nms-expedition

[remote thunder]

no station, no npcs

i'm quite familiar with surviving without npcs

i love exp13

[gaunt lake]

(Though I will say, the sheer amount of "this is exactly where you need to go to find the thing you need to do next" bases near the tail end of the Expedition 12 redux really annoyed me.)

Especially since you can't turn off loading other players' bases. You have to manually block the discovery servers in your computer's firewall to do that, and I don't want to do that

[remote thunder]

correct, or unplug internet/go offline platform side

[gaunt lake]

Cutting my Internet is a no-go for me, and Steam has a habit of not wanting to let me play anything if I start it in offline mode

[remote thunder]

then you just have to live with pros and cons

[amber mountain]

what is this

[remote thunder]

ghost of the damned frigate - your first encounter with it basically - phase 4's reward

will be unlocked account wide, claimable once in any save under the same account (even if you started from existing save, your primary save still counts as a separate save)

[amber mountain]

oh

im part way finish

[muted wave]

where can i find a planet to do the find 2 robotic lifeforms milestone?

[amber mountain]

just select it and then find it on the map

[remote thunder]

@muted wave see the post i'm replying to

[muted wave]

thanks

[amber mountain]

i think im on the wrong system for the robotic lifefroms

so how do we find the 2 robotics lifefrom im in the system

nvm

[dawn nimbus]

Can you join a game on an expedition?

[frail cloud]

juste follow the expedition's path, you don't need to find a planet by yourself

[gaunt lake]

And even if you don't follow the expedition path, it should tell you the closest system

[gaunt lake]

As for anyone else who might be wondering the same thing: Just find a low-atmosphere world, they'll be on that

[remote thunder]

no

[remote thunder]

incorrect - "low atmos", as in, dead or empty biome planets, as in, have rusted metal on resource list, will never have fauna.

any planet in an uncharted system (no race icon on galaxy map), that doesn't have rusted metal on resource list, can possibly have synth fauna

see !faq-mechafauna in #bot-spam

[gaunt lake]

Then explain why the expedition told me exactly that

In fact, it straight-up sent me to a low-atmosphere world

[remote thunder]

at worst, what expedition milestone hint told you was that it was in a blue star system - and possibly later on that in the system you were in, at least 1 planet with synth fauna was detected

[amber mountain]

how do we locate a underwater freighter

[remote thunder]

if the milestone hint told you you were on a synth fauna planet while being on a dead biome planet, then it straight up wasn't in sync

[remote thunder]

be sure to be in a gek/vykeen/korvax system, complete and claim phase 4 milestone 1, build nautilon, hop in it, install high powered sonar, scan for crashed freighters (if all conditions are met, but still no hit when scanning, move to another area of the planet, rescan)

[amber mountain]

how do you submerge the nautilon

[gaunt lake]

Look down while driving

[remote thunder]

look down and keep going forward

[gaunt lake]

It's a little weird because it will keep trying to surface again if you don't keep moving the mouse down (the auto-center camera points upward)

[remote thunder]

holding space bar makes it get back to the surface

[dawn nimbus]

Interesting that the reward for 5.3 ghost in the machine is ‘assorted glitches’… so, walking 45 degrees and seeing derelict freighters everywhere? Lol

[gaunt lake]

I find it funny that this Expedition gives you the Nautilon but doesn't give you the recipe for its fuel

[frail cloud]

yep, true

[amber mountain]

is something supposed to happen

[remote thunder]

read the hint lower right in that screenshot

you skipped a milestone that is mandatory to complete before ghost in the machine

[feral scaffold]

Presumably the reason I can't see other player bases is because of the way this expedition runs but is there still a way of finding them when I can see them in the discoveries tab?

[amber mountain]

my game crashed when i was explroing a derelict goddamit

was trying to speedrun tothe end of it

the derelict went invisible each shot for some reason

[remote thunder]

checked station teleporter/other bases?

[remote thunder]

that seems to be an issue for some at least - when i want to spawn a derelict freighter, i always trigger it by pulsing towards empty space, not any planet

[amber mountain]

Anyway to fix it

[remote thunder]

if you don't shoot anything, it doesn't go invisible?

[amber mountain]

Oh

When I went first person and switched to third and used the analysis visor my game crashed

[remote thunder]

definitely submit a bug report when you get a bit of spare time, definitely not intended

[amber mountain]

I don't know if I can recreate it again

[remote thunder]

no worries, i'd still submit it - there's probably a crash dump file to attach to the bug report, just remember at what time it crashed

[amber mountain]

Oh damn

[amber mountain]

I know this a couple minutes late but yes derelict doesn't go invisible when I don't fire anything

[remote thunder]

it's okay, thank you for the reply

[amber mountain]

Just need to do two more rendezvous and I'm finished with the expedition

What do I do after finishing

[remote thunder]

you're done with exp13, go back to your "normal game"

claim rewards from exp13 at quicksilver shop if needed/you didn't start from new save

[jagged sedge]

So, I'm on a rendevous world - a titan worm just landed nearby, and now there's a worm nest at that spot - has it always done like this? I don't remember seeing that happen last time

[remote thunder]

in expedition 4, the original principle to find baby worms was to "follow the titan worm"

[amber mountain]

Is the damned frigate cosmetics?

[remote thunder]

iow, if we didn't see any titan worm burrow icons, we'd just fly after a titan worm for a bit

[remote thunder]

no, it's an actual frigate for your freighter fleet

[amber mountain]

Oh

Neat

[jagged sedge]

That might have been before I started playing

[amber mountain]

How good is the starship we get as the reward?

[jagged sedge]

The Vulture is a fine bird

[feral scaffold]

Yeah I have but there never seems to be similar bases listed. Where it says 20 other bases, the list in the anomoly doesn't really ever marry up for me

[remote thunder]

after having been to the anomaly with multiplayer enabled, Save+reload at the station to refresh the list; there's a known issue where station teleporter of the same system player summoned anomaly in gets ghost bases from anomaly session

In the anomaly teleporter, if it fails to download, it's because a) connection to ODS server is down, or b) owner of the base left the anomaly instance

[feral scaffold]

Okay cool, that's really good to know thank you.

I'll try save and reload

Generally speaking is it better, then, to go to the space stations to search other player bases rather than the anomoly?

[remote thunder]

If you want to only see bases that were uploaded in the current system, yes

[keen ember]

Finished the expedition, gonna see if i can claim yhe iron vulture on my permadeath save

[keen ember]

Oh good heavens you have to buy it

[olive gull]

when does adrifit exped end?

[remote thunder]

!exptime @olive gull

[unkempt kraken]

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[gaunt lake]

You do, but it's relatively cheap. Mapping the animals on one or two planets should get you more than enough nanites for it

(The nanite bonus for completely mapping a planet's fauna is +250 per animal species.)

[magic elbow]

qq? what't the trigger for the P5 mission "a still, small voice"?

i've been staring into the void for eons and nothing happens lol

[gaunt lake]

It's easiest to do on the night side of a low atmosphere world - at least, that's the world type I needed to go to before it would trigger for me

[magic elbow]

ohhh i was in space lmao

[gaunt lake]

Didn't you read the hint? It said to free yourself from the confines of machinery

Which means get out of your ship

[magic elbow]

im blind

[main wyvern]

Just stare at the sky anywhere

I got it during the day on an atmosphered planet

And stare for a minute

[magic elbow]

to mee it just says to be free from danger and with a clear view

aight, time for R5, glad it only took me a couple days lol

[gaunt lake]

Took about 8 hours for me IIRC

[magic elbow]

not that i was actively grinding it most of the time, been busy with life

[gaunt lake]

I wanted to see if I could get it done before lunch, I could not

[main wyvern]

O yea, I finished it, maybe I should get the role

[magic elbow]

ship reward is kinda underwhelming but at least it looks cool

i'm hoping the ship i transfered from my primary automatically returns to it if i transfer this one back at the anomaly

ideally i wanna keep both obv

ig i can just grab the new ship from the quicksilver shop anyway

awww man :((

my multitool got downgraded back to A class when i ended the expedition

[gaunt lake]

You need to claim the new version of it from the expedition terminal

As for the starship, you need to scrap your current one and then re-spawn it from the terminal

Costs nanites, the same way transferring it into the expedition does. A planet or two should do the trick

[magic elbow]

won't i have a duplicate multitool with just a slight upgrade then tho?

thankfully i got a shitload of nanites from my extra rewards from the expo lol

[gaunt lake]

Yes, but you can scrap the old variant and use the new one instead

[magic elbow]

guess so

but who wouldn't want two Atlas Sceptres

one of which would be an S class

oh shit i have 3 of them actually, forgot i already did this while thing before for another expedition lmao

[lapis raven]

Need help with 1,400u mountain

[frozen laurel]

Use a teleporter to a base

Or jetpack straight up on a Dissonant planet in a gravity storm.

