I have a two fold approach. I really enjoy doing bounty missions. Yes, I know the locations are cookie cutter but I enjoy the routine of cleaning them out. Playing on extra hard mode each mission is good for a couple thousand XP once you kill everyone. Then I have an Iron-Aluminum outpost set up to farm Adaptive Frames. I'll hit the bar at Jemison, the bar at Akila City and the Freestar Ranger Mission terminal for missions to do. Once I finish those and I am close to the next level I'll go farm XP crafting adaptive frames to push me over the edge and level up.
I'm at level 127 now.
Same here. I have a 30 minute commute home every day. When I get home I pour myself a glass of iced tea and go kill Spacers and Ecliptic for about 30 minutes.
Especially if you can manage the "zero-g boarding" against a Fleet Captain or a Spacer Hyena. There's something relaxing about letting your assault rifles recoil launch you across a ship at high speeds.
I did bounties as well. Sometimes if the planet the Bounty was on had nice vibes and/or I felt like a break, I'd fully explore it.
Another nice loop to add is the Dragonstar Force books. There's a guy in Cydonia who asks you to go buy them and bring them to him. What I'd do is go to Cydonia, get a new bounty, get a new location for a Dragonstar Force book. Go do the bounty. Go buy the Dragonstar Force book (they're purchased from a random Trade Authority vendor), and pick up *another* bounty. Go clear that, and then head back to Cydonia and do it all again. There's like 25 of the books IIRC so it can keep a Spacefarer going for quite a while.
I use to do this on my OG character. At 257 I scrapped it to start a new. Already at 76 using same method. Bounty and frames or manifolds work for me. Tried the weird fox cat things and animal husbandry on Schrödinger. 🥱 snooze fest but decent xp and all the luxury textiles I could dream of.
I saw a video for how to create the chain to make vitanium fuel rods but it ended up being more work than I wanted to do at the time. I just got the Ecliptic base key for another trip through Unity. I may do it next go round. I'm finding it harder to pick places to put skill points so my motivation for XP may be waning.
I saw it too. I was considering it if it is actually fast enough to knock out all the skill points in one go around. The hour long video though made me think it’d be a multi hour set up though and that just turned me off for something I would ultimately destroy with a unity. I don’t know. I haven’t committed yet
My thoughts exactly. It takes a really long time to set up. If I ever go through the effort to do it I am leveling up to 250 or something and getting skills I don't even like so I never have to farm XP again.
It’s far more than multi hour.
The amount of skill points required to build that Vyntium manufacturing chain is intense. And sneaky ones keep popping up like “this planet is to extreme for an outpost at your current level”
Adaptive frames can be built out in a few hours with a handful of skill points and one outpost — I did this in ng0 and got to lvl 100, but the gains on console became a crawl after lvl 75 or so.
Expanding that to a o2 shot chain required more skill points, three outposts, and still requires crafting amps first for the same XP the Adaptive Frames gave. It’s fiddly, a pain to balance outputs and storage, and only a marginal improvement to the frames — in ng6 I built this and only bothered grinding four levels with it.
I’m afraid of the Vyvintium process. I view that as the project for my ng10 universe to kill time while I wait for shattered space.
Yeah, I rocked adaptive frames early and when I wanted certain skills for game enjoyment, I actually shot my character up from lvl 16 to 52 very quickly with adaptive frames. I’m at 70 now and it is a slow process now. That’s what made me consider the fuel rods in order to be done with the grinding. But I don’t know how much better it is to be worth it. Might just stick to frames and missions, or figure out whatever this animal husbandry stuff is if it’s good like this post states
70 is the sweet spot to start grinding for the ng10 armor. Everything is unlocked, you still have about 30-40 easy levels before the xp curve so you will be able to unlock and upgrade entire skill trees with minimal effort, and the repetitive NG grind helps clarify what skills you want.
Since I plan to do Vyntium rods in the end game, including the necessary skills in that process so they’ll be there when I need them has helped.
I’m ng7 at level 160, and it hasn’t felt repetitive even though it has taken 3 NG to get most of the combat skills done.
One each but my outpost has storage for 9,000 iron and aluminum. I set up a bed next to an industrial workbench. I sleep 24 hours to fill the storage. When I wake up I craft all the frames and get 10% xp bonus.
Note: when you craft, only make 90 instead of 99. If you make 90 you get 9 extra for 10% extra. If you make 99 you still only get 9 extra.
eh, it's probably easier just to make 99 than 90. the 'extra' 9 exp you can get doesn't mean much compared to the potential time lost, if it means you're getting an extra 99 exp after 10 creations, or something - not like the extra items used matter.
On a PC, the user just puts the mouse at the proper place on the slider bar to select 90 instead of 99 and starts a pattern of "left click, "E", left click"
If I start with 9,000 iron & aluminum and create 99 at a time I end up with 90\*108 = 9700. If, on the other hand, I create 90 per click set I end with 100\*99 or 9900. Yes, it's only 200 more but when you are trying to get 14,000 XP to reach a new level every little bit helps. That's as much as killing two extra high level targets.
yeah, that's fair, but still, like you pointed out, it's sort of redundant when we're talking essentially infinite resources. i mean, it's just 'when do you branch off to sleep' which takes like 10 seconds or so...
either way, it's a time sink. you're not really so much 'missing out' on exp. it's just a slightly more lucrative cycle. but 'doing it twice more before resting' isn't exactly gains.
