Corvette expedition
Accelerate the assembly of your first Corvette in a time-limited community expedition, offering exclusive rewards and a narrative-enhanced adventure. Your former starship has been damaged beyond repair, and the Sentinel horde is closing in. Take refuge in your Corvette - your one and only ship - maximise its stats and potential, and fight back against the horde!
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Phase 5
Start: Wednesday at 13:00 UTC, September 3rd, 2025
End: Wednesday at 15:00 UTC, October 15th, 2025
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I highly recommend everyone start a new save for this expedition.
And make sure you are OUTSIDE of your broken ship when you use the Orbital device you are told to construct at the start
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Well, I’m sitting here, waiting for a download to start.
What will they give us this time?
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An uncorvetteable experience.
I need to find better puns for this update than just replacing the word forget with corvette.
We have until 15:00 UTC apparently to workshop some better puns, since you’re looking to pass the time.
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I regret the day I ever bespoke about this.
Knock knock…
Whose there?
Orange…
Orange who?
Modularent you glad I didn’t say Banana?
I tried to move off the focus on the corvette word. It didn’t go well at all.
Do you think maybe the expedition is going to be about Bananas? Plantains even?
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“Who was that masked man”?
“That was the Lone Oranger”.
(Probably only works if you’re really old).
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Unfortunately younger generations will remember The Lone Ranger for different reasons. Mostly Army Hammer and Johnny Depp related reasons…
Or not. I don’t think anyone actually saw that movie.
Since this expedition is going to centre around Corvettes it might be smart to bring some corvette parts across for those of us playing the Expedition from a current save.
If not for more variety when building one, certainly for the milestones that will relate to acquiring x amount. Or finding the unforeseen bugs of bringing parts across to an expedition 
Are we not citizen scientists?
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On the right planet, I’ve found corvette parts fairly easy to obtain. I have a more or less standard kit I take on expeditions - a stack of stasis devices (lots of money), stacks of runaway mould (lots of nanites), stacks of salvaged data (for anomaly blueprints), and packaged cadmium, emeril, indium and Atlantid drives.
This ensures that within the bounds of the expedition, I can buy anything I need, and go wherever I like.
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7.2 Gb download incoming.
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A man’s approach.
Mine, typical girl. Grab my purse and go. If it ain’t in there already, I don’t need it. I will find a way. 
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It has begun!
I think I am playing it safe and running a new game
Beware! Hateful sentinels!!!
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It hasn’t appeared in the Anomaly yet. I don’t need to start a new game from here, do I? I don’t think that’s happened in the past.
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I have updated the countdown timer.
The expedition ends: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:00:00 GMT
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I have no idea. I started a new game just because this is so buggy
I made it to the space station but I cannot build a Corvette. It keeps throwing me out of build mode…it says I am in flight
I am also stuck in 1st person and I now have a landing gear outside the build area.
This isn’t good…
PLEASE Everyone start a New Game for this expedition
I was stranded on the space station. Unable to buy a ship or fix the one I am given…deleted the save file. Starting over
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I’ll just make a back up of my save on the cross-save cloud and turn off auto updates…
Oh wait, No Man’s Sky Cross-Save Servers are down…
Nevermind, I’ll wait a min, then start a new save failing that '^ _ ^
PSA: Should anyone find themselves on their main save stuck on a space station in an expedition with no access or way to get to the Anomaly, you can return to your main save from an expedition at any time from the Pause Menu where you find your recent save data etc. No need for the Anomaly terminal. Fingers crossed nobody finds themselves in this situation.
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I also recommend that when you use the uplink device you are asked to build, be OUTSIDE of your broken ship.
Apparently, using it while you are IN the ship causes the game to see you as “in flight”
That was my issue. Seems to be working fine now
Edit: I have to leave for a vet appointment.
I am finding I need to Disable Network to enter a space station.
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Your options for searching for Salvageable scrap, Aggressive Sentinels or this
I chose the latter, I can always dig underground and shelter while mining.
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If you don’t feel like building a refiner and hunting down copper to make chromatic metal for the first milestone, one of the small stones you can find in rocky areas on the starting planet has chromatic metal as a secondary element, mine 30 of those and you are outta there. I found these before I ever saw a copper icon on my scope.
I noticed there is an optional milestone for travelling in another travellers Corvette.
I might just meet up with myself on PC to cheese this but I was also thinking,
I might build a base on a planet not far off a RV point or within one, name it RideShare Exhchange and have a neutral ground for Travellers looking to get this one out of the way.
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One issue I encountered was failing to land in a busy space station, it just hovers above a full landing pad.
I hung on five minutes but everyone was busy placing hull parts and experimenting, so not sure if it will land eventually if someone should decide to leave.
Should you find yourself stuck, switching back to primary and re-entering should work. Or alternatively reloading a manual save should hopefully place you in space or where you last touched off from.
One feature I noticed that was nice is, there are indicators at the corvette landing pad teleportation area that informs you if one is taken or not and by whom (including your own).
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The ice planet in the starter system does not have agresssive sentinels, and does have salvagable scrap and storm crystals. Unfortunately, it also has frequent severe ice storms that will kill you in 30 seconds.
However, I find that your suit scanner works from inside the corvette. So you can stand in warmth and comfort, scan for storm crystals, mark them, then fly to the location. You can hop out, grab the crystals, and jump back in your ship in 10 seconds or less.
Of course, you’ll need lots of launch fuel - so stock up with ferrite dust and dihydrogen crystals on the starter planet.
You can becone a multi-millionaire very quickly this way.
Scanning from inside the corvette also works for scrap.
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