Chances are, if you’re going for No Man’s Sky’s Platinum Trophy – or even if you’ve just blasted off into space for the first time – you’ll be at least somewhat familiar with the concept of Journey Milestones in No Man’s Sky.
Acting as a form of in-game achievement tracker, Milestones will be triggered for doing just about any activity for a long enough period of time, be it shooting up starships or hunkering down on an inhospitable planet – and achieving a certain amount is also a necessary part of the Atlas Path. Right here, we’ll explain what you need to do for every Journey Milestone in the game, as well as offering tips for reaching the maximum Milestones and as highlighting the quickest Milestones to achieve if you’re running a little behind in your quest along the Atlas Path.
There are nine Milestone categories in total, each having ten levels within it, whilst the top-level Milestone for each category will award you a gold PlayStation Trophy if you’re on PS4 – which is a pretty generous payoff. As you’ll earn every other Milestone along the way by obtaining these nine maximum-level ones, we’ve left those out and gone straight to the top.
Journey Milestone Tiers in No Man’s Sky
Before we crack on with our explanation of each different Milestone category, here are the 12 Milestone Tiers and the number of Milestones required to reach them. Note that – very minor Atlas Path spoilers – each Milestone Tier, up to and including Magellan, is a requirement for a particular dialogue option in each Atlas Interface.
- Apollo – 0 milestones
- Pathfinder – 5 milestones
- Juno – 10 milestones
- Rosetta – 15 milestones
- Cassini – 20 milestones
- Kepler – 25 milestones
- Dawn – 30 milestones
- Curiosity – 35 milestones
- Hubble – 40 milestones
- Viking – 45 milestones
- Magellan – 50 milestones
- Galileo – 55 milestones
No Man’s Sky Milestones list and related Trophies and Achievements
Here’s a list of the top tiers for each Milestone, the requirements for getting them, and any trophies or achievements you’ll unlock by doing so along the way:
| Milstone Type | Max Tier | Related Trophies | How to achieve |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-foot Exploration | Adventurer | A Scanner Darkly Symphony for a Lost Traveler Have Spacesuit – Will Travel |
Walk 100,000u on foot |
| Alien Encounters | Ambassador | Contact Who Goes There? What a Mad Universe |
Meet 40 Aliens |
| Words Collected | Babelfish | Babel 17 The Languages of Pao Citizen of the Galaxy |
Learn 150 Words |
| Most Units Accrued | Magnate | Foundation The Soace Merchants The Diamond Age |
Have 2,000,000 Units at one time |
| Ships Destroyed | Legend | Use of Weapons Pattern for Conquest The Forever War |
Destroy 80 Starships in total |
| Sentinels Destroyed | Legend | None | Destroy 80 Sentinels in total |
| Extreme Survival | Everlasting | The Sentinel | Survive 32 Sols (in-game days lasting 15 real-world minutes) on a planet with Extreme Conditions (Extreme weather or aggressive Sentinels) without leaving or getting into your ship. |
| Space Exploration | Discoverer | The Stars, Like Dust The Longest Voyage A Space Odyssey |
Warp 60 times |
| Planet Zoology Scanned | Encyclopedia | Galapagos | Discover all species on 10 planets |
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