[gaunt lake]

There are multiple peaks on the rendezvous planet for that phase that will meet the requirements

[modern bronze]

Im still stuck on the "admist the stars" milestone, lost where the portal was, warping out of the system, back in and scanning did not help

[lapis raven]

How would I find a teleporter not played in a while and forget

[frozen laurel]

Space station

[lapis raven]

Never mind I did it hahaha

Also I was told to turn multiplayer of when doing expeditions do I need to do this or not

[indigo falcon]

you don't absolutely have to but it's a good idea

first off i's not like you can interact with other players in your lobby in this expedition anyways (special feature of adrift)

and second there's various buglets you can encounter with mp on, like going to a crashed sihp site and it's gone because someone else in your lobby took it already

[gaunt lake]

This is only true for the Anomaly

You can encounter other players in the world during the Expedition itself

[indigo falcon]

you're not supposed to be able to, only those whose game you joined or that joined you

[gaunt lake]

For this one in particular, someone exploited a game bug to leave a derelict freighter right above a major milestone, screwing up the ability to go anywhere near the site with multiplayer on, so you're going to have to turn off multiplayer to complete it

[indigo falcon]

and I would turnit off now rather than later

[lapis raven]

Okay done

[modern bronze]

Yeah, im currently softlocked because of that

[gaunt lake]

If you know what system it is in, there's about a million communications pods at the portal

[indigo falcon]

did you try teleporting out of range (like, go to the anomaly, go to a featured base), save-exit-reload, teleport back to a space station on the route, and then try the milestone again? that clears some kinds of game cache though I don't know if it would get that

[gaunt lake]

So just look for the communications pod icon on the various planets

[modern bronze]

I cant see any communication pods

[lapis raven]

Cheers

[modern bronze]

I really wish i could just start this thing over...

[indigo falcon]

you can on a new save. but not from an existing one, unfortunately

if you're most concerned about the rewards, restarting from a new save might be the way to go

[modern bronze]

Ok

[indigo falcon]

it does mean redoing all the milestones you already did (I assume you want that great ship at the end) but still....

[gaunt lake]

Ugh

Really hate those people who feel the need to ruin it for everyone else

[indigo falcon]

they are a right PITA for sure. you could report this to hg too with screenshots, there might be something they could do server side to clear it up, dunno

[modern bronze]

I just don't understand how they were able to get derelict freighters so low in a planets orbit to begin with. Some of them were even INSIDE the planet

[gaunt lake]

My guess: Modded client

[indigo falcon]

with save editing and mods, one can do all kinds of Things One Is Not Supposed To Be Able To Do

sometimes, a lot of the time, that's harmless and to the bnefit of everyone. in a few cases it's used to find new and more annoying ways of being a jerk

[remote thunder]

did you save+reload from main menu after turning off multiplayer in network settings?

[modern bronze]

Yes

[tame heath]

is it normal for me to be on a derelict freighter and a planet at the same time

update. i am now falling through the world

[remote thunder]

issue caused by multiplayer instances; pause/options/network/disable multiplayer; save (enter+exit ship if you can, if not just wait for the autosave to trigger), return to main menu: reload save

[tame heath]

after falling through the world a bit i landed on the ground summoned my ship and went to a different part of the planet so its good now

[remote thunder]

it can happen again - i'd strongly recommend doing those steps

[tame heath]

alright

[drowsy warren]

anyone having issues with the boundary portal? it looks tilted and I can't get to it. If I get close I usually fall near it and die

[gaunt lake]

@drowsy warren Someone decided to screw over everyone else

Turn off Multiplayer, save and reload, then do the portal

Then keep Multiplayer off for the rest of the Expedition because there are a bunch of other stupid things people have done

[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]

let's let HG know - this isn't something nice to do for others

[drowsy warren]

@gaunt lake Thanks

[slender sinew]

Anyone know where I can get an indium drive in the expedition
I died and lost the one I was given as a reward

For milestone

I can't warp to a blue star system to scan robotic lifeforms without it

[gilded orchid]

How many nanites you got? You could copy over your ship from your main save

[slender sinew]

In this expedition... 1400 so far

[slender sinew]

Oh on the anomaly got it
I'll have to move My cargo from this ship

[remote thunder]

note: while this hint says that "it's in blue star systems" - it should actually be saying "uncharted systems" or "empty systems", iow systems with no race icon on galaxy map.

[slender sinew]

Got it
Let me do some exploring and see if that helps

[remote thunder]

if you open the galaxy map after the milestone gets selected, there should be a current mission destination available. this should lead to a blue star system. if you have the indium drive already, that should be it. for example, i didn't - i had to first get emeril, but the nearby uncharted green star system i warped to actually already had a suitable planet: you can always double check the hint to get confirmation if there are any or not

[gilded orchid]

Follow bk201’s advice, mine was just a side option

[remote thunder]

oh no, getting the ship copied from primary is a great idea, especially if it already has indium drive

and a great reminder too

[gilded orchid]

What is the most common issue people run into on this expedition?

[slender sinew]

Just checked
I already copied an interceptor I found in expedition to main save so the option is out

I'm cooked

[gilded orchid]

Go back to your main save and enter a different ship with indium drive

[slender sinew]

Alright then

[gilded orchid]

Then return to expedition and copy it over

[remote thunder]

alt: get sus packets arms from trade terminals, save, unpack, install and dismantle x-class infra knife/positron/cyclotron to get cadmium+looms, or get it from a red star system, and install emeril drive - get emeril, install indium drive

[gilded orchid]

Whatever works best for you, but you do have options besides being cooked 🧑‍🍳

[slender sinew]

Will try both
And let yall know which one works
Thankss

[gilded orchid]

Good luck

[remote thunder]

doesn't matter which one tbh 🙂

as long as you get it

anything else just let us know

[stray gale]

In Adrift, wasn't there a derelict freighter that was empty except for those green jellyfish things? Anyone remember where that was?

[sly sedge]

I don't think it matters what system it's in. It'll show up that way when you use the Emergency Signal Scanner. That's how I found it.

[remote thunder]

all systems are suitable to trigger a derelict freighter mission - but the interior layout of the derelict freighter is tied to system, with 1+n different layouts, where n is the number of moons in the system

so iow, some interior layouts will be easier than others

less rooms, no enemies but jellyfish for example

[mighty oriole]

What planet can I find a mountain of 1400u

[remote thunder]

rdv2 planet had plenty

[sly sedge]

Someone should build a base on top of a mountain and call it Bob Marley. You know, because it's So High.

[gilded orchid]

This is wild to me every time you write it!

[remote thunder]

nipnip buds grow op and such

[remote thunder]

nms is amazingly complex yeah

[sly sedge]

Someone give this idea to No Man's High.

[mighty oriole]

I also need like 800 more nanites to get my main shipo

[sly sedge]

Runaway Mould is a great wat to get nanites.

[remote thunder]

!faq-nanites @mighty oriole

[unkempt kraken]

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[remote thunder]

curious deposits/runaway mould, or even refining radiant shards

even zoology

or buried caches lol

[sly sedge]

Personally, I always take a stack of Runaway Mould into the Expeditions with me. Almost 2k nanites as soon as I get to the anomaly.

[mighty oriole]

I would have taken some tainted metal but I didn't know if I'd need nanites

I also have no runaway mould farms on my main save

[sly sedge]

Me neither, but that stuff still stacks up with all the derelict freight missions.

[wraith junco]

Refine crystals from dissonant planets or worm loot for nanites

[gilded orchid]

As someone with multiple mold farms, I agree it is a way

Some level of automation would make it so much easier

[sly sedge]

I usually find a few mould farms in the expeditions too. Just from looking at the portals on stations and the anomaly.

[gilded orchid]

In this expedition, mold is good, but shards and mirrors might be quicker

Easier to obtain anyway

[mighty oriole]

Finally got my ship

[shy geyser]

what is a "Restored Freighter Command" Mission reward?

[remote thunder]

a freighter

[shy geyser]

Nice seaonal icon haha! Is t some kind of a chit i can bring back to my main save? im on a new save in the main game and it would be handy to take it back there.

[remote thunder]

nah, can't take it back, for expedition use only basically

[shy geyser]

ok, big sad. thanks for info though

[remote thunder]

np

[latent arch]

has the freighter spawning on a planet bug been happening a lot? i'm not at that milestone but it just happened to me for a ruin (unless that is the milestone)

[remote thunder]

i kept multiplayer disabled the entire time, from the start, saw no derelict freighters in atmos

[wise meteor]

Is it common to find mountains over 1400u on planets. I was having no luck. Then I stumbled upon a "stairway to heaven" someone had built. Wish there was a way to thank them

[remote thunder]

fairly

i landed on a peak, exit ship, bam, milestone done

[wise meteor]

None of the many planets I checked had hills more than 800.

