No Man's Sky

No Man's Sky

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[How-To-Cheat] Revisit the past Expeditions
By I Am Groot
Much more friendly-reading site on Github Page (With Lame Humorous Sense)
For Expedition 1-4, please use the re-run expeditions data.
https://chrisn1992.github.io/Expedition-Replay-NMS/
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Changelist:
  • Since I'm pretty busy with life and work working on multiple projects and jobs at once, I don't really have time to actively update wall-of-text version, especially Steam guide. I will instead actively update expedition data on my Github Page which saves a lot of time editing contents and also give a better approach, avoiding tampering system date&time.
  • The Github Page can be found on the header of the Guide.

Version:
  • 1.0: Initial Content
  • 1.1: Update with cache file for Offline mode from Expedition 1 (Pioneer) [See Steps section]
  • 1.2: Update with cache file for Offline mode from Expedition 2 & 3 [See Steps section]; remove "Instant unlock" section due to duplication of other guides; updated title
  • 1.3: Update with cache file for Offline mode from Expedition 4 [See Steps section]
  • 1.4: Update with cache file for Offline mode from Expedition 5 (1-Rerun) [See Steps section]
  • 1.5: Update with cache file for Offline mode from Expedition 6-7 (2/3-Rerun) [See Steps section]
  • 1.6: Update with cache file for Offline mode from Expedition 8 (4-Rerun) [See Steps section]
  • 1.7: Update with cache file for Offline mode from Expedition 9 (5) [See Steps section];
  • 1.8: Update with cache file for Offline mode from Expedition 10 (6) [See Steps section];
  • 1.9: Moved to GitHub Pages, Update Script to Start with "almost" full slots to avoid incompatible starting slots from pre-Waypoint, always spawn at ship, always starting with Capital ship.
Expedition Update
Since update 3.3(namely Expedition), Hello Games gives us all Travellers a chance to explorer the Universe together.
Expedition is a community-driven time-limited event which has multiple phases and sub-missions for us to complete and explore the secret of Universe.
We have gone on 3 expeditions so far, new expeditions are coming on the way.
Background
Because it is community-driven and time-limited events, we will not be able to revisit the past expeditions due to the nature of events without a trick.
Steps
What do you need?
  • For the people who cannot afford to finish all milestones before the deadline, you need your intact Expedition save game.
  • For the people who comes late to the expedition, who has their save converted, you need a spare save slot.
What to do?
  1. Download and replace file in the path with:
    %APPDATA%\Roaming\HelloGames\NMS\st_[yourSteamId64]\cache\SEASON_DATA_CACHE.JSON
    Expedition 1[raw.githubusercontent.com]
    Expedition 2[raw.githubusercontent.com]
    Expedition 3[raw.githubusercontent.com]
    Expedition 4[raw.githubusercontent.com]
    Expedition 5 (1-Rerun)[raw.githubusercontent.com]
    Expedition 6 (2-Rerun)[raw.githubusercontent.com]
    Expedition 7 (3-Rerun)[raw.githubusercontent.com]
    Expedition 8 (4-Rerun)[raw.githubusercontent.com]
    Expedition 9 (5)[raw.githubusercontent.com]
    Expedition 10 (6)[raw.githubusercontent.com]

  2. Put your computer into completely offline by turn off Internet connection/or put Steam into Offline
  3. Set your system clock to the time range of the specific expedition(see below table)
    Expedition
    Start Time
    End Time
    1
    Monday, March 1, 2021 12:00:00 AM UTC
    Monday, May 17, 2021 12:00:00 AM UTC
    2
    Monday, May 17, 2021 01:00:00 PM UTC
    Monday, May 31, 2021 02:00:00 PM UTC
    3
    Wednesday, September 8, 2021 01:00:00 PM UTC
    Monday, October 18, 2021 10:00:00 AM UTC
    4
    Wednesday, October 20, 2021 12:00:00 PM UTC
    Monday, November 22, 2021 10:00:00 AM UTC
    5 (1-Rerun)
    Wednesday, November 24, 2021 2:00:00 PM UTC
    Tuesday, December 7, 2021 2:00:00 PM UTC
    6 (2-Rerun)
    Wednesday, 8 December 2021 2:00:00 PM
    Tuesday, 21 December 2021 2:00:00 PM
    7 (3-Rerun)
    Wednesday, 22 December 2021 2:00:00 PM
    Tuesday, 4 January 2022 2:00:00 PM
    8 (4-Rerun)
    Wednesday, 5 January 2022 14:00:00
    Wednesday, 19 January 2022 14:00:00
    9 (5)
    Thu Feb 24 2022 11:00:00
    Tue Apr 04 2022 23:59:00
    10 (6)
    Thu Apr 14 2022 10:00:00
    Mon May 23 2022 00:00:00
  4. Get into the game and enjoy
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • You can play Expedition at any time you want on your save, with no pressure on your mind as long as you play the save in completely offline and Date set to permitted time range.
  • No obstructed by other players buildings, no laggy spikes because of the Multiplayer.
Cons
  • You have to repeat all the steps each time you load your Expedition save.
  • You have to go completely offline.
  • No building obstruction is also backfiring: while in Online Multiplayer, other players' buildings may give you better advantages for a head-start, while in offline, you have to do it on your own( it is like you are playing a normal save)
Notes
During Expedition 2, you may encounter an issue that you cannot obtain the Myth Beacon from Quick Silver vendor. If it happens, you will need to give yourself the Myth Beacon by using any inventory editor you can find.
221 Comments
NovaMave 7 Nov, 2024 @ 7:28pm 
Expedition 13 crashes on attaining phase 4 reward.

