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The subject of this article is from the Adrift update.
The information from this article is up-to-date as of 16 July, 2024.

  Note: This section is under development. Expedition 13: Adrift describes the 13th expedition, known as Adrift, in No Man's Sky. It began on 29 May 2024 and ended on 15 July 2024, with a redux repeat lasting from 11 December 2024 to the 25 December 2024.

Players that complete this expedition receive the Iron Vulture starship and the Iron Panels customisation.

In this expedition, the players will find themselves in a universe completely devoid of any sentient life or signs of settlement. All systems and points of interest within them are abandoned, Space Stations are derelict and empty, and the Space Anomaly will also be eerily silent and desolate (with only Nada's shell/carapace still present). Finally, player-to-player communication is impossible, with all speech or text reduced to static.

You are all alone and on your own, and must therefore make do and survive without any kind of assistance, while contemplating on your solitude and place within the infinitely vast, empty universe.

Outside of the expedition, as of the Worlds Part II update, players can now also start and play a campaign in "Abandoned Mode", which makes the universe just as empty, abandoned and silent as it was during the expedition.

Gameplay[]

Players starting this expedition will start on planet Anussi in the Xillup system with a Derelict Freighter in the sky, with their starship a few hundred units away from their spawn. The player's Exosuit specifications are:

Spawn Starship specifications:

Spawn Multi-Tool specifications:

Milestones & Rewards[]

Achieving each milestone results in substantial rewards in the form of Expedition Patches, Items, Blueprints, Upgrades, Units, and Nanites.

Phase 1[]

No Badge Milestone Requirement Rewards
1 Alone in the Dark Reach your starship
2 From the Ashes Installed an Advanced Mining Laser
3 (TBU) Self-reliance Installed a Personal Refiner
4 An Unlikely Escape Leave the planet
5 (TBU) Lights Out Found an abandoned station
6 (TBU) Independent People Attain light speed
7 (TBU) Worlds of Rock & Ice Mined 40 asteroids
8 (TBU) Rendezvous 1 Reach the first rendezvous point

(Reach the Shelter at latitude/longitude (+7.00, +43.05) on planet Rotmouti IX in the Havida-Bozho XVI system)
9 Phase 1 Complete all milestones in Phase 1
  • Stealth Paint customization
  • Poster set

Phase 2[]

No Badge Milestone Requirement Rewards
10 (TBU) The Faintest Echo Spoke to the Void

Interact with a Holographic Comms Tower
11 (TBU) Amid the Stars Go beyond

Download data to a Mind Ark at the Space Anomaly's Prime Terminal, activate it at a designated Portal, then complete a spacewalk
12 (TBU) Make do and mend Perform vital salvage

Repair 3 slots each on your starship and multi-tool
13 Time on your feet Walk 9,000u
14 Stirring the nest Steal 16 Whispering Eggs
15 All that you survey Climbed a mountain over 1,600u
16 (TBU) Rendezvous 2 Reach the second rendezvous point

(Reach the Trading Post at latitude/longitude (+58.53, -7.27) on planet Wedn X28 in the Warazu system)
17 Phase 2 Complete all milestones in Phase 2
  • Starship Wreckage Base Parts

Phase 3[]

No Badge Milestone Requirement Rewards
18 (TBU) To Dream of Stars Drift through time and space

Activate the Pulse Engine while in space
(Only after completion of Amid the Stars)
19 Call of the Void Harvest 3 Radiant Shards
20 Life, Reimagined Discover 21 plants
21 Bones to Dust Excavate 8 Ancient Bones
22 (TBU) Abandonment Repair a crashed starship
23 (TBU) It's Alive Discover 3 robotic lifeforms

Discover 3 synthetic creatures
24 (TBU) Rendezvous 3 Reach the third rendezvous point

(Reach the Observatory at latitude/longitude (+74.80, -178.90) on planet Eido W11 in the Yulint-Cungg system)
25 Phase 3 Complete all milestones in Phase 3

Phase 4[]

  Note: This section is under development.

No Badge Milestone Requirement Rewards
26 Signs to Nowhere Chart 12 Waypoints
  • Nautilon Advanced Equipment blueprints
  • Underwater Survival blueprints
  • S-class Nautilon drive upgrade
27 Quantum Foam Earn 1,600
  • X-tier Exosuit Upgrade (random?)
  • X-tier Multi-Tool Upgrade (random?)
28 Nameless History Discover 5 Ancient Ruins
29 The Lure of the Deep Collect 12 Sulphide Crystals
30 Fathoms Below Visit the site of a sunken freighter
31 Dereliction Completely explore a derelict freighter
  • Restored Freighter Command
32 To Dream of Freedom Drift towards infinity

Activate the Pulse Engine while in space
(Only after completion of Amid the Stars and To Dream of Stars)
33 Rendezvous 4 Reach the fourth rendezvous point

(Reach the Crashed Freighter at latitude/longitude (-10.69, +144.11) on planet Laypso in the Tutsburti system)
34 Phase 4 Complete all milestones in Phase 4
  • Frigate: Ship of the Damned

Phase 5[]

  Note: This section is under development.

No Badge Milestone Requirement Rewards
35 Not Alone Discover 32 creatures
36 Still They Hunger Eliminated 8 Hungering Tendrils
37 Ghost in the Machine Locate a Lost Traveller
  • Assorted glitches
38 In the Weeds Eliminated 9 Hazardous Flora
39 By Bread Alone Cook your own food
40 A Still, Small Voice Become serene in the face of infinity

Stare at the night sky for 60 real-time seconds
41 To Dream of Sleep Drift towards eternity

Activate the Pulse Engine while in space
(Only after completion of Amid the Stars, To Dream of Stars and To Dream of Freedom)
42 (TBU) Phase 5 Reach the final rendezvous point

(Reach the Crashed Ship at latitude/longitude (+62.48, +115.40) on planet Nashifn Tau in the Anzadg-Idlin VI system, then fight off the Sentinels)
43 Phase 5 Complete all milestones in Phase 5
  • Title: 'Drifter'
  • Adrift decal plans
  • Adrift Banner customisation

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