[amber mountain]

should i just copy the iron volture or just buy it?

[wise meteor]

But good to know thx

[latent arch]

it's gone now, thank you

[amber mountain]

bk?

[remote thunder]

rdv2

[remote thunder]

really up to you traveler - going to have to pay nanites for it either way, but claiming from quicksilver shop can only be done once per save

[lapis raven]

Is there any technology vendors in adrift

[remote thunder]

nope

to get upgrade modules, there's only milestone rewards, and rng sources like sus packets tech/arms (available in trade terminals), and buried caches

[orchid stone]

i get confused... im loosing hp when i use jet pack..

at laest life support

[remote thunder]

that's normal; life support bar appears lower left, your health are the plus signs below the shield bar top left. jetpack drains fuel from life support tanks, so use jetpack sparringly when o2 isn't plentiful just yet

running also uses more life support

[orchid stone]

hmm never noticed.. lol

probably cause of all the radiation here xD

[remote thunder]

on an irradiated biome planet? or by any chance, there's a derelict freighter on the planet?

[orchid stone]

was earlier

that was extreme

1 place where the whole planet is bugged.. planet is in 45*

[remote thunder]

if the latter, pause/options/network settings, disable multiplayer, save+reload from main menu

[orchid stone]

ah ok

i like multiplayer :p

well.. not when they build on top of important things

[remote thunder]

yeah

[orchid stone]

is it soo hard to find a holo tower xD geez... anothjer pod...

[remote thunder]

using the signal booster's first option with the milestone selected should mark one - i had no problems with this one either

[orchid stone]

ah u went for transmitter? i went for structures...

found it now after 5th

nah its a transmitter... not a holo >.<

[remote thunder]

holo tower == long range transmitter in the storyline

[orchid stone]

ah

[remote thunder]

holo tower, holo terminus

[orchid stone]

right

ty, ill try

need more sodium :p

[remote thunder]

be sure to mark the spot in case you have to move very far

[orchid stone]

can u claim old expeditrion gear on new expeditions?

nop... only arms laying here xD

[remote thunder]

not in exp13 - but you'd be able to in any other expedition, since those have npcs in the anomaly 😄

[orchid stone]

exped 13 seems like a dead space exped xD

[remote thunder]

yeah, that's basically the theme, spooky but not in a cheesy kinda way

[orchid stone]

so how do ppl get the last exped ship in here? the racer?

[remote thunder]

copied from primary save

[orchid stone]

aha

save manipualtion?

[remote thunder]

nah, through the expedition terminus, when started expedition run from existing save

[orchid stone]

i did so too

this is same char as i did exped 12 on

[remote thunder]

well, you can still do so

simply goto expedition terminus and double check what ship it will let you copy in atm

[orchid stone]

ah ok

[remote thunder]

if you didnt have runner equipped, simply pause/options/return to primary, switch to runner in primary save, save, resume expedition, then goto expedition terminus again

[orchid stone]

nice

[open jackal]

what's the starter system called again?

[remote thunder]

Xillup

[open jackal]

thank you

[keen orbit]

Hello everyone quick question i am doing the expedition currently but want to return to my save will I have to start the expedition all over again if I go

[remote thunder]

nope

save, return to primary, all is well

[keen orbit]

Ok thank you so much

[remote thunder]

resume expedition later

all good, anytime

[gray mortar]

aw rip i thought modules got copied over from main save to expedition, not moved. i left so many behind 😭

[amber mountain]

I copied my multi tool

[livid drift]

I'm preparing to start the expedition proper. How do I transfer cargo between ships before I start?

I probably have to go mine more copper for chromatic metals ack

[low jackal]

you have to transfer them to your suit, switch ship, then transfer them back
no way around it

[livid drift]

Boooo. ah well

ah nuts, I need to mine a ton of copper for something else anyway X_X

[ashen shore]

You can always go in with nothing too. Copper is pretty easy to find.
Tip: Don’t get rid of the poop.

[livid drift]

No poop yet, I've been wary of feeding the animals... but only because I don't want to interfere XD

Also, to make sure I've read things right: ship and multi-tool, and whatever is inside them, will be copied over. What is moved/not kept in the original save?

[remote thunder]

only tech inventories are copied; ship and MT in primary save are untouched

only items you take from primary save are "moved" to expedition

[ashen shore]

the inventory doesn’t transfer. The only thing that transfers is what you put in the terminal storage when starting.

[grand geyser]

How come my ancient ruins task isn't updating?

I've found a monolith and a digsite

[remote thunder]

need plaques

be sure to use first option, with the right milestone selected

[grand geyser]

Ty

[shy geyser]

I don't suppose theres been any announcement i missed about reduxing some of the older expeditions like they did the Mass Effecy one? Was that just a one off? would love to do some of the ones i missed when life was just to busy for gaming...

[remote thunder]

if it will happen, it won't be this year - up next is liquidators, then aquarius, then cursed, and that will be it for expeditions this year it seems

[livid drift]

Oh boy, time to start

[remote thunder]

@shy geyser they have done so before though - exp2 2024 redux wasn't the first; they had done a 3rd rerun of exp3 in 2023, with mixed reward set including stuff from even expedition 1

hope's not lost for sure

[amber mountain]

The what

[ashen shore]

The poop

One of the milestones gives u poop

Don’t get rid of it

[remote thunder]

faecium can be bought in quite a few trade terminals

[amber mountain]

Faecium?

[remote thunder]

aka poop

[amber mountain]

Oh

I think I have a couple hundred around one of my starships or on my freighter

[livid drift]

this is intense so far. well. sort of. only because I'm bumbling around hunting for condensed carbon and the animals are actually attacking me

my starting planet sucks to explore at night so I'm just hiding out in this capsule thing near my ship till the sun rises. where my C+ at game

[remote thunder]

In exp13, We all start on the same planet 🙂 remember that once you can craft creature pellets, predators aren't a problem anymore

[livid drift]

I just don't want to deal with the predators XD leave me be! I mean you no trouble!

[faint pelican]

Has anyone posted an “easy” df system?

[livid drift]

stands up in the capsule. Time is 2 AM. time to sit some more

[grand geyser]

How do you find calm?

[remote thunder]

"a still small voice"? phase 5?

[grand geyser]

Ye

[remote thunder]

goto planet on the night side, look at the sky

can't be storming iirc

[grand geyser]

Dang and if you look away it resets lol

[faint pelican]

The DF milestone, any suggested systems for that?

[grand geyser]

I didn't think I would do it

But I did

I completed the expedition

And all without upgrading my inventory save for the rewards

[remote thunder]

not that i've seen, sorry - i did see your question earlier

[remote thunder]

congrats! yeah, just a matter of not hoarding stuff we don't really, truly need

[livid drift]

Is there no other way to get condensed carbon other than mining it?

Suddenly there's like. none in my area. And I know I'm gonna end up in the middle of butt nowhere getting carbon when the sun goes down on this planet

I have a lot of regular carbon but no way to condense it currently

[remote thunder]

did you get personal ref mk2 already?

[livid drift]

...unless I've forgotten something obvious

[remote thunder]

refine it?

[livid drift]

Nope, getting the condensed carbon For that

[remote thunder]

check your build menu - portable refiner there?

[livid drift]

OH

so you can make the regular one

thank GOODNESS

[remote thunder]

have fun 🙂

[livid drift]

actually wait

I don't see it on mine

[amber mountain]

I think each time I enter the 7th room of the derelict freighter it starts to go invisible each shot I'll never know since I finished it

[livid drift]

But I may have forgotten to claim something

[remote thunder]

claim all milestones that you can

that you haven't gotten reward for yet

[remote thunder]

in what system are you trying this in?

any of the rendezvous systems?

[amber mountain]

I forgot no longer sure after I finished

[remote thunder]

so this not in expedition any more?

@livid drift how much cond carbon you still need?

[livid drift]

oh gosh hang on I'm having a dumb. All I have is Alone in the dark and from the ashes, and I'm on Self Reliance

But I feel like there's other milestones and I DON'T remember how to access them?

[amber mountain]

Yeah i think it only happened to me in expedition

[remote thunder]

pause, in the expedition tab, on your left side, there's a progression line, starting from phase 1 all the way to phase 5

any of those phases have a "new reward!" notification on them?

[livid drift]

I have that open, and I'm on phase 1- I don't see anything wth a new reward notification

[remote thunder]

ok don't worry

how much cond carbon you still need?

