Starfield MAD EXP FARM Using No Ammo or Crafting Materials 

For anyone like me that didn’t know, you can unlock the best engine (by FAR) in the game by completing the main quest “All That Money Can Buy” diplomatically, without violence. It’s the SAL 6830 engine and with 6 of them on your ship you’ll have the highest maneuvering thrust that it’s possible to have in the game. They’re absolute monsters.

Thanks TV! I’m loving this loop. It’s also incredibly “meta” as my character can now grind XP without leaving his comfy gaming chair either! 😂

Always loved your videos back when I played D1&2 but I quit playing years ago back when it stopped being fun for me and I am stoked that I saw your channel pop back up on RU-vid with a Starfield video! Bethesda games have always been my #1 so im pumped to have discovered you made this change! Also, I know im 2 months late, but im glad to be back watching your videos!

Perfection... lvl 24 to lvl 118 in 2 hrs! And I had a break to eat too!

Tested this out yesterday, great recommendation! Got mostly Va'Ruun ships and a few starborn sprinked in. Did get some random spacers occasionally, and a few times I ran into Grandma and some LIST folks.

The moment you said ship combat I knew exactly what this video would be about. Love this system. Since I got my Terran Battle cruiser up and running I’ve spent several hours just dog fighting for fun. Leveling up so I can max out my ship. Love it.

Thanks TV! Tested a few of my builds in your proving grounds yesterday! Easily the best place to find dog fights. Great video!

I want to thank you. This solves 2 of the 5 reasons I was debating on stopping playing Sf. 1st obviously the exp fall off no need to hash that point. 2nd I joined Crimson early regrettably so my dogfights were halved, and dog fights were one of the main enjoyments I got out of Star Field. Appreciate you sharing this as it has me playing again. Seriously. Thank you.

I was actually looking around for a suitable ship fighting area that I could farm, Thanks man, much appreciated.

I like this. It doesn't feel as cheesy as the craft 50k adaptive frames and isoelectric magnets in seconds method, and it's hella more fun. Thanks for sharing this.

THANK YOU FOR THIS. Im trying to get to 100 and the adaptive frame farm is way too boring. Def gonna hop on this when I play next

Thank you for this tip. I stumbled on your video here, and I've been addicted to this game play loop for several nights. Thanks.

Careful with this, if Bethesda catches us having fun again they may patch out ships spawning in space.

Great exp and super fun no need for glitches or crafting nonsense!! Nice find!!

Thank you. As much as I look forward to my breaking bad outpost, space combat is one of my favorite aspects of this game and glad to see someone post a place that shows frequent spawns.

That's crazy! It really works! I like it a lot, not just for XP but also to enjoy space combat, as the game has usually not much space combat. Thanks a lot!

I CAN confirm this one. Tested Serpentis yesterday. Counting out 10 seconds almost always spawns a space ambush. I'm lvl 102 and I was just fooling around - and i STILL lvld up twice in about 15 minutes time. Great vid! thx!

Will definitely try this! Happy to see you moved on from Destiny for a bit and are doing Starfield content!

This method looks fun. 😃 I'm definitely going to try this tonight. I'm also going to see if I can steal a really nice exotic ship when possible. Thx! 😎👍 SUBBED!

Have been farming this system for quite a while. Slapped down an outpost (basic) just for the fast travel in my A class fighter. Very fun and great for the practice.

Thank you so much for this! exp farming that's actually fun

Wish I'd known about this 50 levels ago, been struggling to find ships to kill. Works a treat.

Best way to gain xp till now, thanks a lot👏👏 quick video and awesome explanation👍

Additional add on for this. If you destroy asteroids and loot them for material, that apparently counts as looting a container, so you can use that to boost those related skill quests. Loving this so far for Crew, Reactor, and other ship skill quests.

Thanks!!! I gained 5 levels in a short span picking off those guys!!!

Big thank you TV, it was getting a little worrisome watching all my ammo go bye bye farming the animals 😅

Thanks for the heads-up!

Thanks TV needed this🔥❤️

Thank god i found this, i was driving myself crazy crafting frames, this should be way more fun

Thanks for pointing out this system. I went there to to farm the Ship Command kills.😀

Amazing! This is so me! I’m gonna enjoy this.

