Starfield: When Do Vendors Restock?

Have you ever wondered when exactly the vendors restock in Starfield?

Money can’t buy happiness unless you have a full wallet in Starfield. You can use your hard-earned credits to do everything from purchasing weapons, ships, ship parts, and even several exotic resources. Furthermore, you must save enough money to pay off your bounty and get a clean crime record. However, the most annoying thing about merchants is that they quickly run out of credits to purchase your goods.

While there are numerous merchants and vendors in Starfield to sell your junk and earn good money, their supplies are pretty limited. That’s even the most annoying part of the game, as you must wait for an eternity or find another vendor in a completely different galaxy. Therefore, this article explains the best tricks to quickly make all vendors restock their inventories.

Starfield Vendors:

Vendors play an important role in your Starfield gameplay experience. Instead of grinding for several hours to get polymer or killing hundreds of beasts to get a handful of adhesives, you can just visit your nearest vendor. Furthermore, you will constantly find loot on corpses and in chests that you don’t need. So, the best way to make money in Starfield is to sell your unwanted items to any merchant.

There are about 30 named merchants and countless unnamed vendors in Starfield. While this number seems endless, each vendor has a limited inventory. For example, if you need to collect 100x metal but the nearest vendor only has 12 or your loot is far more valuable than his total wallet. All these instances will make you super annoyed in no time. Fortunately, there are a few ways to make the vendors restock their inventory.

When Do the Vendors Restock?

Starfield takes most of its game mechanics from older titles like Skyrim and Fallout. Among these formulas is the vendor’s inventory management system. Basically, each vendor offers a fixed supply of randomly generated items and a limited number of credits to purchase your goods. So, what happens after you deplete a vendor’s entire inventory?

Well, the game will automatically restock his inventory after 24 to 48 in-game hours. Now comes the real catch: time runs differently depending on your star system and planet. For example, 24 hours in Jemison aren’t the same as 24 hours on Mars. The good news is that you can wait at any nearby luxury to pass days within seconds.

How to Restock Vendors?

After a vendor runs out of credits or items in his inventory, your options are quite limited. Firstly, you can focus on other quests or explore the game and wait for the merchant to restock. Alternatively, you can also use the fast-travel option to visit other merchants on other planets. Lastly, you can quickly restock all merchant’s inventories to replenish their stocks.

Once you deplete the vendor’s inventory, head to the nearest bed, chair, or bench. Next, instead of chilling cozily, use the wait option and set the timer according to your needs.

Generally, waiting for 24 hours (local time) will replenish the vendor’s cash supply. However, his inventory will still remain empty or as it is for the time being. So, you must wait for another 24 hours (48 hours in total) to restock his inventory items.

So, to play it safe, the best way to restock all vendors is to head to the nearest bed and wait for 24 hours. When the wait is over, again interact with the bed and wait for another day. Finally, visit any merchant to get a glimpse of the fresh inventory.

How to Generate New Inventory?

All vendors in Starfield have randomly generated inventory items. Apart from a few fixed resources, the inventory will vary from game to game. For example, if your friend bought the Renegade III from the dock in New Atlantis, you may or may not find it in the same spot.

The good news is that after waiting for 48 hours, you can refresh all their items. So, if you didn’t find the item and someone else did, you can refresh the inventory a couple of times until you get the desired item. The only problem is that it is a game of chance; you may find the required item after one refresh, or in some cases, the inventory remains the same.

How to restock all vendors at once?

As mentioned earlier, time runs differently depending on your current planet. For instance, waiting for 24 hours in Jemison won’t restock the vendors in Cydonia or Mars. However, the wait time will only work according to the current planet’s local time system.

Therefore, the best way to restock all vendors in a single rest is to visit the planet with the longest day. In this regard, Venus is your best bet, as it has the longest day in the entire Starfield universe. Basically, waiting for 1 hour on Venus means spending almost 100 Universal Time hours in the game. So, if you want to restock all vendors, you should fast-travel to Venus, rest for 2 to 4 hours, and return to any merchant and find fresh supplies.

Best Vendors in Starfield:

The term “Best Vendor” in Starfield mainly depends on your requirements. For instance, if you are looking for good ships, you should head to the starship dock in New Atlantis, Paradiso, or Neon. Similarly, if you just want a merchant to sell all your excess loot, your options are quite limited.

Usually, vendors will have anywhere from 5000 to 12000 credits in their inventories. So, if you are looking for someone to purchase all your trash, you can count on the following Trade Authority storefronts:

• Akila City, Akila, Cheyenne System
• Cydonia, Mars, Sol System
• Neon, Volii Alpha, Volii System
• New Atlantis, Jemison, Alpha Centauri System
• The Den, Wolf System

You can check other options if your loot is more valuable than the 11,000 credits of the Trade Authority Merchants. Here is a list of the highest-paying vendors in Jemison:

• Vladimir Sall
• Kaminski
• Anya Griffon

If you join Crimson Fleet, you can access Zuri Abara in The Key. She offers the highest credits per refresh, i.e., 12,500 credits. Lastly, if you are interested in modding, you can use the “Richer Merchants” mod to increase the available credits on each vendor.

Conclusion:

You will visit quite a few merchants and vendors in your Starfield playthrough. Each merchant’s inventory is unique in terms of supplies and available credits. However, it soon gets annoying when they don’t have enough supplies to meet your demands. Fortunately, you can replenish all shops after waiting for a specified period. Therefore, this article explains how long it takes until the vendors restock in Starfield.