I would LOVE to see a save option form when youre half way through a build and have to leave so you dont lose 2 hours of design. Ask me how I know. Id also like to see filters to select parts by brand and class to make it easier to find parts and match them. They put a lot into this ship builder and then didnt add pretty obvious basic comforts lol
Tip 11: 2x1 habs got crafting and research tables. It's kind of hidden due to inconsistent ui, but habs got variations you can toggle trough. Look for Workshop, Research and living quarters. (the cooking station might be a bit buggy, targeted off center)
The Infirmary habs also have the same crafting and research stuff as the Science Lab! And just realized today, the beds that are in some Armory habs are functional. So you could use that instead of an All-In-One or a Captains Quarters.
@@fidgetelftree9432 Yeah, I kind of wrote that pretty soon after release. Still for a complete suit of crafting stations Workshop + Science lab should have you covered, I think the infirmary is missing a cooking station over the hard to target science lab one. That's just the cheapest way and lightest to cover them early game, plenty of combos will work.
Thank you, triple thank you for making this very easy follow step by step guides for dummies like me. I love the game but I am really slow when it comes to reading the tutorials, you slowly pointing out and showing me this has made my life easier I now understand what all the red and errors mean this was so helpful and you don’t ramble on forever like some tutorials, that I can’t pay attention thank you so much ❤❤❤❤❤
Hey, there’s some glitches that allow you to place habs inside of each other, I combined my reactor and grav drive into one unit instead of 2 separate pieces, and I crammed 2 cargos, my shield, and my fuel inside of it too, all in a 1x1 space. You have to have something on the outside tho, just hit “select all” and drag the ship away to see what’s not connected, then hit “undo” and slap a weapon mount or piece of siding on the thing. If you select multiple pieces and duplicate, sometimes they will snap into place inside of each other and that’s how you combine your reactor with grav drive. Other times you can just flip something, place it while it’s inside of another thing, then tack siding onto the base of it. I’m gonna try to make the most compact ship ever.
I spent hours last night making a ship only to realise the bit I needed to make it all work I have not yet unlocked lol. So srlcrapped it and will make again in another hundred hours or so
I spent ages building a 'H' shaped ship only to realise that the only place I could locate the docker made the entire ship look ridiculous. So I've compromised for a rather awful looking but very deadly ship in the way of weaponry with enough crew slots to have everyone I have so far (6 or 7 people, can't remember) all assigned to my ship! The aim is to build bases on Luna and have them manned. Then I'll move to somewhere else and do the same. Looking to have a mining outpost for every mineral I possibly can to make crafting easier... It takes a VERY long time to get all perks related to crafting and ship building so just plodding away slowly lol
@Jaeeedon There are numerous things about the game that really annoy me. It's not GOTY, but it is fun when it's working. I'm on character no. 4 after encountering THREE game breaking bugs that have prevented progression... Also, No Man's Sky's endless exploration, fly anywhere, land anywhere without load screens wins hands down. And so far, base building is also better there than in Starfield from what I've seen. Starfield is also a typical Bethesda game with dodgy AI. The NPCs look and act like robots still and look very outdated compared to most other recent games. Graphics are also a bit bland and outdated... It's not the prettiest game ever made, put it that way. However, it is fun and is quite easily the best Xbox console exclusive I have played in a VERY long time! PS still holds the crown for best console exclusives, but as of right now, Starfield is the game to play. At least, until people jump onto EA FC24 and Spider-Man 2 (if they own a PS5).
took Galileo as base model, got 1400 shield , 140 top speed, 84 mobility, 1000 cargo , crazy what you can do with B class reactor compared to normal game ships
Just wait until you get the class C reactor. I have 95 mob, 150 speed, and my rockets almost one shot anything without a shield. I basically slapped it on the star eagle and upgraded the weapons etc.
@@kolbywilliams7234would class C be the best for a freight ship? (Heavy weight low guns) Been wanting to make a huge cargo style ship but haven’t played long enough to get better reactors :)
@@rileyweimer2572 Yeah, that would work. Class C reactors are pretty much the best for anything because you need them for most of the best engines, weapons, and shields. If you intend to go light on the weapons, use particle weapons. Avoid ballistic and laser. Particle weapons damage shields and hull equally. That’s what I do when I want to keep my shields and engines at max capacity. I still like to put on a couple EM weapons, though. I keep them powered down until I want to use them, and then divert power from your particle guns to the EM to disable and board ships. I also have a couple of missiles for fights where I do not intend to board. I usually divert power from my shields in that case because even at 75% capacity, my shields are still better than most others at max. Don’t be afraid to play around and experiment with that kind of stuff. This is just what has been working for me.
@@kolbywilliams7234 I don't know how you got to experiment around so much with how much of a grind it is to get credits. I only get to experiment a little at a time because I never have much credits.
@@BlueOvals24 My first character did none of the story. I did the rangers, vanguard, and sysdef questlines back-to-back because I wanted to learn more about the factions. Sysdef gives you the biggest single payout for beating the whole thing, free star rangers give you the most reliable income for repeated jobs. Every 4-5 missions completed, you get a special one that awards you between 8,000-10,000 creds or something. Other than that, I just sold a bunch of weapons, which ranged from 500-2,000 creds per weapon, depending on level and type of enemies. The main story leaves you you pretty short on creds at the start, but the side quests will have you rolling in them. Particularly when you unlock a ship like star eagle, which has amazing storage. Edit: I did not level barter up a single time. My trades were built on base trading numbers.
I’m really enjoying the shipbuilding in Starfield, but I’m having a lot of trouble with ladders all over my ship and rooms connecting in strange ways. Any tips on how to get rooms to connect at specific points?
If you place the single tile habs that are called: storage or companion way, the ladders will usually favor those in most cases. You can stack them all on top of each other to have access to every floor using one ladder that way if you want.
