nms-expedition

[solemn bane]

I had to go all the way offline before I was satisfied. I hate seeing all those icons for player bases and whatnot on my horizon.

[indigo falcon]

(also without the random jerk trying to work round my haivng pvp off)

I don't mind player bases at all. comm balls are a scourge, we all agree

[inland niche]

I want them to be useful so badly, but if we cant destroy them (even the ones we place) I never want to place them

[indigo falcon]

that was a weird design choice

[solemn bane]

So was removing the feature that reporting a base got rid of it for you, lol.

[inland niche]

I think that still does, the problem is that expedition worlds tend to end up with bases layered on top of each other

[solemn bane]

nope

[inland niche]

Oh

Dang

[solemn bane]

At least not when I tested it after the last medium patch

I was like, surely that was unintentional. lol.

[indigo falcon]

was this during the expd?

[solemn bane]

Yes, remember how all those people were saying they couldn't place their geobays? The usual advice is just report the base(s). But they got rid of it for this expedition.

[indigo falcon]

I think this was broken, due to the fix for base sharing from non-expd bases

[solemn bane]

Nah it was from the start. And they didn't fix it.

[indigo falcon]

my guess is that if I iin a normal mode save go to a weekend mission system, find a player base and report it, it will disappear again

[solemn bane]

Easy enough to test

[indigo falcon]

yup

[solemn bane]

In the expedition, you could make the base computer go away, but you still couldn't build on the location, I'll see if it's the same outside

[indigo falcon]

thanks. I did not do the weekend mission so finding a populated system where I don't care if a reported base disappears, that would take some time.

[inland niche]

I remember it seeming like you could build in the waste processing facility

Regardless of nearby bases, at least for the geobay

But that was maybe day 3 or 4 of the expedition being out, so I could've gotten lucky when helping my friend

[solemn bane]

There's always some garbage on the anomaly teleporter I think

Oh, maybe you can't report featured bases, lol

[solemn bane]

Yeah it's this. Base goes away, still can't build anything on the location. gg hg.

[indigo falcon]

time for another bug report eh

[graceful tendon]

expedition complete. the heirloom set is so awesome

[indigo falcon]

I still haven't gotten around to trying the new drip

[unique star]

Do you need to do the title unlocks in the expedition for the other running gear to get them in other saves, or is it just the expedition rewards specifically that are locked to the expedition completion?

Aka, the legs?

[indigo falcon]

legs are an expd unlock, so you can claim them once on any save, just like any end phase or end expd rewards

the flatbed gets claimed on any new save by doing the same unlock you did no the expd: go to a waste processing plant, interact with the control panel, etc.

[unique star]

Aight. I take it the other running gear, like the treads and such can just be unlocked on any save then?

[indigo falcon]

there are sometitles that you get uotside of the expedition, I think those titles apply across saves once you have them. but I have not checked it

uh huh, I did unlock all of those on a regular save. it's pretty straigtforward

just don't use autosort or the furnace

[solid knot]

yeah those are tied to the industrial waste titles you can find on any appearance modifier.

Get the title, get the gear.

[unique star]

Aight, bet. Thanks y'all. I'm enjoying the trucking, but i don't want to burn myself out on it in the expedition if I'm gonna need to get it again, lol

[solid knot]

Pile it high, brother. There's 16 minutes left, plenty of time.

[indigo falcon]

I'm sorry I don't know who created this image. But this is accurate as to the unlocks available.

[solid knot]

I can verify that. There's only one I'm missing and this all lines up.

[indigo falcon]

Ihave all but the weathered finish.

[unique star]

Right on, is there anywhere to track those numbers in game? Sorry if any of these are kinda noobish questions, I haven't played in a few years at this point, lol.

[indigo falcon]

in a normal save, the industrial waste mission appears in the log, it lists how many of each thing you've processed over time

that's how I kept track

[unique star]

Y'all are awesome, many thanks.

[jagged spruce]

it only shows total nanites and the special wastes so it's hard to track the 200 scrap thing

[solid knot]

I love flaming mini garbage truck. He is best flaming mini garbage truck.

[solid knot]

Tracks it all outside the expedition just fine for me.

[indigo falcon]

it shows the regular scrap too. so add them up

[solid knot]

Yeah it gives all the details you need to unlock all the cosmetics and titles.

[tepid basin]

this expedition kinda sucks ngl lol

i don’t understand why they had to make all the garbage fly out of the truck bed the moment you move

[unique star]

I didn't really have that issue myself, but I was fairly cautious.

[solemn bane]

The physics is different from machine to machine. For some people it's totally unpayable, for some it's ok.

[indigo falcon]

please report those issues to hg

!hg

[unkempt kraken]

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

[marsh haven]

play on xbox series x. you can gun it accross rough terrain and the cargo jiggles a bit

[solemn bane]

🤷‍♂️

[marsh haven]

we are doutbless being used to beta test the physics engine for light no fire.

[solemn bane]

I hope not. NMS physics has always been like this, that's why they've never focused on it.

[marsh haven]

why else would they introduce such a wierd minigame?

[solemn bane]

That and their multiplayer code have needed a ground-up recode since they've been implemented.

[solemn bane]

Server-side load testing seems like a more likely guess, of the guesses I've seen.

[marsh haven]

they don't have servers. this game is client-to-client

[solemn bane]

They certainly have servers, lol.

[marsh haven]

ODS is just that. discoveries. online. all entity data is served p2p from the other players clients directly. no servers.

[solemn bane]

ok, so they have servers, but they aren't servers. Got it.

[marsh haven]

if you are in a group and sentinels are attacking you, they are being served from some other players client. not a server. if you are in a group and use your grappler to throw something, all the physics and all the disturbed objects, came from other players clients. not a server. if you are looking at a base of a player who is online, it is being served from their client. no server.
a cache of uploaded names and bases does not fall under any common use definition of game server. game servers mediate the flow of entity data. ODS does not.

[solemn bane]

Yep, servers, but no servers, like you keep saying

[tepid basin]

well its mildly comforting to know what im experiencing is a bug

[solemn bane]

Yeah, there was never a lot of focus on object physics, but from what I've seen of it, there's nothing new here. The game always had problems with slopes and piles of walker parts, for example. Though I didn't know they behaved so wildly differently from machine to machine. I just assumed everyone's walker legs randomly flew off, lol.

[stone torrent]

We could’ve had a gravitino coil attachment for our spider legs trucks 🤔

Also, how do you unlock the test of the truck customization stuff after completing the expedition

[solemn bane]

Go to a planet with Salvageable Scrap, scan for a waste processing plant with your collosus, interact with the console and go from there. There's also a couple things at the Anomaly exocraft guy, iirc. Oh and you get the spider legs and other phase reward unlocks automatically.

[lunar void]

what are your pc specs

you can check in task manager under the performance tab

[indigo falcon]

the things at the anomaly yo uhave to get there are the excavation blade and the cyclops scope

[pine night]

I am having an issue with two of my expedition objectives where I just can’t claim them after finishing

[stone torrent]

The pro solution is to just chug enough caffeine to stay awake for the time you spend just driving mildly fast

[pine night]

Am I sold locked?

[stone torrent]

Have you tried the classic nms solution of reloading a save or smthng

[pine night]

Yes

[runic latch]

what milestones?

[solemn bane]

You need more space in your inventory.

[pine night]

It’s not that I have space it’s the milestones witch I have 8/8 but the milestone says 7/8 for scanning minerals and the scanning wildlife which I’ve done but it just doesn’t say I completed it?

[runic latch]

you have to upload them first then it registres

[pine night]

Ah ok

[pine night]

Still didn’t work?

[solemn bane]

Oh, so not an issue with claiming the reward, but finishing the milestone. Ok if you scanned 8 but it only registered 7 then yeah you may be soft locked.

[pine night]

Damn

[solemn bane]

If you're on PC I have a fix you can try, otherwise I don't think there's a way around it.

[pine night]

Maybe in a week it’ll get like fixed or something. Idk

[pine night]

I’m not

[solemn bane]

Oh, I just remembered, get your ship and go to another planet and scan another mineral.

I think

[runic latch]

how would you do that before completing everything?

[pine night]

How do I get my ship?

[solemn bane]

Collect the reward for Phase 5. And hopefully the mineral milestone isn't in Phase 5, lol.

Then just summon it

[pine night]

Ok I’ll try

[pine night]

Thx

[solemn bane]

You don't need to finish everything, just Phase 5 milestones.

[jagged spruce]

must've been added in a patch

[runic latch]

📝

[crude comet]

is anyone else incredibly annoyed at the egregious amount of driving in this expedition

and on top of that the stuff in the back flies out if you hit the smallest bump

[solemn bane]

Yep. Even without the physics issues, I'm not interested in driving sims. Unfortunately I'm pretty invested in expeditions, so ugh.

[crude comet]

same like im invested in the expeditions but oh my god this is a straight up gruelling amount of driving

and the colossus is so. fucking. slow

[marsh haven]

still not as bad as fishing

[crude comet]

man at least that doesnt take as long per fish like good lord why the hell did they make each location 10 miles away from the last

[solemn bane]

lol, I kind of want the fish to just randomly fly away every couple catches now.

[crude comet]

im almost halfway done with the mileage milestone to travel by exocraft for 50000u and i havent even finished the first phase

im fr about to quit this expedition these flatbeds are pissing me off

[marsh haven]

there are more scrap recycling yards about. if you touch the waypoints of any, the closest will register as the mission destination when you fill up.

[solemn bane]

Yeah if the physics is bad for you, it ain't gonna get any better. Best you can do is carry fewer items and go slower.

[crude comet]

bro im going as slow as possible i hit one bump and my whole truck goes sideways

[marsh haven]

i tried carrying mixed loads. then after some incidents... i just drove empty, looted all the specials and only the specials.

[solemn bane]

Yeah I'm just saying that's the most you can do, so if you're already doing it, best to peace out and play something fun

I spose you could fiddle with your graphics settings, I haven't actually tried that yet

[marsh haven]

the physics seems to be ... pc / settings dependant. i dont know anyone has identified what specific hardware / setting combo causes issues yet.
xbox series x on default settings is ... placid.

