Starfield Powers

Despite being taking place in a relatively grounded sci-fi universe, Starfield features a sort of spellcasting, in the form of Starborn powers. In the fifth mission of Starfield’s main story, you gain access to your first power, and you can do optional missions that allow you to unlock up to 25 total powers. Below, you can see a list of all the powers available in Starfield:

Name	Cost	Description
Alien Reanimation	35	Resurrects a dead alien to fight alongside you for a duration.
Anti-Gravity Field	45	Creates an area of anti-gravity that also paralyzes enemies caught in it.
Create Vacuum	25	Gut the 02 supply of targets in the area for a duration.
Creators’ Peace	25	Pacifies all enemies in an area and disarms them for a duration.
Earthbound	15	Change the gravity around you to Earth gravity levels for a duration.
Elemental Pull	25	Blasts inorganic resources in an area around you and pulls them towards you.
Eternal Harvest	25	Regrows flora that has been harvested in a large area around you.
Grav Dash	15	Manipulate gravity to propel yourself forward, and briefly increase any damage you inflict.
Gravity Wave	25	Launches a gravity wave in a cone ahead of you that staggers and knocks down enemies.
Gravity Well	45	Create an area of dense gravity that pulls in and crushes everything and everyone in around it.
Inner Demon	35	Force an enemy to confront their inner demons, creating a mirror image of themselves that attacks them.
Life Forced	25	Drain the life force out of a living being and transfer it to yourself.
Moon Form	35	Become as strong as stone, rooting yourself in place and increasing your resistance to all damages greatly.
Parallel Self	45	Summon another version of you from an alternate dimension for a duration.
Particle Beam	15	Shoot a beam of pure particle energy that deals high amounts of damage to enemies in front of you.
Personal Atmosphere	45	Create a small area of unlimited oxygen around you for a duration.
Phased Time	45	Phase through the normal flow of time and slow down the universe for a duration.
Precognition	35	Look into the multiverse and visualize the future actions of actors, conversational and otherwise.
Reactive Shield	35	Envelop yourself in a metastable shell of antimatter that reflects projectiles and increases your resistance to attacks.
Sense Star Stuff	15	Channel the power to detect all life around you for a duration.
Solar Flare	25	Emit an intense burst of solar energy that damages enemies and can set them ablaze.
Sunless Space	35	Shoot a ball of ice as cold as space into an area, freezing any living being caught in the blast for a duration.
Supernova	45	Explode with the power of a supernova in an area around you, dealing massive damage.
Void Form	45	Warp the light around you, becoming nearly invisible for a duration.

How to Unlock Powers

By following the main storyline, you’ll eventually begin the mission Into the Unknown. At the end of this mission, you visit a temple that grants you your first power, Anti-Gravity Field.

Subsequent powers will also be gained in temples. To unlock these missions, you’ll need to visit Vladimir on The Eye, which is the Constellation space station that orbits Jemison in the Alpha Centauri system. Ask him about the location of Artifact Temples, and he should give you a new Power From Beyond quest.

If he doesn’t have any new temple locations for you, this means you need to first collect more artifacts. Continue the main quest — which focuses on collecting said artifacts — and after you get another one, check back in with Vladimir.

How to Equip Powers

Powers can be accessed by pressing , or by going into the data menu ( /) and then selecting the Powers sections in the center-top of the menu with / /.

You’ll be taken to the Powers menu. From here, you can equip a power by selecting it and pressing / /. You may also want to add some of your powers to your quickbar, which you can do by pressing / / while you have a power selected.

How to Use Powers

Once you have a power equipped, you can use it by pressing / + . Hitting both bumpers at the same time can be tricky, so you may want to remap this in the Settings –> Bindings menu if you plan on using powers a lot in combat.

You need a certain amount of energy to use powers — you can see the cost of each power by selecting it in the powers menu, along with your total available energy. Your energy is represented by a blue bar below your health.

Quantum Essence

Speaking of power energy, Quantum Essence is a consumable that can be accessed from the Powers menu. Once you’ve collected some, you’ll see a button in the bottom left marked “Use Quantum Essence (X)”, where X is the total number of Quantum Essence you have available. Pressing the indicated button ( // by default) will consume one Quantum Essence.

Using a Quantum Essence will cause your power regeneration speed to increase for 60 seconds — you can track the presence of this buff by going into 3rd person and seeing if you have the golden swirls around your character — these indicate the Quantum Essence is active.

How to Get Quantum Essence

So far, the only source for quantum essence we’ve found is the Starborn enemies. These enemies attack you at the end of the Further Into the Unknown, when you reach the artifact. They’ll continue to confront you at subsequent artifact locations.

Upgrading Your Powers

After completing the game’s final mission, One Giant Leap, and entering New Game+, you’ll be able to do the Power from Beyond missions once again; any time you do the “puzzle” at a temple that gives a power you already have, you’ll instead receive an upgrade version of that power.