How to Build Your First Ship in Starfield - Complete Guide

[@Morphologis]

So as a lot of people are pointing out, you can instead sell the Contraband in Wolf at a place called The Den, but keep in mind that if you do this that you must not stop in any UC or Freestar controlled system on the way. If it's out of your single jump range, you may ruin your play through as a legal player. Without spoiling much, there's a major thing that happens when you get caught with contraband at some point through your playthrough that triggers a storyline, where if you refuse to continue playing as a criminal you become enemies with an entire faction. That's a big deal.

[@30noir]

How do you just jetison an item? I've seen nothing in the game that made me think that was even possible?

[@mmmaxxx__]

@@30noir While inside your ship, open your inventory. On the bottom right, press the key for Cargohold. In this new inventory UI, you can switch between looking at your ship inventory and personal inventory and transferring items between each. While in ship cargo, you can see the Jettison button on the bottom right.

[@mchief11789]

Will you do a tutorial for the ship you show in the end and an interior tour?

[@littleman6950]

Additional protip: on PC, if you double click a part, you select all parts connected to it. Good for finding that one loose part and coloring the whole ship at once. Also iirc you can click and drag a selection box to grab all the parts within it.

[@sniper-jp8qe]

Also important if you decorate your ship with items by hand: - Currently interior often get a reset if you change the hull/hub configuration, (There's usually a mention that items go into the cargohold if you try to exit the shipbuilder after such a change) so wait with decorating until you think it is the 'final version' of your ship. - When "dragging" the item through the air you can tap shift to change the axis for rotation (Cycle through the 3 axes and rotate with Right/left click on your mouse) So you don't have to suffer that much if you drop it on a weird angle and try to get it upright again.

[@KitchenKings3691]

If you want to change the color of the entire ship you can double click any component, it will select the entire ship, then press j.

[@Morphologis]

Fantastic tip!!!

[@KitchenKings3691]

​@@Morphologisalso you can color just a few different components by holding control then clicking each component then releasing control and pressing j.

[@runeraid1561]

Can’t believe I’m reading this 10 mins after I spent an hour recoloring my ship

[@Valkirth]

@@runeraid1561 know the feeling lol

[@yesman121]

This is also helpful for finding unattached modules as well instead of checking each individual module, everything attached will be lit up red while anything not attached will not be.

[@TimeBucks]

Keep up the good work Morph

[@arafatkhan1234]

Good

[@snehsrivastava7107]

👍

[@AsadullahKiyani-vo6co]

Comment

[@muhammadmohsin9280]

Nice 👍🏻

[@Aseal223]

Good

[@mikeloeven]

Alternately the best way to deal with contraband when capturing a pirate ship is to take the ship than immediately fly to the Wolf system and dock at a space station / bar called The Den there are no customs officials in the system and there is a trade authority rep there who will take the stuff no questions asked. You only get contraband scans at major cities and can just avoid those planets and select an alternate uninhabited world to jump to

[@fauli75]

That! Don‘t throw away that hard earned loot! 😂

[@Skullsworth]

You can also jump to a main system and just reopen your map before the scan finishes and then travel to a outpost you made, store the contraband, go back into orbit, get scanned, go back and pick up your contraband from the outpost, and now you can travel to the city without being scanned again. Mars also has a similar loophole if you don't have any extra outposts you can make/don't want to waste one. Travel to Mars, open the map before the scan finishes, land at the launch facility that is next to Cydonia, and just walk 900 meters to Cydonia so you can sell. You can still access your ship inventory too. The Mars version would probably work in most cities if you just build your outpost in the same tile as the city, since you don't need to be scanned to travel to your outpost, just the city travel points. Picking a custom landing zone next to a City didn't work for me so I'm assuming the worldgen tiles don't connect to city tiles.

[@trippybruh1592]

There's an interesting quest if you get caught with contraband in Mars space and surrender. You get your stuff back but you have to infiltrate the crimson fleet. Still debating if I want to be a bad guy pirate or a neutrally chaotic bounty hunter.

[@Verpal]

@@Skullsworth Just a little small tip to add, for people who want to do this try to maximize power to your grav drive, and try to do this in class A ship.

[@deadshot4245]

​@@trippybruh1592just started it by accident

[@lorgrenbenirus]

Keep in mind when registering the ship - if you do it at the ship technician, it will cost you more money. Instead, press TAB to open the in-game menu, in lower left corner click on ship icon and register the ship there. It'll cost you several thousands credits less to do it. Not free, but you will save money regardless.

[@vincediscombe7360]

Amazing shout- that is massive for someone who likes to capture-and-sell ships

[@JOHNSMITH-vx5yz]

Just asking. WHERE do we get all this. $$$$$$$$ from,,, do we use. The game $$$$$$ or OUR $$$$ ( real life) ,,,??????????

