Expedition #18 Redux: Relics (holiday 2025)

[DevilinPixy]

Holiday Expeditions 2025 - No Man's Sky

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Includes the full holiday 2025 season schedule (estimated)

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Overview

Phase 1 - Milestones & Rewards

Echoes of the Past - Locate your starship

• Pre-Packaged Personal Refiner Unit
• Starship Launch Fuel x 3
• Signal Booster plans
• Surge Battery plans
• Gek words x 12

Exhibition Admission - Collect ancient artifacts: 1

• Base Computer plans
• Pre-Packaged Scatter Blaster Unit
• Banned Hazard Protection Upgrade
• Powerful Frost Protection Upgrade

The Dig: I - Report to the GPS field office

• Avian Fossil Display plans
• Inventory Slot x 3
• Gek words x 11

Junior Field Agent - Collect a complete fossil

• Supreme Geology Cannon Upgrade
• Pre-Packaged Geology Cannon Unit
• Powerful Thermal Protection Upgrade

Do Not Disturb - Defeat an ancient guardian

• Pre-Packaged Personal Forcefield Unit
• Pre-Packaged Shell Greaser Unit
• Powerful Scatter Blaster Upgrade
• Multi-Tool Inventory Slot x 2

Ancient Avian - Reassemble an avian skeleton

• Supreme Movement System Upgrade
• Supreme Launch Thrusters Upgrade
• 300 Nanites

Rock Hound - Discover Minerals: 6

• Pre-Packaged Advanced Mining Laser Unit
• Supreme Defensive Systems Upgrade
• Inventory Slot x 5

• Fluid Dynamics Poster plans
• Taxonomy Poster plans
• Spirals Poster plans

Phase 2 - Milestones & Rewards

The Dig: II - Report to the second GPS dig

• Biped Fossil Display plans
• Inventory Slot x 5
• Gek words x 6

Associate Field Agent - Collect a complete fossil

• Pre-Packaged Launch Auto-Charger Unit
• Supreme Scanning System Upgrade

Bygone Biped - Reassemble a biped skeleton

• Pre-Packaged Rocket Boots Unit
• Supreme Movement System Upgrade
• 300 Nanites

Descendants - Discover Creatures: 6

• Supreme Radiation Protection Upgrade
• Creature Pellets x 20

Uprooting - Eliminate hazardous flora: 6

• Delicate Flora
• Supreme Toxic Protection Upgrade

Domestic Relatives - Adopt companions: 1

• Supreme Life Support Upgrade
• Life Support Gel x 5

Bytesized - Analyse recovered data: 3

• Pre-Packaged Sub-Light Amplifier Unit
• Banned Pulse Engine Upgrade
• Navigation Data x 20

• Living Fossil Companion Egg

Phase 3 - Milestones & Rewards

The Dig: III - Report to the third GPS dig

• Quadruped Fossil Display plans
• Inventory Slot x 5
• Gek words x 9

Senior Field Agent - Collect a complete fossil

• Supreme Hyperdrive Upgrade x 2
• Pre-Packaged Aqua-Jets Unit
• Multi-Tool Inventory Slot x 5

Former Fourlegs - Reassemble a quadruped skeleton

• Pre-Packaged Neutron Cannon Unit
• Pre-Packaged P-Field Compressor Unit
• 500 Nanites

Snapshot in Time - Take a photo of 3 ground creatures

• Fishing Rig plans
• Exo-Skiff plans
• Bionic Lure x 40

Wading In - Land 7 Fish

• Hadal Core x 2
• Aquatic Treasure

Reverse Palaeobotany - Discover Plants: 10

• Delicate Flora x 2

An Arm for a Leg - Exchange fossils with a collector

• Pre-Packaged Teleport Receiver Unit
• Starship Inventory Slot x 5

• Basilisk Crown multi-tool

Phase 4 - Milestones & Rewards

The Dig: IV - Report to the fourth GPS dig

• Reptilian Fossil Display plans
• Inventory Slot x 7
• Gek words x 11

Principal Field Agent - Collect a complete fossil

• Ancient Skeleton
• Glowing Mineral x 3

Reassembled Reptile - Reassemble a reptilian skeleton

• Nutrient Processor plans
• 150 Quicksilver

Deeper Underground - Excavate terrain: 2600u³

• Salvaged Data x 30

The Archaeologist - Excavate ancient bones: 55

• Titanic Trophy

Hearty Stock - Whip up a delicious bone broth

• Biological Sample

Bone Appétit - Serve up a bone to Cronus

• Diplo Chunks x 5
• Giant Egg

• Living Stone Hardpack customisation

Phase 5 - Milestones & Rewards

The Dig: V - Report to the final GPS dig

• Protoform Fossil Display plans
• Inventory Slot x 7

Master of Bones - Collect a complete fossil

• Fossil Sample
• Polished Stone x 75

Fixed Forerunner - Reassemble a protoform skeleton

• Gek Relic x 10
• 250 Quicksilver

Nose in the Dirt - Search dung samples: 10

• Hexite x 20

Written in Stone - Investigate Memory Stones: 3

• Dirty Bronze x 10

Stone Ghosts - Defeat ancient guardians: 3

• Salvaged Scrap
• Polished Stone x 150

Rags and Bones - Sell fossils: 2500000UNITS<>

• Polychromatic Zirconium x 10
• Dirt x 20

• Title: 'Excavator'
• Relics Decal plans
• Relics Banner customisation

Expedition Completion Rewards

• Living Stone Customisation Set

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Rendezvous Locations

[DevilinPixy]

Expedition info above has been updated.

Enjoy everyone

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[toddumptious]

Nice one temp, how did you find it this time around?

I’m thinking of joining this expedition from my Permadeath save.

Does anyone have any experience or knowledge on this?

Will the expedition be in its custom settings mode or stick to my locked Permadeath settings?

Is death in the expedition as a Permadeath participant, permanent? Try saying that ten times fast… Oh but also answer it too if anyone can I know we like our lite chill experiences around here so this could be uncharted territory for the ATLAS-CSD

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I turned out well for me. I searched through the missions for useful rewards and got those early. I’m not very quick but got in done in a bit over eight hours - usually takes me over 12 hours for simple expeditions.