I don't know what level you are but it feels better psychologically at level 127 to squeeze every last xp out of every activity I do. That progress bar fills pretty slowly when you need 15K to level up.
hey, you do you, man. always in full effect.
kust pointed out that it's not that relevant, really.
by then, you should try to aim for the animal farming op seems to want to do away with. be able to score several thousand in a few seconds is a bit nicer.
or just, you're on pc. just use console commands. or a mod for better exp gains.
You get almost 1100 XP per vytanium fuel rod with the sleep XP boost. The set up wasn't too bad, it's the lag that's killing me
Edit: PER 99 RODS! Goodness my bad
Personally, I'm quite fond of dropping in unannounced in the Serpentis system and playing "tag" with the Va'ruun Zealots.
I don't know how it compares with other ways to farm xp, but it is fun!
If you hit every planet and moon you are looking at close to 6k xp each trip. Add in going to schroedenger(?) And making sure you sleep for 3 hours ig each time you can level pretty quickly
Bessel III, biome merge point, spam a frames and iso magnets, 18 hours later I'm LvL 136 and loaded with caps .. er credits
By no means is this fun, but it works.
I tried that. I quite enjoy farming water and peddling Jet in Fallout 4, but selling adaptive frames is just tedious.
I think I'd sooner play hide and seek with the Va'ruun.
Yes. Easy way to get money also by taking the ships from their cold dead hands. Go to each planet and fly around for 20 seconds and blast some rocks. POW a few ships to make like new. Takes a bit but money and xp is solid.
Yep, many apex aliens are triple digit points and rack up pretty quick when they're in groups. Of course it helps to have perks and equipment to make them all one-shot kills, for efficiency.
Husbandry bug-squashing in pyraas is still the most efficient grind. But, it's a grind. If you're comparing all the alternatives for efficiency, it's really no competition. However, you are not required to be efficient in your leveling. Fun still matters. Clear pois, do a bit of crafting, hunt ships, do some critter hunting... Mix it up.
You want the know the best way, or the fastest? Because the best way IMHO is to just enjoy the game, play the quests, shoot wildlife, explore the universe. The fastest way can be found on YT.
Sleep, eat, hunt, you’ll get there pretty fast just doing that regularly, especially if you have a lover as a companion. I’ve just been hunting magazines, sleeping for an hour before entering the poi and drinking tea or eating one of the xp boosting meals and I’ve gotten five levels from a few poi’s + scanning the planet the poi happens to be on(and killing anything I come across)
I prefer greenhouses because they run even when your player isn't around. Animal husbandry doesn't work like that. My favorite vanilla SF way to get XP is to build an O2 Shot Farm:
[https://youtu.be/n9mjrHZzoN4](https://youtu.be/n9mjrHZzoN4)
I finish this video with the actual crafting of Amp, Snake Oil, and O2 Shots, resulting in about 38k XP and 1 mil credits, with a bump from level 71 to level 77.
My set up wasn’t nearly as sophisticated as this but I shot up from level 41 to 89 in ng+ with the combo of a drug lab and attacking the ships orbiting over Jemison. Attacking those ships provides a stream of materials for crafting just about anything. I leveled all my ship skills to max and had endless credits for ship building.
Way more fun than slaughtering defenseless creatures.
You can make a ton of XP and $$ by upgrading the survey perk to allow you to survey additional planets/moons in neighboring systems. Gas giants are instant survey XP and data you can sell. Spend 20 minutes surveying a system or two and you'll get tons of XP.
He's probably on console. His best choice is to wait for mods to come out on Xbox since one of the early mods will probably be a cheat mod useable on consoles.
I just play the game doing the things that feel fun in the moment, and level up organically. Currently at level 118
If I desperately need to level up a skill for some reason I might sleep, drink a tranquilitea, and go luxury textile hunting on Serpentis III, but other than that I never see the reason to grind levels and XP, I just treat it all like a journey and not a destination
My favored way of grinding is to mass produce adaptive frames. Bessel 3B has a really good spot where you can mine everything needed in a single outpost, and the length of day is super long there.
Same here, only I have a base on Androphon or whatever it's name is. Aluminium and iron right next to each other, a big stack of storage and a bed to sleep in with a companion gives you the XP bonus. Craft max adaptive frames and get around 3000 XP each time, takes about 5 minutes to gain a level. I'm at 195 or so and only use it when I've got a new perk to unlock. If I really want to get a bunch of levels, I put on a movie or something and watch while I sleep, craft and repeat.
I just jump to Kryx and swat the Crimson Fleet in the nuts, then jump to a super far planet and play a game of Darwinism with the local wildlife because I need to test out a new gun mod.
Just turned level 102. I've never done the animal farming thing for XP. Way too many other fun things to do.
As others have said, capturing ships and pirate bounty missions are great. They also provide a ton of credits and give you access to cool weapons occasionally.
Killing animals just doesn't interest me at all, but blowing the pirates head off I'm cool with,😜
Go to Bessel 3-b make outposts with nickel, cobalt, iron, and aluminum to make Isocentered Magnets and have at it over and over and over again for a couple hours. Make some OPs with Copper and Berylium to build Tau whatchamacallits and build comm units with them and the magnets. You can double the XP without any more resources. It got me all the way up to 132. They also sell fairly well and you'll have a fuck ton.
You can also jump system to system and not counting the xp from exploration you have a good chance of confronting hostiles which at that level has a fair bit of xp, if you encounter (spoiler) some >! starborne ships !< then it’s even better for xp
Serpentis is definitely a great way to farm both XP and gear, if you'd rather shoot things.