[@j.c.k.8639]

​@@JOHNSMITH-vx5yz first: Plesse refrain from this kind of use of signs, but its in-game-money

[@chrishugo]

TAB? I'm still looking for it on my controller (hah) . . . . Seriously, the registration cost is insignificant once you progress to mid-game. My registered fleet includes several touted ships, and at age 77, I'm playing at "Hard" with 165 banked digisticks, 600 healers, no outpost production, and 8M in credits. Paying to register as I swap ships is much easier with two button presses (and relatively free) compared to adjusting settings. I will hit level 100 this week and then make Unity and start anew with NG+. I regret that this video did not help me understand the control scheme to mod my Dragonfire II with a bigger reactor to add missles and swap out auto-cannons. Unlike other games, Starfield doesn't highlight the build errors when all changes look good (or, I'm just blind, another possibility).

[@KjMiller420]

What about the Vagina boob?

[@strawberry-parfait3922]

I would suggest adding enough passenger modules so you can take as much constellation members with you as possible. They talk and interact with each other in between (and after ) missions which makes the ship feel way more alive. They can also hold more long term storage cargo.

[@riisky2411]

Don’t you have to have an endish game perk to have more then 3 crew? My ship can hold 5 but it won’t let me add anymore until I get a perk that’s at the very bottom of one of the perk sections

[@dianapennepacker6854]

​@@riisky2411Think there is passengers and there is crew. From what I have read anyway.

[@Trispefear]

@@dianapennepacker6854how do you assign passengers? I know you assign crew in the ship menu

[@ToastyZach]

Gets repetitive and annoying quickly. Nothing worse than trying to fight off multiple enemies while Cora Coe talks about books

[@riisky2411]

@@ToastyZach seriously, I stopped taking them with me off the ship cuz they always “need to talk” or get all judgey. No longer worth the extra inventory space for me. Wish sam died for me and not Sarah. Lol

[@JDM12983]

One MAJOR thing to keep in mind: if you place any items manually in your ship, then go and edit it in ship builder, and save the changes -- all items get move back to the cargo hold.

[@Big_Red1]

Also keep in mind, that if you put stuff on weapon displays or weapon crates and do the above, they will disappear.

[@MeekMillisbendingoverrn]

@@Big_Red1yeah found that out the hard way

[@cliffgardner5717]

​@forrestedgar2776 thanks for that info. Definitely need remember remove everything before remodels then. Wonder if disappears when get a new ship also

[@The_Voluptuary]

@@Big_Red1In my experience, they don’t disappear, they just go into the cargo hold, like the original commenter stated.

[@temeria1986]

​@@Big_Red1 Damn thats fucked up, not really worth decorating at the moment then

[@peterpham1782]

This couldn't have come any sooner! I was looking for a guide and this is the first thing that popped up and got so pumped for this

[@peterbui3733]

If you picked Dream Home trait during character creation, once you get access to your house you can just fast travel there to stockpile contraband before taking the ship you steal to a spaceport to claim it.

[@b34k97]

Awesome video! Only thing I think you missed is Outpost building "Landing Pad with Shipbuilder" will also allow you to modify your ship. It has parts from Deimos, Hopetech, Nova, Stroud, and Taiyo. You also don't need any special outpost-related skills to build it... only required resources: 2x Beryllium, 2x Zero Wire, 18x Adaptive Frame, 30x Iron.

[@peterewert8407]

This is how I’ve been making my ships. It makes it so much easier personally.

[@kostiplays]

Yooo, thanks man!

[@bes12000]

I built an outpost with a landing pad, the dumb ship never lads on it and lands on the ground next to it, it's very annoying..

[@b34k97]

@@bes12000 I have the same issue! You find a fix, let me know

[@extra_everythin]

​@bes12000 make sure to select the outpost icon when you land not the recently landed flag. The recently landed flag was created before the outpost existed.

[@igrvks]

If you choose to build a bigger ship I recommend having the loading bay to be forward facing in the front of the ship instead of back or side. The ships always land on planets with the ship pointing towards the entry point to the settlement and while it only adds a few seconds of running if the loading bay is at the backside it will start adding up when you are zipping between settlements, especially if your inventory is full. I hope there will be a mod where the ship orients itself on the landing pad according to loading bay instead of front.

[@LynxStarAuto]

Most ships look goofy with the loading bay in the front. I prefer rear or side. The extra couple of seconds is not a big deal for me. I usually fast travel to the ship anyway.

[@Mr_Waffle.]

lol yeah this was super annoying when I got the Razorleaf, glad I figured out how to move where the loading bay was!

