Within the Expedition, you will get the ship as part of the storyline for free. If you go to the Quicksilver vendor to try to claim it, it will take nanites.
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Assuming they upload their base, you can visit it without them being online. If they are online you can visit their bases that aren't uploaded.
Yes, you can encounter people outside of the Anomaly, assuming you have Multiplayer enabled.
When you start a new save, there are different game types you can choose like Creative, Suvival, and Expedition. They each have their own rules and settings. In this case when I say Normal, I mean the default game type and specifically not an Expedition.
I've literally killed around 3 dozen. Nothing so far. I just wish I knew I wasn't wasting my time.
Yeah, you crush the juicy grub and it makes the Vile Queen attack. Supposedly the queen drops the different helms but I have killed SO many and gotten nothing with my expedition save.
That sucks. I've checked multiple bases across my saves, and somehow none of them were impacted. I expected at least a couple of them to be trashed because I tend to build along the terrain and into caves. While surfaces features of the planets changed, the terrain itself seemed to stay the same.
I'm not holding my breath though. Worlds Part 2 is coming eventually and there's no telling what will happen.
I don't know of guide, but off the top of my head...
Quest List
Complete the Artemis Storyline (That is a requirement to trigger other quests).
Jumping between systems will eventually trigger...
- A freighter rescue mission, which gets you a freighter
- Dreams of the Deep
- The Settlers, which gets you a settlement
- Under a Rebel Star
- A Trace of Metal once you complete the Artemis Storyline and The Settlers
- They Who Returned once you complete the Artemis Storyline and have visited a Harmonic Camp
Buying a Void Egg will trigger the Starbirth quest Sending frigates on expeditions will eventually get you the Dream Aerial plans
Many of these quests result in rewards like ships, appearance modifications, companions, etc.
I've seen both happen in previous updates, so I don't know what the intention was with this particular update.
Honestly, I am not seeing a big difference so far. I loaded my various saves and checked to see if any of my bases were affected, but didn't see much of a change. Yes, clouds and water are better looking, and some planets had some new terrain features, but nothing major. I wonder if they limited the impacts to existing inhabited planets?
If I remember correctly, once I finished the final battle the ship automatically landed nearby, ready to be claimed. I don't think I even claimed it in the Expedition tab before it happened. I know I wouldn't have had 1400 nanites.
It's possible you missed the ship or that the expedition glitched. The bug might have gotten patched in an update but it didn't matter to you because your game had already converted to Normal. Poking around Reddit, it sounds like others had similar problems claiming the ship.