I gave up in frustration on decorating almost from the beginning of playing Starfield. When I spent hours decorating my first home on Akila and came back to it only to find pretty much every item had sunk into their respective tables/shelves. So, thank you very much for all those tips! I may give decorating another go because of your video. Still, I wonder why Bethesda couldn't just do it in the more simple and intuitive way like it was in Fallout 4, where decorating my settlements was a huge part of my enjoyment of the game. Even in much older Skyrim, placing books on a bookshelf was so much easier.
I was having a lot of crashing issues before the last update which put me behind on building and recording, but I've still got a lot of video ideas on my to do list, so I won't be stopping any time soon!
Thanks! The latest update seems to have pulled my poor save file back from the brink of death, so back to working on getting some more videos shot and put together again
Have you been able to Stackup the Space Suit Cases ?? I can't seem to do this . Nor can I fill a Locker or a fridge up? 3:51...I tried for hours...to figure out how to pick stuff up, without equipping it. I will try out the scoped gun technique you share....thanks for that tip.
I haven't tried stacking space suit cases specifically, but have stacked weight plates in one of my current builds using this technique which might work with the space suits too... th-cam.com/video/Xa1kQAV8JZY/w-d-xo.html
hi i play on xbox game pass pc version , i had all my junk items that i placed using the builder , shut down the game , when i logged back in all my junk items disappeared. so i am scared to place any more in my outpost and homes .
I’ve spent SO much time placing plushies and coffee cups and whatnot in my Mercury apartment and various outposts. Last night when I finally got the ding dang fishbowl to set down correctly on a counter I got a little too excited. I did not know about pressing the thumb stick to switch the axis of rotation, or the Build mode tricks, until I saw this tutorial. THANK YOU. That last faction quest will have to wait - I have decorating to do!
Most useful starfield video yet! The few times ive tried decorating have been painful! Looking forward to spending hours and hours building out my mega library!
This has been very helpful. Been trying to find a video that explains some of this. Did not know about the shelf, that once you place items on it, you can move the shelf with the items. That will make it so much easier. And the books!!! Great tips on that. And picking up items that had been placed in build mode, but back in game mode, use a weapon with a scope. I really been trying to get into the decorations and outpost/homes with a character who is focusing on the Science Tree, to just play around with this aspect, trial and error, concepts and such. Been too busy on other characters focusing on either combat, physical or Tech, so the outpost were pretty much neglected.
You are amazing at making the best of decorating in this game. I was very frustrated at building but now With your videos I see hope . Thanks for the amazing videos you make on this subject !
Really useful tips! I'm 180h in and didn't fiddle much with outpost building, that will be super useful with my new playthrough I knew 0 of these tricks! Thanks a lot!
This is gonna be so useful for my second playthrough when i do more outpost stuff. (too close to endgame to start outpost building now!) Also subbed now! Your channel makes me wanna build cool outposts.
I'm sure it goes faster for some people, but yeah, it usually takes a while to decorate a whole outpost, I usually do it in multiple sessions. Fill a couple of book shelves, then go back to questing, and come back to decorate a bit more before logging off
I spent hours decorating my house in New Atlantis, advanced the main mission, and everything disappeared. Stared at it in disbelief for a few minutes then I uninstalled the game.
Decorating items, had the same issue while decorating an outpost, disappeared as you came back. Annoying cause in modless fallout 4 it doesn't happen. Will see with a lot of patches it will work or not. Otherwise we have to wait for mods especially on consoles
There’s nothing that will make gamers quit and uninstall a game quicker than randomly losing hours of decoration work. That stuff hits harder than the loss of Arthur Morgan, Joel and Paladin Danse all combined.
Great video. A tip to get decorative junk quickly is to edit habs in the ship builder. The junk from a deleted hab goes in the cargo hold, even if the hold is full. Thanks for the great video, had an issue with sunken junk and will try the game save fix.
My timing finding your video is perfect. Just made my first outpost video and got the large items down and with over 1000 hours in game it’s my first time taking outpost building serious as I near the end of the game and was not sure how to get the junk to do what I wanted in builder mode. I appreciate the great tips and will help me fill in the rest to make it more reaslistic and not such a mansion look. Great video.
Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean by going into "game mode". I am on a console and when I use "e" to pick something up it just drops it in my pack.
Game mode is just the regular mode you play the game in. If you click and release the "take" button/key, it'll go into your inventory, to pick up and move an item you have to click and hold the button/key till you see the item shifty a little.
Great tips! I gave up on decorating anything almost immediately, when it seemed impossible to put things that I knocked over accidentally back in place. Didn't know it's possible to change the axis of rotation.
Top quality video, cant believe its taken me this long to know you can use build mode to place clutter and not have it blow my out post up every time I go back.
