrier with several ships on the one im playing

[heady pilot]

You're not screwed, you just have to get on with the basic first steps...getting the advanced mining beam and personal refine Mk. 2.

[meager scroll]

You can do a lot of stuff on the starter planet without having to worry about storms

You just said you started this last night

[tidal mantle]

the start planet I was on was lifeless except for some giant space worms

[meager scroll]

And it's an expedition, it is not your regular gameplay progression

[neat latch]

These are some really good tips @terse dust. If necessary we can always add to the list later on, so I’m going to pin it. Thank you

[meager scroll]

And you dont get a freighter except much later

[heady pilot]

It's the same for everyone. Everyone starts the expedition on the same planet.

[dusty hedge]

So... what exactly are expeditions and how do they work? This is the first one since I started playing.

[terse dust]

Yes please. Let me know if you need more.

[meager scroll]

Expeditions are limited time events where players complete a series of challenges to get unique rewards

[tidal mantle]

...and apparently the game seems to feeze or crash for no good reason

[meager scroll]

Those rewards can be later redeemed on any save you own

No it does not

[dusty hedge]

Do the challenges take a while? Or can it be completed fairly quick?

[tidal mantle]

mine does, my pc's newer spec it should be fine

[terse dust]

Depends on the milestone.

[indigo falcon]

ok so someone here who can explain how to switch to terrain manip on PC? that will let Atlas get out of the storm at least

[meager scroll]

I think it was G to cycle through MT modes

[indigo falcon]

(I'm on PS5 and don't know PC controls)

[terse dust]

Yep, G!

[meager scroll]

If you have some experience with the game, you can do the expedition is as little as couple hours

[indigo falcon]

ok, so @tidal mantle try that: G and look at the upper right, it should show that you have changed modes, and you should see the mining beam cursor chanegd to a round circle too....

[neat latch]

G to cycle, yea.

[meager scroll]

But we got 6 weeks time window so plenty of time

[neat latch]

!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

[dusty hedge]

Good to know 😄

I noticed there's a yellow dot on "new save". Does it have to be a new save? And if not, how do you start it otherwise?

[neat latch]

My best tips is not to rush to complete the milestones and just read through them. There are many milestones you can complete on the first planet/system.

[meager scroll]

You can use existing save now

[indigo falcon]

#nms-expedition message this may be pretty basic but have a look for general info about expeditions

[meager scroll]

Visit the Space Anomaly, there is a new terminal behind the Nexus glass box thingy

[tidal mantle]

terrain harvester works

[meager scroll]

There you can pack some provisions in advance to grab later once on expedition

[neat latch]

Also, please don’t mind a few pinning notifications. I need to rearrange the pins.

[tidal mantle]

just died

[terse dust]

Worth noting, I think mobile sorts itself

[tidal mantle]

i just died, radiation poisoning

[indigo falcon]

desktop sure doesn't, ugh

[indigo falcon]

ok well... get your stuff from the grave marker and let's get you some sodium at least

[indigo falcon]

(and more carbon and dihydrogen and etc)

[tidal mantle]

i didnt lose anything

[indigo falcon]

huh... ok

[indigo falcon]

so: scan for sodium and/or cargo drops and go get, and pick up any oxy on the way?

[tidal mantle]

i did that yesterday, theres none in range

im trying to figure out how to reach the "floating" player base

[terse dust]

Are a lot of these pins robo-fauna?

[neat latch]

Done :3

[indigo falcon]

if you can't climb up or jetpack up, and they didn't provide a short range teleporter, and there's no landing pad you could fly up to, I would leave it and move on

well wait

[neat latch]

Sadly it doesn’t 😦

[tidal mantle]

i did look but there doesnt seem to be a transporter pad

[terse dust]

We could also just

Robofauna Systems
#nms-expedition message Near RDV2
#nms-expedition message Near RDV2
#nms-expedition message Near RDV3
#nms-expedition message Near RDV3
#nms-expedition message Near RDV3
#nms-expedition message Near RDV4

[indigo falcon]

you said you can dig into the earth right there so

move a little away, dig up a bunch of silicate powder, come back, create a tall plinth right next to the floating base, jetpack up that? if you are absolutely determined. depends how high up it is too

[tidal mantle]

the base is above water

[indigo falcon]

might be wasting time and fuel doing that

[tidal mantle]

who the f*** designs a base like that

[indigo falcon]

oic

I'd move on then

[tidal mantle]

i cant

i cant take off remember

[indigo falcon]

you can walk away for now, collect resources. hide underground when storms come.

get enough materials to get basic survival going (carbon oxy sodium)

after that, collect materials for adv mining laser and install that

[neat latch]

This is a good way to sort but it’s linking messages and mobile discord app is notorious for navigating. Having pinned messages that can be accessed immediately is a rather safe and robust option.

[tidal mantle]

i tried digging a holeinto a hill, made no difference for the radiation

[indigo falcon]

after that you can claim the rewards for that and get the personal refiner plans, install that, then you can make deuterium.

you need to dig down enough that you get the notification 'radiation levels stabilizing' or whatever it is

[terse dust]

Yeah, the issue with jumping between messages on mobile is you actually have to jump to the pinned message itself before you can jump to its links 😔

[neat latch]

As someone organizing the channel pins it’s important for me to consider every device. PC has no issues whatsoever, but mobile (especially iOS) app is just bad.

[lime imp]

Is there an easy way to find corrupted sentinel planets? have been following the Expedition path for a bit but still havnt come across one.

[neat latch]

Clicking on links has the problem that the chat simply won’t navigate properly in first try. That leads to frustration, trust me, i have to deal with this almost 24/7 while trying to moderate

[terse dust]

Also, at least on Android, mobile does this

Pins are forced to reverse chronological.

[tidal mantle]

im attempting to make a crude bridge

its just getting the angle right

[neat latch]

Oh you don’t do that, no no! This is Discord’s fault. You click on the settings icon > pinned messages.

[terse dust]

lmao they have two different locations for the same function

[neat latch]

Yup xD

[terse dust]

What an app

[meager scroll]

Catalogue and Guide - Atlantideum - Locate Substance

[neat latch]

Lol! But we are off-topic now. XD
Back to expedition.

