NMS Beachhead Redux Expedition 2 In 2 HOURS - Full Guide

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So, the Beachhead expedition for No Man's Sky is finally here, featuring an iconic frigate from Mass Effect universe and other exciting rewards.

But, the expedition is time limited and may be quite tedious, so I’ve prepared a guide to help you complete it in under 2 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!

Disclaimer

I've noted your feedback and most frequently asked questions from the previous expeditions videos and updated the guide structure:

Explicitly highlighted how to take photos for the "Grand Tour"
Added optional Runaway Mould reminder
Optimised the route to easily skip several steps if you brought everything from the preparation section

Hope this helps! 🌟

How to start expedition

To start the expedition, you have two options:

You can start a new game in Expedition mode
Or you can summon the Space Anomaly from any existing save and start the expedition from expedition terminal.

The second option is better, as you can bring resources and technologies with you, or even bring a copy of your starship or multitool, which greatly speeds up expedition progress!

Also, if you start the expedition from your main save, you'll be able to transfer back most of the items you obtain during the expedition.

Preparation (Optional)

First of all, if you're a seasonal player, you can make the run much easier by bringing some resources with you! This time you can bring:

25 Faecium
20 Sodium
1 Antimatter
1 Amino Chamber
50 Ionized Cobalt
Fishing Rig
30 Spicy Chum
3 Warp Cells
3 Frigate Fuel (50 Tonnes)
(Optional) Runaway mould for nanites

Everything you bring will be available at the same terminal within the expedition! To retrive items, you must warp once - this will unlock the space anomaly within the expedition! In other words, the initial mining is inevitable!

You can also buy most of these resources from the space station terminals and traders if you want to speed things up.

I’ll be starting from scratch in this guide to simulate a new player experience.

Notable things during expedition

Keep in mind these things:

Don't forget to claim rewards for completed milestones, as some of them contain plans for the next milestones.
Use the refiner if you need to process anything.
And don't install unnecessary modules you get from milestones as they can be sold for easy nanites instead! If you install a module, its cost reduces to 16, we don't want this to happen!