[@dbrowdy]

This drives me crazy on the Razorleaf! I'm watching videos on how to build ships just so I can fix this!

[@chrishugo]

Definitely increases the ease of accessing your ship - one of the reasons I like the Dragonfire II over the V Prophecy III, Claymore II, Wraith II, and Kepler S in my fleet.

[@chrishugo]

@LynxStarAuto You ever see a USAF transport plane? Once airborne, the point of loading is invisible. Same with starships.

[@StilTBone]

Finally someone that goes into dept with the modules and shows us the styles. It saves so much money instead of guessing which one looks well to you

[@8654ZuluFoxtrot]

He's been doing great videos about Star Citizen for many years now. I'm just happy he's stopped promoting that stupid go nowhere game and has moved over to this game where his talent can truly shine!

[@bladerj]

blame on bethesda, would it be so expensive to code pictuers to go when you select the module so you can actually see it ?

[@Meerkatflyer]

Small note regarding placing physics objects at the end of the video: if you hit shift/left stick (sprint basically) you can change what axis your mouse/triggers rotate the object on for better positioning.

[@intermsofreality]

Wow thanks.

[@PrettyPinkPersephone]

Oh my god, thank you so much

[@Alex-dh2cx]

Omfg, thank you

[@bunsenn5064]

I started playing Starfield a couple weeks ago and I’ve really wanted to build an absolutely massive battleship. Like, a dreadnought of insane proportions. There will be so many weapons.

[@NTC_Transport]

From what I've heard, when you start building Outposts, there is a landing pad with ship builder attached, and that gives you access to most of the parts from all the manufacturers. I haven't got that far yet, so I can't confirm, but apparently it has all parts except manufacturer specific parts. I'm guessing that would be those massive bridges.

[@oniris3326]

Can confirm

[@Duvoncho]

If you want to hold off on any smuggling or crimson fleet storyline then you can get a little freebie shielded cargo hold when you get the Mantis ship. You can completely redesign the Razorleaf and just keep that one module, and the ship still gets recognised as the Mantis' ship by pirates.

[@cliffgardner5717]

It has a shielded cargo hold? Crap I've been flying around avoiding scanners this whole time quick selling the stuff in the wolf system when I could have just been holding it in cargo til better places to sell it. Damnit...

[@jimmyjames1474]

Is the Mantis ship in on the mission board then?

[@cliffgardner5717]

@jimmyjames1474 no, it's a note you pick up during a mission about a secret outpost. There is about 50 videos about how to get it, just search in KZbin, you will find it. 👍🏻

[@fearpacex6000]

Man this confusing af, so as long as contraband items don't exceed the threshold it's 100% safe scan? And anything over is determined by the perk skill?

[@Duvoncho]

@@jimmyjames1474 Nah, you start the Mantis mission by looting a data slate titled "Secret Hideout" from an NPC during an early story mission (on the orbital station when Sarah is locked as your follower). I couldn't say what happens if you miss it. It's possible that it still drops from spacers/pirates in a different cell after that mission is complete.

[@Rarelybroken]

A good tip I learned in my game is if you get the "Unattached module" double click the ship on pc, this will highlight all modules and then move them away from the center. Any module that is unattached will stay behind making it super easy to find which module has become unattached!

[@coldReactive]

It should also be noted that, most of the time, clutter items are actually part of the ship's cargo, especially if it comes with the ship. This is why you might see items like a wrench or towel in the ship's cargo even though it doesn't need to be there. So make sure to check there (and jettison) first for contraband before running around the ship. The stock version of the Frontier Hab is the 2x1 All-In-One Berth A (the A version.) If you ever lose the frontier hab, you'd want that to replace it.

[@RestedInsomniac]

I'd really like to see a detailed guide on the ship build at the end. The ship looks amazing.

[@mikelovesbacon]

Yeah it looks awesome., I want it

[@blick86]

Same.

[@coolhandpaulnewman]

It's the reason I clicked on this vid, it's the ship in the thumbnail. Definitely going to try making it.

[@racibandirma5835]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpaaaoKIq9KplaM

[@SternLX]

Well this is handy and helpful. I'm 40 hours in and level 25 and haven't done anything more than added some Weapons and upgraded Reactor, Jump drive, and Shields on the Frontier. Been putting off full on ship customizing.

[@Dalyjovi]

That ship design on the final clip is 🔥

[@Alex-gn6ii]

Best ship guide I've seen yet. Really well put together. Clear. Concise. Organized and planned. Love the panning shots of the habs.