[indigo falcon]

I would just check the gaaxy map for whether it says "dissonant", you should find something near the expd route. no quick means unless.. maybe pinning the milestone and selecting "current mission" in the galaxy map gives you a route

[terse dust]

Also I dunno if my personal creature comforts are worth adding to my list, but I'd say it's a good idea to send along a stack of S-class Movement Modules and a prepackaged Emeril drive.

wait no

Indium Drive

[meager scroll]

You dont really need an Indium Drive though

Since for the It's Alive milestone you're better off looking in red star systems

[indigo falcon]

that's a harder one because different people will want different things. e.g.: maybe good cold protection for the derelict. maybe some atlantideum for the mind ark. etc...

[meager scroll]

For some reason the tooltip says blue star systems

[tidal mantle]

update, ive just hit a snag

[meager scroll]

But in the end, no packed drive is necessary

[tidal mantle]

ive hit the base parameter wall

[terse dust]

Any uncolonized system might work

[meager scroll]

Since one milestone rewards blueprints for all of them

[tidal mantle]

the base isnt mine

[indigo falcon]

I really think you should move on. I get that the base may seem useful. but....

[terse dust]

Yeah, that's why I was sayin' I didn't think I'd include it :p

[tidal mantle]

i cant, ive tried

i cant leave the expedition as far as I know

[indigo falcon]

no

[neat latch]

I was joking the other day that it must be a line of code to sort RGB system in alphabetically ascending order and choose the first star type name. In that case Blue comes first.

[meager scroll]

You can start a new save with expedition and stick to the milestones and guidance messages the game is telling you

[indigo falcon]

but you can travel underground for a bit and keep radiation levels from getting to you (for example)

[tidal mantle]

it doesnt I tried that

[meager scroll]

Cause no offence, nobody here knows what the heck are you doing right now

[terse dust]

Maybe die?

I haven't died in ages, so idk what it does nowadays

Or reload a save

[meager scroll]

Would just make a grave on the same planet they are stranded on

[tidal mantle]

did that, ive died 4 times in the last 30 minutes

[terse dust]

Oh.

[indigo falcon]

you didn't get down far enough. if you dig down enough, you get a notification that the hazard levels are stabilizing. it really does do this.

[terse dust]

Yeah, if you're covered and deep enough, your systems should stabilize.

By covered I mean roof, not like buried.

[tidal mantle]

5th death

[terse dust]

I don't even know if a roof is mandatory.

[neat latch]

You need a roof, any kind of roof.

[terse dust]

Ah, I thought so!

[meager scroll]

You can get out from hazards in a semi-open cave

[terse dust]

Considering how solar panels work, you never know

[neat latch]

Literally place a floor on top of a wall and delete the wall, you will be safe under the floating floor.

[tidal mantle]

6th death

[terse dust]

This isn't helping, man.

[indigo falcon]

you will need to dig almost straight down, drop down, repeat 3-4 times. ok?

when you are 3-4 drops below the surface you should get that message lower left

[lime imp]

@meager scroll @indigo falcon Thank you both for your help

[tidal mantle]

7th death

[terse dust]

Man, you're circling the drain and iterating a number.

If nothing we say is helping, I can guarantee you counting your deaths out loud isn't going to help either.

[indigo falcon]

@tidal mantle how far down are you digging to try to get protection?

how many jumps down in other words?

[tidal mantle]

8th death

[terse dust]

:|

[tidal mantle]

im not digging down, im trying to build a land bridge

[terse dust]

That's why you're dying.

[indigo falcon]

I can't help you with that, I'm sorry

[tidal mantle]

it'd help if the construction mode was a cube not a sphere

[terse dust]

Change it to cube.

Or swap to Flatten.

I always make a big blob of land and then Flatten to make a landable area.

[tidal mantle]

like i said, the base is above water

[terse dust]

I'm talking about when I'm in water.

[tidal mantle]

i cant just its too far

9th death

10th

[terse dust]

Send a screenshot of what you're doing

[indigo falcon]

the problem is that there will be a radius around the base where you cannot terrain manipulate

no matter where you approach from.

[terse dust]

I mean, if all else fails, just Anomaly sling.

[indigo falcon]

I think they do not have anomaly access yet.

[tidal mantle]

is it possible for someone to come and get me?

[indigo falcon]

still no adv mining laser nor personal refiner

[terse dust]

Maybe?

Whats your code

Oh wait, this expedition doesnt allow squads does it

[tidal mantle]

there might be a loop hole

[indigo falcon]

yo ucan certainly see other player ships... not sure exactly what's possible

[tidal mantle]

there's a huge floating island near by

[terse dust]

...may have accidentally joined someone

[tidal mantle]

"if" i can jump on the island I could possibly build a bridge from there over the base

[terse dust]

Can you call your ship there

This is such a sunk cost fallacy at this point. What is in this base that's so wildly worth it

[sonic shale]

question: what happens if you load to before you claimed a expedition reward? can you claim it again?

[wanton raft]

Not ure what's going on here, but someone is definitely making the gaem harder for themselvs than it is.

[terse dust]

We've established that :p

[sonic shale]

as in something in-expedition, not like the final rewards.

[terse dust]

It won't be claimed, I assume.

Like if you load to before you claim it, you undo the claiming and the reward.

[meager scroll]

May I ask what is so valuable that you need to get it twice?

[tidal mantle]

there's 2 player bases in range of me and I can read their names

[sonic shale]

i didn't want the reward twice, i just wanted to make sure i wouldn't miss out if i loaded a restore

[neat latch]

You will be able to claim the reward.

If you loaded a restore point before starting a milestone but had completed it before reloading, you would have to complete the milestone again.

I think.