[crude comet]

yeah maybe thatll help but like im trying to enjoy it because this is my favorite game but ive had to stop and reload my entire load 4 times just between the first rendezvous and the corresponding recycle yard

idk was just seeing if anyone else was feeling similarly frustrated with this one

[solemn bane]

The physics ranges from apparently fine to absolutely unplayable. The reaction to driving is roughly the same.

[crude comet]

yeah they definitely need to patch a good amount of things with this one

[crude comet]

how are people getting their starship? as far as i can tell theyve made sure youre completely unable to call it

[solemn bane]

Finish Phase 5 and collect the Phase 5 reward, then you can summon it.

(You can skip other phase milestones where possible)

[final wave]

Waste processing plant ❌
Warzone ✅

[solemn bane]

Make sure you recycle those combat supplies

[final wave]

Will do 😁
Job well done :)))

[tidal venture]

What are those blue icons?

[runic latch]

it means sentinels are offline

won't harras you while those icons are on

when they turn gray or empty the sentinels are online

[tidal venture]

Ah okay, thanks

[green wraith]

I think the secret is with these black valleys, and the rest is just go slow. Do something while you do the expedition like chat or something…

[vague fractal]

Slow and steady. And always hit the hazardous plants head on. Clipping the side of one is disaster.

[green wraith]

I once had to dig a tunnel through a mountain that was 7 minutes long on the colossus

[vague fractal]

Dedication or insanity...only time will tell. 😁

[green wraith]

Definitely wasn’t dedication

I was screaming the whole time

[feral lodge]

chat where the fuck do i find my starship

[woeful niche]

If it hasn't been said, don't install any of the exocraft engine or suspension upgrades. Actually what I did was install them on the way to the scrap heaps and then package them up on the way back. This allowed going as slow as possible with as little slip/drift as possible. I thought it helped a lot for me.

[green wraith]

You get to just summon it, it also appears when you unlock it

[feral lodge]

i can't summon it because it's broken, but i can't fix it because i can't find it

[green wraith]

Yeah you get to use it when you finish phase 5

It gets fixed automatically

[feral lodge]

you're joking

fuckin hell

[green wraith]

Sadly, I’m not

I crashed out

I cried

I was in agony

[feral lodge]

so i gotta drive this shitbox colossus everywhere

[green wraith]

And now you have to go through that too

[feral lodge]

might not even do the expedition because of thish

i'm on phase 3

[vague fractal]

I am learning with this expedition that when you take away a NMS player's ship, they are rarely happy about it. 😆

[green wraith]

Just do like a couple milestones a day

It doesn’t have to be that boring

[feral lodge]

well it's a space travel game and they took away our ships

i'm meant to drive for almost 10 minutes just to complete a milestone

[green wraith]

It showcases the colossus for this expedition so it kinda still makes sense

[green wraith]

I drove for 20 at times

I dug up tunnels

[feral lodge]

yay

[green wraith]

It was crazy

[green wraith]

Lmaoo

[vague fractal]

It is a space travel game to some. It is also a survival game, an economy game, a building game, maybe a fishing game. After a couple of days playing I admit I was wondering what this game wants to be when it grows up. The answer might be...everything.

[green wraith]

It’s “the game”

[feral lodge]

yea i'd just rather fly a ship instead of driving a semi across the planet

[green wraith]

When someone says they’re playing the game they probably talking about no man’s sky

[hollow sigil]

Man

[feral lodge]

if someone/thing doesn't kill me before i have to, then i will

[feral lodge]

watch where you're driving duh

wait no that was impossible to see

[hollow sigil]

Bro

[feral lodge]

sorry to see, that sucks balls

[hollow sigil]

Ya😔

[feral lodge]

are expedition rewards even worth this semi truck simulator

[hollow sigil]

Not even sure atp

[gritty dome]

But it doesnt take long

[feral lodge]

"but it doesn't take long" 10 minute semi drive

i'm disliking the semi sim so much i'm going to play... overwatch

[royal swift]

Alr time to do some event stuff

[gilded pine]

I liked the expedition

[vague fractal]

Same. I had not played the game before, though, so I was exploring other things on the planet as I drove from point to point rather than just trying to get there quickly. I can see it being more tedious/frustrating if all you are doing is pointing to the destination and gunning it.

[feral lodge]

it is very annoying for me which i do it in the latter way
i'm only on the expedition to get rewards so i'm here to grind it out

[lusty slate]

Heirloom costume set. Which looks magnificent, IMO.

It's a slower paced expedition than usual. So if that isn't your cup of tea, it might be a chore.

Personally, I liked it. Driving the Colossus is pretty chill once you realize you can't rush it. Drive slow, watch the terrain, coast down slowly, make course corrections so you don't bump around too much.

[feral lodge]

maybe i'll have to do that, change what music i'm listening to and just relax a bit

[feral lodge]

could you send the cosmetics here so i can see them? currently on OW so i can't check

[lusty slate]

Here's my character wearing some of them. Also, the spider legs on my Colossus are a reward from the expedition too.

Chest piece and legs I'm wearing are Heirloom. (Hood is the Gek hood from the QS shop, legs are Construct. The staff I made)

I have to go back to work now, fyi.

[feral lodge]

baller drip

WAIUT WDYM YOU MADE THE STAFF YOU CAN MAKE STAFFS????

CAN SOMEONE PING ME IN THE APPROPRIATE CHANNEL AND EXPLAIN HOW YOU CAN MAKE STAFFS????

[wraith junco]

No need for caps

Type !faq-echoes in #bot-spam

[feral lodge]

i'd argue there is need, i'm excited, that's what all caps can say

[final wave]

An abandoned wreckage on the expedition planet! I've never seen one before 😮

[royal swift]

Me after killing all sentinel with a bolt caster

[torpid vector]

I rather enjoyed this expedition. The spider legs are pretty cool, and the heirloom set is dope.

At least that's my opinion.

[wraith junco]

Good for you . This exp is not everyones jam. I unlocked all cosmetics and probably will never touch trash gathering again.

[wintry inlet]

the expedition gave me much more respect for the colossus than when i started (i hated exocraft before) 🙂

[wraith junco]

Grav coil is cool tho. I want more things to interact with it

[torpid vector]

I thought it was going act like the physics gun. Still a neat addition though.

[wraith junco]

Kinda is. But there is not much things it can interact with

[torpid vector]

I rarely touched exocraft until now. Now I'm thinking about roads and highways extending from my base.

[wraith junco]

Not much things have physics writen in

[torpid vector]

Knowing Hello Games though, I'd say there is a good chance they will expand on this.

[wraith junco]

Or never touch it again and do totaly diffrent things. 50/50 chance

[drowsy mango]

Man this exoedition is insane

It want me to travel 30 minutes non stop

Without ship

Is there anything i can do to get around it fast?

[wraith junco]

U can try doing phase 5 first. It should unlock ship

[drowsy mango]

Dear god

Thx

[strong dagger]

that is so sick! how did you unlock the walking trash can ?

btw you look like a really cool wizard somehow

[long arch]

I'm stuck on finding the so called 8th thing to scan on this planet I have no clue what I'm missing

[royal swift]

I hope it can yeet the sentinel drones away with the grav coil gun xd

[wraith junco]

It can. But only the flying ones

[royal swift]

huh?

wait

[wraith junco]

And not very far

[royal swift]

did the gun agro them if you dont have star yet?

[wraith junco]

Dont remember . I think yes

[lusty slate]

The furnace in the back? That isn't from the expedition, it's one of the unlocks from doing garbage trucking in the main game:

[strong dagger]

ty gek wizard

[lusty slate]

The really common one most miss is tiny pebble that spawns in the dark grey ground sections.

Wait, mineral or creature?

[long arch]

Mineral

[lusty slate]

Okay, then yeah, try finding a darker ground section of rock. There's a really small pebble type that seems to only spawn there

I think I found mine in a section due east from the processing plant.

[long arch]

I think I've scanned it. It's called bigrock for some reason. I could complete 5 and scan one on another planet if that works

[jagged charm]

!exptime

[unkempt kraken]

-# to view info below, enable embeds

Expedition 21: Remnant ends <t:1774447200> (approx. <t:1774447200:R>)

See Pins in #nms-expedition & run !Expedition in #nms-commands

[jagged charm]

wait there is an exp runnning rn?

[lusty slate]

Do you have that rock tree? The one that looks like someone bedazzled it.

[long arch]

Yea

[jagged charm]

should've read the last patch notes lol XD

[long arch]

I think I could send a picture of the ones I have

[lusty slate]

Hmm, I'm at work and not at my Switch right now. Maybe check pinned messages.

[lusty slate]

Hope you like driving lol.

[jagged charm]

i have my mods to improve exocrafts XD

not an issue

as long as i dont need to make 10 different cooking recipes and collect 250 faecum

[lusty slate]

Wait, there's two in caves. Did you get those?

[lusty slate]

Nope, lol

[jagged charm]

good enough

[long arch]

I got the long one and the big rock

[small granite]

Glad to hop back on the game... what do I need to bring in the expedition?

also, hello everyone

[long arch]

Nothing

[small granite]

really

[long arch]

Bring the will to drive

[small granite]

what will lol

[long arch]

You only get what the expedition gives you this time

It's not difficult though

[small granite]

ooh ok.. thank you

[lusty slate]

You don't get access to the Anomaly to retrieve items until the expedition is nearly finished this time. It takes place all on one planet. No need to bring anything.

[long arch]

Scan everything so you arent looking for over an hour for one rock like me

[lusty slate]

There's some recommendations for missing ones here. But beyond that, I can help more later this evening when I get home.