[@racibandirma5835]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpaaaoKIq9KplaM

[@luminisone5421]

I have been going thru countless videos looking for shots of the INTERIORS and no one, I mean NO one has had any! Thank you so much for those interior shots 🤯🤯 Please keep including them in your future videos. I have subscribed to you because of ALL the information you included in this wonderful video (not just the interiors, lol) 👍

[@joshuaans]

I really love the visual similarities to the Expanse. I’m hoping to be able to build some similar ships to the show eventually.

[@tylerm1997]

Literally the best video I’ve come across so far that really *explains* the different manufacturers and their design languages. Thank you 🙌🏽

[@easterworshipper5579]

yeah, this is the video i have been hoping for when i clicked on all the others :D

[@_Davepocalypse]

Watching this whole vid, I was trying to think about what ship I'd want to build and what it should look like. However this was quickly answered at the end of the video. That last ship looks awesome! I'm definitely going to build something like that.

[@gameraddict117]

keep it up Morph! you make great content

[@mykeh3155]

For those that say to sell contraband in the wolf system, whilst it is a good idea, you are highly likely to run into a game breaking bug IF you do anything to your ship besides boarding then leaving, don't let the convenience trap you. Registering, modifying, renaming, upgrading and swapping a ship out whilst docked all have a chance to outright break your game, swapping being the biggest risk. Do not risk it at all, just land somewhere safe with ship services like New Atlantis and then make a manual save before doing anything (don't leave the ship before saving, do not overwrite saves), immediately make a new manual save right after whatever you do to the ship (register and move something, do not overwrite saves). The point of making both manual saves is to give you a backup from before doing anything to the ship in case doing so causes issues and to make sure that save never gets lost, saving inside the ship before landing will include the ship name in the save name so that it is easier to find. These game breaking bugs can delete your ship(s), prevent you from fast traveling (or traveling at all), remove access to the den and destroy parts of settlements/cities (no trade authority, ship services and even ground in some cases)... It may even be a good idea to never do anything to a ship at a station unless required, or at least not at the den. So whilst you can sell stuff "safely" (it's currently unclear if being there at all can trigger the bug) it is important to make sure you do not under any circumstances do anything besides leaving as soon as you have gotten rid of your less than legal cargo.

[@DeepRunner1-y1l]

Excellent Job very educational and inspiring with a great deal of insight to what you need before starting on ship building just about to buy the game and start.Great timing.Thank you as usual, your rock solid for us no matter what your working on.

[@NomadHorizon]

Morph, I built your ship from the ending of the video, gotta say that it is a lovely ship. Also I put alpha beam turrets on it and anything those things lock onto is dead in almost an instant. Crazy overpowered weapons, sometimes whenever I'm trying to keep the target alive it's hard cause the turrets will start shooting the ship before I'm even able to clearly see the target.

[@griffvaldez]

Thanks for the video Morph, I was wondering where I needed to go for the various ship parts. Tip for building the ship when it comes to the interior. Ladders spawn as close to the loading ramp as the game can put them. So one way to get the ladder in a specific place is to sandwich components like reactors between the top and bottom deck with a 1x1 module that you can walk inside acting as a connector. Deimos is my personal favourite when it comes to the manufacturers but I can definitely see why Stroud-Eklund or for that matter any of the others would be someones favourite. Bethesda did a good job differentiating the manufacturers from one another.

[@aeontiv]

Great video. For pc, double left click on any piece, and it will select all ahip parts. This is useful to "color all" to unify ship colors. It also helps for errors if it says a part is not attached. It will not select any part not attached. To ship.

[@panpiper]

I just finished building my first ship about an hour before watching this video. I used the Mantis quest Razorleaf as the base. That ensures pirates will have interesting reactions of terror and the like when I show up. I reused most of the parts of the ship, as I don't have access at this point to much in the way of better equipment, but having moved a lot of things around, getting a new cockpit and adding wings, it certainly doesn't look like it used to.. What I did do however was to replace its entire weapon suite with four autoturret particle cannon (Vanguard Obliterator Autoprojectors). For a mere 8 power, the four of them will do nearly 60 DPS! For a smallish Type A ship, that is seriously impressive.

[@cosmicanomaly3416]

When you grab items to decorate, on console you can click the left joystick to change the axis of rotation. It makes placing items 100x easier.

[@AmericanAristo]

ur goated for this. I thought there was only one axis of rotation

[@BigMeechEJ25]

Great video. I have about 30 hours but have yet to really build (Upgraded parts on the frontier) so thanks for the tips. Also I agree, I love the Nova Galactic aesthetic its amazing.

[@steveoswald7554]

Definitely adding this to my saved folder for when I have progressed further. Thanks for making the vid!

[@HokusaiWaves808]

Fun fact, if you have a module separated on your ship, but can't find it, you can double click your ship which will highlight everything attached and leave unattached modules un-highlighted.