[tidal mantle]

update, i think some sodium respawned

[jagged sedge]

Would any of you super cool people be able to tell me - How would one get ahold of the BP for a launch auto charger? I may have overlooked, or it might not be gettable

[indigo falcon]

I think that's not available in the expedition, unless damaged machinery could randomly grant it (or maybe manufacturing facilities), which I am skeptical they can. The npc kiosks are unavailable, including the ones at the anomaly

[meager scroll]

Mayybe if you look for crashed ships long enough and pick the option to learn / extract tech from them

But I have no idea if that would even work

[jagged sedge]

Hmm, both good suggestione

I shall investigate

[meager scroll]

Or how long would it take

[indigo falcon]

I think,honestly: mine up a deposit of uranium on smallest diameter setting of the tool, shove the 500+ uranium in an inv slot, you are good for the expd and then some

[meager scroll]

Yeah you can do the exped on bare minimum just fine

Unless you plan on using that save in the future

[indigo falcon]

and in the future, well, all the npcs will be back 🙂

[jagged sedge]

I'm planning to play long enough to unlock the IV but probably won't keep this file

[tidal mantle]

ive tried using the island as a launch point, its too far

[mild valley]

hi anyone can tell me what is the name of system for rendez vous 1 ?

[meager scroll]

Check the pinned messages

[neat latch]

Rotmouti IX

No, Havida-Bozho XVI is the system.

The heck kind of names are these, silly procgen. Smh my head!

[indigo falcon]

all the system names, along with the planets with the rendezvous points, and even their location via planetary coordinates in case needed, are in the pins. lots of other good stuff in there too, worth taking a look for anyone just getting started

[tidal mantle]

does anyone know if players can trade resources?

[indigo falcon]

ordinarily yes; the question is whether that's possible in this expedition, because of the interference in multiplayer gameplay

someone would have to test it out (I don't have mp access right now so I cannot)

[lime imp]

If you claim a freightor in the Expedition does it replace your normal one when you finish?

[indigo falcon]

no 🙂

[lime imp]

ok ty

[indigo falcon]

and you do need to claim this one, or it can block your progress

(known issue)

[lime imp]

oooh ok, good to know

[tidal mantle]

one of the nearest bases to me is "vuhandm's hope

scanners say its 3 hours from me

[indigo falcon]

yeah, not worth any of that

if a player could get resources to you, what would you want?

[tidal mantle]

copper and deuterium

[indigo falcon]

ok and I assume life support gels, ion batteries too, yes?

[tidal mantle]

if its ok

[wanton raft]

Can you not build anywhere within the starter planet? When I go back and try to do that it says cannot build within existing base, yet there are no bases.

[indigo falcon]

you could if there weren't bases someplace "near", I expect.

even if you don't see them. probably most spawn points have been seen by other players by now

[indigo falcon]

I'm asking around but when this channel picks up a bit, could ask in here too

[tidal mantle]

ok, thanks

how do i get hold of deuterium?

level 2 refiner?

[indigo falcon]

ok so

you need the adv mining laser first to get plans for the refiner

then you can use dihydrogen and silicate powder in the refiner to make deuterium

[tidal mantle]

which is why i need copper

[indigo falcon]

uh huh, only activated copper where you are, right?

[tidal mantle]

scanners show no copper, activated or otherwise

[indigo falcon]

what does it say for planetary resources in the discovery tab?

[tidal mantle]

gamma root, magnetised ferrite, uranium and activated copper "rilotte" is the planets name

[indigo falcon]

right, only activated copper there. extreme planet

[tidal mantle]

theres no deposits in range

[indigo falcon]

if there were, they would not help you with these basic things anyways

you need regular copper (which the starter world has but not this one)

[tidal mantle]

i am aware, i didnt know how to activate harvest moed

mode*

[indigo falcon]

right right

[frozen remnant]

I am still stuck at Amidst the Stars.. I activated the portal but then got distracted. It says I should cross the threshold into the Boundry Portal. But I have no Idea where it was localted. Any Ideas? I tried the usual reload "fixes".

[meager scroll]

Boundary Portal should have a marker for you to follow

[frozen remnant]

That vanished once I activated it

[indigo falcon]

yeah it will. do you know what planet you were on, can you get back there?

[meager scroll]

Well you should go through that activated portal

Then a little || spacewalk || would happen

[tidal mantle]

can someone explain to me wtf is the point having a base 40ft off ground level with a portal inside if no one can get to it?

[frozen remnant]

I know that But as I said I got distracted and forgot about it

[frozen remnant]

no unfortunately

[indigo falcon]

hmm uh oh. do you know the planetary system you were in?

[frozen remnant]

Pretty sure it was rev2

[indigo falcon]

ok, wellllll

[meager scroll]

If you did the || spacewalk || then you should || get teleported to another planet || and milestone would be complete

[frozen remnant]

I did not enter the portal

[indigo falcon]

do yo uremember any characteristics of the planet you were on? like: it had worms, it was radioactive or whatever

[indigo falcon]

it might have been for the player's personal use, dunno

[frozen remnant]

actually.. it was the planet with the bones in rev1

[indigo falcon]

ok! so sadene VI

[meager scroll]

So either you locate the portal again by yourself from an alien monolith on that planet

[frozen remnant]

that's what distracted me.. i thought let's get the bones ootw

[meager scroll]

Or have some other player locate it for you

[indigo falcon]

you'll want a gek relic to give to the monolith if you go that route; check all the cargo drops you pass, one will likely drop it

[tidal mantle]

EUGH! you wont believe this

a heavy storm threw me onto the base roof, but the impact killed me

[lime imp]

Do you bring anything back from the expidation with you?

[meager scroll]

Only the stuff you put in the transfer window at the expedition terminal at Space Anomaly

The rest gets converted into units (maybe nanites as well)

And those units gets transferred to the existing save

[lime imp]

Ahh so its best I dont build the ship I just unlocked here then

[tidal mantle]

can you leave the expedition?

[meager scroll]

What have I been telling you since the start?

To make a new expedition save

To start like anyone else does and follow the milestones and tooltips for them

[indigo falcon]

you can switch back to the normal mode of the save you entered with, but you cannot add items to the stash to pick up from the expd side of the save at this point.

