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The new 13th Adrift Expedition in No Man's Sky has some awesome rewards.
And, today, I've prepared a guide on how to finish it in less than four hours — fast and efficient!

This is Aiming4Gaming, and today we're aiming for efficient gaming!

TL;DR

I know that some people prefer watching videos over reading text guides. If you're one of them, here's a video version of this guide where I explain each step in action.

If you prefer text guides, it's right below!

The guide

1. Start your expedition by documenting everything around and mining basic resources such as carbon and oxygen. Mine some copper to repair your ship and process it into chromatic metal later.
2. Visit the large tree-like structures to spawn Hungering Tendrils and defeat eight of them to complete the "Still They Hunger". Collect the vile spawns they drop.
3. Reach your starship to finish the "Alone in the Dark".
4. Get the reward for this milestone and unlock the advanced mining laser technology. Install it to complete the "From the Ashes". Now you can mine large resource nodes!
5. Install a personal refiner Mk 2 to complete the "Self Reliance".
6. Process ferrite dust into pure ferrite and run around the planet collecting larval cores. These will spawn hostile insects, but due to the low atmosphere, you can ignore them and continue collecting resources. You can also mine magnetized ferrite from nodes.
7. Once you collect cores from 16 whispering eggs, you'll finish the "Stirring the Nest".
8. Return to your ship and repair its modules to finish the "Make Do and Mend". If you don't have deuterium, refine silicate powder with di-hydrogen.
9. Process your larval cores into nanites and leave the planet to complete the "An Unlikely Escape".
10. Find asteroids and destroy 40 of them to get some tritium and finish the "Worlds of Rock and Ice".
11. Visit the space station and check its rooms to complete the "Lights Out".
12. Sell cookies from quest rewards and whatever you obtained from the Hungering Tendrils. Don't sell the eye from your ship's storage!
13. Warp to another system to finish the "Independent People".
14. From now on, always identify plants and animals and kill hazardous flora. Activate waypoints at points of interest and collect nanites.
15. Once you get 1600 nanites, you'll finish the "Quantum Foam".
16. Find a planet with the ancient bones trait and collect eight bones to finish the "Bones to Dust".
17. Follow the path to the Rendezvous 1 location and land on the tallest mountain near the destination mark to complete the "All That You Survey".
18. Visit the location itself to finish the "Rendezvous 1".
19. Destroying nine hazardous flora will complete the "In the Weeds".
20. Use a signal booster to find points of interest related to your active milestones.
21. Once you travel 9000 units, you'll finish the "Time on Your Feet".
22. Interacting with the communication tower (which you can find with a signal booster) completes "The Faintest Echo".
23. Process Heptaploid wheat you find on planets into flour and faecium you get from quests into wild yeast. Combine them to get dough, then process it to get bread and finish the "By Bread Alone".
24. Sell all your bones at the nearest station to get a lot of credits.
25. Find a planet with the "Dissonance Detected" trait, collect 99 atlantideum and three radiant shards. The latter will complete the "Call of the Void".
26. Once you document 21 new plants, the "Life, Reimagined" milestone will be finished.
27. Activate the "Abandonment" milestone and use a signal booster to find a damaged ship. Restore it to finish the milestone.
28. Discovering 32 species will finish the "Not Alone" milestone for you.
29. Mine 64 activated copper from any planet, summon and visit the space anomaly, visit its main terminal, craft and install the mind arc, then visit the portal it navigates to. This will complete the "Amidst the Stars".
30. Buy wiring looms and install all drives (recipes obtained from previous milestones for free), mine cadmium from a red star system, and emeril from a green star system. Then activate the "It's Alive" milestone and visit blue systems until you notice a message saying that there are synthetic creatures on a nearby world. Find a planet where they are living and document three of them to finish this milestone.
31. Activate the "Rendezvous 2" milestone and visit the marked location to complete it.
32. Activate the "To Dream of Stars" milestone, approach the void, and watch a cutscene to finish it.
33. Activate the "Rendezvous 3" milestone and visit the marked location to complete it.
34. Once you activate 12 waypoints, you'll finish the "Signs to Nowhere".
35. Discover five ancient ruins with the help of a signal booster to finish the "Nameless History".
36. Collect 12 crystal sulfides from any planet with an ocean to finish "The Lure of the Deep".
37. Mine 100 salt or synthesize it from oxygen and di-hydrogen, build a nautilon, install a high-power sonar, and search for a sunken freighter. Visiting its core will complete the "Fathoms Below".
38. Use a receiver you get as a reward from a milestone, activate your pulse drive, and follow the questline to locate a derelict freighter. Finish this mini-dungeon to complete the "Dereliction".
39. Activate the "To Dream of Freedom" milestone, approach the void, and watch a cutscene to finish it.
40. Activate the "Rendezvous 4" milestone and visit the marked location to complete it.
41. Use a signal booster to find a reality breach and finish the "Ghost in the Machine".
42. Look at the stars for 60 seconds to finish the "A Still, Small Voice".
43. Activate the "To Dream of Sleep" milestone, approach the void, and watch a cutscene to finish it.
44. Activate the "Rendezvous 5" milestone and visit the marked location to complete it.
45. Visit the expedition terminal at the Space Anomaly to get your final reward.
46. Transfer whatever you want to keep to the main save, finish the expedition, return to your main save, and enjoy your awesome rewards!

Conclusion

I hope with this guide you have achieved what you were aiming for today!

Also, here's the list with all my guides for reference:

1. NMS Omega Expedition 12 In 4 Hours - Full Guide
2. How to Get the S-Class Dreadnought in NMS | No Man’s Sky 1-Minute Guide

Anyway, thank you for reading up to this point, and see you next time! 🌟