Starfield: Outpost Guide 1.0 - The Basics (Extractors, Switches, Base Building & More!)

In this video we'll cover the basics of Starfield's outpost system! We'll start off by choosing a suitable sight to build our first base. Then we'll go through the basic controls when in build mode and then I’ll show you how to set up the outpost to farm the early game resources that you’ll need to expand your base. We’ll also look at how you XP farm and how to construct the hab buildings and how to set up defences!
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0:00 Introduction
0:59 Choosing a Suitable Site
3:22 Placing Your First Beacon
8:56 Basic Controls
14:02 Adaptive Frames
19:42 How Switches Work
22:06 Killing Time
23:07 How to XP Farm
38:36 Base Building & Defences
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[@giulianomarco]

Don't forget to hard save your game before landing on Bessel III-b, as you likely won't get the right spot first time. It took me 3 or 4 tries a few weeks ago. It is possible to remove outposts/landing zones so you can try again, but can be real finicky. Much quicker just to reload. The exact spot to land should be smack in the middle of a crook like ) along the mountain ridge. Also sleep in your ship till around 7am so the mountain ridges throw shadows which make them easier to see. 😁👍

[@mike-thegamingdad]

That's a great tip thanks!

[@winnsanity1243]

You can just reland somewhere else no need to reload the save.

[@saberkunai7511]

One thing I absolutely loved about this video is how recorded this raw and in real time. Loading Sara up without editing the video was so real and so relatable 😂😭 Thank you so much for all you do, it’s much appreciated!

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thank you yeah I did most of this in one take which was a bit mad as normally I'll film many times on one save point and cut and paste the best bits 😅. Glad you enjoyed it 😁👍🏻

[@user-kf7ih1js7p]

Something I absolutely hated about this video and when I stopped watching the video was at the 7 minute and 38 second Mark when you decided not to show us where he was on the map

[@RichardBejtlich]

35:50 you don’t need to walk to your ship to drop off your items. Bring up your character menu and select Ship, then cargo bay. You can store directly from there. Then at Jemison or Neon or Akila you can sell from your cargo bay.

[@yurimolotov5886]

Wow.. hundreds of hours and several hours of cargo transfers.. wish I knew about this.. so I press H and then cargo?

[@bluewrites2278]

​@@yurimolotov5886 do note that you have to be within 250m of your ship for that to work. You can both send and take things from your ship this way. Open the menu that has your inventory, skills, etc., select your ship and then cargo. Transfer till your hearts content. For an idea of distance, if your ship is at the spaceport in New Atlantis you can still transfer items to it when you are standing in front of the spaceport NAT station.

[@Neura1net]

This is by far the best tutorial I found on this topic. Thank you very much. It's very well structured.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@Neura1net thanks very much glad you found it useful 😁

[@louisbrewer1260]

Mike, great video! I knew pretty much all that, but how you described how to find the right spot on Bessel III-b was super clear and easy to follow! One tip I want to give is the whole getting your ship on the landing pad.... you can go to the ship building panel on the pad and in modify ships you can change home ship and if you flip between home ships it will teleport whatever ship you set as home ship to the landing pad!

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Yeah I thought you likely would as you are waaaay ahead of me on this game 😅. Thanks for the tip regarding the landing pad though, way quicker doing it that way!

[@Largent13]

Also if you just go into the ship builder and change your home ship or modify the color of one part it will automatically bring your ship to the landing pad

[@skyriminspace]

That is going to help a lot of people myself included. I have an outpost, with a landing pad, & if i land there i appear at the beacon & my ship is almost 1km away. I believe where i originally landed when i scouted & built that outpost.