I love doing space battles but it has been hard to find a reliable replacement for Krix after finishing the pirate story line. Thank you for this TV. I’m going to check it out after work.

I crafted my way to level 80ish. It's been a lot of Adaptive Frames I am definitely doing this new method after work

Even though I haven’t came across starborn yet, I can definitely confirm that this is a very solid xp grind

I'm definitely going to be trying this later! If it works I will be delighted! I'm playing on Series X so have been struggling for a good xp farming method in the higher levels. The crafting methods are physically painful after a time on my hands with the button spamming required being far more intense than it is for pc, the large outpost ones using domestication cause too much lag and the outpost becomes unstable risking crashes and save corruption, and the ones I've seen revolving around farming Fauna on planets I've been very unlucky in my planet generation in that the creatures in question don't seem to have spawned on any of the worlds suggested in peoples guides.

Serpentis is an AMAZING system for all ship skill leveling ALL of it. I did the Pilot, starship command, reactor fission thingy, and shield systems in 15 minutes flat

Just tried this and it was awesome, Also I think we both have the same ship. This is a great place for building money and items if you scavenge the ships.

Lol... did this before I found out the other farming methods. By far the most fun I had. Makes starships levelling a lot easier too. But occasionally I'd jump to different system to scan planets and moons and to keys if enough time pass. Then return to blast all the enemies. Asteroids fields, ships debris ambushes. It's a haven for ships dogfight.

This is a great farm method. I'm getting tons of xp because I'm still level 36 and am punching way above my weight fighting these ships in this system.

Lovely find, thanks for sharing. Around 15 minutes per level for me at the moment, grinding up those ship skills, ya know? :D

Serpentis is also a great place to farm other things too. If you need heavy disruptor fuses, 3KV LZR, or .50 MI ammo, get it here by boarding Va'Ruun ships. I've also gotten a pile of legendary gear doing boarding actions in Serpentis. And if you choose to capture and sell the big class C ships after clearing them, that's an easy 20-30k credits. Just be careful of the level 60+ enemies with Magstorms or Magshears, they'll melt you in a second.

I told my manager that TV said I had to go play Starfield and she told me to get back to work.

Earned a sub thanks dude

I needed this info cause when I’m ship hunting it’ll take hours before I see a single ship in space or planets I like stealing other ships and selling them they’re pretty good profit depending on the level

Cheers TV, interesting method!

YES! More starfield content!

Oh wow, an xp glitch thats actually FUN and not bland and boring. Thank you

This is actually really solid. If you need the credits, worth picking them up from the wreckage too 1000-3000+ per ship. Is Serpentis the only system loke this??

This works! Thanks!

I love that system!!! Ships guns credits resources and they pop so quick! Lvl 65 prophecies are exp machines if you can board them. Revelations have fewer mobs but has random loot armories upon entry. My boy Khan joined me on Serpentine 3 and now have him bugged. He follows me through the system tag teaming house VaRun ships. He pops in about 10 secs after the mob ships show up

This is awesome since I did this method on very easy around the sol system to bang out my piloting for REAL xp instead of cheesing it on the flight simulator.

Ha I saw the change from 4.9k to 5k with my 👍 that's cool. Good video

An easy way to know and find if there are any ships around you is looking around the large ring of the hud for arrows. Those arrows will point you the direction of ships, cargo, and mineral deposits from asteroids. You do not need to scan with your eyes lol

This works great. It’s fun and loads of xp.

This is just like a Starship pilot walking into a new bar and hear a tale from a fellow pilot (True Vanguard) about a far away system with lots of dogfighting opportunity. 👍

I like how im not the only one who has the bug with the orange temperature thing on our space suit 😂😂😂

Is there a special ship build you suggest? Yours looks awesome!