The guide

Once you start the expedition, talk to the ship captain and transfer all resources from the freighter storage to your starship.
Repair the Atmospheric Control Unit - you already have chromatic metal and gold, so simply replace wiring loom with repair kit! This will complete "All Hands on Deck."
Use two new repair kits you got from this milestone and chromatic metal to repair Freighter Hyperdrive, then fuel it with a warp cell you also have in your inventory.
Board your starship, leave the freighter and destroy 50 asteroids to complete "Stardust".
Now visit Kuru Tau Scorched planet in this system.
Land on the planet to complete "Away Team" milestone.
Document three species to finish "First Contact" milestone.
Bring the in-game menu, select photo mode there, and use the mentioned hotkey to take a photo of this planet.
From now on, document plants while travelling, and once you document 13 plants, you will complete "The Engine of Life".
Now visit Relland Deran Sub-Zero planet in this system and take another photo of the surface.
Select "Nameless History" milestone, place a Signal Scanner and use it to scan for ruins. Visit the location it reveals and select "Seek knowledge of the past" option to complete it. You will get rewarded with an expensive historical document.
Select "One Man's Treasure" milestone and dig up three buried treasures to finish it.
Meanwhile, once you walk 2500u you'll complete "The Pilgrim" milestone.
Now go in space and fly 100,000 units to complete "The Aviator" milestone. It rewards you with 10 navigation data.
Visit the local space station and request dialect help from six locals to complete "Linguaphile."
Visit the cartographer, and buy 2 Emergency Cartographic Data and 3 Alien Cartographic Data.
Sell Nip-Nip buds and historical document, then buy 40 salt from the trade terminal.
Select "Interstellar Rescue" milestone and use Emergency Cartographic Data to reveal a distress signal. Visit the marked location and help the pilot by repairing his starship to complete it.
Select "Fallen Giants" milestone, and use another Emergency Cartographic Data to reveal a freighter crashsite, visit it, and interact with its terminal to finish this milestone.
Return to your freighter and install the Salvaged Hyperdrive Upgrade you received from the "Fallen Giants" milestone into the supercharged slot.
Select "Rendezvous 1" milestone and use the Freighter Warp Map to teleport to the marked system. This will instantly complete "Engage Warp" milestone, which gives you a lot of silver and 3 warp hypercores.
At this point, you can finally summon the Space Anomaly and retrieve all the items you transferred from your main save at the expedition terminal.
Now, visit the technology merchant at the local space station and sell all modules you received to complete "Quantum Foam" milestone.
Build a Fleet Command Room in your freighter.
Warning: you can skip steps 26-32 if you brought everything from the preparation section!
Next, if you didn't bring materials to this expedition, buy 7 di-hydrogen jellies, 3 carbon nanotubes, 1 metal plating, 100 cobalt, and all ferrite dust.
Buy all chromatic metal and 25 phosphorus from the traders coming to the space station.
Also, visit any planet and farm 25 condensed carbon and 20 sodium, then collect 155 mordite from animals and refine 75 mordite into 25 faecium.
Then mine enough materials to get 3 warp cells and 3 antimatters in total and refine 6 di-hydrogen jellies into di-hydrogen.
Refine cobalt into 50 ionised cobalt and salt into 20 chlorine, then craft 1 amino chamber, a fishing rig and 30 spicy chum.
Interact with the Fleet Command Room to learn the 50 tonnes frigate fuel recipe, then craft 3 of them.
Now you should have the same stuff as players who prepaped these materials in advance!
Build a Storage Room inside your freighter to complete "Super Cargo" milestone.
Send your fleet for an expedition using the navigator and instantly recall them back at the fleet command room. Repeat this 3 times to complete "Called by the Stars" in less than a minute!
Build Orbital Exocraft Materialiser to finish "Drop Protocol" and also unlock some other room blueprints.
Then build a Scanner Room to complete the "Farseer" milestone.
Build a Double Cultivation Chamber to complete "The Air We Breathe."
Build a Teleport Chamber to finish "Across Infinity."
Now select "Rendezvous 1" and reach the portal on the marked planet to complete it.
Don't forget to use the signal scanner to find nearby points of interest and activate save beacons there. Interacting with five of them will complete "Signs To Nowhere".
Use spicy chum and catch five uncommon ice-specific fish on this planet to complete "Icy Veins."
Select "Rendezvous 2" milestone, warp to the marked system, then visit the portal to complete it.
Now visit Argi Prime Forsaken planet in this system and take the final photo of the surface to complete "Grand Tour" milestone.
Select "Rendezvous 3" milestone, warp to the marked system, then visit the portal to complete it.
Follow the same steps to finish "Rendezvous 4" milestone, and repeat them again to finish "Rendezvous 5" milestone.
Now select "Historiography Lesson" milestone, then use three "Alien Cartographic Data" planetary charts and visit three respective sites.
Pick the "Take Dosimeter reading for Nada" option all three times, and this will finish this milestone.
Ask Polo at the Space Anomaly for black hole coordinates.
Warp to the marked system with a black hole, then enter it.
This will teleport you far from the expedition area, where you can successfully warp between systems until you discover eight of them and complete "Uncharted".
Go to the Quicksilver Companion at the space anomaly and buy a Myth Beacon from him to complete "Collective Consciousness" milestone. Warning: This is a community-wide milestone, so if the item is not available yet, wait a couple of days until other players progress enough through the expedition.
Use the Myth Beacon you bought, warp to a system with a beacon sign, and use it once again near the marked structure to finish "Echo Through The Ages" milestone.
Approach the ship in space, process the message, and add it to your fleet to complete "Historical Paragon", the final milestone in this expedition.

How to claim revards and finish expedition

Now summon the Space Anomaly, visit the expedition terminal, press "End Expedition", transfer anything you want to keep to your main save if you started the expedition from there, then finish the expedition.

Everything else you own will be converted into units and nanites, and all currency, including quicksilver, will be transferred to your main save.

If you started the expedition as a new game, completing the expedition will convert it into a regular save, allowing you to keep all your items and currency as-is.

Either way, you can now claim the expedition rewards from the Quicksilver Companion on as many saves as you like!

Cheers! 🌟

Conclusion

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

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

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

Posted Nov 7, 2025, 7:00 PM UTC

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