November 27, 2024.
Hello Everyone!

2024 has been another impactful year for No Man’s Sky, with the team pouring so much love into every update. OMEGA, ORBITAL, WORLDS PART I and AQUARIUS added breadth and depth to so many areas of the universe - from a complete overhaul of the expedition system, starship customisation, elaborate new space stations, new planetary biomes, incredible rendering improvements to water and clouds, and so much more. A few weeks ago, we even introduced cross-save between our huge number of supported platforms, a massive technical undertaking.

This year has also seen no fewer than five(!) community expeditions, bringing Travellers together in a certain corner of the universe to experience a themed event and work together to complete unique challenges and earn limited-time exclusive rewards.

We know that our players have busy lives, and know more than most that there are other games to play. That’s why, for the last couple of years, it has become customary for the No Man’s Sky team to re-run the expeditions from that year over the holiday period when leisure time is more plentiful, and in a “reduxed” form such that they can be completed and rewards unlocked with relative ease.

We will be re-running this year’s expeditions over two-week intervals from Thanksgiving weekend through December and January.


Omega: 27th Nov - 11th Dec Answer the call of the universe in the Omega expedition. Explore, build, fight, and more through a diverse set of milestones, and unpick the threads of a mystery involving the past, the present, and what could be.

Adrift: 11th Dec - 25th Dec Alone in an empty universe, the Adrift Expedition redefines what it means to survive among the stars. Communications from other Travellers are consumed by static, and in a reality devoid of other lifeforms, there are no shops, no trading, no shortcuts and no help, providing a very different survival experience.

Liquidators: 25th Dec - 8th Jan Engage in a galactic bug hunt in this high-paced combat expedition, full of custom-balanced swarm combat. A vile brood is spreading corruption across the universe – join the Liquidator Vanguard to do your part and purge the rot from the stars!

Aquarius: 8th Jan - 22nd Jan Go on a quest across the galaxy to catch fish, gather stories, and think about the one that got away. Find your perfect waterside spot and cast off, or venture into the ocean on your deployable Exo-Skiff. Craft specialist bait, establish a fish farm, cook seafood, and more.

The Cursed: 22nd Jan - 5th Feb Fight to keep a grip on reality while haunted by visions and voices from another dimension. In this twilight realm, straddling the boundary between one reality and the next, there is no access to hyperdrive technology, and interstellar travel can only take place via the ancient portal network. Who do the haunting voices belong to, where are they coming from, and are they to be trusted?
These re-runs present another opportunity not only to experience these community events, but also to earn any missed rewards! Rewards for the 2024 expeditions include exclusive sets of Atlas, deep sea, and bug-themed customisations, the Iron Vulture, Starborn Runner, and Boundary Herald starships, a ghostly frigate, and so much more!

all above from https://www.nomanssky.com/2024/11/holiday-2024-expeditions/

have fun and see you all out there

Will this work offline?

If you have the game updated, you can play the expeditions offline.

I do not play expeditions on-line in order to avoid the asinine communications balls and don't want to see player bases. It also avoids the risk of bugs with inventories, weird game behaviors, ship switching, etc. Finally, it avoids the griefers.

There is enough time to complete the Adrift expedition before it ends.

All of them with the same update or how does it work exactly?

As far as i know it is 2 week "uptime" for each expedition, so it may need 4 updates.

I believe that the need actually was 5.28 and when I listed 5.29 that was because it was the most recent update.

Look in the lower left corner of screen when starting the game. Current build is 134078 which is 5.29 and 133107 was 5.28.

I was not interested in replaying Omega so didn't even look.

If the expeditions have already been completed before and rewards claimed then one will not get duplicate rewards. Indeed, the repeat rewards are not listed at the top of the lists for Quicksilver Agent and will appear based upon when they were claimed.

Until this batch, individual expeditions were part of individual game updates. This does not appear to be the case for this round of repeats but any future new expeditions will probably require an update since new features are incorporated into the expedition.

New expedition available today without a need to download a patch or update.

If your game is up to date (see version and build numbers above) then select the option to start a new game and in the next window select the option in the lower right to start the expedition. If the expedition is not shown then you have to decide which is more important - playing the expedition or staying with the same older version.

There is an option to start expeditions when in the Anomaly but this requires some planning about what you want to bring to the expedition and then also deciding near the end what you want to bring back from the completed expedition and making sure that you have things properly selected and placed. This is a topic for many repeated discussions in other forums so no need to repeat here.

EDIT: I disconnected from Internet and had no problem or issue getting to the option to start the repeat of the Liquidators Expedition which opened today.