[livid drift]

I'm at 40/110

[grand geyser]

Uh, where do you end the expedition?

[livid drift]

hecking FINALLY there's some C+ in the distance

[remote thunder]

if you dismantle your rocket launcher (won't need it imo), you'll get 100 copper and 50 condensed carbon. that's 90. remember that there's plants that have cond carbon as secondary element, so be sure to scan

[livid drift]

Meanwhile, the sun on this planet: k bye

I'll probably be okay for a bit, I just get fussy about meters dropping

[remote thunder]

@livid drift also, if you dismantle your neural stimulator exosuit tech, that's 100 condensed carbon

[livid drift]

Noted!

I might have just gotten enough for now

the actual worst part might be the titan worms. stoooop roaringggg

...I may have just been chased by those things + one very determined other beastie all the way back to my ship

FINALLY I can get off this nasty planet. hasta la pizza

I'm wondering what's up with the eye in my ship cargo, but...

[remote thunder]

keep it

[livid drift]

Yeah, I'm not touching it

[remote thunder]

you're going to need 1 later, but - if you really pressed for a slot, you could discard it - there's other sources for it, including trade terminals

[livid drift]

also this space station is taking a whole minute to get to... yikes

[remote thunder]

there's a trade terminal

look around

you'll see stuff in its offerings you don't usually see

[livid drift]

Okay good to know. Hopefully there's some tritium to grab

[remote thunder]

asteroids are going to be main source

shoot up a few; there's a milestone to destroy 30

[livid drift]

never mind, I'm sitting RIGHT in a heap of them

[remote thunder]

remember that you can preview milestones ahead

[livid drift]

THERE'S A JELLYFISH

[remote thunder]

you can even do many of them "out of phase"

ahuh

those are fairly rare spawns on "event: asteroid destroyed"

[livid drift]

Do they do anything, or should I just let them be?

[remote thunder]

can just let them be, they're not predatorial

[livid drift]

...they started bumping my ship 😭 I AM SORRY SPACE JELLIES

here is my formal apology for trespassing in Space Jelly Land, and to the family of that one predator I had to kill- -kzzzt-

[remote thunder]

😄

[faint pelican]

Thank you, you are so good at responding so I just went with the one I was at and it was super easy. Lucky I guess. Thank you.

[remote thunder]

nice! one thing that we can always be sure of is exiting ship on a derelict freighter doesn't update our restore point, so even if you had come across a "bad one", you could opt to reload restore point, warp to a diff system, and use the emergency signal scanner again

[livid drift]

I got lost in the asteroid field and nearly couldn't find the space station...

words fail to describe how bad I am at ship piloting. can't wait till I have to attack or evade something and I succeed/fail based on barrel rolling into oblivion

[remote thunder]

remember that your mini-radar in cockpit view can help get directions - space station didn't get shown in the image, but it will be fairly easy to tell

[remote thunder]

in exp13 there are no npcs, so there will be no pirates or space battles to do

//afk

[livid drift]

oh right. whew. but in general I mean

also I was too busy trying to angle properly and quit spinning to check the radar, but it has been helpful before

I do NOT like the look of this place. Very... red ring of death

and PURPLE GOOP ew

[faint pelican]

Thank you!

[livid drift]

"chromatic metal" I sent some ahead, but I'm not even where I can get it!!

[static tapir]

can items from an expedition save be transfered to your main save or do they only turn into units/nanites or whatever

[tired badger]

You can xfer them using the expedition terminal in the anomaly

[livid drift]

cute...

[static tapir]

these tiny cacti are INCREDIBLY carbon dense jesus

[muted granite]

A single tailed one?! Why is that so much more rare in my experience…

[static tapir]

i got 1000 carbon by mining for like a minute where are these when i need carbon on my main save 😭

[muted granite]

Cond carbon + oxygen in refiner. Triples it, iirc. Or at least doubles. It’s absurdly good. Do a few cycles and you’re set for a few days.

Same goes for sodium nitrate

[static tapir]

oh sweet

ill keep that in mind

dude these give 200 carbon each

are resource harvesting boosted a lot in this expedition or something

mined for 6 minutes and

[ashen shore]

Some things just have a stupid amt of carbon.

One of the planets my base is on, the large cactus balls have like 500 each

Last expedition one of the planetsI was on had some that were like 600-700 a pop IIRC

[livid drift]

Wowie

this expedition is weirdly validating for me because I was terrified I could never play on normal mode. Yet, so far so good...

[red shale]

What's wrong with normal mode?

[ashen shore]

Yea I’m a bit curious. Why didn’t you think you could play on that mode?

[livid drift]

Because I didn't trust myself not to die really fast/run out of resources/????

...not me making noises back at the critters on this planet. do photo mode shots in expeditions not show the glyphs?

[ashen shore]

Normal is pretty easy as far as surviving. I am glad you are enjoying it tho. Every mode is a lot of fun. I haven’t played permadeath yet but I can’t wait to start the playing that after I finish all I wanna finish.

I really enjoy survival games idk.

[livid drift]

I'm not usually good at them so I was a bit concerned XD yes, it's much easier than expected

"so, while you were distracted taking pics of a Cute Little Guy, A SUPERHEATED RAINSTORM started"

The fact that the game keeps throwing space lizard goats at me is. curious

[red shale]

Just finished my grind. I copied the Iron Vulture to my main save and scrapped it 33 times. I took me 1 hour and 10 minutes, so not too long...

And it cost 92,400 nanites

[livid drift]

dedication

[ashen shore]

Yo if you get it on your main save and scrap it, can you still claim it again on that save? Like back to back?

[grim fossil]

This would only work if you are using the copy ship function in the expedition terminal in the anomaly, you would have needed to start the expedition on that save and have the iron vulture as your current equipped ship when you conclude the expedition, thus allowing you to copy it.

You cannot claim more than one expedition reward if you go through the quicksilver synthesis companion, those are only claimable once per save.

[ashen shore]

Hmm

So if I wanted the parts but also wanted the bird how would I go abt that?

[grim fossil]

#nms-expedition message

[ashen shore]

We’re here lol

[grim fossil]

Press it

It’s a link to the guide

[ashen shore]

Oh it wasn’t working

Thanks

[red shale]

I never claimed it from the QS Merchant. I set the Iron Vulture as my default ship in the expedition, left the expedition to return to my main save without ending the expedition, and then made 33 trips between the space station and the anamoly to scrap it. Each time I returned to the anamoly I'd go to the expedition terminal and create a copy of my default ship (set as iron vulture before leaving the expedition) for 2,800 nanites, and then would go scrap it again for the parts.....rinse and repeat 33 times gave me a stack of 10 of each of the 3 parts plus one extra set so I can fabricate the ship how I want and still have a full stack of 10 for each.

[ashen shore]

Oh. I’ve had too much nipnip for this rn. Thanks for the explanation. I’m gonna do that bc I really like the cockpit but I’m not so much a fan of the wings or aft section

BIG guns

[static tapir]

are surge batteries unique to the expedition?

i've never seen them in base

huh, can they be transferred back to the main save?

fascinating

[turbid hearth]

When find synthetic life safe "only found on empty worlds" does it mean literally labeled empty or something else?

[ashen shore]

No I found mine on a barren or desolate world

IIRC

[turbid hearth]

Oh wait this one is straight up named machine life, lol.

[ashen shore]

Lmao

The community provides

[turbid hearth]

can I export my creatures back to main?

[ashen shore]

Not that I know of. Pretty sure you can’t unfortunately.

[livid drift]

I'm trying to find buried bones to do a milestone in advance, and the sweep function keeps telling me I'm in range of bones without marking them... I'm nervous about digging myself a tunnel I can't get out of (somehow)

It's like "a little more to the left/right" every time... just give me the bones...

[low jackal]

sometimes target sweeper will keep marking a site even though it is empty already

[livid drift]

It's like playing marco polo with my scanner and I don't wanna

...that's what I thought. uggghhgh

[low jackal]

use your visor to find other site

like the normal function

not the quest target sweeper

[turbid hearth]

WHY IS LITERALLY EVERY QUEST PLANET SHAI HULUD MODE?

I'm already bored of the worm sound effects

[livid drift]

I'm just going to fly around and relocate first...

[ashen shore]

lisan al gaib

[livid drift]

well that was unnerving. My ship just... would not land. no sign of showing the landing indication or anything

[turbid hearth]

Oh you too? I normally just shimmy a bit she'll land

[livid drift]

I should probably just do this step later but I'm here now and the planet has bones...

If this takes me back to where I just was I might mald a little

Nope, 2/3 now (and someone's very nice lake house)

How do I know if I'm anywhere near the rendezvou point? the galactic map feels very unclear about it

I think I might be close, but I need to stop for now unfortunately

[brave echo]

How do I get tritium to make deuterium?

