Tell me what planet / moon you find with the most things to scan. So far Zeta Ophiuchi I is my record. 🐪 MERCH - camelworks.creator-spring.com/ 🐪 twitter.com/Camelworks 🐪 instagram.com/camelworks_official/ 🐪 www.twitch.tv/camelworks 🐪 kzfaq.info 🐪 www.patreon.com/Camelworks 🐪 discord.gg/XDGWm72 🐪 www.tiktok.com/@camelworksyt 🐪 facebook.com/camelworks 🐪 www.threads.net/@camelworks_official Starfield Playlist: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j9iAatSllbPUgZc.html TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Intro 02:58 - What Is Surveying / Scanning? 03:34 - How To Track Your Scan Progress 03:58 - Easily Survey Gas Giants, Ice Giants & Asteroid Moons 05:14 - Barren Moons & Planets 05:34 - Big Boy Scanning Pro Tips 05:47 - Have The Scanner Up All The Time 06:02 - Scan Resources Plants And Animals By Harvesting 06:47 - Scan Resource Data With Outpost Veins 07:31 - Use Outpost Building Mode To Reveal Local Resources 07:49 - Super Charge The Cutter 08:27 - Scanning Fauna & Flora (Animals & Plants) 09:30 - Different Planet & Moon Biomes 09:57 - How To Locate & Travel To Different Biomes 10:42 - See Biome Progress 11:10 - Fast Travel Without Your Ship 11:32 - Easily Scan All Flying Aliens 12:00 - CHECK THE OCEANS FOR FISH! 12:35 - How To Actually Get To The Coastline 13:08 - Where Is The Ocean? (Go Downhill & Look For Sand) 14:18 - Be Careful Of The Acid Seas 14:30 - How To Find & Scan Fish Effortlessly 15:03 - Predators, Prey & Scavengers 15:32 - Scan The Corpses 15:42 - Ho To Find The Tiny Scavengers 16:12 - Listen Carefully For Bugs 16:56 - Traits... What Are They? Where Are They? 17:30 - How To EASILY Find Traits On Any Planet Or Moon 17:42 - Scan For Natural Locations & Life Signs Locations. 19:01 - Discover Traits Quickly Like A Boss 19:17 - Free XP 19:29 - Look Out For Dung Piles & Rock Piles 19:48 - Traits Are Not Biome Specific 20:16 - All Traits Will Be Different On Same Planet 20:40 - Avoid Traits You've Already Scanned 21:01 - Go To A Flat Area 21:26 - Look For The Planetary Traits First Before Anything Else 21:45 - Survey Data Slate Value Tied To The Number Of Traits 22:37 - Skills That Will Help You Scan / Survey 23:30 - Surveying Skill 24:03 - Botany Skill 24:54 - Scanning Skill (Not Worth It) 25:44 - Zoology Skill 26:05 - Astrophysics Skill (Best One) 28:06 - Don't Sell Survey Data To Any Vendor! 28:46 - ONLY Sell Survey Data To Vladimir Sall 29:15 - How To Unlock Vlad As A Vendor 29:43 - Vlad Is The Richest Vendor In The Game 30:10 - How To Sell Survey Data For Double The Price 30:44 - Phil Hill in Cydonia Is A Scam DON'T SELL TO HIM 32:06 - Are Constellation Survey Missions Worth It? 33:50 - Discover A Trait From The Abandoned Research Towers 34:27 - Don't Waste Your Time With The Tower 35:35 - You Are Now A Master Scanner 35:42 - Survey Speed Running The Hardest Planet I could Find (Zeta Ophiuchi I) 58:02 - Outro

Since the surface map shows terrain elevation, you can more easily find coasts by opening the surface map and looking for the area where it goes completely flat

As you you rank up the skill "Scanning," you can rescan any planet or moon. Combine that with the ability to scan within 30 lightyears, and with the ability to detect a trait, you could use it to discover all of the traits on each planet or moon, rather than one because the 50% chance triggers again when you rescan the planet. For each rank gained in scanning, you gain another rescan, effectively allowing you to scan each planet 5 times.

The voice definitely has that "I just came back from fully surveying 60 planets" sound.

