Key things
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This Starfield player spent 1100 hours grinding to level 1000.
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By level 326 you get enough skill points for everything in the game, so the OP just did it for bragging rights.
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Earning XP is incredibly difficult once you get past a certain threshold, so they had to make 15 million vytinium fuel rods.
One Starfield player managed to reach level 1000 after a staggering 1100 hours.
To put that number in perspective, that means about 45 star field days. That means they've spent more than ten percent of their time playing Bethesda's sci-fi RPG since its launch.
There is no point of reaching level 1000
And it's One Helluva Grind
It would take an impressive amount of patience to reach this milestone, but the level 1000 grind doesn't pay much.
At level 326, you have enough skill points to max out every single skill in the game. That alone is impressive, but somehow they got to level 450 by playing “normally”.
So why bother doubling up? Getting to level 450 is one thing, but that's not even halfway to 1000 and you've already made skill points redundant. The answer… just the cause.
“I decided to try to reach level 500, then 600 and finally level 1000,” they explain. “After a certain point, the only way to gain levels was by crafting vytinin fuel rods. The normal game just couldn't keep up.”
In total, they produced around 15 million vytinine fuel rods using AutoHotkey to automate production. But that doesn't mean they automated the grinding because they still had to collect materials to begin with.
It took them 121 years in the game
Let's look at the statistics
The OP was nice enough to share all their stats and show how much they accomplished in 1000 hours in the starfield.
The most impressive feat is that they spent 121 game years leveling up. Over a century of Starfield! During that time, they were able to fully explore 616 planets, kill 5,000 people, build 280 bases and accumulate 43.5 million credits.
There's not much else he can do for them at that point, and starting NG+ would mean resetting all their progress in grinding vytinium fuel rods and building foundations. But at least a second DLC is on the horizon. Maybe they could rack up another million credits and find a few thousand more people to kill, eh?
Starfield is Bethesda's first new IP in a quarter of a century to launch for Xbox Series X|S and next-gen PC. Set outside our own Solar System, you play as a member of the Constellation, a collective of explorers looking to discover new worlds.