[wraith junco]

Dihydro +silicate powder

[livid drift]

Do that instead, it'll save you a lot of headache...

Also, okay good, the pins have the rendezvous locations. That's a relief

[turbid hearth]

Can I extract multiple ships?

[wraith junco]

Mark rdv task. Game will mark system in galaxy map. U can set route in galaxy map to expedition route. When in system game will mark spot on planet . Land near marker. Spot should be in less than 2000u range. Use mt visor to find wich way to go.

[livid drift]

There were just more green lines than expected, but I managed to land for the night in a relatively close system and station

[static tapir]

does quicksilver earned on an expedition go to your main save when it's over

[mint cedar]

From asteroids

[sharp current]

Are the derelict freighters at the 4th checkpoint still there?

[foggy aspen]

Yeah, I think so. Keep seeing the screenshots on Reddit and the like.

[turbid hearth]

Anyone know what happens if I apply a starship class upgrade reward to an S class exotic?

[low jackal]

pretty sure nothing

you can try upgrading s class shp at a terminal too but also nothing will happen

[turbid hearth]

Ouch, well I'm going to call the slots worth it and eat the upgrade loss, making my pheonix even better sounds great(and there's exactly 0 chance I upgrade this sentinel ship I found)

Yes, max tech slots on the pheonix

[turbid hearth]

I can report, nothing. But you still get the slots if those are also offered

[tired badger]

I don’t have a freighter on this save yet. Can I claim the Ship Of The Damned, or do I need to wait until I get a freighter?

[turbid hearth]

Expedition path: 3 jumps
Manual travel : 1 jump

Looks at rdv.4 WHY MUST I ALWAYS MEET THE WORM

[low jackal]

don't claim it yet

heard report you just get nothing if you don't have a freighter yet

[zealous imp]

are there step by step guides for the expedition around here? I always go to xaine on youtube but his one isn't out yet. I know there are more on youtube but they are so long 😄

[turbid hearth]

Doing the final rdv early won't kick me out right? I can still do the nutrient processor one?

WHY IS LITERALLY EVERY PLOT PLANET worm filled, Like literally everything one

[foggy aspen]

I feel like that's part of redux

(since killing them is required for a milestone)

[blazing fossil]

Correct

[turbid hearth]

Wait y'all didn't get that naturally before fixing the starter ship?

I think that was literally the first milestone I got that wasn't a freebie on the way to fixing the ship

[foggy aspen]

You need to do 5, I only got 3 on the spawn planet

[turbid hearth]

I ran into 1 at the ship, 2 while grabbing the first component, and 3 while farming mats for the rest

Unless I just did way more walking then most people

[foggy aspen]

And with Expeditions, I very rarely go for exocraft or even MT upgrades unless it's required, so killing them just wasn't on my radar

[turbid hearth]

I also had 8/9 creatures before lifting off

[turbid hearth]

I shot them because they shot me

[foggy aspen]

Entirely likely.

I went for as much materials and scanning as I could, but purposefully didn't engage the worms because oh my god they're a pain without an upgraded weapon

[turbid hearth]

What? They were like super easy?

I just left clicked them with the default mt

it was like 5 seconds per worm?

[foggy aspen]

Easy sure, the three I dealt with just took longer than 2 minutes

[turbid hearth]

?

Oooh a sixth ship

[foggy aspen]

Long distance. Was on a mountain.

[turbid hearth]

Ah

Wait a second, I don't have to find a planet to base on for the nutrient processor, I have a frieghter(that works right?)

[misty plinth]

You don't need a base to plop down a nutrient processor - can put it down anywhere and pick it up when you're done.

[turbid hearth]

yeah but there is a very limited number of times i'm willing to here the alarm klaxon from worm worlds

and that limit was passed 4 rdvs ago

Can I extract my freighter?

[misty plinth]

You would need to unlock the nutrient processor room but you could cook on it sure.

[turbid hearth]

Ah nvm, random outdoors cooking short it is

ty tho

I will need to find a radioactive world to get an egg from my pet dragon tho

[sharp current]

yeah, I feel like it is part of the expedition

[ocean garnet]

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[ocean garnet]

8 days

I just finished the second phase

I have most of the third done

[turbid hearth]

is there anything special I need to do to exfil stuff or can I just do the last milestones and then do whatever it is that exfils my mt and ships and items?

[cosmic onyx]

Hi somone know where i can find an Holographic Terminal for the 2nd phase ?

[turbid hearth]

Is there a way to check my time in an expedition? I know it's ~20 hours but like specifically

[misty plinth]

Depends on what you want to ship back to your primary save. If you have more than 1 ship or multitool you want then you will have to return to primary using the menu option not the terminal and copy them out. Return to the expedition and change the ship or multitool you are using and repeat the process. Can move items and tech over each "trip".

[turbid hearth]

Okay sick, so as long as I don't use the xfil on the terminal i'm good? What happens if I use the one on the terminal?

[misty plinth]

Once you are done for sure close out the expedition using the terminal.

[turbid hearth]

(note I'm very much hoping you say I can do it again because I absolutely will speed run the mt and ship upgrade

[misty plinth]

I don't know that you can re-run it. Never tried. I have several saves I run them on if they keep me engaged.

[turbid hearth]

So not to run them to get a max slotted starborn pheonix in ~20 hours

Ignoring that I'm sure that isn't the fastest method

[misty plinth]

I am doubtful you can close out the expedition and then re-enter it afresh. What does it hurt to try though?

[turbid hearth]

Wait can I not retrieve individual items?

I can't seem to find how to grab them, and I can't put them in the terminal inside the expedition

[misty plinth]

Sure you can. Place them in the expedition terminal and then use your menu option to return to the primary save.

[turbid hearth]

Ah nvm, you have to CASH IN your milestones not just do them. You apparently can send the ship/mt back at any time

I didn't bring any, just the starborn pheonix

I have more hours in expedition than on main at this point

[slow jay]

\o/ adrift complete, iron vulture get

it was interesting, while a little boring i liked the feel of melancholy (well moreso than the vanilla story lol)

much thanks to the pins and player bases

[remote thunder]

build signal booster, use the first option while right milestone is selected

[split moat]

Where can i find info about the liquidators expedition?

[remote thunder]

https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Expedition_14:_Liquidators

[frosty wing]

how do i make deuterium without a refiner? or where is my refiner? (just started and need to repair my launch thrusters)

i will start checking other exped rewards i can currently do

[remote thunder]

silicate powder+dihydrogen = deuterium

complete phase 1 milestone 2 for personal refiner mk2

[livid drift]

Me: why is the anomaly on my primary save empty?

... somehow I didn't realize that multiplayer would be off on main too XD

Because I had to flip all the options going into the expedition, I didn't think they'd copy back

[frosty wing]

right i read that 4 times and still missed it

[frozen laurel]

I keep doing 90% of the expedition tasks before leaving the first system. I think I could be making it harder than it has to be for myself. Like just by going to new systems and landing on the planets I would have completed Signs to Nowhere.

[gaunt lake]

Your game settings aren't stored in the save file. They're in a separate repository specifically made for them

[regal spade]

I did 50% in the starting system. Warped to the 1 rend today

[remote thunder]

it's possible for 2 saves to have different network settings

[gaunt lake]

Oh

[remote thunder]

they're not global

[gaunt lake]

I take that back then, network settings are stored in the save file

[remote thunder]

that said, if you change options in main menu, then make a save, it should be able to inherit that option (e.g. multiplayer disabled)

[gaunt lake]

Oh god

[remote thunder]

sometimes it doesn't though 😦

[gaunt lake]

There are multiple network settings repositories AAAAAAAAA

[remote thunder]

it's weird yeah

[frozen laurel]

Yeah, I thought it was broken, nope it's just complicated, separated, and not globally applied.

[surreal tulip]

Apologies for the question since I know that it is pinned: But is there anything, besides QS, that I would gain from the current redux Expedition if I already finished the original one?

Like with the extra rewards for optional missions during the previous redux

[frozen laurel]

#nms-expedition message

[frozen laurel]

#nms-expedition message

Two options for you. (found by searching "already" in this channel)

[faint pelican]

Do we get to keep the freighter or ghost frigate?

[cold tulip]

You can claim the frigate later, nor the freighter

[faint pelican]

Ahhh okay. At least that. It’s so cool!

[surreal tulip]

Thank you!

[tawdry vector]

RIP.... Just exchanged my golden vector on my multi 100-hours main save by a mistake. Will it be possible to claim it when doing an expedition and bring it back to my main save, when done doing the expedition or am I screwed for good? 😄

[remote thunder]

yes, it will be possible to do so, but not with expedition 13

liquidators is next, you'll be able to do it then

[tawdry vector]

Thank you. I will wait and claim it then.