At first for me too i just couldn't able to fit any part where i wanted but its actually easy If you are on pc just level the mouse on to where you want your part to be Example you build a hub now if you want the next hub to to build above just put the cursor onto the fiting point of previous hub Controls are easy you just have to figure out
There needs to be a way of swapping parts between ships... I permanently borrowed an Ecliptic ship, and want to use the EMP weapons on my ship. On top of that, registering price makes permanently borrowing pointless when it's like 90% of the ships worth.
@@Dubyahh Totally, maybe 50% ship worth to register it officially... instead of 90%... or maybe have a location where you can sell stolen ships for less, but no register cost? Either way, as it is atm, it's not worth the effort unless you want to keep the ship.
@@Dubyahh the bigger ships sell for more after registration. Its still a little annoying but I think they did it for balance since you can sell "borrowed" ships literally anywhere, they dont care if you got it from a pirate or if you pirated it. It be a really easy way to cheese credits. If you level up your commerce level Im pretty sure it also affect how much you can sell for.
The registration fee is necessary because the price of ships is so high, it would make any other way of making money pointless, even if they dropped it to 50% of the ship’s cost. We’re talking average payouts of 70,000 creds for areas leveled 30 and up. For some ships, you could get double that amount. I do agree that we should have some way of moving ship parts between the ships we own. Though I suspect that is also a balancing decision. Ships and the parts for them are very expensive. If you can just capture a ship and take all the parts you want for your own ship, it makes buying a lot of the parts pretty useless because you can get them for potentially a lot less than purchasing all the parts. Is there a way they could balance it? Probably. I don’t know the best way to do it, though.
Great guide, but how do I freaking buy weapons for my ship to add to them? (I'll probably figure it out eventually) Do I need a certain rank of some random skill to do it?
should be a tab on the ship customizing screen and unless u are using a weapon mounting module piece u can by small weapon attachment points in the menu
Well after quite a bit of time messing around this is one of the most frustrating unfriendly UI designs ive come across with very little in the way of explenation and the balence for one big space battle you will know when you find it is ridiculous
Does the build placement make a difference in gameplay? Like can you bury the reactor or grav drive behind habs to keep it from getting damaged in a fight?
I wish there was a way to select where the doors and ladders spawn. Some of the auto setups make no sense and sometimes they’re not symmetrical which annoys me
I don’t know your build, but it likely has to do with your 1x1s. Try not to place them in between habs, or where habs intersect. Those can do really awkward things. I only put them at the very end of a hallway or something. That sorts out the walls popping up to disrupt my corridors.
Thanks for this video, I was searching for long to get infos about what things you actually CANNOT do in the ship building and you mostly got me covered here. I have 2 questions: a) Can you just remove modules / weapons of your ship and get some money back? b) Can you remove modules from a ship and use it on another registered ship or store them somewhere? I'm asking these 2 mainly for knowing if I can do something different with boarded ships I took over than just registering and selling these ships if I don't want to keep them. Thanks very much to feedback, cheers!
Another pro tip. Double left click on any part of your ship and it will highlight the entire ship EXCEPT any pieces that have a failed connection. This tip will save you lots of time searching for the tiny problem that is preventing you from saving or finishing your ship. Also a great way to paint the entire ship in seconds.
_"You can't slap on multiple reactors.."_ - Thanks to the wonders of modding, yes you can 😁Not only that, now you can even put on multiple shields too. No more juggling limited powers in combat
That sounds pretty lame actually. I think the fact that you have to divert power to different systems is extremely immersive, not to mention a staple of sci-fi ship-to-ship battles.
@@kolbywilliams7234 Right very immersive for the reactor to not be able to sufficiently power the ship or the ability to not have 2 reactos that's totally logic in real life if we don't enough power from 1 generator we don't go get another one we suffer good point👍
@@thecommenter9671 Do you even understand how complex it is to run two internal combustion engines simultaneously in a car, present day? These reactors have to be orders of magnitudes more powerful and complex machines than an internal combustion engine. There’s no telling how difficult it might be to run two different reactors simultaneously. They are not just batteries in space. The reactors do sufficiently power the whole ship. Just because you can’t run all the most powerful guns and shields at their maximum load capacity does not mean the systems are insufficiently powered. If you are having problems with power distribution, you’re putting too much stuff on your ship, which is your fault. Make a smaller ship, use fewer powerful guns, or more guns with less power draw. The only alternative is to use more stuff, but be okay with not pushing it all to the max capacity. It’s not the reactor’s fault that you are too stupid to build based on the limitations of your power supply.
@@kolbywilliams7234 I literally grabbed a ship out of some cave and it had too much shit I didn't even put nothing and I said generators like when your power goes out during a hurricane you use more than 1 if you have lots of stuff
prolly a good mention, when you steal a ship from bandits or whatnot, it will have shipparts you havent unlocked yet. But when you want an extra landing gear or engine you can just duplicate by holding down options and select duplicate.
I judt started the video so not sure if its stated but i was having trouble getting peices to snap they would go under the ship. I found out on controller pressing up and down on the D pad you can raise and lower the ship parts. Helped tremendously
Does anyone know which have modules allow you to walk unencumbered through your ship? I noticed that some had modules, when connected do have hatches end to end. So you end up turning left or right, while attempting to walk a straight path through your ship end to end.
Star eagle is tiers better than the razorleaf in every category. Crew, cargo, weapons, shield, jump drive, insane engine, and you can build onto it without adding structures easier opposed to the razorleaf. Slap a shielded cargo on the side with a cargo scanner jammer for a few thousand bucks and it's got razorleaf beat in that too. Oh and also it has a freaking jail bay with 2 cells lmao, that's so cool for RP.
@trumpies I just upgraded my Star Eagle really giving it a huge boost to an already amazing ship. No longer a Class A. I didn't need it to be a Class C.. and Class B offered me enough options
How does ship mobility really affect gameplay? Can’t you fast travel/jump drive anywhere? Also, it’s really appalling that you can’t rotate/flip most parts in the builder. Kerbal Space Program had an AMAZING builder, was hoping this game would be similar. I am still having a lot of with with it though, just been building up my material/xp farms lately :)
I would like to know how to move certain ship parts from one to another. Like for example the two parts you get during the crimson fleet mission to go to bannic 4. I put them on the razorleaf. Now I want them on my own ship I'm building. So ... how do I do that ?
