How to make money quickly with Starfield

Money moves the world. This is especially true in the world of Starfield. The main gameplay of Bethesda’s space RPG involves exploration and completing questlines, but it also includes splurging on spaceships, dream homes, and item upgrades. Unfortunately, you quickly realize that money can disappear in the blink of an eye. Everything requires credits, including purchasing ammunition, modifying parts for more storage space, and purchasing better ships outright. Therefore, you need to know the best way to make money quickly in Starfield.

In this article, we will take a look at some of the methods you can use to make quick money with Starfield. So if you run out frequently, these methods can help you recoup some of that cost.

1. Sell contraband in the right place

Illegal acts always exist in the human world. As it turns out, not everything is glamorous. And no matter how you look at it, there’s quite a bit of illegal activity going on in Starfield, including smuggling contraband. You can ignore smuggling to avoid headaches during cargo inspection, but smuggling is the best way to make big bucks in Starfield.

So if you find a box with organs or aurora harvested during your space adventures, be sure to grab it and sell it. But before that, make sure the ship carrying the contraband is ready. Thankfully, we’ve created a handy guide with all the details about smuggling and selling contraband in Starfield.

2. Sell junk items in your inventory

If you’re a Loot Goblin like me, you’ll probably pick every item on the planet and add it to your inventory. Although you can’t dismantle junk and use it to craft items like in Fallout 4, you can make money from junk in Starfield. Trade Authority locations and Trade Authority kiosks will also be happy to help you get rid of your junk items. So if you have items in various inventory, sell them off.

3. Complete the mission from the mission board

Starfield offers a large number of activities, side quests, and a long main quest, but you can also take on various odd jobs to earn extra money. You can find mission boards in various settlements.

This mission board offers limited tasks with quests ranging from deliveries to transporting settlement residents from one point to another. Additionally, these jobs generally pay well. We’re talking about earning over 1300 credits in one job. So if you are low on credit, try some missions to build up your bank balance again.

4. Earn money by looting corpses in Starfield

If all else fails, you can always go back to looting the corpses of Spacers and Crimson Fleet members. This is a self-describing process, and the predatory group always offers three digits worth of currency. Enemies can’t use them, so why not take them and use them yourself?

5. Create an outpost in Starfield

Finally, creating outposts on resource-rich planets is another way to make money in a non-hostile way. The game features a robust outpost building system that allows you to automate the extraction and sale of materials on its planets.

Set up a base on a habitable planet, create some extractors and storage units, and assign one of your Starfield companions to the outpost. This process is the best way to earn lateral credit sources in-game. Additionally, the game allows you to create up to eight outposts, but you can increase that number by upgrading your skill points.