[remote thunder]

that said, even without this option, there were still others

but this one is the one that can be done completely solo and in game

[tawdry vector]

Noise. Glad that I can get it back. Not the best ship, but it's kind of a trophy.

[indigo falcon]

I mean I haven't used it in a long time, it's just got a nice appearance.

and so much of this game is about aesthetics anyhow

[frozen laurel]

Is golden vector available to everyone during liquidators? I thought it was exclusive to Exp 1 Pioneers.

[remote thunder]

only available to players who completed expedition 1, expedition 1 redux, and expedition 3 2023 redux

[frozen laurel]

ah

[indigo falcon]

the point is being able to claim it on the expd save as an expd reward (which is doable in any expedition except adrift) and then copy it back to the main save, for the specific player...

[faint pelican]

Am I understanding that this means you can claim exp reward ships during an exp then use the copy ship option to bring that reward ship back to main save? And this is possible to do more than once?

Also question about exps, when you have repaired a ship that you don’t want I usually scrap it before finalizing the exp to get possible storage, money etc. on this exp you can’t scrap given no normal ss. Correct? So what happens to the scrap ship? Or anyone you don’t copy over?

[gilded orchid]

Once you close out the expedition, it is automatically broken down, along with other items you cannot bring over, and you receive nanites and units instead

[faint pelican]

Okay great. Thank you!

[indigo falcon]

just bear in mind that the current expedition (Adrift) is sepcial... no npcs anywhere. this has impacts on what services are available at the anomaly.

[frozen laurel]

That's a great tip. I hadn't thought to try it yet.

[static tapir]

I’m enjoying this expedition thus far

First planet reminds me of those needlessly difficult Minecraft mod packs where unforeseen horrors are attacking you at every corner

[livid drift]

How do expedition rewards work across saves? Do you have to do the expedition once per save or is it an account unlock?

Just so I know if I should set up my creative file...

[livid drift]

me over here telling the titan worms to BE QUIET

I'm so glad shaking isn't what sets off my motion sickness, I'd be TOAST

[static tapir]

Dude same

It’s so loud and so shaky..

[livid drift]

That has to be a hecking TRIP to experience in VR

me just RUNNING in random directions to not be on top of the worms, while avoiding predators (yes, I could feed them, but I just don't want to interfere)...

"I KNEW IT!!! I knew the weather and the worms were gonna get me the second I went away from the ship for freaking carbon!!!"

[frozen laurel]

Are the contents of the all random cargo storage counted when ending an expedition: the nutrient processor storage & storage containers, all exocraft cargo, & cargo in starships not in use?

[remote thunder]

not sure sorry; at the time, we couldnt conclude that it did, so our stance here to advise members has been "do that manually before ending"

"if you got the stuff turned into balance, then it will surely and absolutely merge back to primary"

[livid drift]

I think one of the milestones is to kill a worm, or 3 of them... Hoo boy

Side note, my multi tool's generated name is something like... "Comforting ion generator" while my ship is "Tranquil Momotsu". There's a lovely little emergent narrative there about naming your tool to be "comforting" and your ship to be "tranquil" in the wake of Adrift's unnerving, uh, everything

[bold cairn]

Is there any point to fully repairing this ship that we fix within the expedition?

[magic elbow]

oh right, almost forgot to grab the role, finished the redux a couple days ago

[abstract citrus]

so i am having a bit of an issue. i am doing the Amidst the Stars portion and i got to the poin where you put the mind ark in the portal but there were 2 derlict frieghters merges together on the planet. when i finished one of them the game crashed and i decided to call it a night. this morning i got on and did the other frighter to get rid of it but now the portal is no longer active

[gaunt lake]

XD

[gaunt lake]

As far as I can tell, no

[gaunt lake]

Ah, this again

[abstract citrus]

is there a solution to my issue?

[sly sedge]

Yeah.

[gaunt lake]

Whoever did this is a nasty person

[sly sedge]

You can turn off multiplayer for just that milestone.

[sly sedge]

Very much so.

[gaunt lake]

They've lost the portal. It's no longer giving them a waypoint

…Hm

I might at some point jump in on a new expedition save to log the coordinates

[sly sedge]

Do you have that milestone active as your current mission?

[gaunt lake]

When you get there it stops giving you the waypoint. They got there, then the derelicts broke their game

[abstract citrus]

yes. no waypoint.

[sly sedge]

Does the waypoint show up in your Galaxy Map in another system?

[gaunt lake]

No, when I say "it stops giving you the waypoint" I mean it moves onto the next part of the milestone

Which doesn't have a waypoint at all

Multiple people have gotten permanently soft locked by that damn freighter

[abstract citrus]

so i'm softlocked then. crapbaskets

[misty plinth]

Has anyone tested trying to make another Mind Ark and using it at a portal in another system?

[abstract citrus]

it needs a hypnotic eye. which i have none of

[sly sedge]

Can't you buy them at the trade terminals of abandoned stations?

[abstract citrus]

didnt know that they were sold there

going to test

[misty plinth]

I don't know that they are at every terminal but I have seen them on a few.

[abstract citrus]

thankfully they are sold at the one i am at

nothing

[misty plinth]

Could not craft another one? Or??

[abstract citrus]

nothing changed

going down to the portal

[misty plinth]

You are in a new system?

At a different portal?

[abstract citrus]

no probably should have done that

[misty plinth]

All part of the testing process

[livid drift]

the rdv 1 planet has a chunk of land that's kinda... floating...

I thought there was a tip on how to find a communications tower for phase 2 milestone 1, but I can't remember/find it

get me off this WORM INFESTED ROCK

[remote thunder]

with the right mission selected, signal booster, first option

[livid drift]

OH I got it backwards- yeah

I thought you had to find the comms tower and then do the signal booster

[remote thunder]

nah, signal booster leads us to targets, e.g. ancient ruins/plaques later on

about that amidst the stars issue/lost portal marker

i've fixed one of those recently

portal not active anymore, player says?

hmm

and no marker?

[misty plinth]

Did you see my response?

On what to try

[remote thunder]

testing at a new portal hmm

go for it; keep me in the loop please

strange that portal isn't active - dial not popping out of the ground?

anyway, too late for that now, just thinking out loud

[misty plinth]

They mentioned a game crash and giving up til this morning to pick up where they left off

[remote thunder]

mhmm

wonder if they looked on both sides of the portal

[abstract citrus]

i did

[misty plinth]

And we have no way to make out own observations

[remote thunder]

anyway, yeah, please keep me posted, i'll try keep an eye on the convo but i might switch away so please ping

[livid drift]

Do you need the ancient bones you find for a phase 3 observation, or can you sell them?

[remote thunder]

sell

[livid drift]

Sweeeet

[abstract citrus]

made a new mind ark in a new system no change in the quest

[misty plinth]

Next step - in the new system find a new portal - can you manage that?

[abstract citrus]

i will try

[misty plinth]

Look for a monolith - interact with it successfully then interact with it a second time to reveal where one is.

@abstract citrus There has been no change to the milestone log / description?

[stray gale]

Who let these idiots summon up derelict freighters, and how do I get rid of them? There's five right on top of RDV4.

[remote thunder]

pause/options/network/disable multiplayer; save (enter+exit ship if you can, if not just wait for the autosave to trigger), return to main menu: reload save

[misty plinth]

@stray gale I would get back to the space station - turn off multiplayer - get out of the ship to make a restore point - then revisit the rendezvous location.

[abstract citrus]

no there hasnt it jsut says "Seek Answers in the stars. Cross the threshold into the Boundeary Portal"

[stray gale]

Thanks.

[misty plinth]

It's a shame you can't reset this milestone like you can with normal missions

[abstract citrus]

i know

[remote thunder]

do you have mp disabled?

as in, all normal at the portal on the first planet you were sent to - not sure if you still have that location marked

really strange that it's not active - i wonder if it was necessary to have reloaded restore point after relogging after crashing

@abstract citrus can you get back to the first planet you got sent to?

[abstract citrus]

i am trying

[remote thunder]

hmm

if you at least know the planet, that will do

we can work from there

[abstract citrus]

unfortunately the system i was at was a Red Star system

[remote thunder]

that's fine

i just need the glyph address of the planet you first got sent to for that milestone

[misty plinth]

You bothered to collect all the glyphs for this expedition?

[abstract citrus]

see that is the problem

[remote thunder]

we do that for all expeditions basically, exp13 redux's: <#nms-expedition message>

[remote thunder]

dont know which one?

