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How to Level Up your Steam Profile

By CashButterZ

Hey !
In this guide i would like to show you how to Level Up your Steam Profile. Enjoy!

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Category: Getting Started

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21 Aug, 2021 @ 12:35pm

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Guide Index

Overview

What is Steam Level ?

Why should i level up ?

What do i get from level up my profile ?

Levels and XP

How do i get XP ?

What are Steam Trading Cards and How do i get them?

Badges

How do i craft Badges ?

Congratulations

Outro

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What is Steam Level ?

Your Steam Level can be found on the upper right side of your Profile.
It shows, how many XP you earned with your Steam Profile

Why should i level up ?

If you level up your Steam Profile you will unlock more customization features, which are helpfull for designing an unique Steam Profile. In addition you will earn more Friendlist space, important for people with an huge friendlist.

Don't forget the flex ;)

What do i get from level up my profile ?

Rewards for Steam levelling :

- every level ⮞ +5 friend slot
The maximum amount of friends is limited at 2000
- every 10 levels ⮞ 1 Showcase

Increase your drop rate for Booster Packs

-Level 10: +20% increase in your drop rate
-Level 20: +40% increase in your drop rate
-Level 30: +60% increase in your drop rate
-Level 40: +80% increase in your drop rate
...

The higher your Level , the higher your place in the friendlist

Levels and XP

If you start with level 0 on your Steam Account it will take 100 XP to reach level 1. The amount of XP increases every 10 levels +100 exp.
That means that you need 200 XP per level after reaching level 10 and so on.

Level 1 - 100 XP
Level 2 - 200 XP
Level 3 - 300 XP
Level 4 - 400 XP
Level 5 - 500 XP
Level 6 - 600 XP
Level 7 - 700 XP
Level 8 - 800 XP
Level 9 - 900 XP
Level 10 - 1,000 XP

Level 11 - 1,200 XP
Level 12 - 1,400 XP
Level 13 - 1,600 XP
Level 14 - 1,800 XP
Level 15 - 2,000 XP
Level 16 - 2,200 XP
Level 17 - 2,400 XP
Level 18 - 2,600 XP
Level 19 - 2,800 XP
Level 20 - 3,000 XP

Level 21 - 3,300 XP
Level 22 - 3,600 XP
Level 23 - 3,900 XP
Level 24 - 4,200 XP
Level 25 - 4,500 XP
Level 26 - 4,800 XP
Level 27 - 5,100 XP
Level 28 - 5,400 XP
Level 29 - 5,700 XP
Level 30 - 6000 XP

How do i get XP ?

There are many ways to earn XP for your Steam Level

Community Badge

Complete your tasks on Steam ⮞ free 500 XP :)

Buying Games

You can earn an small amount of XP by buying games in Steam

Own your Steam Account for many years

50 XP per year that you have a Steam account.

and the fastest way craft badges :) !

What are Steam Trading Cards and How do i get them?

Steam Trading Cards are virtual Cards which you get by buying/playing games.

Steam owns many games which includes Steam Trading Cards.
Every game has a different amount of Cards which are needed to complete a Set for crafting your badge.

You can check how many Card drops you can receive from a game

please note that you usually can get arround 50% of a Set dropped that means that the different 50% of cards to complete a set need to be buyed in Community Market

select how many cards you want to buy (remember Badge can be max lvl 5 = 5 cards)
and select the price you want to pay for 1 card.

or trade them with friends which owns the cards you need.

as you can see the drops are limited, except games where you can buy ingame stuff like CSGO
every charged 9 USD you can get another card dropped.

Badges

Crafting badges is the easiest and fastest way to gain XP for you Steam level
Each crafted Badge will gain you +100 XP.
You need a full Card set to craft a badge. Every game has a different amount of cards needed to get a full set !

Badges can be crafted to level 5 that means +500 XP

excepting Foil Badges ⮞ level 1 +100XP

Event Card Sets ⮞ unlimited level + ♾ XP

if you want to craft a badge you need a full set of cards
you can check the status of you badges here (My badges page)

How do i craft Badges ?

You can start crafting your badges by follow this link

if you don't want to open links, simply follow the pictures below )

Click on your Name

Click on Badges

You will end up on this site where you can start craft your badges !

Press on the ready Button!
after click Craft Badge!
here you can see your crafted Badge + the rewards you got from crafting it
You will see this awesome Animation

Congratulations

Congratulations, you did it !
You did successfully crafted your badge and now you are ready to Level Up to any level you want to )

Outro

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If you have any ideas what could be done better or more detailed just let me know )

7 Comments

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Vixen ♡ 9 Jan, 2023 @ 6:49am

Nice guide, very easy to understand, just in wrong category I think? It appears under CS go for me ☺️

CashButterZ [author] 28 Oct, 2022 @ 2:28pm

There is a problem with the last update from valve. They limited the rate of items which can be loaded by checking an inventory and this results in an error