Outposts on autopilot: Starfield factory setup guide 

New video out with a small update on the organic resources that some amazing people pointed out, plus a new spreadsheet in the description. Check out *Starfield Organic Resources: Every planet mapped, everything you need to know* from our video list.

This is without a doubt one of the most ingenious, efficient, and time consuming things I've ever seen be given to a community. I can't thank you enough for this. Your efforts are recognized and appreciated.

I love the learning curve in outpost building. I started with nonfunctional outposts, progressed to dysfunctional outposts, landed in semi-functional outposts, and am now working on simply functional outposts with the goal of chaining them together to manufacture second tier components. I am still at least a couple hundred hours away from the stuff in this video and looking forward to it.

this is EXACTLY the video I've been waiting for from the Starfield community. Thank you!!

Another RU-vidr with less than 500 subscribers comes to the rescue. Your content is golden and I hope to see this channel grow alot in the future. Thanks, man!

that graphic with the manufacturing inputs and outputs, which items feed into which fabricator(s)... that graphic is invaluable, thanks for taking the time to make it, and for sharing with everyone.. saves us a lot of time. epic

Ive just spent the last 2 days building my first 2 outposts. This is what I'm now working towards. Amazing video thank you very much.

I love a man with a spreadsheet. You are awesome.

I cannot express the immense satisfaction I got watching your plot unfold. Brilliant work, and exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for such an amazing demonstration and professional video.

This is amazing! Thanks for all the hard work.

Wow! That was absolutely incredible! The game hadn't even been out for two weeks yet, and you came up with all of this elaborate mining, chaining and transport of resources to a master base for fabrication. Incredible!! Thanks so much for this! I aim to (eventually) build a system like this to do this level of resource extraction and fabrication in-game too!

Thank you for makin this awesome comprehensive guide ! This was alot of hard work you can definitly see that ! You are for sure a follow worth my while ! 🙂

Such amazing effort putting this together! If possible, would be great for your next vid to showcase how you connected all outposts and eventfully to your home base, for us mere mortals who are kinda struggling with all this linkage :) Keep up the good work!

It took me a while to undestand this all but thank you so much. I started with Strix 1 because it has He3 and Al plus looks pretty nice. I'm slowly building out the system and it's working perfectly.

00:00 Intro 01:44 Requirements 04:25 Resource list 04:48 The First Outposts 07:47 Cargo Link setup 09:03 Main Crafting Hub 11:28 Fabrication Factory 13:28 Outpost Construction List 15:02 Same System Cargo Links 15:56 Pocket Outpost 16:28 Outro 👆The timestamps in the description had dots instead of colons 😉

Brilliant! Just bloody brilliant!

Great vid. So many details here. Thanks for putting all this together for us. We appreciate your time.

Amazing and in depth guide! I’d love to see more like this in the future

So I was thinking of modelling this set up/outpost system using sysml - I wanted to learn sysml anyway, but this certainly gives me a reason! This is great - thanks!

WOW. I am impressed and thankful for the work put in for us all. Thanks.

Congrats Polemos RPG!!!! 1000Subs!!!! I look forward to seeing many more guides of games in the future!

good work, gonna try this out!!!

Excellent guide of highly useful information. Subbed and saved!

Wow. Just wow, wow. Thank you so much. Wonderful.

WOW that took some time to make! nice work

You sir, deserve more subs. So glad I found this. Thank you 👌👍

Subbed. You're amazing, your knowledge shouldn't be free. Astonishing.

Thanks a lot. Simple and informative. Keep up the good work

You understand that dude is serious when excel spreadsheets appear. Amazing job 🙂

thank you for all of your research. absolutely brillant. very well done.

Love it thank you, Will do This when im done at starborn 11

What a fantastic video, thanks so much

My first base was Bessel-3b. I wasn't able to find the location that makes it so popular, but it's still a great location. I was planning to construct a manufactorum soon, so I appreciate the concepts presented here.

This is awesome. It is exactly what Im trying to do. I had already started my mining empire when I saw this. I already have bases at Jemison, Linnaeus 2, Linnaeus 4b, Cruth, Grimsey, Sumati, Bissel 3, Titan all feeding into Luna. Im gatering chlorine, argon,lead,silver, benzene,antimony, fluorine, copper, uranium, plutonium, iridium, vanadium,tetrafluorides, tungsten, titanium,iron, nickel, aluminium, cobalt, platinum, helium, beryllium,alkanes and water. Using your guide which planets should I search next.? Thank you for the great video. I can see it's taken alot of time and effort. I have liked and subscribed.😊

Great video! Thank you!