[abstract citrus]

i know the name of the system where i was doing the Admist the Stars portion but i dont know the name of the planet

[remote thunder]

but you'd probably recognize it if you saw it right?

[abstract citrus]

wait i think i found it

[remote thunder]

awesome - in the discoveries list?

[abstract citrus]

someone had put a base station down

[remote thunder]

next to the portal of that planet you mean?

[abstract citrus]

yes

[remote thunder]

hmm we want to be doing this with mp disabled, so i'm assuming that was an uploaded base

[abstract citrus]

atleast i think this is the portal i actiavted

can there be multiple portals on a singular planet?

[remote thunder]

no, just 1

[abstract citrus]

ok then this must be the one

[remote thunder]

it's for sure the same planet though right, name and everything?

[abstract citrus]

yes

[remote thunder]

and portal isnt active, ✅ ?

[abstract citrus]

it is not active

[gaunt lake]

Yeah there's a base and about 50 million communications pods there

[remote thunder]

try selecting a different milestone, save, return to main menu, quit game. launch game again, load save, wait like a minute for it to fully load. then open Log, select amidst the stars in the expedition tab, after that make sure it's also selected in the Log, then unpause, and wait for a few seconds (10s or so) - hint should naturally pop lower right, possibly mission icon pops on portal as well.

[gaunt lake]

Screenshot from when I was doing the Expedition

[remote thunder]

yeah, not a fan of this either

[livid drift]

I- what

[gaunt lake]

At least you know you're at the right portal if you see this mess

[livid drift]

Uh-huh.

[merry mango]

does anyone know where to find a crashed underwater freighter? ive looked at like three ocean planets and when I scan for one it just says no nearby building detected

[gaunt lake]

Scanned with the Nautilon?

[merry mango]

yes

[gaunt lake]

Hm

Try a Paradise world

[merry mango]

I just tried a paradise world too

[abstract citrus]

ok followed all your instuctions and nothing

[merry mango]

and I found one with like entierly deep ocean

[livid drift]

Sorry to butt in mid-troubleshooting- is there an easy way to find atlantideum and activated copper, aside from just hunting for corrupted and extreme worlds?

oop, just got the "locate substance" prompt

[merry mango]

Maybe I just need to keep looking?

[gaunt lake]

Systems with corrupted sentinel worlds show up on the galaxy map as // DISSONANT

[livid drift]

Yeah... then for activated copper

Think I'll focus on the atlantideum first (that is a DOOZY to spell for some reason)

[remote thunder]

what platform are you on?

[abstract citrus]

series X

[remote thunder]

there's a dissonant planet in the starter system

[livid drift]

ahhhh I gotta go all the way back there sob -punted-

[remote thunder]

and you started from existing save?

[analog bridge]

ok where are the robotic lifeforms hiding?

[abstract citrus]

yes

[gaunt lake]

In a blue system, most likely

[remote thunder]

teleport back from the station of the current system, do your things, get a sentinel ship maybe, then teleport back and continue with mind ark crafting

[analog bridge]

I ahve been to many blue systems, can't find no robo-puppies

[remote thunder]

see this post <#nms-expedition message> and this post <#nms-expedition message>

[livid drift]

oh . Why did I forget about teleporting

[abstract citrus]

i wonder if activating a monolith to refind the portal caused an issue

[misty plinth]

When I did it and had the milestone selected it gave me a waypoint on the galaxy map with a system that had them

[livid drift]

but I actually found a dissonant world in a nearby system so. yay!

[remote thunder]

you said that it was deactivated when you went back the next day, after the crash, right?

[abstract citrus]

yes

[remote thunder]

don't think the monolith step caused an issue that wasn't already there. i'd recommend raising a bug report on this, there's still time and likely that the devs are working on a fix aws; that said, there's also still plenty of time to make a run from a new save, in order to ensure that you at least get the account wide unlocks from exp13

!hg

[unkempt kraken]

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

[misty plinth]

I do have another ? regarding this - you have a new Mind Ark yes? Have you visited the anomoly to transfer over the data to it?

[gaunt lake]

I read "aws" as "Amazon Web Services" and was like "why are you bringing Amazon into this?"

[exotic fog]

Is there a way to see the upcoming expeditions and what they will entail

[gaunt lake]

The list of expeditions in the current Redux have been posted to the Steam news, if you're on PC

[abstract citrus]

when i made a new Mind Ark and returned to the Anomaly to reupload the data it said i had alread uploaded it

[gaunt lake]

If not, lemme go grab the link for you

[abstract citrus]

i am going to restart the expedition on and older save i have and work from there

[exotic fog]

Thanks

[gaunt lake]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/275850/view/4456970437737316385?l=english

[stray gale]

All of that, and I hecked it up at the end. I have the wrong ship in the terminal....

[abstract citrus]

tho i am going to turn off multiplayer for it to avoid this

[gaunt lake]

If you're worried about not being able to claim the Iron Vulture, you can claim it from the Quicksilver Synthesis Lab

[lapis raven]

Might be a silly question with the stealth paint job how do I put that on my iron vulture I’ve read you have to disassemble it but won’t that get rid of the ship entirely and it won’t be the same Class with all the bells and whistles or am I wrong

[misty plinth]

@abstract citrus I do feel sorry that our suggestions weren't able to help you overcome this hurdle.

[abstract citrus]

thanks for trying to help

[gaunt lake]

Do so. Whoever did this is an asshole

[lapis raven]

Might be a silly question with the stealth paint job how do I put that on my iron vulture I’ve read you have to disassemble it but won’t that get rid of the ship entirely and it won’t be the same Class with all the bells and whistles or am I wrong

[remote thunder]

you can only customize a ship's color scheme/use stealth paint when building a ship; if you want to build a iron vulture, you'll need to copy into primary save+salvage it 3 times, 1 for each of the ship building parts, then get a ship reactor, and build one, customizing it with the stealth paint and desired color scheme. alternatively, you could get the parts from another player for example

[lapis raven]

But I got it at the end of adrift will it be the exact same ship

If I rip it apart and then rebuild it

[stray gale]

Yeah, that's what I was trying to do, and then I saved the wrong ship into the terminal. Heh.

[livid drift]

This is a silly broad question- are there any recommendations for building bases in the expedition, at least location wise? I'm tempted to put a base on this nasty dissonant blizzard planet because it has a lot of resources, but I don't know if it would be worth the resources spent

[stray gale]

You don't need a base for Adrift.

[livid drift]

Sounds good, was just wondering

[stray gale]

Only thing you will have to build is a signal booster and a food thingie.

[sly sedge]

Personally, I find having a dissonant base is a good idea because of all the resources that can be found there and nowhere else.

[gaunt lake]

It's especially good if you have a Sentinel Interceptor

[wintry void]

I built one at a dissonant planet so I could farm fuel mats for sentinel ship

[sly sedge]

Nothing to do specifically with this expedition though, just for the resources.

[stray gale]

I mean, yeah, on your main save, that's a great idea.

[gaunt lake]

Since you can fuel everything with Raidant Shards

[sly sedge]

Plus Radiant Shards can be refined into nanites.

[gaunt lake]

Wait, they can?

Please tell me it has a funny recipe name

[sly sedge]

Yeah, that's why Dissonant Planets are great. Pretty much everything there can be turned into nanites.

[livid drift]

I was thinking about it- don't your expedition bases merge into your main save after the expedition?

[sly sedge]

Antidleum can be combined with Pugneum to make nanites. Inverted Mirrors can be refined for 95 nanites each.

[stray gale]

Can you do it multiple times? I was trying to set it up so I had an Iron Vulture to rip apart a few times.

[gaunt lake]

The one for turning Larval Cores into Nanites is hilarious to me

Requested Operation: NOT RECOMMENDED

[sly sedge]

Radiant Shard refining is called "Subjugation of Glass."

[livid drift]

Hmmm. maybe I'll put an "emergency box" somewhere near where all these crystals are (box = base)

If you can basically just teleport, harvest, then teleport back to where you were, that's not bad

[sly sedge]

Yeah, I've got a Dissonant base in the 3rd galaxy that I go back to for these resources.

[remote thunder]

it will use the exact same parts, but it won't be the same ship

[gaunt lake]

I'm trying to make a large base and I cannot figure out what exactly I want it to look like

[sly sedge]

That's always the trick. I finally got to building my main base recently. I'm close to being done, just gotta figure out a couple more things.

[livid drift]

BWUH???

What a being.

[gaunt lake]

DO NOT LAND TORNADO

The planet with, last I heard, 63 bases on it

[livid drift]

This reminds me, can you teleport between galaxies too? I've looked a bit into the galaxy system but I'm not super clear on everything

YUP, what a name

also explains why I can't put a base anywhere

But... what a creature.