Great, now I got all the info I need to make a ship that looks like Dr Evils rocket. No, not the big boy one, you know the one that looks like a big ol’pair of….
Thanks for this quick guide man, I was sitting there for about half an hour scratching my head wandering why it wouldnt let me add a new habitat module to my ship
You can dismantle to a certain point where it's not flyable at which point it won't let you leave the ship building screen. I think this is how I get around the registration costs of selling captured ships. The dismantled parts are more than the registration/selling process. Not sure if it works for every ship as I have only stolen 2 ships but as long as I walk away with 6-7K instead of less than 1000 credits, I'm fine with using this process.
What? But I want to know something? How do you put a hanger on the back part of the ship become when I do it? It doesn't allow me or say something different?
13 Thousand views in the last 12 hours. If i had a studio office I'd be loading these tuts with you guys. But y'all was in and y'all Is win! Thanks for the TutiFruit!
I'll add that the placement of hubs helps as well. The connection points add doors or ladders to get between modules so you don't want to be running up and down ladders to get to your docking/exit point/cockpit. There are also multiple types of the same module to choose between depending on what you want to do with it. On PC it's the arrow keys to select.
So I was customising my ship and bought like 60,000 worth of new parts and got them all attached, but it said there was 1 error, I think it was too heavy? So I quit to start over but when I went back in all the parts I bought were gone and so was my money still. What am I missing? Where are the new parts I purchased?
You may have accidentally left a gap between a hab or something. Also check to see if your cockpit/docking bay are snapping to a hab. They do not all snap in the same places. If you still can’t do it, restart or use the undo button to see what you did to cause the issue. I usually find it is because I deleted something by accident.
My issue right now is that it looks like my connector hubs can connect to others but is on + side of the z axis. I can't figure out how to not make it auto connect to something - on the z axis, but to put it on top.
So I got a free ship but it didn't have any weapons. I was able to add weapons to the W0 and W2 spot but I have no idea where to add it to the W1 spot but it always has that error. Do I need to add a part to the ship to able to attach the 3rd weapon? The first 2 added fine.
Great video! Thx! I see all throughout your video your able to manuever your ship with NO HUD. I assume you did this by going into FREELOOK but your somehow making it so you steer the ship instead of moving the camera, as normal. Ive done this a few diff times myself by accidental keypress (I thought?) but now that I want to do it, I cant figure out how. Im really hoping you can drop some knowledge and help me out!
Holy crap, your definately right, its linked to having something targeted and that target being close-ish (I didint have any ships around, but it worked using the staryard). Thanks you for sharing! Its still not the most useful as you cant switch between camera control and ship control, like I hoped, and the camera stays always pointing at the target, but man, youve just made me feel better and a lot less crazy as now I know I wasnt delusional.
One other thing, anything that uses power can only have a total power count of what ever is on the bar, say engines, you can have as many as you want as long as they don’t exceed the total power allocation bar, think the number is 12 total power
I need to figure out how to place parts some parts just end up to high on the build screen I drag them and it's impossible to connect them to the nodes
What does it mean when it says all items will be transferred to cargo hold when you finish upgrading ? I don’t understand and I don’t see anything in my cargo hold.
All your stuff from your private safe is stored back in your ships main cargo space and some of the misc items (mostly little deco objects) respawn there to
It's a progression. You start out only able to pilot A class then as you progress you can up your piloting skills and ship building skills as you go, unlocking B then C Class. But you have to put Skill points into those and complete challenges (like kill 5 ships) to level up to the next level.
@@deusvlad2.083 LOL! Well, my Friend I didn't design it ... that's on Bethesda! The ranks are what they are. A is lowest and you start with those abilities. It's not school where an A grade is better. After you have built enough you can level up to B then to C. My game level is currently at Level 68 and I still don't have level B because I suck at space fighting.😂 I have to kill 22 more ships to get to B. Have to grind in the simulator to get there.
@@mmouse648 So If I knew this back when i was in school I would tell the teacher my C grade is the best thanks teach! That confused the hell out of me, would think there is a S grade ship as well for elite level.
I am building a ship and I get an error that I don't have the min gear count. I have 2 nose, 1 center rear, 2 right side, 2 left side. Looks like it should be fine. Any ideas?
shift + double click on any module to select all and look for any annoying "unattached module" somewhere inside the borg cube mess of modules we called starship.
Yes and no. It all depends on your style. While lowering your mass increases speed and mobility, it also decreases your hull rating, making your ship more squishy if the shield goes down. That can be a problem in big protracted engagements, or against enemies with high laser damage. Bulkier ships with a better hull rating will take more damage if the shield goes down, but will be less maneuverable and easier to hit. So far, I’ve found a nice balance between the two extremes, which served me quite well against the crimson fleet at the end of a certain quest line. I have a class C reactor, shield, and grav drive, and mostly Class C weapons basically slapped onto the star eagle, which is about mid, in terms of hull health.
Is there any point in the game where they teach you how to do any of this? I got to Constellation in New Atlantis and decided to do side missions and exploring right away. I don’t know how to do much but grind and level.
Yeah. Me too. Found this while searching for that. Only way I've found in my searching so far is you can REMOVE (not delete) the parts you want to keep, then build a new ship around it. But NOT transfer to an existing one. I suspect when the Modding system is complete (Jan 2024 currently) the Modders will have the tools to change this and the whole game will change.
So maybe i just havent seen the option, but the one thing i havent been able to figure out how to do is to just start building a ship from scratch. I can only figure out how to edit an existing one. Is it possible to just start a new build from the ground up?
