
There are twelve different transmissions to collect, which will appear in random order after a random number of warps. After a few warps, you'll receive a message on your communicator, kicking off a mission called Melody of the Egg. Once you've managed to earn enough Quicksilver to purchase a Void Egg from the Quicksilver Synthesis Companion, keep it in your inventory, fly into space, and warp to a different star system. These missions can be dangerous and time-consuming, and are best completed with help from friends or strangers, unless you're playing in creative mode which will protect you from harm and give you infinite resources (though even still, completing the missions solo may take some time as they're meant to be group efforts). To get started with community research missions, you'll need to visit the Nexus-the big cube just to the left of the Quicksilver Synthesis Companion.


There are special events and weekend missions that can result in higher payouts of Quicksilver, but it still may take you a good long while to earn the 3,200 Quicksilver you'll need to buy a Void Egg. You earn Quicksilver from doing community research missions, and most of these are daily missions that only net you 250 Quicksilver at a time-and there's only one mission per day, so you can't just grind them out all in one session. The Quicksilver cost is going to be the issue for players who haven't been active in No Man's Sky for a while.