Don’t forget guys neon has water life. If you go to the underbelly and jump off the ledge you will land in the ocean. There’s an elevator down there to bring you back up when you’re done

For find the coast: use the compass! Look at your landing site on the planet map and if you landed with the coat to your left (on the map) then head west from your ship! The chronowatch hud thing in the corner has a compass with North being the house(?) shaped arrow that is distinct from the other directions. This works every time!

Another tip for coastal areas. Climb on your ship, use amp, jump and boost straight up, enter photo mode and look around for the shore. Works really well and saves running around hopelessly. (Pronunciation guide) offy-yoo-key = Ophiuchi

This is an exceptional video. I wanted to really focus on scanning planets and a nerd build without putting any points into combat, but it became wildly frustrating. Your tips on the ocean were particularly amazing and I will now go back to trying to full scan planets with a much better understanding. Thank you for such great content!

Camelfield, waiting for curious curating curiosities of starfield. It would be interesting.

19:36 Ive also noticed that there will often be about 2 fauna nearby to traits which, when killed, can be looted for similar loot as the dung/rock/creature piles!

I really hope that one of the first DLCs for Starfield includes ground vehicles for planetary exploration. I want a Mako! Or even a moon rover would be nice.

Hands down one of the most educational videos I've ever watched for a VIDEO GAME. Already knew most of it, but glad to see videos like this. Thank you for taking the time to create it. You earned a sub, a like, and an obligatory "feed the algorithm comment".😛

I am just so happy that finally the cutter focusing beam feature is being propogated now.

I use all your vids as guides, I got all the hidden items in your morrowind vids you’re the man and I’m loving the starfield vids too, seriously brother, you’re a savior thank you!

You are one of the most thorough people I've ever seen. You could be a great scientist, historian or Doctor. Cheers mate, love your work.

What he didn't tell you is that all 60 planets he surveyed were gas giants. He has duped us all.

Not sure if anyone else mentioned it but…I found that using a power boost pack helped me see a little further out as well as the tiny bugs that get lost in the grass. Just kinda pop up like a periscope with a 360 turn and voila, broader scope of the layout. Great video btw.

Ahhhh scanning gas giants and mini-moons is such a great/fast/easy source of credits! Thanks for the tip. Digging your videos lately.

i've only had this happen once, but there is a small chance the trait is actually an anomaly! i was on a moon and one of the little icons was a swirly thing, and it turned out to be an anomaly & that was the trait! Won't spoil what it was, but it was super cool!

You missed 2 points that can really help out. Amp ups your move speed and is wonderful. Also, below 1.0 gravity, jumps and jump pack can supplement O2 consumption so you can run longer.

The scanning skill is good to have, open the resources when in the map when planning to place your landing spot and find a spot with all the resources are next to each other. As you run around hunting plants and animals the ground resources for extractors will be all of the available ones for the planet. If you randomly plant your landing spot most likely there will be just one.

A note to 32:06 It might worth doing those quests if: The game ask you to find a specific feature (aka trait) in a solar system, that way you complete the quest without exploring the whole planet that means you got the xp and survey data aswell. Also I got missions where i had to survey the whole solar system aswell. And i got the data for each individual planet. So that was also a bonus.

I hope we get submarines in a DLC or some way to explore the oceans. Also, a DLC that allowed you to capture and then sell small creatures to a pet store would be cool.

Just a heads up, just because you land in one biome it doesn't mean you're only going to see that biome. Sometimes you get several biomes within one landing spot (play aread). Flora and fauna from different biomes can and often will bleed into each other, which is why sometimes it'll say "biome complete", yet you still find some you haven't completed yet. This can be forced to make outposts with two biome specific resources in one and the same outpost instead of making two outposts, by selecting a landing area bang in the middle of two biomes on the planetary map.

What I've used consistently (8-9 times) to find the ocean is landing at a coastal area that looks like a peninsula, make sure it says something like wetlands(coastal) and then note which direction the ocean is (North, south, east, west) and go towards the direction relative to the compass. It's worked every time for me so far, but eight or nine times is a bit of a small data pool.

