Unlock Expedition?

[Riddleman]

So every now and then i get told of a shooting star or falling debris. Under where it says 'Ok', it says 'Unlock a shooting star expedition'.
What does that mean and how do i unlock these expeditions?

[Jaggid Edje]

Expeditions are something you can send you people out to do once you have researched Long Distance Travel and built the hot air balloon. To get the research available, you need to have found both Fuel and Alloys, at which point it will show up in your list of available research.

To send people out on expeditions, you use the menu at the bottom center, expeditions are one of the options down there. I don't remember which section they are under, but I think it is "Manage" (the far right one).
The expeditions command should be there for you even if you don't have a balloon, you just can't send anyone out.

[Bjørn]

Also keep in mind that these expeditions often have time limits, typically the ones where you can find other survivors, just in case you wonder where the expeditions have gone when you complete the balloon. Typically 2-4 days 'expiration time' on many.

It's good to get the balloon built early in the games if you're looking for getting more survivors to join your crew, as I've heard the chances of finding them gets much smaller after the first year. Not sure about that, though, but that has been my experience in previous games.

[Chuckw34]

I think there is a bug because I have had multiple expeditions "unlock" but never show up in the expedition interface.

[Riddleman]

Yeah, so i understand how to go about doing expeditions and such but much like chuckw34, when the window pops up sayiing a certain expedition is unlocked, it wont then show up as an available expedition.
So i agree this must be a bug then

[Cotaks]

There is no bug...

The expidition window got multiple pages, skipp trough them.

[Sir Crashalot]

Burning Cruise Vessel.

Does not appear after notification. I would call that a bug.

[Flin Fredstone]

Please don't take this the wrong way but you can turn the camera 360 degrees in the expedition window to find them.
If none of the expeditions you're notified of turn up, check if it isn't a mod that bugs it. I never have that happen in the vanilla game.

[Sir Crashalot]

I know how to turn the cameras and I know about the next/prev buttons.
I do not use any mods.

Notification about Burning Cruise Ship appears, I click ok then look for the expedition and it is not there. Nor does it appear later, I check several times.

This has happened across multiple games/seeds.
I can get a cruise ship through exploring but the event one does not show.

Edit: I just got another, so I have saved the game before opening the notification. Once again it did not appear, if a dev wants the save for testing, let me know.

[BobThyAsian]

Those events are usually timed, so you have like 2-4 days to check it out or it disappears. In the expedition view, it'll have a timer saying how many days left before it goes away.

[xZokkax]

I got the same issue, no expiditon for the Burning Cruise Vessel. Get the notfification now the 2 nd time but no expidition -.-

[ipcasique]

I have faced this issue as well. No expedition for getting new survivors on selection menu with horizon on background. Even after immediate calling the menu right after "Burning vessel" event. No any mods were installed on that moment.
I had been living for ~10 years before I found out that there is an option to hire random persons for 0.5-2 years with 40k~100k galactions. It's in the pod menu, "Contact" option.

Also I have installed the "Reduced malfunctions" mod recently. I think annoying battery/generator malfunctions events now happens 3-4 times less often. That's all I needed to enjoy playing the game with 3 characters =)

[kifly6]

I also can report this problem. Looked about in the expedition window just as the notification came up and saw no such expedition. I was using the trader scenario; are those expeditions suppressed therein?

[GrumpyDave73]

i have the balloon and a bunch of places i can send peeps but it won't let me select anybody to go.
i am running a ton of mods but, still... this sux a little bit.

[Jaggid Edje]

Is the balloon fueled?

[GrumpyDave73]

I just realized it has to be spring... proper... I was trying at the very start of spring and it wasn't letting me go but a wee bit into spring and it works... :P