- Yep, love this star system for this. - Running a class C ship built off the Autobahn III. 4 x SAL-6830 engines, Cabot bridge, shield 1450, mobility 100, storage 4932. Use only top end PAR 6.65 fire rate 3000-3250 range weapons, 5 mounted. Third slot is 2 x PAR auto turret only powered up if get out of position, esp w/ 3 lvl 72 Starborn. - Starborn do pre-announce their arrival as do all ships. If needed, I use the 90-degree turn, boost (300+ speed) to about 5000 m, turn back, get in position and re-boost towards and engage at 3000 m. - Agree, fun and engaging way to grind. (This is Microsoft-Bethesda and VIP for Microsoft to have a 1st party game to compete w/ PS5. (I play PC, SX, PS5) They have been clear on us having the ‘Fun Factor’. Likely part of why they scaled back the environmental damage planet aspects. Read a player post recently that stated he was having the most fun in 40 years of gaming with Starfield. I’m in the same boat, built my first computer in 1969. This is a blast especially once you get all the systems in place. I have some 650 hours into Elden Ring, long a Souls gamer. The chest thing needed to go. Creation Engine 2 in current state not really fixable to prevent the under the map stuff. They will move to a new engine. All modern games, the base game is under leveled when the player over levels, I’m 104 in Starfield, past lvl 75 the base game is cake. And XP/cash grinding spots-techniques are built into games for us. Developers are gamers, they know we are going to do it. Designed so we have to put forth effort and have reasonable level, sometimes they get it wrong, like the chests.)

Also if you want creds fast. Galbank ships over lvl 30 usually have bout 10k on them. If you were in the Crimson Fleet you can hail them use the piracy opinion then attack. After collecting the creds jump to an outpost an use the self serve bounty terminal. Clear than bounty then rinse and repeat. Note you won't be able to fast travel so use the grav jump to get to the planet the outpost is on

@True Vanguard Question. Do you have to progress the story to a certain point before the Starborn begin spawning? Is the farm still worth it without them if you haven't gotten to that point yet?

Not bad XP, and fun too 👍🏻

Hey a question...what difficulty are you using? Does that affect the XP you get. Is there anything else besides difficulty that can increase the XP in Ship combat? Thanks

Thanks for the video. What location is this playing in the background?

I’ve actually been getting good at space battles when I face 1 or 2 ships. But being ambushed by like 5 ships is overkill. One of them kills me everytime I focus on one of them. Seeing you getting ambushed by 1 or 2 is actually reassuring to see. I think I will try this to see if I do get what you’re getting. I’m on xbox series S btw.

My 8 auto turret destroyer ship awaits the battle to come, heading there now!

You can find the unique C class Va'run Prophecy here, even though it appears elsewhere, like the Dagger appears all over the place, but is just sitting there in Sparta. First time I ever saw my ship from outside in space. Then someone gets in the pilot seat. So I put one pip into grav, as it takes longer to spool up and set a course. - Looking closely, I noticed it was Sarah; whom turned it around and headed for the destination I set in the Prophecy. - Gotta admit, it was kinda cool to see my heavily modified Frontier in action. Didn't know the crew actually pilot it, I thought it just teleports to the shipbuilder. Yeah, Serpentis is pretty good for Va'run encounters, and they love using big missiles and particle cannons. 👍

Ok, so if you want to make your ship invincible against enemies, you dont have to buy expensive weapons or shields, or any of that. Instead go to a ship yard, buy and attach radiators that attach to the SIDE of your ship. Each one pushes your ship off center. The enemies always aim for the center of your ship, but now, they will be aiming at the radiators, because your ship is no longer in the center. You can pick off enemies and watch their shots go past you. Enjoy!

Can confirm that enemy ships spawn almost all the time when you fly to any moon or planet in the particular system.

Thank you for telling me this, I actually looking a place where I could hijack high level ships 😅

This is what I've been doing since launch. That pirate life makes it easy to lvl.

I made a husbandry outpost and only placed a dozen husbandry buildings. Placed a few crates in the center with a sleeping bag for the XP bonus and just snipe them. 1 shot each for 190XP a kill. Yes it uses ammo but i can level up a single level in 2 or 3 minutes. Currently level 148 and i only use this occasionally when just killing time. No hunting for wildlife as they spawn in for you.

Does this method work before you first encounter the Starborn during the Neon questline? I rerolled a few times after I got to that point and while I am crushing the few Var'uun that show up, they seem to stop spawning after a bit.

This still works, gret way to level up skills for ship.

Best advice ever, I'm going to be here a while.