[@temeria1986]

Yessss thats a good one, I also missed that tip/trick in this video, I had to (unfortunately) find that out myself.

[@stamiejoker]

Great video of what is turning out to be an incredible feature of the game. The amount of options and detail is pretty insane, and the sky is the limit with updates/DLC/mods. Just seeing what people have made already is pretty mindblowing. Also excited for your to continue to cover this game, your video recording and editing skills really are a match made in heaven for Starfield.

[@posivy]

Wellp, doesn't get much better than getting design tips from an actual architect! I love your Star Citizen videos, super excited we get even more content now that Starfield is out. Thanks man!

[@maxguntaniii5980]

You made it sound like it's very easy lol but this is the best tutorial I found. 2 days ago I didn't even know that you can add parts to ship. Thought you could only upgrade them. Saved up for Narwhal and thought that's it and now I see people actually modifying ships. Thanks for the great videos!

[@justinmccormick2578]

After fifty hours of early access, welcome to Starfield day one players! After almost 60 hours in, main story still unfinished, all factions unfinished, just enjoying my time doing bounties, side quests with a mix of main and faction missions here and there, loving every second. I will say, I built my very first ship from scratch last night and I have to say, I’m addicted, I will definitely be dumping points into the ship focused skills and science skills for the remainder of my time, given my background as a space hauler it’s only fitting to have an absolute beast of a ship for hauling not so legal cargo and materials. This deep into a game to feel like I have a whole other avenue of play to extend my play time after the main quests are complete is amazing, will definitely be starting new game plus in the near future knowing what I know now and being more comfortable with all of the systems at hand. I’m easily putting 1000+ hours into this game and I can’t wait to see what mods make their way to console and hopefully there’s dlc and updates from the big dogs themselves! Happy travels!

[@michaelw535]

I'm at 48hrs and still have yet to go to Venus with Sarah - she's still asking if we're going lol

[@timmy3822]

Just what I needed. I was wanting to customise my ship and this gives me all the info I need. I really did that starter ship vibe. Some of the others feel very sci-if instead of that rough and basic, but practical NASA aesthetic.

[@raqnar]

On PC, in ship builder, double click any part will select the entire ship, you can then select paint and it will apply to all components, don’t have to do them one at a time!

[@Gradymeister]

This took me forever to figure out. On a controller, it literally gives you the option to select all. On PC, it's a guessing game lmfao.

[@gregolonious]

One of the best ships I've "borrowed" is the ecliptic falcata. Legit best ship layout I've come across, already had a weapons display hub attached for lots of weapon storage. Bit slow, but slaps in firepower

[@the_omg3242]

Good video. I liked how you showed the interior styles. The final ship in your video was also pretty cool for a larger build.

[@dee_n_ayy]

First off good tips. I started shortly after getting first ship. Built on 3 occasions spending about 30k each go I just made changes to the frontier and now it's completely unique, though without any upgrades its just a class A ship and I limited myself to class A parts. Couldn't be happier with my build though. Didn't get any skills. Between Mars, New Atlantis, and Red Mile you get tons of parts to choose from for some unique builds. My ship is 34M long 29M wide 80 mobility, 969 mass, 21 reactor, 4 lasers, 2 em, 2 atlatal missiles, 4 crew cockpit (Viking 100), infirmary hab, workshop, science bay, control station, captains' quarter's, living quarters, and much more, Someday I'll do a show case video. I need to check out the manufacturer yards mentioned in vid and see what they got. I also want to convert one of my stolen ships to a dedicated freighter

[@outland2874]

The ships in star citizen may be beautiful but the ships in starfield are truly mobile homes, they feel like a home even through all of the modifications you make to them. (i am not trying to compare them, they are just different)

[@jonmacdonald5010]

errrr - are you really saying that ... the game is just porting configs between instances there even invisable walls on the planets cmon guys get real i like fallout games and this is set in a nice space world but please comparing with SC PTU is false eqivelence

[@fixo5132]

@@jonmacdonald5010 Your message has absolutely nothing to do with op comment. Something that you can customize yourself is bound to have a "home" feeling.

[@mossthey]

@@jonmacdonald5010you sound insecure lmao, op wasn't even comparing them in that regard. drink your milk dawg...

[@blagageorge3824]

@@jonmacdonald5010 anyone wanna play 'spot the salty scam citizen sucker'/

[@jonmacdonald5010]

@@blagageorge3824 hahaha I play all sorts of stuff but least I have knowledge of game design and dont compare apple with oranges. . Think you best go learn some of this before passing the childish comments .. get out your underpants leave mums basement and go do the job before talking

[@meridiasbeacon7669]

Useful, comprehensive, entertaining and more than anything - Beautiful! I don't know if you maybe have some photography experience in real life, but your videos always feature such incredible visuals! I mean, Starfield is a pretty game as-is, but you REALLY do it justice with your shots.