[@agoogleuser5830]

Omg! After literally spending several hours looking for this spot which I watched in another video as well last night, I just found it. The same look as yours to. Tbh, your video explains it a bit more and I truly appreciate that. I was so bummed that I just quit playing last night. This morning I decided to look up outpost guide and yours was the first to show up. I didn't watch the rest of your video yet...which I'm sure I know what you're planning on doing. Thank you again! So relieved now. Haha

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Ah I'm sorry to hear that you've quit the game. I myself have paused this one for now whilst I focus on something else (may come back to it, will see what patches and new content is released). Thanks for watching my video though and glad it was useful 😁👍🏻

[@agoogleuser5830]

@@mike-thegamingdad Well I meant I quit for that night. Thankfully you're video gave me hope and it worked. But yeah there's so many bugs that other people have experienced. Every time I come along something I can't get to work, there's other people who have the same problem but most have solutions. Yesterday after watching the first part of your video, I leveled up like 5 times quickly...being lvl 50+ takes a bit longer to lvl up. I did watch more of your video yesterday and I do see you get into depth of outposts which I will be coming back for to learn more from. I mainly wanted to level up more to get a few things. Lol Again thank you!

[@toragirsl1441]

Awesome work! I agree on the defence turrets being a bit "scattergun". I find the security robots to be better. There's also a video I've seen where someone builds a wall of containers around themselves for protection and then deletes all but the highest one. Its worth checking out!

[@Astristul]

Yeah, it's Vash Cowaii's video, but I don't find it pretty useful, because the area is round, also there are extractors around. It's impossible to do that for each outpost. For me outposts = xp farming, and that's it. Anything else is just time wasting!

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@Astristul just watched that video, it's definitely an original idea! Wouldn't have thought to do that! But yeah unless your base is small it's hard to execute. I couldn't do it on this one without leaving the extractors outside of it I don't think

[@johnwpipes8927]

This is amazing! Bessel iii b is a jackpot planet for resources and you made a very efficient use of it. That xp system is OP!

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Yeah its a bit of a grind but it's possible to gain levels very quickly that way, I'm going to spend a few hours doing it, get the perks required in the science tree so we can unlock all the new building upgrades, and then I'll do part 2 of this where we expand the base and set up some feeder outposts, sending other resources here via links 👍🏻

[@BrendonShipley]

Excellent video. One of the best out there for learning how to efficiently build a base.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thank you 😁

[@GuyGrey]

I managed to find the spot! Thank you for the tutorial

[@mike-thegamingdad]

No problem at all 😁👍🏻

[@jayprovo7463]

Thanks for the really clear instructions. I was finally able to find the spot where the 5 resources converge thanks to the video.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

No problem at all I'm glad it was useful 😁👍🏻

[@civsully1740]

Fantastic! Only wish is a couple of more specific sites suggested. But a great job showing how to pinpoint the exact spot. Well Done!

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thanks very much 😁🙌🏼

[@tonyfelder8720]

So comprehensive! Thank you, i had been binging fallout 4 settlement stuff and then i got to playing this, felt familiar but i see i underestimated some of the ways the outpost sets up.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

You're welcome 😁👍🏻

[@derrickbyrne2847]

Great vid Mike. Just started playing this game a couple of weeks ago and these tips have been super helpful for a noob like me. Thanks pal. 👍

[@mike-thegamingdad]

No problem at all glad it was helpful 😁👍🏻

[@billdyer9443]

Hello. Thanks so much for your time. I learned a truck load. Took me about an hour to find that base position lol but afterwards I felt like I had won a prize. I nearly missed the Cobolt on the edge of my circle but had just enough for an extracter. All good. Thanks again.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

No problem at all happy to help out 😁👍🏻. Yeah it's not the easiest to pinpoint, one pixel either side and you load in a completely different place 😂

[@kristinngudmundsson4409]

Thank you for this, my first outpost it took a while to find the mountain black :) when I started, it was hard to stop just fun cool video. Thanks again have a nice day everyone

[@mike-thegamingdad]

No problem at all 😁👍🏻

[@tylerpetersen6226]

One other tip I would highly recommend building an outpost in the same landing tile as New Atlantis so you can transport excess resources between the landing pad and constellation infinite storage or drop off resources from a resource shop to your landing pad it is a great way to disperse goods around your outposts if your ship has low cargo capacity.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Yeah that's a great tip! 👍🏻