Kind of. Edit the ship and delete everything. You can then build one from the ground up. You cannot build a new ship in an empty fleet slot, though. You can capture ships to get a new fleet slot, which you can then break down and start fresh once you’ve payed the application fee.
To add to what @kolbywilliams7234 said - You can REMOVE (Click and drag away) any parts you want to KEEP, like an upgraded Reactor or engines ABOVE YOUR GRADE!! Then delete the rest and use those parts on a new build.
@@mmouse648 Even if you delete those parts, they’ll stay in the shop’s inventory until you exit the customization screen, so no need to drag and drop parts like that.
I really hate when I type in a specific question on TH-cam and other stuff come up. I am simply trying to find out these two things. I am in the shipbuilding area and it says landing bay needs to be connected to the cockpit. The other issue is Docker modules Need to have an interior connection to the cockpit. I don’t know how to do those and I was looking for a video on how
Has anyone else experienced a situation where literally every ship you find that lands on a planet has a closed landing bay? i dont know when it happened but now every time i try to find a ship after it lands has a closed landing bay. If this is a glitch then it ruins my current playthrough.
Workshop 2x1: Space suit bench, research station, weapon bench, and industrial bench Infirmary2x1: research station, chemistry station Science lab2x1: research station, Chem lab Mess hall 3x2: cooking station There might be more, but those are the ones I know.
I found a ship without missiles but i can NOT figure out how to add them someone please help me. This game has failed us all when it comes to a tutorial.
@@CDSAfghan there were A and some B class modules cut there wasn't that many engines,shields and a few more. I was in UC so they might of been nova and whatever the other brand of ship early game is but I'm not 100% on that
I would LOVE to see a save option form when youre half way through a build and have to leave so you dont lose 2 hours of design. Ask me how I know. Id also like to see filters to select parts by brand and class to make it easier to find parts and match them. They put a lot into this ship builder and then didnt add pretty obvious basic comforts lol
Like a 3rd option at the ST could be “I would like to update my ship blueprints”
Can't wait to see what modders are going to do with the ship building system.
I think starfield is the strongest modding platform Bethesda has done to date I can't wait to see what the game will look like 5 years from now
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You can bet they'll add in stuff from star wars, Star Trek, elite dangerous, then brand new stuff will come in.
My exact thoughts. I imagine there are going to be some monster designs of the near horizon
FYI there are docking modules you can flip upside-down to put at the bottom of your ship instead of the top
Tip 11: 2x1 habs got crafting and research tables.
It's kind of hidden due to inconsistent ui, but habs got variations you can toggle trough.
Look for Workshop, Research and living quarters. (the cooking station might be a bit buggy, targeted off center)
That’s what I’m trying to figure out. I have no idea where you buy a habitat module.
@@dondaileyii Anywhere you can upgrade your ships, they start on the "All in One" module, then press right until you hit workshop or research.
The Infirmary habs also have the same crafting and research stuff as the Science Lab! And just realized today, the beds that are in some Armory habs are functional. So you could use that instead of an All-In-One or a Captains Quarters.
@@fidgetelftree9432 Yeah, I kind of wrote that pretty soon after release.
Still for a complete suit of crafting stations Workshop + Science lab should have you covered, I think the infirmary is missing a cooking station over the hard to target science lab one.
That's just the cheapest way and lightest to cover them early game, plenty of combos will work.
Thank you, triple thank you for making this very easy follow step by step guides for dummies like me. I love the game but I am really slow when it comes to reading the tutorials, you slowly pointing out and showing me this has made my life easier I now understand what all the red and errors mean this was so helpful and you don’t ramble on forever like some tutorials, that I can’t pay attention thank you so much ❤❤❤❤❤
Hey, there’s some glitches that allow you to place habs inside of each other, I combined my reactor and grav drive into one unit instead of 2 separate pieces, and I crammed 2 cargos, my shield, and my fuel inside of it too, all in a 1x1 space.
You have to have something on the outside tho, just hit “select all” and drag the ship away to see what’s not connected, then hit “undo” and slap a weapon mount or piece of siding on the thing.
If you select multiple pieces and duplicate, sometimes they will snap into place inside of each other and that’s how you combine your reactor with grav drive. Other times you can just flip something, place it while it’s inside of another thing, then tack siding onto the base of it.
I’m gonna try to make the most compact ship ever.
I spent hours last night making a ship only to realise the bit I needed to make it all work I have not yet unlocked lol. So srlcrapped it and will make again in another hundred hours or so
For now just upgrading and tweaking the mantis ship
I spent ages building a 'H' shaped ship only to realise that the only place I could locate the docker made the entire ship look ridiculous. So I've compromised for a rather awful looking but very deadly ship in the way of weaponry with enough crew slots to have everyone I have so far (6 or 7 people, can't remember) all assigned to my ship!
The aim is to build bases on Luna and have them manned. Then I'll move to somewhere else and do the same. Looking to have a mining outpost for every mineral I possibly can to make crafting easier... It takes a VERY long time to get all perks related to crafting and ship building so just plodding away slowly lol
@@thevoicewithin9845you’re so locked in😂 I can’t wait for it to release so i can play
@eqwalle4884 yea I’ve seen modders are already fixing things and the game is barely even out😂
@Jaeeedon There are numerous things about the game that really annoy me. It's not GOTY, but it is fun when it's working. I'm on character no. 4 after encountering THREE game breaking bugs that have prevented progression...
Also, No Man's Sky's endless exploration, fly anywhere, land anywhere without load screens wins hands down. And so far, base building is also better there than in Starfield from what I've seen. Starfield is also a typical Bethesda game with dodgy AI. The NPCs look and act like robots still and look very outdated compared to most other recent games. Graphics are also a bit bland and outdated... It's not the prettiest game ever made, put it that way. However, it is fun and is quite easily the best Xbox console exclusive I have played in a VERY long time!
