Current event, stardust farming

As the event has been extended until Friday here's a suggestion for those of you who spend money on the game and have grown tired of the legendary raids.

Farming stardust. As in farming insane amounts of stardust. It's going to be pretty expensive though.


Bulk up on incubators. You'll be going through tons of them.


Here's the breakdown:

• You gain double stardust from hatching an egg
• Hatching eggs require a third of the usual distance
• A five kilometre egg normally yields around 1K stardust

Basically you drop everything you've got into incubators and start walking where there are a lot of pokestops and gyms. You want to replace hatched eggs as quickly as humanly possible.

Let's have a look at the gain.

Every 1.7 kilometres you'll pop five kilometre eggs. Let's say you pop nine of them every second kilometre on average. That's a buffert of three hundred metres per egg for failing to have nine of them active at all times.

So 18K stardust every second kilometre. A day spent with plenty of time for breaks should still see you cover thirty kilometres, or 270K stardust.

It's reasonable to assume a minimum of 10 pokemon caught per kilometre walked, so there's 300 pokemon for an extra 60K stardust, and we're using extremely conservative numbers here.

In total a bare minimum of 330K stardust. Pushing it a little you'll easily collect 400K stardust per day.

Walking around in a high density pokestop area will have you leave the day with your bag intact as an added bonus.

The numbers above also show that wading around in an ocean of lures is extremely inefficient at the moment for farming stardust, especially as you're running into the soft ban limit way too rapidly.