[@justinpuzin5120]

Would love to see a side by side comparison of all the manufacturers for each module type and who you think does it best.

[@BlackArrowGaming]

This is by far the best ship building guide that I've found on KZbin. Even though I already (mostly) knew what I as doing, I still picked up a lot of good info from this. Cheers!

[@ST0RMTROOP3R]

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ just killing the content. I have been watching videos all day about ship building. This is by far the most concise and informative one I have seen. Just gets me even more excited to get to building my own ship.

[@mremington8]

its actually kinda nice to see Bethesda investing in content creators

[@ethanstevens8503]

Be careful with the weapon display storage in the ship armory, there is a bug that may de-spawn the items in/on there. 17:15

[@marcusavery1601]

Happened to me 😭

[@MYPSYAI]

are you sure it didn't just go in your cargo after you edited your ship?

[@Neognostic-pk5wu]

​@@MYPSYAIno, it's a well established bug. Bethesda's first patch was supposed to address it, but the bug is still in effect, on console at least.

[@brothermaleuspraetor9505]

Still happening, Nov 14th 2023@@Neognostic-pk5wu

[@jordan1982]

Glad to see the Starfield content getting engagement, Morph! Hopefully it keeps us all occupied while Star Citizen is in a slump.

[@Artsi_guy]

Brilliant guide! Question, could you please look into how connecting interiors works in the game? So far it’s a huge hassle to avoid ladder / door mazes Some folks are saying it’s based on the order of attaching habs, some say it’s algorithm based. I feel like it’s the key ingredient missing to having a perfect build.

[@brandondiaz1118]

If youre on xbox press and hold lt and rt then click on an attachment point and you’ll be able to cycle what can go there. Seems like some interiors have designated ladder spots so youll be able to tell by whether than can attach evenly or the shift back

[@brett2626]

i found that the more misc. items you pick up and store into your ships cargo, eventually they will auto assign themselves in the ship like folders and pens being place on research tables or plushies move to beds. however if you modify your ship it stores all the items again and the ship looks blank. after a while they will auto assign themselves again. but i dont know how long it takes. it makes it more fun to pick up pens, and art displays, and microscopes. its a really fun touch to see everything you hoard displayed. i find this is only with misc items, not weapons or resources.

[@Tepnox]

This game is phenomenal! I can't believe how extensive and complex the ship-designs are, there are so much great modules to play with and don't even begin with the weapon systems. Clearly insane! I really appreciate that Bethesda has gone the extra mile for that separate optional part of the game. Did I even mention the quality of presentation and material design? It is unbelievable. Just having a blast!

[@Texan8005]

Also in the Crimson Fleet faction story you will eventually get a free ship with no weapons after one of the missions, I feel like that’s a good way to practice creating/rearranging/modifying ships before you go for modifying one immediately. So if you’re thinking about joining the crimson fleet then note what I said in this comment

[@baphemir]

Great video! Quick tip; if you register your new ship through the “pause” menu, it’s cheaper than doing so in the build menu at a ship seller!

[@f.k.n.zachthebard]

If you miss the contraband, I bring the ship to Akila. The security force will find the contraband for you in the ship and put it into the contraband chests on the holding cell area. The contraband always sells for more than the fine and the guards guarding the contraband chests are stupid and easy to sneak behind to steal back your contraband. This saves a LOT of time when trying to search complex shops for hidden contraband.

[@Blackout5871]

Quick addendum to the "borrowing" section. If you do the Mantis quest early on (as in it's an early quest but you have to find the item that starts it), you end up with the Razorleaf, a ship that comes with Shielded Cargo space. This way you won't have to jettison the black market goods. It doesn't have a lot of shielded cargo space tho so mind what you put into it.

[@MYPSYAI]

I have done extensive testing, and the best ship is the smallest ship. If you build a single 1x2 captain quarters with no cargo, and use either a varuun hymn or the razorleaf, you can get max speed up to 600 mass using only the special 2 power engines on either of these ships. This means you will use 4 power on engines, and 4 power on shields. Every point of power beyond 8 will go to Particle Beams. If you join the vanguard, you can get PB's that only use 2 power, and if you get starship design 4 you can get a class "a" Tokamak 120S (28 power) as early as level 12 (Akilla sells Tokamak 120s). So my ship has 6 vanguard PBs on group 1, and 3 regullar PB's on group 2 - Firing a massive 9 gun Alpha Strike (21 power total). This can destroy a low level ship almost instantly, and even a lvl 30 class C ship will melt in a few seconds. All cockpits come with Cargo, so you can forgo even using a cargo hold, and instead build a simple outpost where you can drop off things and have it automatically sorted into containers. You can always just drop things inside your ship as well. And when you really dig into the ship system you will realize that Cargo weighs a ridiculous amount, and it can easily be forsaken for stunning results. Using this approach, I am able to reliably farm the Key (on very hard) as early as lvl 12-15. *you need engines 4 to survive that. Engines 4 is the most broken skill because you can tap boost/brake during combat and you can't be targeted.