#nms-expedition message

[royal swift]

worked

wonder if I can put them into the recycler

[silent bison]

The new expedition is so stupid. the things glich under the koloss in the ground! for which you still have to drive 20-30 minutes! Just supit

[royal swift]

happened to me too

[silent bison]

No mans sky is in this expedition lost time

[silent bison]

It happens all the time and it's not fun

endless Bugs in the sky

[wraith junco]

Cant

U can put the containers they drop

[green wraith]

Supit is my new favorite word

[vague fractal]

the 'bigrock' is bigger than the one in the grey areas. the one most people have missed is tiny tiny there. I did not even get a tag for it until I knew exactly where to point

[long arch]

That could be the one Im missing. I have pointed my thing everywhere and got nothing

[vague fractal]

I am missing just 1 flora. Which is not part of the expedition milestones so would probably gain me nothing but pennies. And yet, that 8/9 sits there mocking me. 😆

[royal swift]

Use first person

just do it slowly

[vague fractal]

I went with camera mode to find the nearest scar area, then used that like a highway where possible. still need to get to it and from there to the destination, but it was much easier than negotiating near vertical slopes.

[long arch]

I'm genuinely gonna start throwing hands. This last one doesn't exist I swear

[indigo falcon]

two in caves. one tall pointed one. one large one that requires adv mining laser. "rock tree". "big rock" (it's a small boulder). the one with two pillars from it. two in dark grey patches of earth, these are very tiny pebbles.

[long arch]

It's gonna be the tiny pebbles I need i think but they just don't seem to exist

[indigo falcon]

look for larger dark grey patches, like maybe those trenches, smaller patches may not have them

[long arch]

Ive seen what it looks like now because I have a picture it's just cant see it still

[small granite]

how do you sort this out... i exploded like 4 of mine

[wraith junco]

Special waste containers have symbols on them . Put them in coresponding recyclers

[small granite]

corresponding recyclers... ohhh you mean the same one goes together

[leaden glen]

the last mineral to discover is a bitch.... I've been at it for 20 minutes...

[fierce acorn]

it's really small and on top of mountains

[lusty slate]

I've been calling it the bedazzled tree because that's what it looks like lol.

[lusty slate]

The vat at the top of the stairs is for toxic (green/black crates, green icon).

The yellow one dripping a substance onto the ground is for radioactive (yellow crates, yellow icon)

The red incinerator next to the radioactive is for explosive (red crate, silver/orange icon)

[lusty slate]

Excellent, what I said but with way better pictures. 🙂

[remote thunder]

got this in mind as well, but am first going to gather all 3d model variants first 😄

[indigo falcon]

ah enjoy, it's a bit grindy but better than I expected

[wraith junco]

The slower you did this exp the easyer it got .

[indigo falcon]

oh, I as thinking of the grinding on the main save to unlock all the rest of the customization options. I did drive slowly during the expedition and lost 1 item out of all the trips, but people had some very weird physics bugs (sinking into the dirt, random flips of the entire vehicle ejecting the driver as well; the vehicle driving away with no one in it, during loading) which I was fortunate enough not to encounter

[prisma tundra]

in my main save when doing the tutorial mission, I've had those bugs occur, but I probably was disadvantaged by the fact that my lil tutorial was on a planet with a giant canyon and multiple other holes/caves/canyons/riverbeds so it was very rocky & I lost so much stuff, plus in some cases, if you fill up the bed too much, it'll completely tip/flip & all the waste disappears, I haven't encountered that yet on expedition because I just started, but I was already frustrated with those bugs yesterday so I'm not gonna be happy if it happens again

[rocky fractal]

Those physics bugs seem to happen with more stuff in the back. Anything over 20 gets funky really quickly. Even approaching that if you shove things in it can start doing it's own thing and chaos ensues.

[solemn bane]

And it seems to vary to a pretty wide degree based on the system it's on. That makes me think this stuff won't get fixed any time soon.

[prisma tundra]

ah yeah, that would make sense, but I had issues tipping or falling over completely with only a few objects, but that's cause the terrain was terrible, I hope the expedition planet isn't too bad terrain wise for that regard

[prisma tundra]

I fear you're correct on that part...

[solemn bane]

What's funny is when I was off the expedition on a much smoother planet, my stuff would just randomly explode out of the truck bed even if I just moved an inch. I could barely finish hauling 5 special waste.

[prisma tundra]

oh jeez, yeah I had that happen too, I had to literally do 1-2 at a time, and usually only got 1 successfully back to the processing area

[rocky fractal]

Yeah, slight bumps or certain objects can send your stuff flying at the slightest knock. Also I swear sometimes the tracks will go into the ground and shoot out again and yeet stuff into the stratosphere, but it might be something else. But the 'moving by itself' stuff only seems to happen around 20 or if you really try to shove big stuff into the truck.

[solemn bane]

For me it was on smooth terrain with no rocks or objects.

A slight incline maybe? The physics engine really struggles with inclines

On certain systems of course

[rocky fractal]

I did grab the friction mod pretty early on and never had anything explode on me. So can't attest to that end of things.

Inclines definitely seem to give it trouble. Both with buckaroo-ing and with my truck being unable to climb a fairly average looking hill. Other times it'll zip up a sheer cliff face with no care.

[prisma tundra]

yeah I noticed that too lol, I'll be careful not to load too many in expedition, better to take many trips of small amounts successfully than risk losing it all attempting all at once

[prisma tundra]

oh? someone made a mod to help with the physics stuff?

[rocky fractal]

Yeah, there's a friction one for the bed and a walls one. They don't play nice together though. Maybe a couple others at this point too.

[prisma tundra]

huh, interesting

[rocky fractal]

Oh there's also one where you can steer with wasd which made my life significantly less hellish.

[prisma tundra]

you can't normally? I use controller so I hadn't noticed a difference

[solemn bane]

I was confused too, and I play PC 😆 Turns out you can only use W and S for forward and back and it just follows your mouse.

[prisma tundra]

oh weirdddd, glad I play with controller then, it's just stick movement like walking/flying/etc

[solemn bane]

When walking the mouse follow has a huge advantage since your character can instantly do a 180, etc, but in vehicles it's super awkward.

[prisma tundra]

yeah that would make sense

[vague fractal]

I was impressed by how well the colossus turns. I mean, unrealistic as all heck, but I'm not playing for realism and being able to basically spin to a new direction is great for the last minute "that's a hole not a shadow!" moments.
Not, of course, that it has ever happened to me. 😏

[indigo falcon]

me neither, naturally! 😎

[prisma tundra]

whoopsie... I'm terrible at driving this thing...

[solemn bane]

No, you got it right

[prisma tundra]

I didn't even think that shredder had much actual space inside, I assumed it would hit a wall, but nope lol

[solemn bane]

Makes me wonder if you could back into it to recycle stuff

[indigo falcon]

I do appreciate the invisible wall on the one side of the toxic barrel dump, although I have had a few items drop in there and not disintegrate, so I needed to climb to the top, pick them up, and dro pthem back in again

[remote thunder]

agreed, love that invisible wall

[indigo falcon]

hey did you get all those customizations you wanted?

[remote thunder]

wait - multiple convos at the same time - customizations i wanted?

for the colossus?

[indigo falcon]

#nms-expedition message I assumed so

[remote thunder]

oh - sorry i'll explain better. i want to gather up all the variants of each of the specialist waste containers, then place them all neatly lined up in front of the respective processors, to complete the infographic 😄

[indigo falcon]

oh, the waste containers! welp did not understand that at all, my bad 😄

I did get that you were working on related infographics, just thought you had more than one in the works.

the little toxic cannister is a sneaky one eh

[remote thunder]

gonna find them all and bring them all to the same plant 😄

[indigo falcon]

a glutton for punishment I see!

[prisma tundra]

I know the pins said to use save beacons to mark poi (like waste heaps), but for some reason, mine don't seem to work, I went to checkpoint 1, placed a save beacon, saved at it, and went back to the waste processing plant, now I can't see/find the save beacon icon anywhere, even when in line of sight to the waste heap I was at

[remote thunder]

hmm.. but you do see the beacon object?

[prisma tundra]

I saw it before I left, I haven't gotten back to said waste heap yet to confirm

[remote thunder]

hmm.. this on pc? using any mods?

[regal plank]

How does transferring items from expediton to save work? As in, if i want to take stuff from exp, do i just put it in my exosuit cargo? And does it have slot limitation or does it allow to transfer the entirety of the exosuit cargo

[remote thunder]

As in, if i want to take stuff from exp
did you start exp from an existing save?

[regal plank]

yup

[prisma tundra]

yes I'm on pc, using a controller if that matters, and no mods

[remote thunder]

then at the end, you're going to interact with expedition terminus in the anomaly, same terminal you interacted with to start. at that point, you'll be given the opportunity to add items to bring back to primary save. you can bring back more than 8+24 (see <#nms-expedition message>)

[regal plank]

does "finish" mean like "finalise" or does it mean "complete all missions"

[remote thunder]

hmm yeah, our own save beacon markers should always be visible to us - only thing that came to mind was a mod that deals away with multiplayer icon clutter (but also removes our own save beacon markers unfortunately), and perhaps the game aggressively culling markers when far away, which it should only do with markers from other players

[regal plank]

because i have all phases completed now

[remote thunder]

basically, if you complete and claim all, you should already be able to add items in: that's your confirmation: if you can add items in, dont press any finish or end button

if you still cant, if inventory slots are still locked, then press the button to lock in the completion state

feel free to post a screenshot of what you see

[regal plank]

so like i just take the stuff i want with me on my exosuit and ship cargo and then, at the anomaly, i dump it into the exp terminus (all that on the exp "world")

right?

[remote thunder]

right

[regal plank]

and then i dont confirm finishing the exp and simply switch back to my og save

and do that only after i transfer all the stuff i want

[remote thunder]

right; you back out of the terminal, save e.g. enter+exit ship, then options/return to primary

[remote thunder]

right

[regal plank]

alright, hopefully i dont fuck it up anyway 🫠

[remote thunder]

always save before returning to primary/resuming expedition

so that it gets saved, whatever you put/took out of the exp terminus, before you switch context again

[prisma tundra]

yeah, I have no idea, I can always find more waste heaps, it's not too big of a deal, I just thought the save beacons would help but it just vanished

[remote thunder]

hmm try to save+reload maybe, did you try that already?

