"Master Of Bones" Milestone bugged

[Razy Racoon]

I only have the "Master Of Bones" Milestone left to complete and then I've finished the event. The problem is, that the milestone doesn't complete. I have all the bone parts but it doesn't trigger anything and it then disables the scanner to stop finding more bones. If I remove all collected bones I can re-scan and locate more to complete the milestone but again it doesn't trigger. Game reload hasn't helped. If anyone knows if this was fixed in the experimental update, I might try that to complete the expedition.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Read the log and related tasks carefully. You may have to build a skeleton or something like that. I know several players have finished the expedition, so my first thought would be save/reload in case it is a glitch. Outside of that, most likely there is something you need to do or somewhere you need to be to crank it over to a win.

[Razy Racoon]

Originally posted by Mr. Bufferlow:

Read the log and related tasks carefully. You may have to build a skeleton or something like that. I know several players have finished the expedition, so my first thought would be save/reload in case it is a glitch. Outside of that, most likely there is something you need to do or somewhere you need to be to crank it over to a win.

This milestone is the 4th time you do the same task. You just collect a skull, spine, tail and 2 leg pairs. Once done it puts a waypoint back to the dig site and when you arrive, it completes the milestone. Constructing a skeleton with those bones is the next milestone after collecting which I tried and was able to complete that one.

[smurfy]

Originally posted by Razy Racoon:

I only have the "Master Of Bones" Milestone left to complete and then I've finished the event. The problem is, that the milestone doesn't complete. I have all the bone parts but it doesn't trigger anything and it then disables the scanner to stop finding more bones. If I remove all collected bones I can re-scan and locate more to complete the milestone but again it doesn't trigger. Game reload hasn't helped. If anyone knows if this was fixed in the experimental update, I might try that to complete the expedition.

No, there is nothing specific in Experimental to address this issue.
Did your Dig Site IV milestone auto-complete or did you manually go there and talk to the rep to unlock it?
Have you actually got a marker to return to the Dig Site (now marked as Galactic Palaeology Society Field Office)?

[Spocks Toupee]

I finished the expedition in a few hours 7yesrerday, there were no bugs.

I finished Master of Bones while I was still working on getting to Waypoint 3

[m@r@x]

I have the same bug, even when I find all pieces for a complete display (just as it says in the related quest) it wont give me a marker for the quest turn-in

[Phaedrus]

Be sure and build the correct type of display.

[Sk0rch]

Same problem.
Bones collected about 50 units in inventory.
Almost all expedition milestones completed.
"Master Of Bones" milestone (and similar ones starting from the first phase) does not activate the target indicator.

Yesterday after the update, "Excavation" milestones were automatically counted in all phases.

The dig office marker does not appear. If you arrive at the office via teleport, there is no manager in the office accepting/completing the task.

[Razy Racoon]

Originally posted by smurfy:

Originally posted by Razy Racoon:

I only have the "Master Of Bones" Milestone left to complete and then I've finished the event. The problem is, that the milestone doesn't complete. I have all the bone parts but it doesn't trigger anything and it then disables the scanner to stop finding more bones. If I remove all collected bones I can re-scan and locate more to complete the milestone but again it doesn't trigger. Game reload hasn't helped. If anyone knows if this was fixed in the experimental update, I might try that to complete the expedition.

No, there is nothing specific in Experimental to address this issue.
Did your Dig Site IV milestone auto-complete or did you manually go there and talk to the rep to unlock it?
Have you actually got a marker to return to the Dig Site (now marked as Galactic Palaeology Society Field Office)?

No I do not have a marker for any, Only the space stations for each rendezvous by the looks.
All my dig site objectives only completed once I eventually could speak to the gek that had the waypoint above him. Once spoken to, the collect bones milestone starts. Although they all did take a while to actually speak to the gek as each place is bugged, I assume due to the amount of players allowed to be there. Like there are frame drops, the gek flashes in and out of existence but waypoint remains, or the gek spawns underground.

[Razy Racoon]

Originally posted by Sk0rch:

Same problem.
Bones collected about 50 units in inventory.
Almost all expedition milestones completed.
"Master Of Bones" milestone (and similar ones starting from the first phase) does not activate the target indicator.

Yesterday after the update, "Excavation" milestones were automatically counted in all phases.

The dig office marker does not appear. If you arrive at the office via teleport, there is no manager in the office accepting/completing the task.

You can re-search for each bone part if you sell all of the current ones until you need just one, but once you have them all the quest just stops again I assume like me.

[Razy Racoon]

Originally posted by Phaedrus:

Be sure and build the correct type of display.

Yea Ive built all of the displays and gotten the rewards from them

[Razy Racoon]

Ive tried collecting again, still doesn't give the waypoint.
Does anyone know the last dig site System name and Planet name, in case That has bugged?

[PepeMilagro]

Finished the exp in two days, many others even faster.
It ain't bugged.

[smurfy]

There is now something in Experimental which may or may not relate to this issue (it is pretty vague)

Experimental Branch 28/03

• Fixed an issue that could block interaction with Galactic Palaeology Society representatives at dig sites during the Relics expedition.