[gaunt lake]

Like, my guy I think your warning went unheeded

[livid drift]

IT'S OKAY FRIEND I am just hiding in a BOX on this hellscape

[gaunt lake]

Heh

I'm referring to the person who named it that

[sly sedge]

Yeah, teleporting between bases and space stations in different galaxies isn't an issue. It's just getting to the other galaxies first to set up a base that takes work.

[livid drift]

HELP ME I AM BEING BLOWN AROUND

I tried to get back to my ship and OH MY GOD

[gaunt lake]

Well they did say there was tornados there

[sly sedge]

Those wind storms are killer. Other extreme storms are nothing, but that wind can literally kill you.

[livid drift]

I'm IN THE FREAKING AIR

...this is gonna be my first death how do I prepare

[gaunt lake]

You don't

[livid drift]

But don't I have to go hunt my resources down again?

[gaunt lake]

You step away from your computer and come back to the respawn screen, like I did at the start of Omega Redux. Twice

[remote thunder]

don't panic - conserve your jetpack

you're not going to die

[livid drift]

I just did XD

[remote thunder]

if you conserve jetpack

don't try to get away from them

let them suck you up

[gaunt lake]

You need to hunt your grave

[livid drift]

Actually it dropped me right as I was going to feed in system restoration (I FORGOT THE NAME)

yes I'm so dumbfounded I forgot the name of the weather system

[remote thunder]

grave will be on the planet, nearby

hazard protection, it's fine

[livid drift]

uggghhh hopefully not too far away

[remote thunder]

nah

[livid drift]

yeah...... that...

[remote thunder]

definitely do not die before getting to that grave

[livid drift]

I think I should be able to crawl to it now that I re-summoned my ship holy nuggets

hiding in my ship and NOT MOVING till I can dash to my grave

[random escarp]

☠️

[livid drift]

I keep going to mark the direction of my grave and losing time in the wrong direction X_X

[gaunt lake]

So, funny thing

That planet gave me the Nanites I needed to summon my ζ-Aeron to the expedition

Sentinel Interceptors are really good ships :D

[livid drift]

I got my stuff back... harrowing

Never mind! I don't want a base on this stinky planet anyway!

[gaunt lake]

Inb4 tornado

[livid drift]

(again)

By the way, are expedition unlocks account wide? or do you have to do them per save?

I wanted to start a creative mode file and I don't know if I have to do everything over again

[wraith junco]

Account wide

[livid drift]

Also, do nanites and units transfer? trying to figure out if I should leave this mold and mold so I can get the nanites on my main

whew

[gaunt lake]

Nanites and units transfer over when you finish the expedition

[livid drift]

Ohoooo

Gonna be rich! (for a noob)

[wraith junco]

U will get summary when finishing the exp

[gaunt lake]

When you want to be the richest person alive but the bank is 32-bit (units cap out at around 4.7 billion due to literally not having any more space to store the number)

[livid drift]

FINALLY the storm is done

I'm an idiot how do I reload my weapons

[remote thunder]

R on kbm

primary fire will eventually reload it as well

otherwise, quick menu/recharge

[livid drift]

hoo okay

now I'm doing baby's first space combat. I CAN'T STEER A CAR LET ALONE A SHIP but I did kill an interceptor!!

Do they just... keep coming?!

that's THREE! Three dead sentinel ships!

thank god for the s key that makes following your target easier

GIVE ME MY ATLANTIDEUM (technically I have enough buuuut)

[gaunt lake]

:(

^^ That's my own ship seconds before attacking you

[livid drift]

I just need my activated copper...

[gaunt lake]

Heh

My primary starship is a Sentinel Interceptor

[livid drift]

I think I shook them but I'm not sure

I've heard good things! buuuut

These are corrupted sentinels though

I could probably get all the activated copper myself on a different planet in the time it takes me to wait for the storms to end

The combat drum loop makes me feel like I'm doing a heist

The jig is up, they got me (and SO close to the activated copper too)

Time to wait for another storm

[remote thunder]

well, activated stellar metal planets are definitely what you look for first when you want to find extreme weather planets - so unless you can find a planet with activated copper that has non-hazardous storms e.g. gravitational anomaly storms, like the dissonant planet on the starter system i mentioned earlier...

[livid drift]

...now that you remind me

BYE FELICIA -nyooms off the planet

I didn't put two and two together 😭

[wide totem]

Is there a way around using the signal booster to find a communication tower?

[livid drift]

On the flip side I got to feel cool for like, 20 minutes (and not just because the planet was frozen)

[remote thunder]

could probably just fly around quick scanning, but signal booster is kinda the way to easily get it done. is there an issue with that part?

[livid drift]

I also realized that I never copied my ship over from main but uhhhhh oh well, Tranquil Momotsu is now my literal ride or die

[wide totem]

I’ve been using a signal booster for about an hour now and can’t find the right building

[remote thunder]

using the first option?

with the right milestone+mission selected?

[cobalt kiln]

How are people enjoying the ||censored|| expedition

[remote thunder]

personally i love it

[livid drift]

me setting up a base, hearing a noise, then looking up to find........

[remote thunder]

yay!

hehe

that planet was pretty cool

[gaunt lake]

Echo Locators are evil

They're good for finding harmonic camps

[remote thunder]

that's how i got my crashed ship for abandonment

[gaunt lake]

But they're evil for spamming "Use your Echo Locator to find a harmonic frequency!" at me every five seconds

[remote thunder]

no way i was going to escalate wanted level

[remote thunder]

if you throw them in a storage room/container, or secondary ship, that shouldn't pop anymore till you retrieve them

[gaunt lake]

I'm not kidding, I'll be in the middle of tracking an objective and it'll suddenly switch to the Echo Locator message when I'm halfway across the island from my ship and physically can't use the thing because of that

[remote thunder]

also remember that we can force cycle hints lower right by spam pressing H or dpad left

[livid drift]

..."son of a nice lady" isn't a reportable base name is it lolol

[gaunt lake]

Yeah, but another five seconds later it cycles back to the Echo Locator message

It's really annoying when I'm trying to pay attention to a trade surge, for example

[quaint urchin]

Please go give HG some feedback on this. I did... Maybe one day they will make an option so we can disable Tips and keep our active mission active.

!hg

[unkempt kraken]

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

[naive prism]

mods had such an opportunity to replace any message posted here with || -kzzzt- ||

[livid drift]

Do you need the big warp portal to warp back to your base? Or is it just for outward warping?

[naive prism]

are you referring to the big black/monolith portals?

[naive prism]

i suggested a while ago to have all markers visible, and all mission objectives active at the same time, then cycle through them with a key of choice

same for scroll wheel for multitool active tool selection

[livid drift]

No, the round ones with the blue portals

[remote thunder]

don't need a teleporter at a base in order to teleport to it, only to teleport out

[naive prism]

^

[livid drift]

Whew, okay, when the bases merge back into main I'll go back and set that up

[remote thunder]

and set teleport in spawn point

[livid drift]

At this point I swear, my nice planet bases will have normal names, but other bases will have meme names that grow increasingly deranged depending on how nuts the planet is

Calling the one on Orey SON OF A NICE LADY might be overstating the threat level a little, but... Just by looking at it maybe not

Builds my base next to the purple drilling robot, uh huh

[wide totem]

Let me look

Yes

Nvm I’m dumb

[remote thunder]

what was it? 🫂

[wide totem]

I was hitting the second option, not the first one

[remote thunder]

nah, not dumb - glad you asked

[wide totem]

For some reason the first option didn’t make sense as it just says transmitter, which I associate with a device or person

[remote thunder]

remember, if milestone, then first option

[wide totem]

🤔

I’ll try to remember that but likely will forget within a week

[remote thunder]

You ll be done in a few hours 🙂

[livid drift]

I'm exhausted, all that and I'm still in phase 2 and at least one warp jump away from next milestone x_x

But also oh gosh I'm hooked

[remote thunder]

hehe

[livid drift]

Once more into the breach!

[livid drift]

On that note, how do I find the portal for amidst the stars... I'm in the right system

Is it in space or on a planet?

[remote thunder]

be sure to have multiplayer disabled; it will be on a planet; follow the mission hint lower right of the screen, remember that you can force cycle hints by spam pressing H or dpad left

[livid drift]

aha well, that helps. Multiplayer is disabled

I imagine the hint will shift when I'm on the right planet?

[remote thunder]

yep - there should be first a marker pointing you to the right planet

remember that hints often have multiple lines, and often the last line clarifies it completely

[livid drift]

hmm. let me try again- I couldn't find the marker to the planet

[remote thunder]

goto space, watch the hint: does it say target is in current system, or outside local system (->galaxy map)?

spin 360º around