Thank you so much for making this video, a lot to learn 🙂

ah LOO min um Say it with me. ah LOO min um. J/k 😂. Thanks for the helpful video 👍

Wow I didn't know star field was also a city builder game 😆 Will have to dive into the outpost building. Thanks for the breakdown video!

Impressive! Thank you. :-)

Mr. Industrial Logistics and Economic Rival :D Nice job !

You are well worth a sub and like for this one. Great Job...

god damn dude, this is top tier creme de la creme of outpost building

wow great vid , must have been a huge amount of work , thank you Sir :)

Nice job.

Thanks for this guide. I have been messing around with outposts but have not done anything even close to this. The thing holding me back is the cargo links don't work for me all the time. I had an inter-system cargo link on one planet that didn't have H-3, so I was sending helium to that planet from the one i had it shipping its goods too. But the H-3 kept ending up back in the incoming cargo box on the base where it originated. I also had an inner-system cargo link sending iron to another outpost in that same system, but the cargo ship wouldn't depart with the iron unless I visited that outpost. I just feel there are too many bugs to spend this much time building an elaborate outpost system, but I very much want to do so. Yours is amazing.

When I saw that flow chart at 12:13 I said out loud "THAT'S FUCKING INSANE." This was some incredible work, man. Holy shit. Thank you.

Thank you.

Not bad. I'd use the starter base that Vash Cowaii made and then in the Advance guide he shows a massive interlink using 1-2 planets as He-3 farms. A few of the planets you showed would benefit from that dedicated He-3 farm and some of the planets he chose have easier climates. I love the storage wall! It'll take a lot of resources but seems well worth it. I know in the end of the video you mentioned Using Venus instead of waiting for resources but have you tested the T2, T3 extractors and storage capacities to see if any of them might help with the bottleneck on He-3 and other slower resources. Maybe a video on comparing the cost > output efficiency would be cool.

I hate the outpost system but this video is informative and has me thinking about dipping my toes into it. 😊

thi sis very useful video guidance, time to rearrange my outpost.

Thanks for a great video, yeah must have taken quite a while to compile all the information. I don’t have nearly as complex a setup, but do some tier 2 and 3 manufacturing with a few outposts and a central hub for resource collections and manufacturing. For XP grind its great, but for credit making it’s a bit of a pain as vendors and merchants has very limited funds to buy your stuff and there are limits to how much you can use yourself …. And the constant bug breaking the links …. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could make our own shop and sell to NPC’s, maybe a (free) DLC down the line :)

*shakes head slowly* Definitive. Comprehensive. Recommended.

Great video, great resources. Thanks for all the effort you put into this. Looking at your spreadsheet, you state you found xF4 on Cruth? It's not listed as one of the resources for me. I wonder if this is a "typo" as in the spreadsheet Cruth is next to Maal VII which def _does_ have xF4?

I really love the spreadsheet; I'm looking it up on a daily base when I'm working on Outposts. That said, I don't think that described system works with the planets provided in the list. Why? Helium. In your base building video part on Levathan II I see a single basic He-3 extractor. From recent observation, you need around one Level-3 Helium-3 extractor per Inter-Cargo-Link for it to work (it needs 5x He-3 per trip, one basic HE-Extractor generates around 2 Helium per round trip duration). While your first Interlink might start eventally (as soon as the 5 Helium are produced), all daisy-chained Interlinks will very quickly run dry. I've actually setup your proposal some days ago and it very much didn't work regarding transport back to the base. In this video it is suggested to have Outpost Management 4. This includes the possibility to use 4 (Inter)Links per Outpost. I'd suggest to use a planet with He-3 atmosphere (where you can get He-3 independent inside the whole Outpost boundaries). Build 5-6 Interlinks, link their HE-3 Boxes together with a Gas-Tank and link that Gas Tank to sufficient HE3-Extractors. Then link 1-2 HE3-Extractors to each Interlink-Output-Box. Otherwise you should ensure that sufficient He-3 Extractors (with a large Gas-Stroage inbetween) are feeding the Output box of your first daisy-chained Interlink to ensure ~every~ Output gets enough Helium and then initially fill up the Inboxes of each Outpost (beginning at the last) with Helium. This way you should get the chain going. You should then check on a regular base if the last link get enough Helium to keep filled. Otherwise, as the system always transfers "everything" into each chained Output-Link to its individual limit, you'll get into trouble at some point along the line. I've just setup a variantion of planets which have mostly their share of Helium to ensure each helium producing output serves only directly linked outposts. Let's see if that works. I'm totaling on 24 outposts, without Outpost Management 4.