PS still holds the crown for best console exclusives, but as of right now, Starfield is the game to play. At least, until people jump onto EA FC24 and Spider-Man 2 (if they own a PS5).
took Galileo as base model, got 1400 shield , 140 top speed, 84 mobility, 1000 cargo , crazy what you can do with B class reactor compared to normal game ships
Just wait until you get the class C reactor. I have 95 mob, 150 speed, and my rockets almost one shot anything without a shield. I basically slapped it on the star eagle and upgraded the weapons etc.
@@kolbywilliams7234would class C be the best for a freight ship? (Heavy weight low guns) Been wanting to make a huge cargo style ship but haven’t played long enough to get better reactors :)
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Yeah, that would work. Class C reactors are pretty much the best for anything because you need them for most of the best engines, weapons, and shields. If you intend to go light on the weapons, use particle weapons. Avoid ballistic and laser. Particle weapons damage shields and hull equally. That’s what I do when I want to keep my shields and engines at max capacity. I still like to put on a couple EM weapons, though. I keep them powered down until I want to use them, and then divert power from your particle guns to the EM to disable and board ships. I also have a couple of missiles for fights where I do not intend to board. I usually divert power from my shields in that case because even at 75% capacity, my shields are still better than most others at max. Don’t be afraid to play around and experiment with that kind of stuff. This is just what has been working for me.
@@kolbywilliams7234 I don't know how you got to experiment around so much with how much of a grind it is to get credits. I only get to experiment a little at a time because I never have much credits.
@@BlueOvals24
My first character did none of the story. I did the rangers, vanguard, and sysdef questlines back-to-back because I wanted to learn more about the factions.
Sysdef gives you the biggest single payout for beating the whole thing, free star rangers give you the most reliable income for repeated jobs. Every 4-5 missions completed, you get a special one that awards you between 8,000-10,000 creds or something. Other than that, I just sold a bunch of weapons, which ranged from 500-2,000 creds per weapon, depending on level and type of enemies.
The main story leaves you you pretty short on creds at the start, but the side quests will have you rolling in them. Particularly when you unlock a ship like star eagle, which has amazing storage.
Edit: I did not level barter up a single time. My trades were built on base trading numbers.
I’m really enjoying the shipbuilding in Starfield, but I’m having a lot of trouble with ladders all over my ship and rooms connecting in strange ways. Any tips on how to get rooms to connect at specific points?
doors too! sometimes the game decide a mouse maze is more efficient than intersections.
U can use ur jetpack to skip the ladder climb! Just found that out and it saves a ton of time
I read you can aim at the doorway and add habs that way to force a door but i havnt tested it yet
If you place the single tile habs that are called: storage or companion way, the ladders will usually favor those in most cases. You can stack them all on top of each other to have access to every floor using one ladder that way if you want.
Note this: the other planets or cities have more modifications which other cities dont have! Just want to throw that out
The ship building has some truly terrible controls I hope they overhaul it in an update
Tottaly agree its awful
At first for me too i just couldn't able to fit any part where i wanted but its actually easy
If you are on pc just level the mouse on to where you want your part to be
Example you build a hub now if you want the next hub to to build above just put the cursor onto the fiting point of previous hub
Controls are easy you just have to figure out
@@SAMURAI00007 I’m on console and it controls terribly with a controller
Yeah I always rotate it the wrong way and have to reset it because I'm stuck looking from below the ship. Absolutely horrible PS2 style controls 😂
@@SAMURAI00007you can do that on controller by pressing up and down on the dpad I figured it out on accident
There needs to be a way of swapping parts between ships... I permanently borrowed an Ecliptic ship, and want to use the EMP weapons on my ship. On top of that, registering price makes permanently borrowing pointless when it's like 90% of the ships worth.
This
Yeah if you have to register before selling then they should be worth a smidge more, seems dumb to go through all that for like 1k
@@Dubyahh Totally, maybe 50% ship worth to register it officially... instead of 90%... or maybe have a location where you can sell stolen ships for less, but no register cost? Either way, as it is atm, it's not worth the effort unless you want to keep the ship.
@@Dubyahh the bigger ships sell for more after registration. Its still a little annoying but I think they did it for balance since you can sell "borrowed" ships literally anywhere, they dont care if you got it from a pirate or if you pirated it. It be a really easy way to cheese credits. If you level up your commerce level Im pretty sure it also affect how much you can sell for.
The registration fee is necessary because the price of ships is so high, it would make any other way of making money pointless, even if they dropped it to 50% of the ship’s cost. We’re talking average payouts of 70,000 creds for areas leveled 30 and up. For some ships, you could get double that amount.
I do agree that we should have some way of moving ship parts between the ships we own. Though I suspect that is also a balancing decision. Ships and the parts for them are very expensive. If you can just capture a ship and take all the parts you want for your own ship, it makes buying a lot of the parts pretty useless because you can get them for potentially a lot less than purchasing all the parts. Is there a way they could balance it? Probably. I don’t know the best way to do it, though.
I can’t even figure out how to make my ship larger I can’t find the parts list to expand the space or just add new items?
You go into building, not upgrading. Then you can add items to it, like rooms and stuff.
Need to be able to build a ship from scratch, seems odd you cant
You can just press x to delete everything then start from scratch
Great guide, but how do I freaking buy weapons for my ship to add to them? (I'll probably figure it out eventually) Do I need a certain rank of some random skill to do it?
should be a tab on the ship customizing screen and unless u are using a weapon mounting module piece u can by small weapon attachment points in the menu
I wish all this was explained in game.
Ok, I've seen a few of these now, and you explain things better than anyone else around some of the complicated stuff. Thanks.
Well after quite a bit of time messing around this is one of the most frustrating unfriendly UI designs ive come across with very little in the way of explenation and the balence for one big space battle you will know when you find it is ridiculous
What do each part in the menu mean? Like what is structural for?
Does the build placement make a difference in gameplay? Like can you bury the reactor or grav drive behind habs to keep it from getting damaged in a fight?
