Expedition 20: Breach Redux is one of the many time-limited Expeditions in No Man’s Sky, and it’s a fairly lengthy one if you’re going in blind.
Since it’s time-limited, though, you no doubt want to clear it as fast as possible. Conveniently, you can actually finish it in around 2 hours if you know what to do! It’s not that bad, all things considered.
Read on, we’ll show and tell you everything you need to do to complete every Milestone for this Expedition quickly.
Starting the Expedition
As usual, there are two ways to start the Expedition. You either start a new Expedition save or use the Expedition terminal at the Space Anomaly on an old save.
We highly recommend using the Space Anomaly on an old save. Doing so will allow you to store away some resources that you can collect once the Space Anomaly becomes available during the Expedition itself. This can speed up progress quite a bit!
If you do this, here’s a shopping list of everything you should bring with you:
- 1 Warp Cell
- 5 Solar Mirrors
- 5 Quantum Computers
- 5 Metal Platings
- 100 Magnetized Ferrite
- 100 Oxygen
- 3 Di-Hydrogen Jellies
- 12 Radiant Shards
- 192 Polished Stones
- Hazmat Gauntlet
- Advanced Mining Laser
If you don’t have these materials, or at least not all of them, don’t worry! We’ll tell you how to get them when they become relevant. So, they’re not mandatory, they just help speed things up a bit.
Also, make sure to claim rewards from Milestones as soon as you complete them. They’ll give you the resources required for later Milestones, so don’t forget to pick them up.
On that note, don’t install Modules you get from Milestones unless they’re actually needed. If you keep them, you can sell them for Nanite later on.
Lastly, make sure to avoid black holes in the middle of the Expedition unless we tell you otherwise. They’ll take you far away from where you need to go, wasting your time.
With all of those basics laid down, it’s time to go over the Expedition itself!
Early Expedition
1. Farming the Basics
Gather the bare minimum required materials. If you brought everything we mentioned in the introduction, you’ll need the following:
- 30 Oxygen
- 150 Ferrite Dust
- 175 Quartzite
- 50 Carbon
If you’re starting with nothing at all, you’ll need the following instead:
- 60 Oxygen
- 400 Ferrite Dust
- 400 Quartzite
- 120 Di-Hydrogen
- 100 Carbon
2. Find Your Ship
Follow the in-game marker to find your ship. Claim the Personal Refiner from this step and use it to turn 50 Ferrite Dust into 50 Pure Ferrite and all Quartzite into Chromatic Metal. Craft 1 Metal Plating.
Use the Repair Kit on your ship and the materials you’ve accumulated so far to repair it fully.
3. Shooting the Asteroids
Get on your Starship and fly off the planet, then shoot down 15 Asteroids.
4. Zuppa Desert +
Fly to the “Zuppa Desert +” planet and collect 5 Sulphide Crystals from underwater vents there. While you’re at it, scan and document any aquatic creature over 6kg. Install the Optical Drill you got as a reward.
5. Space Station Visit
Go to the nearest Space Station and sell the Crystal Sulphide at the main terminal, then buy all Carbon. Craft 5 Carbon Nanotubes and 5 Microprocessors. Refine your remaining Carbon into Condensed Carbon.
6. Leaving the System
Craft 1 Warp Cell if you already brought one via the Space Anomaly. If you didn’t, craft 2. Use this to make and fuel a Hyperdrive.
Once you’re done, go back out to space and warp to the Aitoig-Bifor system.
Between the Stars
1. Space Anomaly Unlocked
After your first warp, the Space Anomaly will become available. You can visit it to retrieve the materials you brought at the start, if you did.
2. Friends in Odd Places
Track the “Friends in Odd Places” milestone and follow it by warping to Rensayst XVIII. Visit the “Spicey” planet there. Feed and adopt any weird floating creature on the planet.
3. Dereliction
Use the Emergency Signal Scanner you got from the rewards so far until you find a Derelict Freighter. Approach it and explore it fully by getting the Security Credentials and interacting with the 3 main terminals.
If you didn’t bring materials via the Space Anomaly at the start, make sure you collect 40 Sodium and 100 Oxygen from floating capsules in the freighter.
Even if you did bring materials, though, try looting everything you can just in case.
Install the Hyperdrive module from the rewards here. Also craft and install a Hazmat Gauntlet.
4. Metamorphosis
Go back to space and fly to the “Nadleyvo” planet. Find and collect any Vile Larva (or Grub) there. Return to your Starship and activate the Pulse Engine once you do, then crush the Vile Larva from your inventory.