This is genius!

Definitely appreciate the work you put into this. It does make me think that Bethesda made base building a little too complicated in this game though.

⌚timestamps: 0:00 - introduction 2:13 - get these perks 4:08 - do required research in research lab 4:24 - Resources to get started 4:45 - first three planets 6:40 - placing the outposts 7:22 - Resources and setup for basic outposts 8:10 - Resource transfer setup 8:46 - next 2 planets 9:01 - central hub location 11:54 - fabrication modules 13:09 - crafting area 13:27 - build outposts in this order 14:42 - organic farms 15:01 - outposts that don’t need intersystem links 15:19 - upgrade the bases, or use Venus 15:55 - get resources without mining

A link to your GSheets would be the cherry on top :)

what a god, ez sub

Damn you're an absolute genius! What an awesome guide. Thank you

Great video! It seems like the 6 unique resources are on 6 individual planets. Can you share your resource sheets please? I'd like to see which resources you mined where, especially when it comes to figuring out which biomes to target.

Great content and something I've been trying to build with all the outposts in the same star system? Started with Alpha C, now surveying Cheyenne to see if it has all the resources.

Very good approach to get this sorted out and some excellent diagrams to work with! Did you publish the Excels somewhere? I assume the "which planet has a serious subset of the resources I need" part will be done by everyone individually, as that should vary for each player (more precise: each game a player started) as that is likely highly dependent on the procedural generation of planet surfaces with landscape patches and the combination of those. But it's definitely an excellent guide to figure that out.

While I'm already on quite a few of the planets you listed, what you have done goes much further than BGS did in providing a rss guide that is useful. The idea of our characters being more than space cowboys really IMO speaks to the RPG reality-based side the Game inherently has. My BIG question is one that has creeper into some comments that denounce the Outposts... the ships that do the outpost transport are major contributors to frame rate stutter and loss. Have you with your system seen that too? GREAT VID pls post more. I'm new sub now

I have this setup almost exactly, but I'm finding resources in my fuel line and fuel in my resources line... can't figure out why, besides bugs with the game system. It should work and just fill up the fuel line with He3, but something is broken somewhere. Anyway, awesome video, and I had a blast exploring while going through the whole setup process. Took forever, haha. I have Fermi III feeding water and fiber to Fermi VII-a, btw. Can't wait for your update!

very good video

This is so impressive. How did you get past the interplanetary cargo link glitches though? Shipping things consistently in both directions simply doesn't work currently. Hopefully they fix these issues soon on Xbox.

Thanks for the video. How are you able to browse all that stored in small front where as when I browse it is very tough to browse when stored in container

Just a reminder to everyone that for resources on planets it does NOT matter what you see on the planet view of resources when scanning the entire planet. Resources on planets are BIOME based which will always be the same for that planet. All the scanning skill does is show you which resources are in which biomes. For instance if Neon is found on the planet and rank 4 scanning says its only found on one side of the planet in a craters biome, it will be found in ALL the craters biomes on the planet regardless if the scanner view says it is at the landing spot. The best way to get as much resources in one outpost as possible is to land in a spot that is between two biomes and set up a outpost with the resources from both biomes in the divide.

I love the content. Any chance there’s an auto merchant machine hidden in the end game somewhere?

Couple of adjustments for this. First, make sure that you have buffer storages between your incoming Cargo link, and the outgoing Cargo link. This is to help with filtering back to the main base. Each supply ship has a limit of 600 units of cargo per trip. Second, build your main base on Venus or another high-gravity location to take advantage of the rest of your chain always producing faster. Additionally, you will want to have 1-2 cargo boxes of buffer for each resource generation building, this allows you to easily to drop in and grab things if you are in a rush or near by and dont want to go back.

