Summary
The Settled Systems inStarfieldmake for a huge setting, but thankfully the game’s burgeoning community has created a helpful map which shows all the star systems that players can visit. While opinions onStarfield’s space exploration and travelhave been conflicting, its procedural generation has been an impressive design feat – being able to spit out content forStarfieldplayers on any planet of their choosing (provided it’s not a gas giant).
ThoughStarfieldoffers prebuilt zones such as New Atlantis or Cydonia, what sets it apart from the standard Bethesda sandbox is that the wilderness itself is largely random. The galaxy map, and thus space travel, is essentially a bridge that connects different randomized seeds acrossseveral hundredStarfieldplanets. In theory, this provides near-limitless re-playability across multipleStarfieldplaythroughs, but in practice, the jury is still out. Contrary to previous Bethesda titles such asSkyrim, the level scaling inStarfieldis less favorable towards the player, as the further east they go in the Settled Systems, the higher the level of content they’ll come across.
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To that end, Matt Hook from HardcoreGamer shared the website’s star map for the Settled Systems on the official subreddit forStarfield. All 120 playable star systems are displayed on the map, color-coded by their level scaling so that players can know which corners of the galaxy to avoid. However, as outlined in the post itself, HardcoreGamer’s database also has individual information on every planet and every moon inStarfield, as well as a breakdown of where players can find a specific resource in the game such as Argon, Chlorine, Lead, or Neon.
Starfield Star System Map
Of course, the real benefit to having a map like this isn’t just for the purposes of adventuring. It’s generally recommended tocreate an outpost inStarfieldas early as possible, and a detailed star map with resource filters should players decide the perfect location on where to plant an outpost beacon. In many ways,Starfieldis an evolution ofFallout 4’s settlement system and gunplay, and it’s obvious to players that this is where the game received plenty of love during development. ManyStarfieldfans have praised its combat, and many more have become obsessed with its ship builder.
Though the Creation Kit is no doubt poised to open up the game’s features even more,Starfieldalready has some amazing modsthat enhance the baseline experience. Given Bethesda’s statements that modders will be able to create custom planets from scratch, the already huge setting of the Settled Systems could get even bigger in the months to come.
Starfieldis available now on PC and Xbox Series X/S.
