Expeditions/Rewards

Expedition Rewards

Subpage of Expeditions. Wiki path: Expeditions/Rewards.

Expedition payouts scale with fleet catalog value, zone difficulty, depth, research / class, and a variance roll. They do not use a flat node base reward, Charged/Dormant loot mods, or a rally multiplier — expeditions are solo.

Contents

• What actually scales rewards
• Resource formula
• Resources by realm
• Drops
• Recovered ships
• Failure vs rewards
• Caps
• What this page used to claim

What actually scales rewards

Lever	Effect
Fleet catalog value	Resource and ship finds start at 15% of the ships you sent
Zone difficulty	Easy ×1.0 / Medium ×1.2 / Hard ×1.6 / Extreme ×2.0 (resources)
Depth	Earning ×1.0 → ×3.0 from D1 to D10 (see Depth System)
Explorer ships	min(100%, log₂(count + 1) × 5%) extra loot and a matching cap lift
Explorer class	+12% loot; Warlord −10%
Expedition Basics / Legendary Expeditions	Extra loot %
Variance roll	0.7–1.3× base, plus rare minor / major / jackpot
Cargo	Resources scale down if the hold is full; recovered ships are not cargo-capped

Node type, node state, and rally participation are not live loot multipliers.

Resource formula

payout ≈ fleet catalog value × 15%

       × difficulty
       × depth earning
       × research + class loot
       × variance roll
       × (1 + Explorer-ship bonus)

Then the total is split across resource types (steel-heavy, quartz-heavy, or gas-heavy emphasis is random). Full tables: Expeditions → How loot is calculated.

Resources by realm

Iridium and Silicium

Elerium (not on every find)

Realm	Resources
1	Steel, Quartz, Gas
2+
3+

Silicium is a Realm 2 expedition resource, not a Realm 3 unlock.

Drops

Item finds are nano boosts, tech boosts, relic pieces, monument pieces, and (very rarely) cosmetics. There are no research fragments, blueprint fragments, or Codex entries on this mission.

• Deeper / harder zones weight item found more heavily. There is no guaranteed fragment at depth 5 and no guaranteed relic at depths 9–10.
• Deep Space Sensors, Monolith, Explorer class, and one specialist ship type bias the family of item (relic > monument > nano > tech). See Expeditions → Fleet composition.
• Above 1 trillion player score, nano and tech boost weights drop to 10% of normal. Relics, monuments, and cosmetics are unchanged.

Relic drop context: Relics → Collecting relic pieces.

Recovered ships

A ships found event pays from a ship-value budget (~15% of fleet value × a steeper difficulty curve: Easy ×1 / Medium ×1.5 / Hard ×2.5 / Extreme ×4, then depth and Explorer-ship bonus).

• Pool is current realm and previous realm only.
• Class is capped near one above the strongest ship you sent (jackpots can stretch that).
• Colony ships, Recyclers, Advanced Recyclers, Planetary Harvesters, Support Vessels, and Explorer ships are not recovered.

Failure vs rewards

A bad depth does not wipe or tax loot from earlier depths.

Outcome	Typical result
Empty / quiet	No payout this depth
Stun	Delay 15–120 min, then Extract or Continue; loot kept
Ship loss / pirate ambush	Permanent hull removed (small %, then capped — see Depth System)

Realm 1 is not stun-only. Easy zones can lose ships from depth 2 onward.

Caps

• Per-expedition ceiling from player score (slower growth after ~1M) and a realm hard cap.
• Daily ceiling = 15× the per-expedition cap (a small floor remains if you are near the daily limit).
• Explorer-ship bonus raises the ceiling on that run.
• Legendary Expeditions raises per-run and daily ceilings further.

What this page used to claim

Ignore older copy that mentioned:

• Rally multiplier 1 + 0.28 × log₂(participants + 1)
• Meteorite coordinates as an expedition reward
• Guaranteed fragment at depth 5
• Depth 7–8 at 6× / depth 9–10 at 10× with guaranteed relic pieces
• “No ship loss, stun only” in Realm 1
• Research / blueprint / Codex fragment drops

Those are not how live expeditions pay.