Time to test ig I gotta go grind my piloting skills so I can get my damn rail gun
I wish there was a way to select where the doors and ladders spawn. Some of the auto setups make no sense and sometimes they’re not symmetrical which annoys me
Same also hate that there's not a vendor that sells everything for ships hatw having to fast travel everywhere
Same also hate that there's not a gun that kills everything in 1 shot then beats the game for me while I sleep
@@gizmogecko117there is almost that. The outpost ship builder has all the pieces needed. All but the exclusive rare one.
I don’t know your build, but it likely has to do with your 1x1s. Try not to place them in between habs, or where habs intersect. Those can do really awkward things. I only put them at the very end of a hallway or something. That sorts out the walls popping up to disrupt my corridors.
Thanks for this video, I was searching for long to get infos about what things you actually CANNOT do in the ship building and you mostly got me covered here. I have 2 questions: a) Can you just remove modules / weapons of your ship and get some money back? b) Can you remove modules from a ship and use it on another registered ship or store them somewhere? I'm asking these 2 mainly for knowing if I can do something different with boarded ships I took over than just registering and selling these ships if I don't want to keep them. Thanks very much to feedback, cheers!
Another pro tip. Double left click on any part of your ship and it will highlight the entire ship EXCEPT any pieces that have a failed connection. This tip will save you lots of time searching for the tiny problem that is preventing you from saving or finishing your ship.
Also a great way to paint the entire ship in seconds.
Super helpful thank you
_"You can't slap on multiple reactors.."_ - Thanks to the wonders of modding, yes you can 😁Not only that, now you can even put on multiple shields too. No more juggling limited powers in combat
Yea finna get for my PC just so I can have 2 reactos sounds way more fun
That sounds pretty lame actually. I think the fact that you have to divert power to different systems is extremely immersive, not to mention a staple of sci-fi ship-to-ship battles.
@@kolbywilliams7234 Right very immersive for the reactor to not be able to sufficiently power the ship or the ability to not have 2 reactos that's totally logic in real life if we don't enough power from 1 generator we don't go get another one we suffer good point👍
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Do you even understand how complex it is to run two internal combustion engines simultaneously in a car, present day? These reactors have to be orders of magnitudes more powerful and complex machines than an internal combustion engine. There’s no telling how difficult it might be to run two different reactors simultaneously. They are not just batteries in space.
The reactors do sufficiently power the whole ship. Just because you can’t run all the most powerful guns and shields at their maximum load capacity does not mean the systems are insufficiently powered. If you are having problems with power distribution, you’re putting too much stuff on your ship, which is your fault. Make a smaller ship, use fewer powerful guns, or more guns with less power draw. The only alternative is to use more stuff, but be okay with not pushing it all to the max capacity. It’s not the reactor’s fault that you are too stupid to build based on the limitations of your power supply.
@@kolbywilliams7234 I literally grabbed a ship out of some cave and it had too much shit I didn't even put nothing and I said generators like when your power goes out during a hurricane you use more than 1 if you have lots of stuff
You can also Ctrl click components to move several at once!
or color several at once
You guys just blew my mind😂
prolly a good mention, when you steal a ship from bandits or whatnot, it will have shipparts you havent unlocked yet.
But when you want an extra landing gear or engine you can just duplicate by holding down options and select duplicate.
I judt started the video so not sure if its stated but i was having trouble getting peices to snap they would go under the ship. I found out on controller pressing up and down on the D pad you can raise and lower the ship parts. Helped tremendously
Does anyone know which have modules allow you to walk unencumbered through your ship? I noticed that some had modules, when connected do have hatches end to end. So you end up turning left or right, while attempting to walk a straight path through your ship end to end.
The two best early on Class A ships... and they're Free!
The Razorleaf & The Star Eagle
The Space Eagle gives you a nice amount of crew space.
Star eagle is tiers better than the razorleaf in every category. Crew, cargo, weapons, shield, jump drive, insane engine, and you can build onto it without adding structures easier opposed to the razorleaf. Slap a shielded cargo on the side with a cargo scanner jammer for a few thousand bucks and it's got razorleaf beat in that too. Oh and also it has a freaking jail bay with 2 cells lmao, that's so cool for RP.
Class A I used the mule. Excellent storage.
@trumpies I just upgraded my Star Eagle really giving it a huge boost to an already amazing ship.
No longer a Class A. I didn't need it to be a Class C.. and Class B offered me enough options
I ma Dyslexic and sometimes it’s hard for me to find exactly what I’m looking for in spoke in fashion thank you
How does ship mobility really affect gameplay? Can’t you fast travel/jump drive anywhere? Also, it’s really appalling that you can’t rotate/flip most parts in the builder. Kerbal Space Program had an AMAZING builder, was hoping this game would be similar. I am still having a lot of with with it though, just been building up my material/xp farms lately :)
I would like to know how to move certain ship parts from one to another.
Like for example the two parts you get during the crimson fleet mission to go to bannic 4.
I put them on the razorleaf.
Now I want them on my own ship I'm building.
So ... how do I do that ?
Great, now I got all the info I need to make a ship that looks like Dr Evils rocket. No, not the big boy one, you know the one that looks like a big ol’pair of….
Thanks for this quick guide man, I was sitting there for about half an hour scratching my head wandering why it wouldnt let me add a new habitat module to my ship
Few more things that need clarification:
Hull number has any importance?
How the minimum landing gear numbers are calculated?
Can you dismantle ship parts or can you take certain ship parts and Ad them to another ship?
You can dismantle to a certain point where it's not flyable at which point it won't let you leave the ship building screen. I think this is how I get around the registration costs of selling captured ships. The dismantled parts are more than the registration/selling process. Not sure if it works for every ship as I have only stolen 2 ships but as long as I walk away with 6-7K instead of less than 1000 credits, I'm fine with using this process.
How do you raise or lower modules to meet snap points?
What? But I want to know something? How do you put a hanger on the back part of the ship become when I do it? It doesn't allow me or say something different?