Yet Another System
1. Timestamp: 1
Track the “Timestamp: 1” milestone and follow its marker to another system and planet. Just reach the marked spot for the milestone.
2. Space Station Visit
Go to the nearest Space Station. Store the S-Class Hyperdrive from your Starship, transfer everything from the Starship inventory to your own.
If you didn’t bring materials via the Space Anomaly, sell all cooking-related rewards you got. Buy all Carbon and 5 Microprocessors. Also mine 200 Gold and 150 Silver from asteroids. Then craft 5 Solar Mirrors, 5 Quantum Computers, 3 Di-Hydrogen Jellies, and 5 Metal Platings.
Also, refine 90 Magnetized Ferrite, buy 2 Wiring Looms, and craft 1 Carbon Nanotube.
Either way, craft a Debris Rangefinder with all of these materials.
3. Door to the Stars
Track this Milestone and use the Corvette Workshop at the Space Station to make a Corvette-class Starship. Install the Hypedrive on it, it’ll be your main Starship from now on.
4. Shipbreaking
Use the Debris Rangefinder to locate and explore a wreckage. Loot everything from it, especially its log. Install the Aqua Jets you get.
5. Katr Gamma (Optional)
If you didn’t bring materials via the Space Anomaly, stop by “Katr Gamma.” Use the Advanced Mining Laser to get 12 Radiant Shards for “Radiance” here.
Warping Around Some More
1. Timestamp: 2 and Diving
As before, track this milestone and simply follow it to the marked location. Build a Nautilon Platform on that planet, as well.
Install the Humboldt Drive from the previous rewards and dive 800u down for another milestone. While at the bottom of the sea, find and collect 3 Shards of Sea Glass.
2. Lost in Time
Craft 4 Debris Rangefinders and use one until you find another shipwreck. Loot it and collect its log for this milestone.
3. Timestamp: 3 and Cosmic Horrors
Same old, same old! Track the milestone and follow it to the marked location. On the planet it takes you to, fight against the Hungering Tendrils at the Titan Worm Burrow. Defeat 10 of the biological horrors they summon, then defeat 3 tendrils.
4. The Fate of the Stars
Activate yet another Debris Rangefinder to find another shipwreck, the 3rd so far. Loot it, making sure to collect its log, as usual.
Moons and Blackholes
1. Timestamp: 4
You’re tired of reading it by now, but it’s the same as before: track the milestone and follow the marker. Collect 5 Storm Crystals on the planet it takes you to for another milestone, as well.
2. Lunar Cluster
Visit all of the moons in the current system. Use the Discoveries tab to track the moons you haven’t discovered yet to make this a lot easier.
3. Frail Bodies
Use another Debris Rangefinder, find another shipwreck, and collect its log.
4. No Time for Caution
We told you not to go into black holes unless told otherwise, right? This is the “otherwise” we were hinting at! Track the “No Time for Caution” milestone and jump into the black hole it takes you to.
This will take you to the same system required for “Timestamp: 5”. So track that milestone and follow its marker to complete it, as well.
Finishing Up
1. Scanning and Gathering
On the same planet for “Timestamp: 5”, scan 5 different creatures and gather 192 Polished Stones to complete two more milestones. Refine some of the Polished Stones into Pure Ferrite.
2. Grave Robber
Track the milestone and collect all of the bone types it asks for to assemble a complete fossil. Place a Quadruped Fossil Display, fill it out, and package it to complete the milestone.
3. Reborn in Song
Same song and dance as some previous milestones here. Use a Debris Rangefinder to locate a shipwreck and collect its log.
4. Hooked and Jellyflesh
Install the Fishing Rig you got from the previous rewards and go back to the planet from before. Land near water and catch 3 fish for the milestone.
Then, continue fishing until you get the Spawn of Arcadia. Release it to summon a boss. Defeat the boss to complete the last milestone and finish the Expedition!
Claiming Rewards
Now that all milestones are done, you just need to finish the Expedition by visiting the Space Anomaly. You can end it on the same terminal that you started it, if using an old save.
You can also visit a Space Station to sell unwanted modules for Nanites at this point. Alternatively, you can just keep them and transfer them back to your main save when you finish.
Either way, you can also go pay the Quicksilver Synthesis Companion a visit on the Space Anomaly to claim rewards!
That’s everything you need to do Expedition 20: Breach Redux as quickly as possible in No Man’s Sky. It’s still a lengthy one, but this should be the fastest way.
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