Crafting items will help you out during your travels by upgrading your weapons, ensuring your survivability, and even allowing you to expand your existing outposts. Here is how to level up your Research Methods in Starfield.
Starfield Research Methods Leveling Guide
Research Methods is a Novice-tier skill in the Science Skill Tree in Starfield. This means that as soon as you create your character and level up for the very first time you can unlock this skill. This skill will reduce the required resources necessary to craft items and will eventually make sudden developments happen two times more than before. To rank up or level up this skill you will have to craft an increasing number of unique food, drinks, drugs, and weapon or equipment mods. Mastering the Research Methods will require you to craft a total of 30 different recipes.
| Research Methods Rank | Challenge | Effects |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | None. | Resources required to craft items and complete research projects is reduced by 10%. |
| 2 | Craft 5 unique food, drinks, drugs, weapon mods, or equipment mods. | Resources required to craft items and complete research projects is reduced by 20%. |
| 3 | Craft 10 unique food, drinks, drugs, weapon mods, or equipment mods. | Resources required to craft items and complete research projects is reduced by 40%. |
| 4 | Craft 15 unique food, drinks, drugs, weapon mods, or equipment mods. | Sudden developments during research are twice as common. Resources required to craft items and complete research projects is reduced by 60%. |
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Cheapest Things to Craft in Starfield
Due to the condition of recipes being unique to count toward the rank-up tally – meaning that you cannot craft the same recipe multiple times – the best way you can approach this method is to craft the first recipes that appear in all crafting stations. You can even track the recipe so that when you visit a vendor, you will see the items you need with a magnifying glass next to it. Continue to research and craft these items and you will level up your skill in a decent amount of time. Be sure to level up your Scavenging skill so you might encounter more resources in your space adventures.
- This article was updated on October 24th, 2023
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