How to Domesticate Fauna

Domesticate fauna by having a fully scanned species of fauna and then building a husbandry center for them in Starfield. Read on for more information and a step-by-step process of domesticating fauna for resources.

How to Domesticate Fauna

1. Allocate the Zoology Skill
2. Find the Right Planet
3. Scan a Species of Fauna to 100%
4. Build an Animal Husbandry Facility
5. Build a Water Supply
6. Build a Greenhouse that Provides Fiber
7. Output Link Water and Fiber to the Facility
8. Build Power Modules
9. Activate All the Modules
10. Add Farm Upgrades (Optional)

Allocate the Zoology Skill

Allocate the Zoology Skill for at least one rank in the Science Skill Tree to start domesticating fauna. Zoology allows building the Animal Husbandry Facility in an Outpost.

To allocate Zoology, you need to have at least two points allocated in the Science Skill Tree.

List of All Science Skills

Find the Right Planet

The next step is to find a planet to establish your Fauna-domestication Outpost. Planet type, temperature, and water are factors that allow life to grow on a planet.

A planet that already shelters fauna will be a safe bet to choose to build your Animal Husbandry Facility.

Here's a small list of familiar planets or moons that support life that you can build a Husbandry Facility on:

• Jemison - Alpha Centauri System
• Gargarin - Alpha Centauri System
• Akila - Cheyenne System
• Montara Luna - Cheyenne System

List of All Planets

Scan a Species of Fauna to 100%

To be able to craft an Animal Husbandry Facility, you need to scan a species of local fauna to 100%.

There's a small exception of fauna that does not allow Outpost Production. Scanning these fauna species will not unlock crafting an Animal Husbandry Facility in that planet.

How to Use the Hand Scanner

Build an Animal Husbandry Facility

Build an Animal Husbandry Facility on your Outpost. The Animal Husbandry Facility will be in the "Builders" tab of the Outpost's Build Mode once you have scanned a certain number of species.

Enter build mode through the Outpost Beacon or Hand Scanner. Select Animal Husbandry Facility in the Builders tab and build it on your preferred location.

Animal Husbandry Facility Materials

Build a Water Supply

Build an Extractor - Water on top of an H2O vein for a cheaper way to extract water. Extractor - Water Vapor is a module requiring the rarer Membrane material but can be placed anywhere.

Water Extractors are Outpost Modules that can extract and supply water to the Animal Husbandry Facility.

Enter build mode through the Outpost Beacon or Hand Scanner.

There are no restrictions on how far the Water Extractor is from the Greenhouse as long as both are within the Outpost's area.

Water Vapor Extractor Materials

Water Extractor Materials

Build a Greenhouse that Provides Fiber

Build a Greenhouse that can produce fiber. Fiber is a necessary material to run the Animal Husbandry Facility.

The planet's flora will affect whether or not your greenhouse can produce fiber. If your planet does not produce fiber through its flora, you may build another outpost and cargo link the fiber to your Animal Husbandry Facility.

Cargo Link Fiber to your Animal Husbandry Facility

Transfer items automatically from one of your outpost to another using a Cargo Link.

A Cargo Link is required to supply fiber to your Animal Husbandry Facility if the planet where the facility is built on does not grow flora that produce fiber.

Output Link Water and Fiber to the Facility

Establish Water and Fiber Output Links to your Husbandry Facility. Output links make outpost modules send materials to other modules automatically.

This will allow for the Water Extractor and Greenhouse to automatically send Water and Fiber to the Animal Husbandry Facility.

Steps to Link Outposts Modules

Build Power Modules

Build a Power Source to supply power to the Greenhouse and Water Extractor. The whole basic setup requires 11 Power.

Building two Solar Arrays, Wind Turbines, or a combination of both should be enough to power all modules.

Solar Array Materials

Wind Turbine Materials

Activate all Modules

Activate and select which material to produce on each of the modules. Note that the Greenhouse should have Fiber selected. If done correctly, the Water Extractor and Greenhouse should automatically send the needed materials to your Husbandry Facility.

The Husbandry Facility output storage is beside its control console.

Add Farm Upgrades (Optional)

As this is the most basic way to domesticate, there are many ways to improve this design.

Output Link to Storage

You may add a material storage or a Transfer Container Storage that receives materials from the Greenhouse.

Allocate Outpost Skills

There are skills that help you improve your outposts and outpost building significantly. Outpost Management and Outpost Engineering are notable skills for outpost building.

Research better Facilities

The Research Lab enables you to research better modules to build on your outposts. One of these upgrades is the Animal Husbandry Facility - Commercial module.

All Research Projects

Build More Facilities

Build this fauna material farm in a larger scale by building more Facilities, Greenhouses, Water Extractors, and Power Sources.

All Outpost Modules

Starfield Related Guides

All Outpost Modules and How to Build

Outpost Modules

Outpost Building FAQs