16:55 - extra warehouse boxes for manufacturing output

This doesn't work, not because you didn't theoretically have it correct, but I have done this in practice using an easier set of planets and only 8 outposts (many hours searching for resource sweet spots.) The problem is not the theory or the hard work, the problem is that the resources do not transfer properly from the "incoming" section of the cargo link on your outpost into the "outgoing" link of another cargo link in your outpost. I have tried many many solutions to make this work. And still, it does not. I have tried to calculate the output power of each extractor versus the rarity of the mineral and actually have succeeded in getting all minerals to farm at about the same rate regardless of rarity. And yet, the incoming-outgoing problem still exists and I end up with 4 out 6 resources at my final target outpost. Sometimes only 3 of 6 resources at the final target. If ANYONE has found a fix for this please send me a message. I spent about 10 hours on the theory and the connection mapping. At least 14 hours finding sweet spots on planets for all resources and about 10 hours building the outposts and making the links. So I have wasted an enormous amount of time and am very very frustrated (especially having to quicksave and quit everytime the overhead view of outpost builder bugs.) So if there are any answers out there...PLEASE lets hear them

Great vid, that was exactly what I was searching for. If it's not asking too much, could you provide a download for your charts?

Just learning what the surveying skill does - showing where higher tier resources are, was worth watching this. You can build as much stuff as he does - but then where / who are you going to sell it all to?

WOW

Hey quick question where you able to secure all of the necessary resources on Schrodinger VIII-e (Dy, H2O, Lithum, and Lead) in one outpost or two?

Well done video and great effort putting it all together for sure! I had to stop about halfway through setting up all of the bases for several reasons. First, when I got to Sparta I the wheels came off the bus :-) I spent about 10 real life hours trying to find a location where Vanadium, Tantalum and Iridium all exist together. I watched on your video where you roughly had your outpost - looked like a volcanic area between a big Tantalum and Vanadium area - but never could find a spot even close to having all of those resources. I think I walked the planet from east to west, north to sound and never could get a spot where they exist in harmony 🙂 Secondly, the fact that I am constantly messing with the HE-3 loop to try to keep the transports moving is tiresome. I have to remove and recreate the output links constantly to get the resources moving - they get stuck constantly. For example, I would show up on Zeta Ophuichi I, and on the incoming side for He-3, it will be sitting in the incoming hopper not moving over to the gas storage and ultimately over to the next inter sytem cargo link. So I delete and recreate the output link each and every time I log into the game, then the resource moves on down the line. It then gets stuck at the next base sometimes and other times it works for a few hops - no rhyme or reason to it that I can find. Added to this, there is the problem at Levathan where my He-3 resource randomly turns into Beryllum doesn't help either. So while I want to continue to create this to the end just to see it all work, there are just too many game bugs to constantly troubleshoot to see this all come to fruition. @Polemos_RPG - thank you for the video and the effort on the spreadsheet - well done! I am glad you can get it to all work! I will enjoy your success vicariously through you 🙂

The only real issue i found so far a few bases in is that you don't stipulate what biomes you have your bases in. Huygens 3 To get the lubricant you need to be in a desert biome. Thus needing a place where desert mountains and forest meet to get that sweet spot. Not impossible obviously, just not as straight forward as it seems. Ty for the information though! This is not a complaint just an observation. This work is epic!

Great video of information of the outpost, best I've seen on the subject. So it took me 2 weeks to set up with 18 outposts, I couldn't farm the lubricant in the planet you recommended. I went for the start of the cycle with 17K Helium with me, my only variation I put the big gas storages in between the cargo transports. I think this might be my downfall because it didn't take. I kept everything else simple like you recommended, in one of the outposts I found another Helium vain kind of half way in the chain which I though it would help, but to no avail. Is there an issue with the helium that you know of? Later I'll try again with the small tanks in between the cargo once I pile up the Helium again. At least I have all the resources in my main hub that I can put in manually, Damn! I though I had it. I would love to here your thoughts or ideas to try to make this work. This was an awesome, exciting, and frustrating project to make. Thanks for everything!

I think I've solved the issue with planets and sweetspots. They're different than yours, but I'd really like to hear more about how you daisy chained your helium.

I've just spent about 22 hours exploring, scanning, making notes, scribbling out notes to make more efficient notes, then working out the most logical path to route my cargo links... I've come up with an incredibly similar system to yours, I used 21 outposts in total though! 22 including my main base. I went a little overboard to start up, 3-5 extractors and several crates of storage at each outpost 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

Hey, I don't see Neodymium accounted for in your google sheet in the "Final Base Planet and Resources Horizontal" sheet and we need them to make Paramagnon Conductors and Supercooled Magnets. Where do we set up farming for Neodymium? On Leviathan II?