[prisma tundra]

I haven't tried that yet cause exocraft doesn't save like ship does, so my restore point is from a while ago

[remote thunder]

find a waypoint nearby, or.. just build another beacon 😄

[prisma tundra]

ah, right, waypoints are a thing, I found one

I don't have the mats for another beacon unfortunately lol

[remote thunder]

heh, been there

[prisma tundra]

stupid sodium nitrate, that's what I always end up missing

and I can't get my good multi-tool w/ advanced mining for the crystals either lol

[raw ruin]

One reward gives you one to install on your Collusus (I might've misspelled that). It's required for another milestone.

[prisma tundra]

welp, save & reload didn't work, still can't see the save beacon marker

[remote thunder]

quite weird

multiplayer disabled?

[prisma tundra]

I got that already and installed it on my colossus, so I suppose I could use it, but I prefer on foot tbh, if it wasn't near impossible to move industrial waste without the colossus, I would never use one lol

[prisma tundra]

yep, has been since the start

[raw ruin]

Yeah, I was confused at first too. I tried to drop a portable refiner, only for it to not appear and not realizing that I had a personal refiner mk2 in my tech slots already.

[regal plank]

yay i did it

got all the stuff i needed

[raw ruin]

Idt you get rewarded any mining upgrades though until after you complete the expedition. The only ones I got were tech expansion slots and Pulse Splitter modules.

[prisma tundra]

yeah, that's unfortunate, oh well then

[raw ruin]

I found this one OK. I just didn't like it very much, mainly due to getting the trash after having the vehicle fall into a cave or a bump near a plant or mineral, or even a glitch in my case.

[solemn bane]

Someone yesterday had an absolutely wild issue where they logged out and when they logged back in they were on the space station, had a new (functional) ship, and had lost control of their save beacon and old busted ship, in site of them staying in the same place. Wonder if these could be related.

[indigo falcon]

I was just thinking that. something is definitely iffy about save beacons

[solemn bane]

My guess is it would be more about the ownership of items, as opposed to the beacons specifically

Something to do with the bandaid code they added for bases, I'd bet

[prisma tundra]

hmm, weird, maybe this could be related? but I just have a missing beacon, I've had this happen previously on my main save so idk exactly the issue this time

[solemn bane]

ok if it's happening in your main save then I get more of a feeling it's not related to other stuff in this expedition. Maybe just try relogging to see if it comes back.

Oh nm, you tried that, lol

[prisma tundra]

yeah, I tried reloading, but the time it happened in my main save was a while ago so this could be expedition related but coincidental

[royal swift]

Morning guys, time for some space trucking

[prisma tundra]

ok I think save beacons are just completely broken for me rn, I placed another one down at checkpoint 2, and the icon doesn't appear still, I even walked a decent distance away in case that was the issue, and I can see the beacon object, but no star icon

[solemn bane]

Yeesh, I might verify your installed files or somethin

[prisma tundra]

yeah I can try that

saving, fully exiting, verifying files, and going back into the game didn't work, still shows the beacon as an object but no star icon marker

[solemn bane]

I assume whatever was broken will stay broken, but new stuff may work

[prisma tundra]

fair, let's hope for the next one I suppose

[open dagger]

Anyone else have their colossus go full Tesla and just drive away with the stuff across the landscape until hole or tree? 20 minutes of work spread across the landscape LOL

[solemn bane]

I've seen some videos. I filled mine up for fun and watched it very slowly creep away.

[open dagger]

yeah, this was full speed and it had a big head start as i was grabbling the last piece to load - turned around and saw the taillights go over the embankment..

[prisma tundra]

welp, this is not the case, save beacon still broken for me, oh well, I guess I'll do it the hard way later

[solemn bane]

And you have no mods?

[prisma tundra]

correct, no mods

[solemn bane]

Bizarre.

[prisma tundra]

also, side note, idk if anyone else figured this out, but the defying gravity milestone can technically be done with one piece of waste (ideally scrap metal so it doesn't break), then "juggling" it in the air (launching it almost directly up & catching it before it starts to come down), because the milestone counts this based on the release of the item with the launch button (R2/right trigger on controller, left click on KB&M), it's honestly really fun too

[pure basalt]

Sometimes hit a random bump, and all of my scrap gets launched into orbit.

[solemn bane]

And you're 100% sure it's a save beacon and not a save point? The beacons are tall, the points are short

[indigo falcon]

the same is true for the milestone with the sentinel, just badger one over and over if you like

[prisma tundra]

yes, 10000% sure, I'm using sodium nitrate and metal plating to craft one, I look at it through the visor & it says "abandoned object, save beacon"

[prisma tundra]

omg lmao, that's amazing, I'll have to do that because I hate sentinel fighting

[indigo falcon]

when you relase the one, you'll get a wanted level and another will show up, but you can just alternate lobbing them

then when done, shoot them and the next 6 to get that milestone and run away

(make sure you leave the summoner s oyou never get to level 3 with the doggos)

[rain pollen]

@solemn bane just used your GitHub tool to run expedition one, Pioneers, and it went great! However I did have one question: I started a new game to run it, so I wasn't able to use the kiosk to shuttle items to my primary like I normally do...can you also just start it at the terminal from your primary save while offline?

[solemn bane]

yep

[rain pollen]

Ah okay, I just followed how they did it in a YT tutorial, but I like being able to give myself some stasis devices and pirate packs

[prisma tundra]

oh I just ignored the other one lmao

[prisma tundra]

oh right, I should do that

[indigo falcon]

do it and get it done, indeed

so... did you do it? 😛

[prisma tundra]

yeah, was easier than expected cause I put on the pulse spitter upgrades beforehand

it didn't even tell me I was done until I shot a few more tbh lol

then I escaped lmao

[indigo falcon]

I uh... had the upgrades and wondered where the heck the pulse spitter was, because I missed somehow claiming the petrology milestone until after completing the expedittion... so I used a bare boltcaster 🙄

[indigo falcon]

yeah it will not pop up completions in the middle of combat, to preveent you from taking damage unintentionally

[prisma tundra]

oooof, yeah I did have inventory management problems initially, but once I had the colossus, I was fine and I wacked that pulse spitter on cause I prefer it to boltcaster now

[prisma tundra]

ah ok, that makes sense

[indigo falcon]

oh I had space, I just somehow missed claiming that one. later on the game kept nagging me about it but I coulda sworn I'd looked at it and it had nothing I want, like a pile ofcakes or something... 🤦

[prisma tundra]

oh that's the reward for a different milestone lol

the destroying hazardous flora has an assortment of cakes as a reward

[indigo falcon]

yeah there were a number of milestones I waited until the end to claim, because they didn't have things I needed to have to progress.so cakes, assorted glitches, etc. etc., I just skipped claiming all those until I had the trade rocket

that way (and using the exocraft for storage) I never had an inventory problem. but I also never got the pulse spitter, woops

[prisma tundra]

ah fair, personally I like keeping that stuff so I collect it & shove into my ship (or in this case, colossus), then eventually I'll transfer it all over to main save

[indigo falcon]

my main saves are all very end game, don't need any of it

[prisma tundra]

yeah, I'm a bit silly with that sometimes, early inventory management is very difficult

[indigo falcon]

I will collect mementos like the worm portfolios from emergence for example, but other than that, nah

[prisma tundra]

well yes, so are mine, but I like collecting things or even hoarding stuff, I've got all sorts of neat goodies like cakes, glitches, etc

[indigo falcon]

I have all the glihces already, don't need more. you know if you have pure ferrite you can build as many as you like, right?

have one glitch in the inventory plus a little stack of pure ferrite. enter build menu, place 1, then place a few more, then placean extra, pick it up, store it. then you're all set for next time, except replenish the pure ferrite you used

[prisma tundra]

yes, I know, I have them all too now, but previous to around new year's, I didn't

[indigo falcon]

oh I see

[prisma tundra]

plus, again, I like collecting it anyway lol

[indigo falcon]

you must still have room in storage! eh your turn will come 😛

[prisma tundra]

I do, somehow, and still have 4 or so more storage containers that I can place lol

[indigo falcon]

unbelievable

mine all have stacks of stuff in 'em. they aren't completely full up to teh last slot but I do have to be a bit careful

I don't of course place them anywhere except for looks (freighter does for that now)

then one gets to stuff in ships used for extra storage, stuff in exocraft, etc.

[prisma tundra]

I prob could utilize exocraft storage more outside expedition, but I end up ignoring it most of the time, the only thing causing huge issues for me is upgrade modules, specifically packaged ones stripped from other stuff, as those take up one slot each & don't stack

but, nearly 600 hours in & I haven't had an inventory issue beyond early game

[indigo falcon]

why not just keep unpackaged ones instead? I used to do rounds of the space stations and collect from the guild reps for free

[prisma tundra]

expeditions cause some inventory issues due to being thrown back in early game, for reference

[indigo falcon]

ah 600 hours... I see. mmm come back at 1800 and we'll have a little chat 😛

[prisma tundra]

I'm stripping down ships from expeditions, usually, you can't get an unpackaged starship trail or figurine, plus I like grabbing the decently good (like S class upgrades) or impossible to get otherwise (like photonix core) types of upgrades, they're already installed on ships, I have no choice but to have them as packages

[prisma tundra]

fair, and will do if I remember lol

[indigo falcon]

hm there are a few special things, but just put those in other ships then

well if you still have spare containers maybe it doesn't matter. ... yet.

anyways may you have a good time on this expedition instead of a frustrating one, for whatever you have left to do.

[prisma tundra]

I mean I do if I have the slots, but I just save the rest in storage containers

[prisma tundra]

thank you, I mainly have the actual hauling of stuff left after this checkpoint, I bet it'll be rough because the specialist waste is bound to break/explode/etc & cause problems lmao

[indigo falcon]

you're at checkpoint 5?

[prisma tundra]

I'm heading towards it

ok, question, is the exocraft radar for any structure, such as waste processing plants, meant to find the closest one, or just a random one?

[faint hill]

any will doi think

[jagged spruce]

in the expedition, there's only one waste processing plant. the scrap heap locations depend on the milestone you have selected I believe

[solemn bane]

The way the regular game works is it will generally find the closest one, then once you get there you can scan again and it will find a different one. In the expedition, it will only find ones tied to the current/last milestone you were on. There's most likely dozens of these places on the planet, but your collosus will just refuse to give you more than one.

