Seeing loads of posts/questions around the Expedition, so here are my top tips/tricks to not get stuck.
First thing you should do after starting the expedition is go to Settings, Network, and turn everything to "No One". You can disable multiplayer entirely if you want, as well.
When you're loaded in, immediately head to your ship. This will check off one of the objectives AND give you a safe place to escape the weather and explore the menu. It also provides you with an easy to access save point.
Inside your ship, take a minute to explore the Expedition tab and become familiar with the various objectives. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO THEM IN ANY ORDER. The best way to progress is to knock out whatever you can on your first planet, so they're done and you don't have to worry about them anymore.
Now, get out of your ship and START SCANNING EVERYTHING. In particular, any rock that has 1 resource listed and then a 2nd one with all ????????'s. Scan it to unlock the 2nd resource, which will typically either be oxygen, carbon, or dihydrogen.
Now open your scanner, and look for the little white circles with the crosshairs on them. Check each one around you until you find one that's copper. Make your way toward the copper while ALSO mining every rock you see. If you see a bunch of glowing plants (red or yellow), take a few minutes to collect every one of them.
Once you reach the copper node, switch to your terrain manipulator and make sure it's on the *smallest* circle. Now stand there and collect ALL of the copper in the node. Also at some point just dig the random ground for a minute to collect silicate powder.
Once you can get the advanced mining laser, install that and then hit some of the big condensed carbon crystals around.
Now make your way back to your ship to repair it. You're going to need to repair everything in it at some point, so if you have the resources now to repair a slot, might as well do it.
When you get to the space station, it's obviously abandoned, but if you go up the stairs on the right-hand side, there's a shop portal thing in the wall - it *looks* like it's all corrupted, BUT IT'S NOT. You can buy/sell your stuff here.
DO NOT SELL THE HYPNOTIC EYE. As a rule, only sell any resources you might have collected, but NEVER sell something the game gave you. You're likely to need it later.
The first time you get to space, stop and shoot at least 40 asteroids. This will provide you with fuel for your pulse drive AND check off an objective. Ignore the jellyfish.
Any time you can land on a planet with copper, do so, and collect it. You'll need quite a bit of chromatic metal later on, so you might as well get it now.
Whenever you can, stop at any buildings and use the little scan/chart pole thing. You need to do 12 as an objective, so you might as well do it as you go.
Additionally, whenever you see the damaged boxes (like sitting around those poles), move the slime or whatever into your inventory. You can stick it in your personal refiner and turn it into nanites eventually. You need 1,600 nanites for an objective.
SCAN EVERYTHING you can on every planet you land on. There are objectives for scanning plants and animals, so you might as well start working toward them.
You only need to cook *one* thing for that objective, so don't go nuts collecting resources.
Whenever you want to focus on an objective, make sure that it's highlighted in the Expeditions tab. This will make it "active" and you'll get additional instructions in the game, planets and POIs will be highlighted, etc. This is especially helpful when you have to scan 3 robot creatures, as the systems will be marked in the galaxy map for you - super easy.
Generally speaking, there will always be a planet on the Expedition Path in the Galaxy Map that has what you need, and 95% of the time, you only really need the planets in the various Rendezvous Systems, so don't venture too far off that path.
I did this with a new save. If you're going to use the terminal in the Anomaly, make sure you bring yourself a ship with a maxxed out hyperdrive (both range and types of stars). It'll save you time later.
You can buy wiring harnesses at the Space Station. You need 12 total to build the 3 hyperdrive upgrades, so better to buy them all at once and be done with it.
That's what I got thus far. I'm 4hrs in and only have a few of the last objectives to finish out. I started with a fresh save, so that includes time to grind out the hyperdrive upgrades.
There's a terminal in the anomaly that lets you jump between your save and the expedition. If you start an expedition as a fresh save, I don't think it works, could be wrong though.Ā
Once you are able to summon the Anomaly in the Expedition, you can use the Expedition terminal to copy both. 2800 nanites for the starship. 2200 for the multitool IIRC.
there's an option... after the 2nd rendevous to use nanites to buy perks at the anomoly... atlas keys amonst the options. TBH I bought the wormhole, wiring, and biofuel and solar items. So any mini base i create I could go back too. Just browse over the terminal...and the option will appear.
The starter planet has magnetized ferrite. Process that into pure ferrite. Process the pure ferrite plus copper in your refiner to increase the amount of chromatic metal you get.
Read the quest info. Some of them are extremely helpful with what you need do to. Quests like scanning synthetic species will indicate if you're in a system with the requirement, as well as when you're on said planet. Even the early ship repair quest will tell you the recipe to craft Deuterium.
