This Expedition is a survial expedition – play it like that!

1) You need to die once to get a milestone – do this right at the beginning

2) don’t linger on the first planet. Get your ship repaired, if you can grab some money, thats great. But don’T try to make millions.

3) head to the space station – remember, you can enlarge your inventory twice per system (station/anomaly)

4) always use the free inventory for the “cargo” inventory since it can carry double the amount of the normal one.

5) Ion batteries, life support gel are your live-saver: one “cargo” space can hold 200, use that. Shild batteries for your spacecraft are great as an insurance, too.

6) Often damage goes right to your health points. Store some animal remains (like cat liver), eating them restores your healt points!

7) You know who neither cares about fall-damage (that much) or extreme storms: your minotaur. Yes, it’s slow and cumbersome – but it can get you around on a planet alive.

8) The following rewards from other expeditions help, collect them asap: golden vector (of course), Normandy (since you start with a freigther you can send it to make you money) and the “alien monster egg” (hatching it counts for one of the milestones)

9) you start with a freighter – free storage room! Plus, with a bit of money you can build all ten storage “cubes”

10) The base milestone will send you to the wrong planet: the base has to be built on one of the planets with a meeting point (or at least the same class).

A massage to the guy who wanted to gift me suff so bad he chased me in the Anomaly:

I bought the game in 2017, picked it up a few times after the big Next update and stopped. I started to play again a little bit over a month ago and I’m amazed. I am fascinated by a lot of mechanics that to me are completely new. Living ships definitely take the first place for me, I want to earn one so bad. Anyways, I managed to complete a few quests, get a decent amount of units, but it looks like the amount of things to do in this Universe is incredibly abundant. I was playing with a friend of mine a couple hours ago, whom was also amazed by this game and bought it instantly after watchig me playing with the PS Share Play for hours, and I helped him to get to the Anomaly. While I was waiting for him to talk with the various npc’s, a guy gave me maps to exosouit upgrade pods. They’re fairly easy to get, so I emoted a “thank you” and “no”, to try and let him know that I’m not that new, and that I didn’t need anything. While I was trying to walk away he literally CHASED ME to give me stuff. He gave me a void egg, which as far as I know, is hard enough to obtain and fairly expensive in quicksilver. We started to CHASE EACH OTHER, because I felt guilty and wanted to give him back the stuff! It was absolutely surreal, and it’s also weird how video game community change that much. Kids wishing you terminal diseases on Rainbow Six Siege, people dying to give you their items on No Man’s Sky. In the end, he managed to sneak a void egg in my inventory. I’m the type of guy who finds satisfaction in obtaining things by himself, I feel that by not going through the regular process, I am missing parts of the game. You won, though, and to honor such victory, I shall keep the sacred egg, fellow traveller. I can’t ramember your username, I think it was something along the lines of “Black Tainted/Painted”, perhaps with a couple of underscores. Thank you, and thank you everybody for making such a community

Hello! Wow, that post blew up! I had never imagined that my little journal about my space travels and how they were helping me in life would get so much attention. Writing has always been a challenge for me, despite my love of it, and I am glad that posting my writing here is something that y’all enjoy. To everybody that read or commented on Part 1, thank you so much. Your open ears and your kind words truly mean so much to me, and it has given me a lot of motivation to see this through! (Also, my first silver, ever! Wow – thank you so much!) There’s a lot more that I feel that I could say here, but in the interest of getting to the actual journal part of this post, I’ll just say that I am truly grateful for your support, and I’m incredibly glad that my stories have touched so many people’s lives. Seriously, this community rocks. If you are a new reader, you can find part one here.

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Today, I went adventuring. After a brief nap in my ship, I left to investigate the hills around the crash site. After a few minutes of climbing around and taking in the scenery, a radioactive storm suddenly came up on the horizon. With my hazard protection quickly depleting, I looked around frantically for a means of protection, and my eyes quickly settled upon an opening in a nearby hill. As I walked inside, and my hazard protection began to stabilize, I saw a wide cave extending downward in front of me. I had watched a few guides during my break at work today, and quickly crafted an analysis visor. After some quick scanning, I realized that a lot of the rock formations in the cave were made of cobalt! (And other minerals). Knowing that they were valuable from watching a guide, I decided that tonight, I was going to strike it rich.

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It was challenging, at first, to mine with such intensity. I knew around how much money I wanted to have from mining, but the tedium of the thing soon began to set in. As many of you know, I am playing this game as a way to help overcome my prior addictions, and once the game became all about mindlessly pointing the mining laser, my mind began to wander. I really did want to power through this feeling, both because I knew that getting a lot of money would really make the early game a lot more fun, and also to prove to myself that I could exercise a modicum of self-control. I turned on some Twitch in the background, and that helped a lot. I actually ended up getting distracted by the stream a bit, and lost track of time, so I ended up mining way past my goal. Whoops! I also found some things called “Vortex Cubes” – not sure what they do, but they look like one of them would make a pretty cool lamp.

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After my spelunking had concluded, I decided that it was high time for me to repair my ship. I set out in the direction that the map beacon was indicating, and immediately got distracted by something else. I found a crashed pod on the side of a hill, then from there, I found a tower, waaaay off in the distance. My curiosity was peaked, so I headed out in the direction of the tower, to see what it had to offer. It ended up taking a bit longer to walk there than I had anticipated, but it was really cool to see it grow in the distance. I managed to scale it with the help of my trusty jetpack, and accessed some old logs at the terminal on the top. Unfortunately, it seems that my real-life foreign language skills translate into the game, and I was left staring at letters on the screen. I’ll have to make a note and come back to this later.

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Finally, I jumped down and headed over to the beacon that I had found, scanning creatures and plants along the way, and reading facts about them in the pause menu. Apparently, the tentacled creature from yesterday actually doesn’t have any bones, which makes me wonder how it stands up, Truly, nature is beyond human comprehension. I soon arrived at the little settlement, consisting of two tiny houses, right next to each other. I accessed the terminal in one building to win some money via the stock transfer (is this legal?), and found a hermetic seal in the other one. After repairing my pulse engine, I decided to call it a night, as I have an early morning tomorrow. Thank you so much for reading and sticking around! Hopefully this is as enjoyable for you as it is for me – next time, we’re getting off planet, so help me god. I don’t know if I’ll have time to play tomorrow, since I’m gonna go visit some old friends, but we’ll see. Pics below.

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Spelunking!

Like the companion cube, but slightly more….. trapezoidal.

Caught this dinosaur sleeping in the sand

Apparently, this is a rock? Wild

Waaaay off in the distance is a crashed pod, near the bottom of the valley

The tower, but from really far away

A half marathon, maybe more

This alien technology looks really cool, holy cow

I want one

Saw a freighter on the way back to my ship. I hear that you can fly one?