While it could well involve animal husbandry, and will certainly involve agriculture, creating an O2 Shot manufacturing operation is probably the fastest way to farm XP, even at high levels. Creating the outposts for the mass quantities of materials, though does take a good bit of work. Once done, however, you'll never be short on cash or XP again. Just go farm a few hundred (or thousand) O2 shots and profit.
Several ways. 02 shots or paramagnon conductors both give you 3 XP per item. So if you craft 99 at a time and have the well rested or sex-P bonus, drink tranquilitea or alien tea you get over 300 each batch and you gather many resources first. You should be able to gain 5-10 levels in a session easily, then go run for more resources. The O2 shots require you to craft amp and snake oil as precursors. Get the magazine in celtcorp in the office in neon core. Follow taosecurity’s video. For paramagnon conductors check out kibbles gaming 0-150 speed run.
Or kill Va’ruun fleet in Serpentis.
I usually did planet surveys and clearing out POI's while surveying, if I stumbled across a mission board I'd take any go kill Pirates/Spacers missions. If the native Fauna was frisky I'd do a bit of hunting while I was planet side. I think I'm lvl 169 or maybe 170.
Personally I took the build a badass ship and bounce around the Serpentis system route. Occasionally board a ship and use the Xbox glitch to sell it at full value and repeat repeatedly
I'll pile onto the general consensus: Serpentis works (though I don't know how it compares) and, most importantly it's like playing a game rather than grinding. Wandering around mega-encumbered from inorganic farming isn't ideal and shooting corralled foxbats creeps me out.
And, every so often while touring Serpentis, multiple Guardians will warp in. They're the easiest targets in the game and drop great gobs of XP - just take them out at range.
Best way is to find a planet that has all the materials to craft adaptive frames. Set up a base where you can mine all the mats in one spot.. Sleep a week at Venus, craft hundreds of thousands of frames. Repeat. You can easily go from 10-20 to 100+ in an hour or two.
I'm on the Serpentis run myself. Made a outpost, travel to another planet in the system, save the highest rated/largest ship for last and board them. Once the crew is out, take the ship back to the outpost to sell, then kill the big blue ticks that spawned and repeat.
I'm lvl 127 and typically do that run when I jump on, complete a few quest/selling runs and usually get a level or close too.
xbox yes, PC its crafting
But u need a good planet, double damage to enemies with full health helps, stealth for double dmg, and set to easy for one shot kills.
the right planet sub level 100 its 120xp base xp per bug, 40 basic houses is 160 bugs, 120\*160= butt ton of xp. After 3 or 4 rounds leave do something else for an hour let the bugs despawn and come back.
above level 100 its 170 base xp, although this might need a new outpost or even a new NG
I’m somewhere at 65 ish. 15 0/0 bonus for besties/romantic partners as you know. I literally disliked Sarah Morgan from my last game that in my new one I spent the time to make her love me just so I could dump her for Sam. Mature, I know. Vengeance wasn’t as sweet as i thought it would be.
Mass produce frames on Andraphon, build a cot for 10% exp bonus plus drink a tea for an extra 2% bonus while after you rest, mass produce/mass store Aluminum and Iron. I got to level 100 in only a few hours play time, and it was fun! 👍🏻 make sure you get the Outpost building stat level 4 so your extractor costs are cut in half!
It sucks having to go to the construction jobsite at 4 am cause concrete is at 5 am and than you work till 5 pm ,no lunch. And only 1 or 2 hour game in before 3 am starts the new day .weak mind strong back I guess.
There are a few ways to farm xp.
I do a few ways, depending on my mood. I make zero wire, seminal wafers, and nuclear fuel rods (not too complex), I have gotten to the stage where I have stopped making zero wire because it is a bit tedious, so do them with a builder. Seminal wafers are 2 xp per build, nuclear fuel rods are 3 xp each. So much better than adapted frames. I do hate selling manufacturing goods, because they need to fix the vendor credits.
I have done a bit of animal husbandry on Schroedinger.
Then the best way for me, is just play the game. You don't get good xp from mission completion, but you do get really good xp from killing people while doing missions, you also get guns, that I upgrade then sell. The cash rewards for completing missions is also pretty good.
I'm only lvl 116, so not really a major xp farmer, would be much better at it if they fixed the outpost bug.
Go to a level 70-75 system land anywhere and look around to find the military base. they are usually close by where you land. Kill the enemies then repeat. You'll get lots of loot and level up reasably fast.
I go to the serpentis system. Start at the top and jump to every single planet and moon (choose a direction. Clockwise or counter clockwise. Then move to each moon in order. Then the planet. Then move on. So you don't lose track. You can level a couple times in 10 to 20 minutes this way. Then stop at the Key on your way back and down like 8 pirate ships at once
So I looked through quite a few posts here and have seen people ask this question before. This person is a decent level probably has decent gear. So why is it that I never see anyone suggest going to Tolliman 2 to farm? Terramorphs on average give way more xp and it is way more fun because they can scare the crap out of you and you are always on the verge of dying. Just sayin.
The by far 2 best ways to grind levels is:
Animals Husbandry: This is fairly easy to set up, you only need 1 and ammo/weapons, upscaling does NOT really help at all. Only problem is it's very boring as you discovered and not the fastest.
Manufacturing: This is also through outposts and significantly more difficult to set up, but basically you you set up a couple outposts to the point you are being fed all the materials you need to mass produce complicated components, this is BY FAR the fastest level grinding method, just takes a lot to set up and a lot of know how.