[@Stonecoldsidious]

this is a great video, really simplified the outpost building. Ive just started playing this and was pretty daunted by the whole outpost stuff, but this has mad eit simple, i liked your referance to Sims because as i was watching you build it was my exact thought. Will watch your other vids on this also 🙂 before i dive back into my game....... then will look at understanding the whole ship building thing

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thank you, glad you found it useful. I will do a part 2 to this soon, I've been focusing on a few other things first and then took time off over Xmas. Oh god ship building is one element I've not even looked at yet either 😂

[@zeljkoklepac3180]

A PERFECT beauty beast Ship for your collection is the new IRON STAR 7 UC Legendery Starfield only ship design - made for Starfield only. Have fun and a nice day mate

[@mike-thegamingdad]

That's an impressive ship! 👍🏻

[@groundhog7063]

Thanks Mike. Great video.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

No problem thanks for watching 👍🏻😁

[@rr01989]

thank you so much for this finally found this spot after number of hours going crazy trying to find it.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

No problem at all, glad you managed to find it 😁🙌🏼

[@harleybaker]

Just a heads up, if you are within 250m of your ship then you can access the cargohold in the pause menu and transfer items without needing to go to your ship.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Great tip thanks for sharing 😁👍🏻

[@jaredthegamer369]

Wow I wish I knew this alot sooner, thanks

[@mactravel]

Love your videos mate just came across them. Subbed :)

[@shaundaly1134]

Good video. Easy to follow. I had one bug where my ship appeared on my landing pad at an angle, partially collapsed into the pad, with no outer door or interior fittings so I couldnt take off.

[@giulianomarco]

Try as I might, I couldn't find the right spot to build a big landing pad when I tried. So I just plonked a small one down instead, which is OK for The Mantis. I'm not worried about future expansion, as I've hardly been back. You made it look easy on your console, Mike - but it's a real PITA building or connecting anything with keys & mouse on PC.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Yeah, I've heard it's difficult on keyboard. Have you tried changing the settings? There's a sensitivity option specifically called outpost item rotation speed. It's in the bottom half of the controls menu. I've heard that helps massively with the fiddly bits

[@giulianomarco]

@@mike-thegamingdad Yep, I have. There's two settings, I think - but I can't remember the other one AFK. 👍

[@dfoster7001]

When I started playing and building on Bessel I used the resource container storage to place excess resources to lighten my weight. That way I could use those resources to build when I needed and the storage capacity was much greater than those small storage boxes.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

That's a good tip thanks! 👍🏻

[@pdraggy]

Iron is easy to get, just farm asteroids for like 20 minutes and you have 100+ iron, easily enough for your first base. So yeah, while iron makes it MUCH easier (not to say my way isn't easy just if you have it on hand it's downright trivial!), don't bother yourself to find the PERFECT spot with Iron in it. JMO. I'd add beryllium to your list of must have minerals though! This is a great guide though and very well explained too!

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thank you for adding your tips and I'm glad you enjoyed it 😁👍🏻

[@elementotriplo4966]

Thanks!

[@mike-thegamingdad]

No problem 😁

[@chamathamara]