(and those items would only be available once reaching the anomaly in any case)

[tidal mantle]

why would someone's personal base be on a public gate list?

if everyone falls off, they wouldnt get into it either

[indigo falcon]

people upload their bases all the time without thinking about it, honestly. some players may not even know better

[wanton raft]

Why do people say or do ----------- (insert 90+ percent of every silly thing people do here)? If you don't even have freedom to do silly but unharmful things in a public game, we're all doomed!

[tidal mantle]

im just trying to fix my ship

arent there alloys that can be refined into copper?

dirty bronze,etc

[meager scroll]

No

[indigo falcon]

you can buy it sometimes, or sometimes (seldom) get it as a secondary element in caves. or...mine it. that's all there is.

[tidal mantle]

i cant make it to any neighbouring bases, and theres no copper near by but there are those automated sentinal drones

[blazing fossil]

Only a few milestones left on phase 5

[indigo falcon]

yeah the sentinels are unwavering there iirc

[tidal mantle]

they drop odd alloys

is it possible someone could come and find me?

[indigo falcon]

I've asked around, you could try asking yourself in #nms-lfg-or-trades but you might have to waiit a while, it's a low traffic channel

[blazing fossil]

The hunt for wheat begins

[wanton raft]

Found tons of wheat on one of the frozen planets on one of them RV1-4 systems. Good luck. Wheat and poop = bread 😉

[blazing fossil]

Final milestone!

RDVZ 5 time

Expedition done

Now to copy the vulture 3 times

[neat latch]

Only 3?

[grim fossil]

There’s an end?

[blazing fossil]

Then I’m gonna dupe the parts

I’ll get one of each then dupe a few hundred parts

Cockpit done

Wings done

Engines done

[neat latch]

Oh

[neat latch]

[grim fossil]

Only a hundred?

[blazing fossil]

I’ve got 50 of each part for now, that’s probably all I’ll ever need

[grim fossil]

No, get more

[blazing fossil]

Considering all I’m gonna do is build a copy without the wings

And then I’ll be done

[grim fossil]

I forgor you are on switch

[summer nest]

Frost crystals cook into grains that cook into flour

[blazing fossil]

Well I’m done already

[summer nest]

Don’t need to harvest wheat on my run

[blazing fossil]

I found wheat

[summer nest]

Make me a pie now please

[blazing fossil]

Nah

[summer nest]

I do love all the hidden recipes

[wraith junco]

30 at least

[spiral cliff]

When the expedition ends and you’re transferring stuff over you’d like to keep, how does that work with the new ship and technology that came with it? Do I have to strip the new ship or will it transfer over automatically with the ship?

[grim fossil]

When you copy a ship from exp save back to primary and vice versa it will copy tech installed, so you do not need to uninstall its tech.

[spiral cliff]

Sweet 😎

[shut plank]

Is it me, or the game is not save in Switch for Expedition 13 - Adrift ?

[remote thunder]

how many saves do you have in total

[shut plank]

I have one Primary Main, Permadeath Main, Expedition 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12.

The same amount of saves in my PC version

[shut plank]

But PC version (Steam) able to save the Expedition 13

[remote thunder]

you might be hitting the save limit on switch

i think that's what's happening

not the first user i see reporting this

[shut plank]

If not mistaken, I know PC has limit of 16, but I couldn't find anything regarding the Switch version

[remote thunder]

15 on pc yes, but it has been found by troubleshooting that switch does not have a limit that high, at least in some cases

[tawdry vector]

Anyone got a trick to find ancient bones or is it just continuing with other tasks and search every planet for them?

[indigo falcon]

there's a planet in the rend. 1 system that has them

Sadene VI

[summer nest]

Planet will say it has bones when you look at it in space

[tawdry vector]

Okay. So I have to find that system.

[tawdry vector]

Thanks 🙂

[indigo falcon]

have you been to the first rendezvous yet?

[tawdry vector]

Yes and two 😄

The task is in phase 3

[indigo falcon]

ok! so just later, tp back via the space station and go down there, scoop them up

(it's often handy btw to look at milestones for the various tasks across the expd, some you can do on the way and that helps)

[tawdry vector]

Will remember that for next expedition. I'm a one step at the time kind of guy, so not that forseen 😄

[summer nest]

Also look at rewards, so you can get tech and things to make other tasks easier

[shut plank]

Bummer, looks like I have to say goodbye to older saves then, and also my current expedition save that cannot be saved.

[summer nest]

Sometimes one must let go of the past to move to the future

[swift fern]

So, I finnished the expedition but it won't end. The Phase 4 complete! keeps popping up even after I collect the reward. I suspect that it is happening becouse i said no to the Freighter and now i cant have a Frigate in the expedition? I have gotten the reward and claimed the frigate on my main save, so this is clearly a bug. Any sugestions?

[indigo falcon]

ah yeah that is a known bug

[swift fern]

That has a workaround?🙃

[indigo falcon]

gotta wait, there is a fix I think for that (4.71.1) which has yet to land for most platforms, iirc only Steam has it

no workaround yet, wait for the fix to land

[swift fern]

OK thanks fo letting me know 🙂

[summer nest]

Why did you say no? Just curious

[lilac star]

how does the first mission on phase 4 work? i dont understand the description with the waypoint

[remote thunder]

interact with waypoint/save point/windmill objects

often near buildings

[lilac star]

ahh those things

[remote thunder]

minotaur radar array can help here, scan for secure facilities for example

[lilac star]

my booster sent me to a player base so i got confused, thanks

[remote thunder]

or just fly low and slow-ish with your ship, spamming quick scan

[quaint ether]

I tend to use quick scan frequently myself to look for free parking. Realistically that's probably a thing you don't need to try to get, it'll probably happen in the course of play.

[remote thunder]

that's something i do as well. the more launch fuel i can save, the less i have to keep it in mind, resources, crafting, etc etc

if i can find a landing pad within a minute of deciding i want to land, great, if not, i'll just land wherever close enough to my destination

i use photo mode a lot as a drone camera, since i play solo i get to pause "the world"

[indigo falcon]

I landed a lot more often than necessary in this expd but I did start out right away by stockpiling uranium, no worries about launch thruster for the rest of the trip. (still have plenty left over after being done too)

but I too looked around for POI when flying around, because why not.