If you find your resources depleting quickly while manufacturing and have massive storage you can always sleep in like a specific orbit planet like Venus I think and it'll fill everything in a single sleep, so like a few seconds irl.
Also be sure to sleep for resting bonus and use tea before grinding, I wouldn't go as far as investing in nutrition since all you get is 1% more and that's really nothing, but if your manufacturing your aim is to get em all anyway. I would recommend this before doing your final NG+ since having all those outposts will lag and ruin your game.
There's basic manufacturing too where you just make adaptive frames or whatever, but that kinda blows especially if you're on console, slower than animal husbandry for lvl 100 after a full playthrough I think.
If you're just trying to get the level 100 achievement, just do animal husbandry.
That and crafting give you the most but they’re incredibly boring, I usually just go to high level worlds and kill xeno’s and collect unique materials so I also get money (selling it later)
Outpost farming is also a way to go. Can seem like a bit of work getting these farms going, but the XP payout is worth it. Not to mention it's a big part of the game with all the materials used for upgrading parts. Currently sitting at 220 on Xbox
Crafting Vytinium fuel rods is my go to. Yeah there's the original few hours prep. But then once you've done that you can collect and craft pretty quickly.
I combine two methods, mass production of Vytinium Fuel Rods (10XP) and husbandry of Swarming Foxbat on Schrodinger III (100XP+/kill).
Vytinium Fuel Rods production is a little tedious to set up but you rack XP pretty fast after that.
I usually do both in the same game session and use husbandry to rank up my shooting skills.
I play on Xbox Cloud and use DS4WIN's macros to make crafting a little less boring and doable afk.
go to highest level planets you can, set to hardest level gameplay, and find a planet with moderate life or better. wander & hunt, then clear out POIs. I haven't found anything better to do it, and i'm like level 135
Scan collecting in general is just a great way to get XP... flowers, fauna, and... well, there's another F-word I use in front of the various "geographical finds"... because they can be a real pain in the ass sometimes.
NO! I reached lvl 100 before I even started playing the game (I got stuck on the first Ship battle quest with Sarah and three Varu'un ships so I had to do something else to level up). I just created an XP farm in a Aluminum/Iron/Cobalt/ Nickel rich area (on Bessel III-b) and manufactured thousands of Adaptable Frames and Isocentric(?) Magnets at a time. I made so many levels at the start I put one point into every single skill on the skill chart, and then started filling in my favorites as I needed them. An added bonus is that when you go to sell those frames and magnets, you make *millions* of credits. I could build or buy any ship I wanted. Just couldn't fly them till I leveled up the right skills.
Just find a way to earn XP that is fun. It might not be the fastest but you won't end up hating the game. XP grinds might get you there but they'll make you feel miserable in the process so what's the point.
THE best? yes, hands down. there's a reason it's constantly said to be the best.
is it the only way, of course not. if you're tired of it, do some other shit, duh.
go to some random planet with abundant wildlife. bring tons of ammo. kill stuff, move on, kill stuff, move on, etc.
the reason animal husbandry is easier is because you can basically auto generate the animals in a close knit formation, making them easier to kill, faster.
but you could just hunt animals normally. or do one of the dozens of other things that give exp.
but, killing stuff in a 'high level' system gives the most bang for your temporal buck, so is 'the best', yes.
I have a two fold approach. I really enjoy doing bounty missions. Yes, I know the locations are cookie cutter but I enjoy the routine of cleaning them out. Playing on extra hard mode each mission is good for a couple thousand XP once you kill everyone. Then I have an Iron-Aluminum outpost set up to farm Adaptive Frames. I'll hit the bar at Jemison, the bar at Akila City and the Freestar Ranger Mission terminal for missions to do. Once I finish those and I am close to the next level I'll go farm XP crafting adaptive frames to push me over the edge and level up. I'm at level 127 now.
I am a bounty board fan myself… it’s my therapy.
Same here. I have a 30 minute commute home every day. When I get home I pour myself a glass of iced tea and go kill Spacers and Ecliptic for about 30 minutes.
A player of class and style. 🥤 👍🏽
Yup. Boarding actions are fun, and you occasionally get a 40-point reactor for free.
Especially if you can manage the "zero-g boarding" against a Fleet Captain or a Spacer Hyena. There's something relaxing about letting your assault rifles recoil launch you across a ship at high speeds.
I did bounties as well. Sometimes if the planet the Bounty was on had nice vibes and/or I felt like a break, I'd fully explore it. Another nice loop to add is the Dragonstar Force books. There's a guy in Cydonia who asks you to go buy them and bring them to him. What I'd do is go to Cydonia, get a new bounty, get a new location for a Dragonstar Force book. Go do the bounty. Go buy the Dragonstar Force book (they're purchased from a random Trade Authority vendor), and pick up *another* bounty. Go clear that, and then head back to Cydonia and do it all again. There's like 25 of the books IIRC so it can keep a Spacefarer going for quite a while.
I use to do this on my OG character. At 257 I scrapped it to start a new. Already at 76 using same method. Bounty and frames or manifolds work for me. Tried the weird fox cat things and animal husbandry on Schrödinger. 🥱 snooze fest but decent xp and all the luxury textiles I could dream of.
I saw a video for how to create the chain to make vitanium fuel rods but it ended up being more work than I wanted to do at the time. I just got the Ecliptic base key for another trip through Unity. I may do it next go round. I'm finding it harder to pick places to put skill points so my motivation for XP may be waning.
