How do Expeditions work?

[Grimno]

So I want to do the new expedition, it'll be my first one, but I see it saying I can store equipment?
Do i not go in with what I'm equipped with or do I have to get a second set of items to put in as expedition gear or something?

[AmberAnvil]

Just my own opinion, but you may want to start the expedition as a new save. This is how they were meant to be played originally and it still works well.

[Korinaar]

The expedition starts you out with a ship and multitool just like starting a new game. Leaving aside how expeditions used to work to avoid confusion, the Expedition terminal allows you to set some items (tech modules along the top, regular items on the bottom) that you can access in the expedition once you gain access to the Anomaly again. Generally it will be a bunch of supplies you know you'll have trouble/aren't worth spending the time getting, stuff to convert into nanites or units, etc. The nanites are because you can also copy your fully teched-out ship and multitool of choice into the expedition as well. These cost nanites, hence the previous items mentioned. It will copy whatever ship/multitool you have equipped in your main save into the expedition. Don't like the hauler they stuck you with? Grab your Starborn Runner instead!

Going the other way you can also bring items out of the expedition. Find a neat ship? Multitool? Hit the Return to Main Save button in the menu or on the terminal to go back to your main save and copy it into your main game save. You can return to the expedition and carry on as long as the expedition is still running (like 30+ days left at this point I think)

[Korinaar]

Originally posted by AmberAnvil:

Just my own opinion, but you may want to start the expedition as a new save. This is how they were meant to be played originally and it still works well.

The main reason I'm glad they switched away from doing it this way is you -only- got to keep any Expedition stuff you unlocked via the Quicksilver vendor. If I found a nice Sentinel ship or multi-tool I got really tired of having to juggle another save just to look at my shiny.

[RustyNail]

Agree with AmberAnvil. If something goes really bad (bugs or a serious blunder on my part) I can start over w/o risking my regular game.

[Lindy Bomber]

If you start an expedition from the console in the Space Anomaly you will have a chance to put some items in a transfer storage before starting the expedition. Then when you start the game will created a new expedition character with starting equipment at the starting location. After you have fixed your ship and warp jumped the first time you can summon the Space Anomaly are take items from the transfer storage. You can also spend natites to created a copy of your primary character's active ship and multi tool with all installed techs (no cargo).

You can switch back and forth between the primary character and the expedition character at will. You can copy ships from the expedition character to the primary character at will.

Before you hit the "end expedition" button you can place items in the transfer cargo to send them back to the primary. Once you press the "end expedition" all the expedition character's items and equipment will be converted to units and nanites and transferred to the primary. You will also receive some units for things like "distance walked" and "words learned" then the expedition character will be deleted. Bases will also be transferred to the primary.

Things I suggest placing in the transferre cargo before the expedition.

Basic survival resources
Warp cells
Trade goods (sell for units)
things that can refine into nanties
basic base building materials (if you build a lot of bases)
Salvaged Glass, Suspicious Packet (Arms), Suspicious Packet (tech) (things that give you random tech items)

MK2 refiner
Hazard Protection techs
Movement Techs
Warp techs (if your not going to copy a ship with good warp)

You don't need to transfer anything, the expedition will give you want you need, but this will speed things up a little.

[Lindy Bomber]

Originally posted by RustyNail:

Agree with AmberAnvil. If something goes really bad (bugs or a serious blunder on my part) I can start over w/o risking my regular game.

Or just back up your files.

[RickRobs]

If i do the expedition on a new save, will all the new armour sets i unlock transfer to any older or even new save i have/make? so if i unlock the new bug armour set, will it be unlocked on any save i make? i'm not sure how it works, thanks to anyone who replies.

[Calico-Jack]

Originally posted by SoloSoul:

If i do the expedition on a new save, will all the new armour sets i unlock transfer to any older or even new save i have/make? so if i unlock the new bug armour set, will it be unlocked on any save i make? i'm not sure how it works, thanks to anyone who replies.

yes you get them at the quicksilver stall in the Anomaly

[Sly Evil Homer]

Ok. I started and completed the expedition without ever touching my main save. I was able to collect the expedition awards but am unable, it would appear, able to transfer anything to my main save from my inventory. Is it stuck on that save now because I didn’t start the expedition from the anomaly on my main save?

[Prescient Stones]

Originally posted by Sly Evil Homer:

Ok. I started and completed the expedition without ever touching my main save. I was able to collect the expedition awards but am unable, it would appear, able to transfer anything to my main save from my inventory. Is it stuck on that save now because I didn’t start the expedition from the anomaly on my main save?

That is as intended when starting the expo from a new save.

Basically what you now have is a JUMP started fresh save.

If you wanted to run the expo again you only have a short time to do this from an existing save via the Anomaly kiosk Ends Wednesday 27. This is only going to work on any other save you have that has not done the current expo. We all have 15 save slots to work with and you have now used one for the current expo in your post. Any other save can be used to garner the loot you most need in any other save.

Say you have a pretty good MT and want to use it and apply all the upgrade to it you get in the Beachhead expo. or ship, and especially Freighter Mods.

You'll learn at the Anomaly kiosk how to import good to access in the expo and when finished how to export all the loot out.

The ship and MT you start the expo with will be the nanite bought ship and MT you get in the expo.

When ending the expo the ship and MT you have equipped will be the nanite bought ship and MT you can repurchase on save you imitated the expo on.

This is an example of ending the expo Aquarius. What you can learn from this is the tech/cargo slots count and some thing I choose to take out on a very quick run.

https://youtu.be/NYjkYdAngos