[prisma tundra]

that is untrue, I see two on my visor when my colossus only pinged one

[prisma tundra]

yeah, I figured it was not giving me the closest one cause of expedition but wanted to be sure

[jagged spruce]

I've only seen it locate the same one

[solemn bane]

In the expedition, yes. Outside of the expedition, it will find a great many more once you have visited the one it finds. This is how I collected my 200 pieces of junk: Landed on a Salvageable Scrap planet, summoned my collosus and scanned for a waste processing plant, flew to the plant, processed all the regular waste, summoned my collosus, scanned for a plant, flew to the next one, etc.

[prisma tundra]

yes, it'll locate the same one (based on what cwmonkey just said), but there's more than one per planet

[jagged spruce]

I've never tested other processing plants so idk if that even works for the expedition

[solemn bane]

When I said dozens I probably meant hundreds. It's hard to get an idea of scale with this type of stuff, but all the waste processing plants were relatively close as far as flying to each in a ship.

[prisma tundra]

case in point (can't get a good screenshot when in visor to see more clearly, but it's on the compass here)

[jagged spruce]

I've never seen more than one icon on the expedition

maybe they added it later? you could try going to the other one to see if it lets you process the stuff

[solemn bane]

They didn't add anything, it's all procedurally generated.

[lusty slate]

Pretty sure the expedition is specifically designed to only mark the one waste plant.

[prisma tundra]

yeah, that's what I'm thinking, but more than one still exists on the planet

[lusty slate]

Right.

[jagged spruce]

you can try going to another one

idk if they coded it to only allow that specific one to be used

[indigo falcon]

I don't know either, I never scanned for another, and I only used the waste heap designated for each checkpoint

[solemn bane]

They didn't.

[jagged spruce]

so you can use any plant then?

if you can find them

[solemn bane]

Sure. That's how you can get around the mineral bug, too.

[lusty slate]

On my main save, I went to about 20ish plants and about 30 heaps to finish the titles. Just hopped around the planet and save/reloaded to make sure the scanner marked a new one.

[prisma tundra]

I might try, idk yet, depends on the routes tbh

[jagged spruce]

hopped is an interesting way to describe the colossus

[indigo falcon]

oh on the main save, sure, I woudl go to a plant, find a couple heaps nearby, do those, that would be it for the session, next day repeat, until I got all the unlocks

[lusty slate]

Main game. I used my ship

[jagged spruce]

oh

[jagged spruce]

do special wastes spawn in plants?

[indigo falcon]

not outside of the expedition.

[solemn bane]

Not even inside the expedition I don't think

[indigo falcon]

you gotta go to the waste heaps, or to smaller piles that aren't marked as special waste but might have one barrel or item in there anyways

[lusty slate]

50 radioactive waste took me foreeeeever.

[jagged spruce]

50 is a lot

[indigo falcon]

I usually did a little tour of nearby marked small piles and got a few toxic from those

[lusty slate]

Same.

[indigo falcon]

so it ddn't take me too much longer for those than the radioactives

[lusty slate]

But radioactive spawns just repeatedly trolled me.

[indigo falcon]

they definitely do place a lot more explosives aorund, just so there are more explodey bits that can muck up your load 😛

[jagged spruce]

wait if two players do the scraps on the same planet, does it count towards the amount of scrap for both players or does it only count the scraps for the player who processes them?

[indigo falcon]

(I didn't fall for it)

I expect it's whoever processes them

each has their own log with count

[jagged spruce]

so that's why I couldn't find anything that's not explosive in the random piles

[indigo falcon]

heh heh

[jagged spruce]

I waited forever for wild toxic waste

[prisma tundra]

I have found all three specialist types in random piles before (separate piles for each), so it's not impossible to happen

[indigo falcon]

toxic was the rarest for me but I did get it all done in the 5 checkpoints

[lusty slate]

Oh, the expedition went very smoothly for me special waste wise. I actually had all three milestones for those completed after the fourth checkpoint.

[jagged spruce]

I had to look all over for the last toxic waste after a waste heap only gave me 2 pieces

it never spawns when you need it

[lusty slate]

I did the titles on main before touching the exped though, so it felt faster. After grinding 50, 16 is nothing. 😛

(Which was actually cool as my main game unlocks carried over into the exped. Caterpillar wheels, my beloved)

[indigo falcon]

I did the titles after, since I split them up into small gameplay sessions it never got too tedious

[lusty slate]

I still have fish helmet bug PTSD. I didn't trust the expedition not to mess the title unlocks up. 😛

[indigo falcon]

ha!

[lusty slate]

Fixed now, thankfully. But that annoyed the heck of of me (my shrimp tank helmet got locked for ages as I was forced to reload after I got the title. HG finally fixed it a few updates ago, but I didn't get it until this update because of the Switch 1 limbo fiasco )

[ashen turret]

How am I supposed to know which stations to bring what items to at the recycling plant

[lusty slate]

So yeah, now I'm extra extra careful about any title with customization unlocks tied to them.

[indigo falcon]

look at the colours and icons. the yellow (radioactive) items go to the yellow incinerator with the radioactive sigil, etc.

there is a small toxic cannister, loooks maybe like a tiny gas can, that might trip you up, it does have the toxic sign on it (goes into the vat that you either climb up to or that you lob stuff into aiming up into the sky some so it will drop down in)

[indigo falcon]

once burned twice thrice and 50 times shy, for nms at least

[jagged spruce]

throwing explosive waste in scares me, I'm scared that it just exploded without counting as waste processed

[lusty slate]

Radioactive waste explosion feels bigger to me, tho

[indigo falcon]

if you haven't dropped it a whole bunch, it will be fine, even if it bounces off once and you have to walk over, pick it up and toss it in from right next to the thing

(ask me how I know)

I don't know why that specific one was so hard to get exactly the right aim but I had to go pick those ones up a bunch of times

[lusty slate]

I've missed dropping stuff into the toxic vat and had to retrieve them multiple times.

You can also fall IN the vat. Ask me how I know. 😛

[indigo falcon]

hahahahaha I knew better than to try that!

[prisma tundra]

ok, as it turns out, the one my colossus pinged wasn't the original one I started at, because I put my colossus geobay at that one, and no geobay at this one I'm at rn

[indigo falcon]

but some things I lobbed into the vat did not dissolve or whatever, they just sat in there, and I had to go up, pick them up out of the vat and drop them again

so bizarre

[lusty slate]

Playing as a short ass Gek problems. 😛

[solemn bane]

I had my suspiciouns there were two in the expedition. It probably flips when you hit the first heap so it doesn't get too crowded. This is why I started using save points, so I could go to the closest one.

[indigo falcon]

I need to sort out my appearance again one of these times

[jagged spruce]

yea I've had that happen for the regular waste hole thing, it just lands on the like fence or guardrail thing inside

[indigo falcon]

it wasn't on the fence. there wre a couple barrels standing on end solidly in the liquid with just the very last inch of the top end o fthe barrel visible. and yet. so I just lifted them up and dropped them again and then it was fine

nms physics

glad I checked for the waste icon carefully before leaving each time though

[prisma tundra]

it's possible it changes more towards the end because if you go heap to next heap without returning to the plant (like I did), it'll then ping a different one because you're too far away from the original

[lusty slate]

My Gek: /gremlin ass falls right into toxic waste

My Gek: /climbs out, shakes off goo. Eh, I'm fine.

[indigo falcon]

yucko

the other incinerators will take a lot more health off. no I didn't try it, saw someone else experimenting though

[solemn bane]

I dunno about the "too far" theory. Some folks have reported it giving the same one when they were hours away.

[jagged spruce]

how do you to heap to heap without having too much waste

[prisma tundra]

hmm, fair, could just be a chance to switch

[prisma tundra]

I don't pick anything up, like the pins suggested, I did all the checkpoints first, I'm going back for the road trips

[indigo falcon]

I went to 3 and 4 and then back to the plant, I only took special waste and I took enough explosives plus 2, not all of them.

I never had more than enough items to fill one layer of the truck

[lusty slate]

My current. Wearing the Heirloom pieces because ooh shiny new stuff. But might swap them again later. Love the gloves though, those I'll keep.

[indigo falcon]

I gotta check out the new garb, I keep collecting cosmetics but haven't updated my style in ages

[lusty slate]

My look prior to this exped:

[indigo falcon]

ohh the formerly fancy new stuffs...

[jagged spruce]

why are you short

[indigo falcon]

that would be the curse of the gek

[lusty slate]

Why not.

[jagged spruce]

you got the short end of the stick

[lusty slate]

Which is funny, as I'm kinda tallish in RL

[indigo falcon]

they really do make gek height a liability in some things, for real

[jagged spruce]

but you can fit in small holes right?

[lusty slate]

Me: Why can't I see up... oh, right.

[indigo falcon]

why did they nerf the amount that these higher tier stellar metals give when refining to chromatic metal? it's just criminal

[jagged spruce]

are they even tall enough for a pilot license

[indigo falcon]

"license, we don't need no steekin license"

[lusty slate]

I am stupid proud of that staff. I found the terminal for that color combo myself. No glyphs.

[jagged spruce]

eh indium still gives a fair bit

[indigo falcon]

emeril: 1.25x? or something around there. meh

[jagged spruce]

easier to just buy them at stations, pretty cheap

[indigo falcon]

sure, but when you're stuck on the starting planet with no units and no trade terminal....

like, in the current expedition

it does make me wonder what they are going to nerf next

[prisma tundra]

I made myself slightly shorter because I’m shorter irl, not as short as a gek tho, so I haven’t had any height related issues thus far

[prisma tundra]

I think that’s correct based on a 2:3 ratio

[prisma tundra]

I don't think they nerfed it at all, the release history for stellar metals don't mention a change to refining besides making chromatic expansion (stellar metal + chromatic metal -> more stellar metal) be a 1:2 ratio instead of a 1:4 ratio, the stellar metal to chromatic metal ratio hasn't changed in almost a decade from what I see on the wiki

yes it's annoying that emeril is a 2:3 ratio for chromatic metal on expedition, but it's still better than copper with a 2:1 ratio!