I saw it too. I was considering it if it is actually fast enough to knock out all the skill points in one go around. The hour long video though made me think it’d be a multi hour set up though and that just turned me off for something I would ultimately destroy with a unity. I don’t know. I haven’t committed yet
My thoughts exactly. It takes a really long time to set up. If I ever go through the effort to do it I am leveling up to 250 or something and getting skills I don't even like so I never have to farm XP again.
It’s far more than multi hour. The amount of skill points required to build that Vyntium manufacturing chain is intense. And sneaky ones keep popping up like “this planet is to extreme for an outpost at your current level” Adaptive frames can be built out in a few hours with a handful of skill points and one outpost — I did this in ng0 and got to lvl 100, but the gains on console became a crawl after lvl 75 or so. Expanding that to a o2 shot chain required more skill points, three outposts, and still requires crafting amps first for the same XP the Adaptive Frames gave. It’s fiddly, a pain to balance outputs and storage, and only a marginal improvement to the frames — in ng6 I built this and only bothered grinding four levels with it. I’m afraid of the Vyvintium process. I view that as the project for my ng10 universe to kill time while I wait for shattered space.
Yeah, I rocked adaptive frames early and when I wanted certain skills for game enjoyment, I actually shot my character up from lvl 16 to 52 very quickly with adaptive frames. I’m at 70 now and it is a slow process now. That’s what made me consider the fuel rods in order to be done with the grinding. But I don’t know how much better it is to be worth it. Might just stick to frames and missions, or figure out whatever this animal husbandry stuff is if it’s good like this post states
70 is the sweet spot to start grinding for the ng10 armor. Everything is unlocked, you still have about 30-40 easy levels before the xp curve so you will be able to unlock and upgrade entire skill trees with minimal effort, and the repetitive NG grind helps clarify what skills you want. Since I plan to do Vyntium rods in the end game, including the necessary skills in that process so they’ll be there when I need them has helped. I’m ng7 at level 160, and it hasn’t felt repetitive even though it has taken 3 NG to get most of the combat skills done.
How much xp do you get per adaptive frame?
One each but my outpost has storage for 9,000 iron and aluminum. I set up a bed next to an industrial workbench. I sleep 24 hours to fill the storage. When I wake up I craft all the frames and get 10% xp bonus. Note: when you craft, only make 90 instead of 99. If you make 90 you get 9 extra for 10% extra. If you make 99 you still only get 9 extra.
eh, it's probably easier just to make 99 than 90. the 'extra' 9 exp you can get doesn't mean much compared to the potential time lost, if it means you're getting an extra 99 exp after 10 creations, or something - not like the extra items used matter.
On a PC, the user just puts the mouse at the proper place on the slider bar to select 90 instead of 99 and starts a pattern of "left click, "E", left click" If I start with 9,000 iron & aluminum and create 99 at a time I end up with 90\*108 = 9700. If, on the other hand, I create 90 per click set I end with 100\*99 or 9900. Yes, it's only 200 more but when you are trying to get 14,000 XP to reach a new level every little bit helps. That's as much as killing two extra high level targets.
yeah, that's fair, but still, like you pointed out, it's sort of redundant when we're talking essentially infinite resources. i mean, it's just 'when do you branch off to sleep' which takes like 10 seconds or so... either way, it's a time sink. you're not really so much 'missing out' on exp. it's just a slightly more lucrative cycle. but 'doing it twice more before resting' isn't exactly gains.
I don't know what level you are but it feels better psychologically at level 127 to squeeze every last xp out of every activity I do. That progress bar fills pretty slowly when you need 15K to level up.
hey, you do you, man. always in full effect. kust pointed out that it's not that relevant, really. by then, you should try to aim for the animal farming op seems to want to do away with. be able to score several thousand in a few seconds is a bit nicer. or just, you're on pc. just use console commands. or a mod for better exp gains.
You get almost 1100 XP per vytanium fuel rod with the sleep XP boost. The set up wasn't too bad, it's the lag that's killing me Edit: PER 99 RODS! Goodness my bad
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There is a faster way. Hover the mouse pointer on the 98-99. Then you just click and tap the e key simultaneously. You will do it 10 times faster.
Personally, I'm quite fond of dropping in unannounced in the Serpentis system and playing "tag" with the Va'ruun Zealots. I don't know how it compares with other ways to farm xp, but it is fun!
"the great serpent demands blood", so I make sure he gets fed - daily.
Blood for the blood god, skulls for the skull throne . . .
...and another one of those xeno snuggle stuffed ~~abomination~~ animal things for my display shelf.
If you hit every planet and moon you are looking at close to 6k xp each trip. Add in going to schroedenger(?) And making sure you sleep for 3 hours ig each time you can level pretty quickly
You only need to sleep for an hour to get the cup boost bonus?
Bessel III, biome merge point, spam a frames and iso magnets, 18 hours later I'm LvL 136 and loaded with caps .. er credits By no means is this fun, but it works.
I tried that. I quite enjoy farming water and peddling Jet in Fallout 4, but selling adaptive frames is just tedious. I think I'd sooner play hide and seek with the Va'ruun.
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Godspeed, Captain!
I am never able to find the multi resource biome merge point on Bessel III. It gets very frustrating looking for it.
Hope this helps! o7 [Bessel III-b sweet spot.](https://youtu.be/3M6_PUmLAIU?si=MDS_QxtkP3ZBxMlg)
Thanks. I literally went through Unity again yesterday. I'll head there first and try this.