[@Karakofirespartan]

You can register a ship by going to the menu where you can change gear on your character/perk selection and go to the bottom left and select the ship. Once there you'll see an option down below to register it. Tends to be significantly cheaper too

[@soumyosubhromukhopadhyay9727]

That's duplicate one is a lifesaver, holy cow. That allows u to potentially use parts u get with a new ship that u cannot buy until at a certain level. Thanks massively for that tip!

[@Dragonwolven]

Just wanna say this video has been a huge help for getting ideas on what I wanna do with my ships. I greatly appreciate you putting together this video and providing the information succinctly providing visuals, especially the interiors. I look forward to watching more of your content!

[@blakebelladonna1111]

When you pick stuff up off the ground to place it in your ship, you can tap your sprint button to change the axis its rotating on.

[@kalrissian2163]

Not sure if it was already mentioned but there's also free ships available that can be updated when completing some of the missions. I was able to get 2 so far. Razorleaf from Mantis Questline, and Star Eagle from questline from Akila city

[@heyimanameheyimalastname]

Which questline in Akila gets you the Star Eagle? Sounds cool

[@SaintMcfries]

The best thing I found for contraband was in the wolf system and it's a place called the den. It's a space station. There's a trading authority there that will buy your countryman and you never get scanned. One of the best things I ever looked up soon as I started playing and found contraband. Also when you go to sell it after acquiring a new ship it will be in the ship's inventory when you're at the shop

[@void_presence]

Instead of having to color each module of a ship, you can 'select all' and change the colors of the whole ship at once; you can then get more specific on certain modules if you want.

[@tonydutton6713]

Hey buddy, just wanted to say, if you “pick something up” by holding A on Xbox, and use the triggers to rotate it, you can click the left thumb stick to change between 3 axis of rotation.

[@cobraman90]

If you can fly to where The Den is located, there is no contraband scan. Easiest spot to get in contraband to sell off. You can usually grav jump before a UC contraband scan is completed. And even if they do complete it they give you the option of letting them board to arrest you or to fight them. This entire time you have a chance to grav jump.

[@nolgroth]

Neat video. Thanks for the rundown on the manufacturers and where to find them. In regards to the "Borrowing" option, I captured my ship on Kreet, during the tutorial. It was an Ecliptic Bayonet that had landed and deployed a ground team. Killed the team, boarded the ship, "fired" the crew, and took control. Many of the components were near top A tier. Definitely kept them around when I redesigned the ship. If you start with Bounty Hunter as your background, you can board and capture one of the Crimson Fleet Ghosts that attack when you first leave Vectera. Either method is a great way to get your own ship during the tutorial. Neither is a guarantee, but it's nice Bethesda didn't lock you out of that option.

[@TimTeboner]

Thank you for making this! It took a lot of searching to find someone actually just previewing what the various manufacturer styles are. All the other videos are about how to make the most optimized OP ship and I'm just over here wanting to make one that looks cool lol

[@aaronmurphy9353]

Hey, this was EXTREMELY helpful. Thank you.

[@wangruochuan]

Man, I was search for where to get the exact parts and BAMM I found this video today. This is so so useful!!!

[@mr.boomguy]

I just saw this game thanks to the recommendations, of someone trying to build a star wars ship, while having no idea of how young this game is. This might actually satisfy my sci-fy fantasies of building and living in my own ship. This is what I've wanted to do while playing No Man Sky.

[@cliffgardner5717]

If you set the ship up with full grav jump you can leave a scanning zone before they can even scan you. Just so you know. Long as it's above 6 bars I've had it work everytime. Soon as pop into the scan zone hit menu, go to maps and pick your next jump location, Click to jump to it and when you come out of menu it takes less than a few seconds to jump to new area. Don't have to finish the scan before you can jump. Also on xbox if you click left thumb stick it will change which axis you are able to spin the item you are holding so you can personalize things exactly how you want, there is 3 different spin axis...

[@Urk3X]

Morph ur production quality keeps getting better!!! I love it! Also I love u for building a falcon :)

[@WyattWeir65]

Just wanted to add that you can register a ship anytime in your ship menu. It's the bottom left menu where your ship name is. It's cheaper there too, in my experience, than registering with a vendor.

[@almaurath]

Great work! I reallly appreciated you going though the styles, so even without a preview, I can now have a sense of what the types look like. Enjoyed your review as well.