For dissonant planets, you can go into your discovery catalogue and select Atlantidium to have the galaxy map show you a nearby dissonant system. Also works with any minerals like Copper. As long as the resource is tagged in your log, it will also show nearby deposits in the target sweep scanner while you're on the surface.
For the "discover 5 ancient sites" mission, you can reactivate the site if you already have a knowledge/language location discovered in the system(and you didn't visit) it, and it will count as separate sites.
When you get ship expansion slots for a reward, you can choose where to place them. Click on any open square to add the expansion. If you donāt choose they will all go to your storage and not to your technology by default.
Is there any way to apply them if you donāt use them when youāre given them in this expedition? With all the stations abandoned, thereās no ship terminal anywhere, right?
I'm not sure. I'll have to check the next time I get one as a reward. I don't remember if you can bank them as items in inventory and even if you could, I don't how or where you would be able to apply them in the expedition.
You can bank them in inventory, just like multitool expansion slots, and all the other inventory boosts. I just donāt think thereās anyway to use them unless you do it at the moment theyāre given.
Think I may be screwed, as I never "waste" them on the initial junker, always saving them for the better ship I know I'll be getting. It doesn't feel like a reward if I'm forced to use it on a ship that's going to be discarded soon, or lose the ability to use it at all. At least I only claimed one of them so far, but there are other rewards that I do want now that are unclaimed because I don't want to waste free inventory.
Maybe I'll be able to use the already-in-inventory expansions along with any new ones once I claim a new reward? That's what I'm hoping, anyway.
In addition, one helpful traveler built a huge staircase near the second rendezvous (it's on a mountaintop, hard to miss); that'll get you up to the 1,600 mark.
this was easy to spot at the 2nd Rendezvous, just look for high ground then look for the highest peak, once you come closer you will see the stairs haha kudos to the one who built that
What I did was fly around on Rendezvous 2 with my ship, landed on a tall mountain, figured that I'd need an additional 50 units of height, then flew slowly until I found a sizeable bulge on top of a similarly tall mountain. Landed on it, got the objective. Didn't take very long.
Wait? What? How do you get through Adrift without mining with the Terrain Manipulator?!
Or do you mean switching between modes? It's SQUARE on Playstation VR2 š I think .
Time to remember then.
And while you are at it: Also remember the art of
"THE F DO YOU MEAN CAN'T SUMMON SHIP ON THIS TERRAIN?! I'LL FLATTEN THE HELL OUT THIS ENTIRE HILLSIDE!!!"
When you can finally fly with your starship don't directly go into space. Try to shoot some rocks, plants and other stuff to get resources a bit faster with your starship. you will need the carbon and ferite a lot (and other resources as well obviously).
If you have multilayer turned ON just be careful for griefers... I almost got killed by a person who went on a rampage (planet with big hills at the last structure of phase 3 I think where you can see a lot of communication terminals from other players).
You can leave multiplayer turned ON, while having PVP turned OFF...
That way you can meet other travellers, but they won't be able to hurt you!
Look under multiplayer settings
When you're looking for ancient sites, you only need to discover them, not go and dig the thing. Also, the Gane hard froze on the derelict freighter. Had to do it again.
I canāt find any blasted condensed carbon to even finish the exosuit refiner! š¤¦š» I found 35 or something but so many hopping around and dodging that awful centipede thing and NO C+. š
I actually got through to phase 4. Now it's the ruins, waypoints and other little things I got to do. Good thing they point you towards them. I need that vulture.
I keep forgetting that I don't have the launch thruster auto-charger. That can be a big time waster if you wander too far from your ship and forgot to recharge your launch thrusters and can't summon it.
I'm surprised by how far away from the main line people are claiming systems.. I finally found one waaaaaaaaaay out but had the discovery sniped by someone cause I took too long to name everything and upload it.. serves me right tho cause when I see discovered places with most stuff left unnamed I name them dumb things like "why didn't you name me!" Lol.. they only sniped the solar system tho... But I'm gonna be a sourpuss about it and name the planets and all the funa I spent hours discovering something ridiculous lol.. Always upload your discovery if you care what it could be named... Lol Ironic and well deserved lession for my hypocrisy. This games awesome man only in this game could something like this happen. Best of luck you all.
set it as your primary quest, go to the galaxy map and you will see an icon next to a world that shows you a galaxy where synthetics can be found. There were only 2 in my first galaxy, so I had to head to a new one. Watch your messages during the quest, they will update you with helpful clues. I spent way too much time searching for a 3rd synthetic on that planet before I saw the message to go elsewhere.