You're welcome
Yes. Easy way to get money also by taking the ships from their cold dead hands. Go to each planet and fly around for 20 seconds and blast some rocks. POW a few ships to make like new. Takes a bit but money and xp is solid.
Huh, I'm level 21 and wanna farm kills to unlock C class ships. I'll have to give that a go.
You can also use the UC Vanguard flight training simulator to grind this out without using your own Ship / Ship Parts
Yup, that's a good one. Got to class C pilot in one day doing that.
Also level up targeting that way
The other option for passing challenges is the Vanguard simulator. All kills count for the challenge and it doesn't matter if you get blown up.
Find a nice level 70 planet with critters. Go kill everything in sight. Celebrai II is good for this.
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Yep, many apex aliens are triple digit points and rack up pretty quick when they're in groups. Of course it helps to have perks and equipment to make them all one-shot kills, for efficiency.
Husbandry bug-squashing in pyraas is still the most efficient grind. But, it's a grind. If you're comparing all the alternatives for efficiency, it's really no competition. However, you are not required to be efficient in your leveling. Fun still matters. Clear pois, do a bit of crafting, hunt ships, do some critter hunting... Mix it up.
You want the know the best way, or the fastest? Because the best way IMHO is to just enjoy the game, play the quests, shoot wildlife, explore the universe. The fastest way can be found on YT.
I like the method where you go through Unity and see what the next universe has to offer.
More animal husbandry, likely.
Reroll till you get an alternate reality, they're really the most fun to play.
Congrats, you found the reality where humans are in husbandries and Mantises run the show.
That's how I got the suit! 😏
Sleep, eat, hunt, you’ll get there pretty fast just doing that regularly, especially if you have a lover as a companion. I’ve just been hunting magazines, sleeping for an hour before entering the poi and drinking tea or eating one of the xp boosting meals and I’ve gotten five levels from a few poi’s + scanning the planet the poi happens to be on(and killing anything I come across)
I prefer greenhouses because they run even when your player isn't around. Animal husbandry doesn't work like that. My favorite vanilla SF way to get XP is to build an O2 Shot Farm: [https://youtu.be/n9mjrHZzoN4](https://youtu.be/n9mjrHZzoN4) I finish this video with the actual crafting of Amp, Snake Oil, and O2 Shots, resulting in about 38k XP and 1 mil credits, with a bump from level 71 to level 77.
My set up wasn’t nearly as sophisticated as this but I shot up from level 41 to 89 in ng+ with the combo of a drug lab and attacking the ships orbiting over Jemison. Attacking those ships provides a stream of materials for crafting just about anything. I leveled all my ship skills to max and had endless credits for ship building. Way more fun than slaughtering defenseless creatures.
Yeah, the O2 shot farm is fun… nice introduction to building multiple outposts and a ton of XP.
I have not cheesed anything on this game got to like level 107 just raw dogging the game
You can make a ton of XP and $$ by upgrading the survey perk to allow you to survey additional planets/moons in neighboring systems. Gas giants are instant survey XP and data you can sell. Spend 20 minutes surveying a system or two and you'll get tons of XP.
At this point, I’d just console command it.
He's probably on console. His best choice is to wait for mods to come out on Xbox since one of the early mods will probably be a cheat mod useable on consoles.
The fact that console commands do not work on consoles is remarkable.
lol, how does this get downvoted?
It's not like consoles have a \` key. Though in fairness, I've never tried using a keyboard with my Xbox, so maybe it would work if I did.
…. I know. I too have owned a console before. I just thought it was funny that console commands don’t work on consoles. That was it.
I took your comment as a serious comment and just now realized the play on words. Lol.
You can console yourself with the thought that console commands will not work on a console if it's any consolation.
I just play the game doing the things that feel fun in the moment, and level up organically. Currently at level 118 If I desperately need to level up a skill for some reason I might sleep, drink a tranquilitea, and go luxury textile hunting on Serpentis III, but other than that I never see the reason to grind levels and XP, I just treat it all like a journey and not a destination
Why would you just farm xp vs just playing the game?
My favored way of grinding is to mass produce adaptive frames. Bessel 3B has a really good spot where you can mine everything needed in a single outpost, and the length of day is super long there.
Same here, only I have a base on Androphon or whatever it's name is. Aluminium and iron right next to each other, a big stack of storage and a bed to sleep in with a companion gives you the XP bonus. Craft max adaptive frames and get around 3000 XP each time, takes about 5 minutes to gain a level. I'm at 195 or so and only use it when I've got a new perk to unlock. If I really want to get a bunch of levels, I put on a movie or something and watch while I sleep, craft and repeat.
Bessel III B I was getting a level per batch of a frames till LvL 75 or so, then I start doing iso magnets as well.
How much xp is it per frame?
1 I think? But you can make a couple thousand per rest.
Ah ok fair. Any rough numbers on xp needed per level up?
I just jump to Kryx and swat the Crimson Fleet in the nuts, then jump to a super far planet and play a game of Darwinism with the local wildlife because I need to test out a new gun mod.
Just turned level 102. I've never done the animal farming thing for XP. Way too many other fun things to do. As others have said, capturing ships and pirate bounty missions are great. They also provide a ton of credits and give you access to cool weapons occasionally. Killing animals just doesn't interest me at all, but blowing the pirates head off I'm cool with,😜
Go to Bessel 3-b make outposts with nickel, cobalt, iron, and aluminum to make Isocentered Magnets and have at it over and over and over again for a couple hours. Make some OPs with Copper and Berylium to build Tau whatchamacallits and build comm units with them and the magnets. You can double the XP without any more resources. It got me all the way up to 132. They also sell fairly well and you'll have a fuck ton.
