No Man's Sky Expedition 16 The Cursed Phase 1 walkthrough

This No Man's Sky Expedition 16 The Cursed Phase 1 walkthrough covers all the milestones that you have to complete to progress in the questline. Finishing all the tasks unlocks the Phase 1 rewards – custom posters. The tasks involved in Phase 1 are quite straightforward and players will most likely not have a hard time tackling them.

This article explains everything players can expect in the first phase of the ongoing expedition in No Man's Sky.

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How to complete Phase 1 of Expedition 16 The Cursed in No Man's Sky

Expedition 16 in No Man's Sky (Image via Hello Games)

Expedition 16 Phase 1 has the following milestones:

• Milestone 1 - Out of Time
• Milestone 2 - Elixir of Glass
• Milestone 3 - Nowhere to Run
• Milestone 4 - Ink-Stained Skies
• Milestone 5 - Written in Blood
• Milestone 6 - Dislocation
• Milestone 7 - Beyond the Boundary

Once the expedition begins, make your way to your starship. You should mine Ferrite Dust, Di-hydrogen, Carbon, and Oxygen on the way. Once you reach your ship and step in, you will be directed to a nearby abandoned building. Interact with the terminal to complete Milestone 1. The reward will be the Elixir of Glass.

This expedition-exclusive item recharges your reality boundary (the purple bar on the lower left side of the screen). By now, you must have noticed that as it falls, the boundary horrors/spectral tentacle creatures appear. They first spawn at around 80%, start attacking you at around 50%, and try to ram you at around the 30% mark of your reality boundary. Once you kill/banish them with boltcaster or the mining beam, they drop Shattered Qualia.

Banishing the boundary horrors in No Man's Sky Expedition 16 (Image via Hello Games)

To complete Milestone 2, you need to create your own Elixir of Glass. It requires 10x Shattered Qualia and 30x Ferrite Dust. It's best to farm for more than one Elixir of Glass as you will require quite a few of them during the course of the mission.

Now, you need to repair the Launch Thruster and Pulse Engine of your starship. The first requires 1x Di-hydrogen Jelly (40x Di-hydrogen) and 50x Pure Ferrite (refine Ferrite Dust in a Portable Refiner). Repairing the Pulse Engine requires 1x Metal Plating (50x Ferrite Dust) and 1x Hermetic Seal (30x Condensed Carbon). With the ship patched up, head up into space to complete Milestone 3.

Mining asteroids in No Man's Sky (Image via Hello Games)

Milestone 4 simply requires you to banish 16 boundary horrors. You will likely have made quite a headway into this while farming for Shattered Qualia.

Now you need to make the Elixir of Blood Milestone 5. This requires 15x Mordite (dropped by fauna), 15x Pugneum (dropped by Sentinels), and 20x Gold. Given the planets in the system have high sentinel activity, you will have the first two in no time. For the second, head out into space and mine asteroids. This will provide you with both Gold and Silver. The latter is required for the next milestone.

For Milestone 6, you need to prepare the Elixir of Quicksilver. It requires 40x Silver, 33x Pure Ferrite, and 40x Chromatic Metal. To get the third ingredient, head over to a planet with Cadmium deposits, use the Terrain Manipulator to gather some, and refine it into Chromatic Metal.

The portal (Image via Hello Games)

Drinking the Elixir of Quicksilver will reveal to you a portal that you need to reach. Once there, prepare the Elixir of Blood, offer it to the portal, and teleport. This will complete Milestone 7 as well as Phase 1 of Expedition 16 The Cursed in No Man's Sky.

Expedition 16 Phase 1 completion rewards (Image via Hello Games)

The Expedition 16 Phase 1 completion rewards are Boundary Anomaly Poster plans, Portal Breach Poster plans, and Glyph Poster plans.