“From my experience, there’s always two fauna in the ocean… never one, never three” I’m actually, right now, hunting a fauna in the ocean and there is only one 😄

Thanks! i’m on my first run and way more into surviving than anything else right now, ship building and outpost-ing are up next but thank you soooo much for your work and i’m looking forward to checking out what other starfield videos you have to offer ✌🏽🐿️💨

Just a heads up, the gravity anomaly trait shows up as a structure blip on the scanner

At the 43:00 minute mark your camera went straight up. This happens to me all the time! Most of the time it’s on a planet surface or a boarding action. Plz if you find BethSheba doesn’t know about this bug could share this clip to them. Thanks and great video! Edit, I’m on Xbox series X.

Regarding traits: the planet where I found Andreja had four of them. I didn't complete the survey but have a note by my keyboard reminding me to go back to it ASAP.

There is one thing about resources and it's that you can MASSIVELY speed up their collection/surveying by using the elemental pull as you casually run across rocks that would usually contain them. This automatically mass-collects resources as well as marking them as surveyed.

Boosting can really help spot stuff to be scanned, especially the small stuff or items beyond a ridge or raise. Didn't realize the animal piles had loot. Thanks for that tip.

Something (no spoilers) to help those who have progressed through the first 5 or so Constellation quests. There is something you pick up that helps you see life glow through objects for a short time. Make sure that you hot bar that, and you’ll never miss a scavenger in the dark or in inclement weather.

Binged all of your ES content starting about 6 months ago. So excited to start this new chapter of Starfield content!

Thank you, I’ve been wandering around trying to REMEMBER which minerals I’ve scanned … I didn’t know about the green and blue markers. Saved me a bunch of time.

15:05 where is that scary planet? My fav part of this game is the Alien film-esque horror, especially finding huge abandoned ships floating in space. This game needs more aliens/monsters!

Definitely need a video showcasing all of the different animals in Starfield I know that would be hard but the models for them looks so cool but I can never really get a good look at them. But really good video

Very nice video with nice tips. When I land on a new planet first I hop on my ship to have a better overview (to easy find lifesign and/or natural pois). And in case you have bad weather just walk away a little bit and fast travel back which will change the weather instantly.

Very nice! I've been scanning lots so this helps immensely! Thanks Camel!❤

48:20 you went in to a different biome. That's why you were able to scan plants. If you noticed the biome complete disappeared. You landed on the border of 2 biomes. Also you could do this way faster if you used your boost pack more. You're constantly out of O2 bc you're running everywhere and then you have to walk around. Run until you get to half O2 and then use boost pack so you can raise your O2 back up. Doing that you can run around nonstop.

I am SO happy to see you covering Starfield, Camel!

Great work. That was the best Starfield guide I’ve seen. Thanks!

For the Cutter. If you're on PC just switch aim to toggle, so you never have to hold it down. Just right click once. Even if you drop scanner and open scanner, it'll stay "aimed"

So, something really interesting happened during your video that the game doesn't tell you. Shortly after 48:00, you found a new plant despite having Flora marked as Biome Completed. As you approached it, Biome Completed disappeared. What happened there is that you actually walked into a new biome that was not completed. If you land right on the edge between two biomes, the tile generated when you land might actually contain bits of both biomes. If you're really lucky, you can use this to get access to different resources that don't like to spawn together, like Iron and Aluminum, at your outpost.

Thank you. The tips were perfect and helped me a lot.

Thank you for the instructional video on scanning very helpful for me. Thank you for all your hard work you do a great job camel.

This is the best guide for scanning planets! Thank you. It helps a lot;

Something to keep in mind with the Constellation Mission to survey a planet, is in early game, with no commerce skills, it may be more lucrative to do the mission rather than a simple survey. If it's a simple planet, you'll only get 50XP plus 450 credits, 900 credits from Vlad, so the mission may just give you an extra 50XP plus an extra 100 credits in comparison. Just for early game players, and in early game, that extra 50XP goes quite a ways towards leveling up.

Very comprehensive and filled with useful tips. This will speed up my planetary surveying by a lot. Now to get some of the useful skills to augment that.