An alternative way to farm XP (probably farm money as well): I don't recall exactly the skill requirements; it's been a few months since I played the game, but the basic idea involves building an outpost where you can make AMP, a chem in the game: 1) Survey plants in the northern hemisphere of planet Jemison (you'll go here in early missions, the capital is New Atlantis). With this, you can grow plants that give metabolic agents and toxins, but I think you need to fully survey a biome; otherwise horticulture labs won't appear in the outpost build menu 2) Find a spot in the northern hemisphere with argon deposits and establish an outpost in an area that has many of these 3) Build horticulture labs: a set of labs for making metabolic agents and another for toxins. Then, build a set of solid storages to store metabolic agents and another set to store toxins. 4) Horticulture labs need water, you need to build whatever machines that give water, you can find them in the outpost build menu. 5) Build liquid storage and connect them to the machines that extract water (connect from the water extractor to the liquid storage). 6) Then connect water storage to horticulture labs 7) Build argon extractors and gas storage to store argon. 8) Build a pharmaceutical station With this, you can farm argon, metabolic agents, and toxins; these can be used to make AMP in the pharmaceutical station. You can farm exp similar to the adoptive frame method, but AMP weighs less, and the price/weight ratio is very high in AMP. So, by making AMP, you can farm XP and later sell them to merchants to earn money. To collect resources fast, travel to Venus in the Sol system, land, and wait/sleep in your ship for an appropriate time. 1hr in Venus = 100hr in UT time and production rates of extractors and horticulture labs are tied with UT time Optional: Give the outpost a name if you like. I named mine Heisenberg.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Awesome thanks for sharing! 😁👍

[@theviolater5010]

This is the best video explanation for where to find the spot iv seen, iv spent hours trying to find the area but this explains it perfectly

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thank you very much 😁

[@giulianomarco]

First on your Cribs list would be a jacuzzi or hot tub for party times with the other rich & shameless. Second a couple hangars fo' yo' whips, dude. Third a great heart-shaped bed for Sarah's gymnastics. 😋👍

[@thetradesman7478]

That girl is jumping on tables and jump-packing through doors and shit! She must be off her meds..

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Haha amazing, I love all those ideas 😂

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@@thetradesman7478 for someone that on first impression I thought was going to be uptight, she's a bit freaky isn't she...

[@thetradesman7478]

@@mike-thegamingdad I don’t know how many times I wake up from “rest” on the ship and Sarah is talking about last night with Cora standing right there.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@@thetradesman7478 haha oh dear 🤣🤣

[@bhekking]

Great spot, and super clear as always. Too bad there isn't a planet coordinate system.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Planet coordinates are definitely needed. It'll be because all the planets are procedurally generated but each time I'm always wishing we had maps

[@TheChenny73]

What do you mean they’re all PG? I just went to the exact location you did in the video and it’s the same. So they used PG to create them in the studio but saved these creations in the game file? It must be because you got the same mountain as me in the same exact location.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@TheChenny73 hey so when you land on a planet, what you get is a random generation based of the topography of the planet at the section you land on. Now what makes Starfields procedural generation different from Skyrims procedural generation as both use this technique, is Skyrim was all one map, the procedural generation happened as you walked, but all it did was load a map that was already built for you. What Starfield does is complete RNG. When you land, you get a selection of landmarks and landscape, and you can only explore that one area of map (I think it's a 3km circle or something), if you reach the edge of it itll say edge of map. So you'd need to take off and land again, but if you landed in the same area again, you might get a totally different map load. That area of the map in Bessel 3 isn't unique, but because you are aiming for a specific section between mountains, hills and flatland, eventually if you keep trying enough (or you may hit it 1st time if lucky) you'll load that same area with the red mountain and then the flats next to it.

[@TheChenny73]

@@mike-thegamingdad You might be right but based on other videos I’ve seen I don’t think so. I’ve seen people land in one zone walk up to barrier, then land in next zone over and walk up to barrier on other side of invisible wall, they clearly show the topography is seamless. Also in the case of Bessel, are you saying you can’t land on the other side of the valley and find that mountain? I’ve spent a lot of time in that valley and it’s always the same, but I’m no expert just a gamer and haven’t really mapped it out myself. I’ll be curious if we get more detailed surface maps in the future.

[@TheChenny73]

@@mike-thegamingdad love the conversation, however I think the real issue is Bethesda needs to put real threats to our Outposts and give us a reason to build them. To be honest just tinkering with them is already enough for my brain, but it would be nice if landing parties raided me in force or I had to supply resources in a galactic struggle like a RTS game.

