Quicksilver is the premium currency of No Man's Sky.

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It is awarded from Nada at various points in the Artemis Path story-line, as a bonus for keeping them updated on what is happening in the story.

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It is also awarded to players for doing missions from the Nexus, a community mission cube. These missions can be completed solo or in groups of up to four players. The Nexus offers a 400qs mission per day; which stack up to three, should you miss days. It also offers a weekend mission that awards 1800qs on completion. These missions sometimes also have implications in the story.

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QS can be earned by playing Expedition Mode. As quicksilver purchases are shared across saves, a player can unlock a quicksilver item in an expedition & it'll be claimable on other saves too.

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Finally, Quicksilver can be found from Condensed Stellar Ice, a Space Encounter while using pulse drive.

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Quicksilver can be spent by talking to the Quicksilver Synthesis Companion, who resides in the Space Anomaly. They sell a great range of cosmetic items, ranging from blueprints for parts for your bases, to banners for your character bio, armours & visages for your character appearance & technologies for your ship.

The ship technologies (trails & bobble-heads) provide small boosts to the ship's stats.

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The companion also offers fireworks (one-time use item) & Void Eggs (to start a mission to get a living ship).

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Other methods which were at one time easy to gain Quicksilver from, but are now exceptionally rare rewards include: Derelict Freighter random loot; giving food to Cronus on the Space

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NEW: Go to ruins, monoliths or plaques with a new item called the Historiographical Dosimeter in your inventory. Each one visited will give you 15 QS.