13 Thousand views in the last 12 hours. If i had a studio office I'd be loading these tuts with you guys. But y'all was in and y'all Is win! Thanks for the TutiFruit!
I'll add that the placement of hubs helps as well. The connection points add doors or ladders to get between modules so you don't want to be running up and down ladders to get to your docking/exit point/cockpit.
There are also multiple types of the same module to choose between depending on what you want to do with it. On PC it's the arrow keys to select.
How do you see which type of weapon these are? I can’t see anything that says “balistic”
Slaps 4 reactors into ship: "I call this baby the *Chernukushima Deluxe!"
So I was customising my ship and bought like 60,000 worth of new parts and got them all attached, but it said there was 1 error, I think it was too heavy? So I quit to start over but when I went back in all the parts I bought were gone and so was my money still. What am I missing? Where are the new parts I purchased?
can you rate peoples ship builds? i think that can be fun and creative content to see what people make with this system
I can't figure out why I can't add more of the same landing gear, any suggestions?
Yeah i bought a Narcissus at the nova store and upgraded it into basically a luxury ship with 3 stories and it looks like an ice cream sandwich
I keep getting cannot reach cockpit from landing bay error no matter what I do, anyone know how to resolve this, it's really frustrating.
You may have accidentally left a gap between a hab or something. Also check to see if your cockpit/docking bay are snapping to a hab. They do not all snap in the same places. If you still can’t do it, restart or use the undo button to see what you did to cause the issue. I usually find it is because I deleted something by accident.
When I switch parts, how do I add them back on?!
My issue right now is that it looks like my connector hubs can connect to others but is on + side of the z axis. I can't figure out how to not make it auto connect to something - on the z axis, but to put it on top.
So I got a free ship but it didn't have any weapons. I was able to add weapons to the W0 and W2 spot but I have no idea where to add it to the W1 spot but it always has that error. Do I need to add a part to the ship to able to attach the 3rd weapon? The first 2 added fine.
might need to add a weapon attachment module
@@jacobnowicki3790 I believe that's what it was. I found something that fit onto the front of my ship and held 3 weapons on each side.
Great video! Thx! I see all throughout your video your able to manuever your ship with NO HUD.
I assume you did this by going into FREELOOK but your somehow making it so you steer the ship instead of moving the camera, as normal.
Ive done this a few diff times myself by accidental keypress (I thought?) but now that I want to do it, I cant figure out how.
Im really hoping you can drop some knowledge and help me out!
If on controller, target a ship, then press and hold the view button. That's how I found it, at least.
Holy crap, your definately right, its linked to having something targeted and that target being close-ish (I didint have any ships around, but it worked using the staryard).
Thanks you for sharing!
Its still not the most useful as you cant switch between camera control and ship control, like I hoped, and the camera stays always pointing at the target, but man, youve just made me feel better and a lot less crazy as now I know I wasnt delusional.
Seems like you should be able to fit turrents on ships. If you are gonna be attacked on all sides then having some cover fire would help.
You can starting on Class B ships
What’s a turrent
There are auto turrets, they are not as accurate, but they an fire in all directions. You cannot control them manually.
Fingers crossed a dlc let's us build space stations
One other thing, anything that uses power can only have a total power count of what ever is on the bar, say engines, you can have as many as you want as long as they don’t exceed the total power allocation bar, think the number is 12 total power
I need to figure out how to place parts some parts just end up to high on the build screen I drag them and it's impossible to connect them to the nodes
F&R moves the level up and down I believe
@@marcpittman9455 Thanks for this
@@TheCynabal anytime :)
Wish you could have huge ships with a shuttle to go down to the planet or to board
Does anyone knows how to fix the ship not moving at all when I go to my ship it says I got engine power but when I’m in space I can’t w at all
Also same with cockpits. Can only have one on your ship. Found out after I bought a second lol. But you can cancel out of the mode to not spend money.
What does it mean when it says all items will be transferred to cargo hold when you finish upgrading ? I don’t understand and I don’t see anything in my cargo hold.
All your stuff from your private safe is stored back in your ships main cargo space and some of the misc items (mostly little deco objects) respawn there to
Wow you told exactly the stuff i learned when i was looking for like 5 min in the ship builder
So whats best to go with A B or C Ship?
It's a progression. You start out only able to pilot A class then as you progress you can up your piloting skills and ship building skills as you go, unlocking B then C Class. But you have to put Skill points into those and complete challenges (like kill 5 ships) to level up to the next level.
@@mmouse648 hmm would think that A would be better than C?
@@deusvlad2.083 LOL! Well, my Friend I didn't design it ... that's on Bethesda! The ranks are what they are. A is lowest and you start with those abilities. It's not school where an A grade is better. After you have built enough you can level up to B then to C. My game level is currently at Level 68 and I still don't have level B because I suck at space fighting.😂 I have to kill 22 more ships to get to B. Have to grind in the simulator to get there.
@@mmouse648 So If I knew this back when i was in school I would tell the teacher my C grade is the best thanks teach! That confused the hell out of me, would think there is a S grade ship as well for elite level.
what is the max mass, width and length possible
I am building a ship and I get an error that I don't have the min gear count. I have 2 nose, 1 center rear, 2 right side, 2 left side. Looks like it should be fine. Any ideas?
Add more gears. Its based on weight not where you have them
shift + double click on any module to select all and look for any annoying "unattached module" somewhere inside the borg cube mess of modules we called starship.
I wonder if it would be advantageous to use class c reactor, weapons and shield then use A or B modules to lower mass and in crease mobility.
Yes and no. It all depends on your style. While lowering your mass increases speed and mobility, it also decreases your hull rating, making your ship more squishy if the shield goes down. That can be a problem in big protracted engagements, or against enemies with high laser damage. Bulkier ships with a better hull rating will take more damage if the shield goes down, but will be less maneuverable and easier to hit. So far, I’ve found a nice balance between the two extremes, which served me quite well against the crimson fleet at the end of a certain quest line. I have a class C reactor, shield, and grav drive, and mostly Class C weapons basically slapped onto the star eagle, which is about mid, in terms of hull health.