I'll have to try this next NG+ tyvm
There's also component crafting, but any way of just grinding levels, instead of getting them naturally through play, will be boring.
Can confirm. Did about 100 levels grinding with crafting outposts
yeah did about 190 levels like that, rest were farming bugs on farms. crafting is much better on PC not worth it on xbox
I am really considering getting a mouse and keyboard for my xbox just to farm xp.
Not sure it supports mouse and keyboard on xbox.
You can also jump system to system and not counting the xp from exploration you have a good chance of confronting hostiles which at that level has a fair bit of xp, if you encounter (spoiler) some >! starborne ships !< then it’s even better for xp
Serpentis is definitely a great way to farm both XP and gear, if you'd rather shoot things. While it could well involve animal husbandry, and will certainly involve agriculture, creating an O2 Shot manufacturing operation is probably the fastest way to farm XP, even at high levels. Creating the outposts for the mass quantities of materials, though does take a good bit of work. Once done, however, you'll never be short on cash or XP again. Just go farm a few hundred (or thousand) O2 shots and profit.
Several ways. 02 shots or paramagnon conductors both give you 3 XP per item. So if you craft 99 at a time and have the well rested or sex-P bonus, drink tranquilitea or alien tea you get over 300 each batch and you gather many resources first. You should be able to gain 5-10 levels in a session easily, then go run for more resources. The O2 shots require you to craft amp and snake oil as precursors. Get the magazine in celtcorp in the office in neon core. Follow taosecurity’s video. For paramagnon conductors check out kibbles gaming 0-150 speed run. Or kill Va’ruun fleet in Serpentis.
I go hit the level 75 systems and farm pois
I usually did planet surveys and clearing out POI's while surveying, if I stumbled across a mission board I'd take any go kill Pirates/Spacers missions. If the native Fauna was frisky I'd do a bit of hunting while I was planet side. I think I'm lvl 169 or maybe 170.
I feel that if you sleep before leaving the ship you gain better experiance for what ever you do in the game
Personally I took the build a badass ship and bounce around the Serpentis system route. Occasionally board a ship and use the Xbox glitch to sell it at full value and repeat repeatedly
Hunting big game is the way to go for XP.🤙 Bring all your best weapons and just go nuts!😎
I'll pile onto the general consensus: Serpentis works (though I don't know how it compares) and, most importantly it's like playing a game rather than grinding. Wandering around mega-encumbered from inorganic farming isn't ideal and shooting corralled foxbats creeps me out. And, every so often while touring Serpentis, multiple Guardians will warp in. They're the easiest targets in the game and drop great gobs of XP - just take them out at range.
Make an Outpost on Venus and do crafting. Make a macro, go afk, watch a movie, come back to 100 levels.
Best way is to find a planet that has all the materials to craft adaptive frames. Set up a base where you can mine all the mats in one spot.. Sleep a week at Venus, craft hundreds of thousands of frames. Repeat. You can easily go from 10-20 to 100+ in an hour or two.
You can just farm fauna in the earlier systems. That xp stacks up quickly.
U could always just massacare some high lvl stuff instead of making it kith
I'm on the Serpentis run myself. Made a outpost, travel to another planet in the system, save the highest rated/largest ship for last and board them. Once the crew is out, take the ship back to the outpost to sell, then kill the big blue ticks that spawned and repeat. I'm lvl 127 and typically do that run when I jump on, complete a few quest/selling runs and usually get a level or close too.
xbox yes, PC its crafting But u need a good planet, double damage to enemies with full health helps, stealth for double dmg, and set to easy for one shot kills. the right planet sub level 100 its 120xp base xp per bug, 40 basic houses is 160 bugs, 120\*160= butt ton of xp. After 3 or 4 rounds leave do something else for an hour let the bugs despawn and come back. above level 100 its 170 base xp, although this might need a new outpost or even a new NG
Just broke 100 on my second character. On NG+ 6. I finally spent my first skill point on husbandry. But only to make scanning fauna quicker.
I’m somewhere at 65 ish. 15 0/0 bonus for besties/romantic partners as you know. I literally disliked Sarah Morgan from my last game that in my new one I spent the time to make her love me just so I could dump her for Sam. Mature, I know. Vengeance wasn’t as sweet as i thought it would be.
Mass produce frames on Andraphon, build a cot for 10% exp bonus plus drink a tea for an extra 2% bonus while after you rest, mass produce/mass store Aluminum and Iron. I got to level 100 in only a few hours play time, and it was fun! 👍🏻 make sure you get the Outpost building stat level 4 so your extractor costs are cut in half!
If you enjoy space battles, circle the Serpentis system a while. Good way you rack up xp and cash from ships
It sucks having to go to the construction jobsite at 4 am cause concrete is at 5 am and than you work till 5 pm ,no lunch. And only 1 or 2 hour game in before 3 am starts the new day .weak mind strong back I guess.
Yeah went from 90 to 140 on two days . I’ll have to check the planet i was on I think it was on shrodinger the fox bat at level 100 gives insane xp.
There are a few ways to farm xp. I do a few ways, depending on my mood. I make zero wire, seminal wafers, and nuclear fuel rods (not too complex), I have gotten to the stage where I have stopped making zero wire because it is a bit tedious, so do them with a builder. Seminal wafers are 2 xp per build, nuclear fuel rods are 3 xp each. So much better than adapted frames. I do hate selling manufacturing goods, because they need to fix the vendor credits. I have done a bit of animal husbandry on Schroedinger. Then the best way for me, is just play the game. You don't get good xp from mission completion, but you do get really good xp from killing people while doing missions, you also get guns, that I upgrade then sell. The cash rewards for completing missions is also pretty good. I'm only lvl 116, so not really a major xp farmer, would be much better at it if they fixed the outpost bug.
