Hi folks, just finished the “Adrift” Expedition 13 redux – currently running until Dec 25th.
First thoughts:
(1) If you have some sellable scrap or something in your main save, push them into your expedition inventory and sell them at the first space station. This will help you get started. But, perhaps more importantly, you can buy a lot of https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Emergency_Signal_Scanner for about 1.4M each – which are normally about time limited, so you can buy out the stock of ~14 at each space station and bring them back into your main save.
(2) Due to the nature of this particular expedition, bases don’t show up on the map (although you can still fly to them). There are a lot of bases already built with names like “easy larval cores” or “robot horses” or similar. When you are looking at your task list, sometimes it is easiest to just go to the space station and then warp to someone’s base.
(3) In particular, the one that says “climb to 1400u” – just go to the Rendezvous planet for that phase of the expedition and land on a mountain. There are several near the rendezvous point that are sufficiently tall.
(4) For the one that says “salvage a starship” or similar – probably the least resource intensive version is to find a base with a crashed sentinel ship.
(5) Nanites are in short supply, so it is unlikely you’ll be able to have enough to import a multi-tool or ship unless you’re cheesing things. Even to complete the mission to get 1200 nanites, I was doing things like processing slime in my personal refiner.
(6) The ghost frigate is awesome.
Reminder to claim your Starborn Phoenix (Gold version of Starborn Runner) at the quicksilver station either before/after your expedition.
I always find a planet with 8 or so life forms and scan them all, doing this twice is usually enough for both ship and scanner.
You’d think so, but I did this repeatedly. I think they tweaked the nanite reward formula for this expedition. I’m never that tight on nanites in other expeditions.
Best source I had was processing larval cores or flesh ropes or similar in the refiner.
My first base is on that dissonant planet in the starting system, and I built it at an abandoned building. Built a little larval core farm with nice firing platforms, and lots of refining capacity. Brought in both my main ship and multitool.
Still, even though I’ve done this expedition before, I’ve got a stack of glass that is pointless to process because there is no vendor to sell the tech upgrades to. Half the stuff I brought in is not as useful as usual, which is fine.
Yeah, the lack of vendors to sell tech to really slows the nanite farming. Larval core farming is a good idea. I didn’t build any bases, but there are enough in the systems (including yours) that probably makes this the best method for this particular expedition.