Key points
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This Starfield player spent 1,100 hours reaching level 1,000.
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You earn enough skill points for everything in the game by level 326, so OP just did it for bragging rights.
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Getting XP is incredibly difficult once you cross a certain threshold, so they had to create 15 million vytininium fuel rods.
One Starfield player managed to reach level 1,000 after a staggering 1,100 hours.
To put this figure in perspective, it translates to about 45 days of Starfield. That means they've spent over ten percent of their time playing Bethesda's sci-fi RPG since it launched.
There is no point in reaching level 1,000
And it's a hell of a grind
It must have taken a lot of patience to reach that milestone, but there's not much going back at level 1,000.
At level 326, you have enough skill points to max out every single skill in the game. That alone is an impressive achievement, but they somehow made it to level 450 by playing “normally”.
Why then should you bother doubling down? Getting to level 450 is one thing, but it's not even halfway to 1,000 and you've already made skill points redundant. The answer… just cause.
“I decided to try to reach level 500, then 600, and finally level 1,000,” they explain. “After a certain point, the only way to level up was to craft vytininium fuel rods. Normal gameplay couldn't keep up.”
In total, they made about 15 million vytininium fuel rods, using an AutoHotkey to automate production. But that doesn't mean they automated the grinding, since they still had to collect the materials to begin with.
It took 121 years of play
Let's look at the statistics
OP was kind enough to share all their stats, giving us an idea of how much they accomplished in their 1,000 hours of Starfield.
The most impressive feat is that they spent 121 in-game years leveling up. Over a century of Starfield! In that time they were able to fully explore 616 planets, kill 5,000 people, build 280 outposts, and accumulate 43.5 million credits.
There's not much else for them to do at that point, and starting NG+ would mean wiping out all the progress they've made grinding vytininium fuel rods and building outposts. But at least there's a second DLC on the horizon. Maybe they can scrape together another million credits and find thousands more people to kill, huh?
Starfield is Bethesda's first new IP in a quarter of a century, launching for Xbox Series X|S and next-gen PC. Set outside our Solar System, you play as a member of the Constellation, a collective of explorers determined to discover new worlds.