Just wanted to come back to your comment and thank you for the feedback, I've been lowering the levels of the ambient sounds and music, so I hope my newer videos are easier to watch
Literally got to this point yesterday. So helpful! One trick I found to get a bunch of junk all at once, go into shipbuilder and modify your ship. Once you save and exit ship builder all the junk from your ship goes into the ship inventory for you to use. After some time, more junk will fill back into your ship automatically so you don’t have to worry about the ship looking vacant.
Nice work ! I've been experimenting with mods ..OMG do they open up so many options , it's a bit overwhelming but, also exciting 😉 They are working well with each other.. I have about 6 outpost decorating mods .. One that adds growing all "food" items lol I can't wait to make a little farm type outpost.. First thing I need to do is find a nice place.. Now, I just need to scratch my brain into building some catwalks over the ocean & adding little boxes & bags of produce, and, other created and, containers.. for my (will be built soon) mess Hall area ..I do have planned in my head, maybe I need to draw out some ideas on my tablet first lol With this one particular mod I'm using, it comes with pre-decorated furniture with misc items like tables & lockers /desks ... We still can't use the dang bookcases though :( I feel like that's an unbelievable oversight, since Skyrim had slotable ones that mods allowed to put anything slotable into them .. & I saw recently FO had a magazine rack, I would really, like for SF 😂 Just make sure back up your saves if you decide to try them ..I would say use Mo2 & take your time with them if you install them.. If it crashes on first opening scanner then go to a new planet to start your modded outpost, existing have crashing issues because, the air locks & landing pads have been changed for the mods lol 🤣 Do you know how to open the bookcase with the glass ? I'm pretty sure it's impossible ? I know how to decorate the wall cabinet with glass.. You need to hit it with a melee weapon ,I think fists work too.. How silly i know 😂
Fantastic video! As one of those who makes meticulously decorated homes in Skyrim and Medieval Dynasty on Xbox, I've been super frustrated with decorating in Starfield. You just made my day. Can't wait to jump back in. Thanks!
Awesome vid!! This covers every issue with outpost decoration! I’ve seen some of the tips before, figured out others, but never all in one place! Brava!
Yeah weird bug place item in the corner of the room and disappears....I then deleted the room and remade it and did not disappear...it was not a established room so starting over was not a problem..... I don't like the sink always feels like it sits too high on the wall.
I've had a couple of items do weird things like that, had one that when placed just dropped through the shelves, floor, world, and vanished. The sink placement thing is killing me right now too, that and the toilet roll holder. I'm still trying to find a way to lower the sinks a bit further, the toilet roll holders too. I remember having a similar struggle with sinks in FO4, but even those were a bit more cooperative than the Starfield ones currently see to be
Seriously. If u put soo much time and effort in decorating, then it's best not to go to NG+ because all that time and decorating goes to waist 🤷🏾♂️ Best to do this in your final NG then you stay there with your beautiful work, and decorations.
That makes sense for folks rushing NG+ for sure. I'm approaching it the same as in other games, so only going through to NG+ after I've exhausted a playthrough and ready to start over again, so settling in each universe I land in. Can't lie though, its tough having to leave all my outposts behind
@@crooklyn673 speed running NG+ didn't sound like fun to me either. I only just jumped to my first NG+ a couple of months ago, and will be sticking around in this second universe for a while again too
I gave up in frustration on decorating almost from the beginning of playing Starfield. When I spent hours decorating my first home on Akila and came back to it only to find pretty much every item had sunk into their respective tables/shelves. So, thank you very much for all those tips! I may give decorating another go because of your video. Still, I wonder why Bethesda couldn't just do it in the more simple and intuitive way like it was in Fallout 4, where decorating my settlements was a huge part of my enjoyment of the game. Even in much older Skyrim, placing books on a bookshelf was so much easier.
Super good tips. Please don't stop making starfield videos!
I was having a lot of crashing issues before the last update which put me behind on building and recording, but I've still got a lot of video ideas on my to do list, so I won't be stopping any time soon!
This explained a lot of what the game doesn't with decoration. I'm still trying to sort out basic outpost arrangement.
it feels like there's so much in the game that isn't explained, it makes me wonder how many mechanics I must be missing
@@MissOPlays that's an understatement
I LEARNED SO MUCH FROM THIS VIDEO! And you have amazing building and decorating skills. I really like what you do, keep it up!
Thanks! The latest update seems to have pulled my poor save file back from the brink of death, so back to working on getting some more videos shot and put together again
This is the best “how to place objects” instruction I have seen. Great tips! Thank you!!!
Have you been able to Stackup the Space Suit Cases ??
I can't seem to do this .
Nor can I fill a Locker or a fridge up?
3:51...I tried for hours...to figure out how to pick stuff up, without equipping it.
