Top 5 Ways to Maximize XP Gain in Starfield

Scanning and surveying planets is a great way to farm XP early on in Starfield. Gas giants can be scanned automatically.

Hunting dangerous alien creatures gives a lot of XP. Polvo is a great early hunting spot with herds of geophages and solitary bonemanes.

Faction missions are a good repeatable XP source mid-game. Crimson Fleet and Ryujin Industries give lucrative missions.

Tau Ceti VIII-b's forests have giant crickets that give huge XP boosts when defeated. It's a top mid-game hunting ground.

Late-game, fight pirate ships at The Key or zealot ships in Serpentis. Bardeen III has profitable hunting with hornfaces that drop rare resources.