[@nimbuscloud24]

Can I just say that this video was easy to digest and very easy flowing. Good job

[@Rigel_Chiokis]

Here's a tip I just learned today. I had an error for unattached modules but I couldn't see any. I learned that if you double click any part of the ship, the whole thing is highlighted in red -- except the unattached module! That makes it easy to find the offender and snap it into place.

[@DarkNoiseBW]

A quick note about item/object rotation if playing on Xbox/Xbox Controller. Yes the triggers are used to rotate, but you can also click the 'Left Stick' to toggle through the rotation axis (X, Y, Z) giving you more control over how you're placing items around your ship, home, or outpost.

[@greywlf]

I was getting tired of installing new habs and running in to see how they looked. Thanks for the compilation 🙏🏼

[@OldGamerzNeverDie]

Awesome guide! Really appreciate you putting this out there!

[@hphp2300]

Alright, so I had to stop the video right after the Japanese manufacturer description simply to drop a like and follow and type this note because wow the quality of your delivery and the information you're sharing I didn't even know how bad I needed it and now I know how much I appreciate it..great fkn vid keep it up..👍

[@blackbeatsentertainment]

Just a suggestion. Go to the Den in the wolf system. You don’t get scanned and you can dock and sell contraband. You can even make the ship there. Literally doing it as we speak after doing a mission that had tons of gear, contra stuff and a small ship I was able to cap. (The wolf system is near the system new Atlantis is in if you get lost, you’ll eventually go there anyway).

[@csagmunir]

The undo/redo buttons are my favorite time savers. I am shocked that I spent an entire day just playing around with the ship builder 😂 I was not expecting that to be my favorite game mechanic to learn/ invest my time in.

[@SpregioCheeks]

I would add in the section of legally selling ships is that if you can get to The Den in the Wolf system in a jump, you can sell that contraband without getting scanned.

[@Howdy8008]

Keep up the hard work. Great videos. Something im testing, the ship layout depends on how you put the peaces together. I.e. if you want a lader shaft bottom to top build it first. Play around with it, youll see what i mean. But know if you get it how you like then change one hab it may (most of the time) changes witch way you access that replaced hab. I should say, I mean from start to finish. Start with the bay then the hole first level, then the next levels first hab should be placed wherever you want the ladder that leads to the next levels to be accessed from. Not sure the best way to explain it.

[@rippinross3238]

This is the comment I was looking for. Thank you!

[@burningdownthehouse161]

Two notes on contraband. One: landing at red mile doesn’t require a scan and two: the bartender will buy contraband. Should also be noted that the ship tech sell’s shielded cargo holds.

[@MaxiNitroYT]

On PC if you double click a piece it selects all the pieces connected together which does 2 things for you; helps you find a piece that is not connected because once you double click it will highlight all connected pieces, and once you select all pieces now you can paint them all in one go!

[@Mittzys]

Just built my first ship - a small black and white fighter called the Badger. It was so cool seeing it in person for the first time!

[@MyRusty89]

How did you get the other pieces to build your ship? I'm confused because he says it might be the case that is not registered but the frontier already is but it won't let me buy new parts or add anything. Do you need to buy a new ship to start from scratch or something?

[@Mittzys]

​@@MyRusty89Press G on PC - Im not sure what the xbox control is

[@MyRusty89]

@@Mittzys thanks

[@andrewdunn3983]

The ships you build are stunning!

[@Sad-Reference]

My only regret is not getting into this feature sooner. I recently started playing again with the Xbox update and I’m in love with ship building.

[@enterval4328]

I watched a bunch of different videos on this and this is by far the one I’ve found the most useful

[@dougfarrell7355]

This is...a lot, but I will be coming back to it. Thank you!

[@charlestietjen5387]

Lots of good tips. It's worth pointing out that you don't *need* a C class grav drive with a higher mass ship as long as you don't mind a lower jump range, most of the higher end B drives are actually comparable or even better than lower tier C drives anyway, especially given they add less mass. A tip regarding engines that you actually see in a lot of C class prebuilts in game is that you don't need to use C class thrusters to get good enough mobility, using 4 B class thrusters, especially higher end ones will usually get you more speed and more mobility than less C classes. Using B class modules that are good enough in a C class ship gets you into building bigger ships earlier because it's cheaper and C class modules aren't in shipyards until higher levels AFAIK.

[@diceman199]

Two feature's I'd like to see are a walkthrough in build mode, either for individual habs or the ship as a whole and the option to build a ship from scratch rather than having to tear down a ship and rebuild.

[@thejlags5709]

Actually helped I was just tryna find how to put my weapons on but now I wanna make more ships and know more about it