No Man's Sky: Our Journey Continues Expedition 23 Guide

To finish the Our Journey Continues expedition in No Man's Sky in roughly four hours, work on objectives across all five phases concurrently rather than following them in numerical sequence. Starting through the Space Anomaly terminal with transferred supplies bypasses early resource gathering, while immediately equipping milestone rewards removes the need to craft advanced technology manually.

Pre-Load Supplies at the Space Anomaly Terminal

Starting the expedition from an existing save file via the Space Anomaly expedition terminal saves substantial time compared to starting on a fresh save. Once the Anomaly becomes accessible in your run, you can withdraw technology packages, weapons, and basic raw materials transferred from your main game.

Load the terminal with items that remove crafting and survival bottlenecks:

Refined Construction Metals: Stacks of Chromatic Metal, Pure Ferrite, and Magnetised Ferrite to repair damaged machinery and construct base components without running portable refiners.
Survival Fuel: Ion Batteries, Life Support Gel, and Oxygen stacks to keep hazard shields and life support charged without stopping to gather planetary flora.
Hyperdrive and Ship Fuel: Warp Hypercores, Starship Launch Fuel, and Tritium to maintain continuous interstellar flight between rendezvous systems.
Technology Modules: S-class Movement Modules for longer jetpack sprint duration, along with upgraded Hyperdrive or weapon modules to clear early space encounters quickly.

If you are running on a fresh standalone save, dismantle all non-essential starship and multi-tool components on your starting planet to harvest wiring looms and refined components before taking off.

Batch Milestones Across Phases

Treating the expedition as a linear list will extend your total completion time. Milestones in Phases 2 through 5 can be triggered at any point during the run.

Category	Overlapping Tasks	Recommended Action
Exploration	Scan flora and fauna, discover planets, log waypoints	Scan every new plant and animal on foot while traveling toward mission markers.
Survival	Endure extreme storms, accumulate storm exposure time	Let storm timers run while digging for buried technology or mining nearby nodes.
Combat	Eliminate Sentinels, defeat biological horrors	Claim milestone weapon rewards before picking a single, controlled fight.
Construction	Establish bases, construct specified modules	Place base computers directly on rendezvous planets to avoid backtracking.

Review all phase tabs immediately upon gaining control of your character. Identify which tasks require specific planetary environments—such as toxic, airless, or frozen biomes—and complete those objectives when encountering those worlds along your primary route.

Optimize Resource Harvesting

Manual multi-tool mining with the standard mining beam creates unnecessary delays. Adjust your approach based on the target resource:

Underground Mineral Deposits: When mining Copper, Cadmium, or Paraffinium, adjust the Terrain Manipulator beam to its smallest spherical diameter. Digging out a deposit with the small beam yields significantly more raw ore per vein than the large excavation beam. A single Copper deposit mined this way provides enough raw ore to refine all the Chromatic Metal needed for the entire expedition.
Surface Carbon and Ferrite: Fly low over forests or dense rock fields in your starship and fire your Photon Cannon or Infra-Knife Accelerator. Ship strafing harvests thousands of units of Carbon, Ferrite Dust, and Geodes within seconds without draining multi-tool charge.

Travel the Rendezvous Route Efficiently

Navigating through unaligned systems wastes jump range and fuel. Set your Galaxy Map filter directly to the Expedition Route and optimize every jump:

Chain Star Systems: Do not jump to the very next adjacent system if your starship's hyperdrive range can bypass it and reach a system two or three steps farther along the route.
Equip Free Propulsion Rewards: Place hyperdrive upgrade modules awarded by early milestones into supercharged technology slots to immediately boost jump distance.
Register Space Stations: Land at the Space Station in each rendezvous system before flying down to the designated planet. This logs the station into your teleport network so you can return instantly if a later objective requires that specific location.
Bypass Space Distractions: Ignore freighter defense missions and incidental pirate alerts while traveling. Engaging freighter battles adds combat time and dialogue sequences that do not progress expedition milestones.

Apply Milestone Rewards Instead of Crafting

Milestone completion rewards supply the equipment required for subsequent phases. Inspect the expedition reward pool before spending resources on blueprints or crafting recipes.

Avoid spending Salvaged Data at the Space Anomaly unless a milestone requires an exact building structure. Crucial upgrades, advanced refiners, and environmental protections are awarded directly by adjacent tasks. When a reward provides pre-packaged modules, install them immediately. The resulting passive bonuses to sprint recovery, shield resistance, and mining efficiency compound to reduce completion times across all remaining objectives.

Once Phase 5 is cleared, open the expedition log to collect the final completion badge before concluding the run at the Anomaly terminal.