[marsh haven]

when i started, even copper could be multiplied by refining some to chromatic, then multiplying the copper with chromatic to get more copper.

[prisma tundra]

Yes, that still can happen, but it’s easier with higher tier stellar metal due to improved ratios for refining

Chromatic expansion has been around since stellar metals could be refined

[jagged spruce]

indium's not too hard to get

[proud marlin]

It’s one of the most abundant resources I found

[marsh haven]

hmmm, if Cu->Ch is now 2:1 and Expansion is 1:2 now then it should be a nett loss as expansion now consumes 3 copper to make 2.

[jagged spruce]

math

[charred needle]

Expedition done, loved it how the devs again planned this path of exploration, challenge and patience. Colossal yield.🥳

[remote thunder]

agreed 🙂

[royal swift]

Found a road to the plant, smooth asf

[vague fractal]

Yes, those are great. Well worth a detour to find one going in the right direction.
I was able to steam ahead full speed with little trouble. And if something did fall off, it wasn't halfway around the planet in a few seconds.

[royal swift]

Just dont fall into one of those holes on the road

[glossy egret]

Don’t forget to scan the roads for that one mineral … I looked way too long for it😂

[royal swift]

SAME!!! those little rocks really feels none existance for me

anyway

5 hours to finish all, not too bad

good enough

The reward is connect to my main save right?

[eternal iris]

You can collect the expedition rewards on any save, yes

From the anomaly, at the quicksilver synthesis robot

[royal swift]

lol...

[late lava]

Anyone else by any chance experiencing a glitch where the colossus goes under the ground and tips over when delivering the scrap?

[royal swift]

Yes, mostly because the cargo glitched into the vehicle

avoide driving over the salvage on the ground

[vale vigil]

Can someone please lead me to a good video of how to do an expedition without losing your items on a main save? Never done one and I don't want to mess this up. Someone told me it would reset my account.

[eternal iris]

You can just create a new save for it, it unlocks the rewards account-wide (assuming you mean the current expedition)

[late lava]

Thanks, I was just curious since I lost all cargo just before getting to the plant

[royal swift]

💀

[dapper fossil]

Os the new expedition still there?

Will the others start at 1 again afterwards?

[prisma tundra]

Yeah, there’s a whole month left

[prisma tundra]

That’s unknown

[runic latch]

new bigger updates seems to come out every 1-4 months, but you can't really rely on anything like this, since we only know when a big new update is being released when Sean starts posting emojis.

[dapper fossil]

Oh dope was afraid that it's 2 weeks and already gone. I didn't play a bit and need to get my mods updated first

[prisma tundra]

The new expeditions are 6 weeks long, only the reduxes are the shortened 2 weeks

[solid knot]

Alright Travelers, what did you name your Colossus? I'll start with [ Garbage Goober ] and he loves trash yum yum.

[hasty oasis]

Been stuck at 7/8 minerals for ages. Are there 8 minerals varieties on this damned planet??

[heady blade]

Look in cave if you haven't found it already

[eternal iris]

Most likely it's either the tiny rock on the gray ground or the rock tree

[hasty oasis]

Thanks..... Rock tree?

[eternal iris]

It's a tree with stony bark

[hasty oasis]

I definitely have the rock tree on my list

[eternal iris]

For the tiny one, check point 10 of this post:
#nms-expedition message

[hasty oasis]

These are the 7 I have

Just got the 8th one. It was indeed on the grey ground. Thank you!

Just one objective left now.

[solid knot]

Finish stage 5, which fully repairs your starship, and fly to one of the other planets and scan a rock there. Done.

That's another alternative for anyone else stuck on non-stage 5 objectives: finish 5 and fly around.

[hasty oasis]

I just need 4 more radioactive waste for the final one. Then I'm done!

[grand ingot]

so where do i get parafinnium on the starter expedition world? and i have no ship also

[remote thunder]

refine pyrite+dust

[fervent cave]

You-Haul

[drowsy mango]

I think im a bit fugged

I need to get to meeting point three, but its 30minutrs of driving exocraft away, is there any easy solution for that? Or i just have to get that 30 mins drive done?

[oblique bane]

Can anyone provide me with a picture of all the fauna names in expedition 21?

And the planet's name

[oblique bane]

Turn on your ByteBox and enjoy the ride 😎
(also install the +200% forward traction wheels tech upgrade thingy)

[drowsy mango]

I found a hole in matrix, found working outpost and sold gravitin soheres for absurd ammount of money, if i find a ship on my way i will be able to buy it. But yeah ByteBox dounds like a good idea rn

[oblique bane]

For that I believe you would need a wandering trader hmmph to land and buy their ship...
Theorically feasible, and a great idea!

Wish I thought of that myself...

[vague fractal]

Does everyone get different waste heaps as their milestone points? I think my farthest was 12 or 13 minutes.

[drowsy mango]

Yeah i see them quite often

[drowsy mango]

I mean, finding working outpost was insane luck i think

[oblique bane]

I havent't seen one on the expedition, only others' ships

Don't you get the trade rocket as one of the rewards in the late stages?

[drowsy mango]

No idea, byt around stage 3 not

[drowsy mango]

I play on xbox, solo, so i see them sometimes

[vague fractal]

You do get a trade rocket at some point, yes. Which is good since the trading post is about an hour away driving.

[drowsy mango]

Rare sight tho

[fierce jasper]

Anyone else having the chart waypoints issue?

[drowsy mango]

Hm?

Elaborate

[fierce jasper]

Theyre just not counting

Ive done 3 yet it says ive done zero

[thick umbra]

Maybe MP is enabled ?

[fierce jasper]

No

[drowsy mango]

Are u using the fancy waypoints save pole thingy?

[fierce jasper]

I turn it off cause people make bs bases to block things

[drowsy mango]

Idk how to call it

[thick umbra]

hmm I got them without any issue
1...After finish Misison 1 in Phase 1
2. Reaching First Heap Waste (Phase1)
3+4 .... Act there with the Light and do a Waypoint Save
5. Act with the Wapoint if you are back at Industral Plant from Phase 1
6. Act with light at waypoint save from Checkpoint 2

[fierce jasper]

The ones you find at outposts

[drowsy mango]

Ye

[fierce jasper]

Yeah ive been doing those

[thick umbra]

Just do this mission after you got your ship

[oblique bane]

Can anyone give me a picture of all the fauna in expedition 21's planet?

[fierce jasper]

I just reloaded my game and I dont think the ship will change anything

Its still not registering them

[drowsy mango]

I think he got stuck

😂

[outer heath]

Yoo is there any way for me to do the old expeditions?

[drowsy mango]

Wait for redux

@oblique bane i made it btw

[oblique bane]

WOW

[indigo falcon]

if you are on pc, there is a mod that lets you play older expeditions.

[drowsy mango]

Drive was painfull due to how terrain was formed

[outer heath]

What's that?

[outer heath]

Sick, thx man

[runic latch]

try asking around in #nms-modding

[outer heath]

👍

[charred needle]

After completing the expedition the flatbed option didn't appear in my main save at the garage. Went to the quicksilver shop and the exo craft technician in between.

Did I miss something?

[drowsy mango]

Official redo of expeditions

[worldly salmon]

Hand recycle 1 piece of scrap metal, do no toss it drop it in and it will unlock for you

[charred needle]

Are you serious or from now on laughing your *ss off....😎 👍🏻 😂 if not : thanks!!

[silver vessel]

This is seriously the worst expedition we had to trudge through. My god it's pedantic

[ashen turret]

Not really a fan of this expedition to be honest, but I'm still going to finish it ... had to reload saves idk how many times now because of terrain glitches causing the exocraft to bury itself under the ground and destroy the cargo more times than I cared to count ...

[brave echo]

Is this an expedition where I don’t have to worry about what tech and items I’m bringing since it is all planetside?

[ashen turret]

it's not going to help you at all to bring anything in

can't get to anomaly before it's over

[brave echo]

I was farming runaway mold and then I wondered if it mattered

Yeah lol, go time I guess

[silver vessel]

Best advice is to load as much into the flat bed for each run. It minimizes shit moving around, and at the end, you need 16 of each special waste destroyed. Wiish I would have known before I reched the last one

[ashen turret]

can't even leave the planet during the expedition because you don't have a ship

[ashen turret]

it's those three objectives I still have to do yet, got all the rest done

[silver vessel]

Yeah, it drags this thing on

[autumn halo]

Same, but instead of reloading I was able to solve it with the Terrain Manipulator - either making a big hole to drive through or creating terrain under the exocraft to lift it up.

I hated how limited the visibility is when driving. I fell into so many deep cave holes because of it.

Luckily I got all the special waste I needed from the 5 heaps. Definitely load up all of it that you can, and if you spot any roadside special waste pile may as well grab it, too.

[ashen turret]

didn't seem worth grabbing the regular scrap stuff at all, either

[autumn halo]

I wonder if they'll ever tie in these mechanics to e.g. settlements - could be kind of fun to bulldoze a foundation for the next building or do a bit of waste management for the occasional mission.

Otherwise, I don't see myself ever bothering with this mechanic again.

[ashen turret]

putting the attachments on the exocraft might be useful so it's not a total loss if you drive into something, but otherwise ...not particularly worth the hassle trying to do waste processing

[autumn halo]

I guess. I never drive anywhere, though. I have a ship for getting places. 😉

The only exocraft I ever use is the underwater one.

[ashen turret]

if I do use an exocraft it's either the minotaur or nomad

outside of expeditions I don't really use the nautilon any more, I don't visit the extra-deep ocean planets often

[autumn halo]

Same. But if I do visit one, out comes the nautilon. Exocraft are just too slow to really bother with, imo.

Hey, I could drive for 20+ minutes to that obelisk... or I could hop in my ship and be there in 30 seconds. Hm. Tough choice.

Not to mention driving I have to constantly deal with crazy mountains and caves. Aren't really any roads in NMS.