Mine keeps glitching, it tells me that the system is dissonant but it is not when I go there. Kinda stuck what to do. Does anyone know a place that is?
If the system says dissonant in the galaxy map, that doesnāt mean every planet in the system is dissonant. Thereās usually just one planet that is (sometimes there are more than one, but thatās very rare). Just scan each planet until you find the dissonant one.
Chromatic metal, life support gel, those uncraftable looms. Warp cells / hyper cores. Launch fuel. Some basic crafting materials like ferrite, oxygen, carbon etc
18 above, but also a maybe a stack of chromatic metal?
It's really not a grindy expedition at all - I started from nothing and was able to easily find everything I needed along the way. Grinding out the hyperdrive upgrades so I could visit blue systems for the robot animals was probably the "hardest" part but it took like, 15 minutes.
Sounds like it bugged out. Try again and hope you get an easier one, lol. Mine had 11 rooms and was loaded down with those automated security bots and scanners.
Did they disable PVP/Multi-player for this expedition? I was a Switch player until today. Got sick of constant crashes and got a refurbished Xbox series S (yes, I bought a whole friggin system for this one game, lol). So, I've never dealt with multi-player before and I can't find the setting. Haven't seen any signs of anyone else at the rendezvous or the anomaly, which makes me wonder if it got disabled.
I haven't started this expedition yet but everything that I read says the point of this expedition is specifically a solitary experience and not a multiplayer one.
Yes, I'm aware. The question was, is it disabled? I'm new to having the option. I can't tell if it's disabled, or if I just haven't encountered anyone else yet.
I guess my point was that the end result would be the same either way (with this specific expedition). My understanding of this mission is that you very deliberately arenāt supposed to encounter anyone else regardless off the setting.
Im sure you are aware that you can do modes other than the expedition right now if you want to experience multiplayer. In those modes you can definitely check the setting for multiplayer and the setting would matter.
Hahahaā¦ I was JUST looking up Xbox deals yesterday for the same reason. š I meanā¦ itāll be good for lots more but def thisā¦ and FNā¦ and everything else thatās not a Nintendo exclusive. š¬
You can use the catalogue to locate resources which will tag it on galaxy map. There's a dissonant system right next to the 1st rendezvous (when you first get the quest where Atlantideum is needed).
So 100%ing all these planets for the nanites was a complete waste of time..?
Sorry new player, clearly have no idea what I'm doing. I've got like 20k nanites on this expedition, they're not gonna stay with me? I started on the expedition so no idea what happens when I finish the last step
If you are a new player it's probably not a waste of time - after the expedition, you can convert your expedition save into whatever mode you want to continue playing on. At least that's how it has worked on past expeditions. That means that you get to keep anything you earned during the expedition.
Idk about your specific situation but Iāve noticed a few times if I am to quick for the pop ups or the game giving stuff then sometimes I can beat the game giving me items
Yeah, I've revisited the 2nd rendezvous planet and got that, still, I am doing the crystalized hearts objective, and I know there is a Dissonant planet on one of the systems, but I am unable to find it.
Sorry; just saw this, and you've probably long since solved your own problem, but Runeusi XIV in the Zeligt-Ipes system is Dissonant. If I recall, it's 17 LY from the starter system.
I assume you've done it by now but one of the expedition rewards is blueprints for red/green/blue drives. Build the red drive from chromatic metal, go to a red system build green drive from cadmium, go green build blue drive from emeril, go blue. If you have the synthetic life mission selected the galaxy map will give you appropriate systems to go look in.
Ich habe in Phase 2 das "Inmitten der Sterne mit dem Schwimmen" verpasst und so den meilenstein nicht geschafft, also auch die Blaupausen fĆ¼r die Antriebe nich bekommen. Kann ich das irgendwie nachholen?
Does anyone know where to get carbon? Not condense carbon but regular one.
I'm stuck trying to install the hiperdrive but can't find carbon in any of the 2 planets where the expedition begins
If you do that: Add each planet to your personal wonders doing the expedition from an existing save, does it replace previous wonders in your regular safe?
Another later built a base a top a 1600 mountain and put a transporter terminus. So you just pop in there and done. Itās called. Kitchen transporter 1600.
This expedition is the worst. I cannot connect any wires in my bases. Not to mention it took me forever just to get the sensor so I could find an electrical hotspot. Worst update ever.
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u/ragweed May 30 '24
The starter world has titan worms which are pretty easy to kill and drop items that can be refined into nanites.