[remote thunder]

starter system radiation planet might be a little tough getting around early on, but it will have uranium mineral deposits, and to harvest those in safety we can just dig a hole next to it and then mine horizontally

flying low and slow can be used to scout for deposits, ideally bigger ones - photo mode and fog set to 0% can help if it's storming

[pulsar token]

How does one get wiring looms?

[remote thunder]

@pulsar token buy from trade terminal for example

[pulsar token]

pain

[remote thunder]

@indigo falcon ^ that's how cheap - 4 for the price of 1

[indigo falcon]

are they 5 million in the base game? why did I think they were 3? but I knew these ones were very cheap in any case

[remote thunder]

rdv1 system has a planet with ancient bones, there's a milestone to collect 8 bones, sell those, you'll have plenty of moneys

[remote thunder]

5M for the first one

lol

i usually buy like 20 or 30

[indigo falcon]

right, and if you buy multiple a day then

you're just showing off 😛

[pulsar token]

Its more a case of finding the trade terminal

[remote thunder]

in the space station

[indigo falcon]

space station terminal works fine

[remote thunder]

as you come in to land, on your right

[indigo falcon]

may look creepy but it's functional.

[pulsar token]

huh

didnt notice

[remote thunder]

i like running DFs a lot, so yeah, i always have a stack. when it gets too low, i just go craft some more stuff to sell if needed, then go waste a billion units in ESS

lol last time, i went from 1B to like 50K units 😄

[lime imp]

So when it says to find a "empty" planet to find robotic life, does the planet actually have to have empty as its type?

[remote thunder]

crafted some stuff, back up to 300M, then scanned my way to 800M

[indigo falcon]

no, dead worlds can't have them, they mean "no gek/korvax/vykeen"

[remote thunder]

ignore planets with rusted metal on the resource list; only visit uncharted systems iow systems with no race icon iow white stars when lifeform filter is selected top right

when you hit a system that has a suitable planet, hint lower right will acknowledge

select the mission in the Log tab, use the current mission galaxy map destination top center

[lime imp]

Between finding the robotic life forms and the holo terminal one ive wasted SO much time just flying around lol

[remote thunder]

the holo terminus should have been 1 scan using signal booster+surge battery

[lusty slate]

At RD2 system. I have to go to work, but I woke up early to knock out ancient bones since there was at planet at RD1 for it. Might finish tonight.

[indigo falcon]

you do need to pin the mission for the signal booster to give you the right first option though

[lime imp]

@remote thunder I wish... I went through several stacks of the surge batterys trying to find one

[remote thunder]

what option were you using? that hint is misleading

it mentions nearby structures, but when indeed you want to use the first option, for transmitters

[lusty slate]

Wait, how are people blowing through surge batteries? I still have 4.

[lime imp]

I honestly dont remember tbh, did that part yesterday

[remote thunder]

not sure, i only had to craft 2 like for the last phase

and i did waste one to see what the other option would do

[lime imp]

Ive flown through so many empty blue star systems looking for the lifeforms this morning..

[indigo falcon]

5 is not enough for all the things, you will need a couple more (if the signal booster acts properly)

[remote thunder]

just for you to have a visual image: it would be option 1 here.

[indigo falcon]

try red uncharted, there are many more of those, maybe save you some in between warps

[idle warren]

was i supposed to have a hauler or shuttle at the start of the expedition?

[lusty slate]

I've just been charting waypoints as I've come across them doing other things. Same with scanning plants and animals

[idle warren]

and where is this haunted frighter to guide me?

[lime imp]

Oh, thought it had to be a blue one since thats what the quest states

[remote thunder]

try exploring uncharted near rendezvous systems

[remote thunder]

i had a shuttle

[idle warren]

ah

[remote thunder]

afaik, we all did

[indigo falcon]

the game hint is ... unhelpful, may I just say.

[lusty slate]

Same, shuttle.

[lime imp]

.... Ok thanks for the tip, that will at least give me alot more places to search

[idle warren]

im playing on my main save, and i claimed the freightert in the expedtion, when i go back to my save waht will happen?

[remote thunder]

the final expedition reward, a ship, is a hauler though, perhaps that's where the mixup is coming from

[indigo falcon]

just do make sure the mission is pinned, so when you warp into a system, if you don't see a hint in lower right about nearby robofauna, then move on

[lusty slate]

Nothing, that freighter won't replace your main save freighter.

Oh, frigate, sorry.

[idle warren]

no this

[remote thunder]

oops, they meant the restored freighter? lol

yeah

mb, sorry

[lusty slate]

Okay, nothing, then. Freighters can't be transfered.

[iron tendon]

New player here. Should I start the expedition from a new save? Any disadvantages of this?

[idle warren]

i thought this expedtion would be alot more focused on the lore

[finite rover]

Does anyone know of a planet with really high mountains? I looked at the pins but I didn't spot anything.

[indigo falcon]

if you want an extra copy of the iron vulture for parts, you can't do that from a new save, only an existing one. (assuming that existing save has 3k nanites to spend later)

[indigo falcon]

rend 2 and r3 worlds have.

[finite rover]

ta :)

[thick umbra]

and your starter planet , too

[finite rover]

oooh

well I'm on my way to r2.

[thick umbra]

If you cant find one.. there are lot of players who did make a base for it

[lilac star]

is there a way to sell technology for nanites? because i cant find a normal space station and anomaly isnt working either

[finite rover]

nop

you can get nanites from scanning critters or processing larva or luck

[wraith junco]

Refine worm loot for nanites

[finite rover]

and that :)

[finite rover]

hopefully stairway to heaven lives up to its name :)

[lilac star]

ok i can do that thanks

[wraith junco]

I had 1600u high spot on starter planet..shoud get coords

[finite rover]

it does :)

sorted. downside is that there's no portal back.

[thick umbra]

always visit the space Stations 🙂

[finite rover]

always do :)

[thick umbra]

than you can teleport back

[finite rover]

no teleporter at site :)

but all good :)

[finite rover]

I've over 8k nanites without trying too hard so don't stress too hard over it

[iron tendon]

Sorry why does the existing save need to have 3k nanites?