[@WorldofRockhounds]

It took me several tries to get this spot because there was a structure right next to this. I eventually got it.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Glad to hear it 😁🙌🏼

[@penguin74]

I've tried like 5 times I still can't land on the correct spot. I keep landing near other structures.

[@billdyer9443]

I know the feeling but patience paid off eventually.

[@bryanbrewer4272]

another way with that glitch is to pull your weapon out and approach the bench, works for me every time.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Ah nice thanks! 👍🏻

[@TheChenny73]

So what is procedurally generated? I thought the surface of the planets was different for everyone and this video shows me they are the same, further I proved it myself by going to the exact location you did in the video.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

I think I may have responded to your comment already on this on another post, but procedural generation in Starfields instance is a random generation based on the topography of the planet in the area you land on. It'll select random landmarks for you, you may see them on other planets in totally different star systems. But you also may get the same or very similar generation as other players. All you are doing in the instance of Bessel 3-B is trying to load that specific map that contains the mountain and flatlands by precisely aiming your landing spot between the edge of the mountains and hills

[@TheChenny73]

@@mike-thegamingdad I’ve watched other videos that show these landing zones are all connected however you can’t walk from one to the next, but you can land in the next and you can clearly see the topography is seamless. This tells me the planets are PG created in the studio, the POI you see from orbit and the planets themselves are exactly the same for everyone. All the other stuff that spawns on its surface that’s PG. After saying that, this is not what I thought originally. I thought they were randomly generated and the topography was different for everyone

[@adamacosta4443]

When i fall asleep for an hour, my warehouse isnt filling up. Its been at 47

[@mike-thegamingdad]

There is likely a blockage, or lack of a required resource in the system somewhere, if its not filling. Unfortunately without being able to see it myself it's hard to say what that will be, but try going through each point in the chain starting with the first extractor. Is that extractor working, if so what's the next point in the chain. If you can provide detail on what isn't working I can try help out

[@fredshannon8110]

When you build your landing pad. You go into ship builder, And no matter where you left your ship it will come to the landing pad. Once it is there hard save your game. and your done. Way easier than the way your doing it.

[@adamsmith7691]

I've noticed that if you are on a larger ship, it will orient your landing differently. Found the location, but my ship was 180 degrees turn in comparence.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Ah nice, I'll have to try it out with my Kepler R 😁👍🏻

[@Murpheous31]

Need the part 2

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Yeah that will be coming 👍🏻, need to get round to recording. New Skyrim update kind of derailed it last week or so as I've been focused on that.

[@andrewrogers6349]

If you go to your ship builder and then view and modify ships, change your home ship, then change it back your ship will be on your landing pad

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thanks for the tip 😁

[@NeostormT]

Ok you need a rocky desert pixel to the left and a mountain to the right with a hill right below the mountain. If you don't land on the hill don't even bother trying to look for the spot. It seems they reuse the terrain so you might be in a spot that looks like the mountain but the wrong resources are available.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Yep 👍🏻

[@Spaghestti]

Yes ! This way worked for me thanks :)

[@Shiftry87]

1 system that i think was overlooked is some form of managment system for the 2 different cargo links. It wasent part of this video but its very unreliable to ship 2 or more things from 1 planet over to another using the same landing pad. If your storage is full then is the ship gonna pick up equal amount of the 2 or more resources u export or is it gonna load up its entire cargo with just iron for example. Also it would have been a perfect way to have to assign your own ships for this transport job instead of some random hauler just happen to come by and doing the job for free.

[@jonaaberg]

I've build a system with extractors sending their mined goods to containers that are linked to eachother. I've gotten it all to work so that when one container is full the overflow goes to the next linked one. But what happens when they all are full? Is there any downside to letting my extractors run even if all the containers are full? Other than it's wasted materials; that are being mined but don't end up anywhere?

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Hey yes that is correct, once the system is full thats it, there's no overflow storage anywhere, you just don't receive anymore materials unless you add more containers. But there's no negatives either, you aren't penalised for it or risk any damage if they keep running

[@sethboyd8728]

Anyone got tips to find this location? I’ve spent what feels like hours trying to find it.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Have you still been unable to locate it?

