Why am I stuck in Expeditions looking for Herrox? Edit: Now on to other questions.

[davidb11]

I have no clue what the heck is going on here. But it's forcing me to wander around the world with no indication where to go.
IT just tells me to find a planetary outpost.
Yet, there are none anywhere.

And the game only gave me a few planetary data charts, and they didn't give me anything close to what I needed.

So, I literally have to wander the entire planet without ever finding a single plantery outpost.
I have literally looked for over an hour trying to get to one.
THere are none.
WTF.

WHy would it give you a quest you can never complete!?!?!?

I literally have no where to go, no where to find anything.

Just literally trapped.
Edit: Don't worry, I got the herrox.

[Pixiara]

I went the large refiner route. Of course, after that I got a reward that unlocks all the alloy recipes by sheltering in a trading post. Sigh lol. Now to find larval cores since all the outposts have been active so far.

[davidb11]

Yeah. Some of the missions I think you're supposed to do before the mission to repair the ship.

[Deoxys]

It was a bit complicated figuring it out but this is how I did it and managed to leave the planet in about 2 to 3 hours (most of that time spent figuring out what to do, meaning if you see this before doing it, it shouldn't take you as long):
Basically the large refiner route; salvaged data is easy to get even if you don't do the milestones that give it to you, but I do suggest doing them if possible; here is the order of the unlocks I did for base building:
1) trade computer (forgot the exact name, but the thing you put in the wall that allows you to trade; it doesn't need power and you can sell storm crystals for a lot of money)
2) power (bio-fuel reactor + solar panels + battery); you can build these using resources from the trade center, or at least I was able to (mine was selling gold and cobalt, among other useful things); this will get you that power unlock which will help with other unlocks (I don't remember the specifics; I'll update this guide tomorrow if I remember, but at the time of writing this, I'm about to go to bed)
3) large refinery to get herox: amonium (can be found in the rocks), cobalt (sold from the trade center, or at least it was for me), and silver (can be found in ore deposits but I was also able to buy it, along with tritium)

Tl;dr just rush the large refinery rather than trying to find a trade outpost (unless you spawned near one, but it seems most people are not). I spawned in the middle of no where with the nearest trade center being a 9 hour walk, so I knew right away I was going to have to do everything with buildings/construction.

Also tame the wild cat creature; it's very fast if you want early transportation.

[Kilamanjaro]

I have to hand it to HG this time. I think we're all in the habit of "go for the ship" but they've put, what, 3 phases that should be completed before the ship. Pretty sneaky and effective

[Shades]

Definitely not what I would have expected. But then this is my first Expedition, so I wasn't really sure *what* to expect.

[AlphaGodith]

引用自 Stargaze0G：

For those looking Herox... Do the expedition where you get a blueprint analyzer. When you get enough buried technology, unlock the large refiner. Then refine Ammonia-Tritium-Cobalt to get Herox.

In order to get the Tritium, unlock the trade terminal from the blueprint analyzer or I believe you can get the blueprint from one of the expedition rewards.

Cobalt in caves and ammonia from rocks... hope this helps!

so you don't actually need the recipe to make herox? thank god. my fingers are actually in physical pain from wandering.

[RustyNail]

引用自 AlphaGodith：

引用自 Stargaze0G：

For those looking Herox... Do the expedition where you get a blueprint analyzer. When you get enough buried technology, unlock the large refiner. Then refine Ammonia-Tritium-Cobalt to get Herox.

In order to get the Tritium, unlock the trade terminal from the blueprint analyzer or I believe you can get the blueprint from one of the expedition rewards.

Cobalt in caves and ammonia from rocks... hope this helps!

so you don't actually need the recipe to make herox? thank god. my fingers are actually in physical pain from wandering.

Yeh, that recipe had me wondering too: do I have to hunt it down like in a normal game?
But since this expedition was clearly not a normal game, I decided to just do the mileposts (the ones that were open for me to do) and it all worked out fine. One of the milestone rewards was the recipe - so not necessary to track it down.

[davidb11]

Now I have a new problem. It wants me to do mineral extraction. For one of the challenges.

Currently, I'm looking at a C rank Silver deposit.
THat will take nearly 2 hours to complete it's full thing.

Does that literally mean I have to stand next to it for 2 full hours AFK?
Because that doesn't make any real sense for htis game to do.

WTF.,
How am I ever going to complete this challenge for 1000 mineral extraction thing if it will take literal hours?!

[Bongo Cat]

Ya'll doin this the hard way, just use your Minotaur, find a supply depot, blow it up, voila, all the mats you could possibly need, and then some...Also you'll get around much faster if you just jetpack around with the Minotaur's jump...if a place says 30 minutes away, take like 45 seconds off with each jump, no joke...Also, you don't need to go there, then walk back, just build a base computer, make a teleport, go home lol

[ΔΙΑΚΟΣΙΑ]

引用自 davidb11：

Does that literally mean I have to stand next to it for 2 full hours AFK?
Because that doesn't make any real sense for htis game to do.

No. The mineral extractors will work if you're away doing something else. They'll also work if you're not in game.
You can also put down multiple around the same spot. I used 4 (3 active and 1 for the storage space, connected with supply pipes) and it only took me an hour (not in-game).

[Bongo Cat]

Make more than 1 mineral extractor...4 extractors = 1 fill-up and you're done

[davidb11]

Oh! Okay! I Did not know that.

[iceman1980]

You could bypass everything with the No Mans Sky save editor if you don't have the time?

[davidb11]

I prefer to play my games legit.
I just didn't know how the mineral extractor works.

Now I do.

Also, I'm pretty sure me trying to figure out a save editor would just end in me being confused. :P

[davidb11]

Okay. What the hell. I logged back into the game and the Mineral Extractor was empty, along with the damn Biofuel reactor.
HOW THE HEL DID THAT HAPPEN?!?!

I had like 7 hours of fuel in the damn thing.
And you all claimed they work offline!
WTF?!?! HOW!?
Why?!
Someone please tell me why I literally have to sit there and wait for them to fill up normally?!?!
AFK!

There is no way to get them to work offline time! WTF?!?!

Who he hell broke this so bad the game refuses to run them!?!?