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.