Very articulate narration. Easy to pay attention and fun to watch. I learned a lot and my skills will certainly improve. Thank you.

The best survey video I have watched so far. It made my save list, which is not easy to do.

Thank You, Camei, 🐫 for showing us this walkthru / and how to😃

To find the water, I look on the local map. On the computer it would be in scan mode hit 'G'. Then look where the terrain goes down and is flat. It looks like a coast line. It works most of the time. Once when there was a flat plain nearby it was confusing, but it works well. Surveying can be a great XP farm. On a placet it was like a turkey shoot with many giving 50+ xp each. I went up almost 3 levels on one planet. That was when a lower level, but much better than a typical mission. Thanks for the video, great tips.

Thank you! Great informative presentation. Appreciated.

In one dung pile I found gear that strongly implied that a previous explorer had met a grisly end.

This video has been helpful to my explorer build, thanks Camel and I hope your voice gets better even though it's probably better by now.

Great work as always Camel. 👏

Great job on this video, you are a pro. Very helpful.

As for finding the coast... the easiest way is to pay attention to the relative position of the ocean from your landing spot (as seen from orbit) and walk in that direction. If the ocean is to the north of your landing spot then just walk to the north (which you can identify by using the compass on your handy Constellation watch).

Caves are annoying to traverse, but (in my very limited experience) they tend to have some or all of the trickier fauna to find so don't just ignore them! If you get lost in one (which you very likely will and quickly too) just quick travel back to a landmark if your lost OR if you must use your scanner to point your way out (it usually points to your ship ie the nearest exit WITH actually intelligent pathfinding so it won't lead you into a wall or anything)

This was really good, thanks. I had tried scanning planets, but struggled. This brings it all together.

Really great and detailed breakdown. Personal atmosphere power is your friend when tazzing around on planets! :)

I've found that caves can be a good way to find resources and even creatures for scanning, especially the scavengers. For some reason the creatures are all dead most of the time, so easy crafting components I guess. My surveying priority order is coast, natural landmarks/life signs, caves and, when all else, fails other landmarks just to run to while searching for things.

Powers: Elemental Pull is great to gather all the resources around you as you are running around. Especially useful in caves. Get scan credit for each resource gathered this way. Personal Atmosphere is great to use when you are running out of oxygen from sprinting everywhere. It completely refills and maintains your oxygen for a short period of time. It also helps for multitasking leveling other perks up such as; fitness, weightlifting (load over 75% of your capacity), and the companion one that has you travel certain distances with a teammate. Star Sense: make the fauna around you glow a glittery gold like crazy and lets you spot them anywhere, even ones that burrow.

Thanks for the information! On my first play through I probably won’t invest the perk points into these surveying skills. I’m more focused on combat and crafting. It’ll take a lot longer to survey but this video really gives me a good idea of what to look out for. Perhaps in NG+ I’ll get those exploration skills. Thanks Camel!

Camel just casually dropping molecule in his sentences now. He's bringing that adoring fan energy. The adoring fan also has a brittish accent lol.

Click on any part of the water when looking at the world map to see if it shows a percentage(0%), if it does, there is fauna in the water. If you get no number at all, there is none. If there are 2 kinds of fish in the water and you have only fully scanned one kind, it will read as 50% on the world map. It will change 100% once you have fully scanned both of them.

Nice work. You really proved your point at the end.

Dunno if someone already pointed it out, but Altair IV-c for example has 4 Traits as Planet. Maybe there might be even some with 5 or more within the 1000 Planets. But, maybe to counterweigh the traits, it has zero F&F and only 6 ressources.

Thank you super dupper much.... sorry I don't have money but I do truly enjoy watching your videos and the time and effort you put into making these.

Very helpful, thank you!!

Thanks mate! I thought I was already an "expert" on "astrocartography" but I learnt to level up Botany and Zoology as well as selling survey data to Vlad! So, thank you kind sir. Time well spent

Fantastic video! Thanks for the help!

I just started a new exploration focused playthrough earlier today and all of a sudden you drop this video. It’s like you knew 👀

Great comprehensive video

Zeta Ophiuchi I is the plant I planet I’ve been wanting to build my home outpost on. The rest of the system has some other rare resources too.

