Is there a trick to fully repairing a crashed ship?

[Felkami]

I just finished repairing a crashed ship and I didn't get the milestone.

[postmaster]

have not come across any tricks, but I do know once the ship is fully repaired, jump in your old ship & sell it & your new ship will appear on space station bay.

[AmberAnvil]

Can't say for sure, but you might have to follow the milestone instructions exactly. In other words, you might have to repair the specific ship found while the milestone was selected. If I recall, it required using the Signal Booster to locate a ship.

[Wixi]

i found a sentinel ship and got credit for this when i claimed the ship, the ship was not damaged at all but i still got credit for it

[Shir Blackwater]

You have to make sure you have the mission active, then use the signal boost to look for an emergency signal (best done anywhere but the starter planet) then when you find a ship, claim it, get inside and you should get a prompt to fix the engines (and maybe the shields too) and once you do that that should complete the mission. No need to repair any of the other damaged tech or slots. If you fix up a ship you found earlier it won't count, it has to be a ship the mission sends you to.

[UTMaster]

I like to carry around at least 100 Repair Kits to repair crashed ships I find.

[Grumpy-Granddad]

Originally posted by Wixi:

i found a sentinel ship and got credit for this when i claimed the ship, the ship was not damaged at all but i still got credit for it

I found one to after fighting off sentinals xd.
Now I am stuck at the Inverted mirror I need. Suggestions?

[Johnny in the Clouds]

Originally posted by Grumpy-Granddad:

I found one to after fighting off sentinals xd.
Now I am stuck at the Inverted mirror I need. Suggestions?

Your situation may be different from mine but I would fly above the surface of a dissonant planet looking for those tripod drilling sentinels. Destroying the sentinel things should drop the inverted mirror.

Originally posted by UTMaster:

I like to carry around at least 100 Repair Kits to repair crashed ships I find.

A hundred.... 'gulp'

[Raven]

Originally posted by Felkami:

I just finished repairing a crashed ship and I didn't get the milestone.

You can leave that bit until you get the Nautlion and scan for a sunken freighter as you can also then scan for an underwater crashed ship. Claim it, fix it, jump back into Nautlion and that should trigger the milestone. At this point you can't sell your ship in the expedition as there is no-one to buy it, but it will show up on your freighter once you get one, or you can summon it via the 'X' menu on PC.

[Geldric™]

Well that sux... I've completed that milestone on 6 runs and every time all I fix is the thrusters and the pulse engine.

[UTMaster]

Originally posted by Star-Lord:

Originally posted by Grumpy-Granddad:

Originally posted by UTMaster:

I like to carry around at least 100 Repair Kits to repair crashed ships I find.

A thousand.... 'gulp'

I said 100, not 1,000.

[Johnny in the Clouds]

Originally posted by UTMaster:

I said 100, not 1,000.

So you did lool oops. Apologies for misquoting you.
Perhaps I need glasses. Or one of your repair kits for my glasses : D

How's this:

'One hundred!! 'Gulp'!!'

[Starchild]

1 - Turn off multiplayer
2 - Use any way to find a normal crashed ship : nautilon, signal booster, etc.
3 - Find a teleporter. Ex - your base's
4 - Call the crashed ship to make it your primary ship.
5 - Teleport to a space station.
This is an old trick that still works : crashed ships get basic repair for free this way. Its what I did so it should work.

[The Grand Mugwump]

Originally posted by Felkami:

I just finished repairing a crashed ship and I didn't get the milestone.

There are two milestones for this.

The first involves repairing every single broken component on a ship ( I got it from fixing the starter ship).

The second involves finding a different ship and at least fixing its launcher and sub-space drive.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

What made it easier for me was just picking up broken ships that were part of my journey. Once you have one, you just call it in wherever you are on planet and fix the shield, launcher, and subspace drive.

Probably waiting until you have the mats you need is also easier. I did it just before I warped to the 2nd rendezvous system.