[@cadeflynn24]

I've spent a day in a half and haven't found it closest I've seen to resources in my search was 4 but they were water cobalt platinum and nickle. Doesn't help everytime I've tried its freezing rain or thunderstorms on the surface either.

[@richardbaldock6746]

I find it every time look for the two moutain ridges go inbetweeb those two ranges and find all 3 biomes near always place it on the mounting biome not the hills it will have to get your bearings from the landing spot find the black mountain at the base of it

[@zeljkoklepac3180]

Complete your Gameplay with Unique ships like the GoldStar and GoldStorm and the IRON STAR 3 UC or the Gray Angel legendery Ship desings that Will complete your own ships collection and game. Have fun. And Good day mate

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Thanks you too 😁👍🏻

[@Trifler500]

It would be nice if we could set a Track for specific resources of our choosing, rather than "tracking" buildings or mods.

[@Soljie1969]

You just need to take off then you can find your landing pad and land don't need to go anywhere .

[@cadeflynn24]

Has this area changed in my playthroughs bressel b is to the north and whenever I try to pinpoint that spot I do see that an artifact is in the area I'm having trouble with finding that exact location and when I got to look or scan the planet the area marked is always dark.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Hey no its still there, so you are always landing in the dark? Or that side of the planet is in the dark? I'd possibly try wait somewhere else for a bit and come back, see if that changes that 'time zone' 🤞🏻

[@cadeflynn24]

@mike-thegamingdad it's always dark in that area on the planet for me and each time I land and reload I don't get near that spot like the video alot of times it's right next to one of anomalies for the artifacts.

[@Thundergod213]

I have a problem with 5:41, i landed exactly on the same place, but i dont get a black mountain but a brown one (oke im here during the night, but i cant seem to land to another place which is exactly the location your given to me.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

It could be that spot yeah, can't remember off the top of my head what it looks like in the dark. I'd try and locate the spot to place the beacon, if you can't find it then try land again in the daytime so it's a bit clearer

[@AlexGhostDragonUK]

Use the console on landing pad to switch home ship and then back to the one you want...... 🤪

[@nectros8452]

I feel so dumb, I didn't hard save before I landed and my last save is 11 levels and 20 hours before. 😥😥 I really wished you could delete landing pads. Did I read that they are going to bring that with the next patch?

[@Decarus37]

You know i would love to follow this guide but for some reason leaving this moon and only this moon crashes my game everytime.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

What really? What a weird bug that is 🤯🤯 so sorry to hear that

[@Decarus37]

​@@mike-thegamingdadoh it gets even weirder as I tried with a different character and everything was fine. So I reloaded an earlier save on a different ship and it hasn't crashed once. I guess it was specific to the ship I had or just the game being made by Bethesda it's a coin flip

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@Decarus37 ha yeah very true, I set off in my ship from this moon once and as my ship flew into the air the only parts of it visible were the engines and a rectangle in the middle they weren't connected it was just parts flying into the sky. When I was in space it was the same but I couldn't do anything, the controls were completely locked out so I had to hard reset. It's never done it since but yeah, classic Bethesda 😂

[@bkronic]

I can not find the mountain. I've spent two hours loading and re landing on Bessel-3, clicking to the left of the 3 scars at the bottom of the 4th scar. I click and see hills a few times, find mountain area but when I land there's always, unknown locations, existing outposts, and I'm in the mountains it looks like. I never see the tall dark mountain or find converging veins of resources. Is this location critical or am I missing something? Can this EXACT location be found if the game is randomly generating surface area?

