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Expedition Timeline — Past Expeditions and Rewards

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Expeditions are time-limited, so “what’s running right now” changes constantly. This page keeps the full list in one table and states when it was last checked. For how expeditions actually work, see Expedition Basics.

Last checked: 30 July 2026 · game version 6.45.1

As of that date, no expedition is running. Expedition 22, The Swarm, ended around 19 July and no new one has been announced. Gaps of a few weeks to a couple of months between expeditions are normal.

When nothing is running

There’s still something to do in the gap.

  • Rewards from expeditions you already completed can be claimed on any save from the Quicksilver Synthesis Bot in the Space Anomaly. If you haven’t pulled them into your main save yet, now’s the time.
  • Wait for a Redux. Hello Games often re-runs the year’s expeditions over the holidays in shortened form. No 2026 Redux has been announced yet.

2026 expeditions

#NameDatesShipped withHeadline rewards
22The Swarm27 May – ~19 Jul 20266.4 The SwarmDirewasp rifle multi-tool, Direwasp Flightpack, six-piece Direwasp customisation set
—(no expedition)—6.3 Xeno Arena (8 Apr)—
21Remnant11 Feb – late Mar 20266.2 RemnantFive-piece Heirloom customisation set, three Colossus exocraft modules (camouflage finish, asymmetrical cabin, mechanical legs)

The exact end date for 21 isn’t confirmed — the official announcement only said “approximately six weeks”. The end date for 22 comes from the wiki rather than an official notice.

Through 13 January 2026, the previous year’s holiday Redux rotation was still running: Beachhead → Titan → Relics → Corvette → Breach, two weeks apiece.

What made The Swarm unusual

Expedition 22 was structured differently from its predecessors, and that structure may well return, so it’s worth noting.

  • Players were sorted into three teams — royal, sage, and weaver — each with its own ship livery and uniform.
  • One Phase 3 milestone was gated behind a server-wide community goal: constructing the Prismatic Core in the Anomaly. No amount of individual effort moved you past it until the community as a whole filled the bar.
  • The contributing missions ran on an eight-hour cooldown, capping how much you could do per day.

The result was roughly six weeks stuck on a single milestone. Anyone who started after the bar filled finished the remainder in a few hours — meaning joining late was actually faster.

Do missed rewards come back?

Once an expedition ends you can no longer unlock its rewards. But anything you did unlock is permanent. The Quicksilver Synthesis Bot will hand it to any save, free, including saves you create later.

So during an expedition, unlocking beats completing. Open the rewards and you can sort out the save whenever.

A note on naming

This page covers community expeditions only. Frigate expeditions — sending your freighter’s fleet out on missions — are an entirely separate system, covered in Fleet Expeditions.