Starfield
50 Achievements
1000
80-100h
PC
Xbox Series
Life Begets Life
Gather 500 Organic Resources
20
0.47%
How to unlock the Life Begets Life achievement in Starfield - Definitive Guide
Itz Tubez
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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!
Edit: To answer a few questions, you can see your progress for this in your pause menu>
status>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
.
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!
Edit: To answer a few questions, you can see your progress for this in your pause menu>
status>craftingTo gather the resources themselves, pull out your scanner, then walk up to a plant and a "harvest" prompt will replace your "scan" prompt on
.
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A couple of notes
1) this achievements only counts the number of times that you harvest, so even if you get two roots from a plant it will still only count as one.
2) If you want to speed this up a little bit, you can use an ability call "Eternal Harvest". This will let you harvest from the same plant again. Combined with using Quantum Essence you can harvest around 20 in a minute.
1) this achievements only counts the number of times that you harvest, so even if you get two roots from a plant it will still only count as one.
2) If you want to speed this up a little bit, you can use an ability call "Eternal Harvest". This will let you harvest from the same plant again. Combined with using Quantum Essence you can harvest around 20 in a minute.
By Phantom Bias on 09 Sep 2023 15:36
For anyone thinking “oh I’ll just put a point in the botony skill. It should make this much quicker!” Nope. Even though you can obtain double the items from a single plant… the game only counts it as 1. So maybe save the skill point for something else lol
By AFL Kr0niic on 07 Sep 2023 02:52
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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
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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Perfect
By Leap Of Faith77 on 17 Sep 2023 17:38
This is by far the best method for this achievement and should be the top solution.
By GIPITO1 on 24 Sep 2023 22:49
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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:
Create a greenhouse in an outpost, enter it, use the Eternal Harvest power, collect all plants on the ground floor, rinse and repeat.
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;drFrom 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.
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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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.
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.
By samsaBEAR on 15 Oct 2023 21:52
Thanks for the tip, adding it to the solution ;)
By xRino94 on 16 Oct 2023 07:48
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Harvesting plants (flora on scanner) that you can scan for a planet survey counts towards this.
I found that the planet Toliman II in the Toliman System works well for this as there is lots of plants. Just beware of the wildlife. They can be a pain.
You can view your progress in the character menu status screen under the crafting menu.
I found that the planet Toliman II in the Toliman System works well for this as there is lots of plants. Just beware of the wildlife. They can be a pain.
You can view your progress in the character menu status screen under the crafting menu.
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While Rock Collection (10G) covers inorganic material collection (i.e. collecting rocks and the like using the laser cutter), the “Life Begets Life” achievement covers everything organic. Well, plants. So, in short: picking resources off plants and trees is the way to get this achievement.
To speed this up, you might want to unlock the Botany skill in the Science skill tree, which will allow you to harvest more resources from plants.
So, find a planet, bust open your scanner, and just harvest organic resources from plants and trees, and you'll have this in no time whatsoever.
Harvest 500 in total and this achievement is yours. We recommend combining this with Rock Collection (10G) and completing planet survey bars, as you can make some pretty decent coin by selling the data surveys for credits to either Phil Hill (found in Cydonia and the Den, amongst other places), Vlad or any other trader.
To speed this up, you might want to unlock the Botany skill in the Science skill tree, which will allow you to harvest more resources from plants.
So, find a planet, bust open your scanner, and just harvest organic resources from plants and trees, and you'll have this in no time whatsoever.
Harvest 500 in total and this achievement is yours. We recommend combining this with Rock Collection (10G) and completing planet survey bars, as you can make some pretty decent coin by selling the data surveys for credits to either Phil Hill (found in Cydonia and the Den, amongst other places), Vlad or any other trader.