[@bkronic]

Classic ask someone or say it can't be done and the next thing you know it's done. Literally 2 hours last night and I couldn't find it. I posted this question the next morning and tried to find the spot in game. The first load no go. Then glory be it the second attempt put me so close to that dark mountain and the five converging veins. Great video by the way. I subscribed and liked. I'll watch more too.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@bkronic yeah its a bit of a lottery unfortunately, the game randomly generates a section of map for you, but if you get the correct spot it will generate that same location for you. Its funny as it was first attempt for me, I didn't have to retry, but I've seen varying levels of success in finding it. Thanks for checking out my videos I appreciate it 😁

[@marknorthrup4897]

can someone please tell me how to elevate and lower the habs? i've tried everything i know it seems. i'm on pc. thanks

[@mike-thegamingdad]

When you place a hab you should essentially have 2 'clicks' before it's placed The first time you press, should place it down and lock it in place, but the elevation isn't locked, this is where you can move it up and down. I use a controller so it may be different but on PC I think it should be "E' key to build, then: Confirm placement and height "E" again Rotate unit "Mouse1/Mouse2" Adjust Height "W/S" Cycle Variants "Q/T" Cancel "ESC"

[@marknorthrup4897]

ahh, I see. Yes, you have the keys correct for PC. I will try it again next session. I actually got it to work once by accident but then didn't know how I did it. heh. Thanks for the reply, you are a great help to me. I was able to ask my son questions about the game, (I'm 71 y.o.) but he took a break from it while waiting for the patch I guess. Do you know a place that I should go to when I have Starfield questions? Is there a site I should be using? Thanks again for all that you do. I bet you are a great Dad. @@mike-thegamingdad

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@marknorthrup4897 no problem at all happy to help out 😁👍🏻. Normally if I have any questions I google what I'm looking for and see what is being written about it. As Starfield is relatively new I think a lot of information will still be being catalogued, but thankfully I've managed to find most of what I've needed A lot of the time it's on websites like this: starfield.fandom.com/wiki/Starfield starfieldwiki.net/wiki/Home www.ign.com/wikis/starfield/ There's some pretty comprehensive wiki pages on the game already, and they are always being updated. Great to see you are gaming into your 70s! I'm 34 now but I've been gaming for 30 years, some of my earliest memories were of my dad and grandad gaming. My grandad played games into his 80s and owned consoles from the NES and SNES era right through to later PlayStation consoles - they were fun times 😁. I'm hoping I'll be a gaming grandad 🤣👍🏻.

[@mcglaundesigns1682]

I have tried for 6 hours and cant land in that spot. Did this get patched

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Not that I've heard of no, haven't been on Starfield for a couple of months but it would surprise me if Bethesda did anything like that. They rarely patch bugs so can't see them patching something like a generated landed spot

[@ricardoramirez9510]

how did you get sarah to fall in love with you lol, she still carrying too much baggage for me!

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Oh man it takes a while, really have to jump through hoops and let her unload on you 😂 eventually though the quest prior to her commiting to you is pretty good. You go back to the planet she talks about from her past.

[@Prophet_4u2]

Glove oyu

[@basildaoust2821]

OK, I have a new problem. One that my machines now and then fail and loading does nothing but I found out if I move the machine it works or that has worked twice when the problem happens. The next problem is that my iron feed of ore is broken, 100% not working after 12 hours I collected zero. It was working just to be clear. I even built a few more solar power even though in theory I already had more than enough. But still no ore. So I have three miners that feed a local chest then that chest feeds a stack of 10 chests and yes all 11 chests are 0% full. I could delete the three miners and see if it starts working again. Weird how just these 3 miners stopped.

[@basildaoust2821]

well fwiw, I deleted the 4 miners and then built 3 miners the 4th no longer seemed to fit and since you only used one of each I presumed I was still good, the rebuild worked. I'm kind of not sure what I am doing, the income seems bad, terrible even. I changed my engines and Jump theng, and upgraded my lasers and wow that cost like 100,000 with no real gain, oh and I did also throw away one hab and put in a new one, oh and I changed two landing gear so I could add two more thrust type engines, now I might need to do some magic to get Jump distance to 28 for the next power :(

