How to complete the Scrapper in No Man’s Sky Expedition 2: Beachhead / Normandy

Scrapper is the second Milestone in Phase Two of No Man’s Sky Expedition 2: Beachhead/Normandy. To complete it, you need to find and recover a crashed ship. Your starting ship doesn’t count towards this Milestone, so you’ll need to somehow find a second crashed ship and restore it to working condition. This guide explains how to do this so you can move on to the next Milestone.

Step 1: Get a Planet Chart from a cartographer

You won’t find a crashed ship unless you are extremely lucky or you use a Planetary Chart. To get these, you need to visit the cartographer in the local space station. We recommend buying them in bulk for at least five as they can give you coordinates to different locations and there’s no way to control what you get.

Once you have some Planet Charts, fly out into space and use them. Keep using them to get new coordinates until you get one for the distress signal. This will always lead you to a crashed ship, so fly down to the specified planet and land as close to the location as possible.

Step 2: Repair the ship

Once you have found the ship, you need to repair it. You can do this by getting off the train and checking your inventory. This will show all the broken parts on the ship and chances are you will fix more things than you have resources. However, you don’t need to fix everything, just the pulse motor, thruster and shield. You can repair the ship more if you intend to use it permanently, but you will have to be very lucky to find a better ship than the one you are using at this point in the Expeditions.

Each component will show you the resources needed to repair it, all of which can be found on the planet where the ship crashed. Once all three of them are fixed, the Milestone will be completed and you can claim two Memory Boosts, a Supreme Thruster Upgrade and a Powerful Pulse Engine upgrade from the menu Expedition.