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Life Begets Life achievement in Starfield

Life Begets Life

Gather 500 Organic Resources

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How to unlock the Life Begets Life achievement

  • Itz TubezItz Tubez
    06 Sep 2023 06 Sep 2023 07 Sep 2023
    104 2 40
    This took me about an hour on Jemison. I fast traveled to a random part of the planet that was a "Deciduous Forest" biome.

    Just ran around with my scanner out collecting every plant I saw. There was one point where I had actually collected everything in the huge radius I was in so I just fast traveled to another deciduous forest on the planet. Very redundant but also very simple. There's also plenty of rocks you'll come across to harvest for the 500 rocks achievement as well if you're also going for that still. Hope this helps at least a little bit, good luck! toast

    Edit: To answer a few questions, you can see your progress for this in your pause menu>cn_Ystatus>crafting

    To gather the resources themselves, pull out your scanner, then walk up to a plant and a "harvest" prompt will replace your "scan" prompt on cn_A.

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    FalukenI just did this in 10 min using this way. You just need to build a greenhouse.

    https://youtube.com/shorts/ipfCu6oYVys?feature=share

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    Posted by Faluken on 13 Jun at 09:58
    GoatlipsThe greenhouse now requires Fluorine 4, Reactive Gauge 3, Adaptive Frame 5, Sealant 3 to build. Also, if you unlock Horticulture 1 via the 'Research Lab' (little machine like the crafting ones - requires resources), you get the Commercial Greenhouse, from the Builder tab and push dpad right on the Outpost's menus, and it requires Fluorine 8, Molecular Sieve 2, Adaptive Frame 7, Sealant 6. If you've not got the Eternal Harvest power you're better off with the Commercial (2x the plants and it's much easier to get to the top shelf plants - it grows about 100 organic nutrients).
    Getting the 1st Botany skill (in the upgrade menu with 1 skill point) and building a basic greenhouse and using Eternal Harvest (found randomly from Vladimir's temple/anomalies) is definitely the way to do this - just before you finish the story.
    NB: On Jemison I had no greenhouses in the Outpost's Builder tab, despite 100% survey - they unlocked/unglitched when I found an unscanned (light blue outline) plant with the scanner.
    Posted by Goatlips on 16 Jul at 13:13
    Lyle Witha KIs this something that has to be done on one play-through before New Game +, or does it tally from all your play-throughs?
    Posted by Lyle Witha K on 28 Aug at 14:45
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  • xRino94xRino94
    04 Oct 2023 04 Oct 2023 16 Oct 2023
    The fastest endgame way to farm organic resources is with a greenhouse in your outpost and the Eternal Harvest power.

    To unlock the greenhouse you will need Botany Skill I and you need to scan a species of flora local to that planet to 100%.

    The Eternal Harvest power is found in the Lambda Temple. The temple location is random for every playthrough, but you can found new temples by talking to Vladimir at the Eye or following the Power from Beyond quests.

    Now simple enter in the greenhouse, use your power and harvast all plants (there are about 25 plants only in the ground floor). Rinse and repeat until you get 500 organic resources.

    You will get the achievement in about 15 minutes.

    Thanks to samsaBEAR for an alternative without the need of build a greenhouse:

    To add onto this, if you don't want to put the time/points into building a Greenhouse, you can go to the farm used in the Deputized sidequest (Cheyenne - Montara Luna - Waggoner Farm) and farm using their crops.

    From where you land you'll see a barn, just to the right of that is a large circular object. Around it's base are 21 Metamaize plants that you can harvest. The circle is split into four rows of crops, I found I had to pop Eternal Harvest after every two rows as the range on it isn't quite enough to cover the whole circle. Pop a Quantum Essence and just run around collecting, took about 10-15 minutes.
    tl;dr
    Create a greenhouse in an outpost, enter it, use the Eternal Harvest power, collect all plants on the ground floor, rinse and repeat.
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    Hirsute DaveWaggoner Farm is definitely the way to go, particularly using the method Grimgolde described above. I picked up the last 370 odd I needed in about 15 minutes without using any Quantum Essense.
    Posted by Hirsute Dave on 16 Nov 23 at 00:45
    MisterPeacherJust adding on to say that the Waggoner Farm strat is still the way to go. I had a save file of nearly five days, with 48/50 of the other Starfield achievements unlocked and I found I had only apparently picked up 16 organic resources in that time.

    Without any skills in Botany, and just only getting the one item from each plant, doing this strat got me to the 500 in about 20-30 minutes!
    Posted by MisterPeacher on 14 Jan at 19:36
    Edax 76The Waggoner Farm method worked a treat. Thank you.
    Posted by Edax 76 on 06 Jun at 11:42
  • TheCOMEBACKxKIDTheCOMEBACKxKID
    15 Sep 2023 15 Sep 2023
    59 3 8
    get the temple power called eternal harvest (it makes plants regrow) and 6-10 starborn essence

    land on any planet with a forest area, find two bushes/plants that are very close to each other

    make a quick save, harvest both, use the power, use an essence, then harvest two every time you pop the ability

    took me under 15 minutes
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    AR15 FUZZAlso if you acquire the botany under the science tab it will add some extras to your harvest
    Posted by AR15 FUZZ on 02 Oct 23 at 04:31
    TheCOMEBACKxKIDThanks GIP
    Posted by TheCOMEBACKxKID on 06 Oct 23 at 02:28
    Oo Sullivan oOQuickest method!! Thanks a lot 🙏🏻
    Posted by Oo Sullivan oO on 05 Nov 23 at 15:19
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