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No Man's Sky: Beachhead Expedition Ultra-Fast Completion Guide (2025)
This guide provides a step-by-step walkthrough on how to complete the Beachhead Expedition Redux in No Man's Sky in under 90 minutes. It covers all the steps necessary to complete the expedition, including inventory management, resource acquisition, repairing the Matter Beam, visiting Rendezvous points, fleet missions, planetary scans, artifact excavation, and discovering uncharted systems.
1. 🚀 Introduction to the Beachhead Expedition Redux Speedrun Guide
- ✅ Guide on how to quickly complete the 2025 Beachhead Expedition Redux
- ✅ Must be completed within a week, until November 18th
- ✅ Following this guide allows completion in under 90 minutes
- ✅ Provides information on inventory management and necessary resources
- ✅ Instructions on how to repair the Matter Beam
00:00 - 00:48
1. 🚀 Introduction to the Beachhead Expedition Redux Speedrun Guide
- ✅ Guide on how to quickly complete the 2025 Beachhead Expedition Redux
- ✅ Must be completed within a week, until November 18th
- ✅ Following this guide allows completion in under 90 minutes
- ✅ Provides information on inventory management and necessary resources
- ✅ Instructions on how to repair the Matter Beam
00:49 - 02:29
2. 🌌 Starting System: Moving from Freighter to Planet Cody 17 and Gathering Resources
- ✅ Start from the freighter and move to planet Cody 17
- ✅ Exosuit Technology Alignment: Jetpack and Hazard Protection upgrades
- ✅ Scan 3 fauna on Cody 17 to complete 'First Contact'
- ✅ Scan plants and collect necessary resources like carbon and oxygen
- ✅ Secure fuel for Personal Refiner and Mining Beam
02:30 - 03:33
3. 🛠️ Freighter Base Construction and Investigating Crashed Freighters
- ✅ Construct Orbital Exocraft Materializer to complete 'Drop Protocol'
- ✅ Construct Scanner Room to complete 'Distant Gaze'
- ✅ Use planetary charts to locate crashed freighters
- ✅ Interact with the sphere at the crashed freighter to complete 'Fallen Giant'
03:34 - 04:57
4. 🆘 Investigating Distress Signals and Learning Alien Languages at Space Stations
- ✅ Move to distress signal markers to help NPCs or acquire abandoned ships
- ✅ Help the NPC and repair the ship to complete 'Interstellar Rescue'
- ✅ Use the ship's scanner to find points of interest
- ✅ Save and chart at 5 points of interest to complete 'Signposts in the Void'
- ✅ Move to the space station to acquire 'Star Stuff' from the asteroid field
- ✅ Talk to NPCs to learn alien languages, learn 6 words to complete 'Linguist'
04:58 - 06:31
5. 💰 Selling Items at the Trade Terminal and Constructing a Refiner
- ✅ Sell 'NipNip Buds' at the Galactic Trade Terminal and purchase necessary resources
- ✅ Purchase 4 purple alien planet charts from the Cartographer
- ✅ Construct a refiner at the freighter base
- ✅ Refine the items shown on the screen
| Item | Crafting/Usage |
|---|---|
| Antimatter | Warp Cell Crafting |
| Antimatter Housing | Warp Cell Crafting |
| Amino Chamber | Warp Cell Crafting |
06:32 - 07:26
6. 🛠️ Repairing the Freighter and Warping to Rendezvous 1 System
- ✅ Dismantle Teleport Chamber, Orbital Exocraft Materializer, and Refiner
- ✅ Use repair kits to repair the freighter hyperdrive
- ✅ Repair the freighter hyperdrive and atmospheric control to complete 'Fully Prepared'
- ✅ Construct a storage room and immediately dismantle it
- ✅ Craft 2 Resonance Amplifiers
- ✅ Repair the freighter Matter Beam technology
- ✅ Install the S-Class freighter hyperdrive upgrade obtained from 'Fallen Giant'
- ✅ Refuel the freighter hyperdrive with 3 warp cells
- ✅ Warp to the Rendezvous 1 system
07:27 - 10:30
7. ⭐ Fleet Missions and Visiting Rendezvous 1 Point
- ✅ Start fleet command missions after warping
- ✅ Interact with the fleet management console
- ✅ Construct Fleet Command Room and download fuel plans
- ✅ Send out 3 fleet expeditions to complete 'Call of the Stars' (select short-range missions then immediately cancel/report)
- ✅ Pulse drive to the Rendezvous 1 marker and find the portal
- ✅ Approach the portal to activate Rendezvous 1
10:31 - 12:29
8. 📸 Taking Screenshots and Visiting Rendezvous Points 2, 3, 4, and 5
- ✅ Take a screenshot using in-game controls, confirm completion of 'Grand Tour'
- ✅ Scan trees, shrubs, and cave plants around the portal
- ✅ Move to the coastline to complete 'Pilgrim'
- ✅ Install fishing equipment and craft bait
- ✅ Fish 5 frozen world fish with a rarity of 'Uncommon' or higher to complete 'Ice Veins'
- ✅ Warp to Rendezvous 2, 3, 4, and 5 systems and visit the portal at each point
12:30 - 14:28
9. ⛏️ Excavating Artifacts and Interacting with Ancient Monuments
- ✅ Obtain nanites after completing Rendezvous 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, complete 'Quantum Bubbles'
- ✅ Use the analysis visor to excavate 3 buried items (buried cache, minerals, organic structure)
- ✅ Use 3 purple alien planet charts to move to ancient monuments, choose language or knowledge
- ✅ Use the fourth purple chart to visit ruins, ancient monuments, and monoliths, complete 'History Lesson'
14:29 - 17:11
10. 🧭 Installing a Myth Beacon and Discovering Uncharted Systems
- ✅ Talk to the Quicksilver Synthesis Companion at the Anomaly to purchase a Myth Beacon, complete 'Creative Spark'
- ✅ Move to the system marked with a Traveler's Grave
- ✅ Use the Myth Beacon at the Boundary Failure point, complete 'Echoes Through the Ages'
- ✅ Talk to the entity that appears through the communicator, complete 'Historical Imperative'
- ✅ Discover 8 uncharted systems to complete 'Uncharted Territory' (straight warp, Anomaly base warp, use black holes, Steam offline mode)
17:12 - 17:42
11. 🎁 Expedition Rewards and Additional Information
- ✅ 'The Astronaut' completed (automatically completed)
- ✅ Obtain all rewards and transfer resources and technology at the Anomaly
- ✅ Leave questions in the comments