@@kolbywilliams7234 thank you 😁👍
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No problem.
Is there any point in the game where they teach you how to do any of this? I got to Constellation in New Atlantis and decided to do side missions and exploring right away. I don’t know how to do much but grind and level.
I would like to disassemble ships in my fleet and use the parts on other ships on own
Yeah. Me too. Found this while searching for that. Only way I've found in my searching so far is you can REMOVE (not delete) the parts you want to keep, then build a new ship around it. But NOT transfer to an existing one. I suspect when the Modding system is complete (Jan 2024 currently) the Modders will have the tools to change this and the whole game will change.
Legend
Where can I find better c class reactors I have all the skill upgrades but can find any reactor with more than 20 power
I had to buy a ship from red mile had a 34 reactor and then build around it, that's the only way I know how to do it
Anyone know where to find the 40 power Reactor ? Its called SF40 SHEARED FLOW REACTOR
So maybe i just havent seen the option, but the one thing i havent been able to figure out how to do is to just start building a ship from scratch. I can only figure out how to edit an existing one. Is it possible to just start a new build from the ground up?
Kind of. Edit the ship and delete everything. You can then build one from the ground up. You cannot build a new ship in an empty fleet slot, though. You can capture ships to get a new fleet slot, which you can then break down and start fresh once you’ve payed the application fee.
To add to what @kolbywilliams7234 said - You can REMOVE (Click and drag away) any parts you want to KEEP, like an upgraded Reactor or engines ABOVE YOUR GRADE!! Then delete the rest and use those parts on a new build.
@@mmouse648
Even if you delete those parts, they’ll stay in the shop’s inventory until you exit the customization screen, so no need to drag and drop parts like that.
@@kolbywilliams7234 Ahh! Cool! Thanks for the tip, still a noob on ship building. There's SO many details ... LOL
I got a glitch saying my ship has a module not attached but flysheet anyway
I really hate when I type in a specific question on TH-cam and other stuff come up. I am simply trying to find out these two things. I am in the shipbuilding area and it says landing bay needs to be connected to the cockpit. The other issue is Docker modules Need to have an interior connection to the cockpit. I don’t know how to do those and I was looking for a video on how
you can just steal a ship and upgrade it. i stole threee already. a raptor, crimson ship fleet, amd a dagger
Where from?
I want to build a star fighter ship essentially may not be able to do that though as I see this video
Has anyone else experienced a situation where literally every ship you find that lands on a planet has a closed landing bay? i dont know when it happened but now every time i try to find a ship after it lands has a closed landing bay. If this is a glitch then it ruins my current playthrough.
You find out?
I got a free ship from the Kid Stuff perk because my virtual Dad won it in a poker game.
Do I loose parts I take off my ship? I regret taking off my stealth cargo
Yes
Whenever i change anything on any ship it becomes inaccessible....... If anyone knows anything on how to fix this would be super.
Someone needs to mod the Bebop into the game
You can make something pretty similar. The swordfish might actually be easier, though
What does mass mean and how do i increase it?
Carbs/sugar
Mass is the weight of the ship, you actually dont want to increase it unless you have to
Lower mass is better, just think of it as how heavy your ship is which makes it slower and more expensive to Operate
Use the cash hack in New Atlantis and get your money back from upgrades
My question is which parts have crafting benches ( lab, equipment, upgrades etc)?
Workshop 2x1: Space suit bench, research station, weapon bench, and industrial bench
Infirmary2x1: research station, chemistry station
Science lab2x1: research station, Chem lab
Mess hall 3x2: cooking station
There might be more, but those are the ones I know.
@kolbywilliams7234 not the op but thanks for this information. super helpful
@@jacobnowicki3790 sure thing, man.
Just to be safe, though, that was on Stroud-Ecklund modules. I’m not positive if other brands are different.
Can anyone tell me if the ships reactor uses fuel? And if so, where can i get it?
You never need to buy fuel. Fuel containers increase how far you can travel when using your grav drive. That is it. No need to look for fuel.
I hate ship building and ship fighting at all
I hate stars and fields 😢
I found a ship without missiles but i can NOT figure out how to add them someone please help me. This game has failed us all when it comes to a tutorial.
What’s the best way to get more crew members on your ship?
Major cities have locations where you can hire people. Like in bars or coffee shops 😁
@@ArekkzGaming no not the best way to get new memebers, but the best way to fit them all on your ship?
@PaulieWalnuts13 modules that have crew stations, big cockpits, and a control center I think it's called
Stuck with landing gear misaligned no matter what I do can’t fix it
Tip A is not the best class somehow ik its navy way aint boats imo and confusing af
Just hi jacked a spacer ship😅
Very very infuriating building a ship and the doors just DO NOT appear where I need them to. The ship builder does not reflect where doors can't go.
How can you turn your ship, if you build on PC?
I think it's middle mouse it shows you on the bottom right though
How do you change colors of the ship???
Press the part you want to change, and it should pop up on the prompts. Double press to select entire ship
Halo pelican now!!!!!!
Trying to make a floating bridge
Shipbuilder is sooooo annoying!!..
It does the exact opposite of what I want 😩
You've gotta be playing on PC because it dogshit on my Series X. It is worse than FO4 too.
I found a civilian outpost on a random planet and they sold ship modules. So its now just citys that sell them
Do you remember the name?
@@CDSAfghan unfortunately not but it had a trader and two people there called homesteaders. So I don't know if it was persgiral generated or not
@niallgoodwin1267 do you remember the name of the items? Like drive module? I'm gonna start randomly hunting but it's a big universe!😁
@@CDSAfghan there were A and some B class modules cut there wasn't that many engines,shields and a few more. I was in UC so they might of been nova and whatever the other brand of ship early game is but I'm not 100% on that
@@NCG92 New Homestead on Titan a moon of Saturn!
Not one of these was a tip or a trick. Just knowledge