You could try that.

Otherwise...
Can I assume you are using no mods?
Have you tried with MP disabled?
I do have a possible workaround if you are in a hurry to complete this run of the expedition and don't want to wait for a potential HG patch which may help this.

Originally posted by smurfy:

There is a way to modify your expedition configuration file (season_data_cache.JSON) to set those milestones to optional to allow you to claim each end of phase reward without completing them. You will need to set Steam to offline mode to prevent the game overwriting the configuration file every time it starts up. See this previous expedition bugfix topic for more info.
Here's the relevant section for Phase 5, Milestone 2:

Originally posted by C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\HelloGames\NMS\st_{idnumber}\cache\SEASON_DATA_CACHE.JSON:

{snip}
{"Mission":"^BONE_HUNT","Title":"^UI_EXPED18_BONE_HUNT5_NAME","TitleUpper":"^UI_EXPED18_BONE_HUNT5_NAME_U","Description":"^UI_EXPED18_BONE_HUNT_DESC","DescriptionDone":"^UI_EXPED18_BONE_HUNT_DESC_D","CantRewardMessage":"^INTRCT_NOROOM_L","IdToUseInMissionData":"^","Amount":1,"StageIndex":0,"MilestoneIndex":0,"RendezvousIndex":-1,"Icon":{"Filename":"TEXTURES\/UI\/FRONTEND\/ICONS\/EXPEDITION\/PATCH.BONES5.DDS"},"IconGrey":{"Filename":""},"MissionIcon":{"Filename":"TEXTURES\/UI\/FRONTEND\/ICONS\/MISSIONS\/MISSION.FOSSIL.ON.DDS"},"MissionIconSelected":{"Filename":"TEXTURES\/UI\/FRONTEND\/ICONS\/MISSIONS\/MISSION.FOSSIL.ON.DDS"},"MissionIconNotSelected":{"Filename":"TEXTURES\/UI\/FRONTEND\/ICONS\/MISSIONS\/MISSION.FOSSIL.OFF.DDS"},"Reward":"^RS_S18_S5M2","RewardSwitchAlt":"^","RewardDescription":"","CantClaimRewardDescription":"","IsOptional":false,"GreyIfCantStart":false,"IsRendezvous":false,"IsStageControl":false,"BlockRendezvousMilestoneSeed":-1,"DontAttemptFallbackTextSubs":false,"Encryption":{"IsEncrypted":false,"TitleUpper":"^","Subtitle":"^","Description":"^","Patch":{"Filename":""},"HoverPopupIcon":{"Filename":""},"DecryptMissionId":"^","DecryptMissionSeed":0}},

Change that IsOptional":false to IsOptional":true, save the JSON, set Steam Offline, claim Phase 5 and move on. You will forfeit the minor loot from the milestone (a valuable fossil and small amount of polished stone).
If you've done it right it will look sort of like this (this is from Exp17):
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3433254820

[Razy Racoon]

Originally posted by smurfy:

There is now something in Experimental which may or may not relate to this issue (it is pretty vague)

Experimental Branch 28/03

• Fixed an issue that could block interaction with Galactic Palaeology Society representatives at dig sites during the Relics expedition.

You could try that.

Otherwise...
Can I assume you are using no mods?
Have you tried with MP disabled?
I do have a possible workaround if you are in a hurry to complete this run of the expedition and don't want to wait for a potential HG patch which may help this.

Originally posted by smurfy:

There is a way to modify your expedition configuration file (season_data_cache.JSON) to set those milestones to optional to allow you to claim each end of phase reward without completing them. You will need to set Steam to offline mode to prevent the game overwriting the configuration file every time it starts up. See this previous expedition bugfix topic for more info.
Here's the relevant section for Phase 5, Milestone 2:
Change that IsOptional":false to IsOptional":true, save the JSON, set Steam Offline, claim Phase 5 and move on. You will forfeit the minor loot from the milestone (a valuable fossil and small amount of polished stone).
If you've done it right it will look sort of like this (this is from Exp17):
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3433254820

Experimental mode doesnt help. or turning off multiplayer. The objective just stays unchecked on the log screen and cant do anything else without the marker to go to. Id rather not try to edit the game files. HG only need to change some of the game logic around the milestones to account for more possible combinations of completed milestones. I could try a new save. I dont do the expeditions on my main for these reasons lol

[smurfy]

Originally posted by Razy Racoon:

{snip}. HG only need to change some of the game logic around the milestones to account for more possible combinations of completed milestones. I could try a new save. I dont do the expeditions on my main for these reasons lol

I've just been doing some testing in another expedition run to deliberately try and trigger issues, doing these milestones out of order, only visiting multiple dig sites in succession without completing bones collections, then using 1 collection of bones to mark off all of these milestones without building the fossil displays etc and could not break it.

At this point I'm out of ideas you can try. I'll keep it in mind in subsequent runs (I usually do each Expedition 5-10 times).
You could submit a zendesk ticket, and if they actively work on it they may ask for a copy of your save.