No Man's Sky Expedition Guides

Expedition 23: Our Journey Continues - Tips & Tricks

Preparation:

• 💩 3 Living Glass: req. 3 Lubricant (1200 Gamma Root, 150 Faecium)

General Tips:

• 🔄 Most issues: turn multiplayer off, restart, remove mods
• 💨 Thamium9: it’s just Oxygen
• 💥 After exiting your ship the first time, reload the restore point to get a supercharged slot in your multitool
• 📟 Sell the exocraft/water related tech upgrades they give you
• ⛐ Corvettes cannot be copied into the expedition (bug)
• 💕 Claiming both reward ships has been fixed on all platforms.
• ⏭️ Skipping milestones may cause issues
• ⚠️ Avoid bringing corvettes to old-style space stations

Phase 1:

• 🪟 Glass: refine Silicate Powder
• 🔨 Cadmium/Wiring Looms: install pre-packaged Cadmium/Emeril Drives & dismantle them. Only Indium Drive is needed
• 🚪 Freighter doors stay closed: Fly away from the freighter a little and fly back somewhat close to it, but far enough away that it lets you eject from your ship. After ejecting, head to the freighter base (located behind the landing area) and see if there is an outer door you can enter. If not, turn off multiplayer, keep warping & make sure to not shoot the freighter or support ships next encounter (stay at a good distance and let the pirates come to you)
• ⛽ Frigate Fuel: build a Fleet Command Room/interact with it (or use the one you already had). If that doesn’t work, go to the freighter upgrade panel and reset your freighter base

Phase 2:

• ✨ Reality Glitch: Rendezvous 1 (Iryang, Sode 99/R5)
• 🥚 Cannot interact with Void Egg in space: Go to the Anomaly, ask Polo for black hole coordinates, take a black hole, Reset mission using nearby structures.

Phase 3:

• ⚙️ Scrap dealer: to the right as you face out of the station, near the ledge

Derelict Freighter Guide:

First, before boarding a Derelict Freighter, TURN OFF MULTIPLAYER.

To finish a Derelict Freighter you must find the Security Credentials (in pads lying around), Crew Log (at a terminal), Captain’s Log (at another terminal), and fabricat the final reward (at the final terminal).

IF YOU LEAVE before completing the above, you will be bugged and the mission will not complete.

If you started with multiplayer on, you may get bugged and the mission will not advance (no checkboxes in the lower right corner).

If you get bugged and the freighter does not finish after finding the above, you will almost certainly need to buy another Emergency Signal Scanner and summon another derelict freighter (go to another system to be safe).

• 💰 Make quick units: Find a Salvageable Scrap planet and dig up the yellow wifi symbols, or scrap interceptors
• 🏛️ Planetary Archive: buy 7 Commercial Cartographic Data (15 nanites @ Rendezvous 3), use them without leaving the station until an Archive is found, ignore error messages
• 👽 Can’t learn words: try a Gek system
• 💿 Platinum: Make a freighter refiner, refine gold+silver
• 🌌 Settlement already owned: Ask Polo for Black Hole coordinates and take one, find the Settlers mission in your Log and select it, click “Restart mission using nearby structures”
• 🧭 More Navigation Data: Fly low on planets and do scans until POI’s show up. Go to them and use the Waypoint poles (not all have one). Keep an eye out for clusters of red lights. Space stations also have them in small blue/yellow glowing objects, make sure to check the back room.
• 🏠 Frontiers: After becoming Overseer, DO NOT build an Overseer’s Office
• 🐛 Infested planet: Rendezvous 3 (Qarali-Cusse I, Eblintpa B12) - the game will lie and say there is no infested planet there

Sentinel Pillar Guide:

𓉱 To find a Sentinel Pillar, defeat Sentinel waves until you kill the Walker, it will reveal one on your map OR see below

🔫 A trick to make sentinels easier is to remove weapons and weapon upgrades except for just a bolt caster in a supercharged slot in a C class multitool. Sentinel damage will scale down based on your weapon, and you should overpower them much easier since you have S class shields.

⚡ The paralysis mortar can help a lot

🤖 To make it even easier you can remove the Bolt Caster and fight them in the Minotaur

💎 Open all the glass you loot; those can have Sentinel Pillar maps

🪏 Or go to Salvageable Scrap planets and dig up yellow wifi symbols. 1/10 chance to get a sentinel map

🌀 Or look for player bases near Sentinel Towers in teleporters

🕋 Or do a Nexus mission to “Hack a Sentinel Pillar/Nest”

Phase 4:

• 🔥 45C+ temp animal: Rendezvous 2 (Etianl-Ivp, Cournt XVI)
• 🫟 Runaway Mould: Atlantideum + Pugneum in refiner OR use Echo Locators to find Harmonic camps and loot the wheel barrows
• 🎵 Can’t find Autophage/interacting with them doesn’t work: turn off multiplayer, restart game and make sure the Scan Harmoniser is FULLY installed. If still broken, keep going to new Dissonant systems (they will say “Dissonant” on the galaxy map) and using Echo Locators in space until you find a camp that works
• ֎ Can’t summon ship/build after taking portal at Rendezvous 4: Reload your last save point OR report bases in the quick menu to delete them just for you OR walk until you are out of range of bases
• 🚀 Build ship: Rendezvous 4: Gagqoid-Eymo
• 🏃 “Inventory full” when trying to claim ships: exit ship

Phase 5:

• 🪐 Crystallised Helium: Gas Giants in Purple systems. Says “Gas Giant” on the galaxy map
• 🦴 Fossils: Rendezvous 1: Iryang
• 🏙️ Beacon: You most likely need to build a building start to finish THEN upgrade a building WHILE having the Settlers milestone selected in your Log. If that doesn’t work, keep doing tasks at the Overseer’s Office and upgrading buildings
• 🗜️ Build Corvette: Rendezvous 4: Gagqoid-Eymo
• ♻️ Industrial waste: Find planets marked with Salvageable Scrap
• 🐾 Can’t find Xeno Arena opponent: Relog
• ⚔️ Xeno Arena too hard: Fight the guy on the Anomaly

Finishing the Expedition:

• 💔 Can’t summon broken ship: Either summon on a planet after relogging or look on your freighter.
• ➜] If you started at the Anomaly: Once you finish all milestones & claim all rewards but BEFORE you click End, put items in the terminal and/or switch your active ship/multitool, then switch to primary save via the pause menu to collect items & copy ship/multitool, then switch back via the terminal. Repeat as needed
• 🐣 You can’t copy frigates, freighters or send eggs/pets back
• ❌ Cargo on ships is NOT copied over