Great method! But yet to see any starborn and I’ve been doing this for ages now! 😭

What are the prerequisites for getting them to spawn in serpentis? I've been chilling there for 30 levels setting up outposts and exploring and haven't been ambushed once.

Serpentis also has three habitable planets. I haven’t seen this many in any other systems. Must be worth defending. Perhaps this is where Andreja is from.

With the fauna farm build 2 circular farms both out near the edge of the circle. Stand elevated in middle of first farm then clear until it slows down and becomes cluttered with corpse. Then jump down pull out close range weapons and walk the perimeter clearing remaining fauna. Once you get to last house fast travel to the next fauna farm which is as close as possible to the 1st one. Walking the perimeter and clearing is what makes everything reset after fast traveling to other farm and doing the process again as described above. If you just clear from middle and fast travel it doesn't work and when you come back it will still be cluttered and slow respawns. I'm level 223 on Xbox doing this.

What's the recommended difficulty level for this method? Also, can I get away with using the Star Eagle for this farm?

good ide, Thank you

Hey can anyone tell me why most times when I jump around systems my point allocation for my ships systems often resets back to default values? Like I allocate all my points to weapons/shields/engines ect but then later I’ll jump to other systems and my points will need to be allocated again!! I just want them to stay the same until I specifically want to change them!!

Excellent 👌.

Man I miss you MTash and Kackis’ podcast.

Can you make a video on how you made that ship? It looks dope

I was already using this area. I also like to disable the highest level ship and board it ao i can get the ex for wiping out the crew. Then blow the ship up afterwards for the xp.

Board the last ship for each encounter and you can get a little more xp and a high chance for contraband if you need money

Might try building fancy off centre ship and try this.

Been doing this since you suggested it a few videos ago. I still go back and forth between killing creatures though as the grind is monotonous. Wish it wasn’t so bad but hey

If I'm much lower level at 28 will I struggle with those level 50,60,70 ships tho? I am using the ship I got at the end of the freestar ranger quest

Does game difficulty matter for number of ships or xp per kill, or chance of an encounter? Was your xp rate doing very hard mode?

THANK YOU

Yeah and i'm using all auto turrets with laser and beam weapons. no manual laser control or missiles. i had already figured out the best weapons based on multiple other videos i watched and yours was just a confirmation of these other sources. Funny, i went to this system on my way to the far reaches of that part of the galaxy and i remember getting jumped by multiple ships. i was going to I was trying to level up my number of crew I could carry on my ships ( i needed 25 kills for level 3, six crew members and now going for 50 kills and 8 crew members).

Question, how are you getting such high level ships? Im seeing lvl 18-35 mostly and rarely a 58, have not seen anything above that

I’m lvl 150 and I got it from making an outpost on a high lvl planet, making husbandry’s in a circle. And then you can use what ever weapon you want, just run around and shoot them, or snipe them from a distance for sneak damage. I use a hard target and kill them with one shot, and get 700 exp per 5 shots if I hit all my targets. And they consistently respond so you have about 60 or so enemies in this area. Very fast exp farm

The best way to farm XP with fauna is by building fauna habitats with animal husbandry at outposts. It still uses ammo, but the fauna you raise won't attack you, the respawn continually, and you get full XP for every kill. If you do it with a high-level species on a level 75 world, the XP is easy.

Best Exp I’ve found is the adaptive frame farm. I may have gone over board with storage but I make 500k frames in one run on pc. I use Logitech for my keyboard and mouse. I set up a macro for pressing the e key in the Logitech app and a basic mouse clicker to left click for me. All I gotta do is head to Venus and wait a couple days and come back and reset my macros. At lvl 250 and get about 12 levels per run. I make sure to sleep for the buff but that’s it so it’s not “perfected” but works good enough to get me to lvl 328 fast enough for my attention span.

how can you send your crewmembers to sleep ? or do they sleep always with you ?

this still works did it yesterday I don't think Bethesda will patch this I hope

I've been doing circuits around serpentis to level my ship perks, not sure it's worth it to farm xp though, while there's plenty of engagements I rarely see any ships over level 54, however it is insanely fun and I'm pretty sure the Va'ruun must hate me by now lol

Does leveling up effect the Enemy AI. Last thing id want to do is do this and get to level 30 or 40 and become a bullet sponge