[ashen turret]

I mean, I can understand why they do expeditions that serve as an extended tutorial for new game mechanics, but it gets a bit tedious at times

did have fun tossing the sentinels around though lol

[autumn halo]

I kept trying to toss them into each other thinking it would do damage

I was disappointed lol

[ashen turret]

that would have been an improvement

"no ammo? no problem" - would have been nice ...

didn't get a chance to try it yet, but wonder what happens if you tried to put one of them in the disposal units

[autumn halo]

That's a clever idea. I hope it works, though I do not expect it to.

[solemn bane]

Nope, nothing fun allowed. You can recycle the combat supplies, though.

[fluid vault]

why is it that when i jumped into the waste disposal it hurt me a lot, but when i throw them into it they don't even get a scratch

[autumn halo]

Now I don't want to assume your physique, but are you made out of chunks of metal plates and copper wire?

If not, that could explain why you took damage. 🍖 vs 🤖

[fluid vault]

actually, about that........

[autumn halo]

I hate to say it, but your frame does appear more on the delicate side. Gotta chunk out with some beefy face plates!

[sour breach]

you need more chrome kiddo

[radiant cove]

Hey guys I need some help

I soft locked my expedition

I'm on a space station with no way back

[indigo falcon]

you might check your quick menu and see if "return to waste processing plant" is an option

this was added in a recent patch

[radiant cove]

Ok

Ah yes thank you so much!

[hot reef]

What is the furnace chasee for?

[solemn bane]

Processing regular waste for nanites. Exciting, I know.

[eternal iris]

It allows you to process normal industrial waste on the move, without returning to the waste processing plant

[hot reef]

So is it better than the flatbed? That seems faster

[solemn bane]

Depends on what you want to do. If you just want to process regular waste, then the furnace is better. If you want to transport special waste, then the flatbed.

[hot reef]

Alright, thank you guys😁

[solemn bane]

Though both of those options seem pretty bad to me, unless you are just doing it because you find it fun.

[hot reef]

I do find it pretty fun

[indigo falcon]

wonder why we haven't seen video of multiplayer trucking convoys yet.

[oblique bane]

twice

[indigo falcon]

I am about to watch the latest in a series of... wait for it...
speed runs of this expedition. that's right, actual speed runs

[quaint stone]

do waste heaps respawn the loot after a bit?

like am i able to bounce back and forth between the same heap and scrap station

[tranquil basalt]

Idk

[indigo falcon]

they will not respawn special waste, only the normal cruft

[tranquil basalt]

so basically you can softlock yourself easily.

[solemn bane]

I don't think this is true. I did like the pinned comment describes and just went back and forth for my special waste at the end.

[indigo falcon]

if you've been to all 5, and you're still a little short, I'd go to nearby small piles, which are indicated by a waste barrel icon, some of those will have a special item in them

you won't softlock yourself, as there are always more proper waste heaps or small piles around

[indigo falcon]

that's not what other players reported, but good if it worked for you; do you know what patch version?

[solemn bane]

Pretty sure I did it the day it came out.

[indigo falcon]

hm. needs testing then... lemme go stare at the various patch notes, not that those are definitive given that we're talking about hg...

[autumn halo]

If you look through your scanner, the small piles are labeled "Industrial Waste" or something like that for just normal rubbish, and "Special Waste" (or something like that) if they include 1-2 special waste in their midst.

You might have to travel around for a bit to find the ones with special waste, but they are 100% definitely out there.

Of course, it's much more tedious to do it this way than getting 10+ from the waste heaps.

[indigo falcon]

bah no mention of that but I did find a typo in the patch notes 🙄

[solemn bane]

If it wouldn't take me a friggin hour to test that one thing, ugh.

[autumn halo]

I just did the expedition yesterday and am reporting what I saw.

There were many random waste piles with special waste.

[indigo falcon]

yeah that's where I'm at, this time of the evening I'm pretty done with things for the day (work and etc)

oh sure, there are random piles, 100%. we're talking about whether waste piles respawn special waste

[autumn halo]

You just have to make sure to scope them out with your scanner first or you're going to waste a lot of time finding ones that have only normal trash.

[indigo falcon]

the industrial waste labelled ones often have a special item in them

[autumn halo]

Oh, well that I don't know. They were each 10+ minutes of driving for me, and I never needed to go back.

[autumn halo]

From what I saw, those ones are labelled differently.

[indigo falcon]

for players who encountered bad physics bugs, they might hav e lost some or all oftheir items

[indigo falcon]

some are, but some aren't and still have the good stuff. so it's worth doing a driveby if they are close

[autumn halo]

Fair enough. I just hate driving in this game.

[indigo falcon]

and that's fair too

I don't love the colossus, big, clunky, etc. and I generally don't like plowing through a pile of trees and smashing them all up. but they turned that into a feature for this expedition somehow

[autumn halo]

See, that part of it was actually fun.

But once I had a bunch of special items in the back and had to drive carefully on crazy mountains filled with gigantic potholes that can swallow me whole, well let's just say it lost its shine real quick.

[quaint stone]

yeah i feel like the magnetisiation in the truck bed needs to be a bit stronger

cuz just a small bump can send my shi flying

[autumn halo]

I learned how to deal with the little bumps, but what the colossus really needs are some freaking brakes.

Is there any way to slow that pos down?

[indigo falcon]

reverse/turn, that's kinda it

[autumn halo]

That's what I thought. It does not work very well when going down hill.

[indigo falcon]

who releases a road vehicle with no brakes

[autumn halo]

Right?

I kept pressing all the different buttons / keys to see if I could find one that would randomly work lol.

Me: STOP!!!
Colossus: No.

[indigo falcon]

it's ok that they don't stop on a dime but stopping on 50 meters... I mean...

[autumn halo]

Or just being able to slow down at all would be nice.

Trying to go in reverse had... inconsistent results for me.

[indigo falcon]

I did a lot of stuff at a crawl just to get around that. worked out in the end I guess

[autumn halo]

Same.

Except that one time I was on a slope and tried to get back in my rig only to accidently hit the Dump Load button. FML.

[indigo falcon]

ow ow ow 😆

[autumn halo]

Between that, sudden steep inclines, and gigantic potholes, I probably spent at least a full hour just picking up shit that had fallen off my rig.

Not the most fun I've ever had, I'll just leave it at that.

[indigo falcon]

but loads of fun for thos eof us watching streamers 😛

[solemn bane]

lol

I can't see my save beacons.

[indigo falcon]

zing!!

"there's something iffy about save beacons" <-- me

[quaint stone]

just hit a bug

[indigo falcon]

which one?

[quaint stone]

a player hit my car sorta, and all my cargo exploded

[indigo falcon]

ah sh... yeah

[solemn bane]

Feature.

[indigo falcon]

reload autosave?

[solemn bane]

Well shit, if I can't see my damn save beacons then there's no way to even test this waste heap thing, lmao

[indigo falcon]

uh

planetary coords

[solemn bane]

Can you get those without a ship?

[indigo falcon]

you can have 'em on foot

[solemn bane]

Oh yeah I see them. Huh, the things you don't pay attention to.

[indigo falcon]

pain in the... cough, but they do work

[solemn bane]

Well, no need to test this

Because they already respawned

[indigo falcon]

that's good news! I wonder why it didn't work for some people. multiplayer? who knows

what was the time interval, so we know?

could be time, distance or a combo I guess

[solemn bane]

Only thing I did was relogged to try to get my stupid save beacons to work. Didn't even leave the area, though I did walk down the hill a bit to see if maybe the waste heap was messing with my save beacons. When I walked back up to my collosus, it was all back.

[indigo falcon]

so what was that, like 50u? 100?

[fathom basin]

So if anyone can help I would apprciate it! I cannot for the life of me get the first waste heap to pull up. I have the mission selected, I scan, I even finished other missions to amplify the scanner. I have drop for like 1 hr just mining stuff lol

[indigo falcon]

ok so my first advice is: make sure multiplayer is off, then save-exit-reload, just so any weird state is cleared out as best as we can

[solemn bane]

You're sure you scanned for Waste Heaps?

[indigo falcon]

after that, get in the colossus and find the exocraft radar, select that, go all the way to the right, that should be te waste heap item, select that

once that's done, let us know if it says "waste heap detected" or nothing at all

[fathom basin]

You can specify what you scan for?

[indigo falcon]

see my instructions. this is the radard

not scanning like when you scan animals

[solemn bane]

Scan with your collosus's quick menu scanner, scroll to the right, it'll have Waste Heaps there

[fathom basin]

Ok let me do so

[fathom basin]

Oml 🤦‍♂️ yes.......user error

[solemn bane]

Haha, I was there once too.

[fathom basin]

Thank you!

[solemn bane]

ok, after the third reload it stopped respawning, maybe because I have too much shit in my truck

(I was trying to see if distance mattered)

[indigo falcon]

hmm that's pretty interesting, i wonder what it means

[solemn bane]

omfg this is so much easier with spider legs, lol

[indigo falcon]

holy crap: a speed runner with 1 hour and 13 minute time on this expedition

that's in game time, add the menus/loading screens and it's an hour and 20

[solemn bane]

lol nm. Entire bed just went flying for no reason.

[indigo falcon]

ooooof

they got a loooong way to work out those physics bugs

[solemn bane]

I went back to see what I hit and it was just smooth ground as far as the eye could see

Still made it back with 17 items though, and I wasn't even trying that hard, so way better than my first run (the one with wheels)

[indigo falcon]

maybe you demolished whatever it was 😛

I only had the legs for the last ... leg (heap 5 -> plant), seemed a little better

[solemn bane]

Demolished what though. Nothing I run over sends it flying, it just goes away

[indigo falcon]

yeah dunno, some people have reported that hitting some ietms on edge can flip the truck

[solemn bane]

Hahahahahaha I know why save beacons aren't showing up

They patched it so NO bases show up for you on the expedition, since people instantly exploited base computers onto their expedition saves

I can now build my geobay anywhere, but can't see my save beacons. That is really funny.