[indigo falcon]

so you can make that copy of the iron vulture that is spare, at the end of the expd. see #nms-expedition message for all that. cost is really about 2800 nanites I think

[wraith junco]

2.8 k per ship copy fee

[indigo falcon]

you can always get the standard "here is the ship as end of expd reward" for free once on each save, this is an extra one to be broken down for copies, see.

if you want more than one part, then 2.8k nanites for each part.

[iron tendon]

Thanks

[lusty slate]

Me: sitting on 150k nanites on main and rubbing hands

[lusty slate]

RD1 planet too. That's where I did mine.

[thick umbra]

Stairways to Heaven 🙂

[safe fog]

Ive been seeing so many stairs in this Expedition. LOL. I wonder if HG anticipated that with the Milestone.

Maybe adjust mountain gen, guys. LOL

[thick umbra]

Well, parking is not my strongest discipline

[indigo falcon]

the intergalactic aviation authority will be having a word with you

[pulsar token]

Yeah the RD1 planet has so many mountains that work

[lusty slate]

When I landed at RD1, I was dead in the middle of a mountain range. Easy peasy.

[idle warren]

should i bring back the expedtion items like the books of the worms back to my main save?

[meager scroll]

I like how people are doing everything to get the 1600u milestone instead of just playing

Staircases to heaven, launching from underwater vents with a chair

[indigo falcon]

if you want it as a collectible, sure

[lusty slate]

I look at milestones immediately in advance, so I just kept an eye on elevation.

[idle warren]

how many wormskin folios were therte supposed to be i only got 1

[indigo falcon]

5 but that was from the original expedition

from this one you just get the one as a special item

[idle warren]

the og one?

[indigo falcon]

uh huh

[idle warren]

oh

[ashen shore]

[idle warren]

also i lost the book :(

i accedntly cvlaimed the ship ans replace dit

[indigo falcon]

welp guess you won't be bringing it back then 😄

[finite rover]

I am deeply saddened that we can't make pets of lava turtles. :(

[idle warren]

realoading save :)

[summer nest]

That’ll buff right out

[idle warren]

made 10 mil outta that

[umbral saffron]

Any point in doing the atlas path this time?

[idle warren]

les than th 4 billion i made last time :(

[finite rover]

warp fuel

[pulsar token]

Do the sentinel ships count for the repair crashed ship milestone in phase 3

[idle warren]

feel good to be back in my main save where my ship isnt as bad at handling as a trolly with one broken wheel

no one has had any issuies with going back to main save, I havnt found anything amiss

[pulsar prism]

How can I get wiring looms in the new expedition

[wraith junco]

Buy on Stations, dismantle modules

[indigo falcon]

the space station (and trading post and etc) trade terminals all do work

[finite rover]

oh for the love of god. just figured out how to get wild yeast.

[lilac star]

if i claim the frigate can i get it on my main save aswell?

[finite rover]

nah

but frigates are easy to get if you're not fussy.

first one's always free, too.

[lilac star]

can i leave it and claim it on my main or do i have to claim it

[finite rover]

don't believe so, no

[lilac star]

alright thx

[remote thunder]

@lilac star , @finite rover , are we talking frigate (ship of the damned) or freighter?

[finite rover]

at this stage I'm going to say: blub.

[remote thunder]

only possible issue i'm aware of is wonders getting reset on main save

[blazing fossil]

How long did it take people to beat the expedition?

[wanton frigate]

Was skeptical about this one, an empty universe sounds like unfun to me. But after spending an evening punching rocks for oxygen to desperately survive, then frantically digging for caves and scrabbling for sodium to keep my rad shield up, I'm having a blast. Can't help but feel that with the ship repaired and a hold full of copper the worst might be behind me but still, great fun. Just need to get a few warp cells together and it's Rendezvous 1 here I come!

[finite rover]

honestly? take as long as you need to whilst enjoying it. I'm probably close to 10hrs in and haven't yet reached r3

[blazing fossil]

Oh I’m done

I’m just wondering how long it took for others

[remote thunder]

i strolled through it, literally, didn't shortcut or try to preview ahead a whole lot like i usually do, completed in 5h

[blazing fossil]

I got it in about the same time

Maybe a bit faster

Probably around 4:30

[wanton frigate]

Having played other expeditions might impair your ability to not preview ahead. E.g. I saw a big mountain beside the starter ship so landed on it before leaving for orbit, just in case and ✅ - you can't unknow what you know!

[lilac star]

phase 5 mission 5: do i have to chill for 60 sec somewhere on a planet

[final turret]

What you have to do is look up at the night sky on a planet for 60 seconds.

[lilac star]

thx

[final turret]

Just finished the expedition and getting everything I brought over in order.

[finite rover]

man. I started having invisible plants. time to restart nms.

[blazing fossil]

How much nipnip did you have?

[finite rover]

no comment. :)

but nms starts running out of ram on the xbox x soon enough and weird shit happens before it crashes

worth the restart it's also much faster now

[final turret]

I've had a few crashes on Switch during the expedition myself.

[vast forge]

How the hell do get 1600u up

I can’t get it

[remote thunder]

rendezvous 2, 3 and 5 planets are suitable for this milestone.

[thick umbra]

Land on the highest Mountain .. and the rest do with your Jetpack

[remote thunder]

just literally land on/near the highest peak you can see

if you pick a suitable mountain, you won't even have to jetpack

take rdv5

those mountains are crazy high, very close to atmosphere entry

come in slow

otherwise you'll just hit a mountain

or worse, get stuck inside terrain

[ashen shore]

how the heck do u get wiring looms in the expedtion, need them for the robotic animals for a start to build indum drive

[thick umbra]

What the hell -- a Tornado gets you if you are in deep water 😦

[thick umbra]

you can buy that in SpaceStation ... or get them if dismantle some tech from ships you found

[vast forge]

So how do I find high mounted planets?