I will try out the scoped gun technique you share....thanks for that tip.
I haven't tried stacking space suit cases specifically, but have stacked weight plates in one of my current builds using this technique which might work with the space suits too... th-cam.com/video/Xa1kQAV8JZY/w-d-xo.html
hi i play on xbox game pass pc version , i had all my junk items that i placed using the builder , shut down the game , when i logged back in all my junk items disappeared. so i am scared to place any more in my outpost and homes .
Great video, thanks! :)
I’ve spent SO much time placing plushies and coffee cups and whatnot in my Mercury apartment and various outposts. Last night when I finally got the ding dang fishbowl to set down correctly on a counter I got a little too excited. I did not know about pressing the thumb stick to switch the axis of rotation, or the Build mode tricks, until I saw this tutorial. THANK YOU. That last faction quest will have to wait - I have decorating to do!
Thank you very much for this awesome guide! I was always wondering how this thing is even possible. You've earned my sub!
20 days in starfied... and to just find out, that I can rotate objects I pick up....oh dear.😂
Awesome tips! Thank you.
Most useful starfield video yet! The few times ive tried decorating have been painful! Looking forward to spending hours and hours building out my mega library!
Nicely done and great tips. Been trying to decorate across 7 universes and I learned more in the last 10 minutes than those 7 lifetimes!
This has been very helpful. Been trying to find a video that explains some of this. Did not know about the shelf, that once you place items on it, you can move the shelf with the items. That will make it so much easier. And the books!!! Great tips on that. And picking up items that had been placed in build mode, but back in game mode, use a weapon with a scope. I really been trying to get into the decorations and outpost/homes with a character who is focusing on the Science Tree, to just play around with this aspect, trial and error, concepts and such. Been too busy on other characters focusing on either combat, physical or Tech, so the outpost were pretty much neglected.
So good. Liked and subbed
You are amazing at making the best of decorating in this game. I was very frustrated at building but now With your videos I see hope . Thanks for the amazing videos you make on this subject !
Really useful tips! I'm 180h in and didn't fiddle much with outpost building, that will be super useful with my new playthrough I knew 0 of these tricks! Thanks a lot!
I didn’t know you could change the way you rotate it. I’ve just been dropping it and picking it back up at a different angle…😮
This is gonna be so useful for my second playthrough when i do more outpost stuff. (too close to endgame to start outpost building now!) Also subbed now! Your channel makes me wanna build cool outposts.
This was really helpful, thank you so much. I’m a junk hoarder lol, my companion is always nagging me😆
insane, must take forever. Good work.
I'm sure it goes faster for some people, but yeah, it usually takes a while to decorate a whole outpost, I usually do it in multiple sessions. Fill a couple of book shelves, then go back to questing, and come back to decorate a bit more before logging off
I spent hours decorating my house in New Atlantis, advanced the main mission, and everything disappeared. Stared at it in disbelief for a few minutes then I uninstalled the game.
Only decorations or also the built furniture?
Decorating items, had the same issue while decorating an outpost, disappeared as you came back. Annoying cause in modless fallout 4 it doesn't happen. Will see with a lot of patches it will work or not. Otherwise we have to wait for mods especially on consoles
There’s nothing that will make gamers quit and uninstall a game quicker than randomly losing hours of decoration work. That stuff hits harder than the loss of Arthur Morgan, Joel and Paladin Danse all combined.
@@penglingwhisperer3382nothing hit harder than losing Arthur but i fundamentally agree lol.
Great tip on moving the shelf down low to decorate it. You can also use tables to create a platform to stand on for shelves that you can't move.
Great video. A tip to get decorative junk quickly is to edit habs in the ship builder. The junk from a deleted hab goes in the cargo hold, even if the hold is full. Thanks for the great video, had an issue with sunken junk and will try the game save fix.
My timing finding your video is perfect. Just made my first outpost video and got the large items down and with over 1000 hours in game it’s my first time taking outpost building serious as I near the end of the game and was not sure how to get the junk to do what I wanted in builder mode. I appreciate the great tips and will help me fill in the rest to make it more reaslistic and not such a mansion look. Great video.
All these tips were things ide struggled with. Spot on
Thank you so much for posting this. I honestly wouldn’t have thought about using junk from the game to fill up my outpost. 😊
Glad I could help! the only downside is you end up needing a much bigger cargo hold once you start hoarding every niknak you can find
So many great tips... that shelf one is gold! thanks
Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean by going into "game mode". I am on a console and when I use "e" to pick something up it just drops it in my pack.
Game mode is just the regular mode you play the game in. If you click and release the "take" button/key, it'll go into your inventory, to pick up and move an item you have to click and hold the button/key till you see the item shifty a little.
Ahh, so just click and hold! Got it, thanks a lot. You are great!@@MissOPlays
Great tips!