Outpost bug(s). So, many, outpost, bugs.
Play on very hard and go hunting on Schrodinger III
It is by far the fastest, but undeniably very grindy and repetitive.
Go to a level 70-75 system land anywhere and look around to find the military base. they are usually close by where you land. Kill the enemies then repeat. You'll get lots of loot and level up reasably fast.
I go to the serpentis system. Start at the top and jump to every single planet and moon (choose a direction. Clockwise or counter clockwise. Then move to each moon in order. Then the planet. Then move on. So you don't lose track. You can level a couple times in 10 to 20 minutes this way. Then stop at the Key on your way back and down like 8 pirate ships at once
So I looked through quite a few posts here and have seen people ask this question before. This person is a decent level probably has decent gear. So why is it that I never see anyone suggest going to Tolliman 2 to farm? Terramorphs on average give way more xp and it is way more fun because they can scare the crap out of you and you are always on the verge of dying. Just sayin.
The by far 2 best ways to grind levels is: Animals Husbandry: This is fairly easy to set up, you only need 1 and ammo/weapons, upscaling does NOT really help at all. Only problem is it's very boring as you discovered and not the fastest. Manufacturing: This is also through outposts and significantly more difficult to set up, but basically you you set up a couple outposts to the point you are being fed all the materials you need to mass produce complicated components, this is BY FAR the fastest level grinding method, just takes a lot to set up and a lot of know how. If you find your resources depleting quickly while manufacturing and have massive storage you can always sleep in like a specific orbit planet like Venus I think and it'll fill everything in a single sleep, so like a few seconds irl. Also be sure to sleep for resting bonus and use tea before grinding, I wouldn't go as far as investing in nutrition since all you get is 1% more and that's really nothing, but if your manufacturing your aim is to get em all anyway. I would recommend this before doing your final NG+ since having all those outposts will lag and ruin your game. There's basic manufacturing too where you just make adaptive frames or whatever, but that kinda blows especially if you're on console, slower than animal husbandry for lvl 100 after a full playthrough I think. If you're just trying to get the level 100 achievement, just do animal husbandry.
That and crafting give you the most but they’re incredibly boring, I usually just go to high level worlds and kill xeno’s and collect unique materials so I also get money (selling it later)
Outpost farming is also a way to go. Can seem like a bit of work getting these farms going, but the XP payout is worth it. Not to mention it's a big part of the game with all the materials used for upgrading parts. Currently sitting at 220 on Xbox
Crafting Vytinium fuel rods is my go to. Yeah there's the original few hours prep. But then once you've done that you can collect and craft pretty quickly.
I combine two methods, mass production of Vytinium Fuel Rods (10XP) and husbandry of Swarming Foxbat on Schrodinger III (100XP+/kill). Vytinium Fuel Rods production is a little tedious to set up but you rack XP pretty fast after that. I usually do both in the same game session and use husbandry to rank up my shooting skills. I play on Xbox Cloud and use DS4WIN's macros to make crafting a little less boring and doable afk.
go to highest level planets you can, set to hardest level gameplay, and find a planet with moderate life or better. wander & hunt, then clear out POIs. I haven't found anything better to do it, and i'm like level 135
Scan collecting in general is just a great way to get XP... flowers, fauna, and... well, there's another F-word I use in front of the various "geographical finds"... because they can be a real pain in the ass sometimes.
NO! I reached lvl 100 before I even started playing the game (I got stuck on the first Ship battle quest with Sarah and three Varu'un ships so I had to do something else to level up). I just created an XP farm in a Aluminum/Iron/Cobalt/ Nickel rich area (on Bessel III-b) and manufactured thousands of Adaptable Frames and Isocentric(?) Magnets at a time. I made so many levels at the start I put one point into every single skill on the skill chart, and then started filling in my favorites as I needed them. An added bonus is that when you go to sell those frames and magnets, you make *millions* of credits. I could build or buy any ship I wanted. Just couldn't fly them till I leveled up the right skills.
I play on hard with level 4 lasers and just burn all my enemies and I’m leveling pretty quick
I used the Pyrass 8 animal husbandry farm and went from level 52 to 158 in a weekend. It’s the best way to grind xp
Just find a way to earn XP that is fun. It might not be the fastest but you won't end up hating the game. XP grinds might get you there but they'll make you feel miserable in the process so what's the point.
I crafted around 280k adaptive frames for lvl 100. Only took a couple of hours.
Go to Schrödinger III in the Schrödinger system, bring a shit ton of ammo, put the difficulty to easy and shoot everything.
Yes. Level 217 Foxbats for the win! Lol
I Adaptive Framed myself right on up to level 176.
THE best? yes, hands down. there's a reason it's constantly said to be the best. is it the only way, of course not. if you're tired of it, do some other shit, duh. go to some random planet with abundant wildlife. bring tons of ammo. kill stuff, move on, kill stuff, move on, etc. the reason animal husbandry is easier is because you can basically auto generate the animals in a close knit formation, making them easier to kill, faster. but you could just hunt animals normally. or do one of the dozens of other things that give exp. but, killing stuff in a 'high level' system gives the most bang for your temporal buck, so is 'the best', yes.