[ashen shore]

havent seen them available in any space station yet

[ashen shore]

the rendeouvos 2 planet has high mountains

[remote thunder]

also 3, 5

[vast forge]

How I get there

[ashen shore]

follow the mission for the 2nd rendevous

[remote thunder]

space station in the starter system had some

[vast forge]

My englisch not the best don’t know what rendevous is

[ashen shore]

its one of the missions in each phase

[vast forge]

Oh the planet for the mission

witch one

[remote thunder]

that one

[vast forge]

okay

[ashen shore]

ha ha forgot be in different language for you, sorry

[vast forge]

It’s okay I’m on the englisch server it’s my bad

[valid inlet]

if i found I couldnt interact with the building machine thing at the 2nd rendezvous point, probably because some wise guy removed enough terrain below it that it spawned halfway in the ground, is that going to cause problems for progression?

[ashen shore]

my spelling didnt help ha ha

[valid inlet]

might have been the 3rd point

[remote thunder]

i'd suggest quick menu, scroll right, report base

[vast forge]

yeah

[remote thunder]

lol

[valid inlet]

my question is whether my progression is broken now since i couldnt do whatever that building wanted me to do

[remote thunder]

which building machine btw? to complete a reach rendezvous objective, we don't have to interact with anything, just approach coordinates until it triggers completion

[indigo falcon]

no, you don't have to do anything at all in the trading post - r2 location.

[valid inlet]

Okay it was the 3rd one then. It was a closed building with some sort of central tech interface. I completed the objective, but I was worried the tech thing would start me on one of the quests for the 4th group of tasks maybe

i excavated the tech interface, but the computer didnt give me an option to interact with it

[indigo falcon]

oh the observatory? no. still no need to do anything with it if you don't want.

[valid inlet]

alright, thank you!

[quaint ether]

Any interactions are optional and give their normal reward options. It's nice to use the observatory for the ruins but not necessary.

[valid inlet]

I left that system a while ago, but I'll make sure to report any other annoyingly submerged points

[quaint ether]

Or I think there's a factory at some point too?

[valid inlet]

thank you guys!

[low jackal]

Anywhere in the expedition I can sell tech for nanites?

[indigo falcon]

no. your nanite sources are: refine things (larval cores, drops from the worm babies, etc); scanning and uploading discoveries; the usual damaged machinery etc

[low jackal]

sadage

ty

[indigo falcon]

there are milestones for whispering eggs/ worms, so the drops from all that should get you pretty far along the nanite milestone.

[low jackal]

yeah I killed some titan worms and got that covered

just thinking copying my main ship over

[indigo falcon]

ah so you need 2.8k nanites, I see

scan all fauna on a couple worlds, doesn't have to be tons of fauna

and then claim the bonus for doing that, 250 nanites per creature

[vast forge]

How i get this one in phase 3

WTF

[low jackal]

look for them in uncharted world

[umbral saffron]

omg spoilers

[low jackal]

aka system with no race

[vast forge]

Can i get these as pet?

[wraith badge]

yes

[vast forge]

Maybe there will be one cool

[lilac star]

check pinned comments they listed a few systems where u can find those

[jagged sedge]

My thanks to whoever built the sky ramp near rendevous 2

[meager scroll]

Despite what tooltip will say, look in red star systems, not blue

Specifically planets that show exactly 2 animals in Discovery page

[wraith junco]

Adachi-eniwa .2 planets with 2 robots near rdv3

[heady pilot]

There is no point looking at planets anywhere until the milestone says robotic fauna detected on nearby planet. And uncharted blue systems work fine.

[indigo falcon]

they work fine but there are more red uncharted around than blue, and the cadmium drive is easier to acquire of course

[meager scroll]

It works but you're more likely to find an uncharted system under a red star

[heady pilot]

There are loads of uncharted blue systems too.

[wraith badge]

well the 7 or so Blue systems I visited never said there was robotic fauna in the system ... yet first uncharted red system I tried and I got 2 of the 3 on one planet ... had to then find another red system for the last one

[quaint urchin]

Are you supposed to be able to interact with the crashed ship at the Rendezvous 5 location? I'm there, but can't seem to interact with it.

[remote thunder]

try to save+reload if ship doesn't allow interaction

[quaint urchin]

Cool, I will try that, Thanks!

[heady pilot]

Then there were none. You have to keep warping until the milestone says robotic fauna detected on nearby planet.

[indigo falcon]

you should be able to, yes (and mp off might be useful here just in case)

[heady pilot]

Do you have multiplayer on? If so then someone else probably got it.

[wraith badge]

I know that ... the point I was trying to make was the tooltip said Blue system yet in a Blue system there was no fauna of the correct type ... yet visit a Red system and BINGO!

would have made more sense if the tooltip just said find an uncharted system

[heady pilot]

That's just luck. The tooltip just directs you to where you're more likely to find robotic fauna but it's not exclussive to blue systems.

But I agree that mentioning unchartes would have been more helpful.

[quaint urchin]

No, I'm a loaner so MP is always off. Lol

[indigo falcon]

there are a number of systems in the pins in case you get really stuck on the robofauna milestone

[heady pilot]

Same. But yeah in that case save and reload should fix it.

[finite rover]

annoying a mechanical planet does not contain mechanical life

[thick umbra]

if you see this message.. than there should be planet nearby

[finite rover]

nice. ta.

[wanton raft]

Done with the expedition, but when I try to collect that the ship of the damned frigate reward it doesn't complete (can try to collect it over and over). Do I have to have a freighter before I can collect that or something?

[heady pilot]

Yes. You need the freighter that is a reward for completing a derelict freighter.

[indigo falcon]

if you rejected the freighter, there is a fix coming but you'll need to wait for it to land for all platforms (only steam has it for now)

[wanton raft]

I didn't reject it. Just accepted it.

I assume you can't accept the Iron Vulture in the expedition. Since the guy isn't there to help you do that.

I see you can in the main save.

[indigo falcon]

yes, there's a pin that explains getting multiple ship parts from it etc

[lusty slate]

When you finish the exped, it should auto accept the Vulture.

[wanton raft]

Ah, of course. I'm still scheming on how to spend the MT class upgrades in the expedition, so that will be a while.