I gave up on decorating anything almost immediately, when it seemed impossible to put things that I knocked over accidentally back in place.
Didn't know it's possible to change the axis of rotation.
Wonderful video, my friend. Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic video, very helpful tips, thank you!
excellent video. I have been looking for a video on how to do this.
Top quality video, cant believe its taken me this long to know you can use build mode to place clutter and not have it blow my out post up every time I go back.
It took me a good while to realize the same thing with FO4, so you're not alone on that
Decorating a wall shelf and then moving the whole thing is such a great tip. Thanks!
Hey Miss o. Great video. Going to binge watch them all! Keep up the great work.
love your vids. May I suggest that you turn down ambient and music background sounds.
Just wanted to come back to your comment and thank you for the feedback, I've been lowering the levels of the ambient sounds and music, so I hope my newer videos are easier to watch
Great info, thanks!
Literally got to this point yesterday. So helpful! One trick I found to get a bunch of junk all at once, go into shipbuilder and modify your ship. Once you save and exit ship builder all the junk from your ship goes into the ship inventory for you to use. After some time, more junk will fill back into your ship automatically so you don’t have to worry about the ship looking vacant.
Super helpful and instructive. Thanks for doing the leg work for us newbies. Love your content.
Nice work ! I've been experimenting with mods ..OMG do they open up so many options , it's a bit overwhelming but, also exciting 😉
They are working well with each other.. I have about 6 outpost decorating mods .. One that adds growing all "food" items lol I can't wait to make a little farm type outpost.. First thing I need to do is find a nice place.. Now, I just need to scratch my brain into building some catwalks over the ocean & adding little boxes & bags of produce, and, other created and, containers.. for my (will be built soon) mess Hall area ..I do have planned in my head, maybe I need to draw out some ideas on my tablet first lol With this one particular mod I'm using, it comes with pre-decorated furniture with misc items like tables & lockers /desks ...
We still can't use the dang bookcases though :( I feel like that's an unbelievable oversight, since Skyrim had slotable ones that mods allowed to put anything slotable into them .. & I saw recently FO had a magazine rack, I would really, like for SF 😂
Just make sure back up your saves if you decide to try them ..I would say use Mo2 & take your time with them if you install them.. If it crashes on first opening scanner then go to a new planet to start your modded outpost, existing have crashing issues because, the air locks & landing pads have been changed for the mods
lol 🤣 Do you know how to open the bookcase with the glass ? I'm pretty sure it's impossible ? I know how to decorate the wall cabinet with glass.. You need to hit it with a melee weapon ,I think fists work too.. How silly i know 😂
Fantastic video! As one of those who makes meticulously decorated homes in Skyrim and Medieval Dynasty on Xbox, I've been super frustrated with decorating in Starfield. You just made my day. Can't wait to jump back in. Thanks!
Awesome vid!! This covers every issue with outpost decoration! I’ve seen some of the tips before, figured out others, but never all in one place! Brava!
Loving your videos. One of the things that helped me with decorating was to go into settings and turn the item rotational speed all the way down
Yeah weird bug place item in the corner of the room and disappears....I then deleted the room and remade it and did not disappear...it was not a established room so starting over was not a problem..... I don't like the sink always feels like it sits too high on the wall.
I've had a couple of items do weird things like that, had one that when placed just dropped through the shelves, floor, world, and vanished. The sink placement thing is killing me right now too, that and the toilet roll holder. I'm still trying to find a way to lower the sinks a bit further, the toilet roll holders too. I remember having a similar struggle with sinks in FO4, but even those were a bit more cooperative than the Starfield ones currently see to be
@@MissOPlaysYEs, and 2 months later, that hasn't been fixed, the sink sucks.
Fantastic video! Great ideas and clear instructions. Thank you!
Been trying to figure out how to place weapons AND the shelf thing. Thank you!
Many Thanks 4 this Tipps!
Seriously. If u put soo much time and effort in decorating, then it's best not to go to NG+ because all that time and decorating goes to waist 🤷🏾♂️ Best to do this in your final NG then you stay there with your beautiful work, and decorations.
That makes sense for folks rushing NG+ for sure.
I'm approaching it the same as in other games, so only going through to NG+ after I've exhausted a playthrough and ready to start over again, so settling in each universe I land in.
Can't lie though, its tough having to leave all my outposts behind
@@MissOPlays I'm 600+ hrs and only NG+3. Just speed jumping from NG+ to the next isn't 4 me 🤷🏾♂️
@@crooklyn673 speed running NG+ didn't sound like fun to me either. I only just jumped to my first NG+ a couple of months ago, and will be sticking around in this second universe for a while again too
@@MissOPlays just returned from a short vacation. Can't wait to check out the updates 😁