Starfield map – size, locations, and Starmap explained

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Looking for a Starfield map? Lots can be said about Bethesda space-faring RPG, but there’s no denying it’s scale, with over 1000 planets to explore and hundreds of hours of outpost building, questing, and exploration. To help, the developer has woven in a Starmap that gives an overview of all the systems in the Settled Systems.

With over 1000 Starfield planets in-game, fans are going to need all the help they can get navigating the Settled Systems and beyond. We’ll cover everything you need to know about the Starfield map, explain how it works, what it means, and its locations. For some early game help, be sure to read our Starfield tips and tricks, quest list, and where to get Digipicks early on.

Starfield map explained

The Starfield map, or Starmap, as it’s called in-game, is your navigation guide for the 100+ stars in the Settled Systems. The map actually has a few different layers to it:

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Starfield map: surface map.

Surface map

The Surface Map is smallest scale on the Starfield map. Before you get too excited at the prospect of a detailed, feature rich map, it’s fairly rudimentary, showing not more than brief overview of discovered points of interest and locations. You can hover over to fast travel.

Starfield map: planet map.

Planet map

The Planet Map showcase an entire planet at a time with all known points of interest highlighted. While on the Planet Map, you’re zoomed out to an overview of the whole planet or moon. From here, you can see general data about the world you’re on, including details about the planet’s gravity, resources, atmosphere, and fauna and flora, but also fast travel to points of interests on the surface.


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Starfield map: system map.

System map

Zoom out further, and you’ll get to the System Map. Here, you have an overview of the entire star system – planets, moons, spacestations, obriting starstations, ships of interest, and more. From the System Map, you can click on individual planets and moons to bring up the Planet Map or zoom out to bring up the Starmap.

Starfield map: star map.

Starmap

The Starmap is widest map view in Starfield. It’s essentially a map of the Settled Systems, showing all the star systems in the game and where they are in relation to each other. The Starmap is where you’ll plan and initiate fast travel grav jump routes to different systems.

The Starmap encompasses a collection of roughly 100 stars (including our solar system, known as Sol) within which human civilisation exists in major settlements like New Atlantis, Neon, Cydonia, The Key, and Akila City.

How big is the Starfield map compared to Skyrim?

It’s hard to define the size of the Starfield map because it encompasses over 100 stars and over 1000 individual planets that aren’t stitched together like a conventional open-world map. It’s likely the largest map we’ve seen from a Bethesda game to date given all the explorable areas.

A large number of these planets are not fully-designed content. Bethesda has made significant use of procedural generation to create terrain, creatures, and other elements of each world. The developer then handcrafted a specific set of locations and structures for a limited selection of planets, cities, and settlements.

Starfield map locations

Here are all the major locations on the Starfield map

Star SystemSystem planetsSystem key featuresFactions
Alpha CentauriJemison, Gagarin, Olivas, BondarNew Atlantis, The EyeUnited Colonies, Constellation
CheyenneAkila, Fenn, Montara, Stellis, Burran, Skink, Washakie, Agamon, NavahaAkila CityFreestar Collective
SolEarth, Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, PlutoCydoniaUnited Colonies
VoliiVolii Alpha, Volii Beta, Volii Epsilon, Volii Tau, Volii Omega, Volii ChiNeonRyujin Industries
PorrimaPorrima I, Porrima II, Porrima III, Porrima IV, Porrima V, Porrima VIParadisoUnknown
KryxSuvorovThe KeyCrimson Fleet

For help starting your journey on the right foot, check out our Sabotage, Delivering Devils, and Absolute Power walkthroughs. We also have lots of early game primers, like the Jemison Mercantile location, New Atlantis shop list, Neon shop locations, how to pick locks, the best Starfield reactor, and how to store items on your ship.

How big is Starfield?

Starfield has over 1000 planets and over 100 star systems.

How do I travel to distant systems in Starfield?

To travel to distant star systems, you need to increase your ship’s light year grav jump range by upgrading its grav drive in the ship builder at a Ship Services Technician.

About the Author

Finlay Cattanach

Fin is a Guides and Reviews writer for Videogamer.com. He's worked previously with Startmenu, The Loadout, and more. He plays everything from strategy and sandbox titles to FPS and souls-likes.

Starfield

  • Platform(s): PC, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series S/X, Xbox Series X
  • Genre(s): Adventure, RPG, Science Fiction, Space