To level up fast in Starfield, focus on these effective methods:
Best Ways to Gain XP Quickly
- Explore and Discover New Locations: Traveling to new planets, buildings, and landmarks grants XP. High-level planets with dangerous creatures yield more XP per kill, especially if you hunt herds of fauna
- Complete Missions: Quests provide large XP rewards along with loot and credits, making them the most engaging way to level up
- Kill High-Level Fauna: Find planets with fauna levels 20-30 levels above you and cull wildlife for XP. Non-aggressive animals give around 70 XP each, and predators can often be avoided
- Use the Well-Rested Bonus: Sleep for 8+ hours in-game to gain a 10% XP boost. If married to a companion, this bonus increases to 15%
- Lower Difficulty: Set the game difficulty to easy or very easy to kill enemies faster without reducing XP gains, as difficulty does not affect XP
XP Farming Techniques
- Animal Husbandry Stations: Place these in a flat area in a circular layout to farm XP continuously by harvesting from hornet nests or other fauna
- Crafting Industrial Components: Build an outpost on a resource-rich planet (like Andraphon in Sumati system) to mass-produce items like Adaptive Frames. Crafting items grants XP with minimal effort
- Board and Loot Ships: Looting and killing enemies on ships, then blowing them up, is a quick way to get XP
Additional Tips
- Invest in the Zoology perk to boost XP from fauna kills
- Use cheats on PC (console commands) to instantly increase your level if desired
By combining exploration, questing, farming high-level fauna, crafting, and using the Well-Rested bonus, you can level up very quickly in Starfield