The Sense Star Stuff ability is great for finding the tiny fauna. They glow and can be seen through the ground cover. It's most useful when it is dark.

Finally, something useful on scanning. Thank you!

Andreja is pretty chill while you are surveying. I find Barret chill also.

I’ve seen a lot of people say to sell survey data to Vlad but not HOW to do that. So thank you.

1. Traits can also be at rare places like "Hazard". Basically anything not cave, ship or structure. 2. If the ocean is not hazardous, it is INSANELY quicker to jump, rather than swim. For some reason, the player can jump in water, and don't get slowed down by swimming. 3. Traits can go as high as 5, but may be bugged. I got an early quest from a terminal to find a specific trait in a system. One of the planets had 5 traits, but after hours I only found three or four. 4. Zoology is better than botany, because plants are FAR easier to find then animals. Between flyers that only show up at night, to scavengers only showing up near bodies, to fish which hide up and down the shoreline, zoology will massively speed up scanning. 5. Phill Hill will eventually show up at any bar, making him an "extra" place to sell data, but haven't checked if his prices change or adjust.

Thanks for the exploration tips. I discovered most of the information by myself already, but I didn't know about the coastal biomes. I found that the skip boostpack is the best for exploration.

Recommend finding 'Personal Atmosphere'. Makes a massive difference when trying to complete scans.

Great information.

You can harvest/scan resources from gas vents if you move closer to them and let them effect you. Normally, your Cutter does not work on these type of resources.

Another Hint from me to the Cutter: You can use it, in an emergency as a Weapon, but it don't have a good Damage Output, even if overcharged. But it will maybe, if it is a wild Creature, let it stop it's attack for a moment, so you can stop scanning mode and switch to a better weapon. Also, the Cutter counts as heavy Weapon for the Perks. ;-)

Thanks for explaining what the percentage next to biome was for.

16:00 wow i had no idea the scavengers spawned like that. Thats a really nice touch

Oh yeah, needed this video!

I have made so many Credits and found some really interesting NPCs giving out some really interesting and enjoyable quests. The Latest quest was an all out battle against the Spacers,destroying ships and raiding there space bases, not to mention the Epic loot and even more credits and resources I stole from all the bodies,ship remains and storage boxes. Scanning is my most favourite activity in StarField.😊

Great video. On xbox I find traits at SIGNAL locations often. 25:25 While not directly beneficial if all you want to do is get scan data, a good use for the scanning skill that shows inorganic resource types when in planet view is to help decide where to place an outpost. To maximize the number of resources within an outpost area, this view can help you choose to land at a location showing the resources you care most about. ALSO, try to find a spot that straddles between two different biome types. Click on the planet till you find a spot that is very close to another click that has a different biome just near it. Land at a location and try to put an outpost that has the resources from BOTH biomes.

I don't think I'll be fully surveying/scanning planets but those tips about creatures, biomes and traits are still helpful since I do want to look at cool and weird things.

Any fauna you shoot, scans it also. I found looking on the dark side of planet for scanable items helps to see where things are better.

Not sure if it was mentioned earlier, but when you scan landmarks, they can have differing symbols based on what type of trait it reveals. Use this to your advantage. You may be 2/3 on traits and you have three Naturals within view, but one symbol looks like crystals. If you havent scanned any crystals yet, just go to that one and ignore the others.

good video, thanks for the info

Sounds like you had fun 😊 .. Thank you for showcasing this part of the game.. most of my friends think it's not fun 😢 .. It's one of my favorite things to do in the game .. TYVM 😁

Oh, man - THANK YOU! This has helped me so much. I was getting by, running around - but it was taking ages. I can offer only one tip in return - buy, use (or make?) as much Amp drug as possible so you can run faster for several minutes.

There is a technique that allows you to sprint and use jump pack to maximise sprint potential and still look for items to scan at a higher altitude. More gravity means less boost but it is still a speed boost while surveying. On low gravity planets you are flying over the terrain.

Thanks for doing the video, enjoyed it and learned alot. I like your ship, how about a video on how you made it

Great video, Thanks for putting that together! What difficulty are you doing the runs on?