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Without being able to to see your base it's hard to suggest what the issue may be. The whole system is like balancing a set of scales. On one side you've got your overall power production and the other your power consumption. As long as A is equal or larger than B that's the first thing. Then once you have that its a case of setting up links, extractors and defenses don't need a linked power source, but you can link them if you want (just be mindful that then puts all the linked power into whatever you've linked it to, if there is a surplus its lost). But your extractors and storage do need links. Then when you add more units that need power, the scale tips, and you may need to improve your power production and maintain the status quo. I'd have to probably see the base though when it wasn't working to see why they weren't filling up

[@zeljkoklepac3180]

Use my ships but do not lose them hehe. Have fun and a nice day of gameplay i wish to All players of Starfield

[@bradyround356]

Wish they add a trade authority computer thing like the bounty and mission board ones

[@basildaoust2821]

"You will always land beside your beacon." I claim that is NOT correct. I'm not sure how I fix the issue I had but I've built one base before. Yes a terrible sample size. But I even built a landing pad that I could build a ship on. But when I tried to return to the base every time I landed I would land in my original landing spot and not at the base. Why? I would also like to claim that for base one this seems like a huge deal to get what was it now 5 resources. I've heard that for speed it probably best to just try and get two, but hey my ability to build a base is probably being brought into question.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Do you mean after the loading screen you would be stood at your original landing spot, so not near your base, or that your ship would be at your original landing spot?

[@basildaoust2821]

@@mike-thegamingdad With my newest base I always pop out at the center building of the base as you said would happen.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@basildaoust2821 okay thats good. Your ship sometimes won't spawn there and will be at the initial landing spot, but its easy to get it to appear at the landing lad if you go into the ship screen on the terminal and select the ship you want as your home shop. That makes it appear on the landing pad. But yeah I've never experienced my character not spawning to the base/beacon if that's the location I've selected to go

[@joshludwick8645]

I wish the cargo and power linked automatically to the switch and warehouse containers. Seems like a lot of needless work that couldve been simplified by the devs.

[@mike-thegamingdad]

Yeah its a clunky system, especially when you have lots going on, red lines everywhere!

[@almightyIrie]

if i have to listen to somebody referring to aluminium as a-loo-minem one more time, i might have to get therapy

[@mike-thegamingdad]

I'm English so it's aluminium to me. But its spelt the American way, aluminum in the game, so that's why I pronounce it like that. Sorry it annoys you that much 😅

[@shayantale]

7:03 my map looks completely different

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@shayantale the maps are procedurally generated so its likely it will do, you'll have to keep trying to land in that spot until it loads the same map as this one

[@shayantale]

@@mike-thegamingdad there is a new map interface on starfield can you use that to recommend another planet for an outpost I explored the whole planet and got something that look much like the place of you set the beacon but there was no iron deposit on that location or around it and I'm using Xbox series s and just maybe gaming details is different from the time of video made cause I found the black mountain and the yellowish trrain beside and the steaming earth object but the outpost beacon I've puted on doesn't show aluminum available

[@mike-thegamingdad]

@@shayantale are you able to pick the outpost beacon up and move it, is there anywhere in that vicinity that has an aluminum deposit. It's been a few months since I played this but I can load it up and see what has changed

[@basildaoust2821]

I can't build shit and fuck you I won't tell you what you need so you will end up in this exact same fucked up run as I am, thanks for that. Also why when everyone shows off base building they never show that 8 pirates come and attack, now that did happen, but I did lose track of the exact number and yes they did just fall over dead, but still getting rained on with freezing water then being attacked by pirates shows how well the game loves me. Oh and I had to find the spot with the sun, grrr.

[@oldschoolgamer7217]

You sound English so why say ALUMINIUM the American why

[@mike-thegamingdad]

I checked the spelling in game and it was aluminum not aluminium, so I decided to say it the American way. Besides my viewer % is about 60% US based so it keeps most of them happy, only about 10%-15% comes from the UK. You'd be surprised the amount of times I've had people moan because I don't pronounce things the "correct" way, or when I spell words like armor as armour.