[indigo falcon]

huh and we just had someone who could not build thei rgeobay anywhere (again)

[solemn bane]

HG built a band-aid cannon

[solemn bane]

Probably not on the latest PC patch

[indigo falcon]

worked really well 🙄 🤦

I dunno, it was a couple hours ago

[pure basalt]

Meanwhile, me using one of the random bays scattering the landscape

[formal kelp]

This Expedition was awesome but stressful at the same time 🥲

And I loved it every second of it

[vague fractal]

ok, so I should be able to see a save beacon in the rest of the game? That would be great. I had people convincing me I'd just built the wrong item. 😆

[indigo falcon]

you should but there's something .. ahem... wrongwith them right now on the expedition

[solemn bane]

Checking my other saves

[vague fractal]

If it is just the expedition, that's not as big a deal (for me at the moment, anyway). I have a notepad of coordinates at this point.

[solemn bane]

Yeah I see the star icon big as day on my regular save.

[indigo falcon]

whew!

[solemn bane]

Another thing, instead of a trading post, I am seeing a second waste processing plant

I think that may have been another stealth fix

[vague fractal]

Good to know. Thanks

[solemn bane]

Well I'm at a loss. I just did the second heap and the special waste wouldn't respawn even after multiple relogs at various distances 🤷‍♂️

[indigo falcon]

ugh

well crapola

[solemn bane]

So the answer to "does special waste respawn?": Yeah, maybe. Sometimes.

[indigo falcon]

eyeroll

thanks for banging away at it, in any case

[jagged spruce]

can I replay the expedition if I start a new save?

[indigo falcon]

that's how speed runners do it, a new save each time

[jagged spruce]

doesn't it clog up steam cloud tho

[drowsy mango]

U can delete it later

Besides, who cares about clogging steam cloud anyway

[jagged spruce]

me, I don't have cross-save so if steam cloud clogs up I have to manually back up my saves

[drowsy mango]

U play on pc?

[jagged spruce]

yes

steam is pc yes

[drowsy mango]

Backup ur main save from files

Done

(steam is also handheld or steam deck itself)

[jagged spruce]

I don't play on any other platform so there's no reason for cross-save, plus I don't wanna rely on a cloud save service (I know steam cloud is still cloud service but it's more reliable)

[jagged spruce]

you can edit files on steam deck, it's a linux pc

[drowsy mango]

Well, i dont know what you worry about then

[jagged spruce]

I don't play on steam deck

I said I don't wanna manually back up my saves

[vague fractal]

I think the point being made is, backing up your saves on PC is incredibly easy.

[drowsy mango]

Ye

[vague fractal]

If you just don't want to though, that's another thing entirely.

[jagged spruce]

I would prefer to use steam cloud, I just don't want steam cloud to be full

[drowsy mango]

Save files aint big either

[jagged spruce]

depends on the steam cloud limit for each game, some have 2 gb limit whilst others have like 20 gb limit

[vague fractal]

You can check...

[drowsy mango]

Kekw

[jagged spruce]

that's not a lot..

200 mb is gonna run out fast

[vague fractal]

Depends on the size of the files.

[jagged spruce]

how many saves do you have

for 800 kb

[vague fractal]

And if you are that worried, there is a solution you don't want to use, so I'm not sure there is much else to say?

[drowsy mango]

Yup

I dont wanna be mean, but ur asking a lot of questions for so simple solution

[jagged spruce]

I'll manually back up saves if the cloud does run out of storage

[drowsy mango]

I give up. Im out. Earth is doomed. No cure for stupidity.

[vague fractal]

Sounds like a plan. You can track how much is being used as you go so you know if it gets close. I haven't heard any complaints so far and I'm sure people have maxed out their saves at some point. Good luck.

[prisma tundra]

Ohhhhh, that would make sense, then it wasn’t a me issue, it was a bug they did to solve problems with people exploiting the reporting bases

[solemn bane]

lol yeah. Silly me assuming the game was working correctly.

[pure basalt]

That explains the floating decoration in multiplayer

[solemn bane]

I would assume you wouldn't see any base parts at all anymore. Could be that you had something downloaded before the patch that hung around in your cache or something weird like that. But I did a couple runs and didn't see anymore base bits.

[pure basalt]

It possible that a few bases were still cached while I was playing in the morning, however I only saw floating decorations, and they did not impact travel.

[solemn bane]

Maybe I need to place my save point higher, lol

[unkempt kraken]

@woven bridge

No gifs in this channel please

[woven bridge]

I have to carry specialized wastes and the path is nothing but steep mountains

[azure jasper]

Do I need to Create a new save for this expedition? I've heard you're stranded planetside in this one.

[solemn bane]

No, you can start on an existing save and you can flip back and forth between the expedition and regular save whenever.

[marsh haven]

you can only flip by vising the anomaly. as you have no spacecraft... youre stuck in this expedition until you are done

[solemn bane]

You can flip back to your primary save in the pause menu whenever.

[marsh haven]

that is literally news to me

[jagged spruce]

no

[jagged spruce]

you'd be bored to death if you can't exit in this expedition

[marsh haven]

well, this isnt the fishing expedition. so theres that.
and as it turns out i did manage just fine despite this egregrious lack of knowledge

[azure jasper]

I'm already on phase 2 since asking about if needed a fresh save.

[gilded pine]

Here’s a neat idea Gravatino Coil arm as an Minotaur arm like the Liquidator arm

[azure jasper]

Already half way through phase 3.

[hot grail]

Phase 5 is torture

[azure jasper]

This expedition reminds me of My commute to work. Those truckers don't put a tarp down over their lose cargo either.

[charred needle]

Pick up stuff along the blue highways ; it goes quicker than you think.

[final wave]

True, its first three milestones got me going back and forth from the waste processing plant to waste heaps at least 3 times 😂

[honest olive]

how long until this expedition ends

[solemn bane]

You can check the Event calendar in this Discord to see the schedule.

[honest olive]

aight thanks

wonder when they’ll do a redux

[solemn bane]

November most likely

[honest olive]

oof gonna be a wait

[solemn bane]

If you're on PC you can play any expedition offline for as long as you want whenever you want.

[honest olive]

last redux I was a single derelict freighter search from finishing adrift so I didn’t get the iron vulture, gonna be years at this rate before I can actually get it😭

oh wait really?

would I have to like change the date on my computer

[solemn bane]

Link in my profile or you can just google it. Don't have to mess with your system clock, just have to swap a config file and play offline.

[honest olive]

oh neat I’ll try that when my computer gets fixed

[simple flint]

Be glad you do the expedition now, phase 3 roadsigns achievment was hell before they updated it

[solemn bane]

People still complain about it, so I doubt the update actually worked.

[simple flint]

For me it was 3 hours for everything else and 3 hours extra to get that achievment

[solemn bane]

Mostly we just tell people to skip it until they have their ship

[simple flint]

Thats what i did but well had bad luck to run in activated posts even on the other planets

[vague fractal]

Just to confirm, once a save has the expedition ended, no more multiplayer joining someone who is still on the expedition?

[finite gull]

we still on the latest expo?

yeah

[amber shore]

any way to access your ship on this expo?

[indigo falcon]

once phase 5 is done you can get your ship; bfore then you are intended to stay on the one planet, using the exocraft

[amber shore]

ok cool, just gotta get a few more radioctive scraps and I'm done

ty

[indigo falcon]

awesome

[forest acorn]

Ngl, after almost being done with this expedition, its kind of a mid one

Ive only done the corvette one before this really but still

I like the update as a whole but i almost fell asleep last night doing this one

[amber shore]

theres a lot of cool new stuff but the slog is real

[forest acorn]

Plus, being on one planet made it a nightmare to try and place the bay initially

[amber shore]

at least I have a newfound appreciation for cargo straps now

[vague fractal]

Even with multiplayer off?

[forest acorn]

didnt flip it off till later sadly lol

just finished it, sitll meh

[vague fractal]

I liked this expedition, but I've now been kicked out into the cold, vast universe because of a misclick. 😆

[amber shore]

and it's done, I really liked playing spintires with the colossus at first but the only reason I finished the event is because I'm procrastinating from doing the things that will actually improve my life

10/10 would grind again

[red maple]

is there a way to remove Hello Games from your space ship if you convert the expedition save into a normal one, its currently in place were the steam user resides normaly

[oblique bane]

Just change it using a save editor, I guess?

[true lintel]

Does anyone know a good way to find the 8 minerals you have to analyze? I keep finding the same ones and still need 3.

[solemn bane]

Possibly the three mentioned in my pinned comment: #nms-expedition message

[red maple]

I see didn know we could use those, tks

[oblique bane]

I'm not experienced with that, so it's only a guess, good luck!

[true lintel]

Oh thanks. I am only missing that small rock in that image now. Do you have any advice on how to find that type of ground with that rock?

[solemn bane]

Pick a direction and move in that direction. Look at ground.

[true lintel]

I was about to say thats pretty obvious because how else are you supposed to do it but just a moment after you told me it, I suddenly found it.

[solemn bane]

Sometimes the old tricks are still the best.

[true lintel]

True. But I also have a good advice for people who struggle to find it

You should look out for that. It’s hard to miss and there are two minerals that are only there.

[timid badger]

!exptime

[unkempt kraken]

-# to view info below, enable embeds

Expedition 21: Remnant ends <t:1774447200> (approx. <t:1774447200:R>)

See Pins in #nms-expedition & run !Expedition in #nms-commands

[true lintel]

Is it a bug that it only counted four instead of five of the special scrap i recycled? Because I definitely put five in it but it only counted four for the milestone.

Now I have to drive all the way back to where I got them from

[vale vigil]

Can someone help me understand how to do the expidition on my main account? I've watched some videos and I'm on the side of not wanting to mess anything up. I've never done an expidition.

[true lintel]

If you mean your main save state, then you have to go to the space anomaly.

[autumn halo]

In the space anomaly, the expedition terminal is between the mission terminal and the quicksilver merchant, just a bit toward the back there.

Go to that and you can start an expedition.

[vale vigil]

Yes, I understand I can start the expidition there. I was told that when I do and expidition, it resets everything. The guy I was talking to said I'd loose all my ships, multi tools, ect.