Can you do a video or series showing the set up of each outpost?

Great guide. I can’t get lubricant to show on greenhouse or animal husbandry building on Huygens(?) III. I have all flora and fauna scanned. I saw one of the fauna gave lubricant but didn’t say you could get at outpost. Any idea what I might be missing?

So... How are you avoiding the system clogging? For example, Fermi running out of storage space and preventing any raw resources from earlier in the chain from transporting? Or am I completely misunderstanding how the interplanetary cargo links work?

Great vid, im currently trying to figure out if there is a way to have an outpost netework with all resources both inorganic and organic being farmed/mined. But i think the outpost cap will be a bit too low for that. But i will keep trying

at 10:43 you can see your storage connect to the top and automatically make the bottom walls, instead of deleting

I have a question regarding production rates and miners. I read online that depending on the rarity of the resources the production rate is lower when being mined. Also do you have any idea how many miners are needed to make it efficient enough to work with the star ports, as they collect every 3:30 mins. In terms of setup on each base did you just keep it consistent or did you change it depending on the resource. Number of miners, greenhouses etc. Could you give some insight. As I fear having one large storage facility if and one resource is over produced it will eventually become the majority as the other resources aren’t being replenished fast enough when being fed into the production line. Thanks for the video trying to replicate it now.

Since im a little a head and have been experimenting with different designs l, you thibk i can make the 'storage walls' with higher tiered boxes? I think it be aesthetically pleasing 😅

This is fabulous and something that is so helpful...I am struggling to find a sweet spot on Fermi VII-a with both palladium and platinum...anyone have suggestions?

In your spreadsheet, the sheet titled "Final Base Resources and Planets Horizontal" is missing Copper

To deal with excess helium and helium backups, What I'm thinking is to have the helium split at each planet, so that it fills up a reserve for the links to work and then ships the rest down the line, once it hits the end of the line, I ship the left over helium back up to leviathan and have that split so that it fills up my reserves first and then the rest gets sent to a storage that's hooked up to like 100 generators to instantly burn it. That way when the system is full up, the miners shut down because they can't output anywhere and the excess is burned off. If that makes sense.

Where did you land to get He-3 on Leviathan II in addition to the other three elements? I always seem to sacrifice one or the other.

Do you need to always manually add helium to the storage between the cargo links in every outpost? Also what would be an adequate amount of helium to feed the main base to supply the rest of the chain? Since it seems that there's a point it would clog the links if its too much or nothing would be sent back if too little

15:40 - you don't need to wait 2400 UT hours. 200-400 UT hours are more than enough. Also, you'll move way faster if you fast travel from one point to another, rather than relying on the broken IG cargo link system. 🙂

Did the new update work, are the cargo links and storage containers fixed. Is this Galactic Factory working as built???

Since you are using 2 cargo links just to transport the helium seems you would need 2 additional links to daisy chain the resources back So 4 at each base. My understanding is you can't have in and out on the same link. I didn't notice the skill to add more links so you can have a total of 5. So I didn't think it was possible to make a 2 way daisy chain with just 2 links. Please clarify if I am misunderstanding out the links work and their limitations

Hi, Thank you so much for this detailed video, I am somewhat in the middle of doing this right now, but I dont have the outpost skill unlocked, I currently have only 8 outposts , right now, I am mining, ALUMINIUM, NICKEL, IRON, COBALT (1 outpost), COPPER (1 outpost) ( I will move it into some other system later) TUNGSTEN , LEAD , DYSPOROSIUM (1 outpost), ARGON , BENZENE (1 outpost) URANIUM, IRON, ALKENE ( 1 outpost) helium 3 (1 outpost) so, right now I am in the process of moving the helium 3 between each outposts . Once I get that sorted out, I will start moving the resources It is a little too much of an ask so please excuse me, Can you please let me know which of the systems that you listed in the video should I create my outpost for better extraction of resources , Like I can spare 7 outposts for extracting resources right now. Thank you.

Yes yes yes, the best video... i have some out post, but like to make a big one, and yes yes yes the video is on 🎉🎉🎉🎉 thanks a lot keep up the great work 😊 excellent top vídeo... just one thing your excel sheet can you put a link for your community... from Portugal cheers Vanbuda7 my gamer tag since the year 2000 lol (Pedro) my name. A portuguese Dad that love gaming Xbox and PC.😂