Error code: 132250_0x76B914_ST76561198093252037
Gucky 24 Aug, 2024 @ 6:42am 
I did it this way and it worked (for expedition 5-13, no redux, fully unlocked from github):
Put Steam offline, copy the JSON, start a new game with the expedition, save, load and save again.
I did it 8 times for all expeditions.
Then I put steam to online and loaded the first save from expedition 5.
There I clicked on one reward and it put the file from expedition into normal.
I then checked my current expedition save from 14 and I had everything from all 5-13 expeditions unlocked.

I just forgot No Man's Sky all that time. :D
I did play 1-4 when they came out and now 14.
And I will still play any expedition (I haven't played yet) when its replayed, if I don't forget it again...
Meowdoleon 31 Jul, 2024 @ 7:22pm 
Expedition 2, however, is completely busted. You do not start on the correct region, and so the first rendez-vous point is completely wrong. Not that much of an issue, I naively thought, just have to change my location to the Pujarmu system and go on Tibertant Alpha, craft an Exocraft there and then head to Popolist using the coordinate (+26.51, -53.95) to find the portal and then just manually check off the Rendezvous 1 milestone.
Except... When you go at these coordinate, I swear it becomes creepypasta level of corrupted. The closer you get to the coordinate, the more you see corrupted stretching texture coming from where the portal should be. If you somehow are able to get to the portal, there is a corrupted Gek that softlock you if you try to interact with them.
So yeah, unless this is fixed Expedition 2 is just impossible to experience vanilla now.

(had to make two comments due to character limit)
Meowdoleon 31 Jul, 2024 @ 7:22pm 
So, I've done Expedition 1 Redux, and started Expedition 2 Redux. Just like JustHere4Coffee said you do need some assistance with a save editor as the old inventory system is causing issues, but... It kinda goes deeper than that.
Expedition 1 starts on a Green solar system. That's not too big of an issue, it just unlocks one of the milestone earlier, so just be aware of that if you are trying to play that expedition as vanilla as possible.
TowerXVI 13 Jul, 2024 @ 11:18am 
As a follow-up: You can work around the issues in Expedition 9 and 10 by first using the Partial Complete file, saving and reloading, claiming the Milestone that allows building a Hermetic Seal, saving and quitting, replacing the Partial Complete file with the normal playthrough file, and reloading. This will leave some residual completed Milestones that you haven't earned yet but allows a mostly fixed playthrough. Once you do this, you'll see that getting to the Abandoned Camp in Expedition 10 on foot was possible, but you'd be queueing up for a round trip that will take you quite a few hours.

You can, of course, fix everything with a save editor, but aren't we mostly here because we are trying to avoid that?
TowerXVI 12 Jul, 2024 @ 10:23pm 
In the no skips version, Expedition 10 and Expedition 10 Redux have both been rendered unplayable by applying "always spawn at ship". You will spawn many ku from the Abandoned Camp that is required to get the Hermetic Seal plan and fix your ship. I ran for well over half an hour before giving up.

Expedition 9 can also not be completed, as you cannot Upload Base while offline and therefore you cannot fix your ship. Like 10, this can only be resolved by using the "partial complete" file. Note that this one has no access to the Anomaly ever, which was part of the original intent of the Expedition.

Expedition 8 has issues where "always starting with Capital ship" replaces the custom frigate captain with a generic one who does not allow access to the Ship's Log. This can apparently be resolved by completely closing the game and reloading. You'll see the NPC name changes when it's fixed.
Not Mr Flıbble 24 Jun, 2024 @ 1:08pm 
File pathname (Proton):
…/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/275850/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Roaming/HelloGames/NMS/st_{steamId64}/cache/SEASON_DATA_CACHE.JSON
Cool Cakes 7 Jun, 2024 @ 6:37pm 
y is it Xd out?
JustHere4Coffee 5 Jun, 2024 @ 1:44am 
There does seem to be a glitch with the Normandy; I added it via the "instantly complete Expedition 2 redux" files, the captain's name is showing a placeholder text rather than looking up what it should be from that placeholder, when reviewing my fleet I get the "accept/refuse" buttons instead of "visit/dismiss", and the Quicksilver merchant continues to offer it as an uncollected reward. By contrast, the Leviathon and Living Frigate work flawlessly from their Instant Complete Redux files.
JustHere4Coffee 4 Jun, 2024 @ 4:31pm 
Been using these files successfully, although with a little assistance from the NMS Save Editor due to the earliest expeditions (even their redux versions) using the old slot layouts - while the game will happily let you exist without life support for a while, if you try moving at all it will get upset with you!

Rather than put Steam into Offline mode, I instead temporarily block NMS from connecting to the game servers while I click "complete" on all the phases - you only need to collect the smaller things if you plan on continuing to use the save afterwards (or you fancy trying to copy it all over to your main save with the save editor).