Starfield money-making tips are great if you want to save up for fancy spaceships or cool stuff. Even though there aren’t any cheats or tricks, there are some good ways to make money faster in Starfield. We’ll talk about all the ways to get money fast in Starfield below, and also how to instantly get money using commands on a PC.
How to Get Money Fast in Starfield
To get money quickly in Starfield, our favorite way is to search for pirate camps that pop up when you land on planets. Here’s the best method we know:
- Empty your inventory so you have space to carry as much as possible.
- Equip only the best combat items you have, a good gun, some armor, your Digipicks, and healing items (and maybe any equipment that helps fend off the issue of Starfield encumbrance).
- Take your ship to any planet’s wilderness – you’re not going to any of the Starfield cities here; you need to go somewhere far away from civilization.
- Use your scanner to find Structures nearby. Swivel until you see the “Unknown” icon, then press A to check it.
- Head to that structure. Ideally, it’ll be occupied by Pirates, Ecliptics or Spacers. If it’s anything else, move on and try another structure.
- Kill everything. Empty house, scorched earth, no survivors.
- Take everything that isn’t nailed down. You want to prioritize credits and rare items, of course, but take whatever you can get.
- Loot the bodies and look for locked doors, safes, or chests – anything that requires Starfield lockpicking mechanics will pay out nicely, and there’ll usually be some sort of bandit boss and treasure chest with extra good loot.
- Fly back to Jemison. Any city will work, but Jemison has numerous vendors close together to speed up step nine…
- Sell everything! Vendors have limited credits on them, the stingy bastards, so when you’re done move on to the next one. If you still have a full inventory, sit on a bench and wait 24 hours for them to get their money back.
- Repeat this process. Pirate bases are generated randomly each time you land in the wilderness – so just head back to the unknown and start hunting pirates again.
We chose the Planet Gagarin in Alpha Centauri as our farming spot in Starfield because it’s close to Jemison. But honestly, you can use most planets for farming. It might not be super-duper efficient, but it’s the best way we know of to get money in the game. Plus, it’s like a bonus because you can level up your character while doing it. And if you stumble upon awesome weapons and armor you don’t want to sell, you can just keep them.
Getting Rich Quick in Starfield
If you don’t feel like farming for money in Starfield using the method we just talked about, there are other ways to make cash faster than usual while you play.
- Get the Scavenging, Commerce, and Negotiation skills, all of which increase money earned throughout the game. Negotiation might describe itself as the power to offer bribes, but we’ve seen it come up as the opposite too, such as the Starfield Ron
- Hope choice where you can use it to get an extra 30,000 credits when someone bribes you.
- Sell any excess ships and modules you have. It might be nice to fly about in a leisure palace, but it’s certainly costly – sell all the non-essential components and structural pieces during Starfield ship customization to make some more money.
- Play story and faction missions! Doing the main campaign and the core missions for Constellation, the Crimson Fleet, Freestar, and others all tends to pay really well (we mean their actual story missions, not the random mini-quests off their bounty boards). The Starfield Kryx legacy mission at the end of the Crimson Pirates’ story offers a staggering quarter of a million credits.
- Don’t carry resources if you don’t need them. Resources tend to take up a lot of inventory space and are rarely worth much to vendors – if you don’t need them for your outpost or crafting, feel free to abandon them.
- Keep using vendors. It’s more efficient to sell-as-you-go rather than dump it all on vendors in one bunch, as you inevitably end up having to wait in chunks of 24 hours for them to get the money back. Dropping off the most recent sellable equipment in passing is generally more efficient on both your time and your wallet.
- Have some Shielded Cargo ready for contraband. Starfield contraband smuggling doesn’t pay as well as you’d hope, but if you’re going to find the stuff, you might as well sell it off. Shielded Cargo holds will help you fly it to a trade authority safely for dispersal.
- Manipulate the difficulty. Playing on harder difficulties gives better rewards. Our suggestion is to turn the difficulty to very hard, enter a new area, and then drop it from the settings menu. The game loads in all the high-difficulty rewards, and then you make all the enemies into pushovers – but leave the high-value loot.
Starfield Console Commands for Spawning Money
If you’re playing on PC and want to use Starfield console commands, use the ` or ~ key (region dependent), then enter the following:
- player.additem 0000000f 500000
You got it! By entering that command with the desired number, you can get the amount of credits you want. Just remember that using console commands and cheats will disable Achievements for that save game since there are no rewards for folks who cheat. So, use them wisely!