[lusty slate]

Then set it as your current ship before you end. So you can copy it for its parts on your main.

[wanton raft]

Yep, thanks.

[lusty slate]

Yeah, I'm only have two phases complete right now. I'm stuck at work and it's dead. Hoping they let me leave early.

[unique glen]

I’m trying to complete the “it’s alive” milestone, but I need a portal to travel to a world I found on YouTube. Anyone know where I can find a portal?

[wanton raft]

Bet you can't copy ship parts from one class to another class right?

[indigo falcon]

you don't have the glyphs do you? so that can't really work

[indigo falcon]

nope, ship parts are only mix match within the same type

[wanton raft]

figured so

[unique glen]

Oh crap you’re right. How are people finding the robot animals? I’ve been searching “blue” star systems for hours. 😭

[lusty slate]

Yup, Vulture is a hauler. So the parts can only be mixed with other hauler parts.

[wanton raft]

There's two of three pins for it.

[indigo falcon]

see the pins in here for some systems (which you can find from rendezvous systems, so you don't need to portal there)

three or four or more pins by now 😄

[unique glen]

Thanks so much!!!

[wanton raft]

For this expedition, I don't think I actually needed any of the stuff I copied over from the main expedition. The suit upgrades were a bit of help, but there wasn't really any heavy fighting to do and I didn't really need to stay outside for extended periods so ...

[woeful osprey]

i just landed on a planet and get out of my starship i hear a immortal worm as i turn around it aims at me
i do not think i am welcome here

[wanton raft]

Random luck.

Speaking of luck, has anyone been lucky enough to get close enough to scan a big worm? I was trying to and got really close a couple times, but still no dice.

[woeful osprey]

yep

it shows their stomach contents

i've seen them full of gek to lost starships

[remote thunder]

magma, sentinel walkers

e.g.

[wanton raft]

I mean scan it to get money for the scan

[remote thunder]

can't

not a fauna species

[woeful osprey]

one of em was called The Consumer

[wanton raft]

Was begining to suspect that.

[woeful osprey]

this one has a fish head

i can tell because it right in front of me

[wanton raft]

Typical Hello Games random text I see.

[terse dust]

Ye, they've shown as pips for ages, but I think they were only scannable on an expedition if ever.

[woeful osprey]

im talkin bout the worms lol

[solemn bane]

kzzzt

[wanton raft]

They should give big rewards as fast as the fly.

[terse dust]

Nah, once you click you have a lock. Speed is nothing.

[solemn bane]

Let me fight the big flying worms, that's all I ask.

[terse dust]

Just hold the button down once it starts.

[wanton raft]

Yeah, I know. I was talking about the random stomach contents.

[wanton raft]

Well, when they finally make it work at all, they should make it harder and more rewarding somehow.

[terse dust]

All scans are easy.

Finding fauna is the hard part. If anything, scanning them should be worthless since theyre the most findable in the world.

[wanton raft]

Except the ones that are complete head fakes (worms) because they look like they should work but don't!

[terse dust]

I'm not going to say some bread isn't soft because I've been chewing on a rock. You got distracted by a red herring.

They should probably remove the dot or change it to another icon

[indigo falcon]

you do not fight Shai-Hulud. You might, with the right care and reverence, ride it.

[wanton raft]

LOL! Never heard that saying before.

[terse dust]

Cuz I made it up :p

[wanton raft]

Wormsign

For the first couple times, I liked the new worn sound, but it gets old fast.

[solemn bane]

honk honk

[indigo falcon]

it's just too loud. they need to balance out volumes of effects

[wanton raft]

Someone should make a meme of a NMS worn flying through the air with a big megaphone flying in front if it.

[solemn bane]

Untitled Goose Game/NMS crossover expedition

[wanton raft]

I sure hope you can still scrap your existing MT to be able to copy an enhanced one back ... like you could in the last expedition!

[indigo falcon]

ok someone is going to make a mod replacing the titan worms with giant honking geese and it will be glorious

[indigo falcon]

afaik yes, with the usual caveats about nanite cost etc

[wanton raft]

That's no problem at all.

[indigo falcon]

(back-up-yo-save-first just in case)

[true bronze]

Is there a place where you can actually salvage a ship in the expedition?

[solemn bane]

The first system I warped to happened to have a dissonant planet, and I never turn down a quick sentinel ship so I got it that way. Otherwise there are crashed ships around, I assume ||since the last rdv is a crashed ship||

[tacit schooner]

do i need to take anything special with me for the expedition?

[true bronze]

sorry, I meant "scrap" a ship

I got a ship as part of ... phase 1 or 2, but it has so man y broken parts that I would like to just get rid of the thing

[solemn bane]

OH, right, no you can't, as far as I know. Super annoying.

[true bronze]

yeah

ok

[solemn bane]

I'd love to have the ability to build all that kind of stuff in my own base, even if it took an enormous amount of materials.

[indigo falcon]

I brought nothing and it was fine. but there are things you could bring to make some parts easier or less grindy, it's kind of up to you.

[true bronze]

They should have a parts shop where you can just tinker and make components

or have a factorio/satisfactory crossover and turn your ship into a giant automated factory

[tacit schooner]

for example what? crafting materials?

[indigo falcon]

well let's see. you can' tbuy tech upgrades from npcs so if you think you want something and it's not in the milestone rewards, send it over

so e.g. you do need to run a derelict. maybe you'd like a cold protection module for that.

there's a point where you need to craft a mind ark. that needs atlantideum and activated copper. you can get both on the route but you could just send some over

it's that kind of thing. just bear in mind you can get nothing until you have access to the anomaly on the expd save

[tacit schooner]

sure, thanks

[fleet meadow]

All done!❤️
That was a pretty good one; the derelict without a cold mod was a fun challenge that I might revisit someday.
Only the very last thing was annoying; putting the final rendezvous point on an aggressive sentinel planet made the last bit suck really badly.
Other than that, definitely the smoothest no-bug expedition yet.

[indigo falcon]

I uh always cheese that sort of thing: circle until I find the exact rendezvous point, land right next to it, run over, back into ship