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Building an Outpost in Starfield gives your character new opportunities to make easy money by gathering resources from whatever planet you built your structures upon. Harvesting materials automatically through your Outpost gives you items you can sell to vendors across multiple worlds. However, doing this will require the right systems in your base, with the right staff, to keep the cash flowing.

Outposts are complicated bases resembling the settlement feature in Fallout 4, allowing you to customize an entire base to your heart's desire. After placing an Outpost Beacon in a location, you can spend resources to create buildings that each serve a distinct purpose. You will need to consider build limitations, hired workers, and power sources that each define different restrictions within an Outpost.

Titanium, Lead, Sealant, and Aluminum are all critical resources to farm to build different Outpost structures, so make sure to collect as many of these items as you can.

How To Earn Credits From Outposts In Starfield

Starfield Resource Extractor Used to Get Money From Materials to Sell to Vendors from Outpost

All the money gained from Outposts comes from selling the materials you harvest to various vendors, making a Transfer Container the most essential structure for you to build. This device allows you to transfer any resources farmed from your Outpost directly into your ship's cargo. No matter where you are among the stars, you can always access items from this part of your far-off base.

Before you build a Transfer Container right away, keep in mind that you also have to make a Resource Extractor to collect materials in the first place. As long as this structure is active, your Outpost will continuously harvest items from the surrounding landscape for you to pick up whenever you wish. that the inventory space tied to your ship's cargo in Starfield hold can be a bit too small to carry everything your Outpost produces.

As you continue throughout the story of Starfield, you will have the chance to gain or purchase houses across different worlds, giving you more storage space for items harvested from your Outpost.

Those looking to increase the resource yield made by their Extractor should consider hiring a crew member for different bonuses. This does require you to build a Crew Quarters within your Outpost and make a one-time payment to fully recruit someone to work in your base. People best suited to work with resource gathering might have skills in Geology, Outpost Management, Outpost Demolitions, or Outpost Engineering.

Once you make everything you could need at your Outpost, you almost have a constant source of easy money from selling extracted resources to vendors in Starfield that will keep you wealthy until the credits roll.