Starfield: How to Defend Your Outposts - The Outpost Fortress

Hadn't seen anyone show any ways to actually make your outposts defensible, so look no further than here: the Starfield Defensive Fortress Outpost! A quick guide as well to go over what methods are used to achieve this type of enclosure, so that you can recreate this on your own planets as well :D
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[@Hoenir]

I think the most incredible achievement was stacking all those storages like that with those terrible starfield controls. That alone deserves a patience medal

[@felemeria]

I can only build my storage in a straight line or so it seems. I can't stand these controls ha Edit: Finished the video and now I know how to achieve it, but still jank.

[@chad-chaderson8421]

yeah i play on PC, and using your WASD keys to place items sucks so much

[@UltraSuperDuperFreak]

@@chad-chaderson8421 I play on pc and i only use mouse to place items. except s & w to adjust heights placement, and z & c for many junping. Also in "Settings" under "Controls" you can change how much items rotate and how much/fast the camera move. It start off at "insane" 5x speed at rotation as standard. I have mine all the way down in buttom 1x only. Plus if you place your character before you enter V in facing the direction you want the "clean/straight" line placement to be. Then often items are excatly on that line when you choose them, and if they are not just hit tab, turn your character (works even in V mode) to correct, and tab again and item have now adjusted based on your movement. Same goes for how the camera are facing when you choose a item to place, kinda works like how your character faces described above often. Not always :) I have been able to place all my harvesters and such on a clean straight line this way, no way i would build base in this game if i couldn with my ocd. Is it anoying you have to do all this ? YES ... ALOT .... But you can do it with patience :)

[@nicholasb8098]

hes been training for this his whole life with dojos.

[@Chimera_Photography]

@@chad-chaderson8421it’s not necessarily better with controller. The hybrid camera they use can be frustrating at times. Feeling like free-roam but being tied to the cursor dot is weird sometimes.

[@MuraCasardis]

I actually wished we saw some footage of optimistic raiders trying to get in xD

[@TheManCaveMike]

They dont attack but once and never again, thats why he didnt include it

[@VashCowaii]

My eyes were closing on my while I was making this video, I tried to stay up and get a raid instance to happen but I wasn't gonna make it and it didn't seem worthwhile, but the endeavor is just as funny as you'd expect to observe

[@kriseightyfive5854]

My outpost got attacked once and ever since, their ship is just always there lurking but nothing ever happens.

[@TheProtagonistDies]

​@VashCowaii what's the best planet to build an outpost for armillary?

[@cookie51_77]

@@TheProtagonistDies i have to guess somewhere flat for the fort lika a moon

[@jaredpajama8821]

“We’re going to build a wall, and make the raiders pay for it!”

[@travisbaez8430]

Your narration earned you a sub. It's more fun to learn when it's down to earth.

[@joshuabecker3647]

^^^^ this 100000% He sounds like my buddy just telling me what to do over their headset in game.

[@pekinggeese]

Me too! It really sounds like the narrator in the show You.

[@robertrivas1702]

same! i could not stop laughing

[@loveofaudio]

Same! No stupid clickbait titles, no weird vocal fluctuations. Helpful info, down to earth, great examples. Thank you, sir!

[@ajalbetjr]

What the HELL did I just watch??!! Absolutely BRILLIANT; I just started building outpost a couple of days ago (still no main mission for me after 119 lvls!), and have already had small turrets on my outpost attacked and disabled by local fauna! Can't wait to try and copy some of this - thanks for the video!!

[@specrtre]

Crazy to see that the overall selection of objects are so limited even compared to F04 day one. They really should of put foundations,basic walls at least.

[@XiahouJoe]

irony being foundations once again are the best thick walls.

[@specrtre]

@@XiahouJoe I mean frankly speaking all walls were just for show due to the terrible settlement attack system and how raids spawns lol. Idk what outpost attacks are like in game as I have not experienced it in Starfield

[@XiahouJoe]

@@specrtre Just getting into Starfield and been watching outpost videos first and was wondering myself about making walls. Not seen any till this video.

[@lonewulf0328]

There is a way to build the cargo container contigous to each other in both directions, it is just a little annoying. You have to use the 1x1 small cargo, then a 2x1 med cargo, and then you can attach your next row to the medium cargo, which places it in line with your first 1x1. example: [s][s][m] [s][s][m] the two m's here are one single medium cargo You can then delete whatever containers you do not need to maintain your shape

[@system1542]

Didn't know you could do that. Great video clear and to the point with no BS.

[@BaxterretxaB]

New favorite Starfield creator for sure.

[@mossicely]

your remnant 2 content has been great and now youre doing starfield too, wow. always good advice, it's remarkably difficult to find good information on this game right now. going to have to try this for my own armillary

[@kaka0bab]

"remarkably difficult to find good information" this is so fcking sad but true about this game. I try to keep myself away from guides and shit about this game, but one time I was stuck and needed help, it's like reading freakin AI generated shit everywhere with 0 usable info.

[@wtfronsson]

And so the multidimensional threat was stopped. By logic defying cargo containers. This truly is the best timeline.

[@RobertTestalot]

So if you are building your wall out of the 1x1 containers you can snap a 2x1 on the end of it then snap another 1x1 on the inside corner of that container. Then you can delete the 2x1 and now you have a perfect corner of 1x1s.

[@ConceptShift]

"While horrifically ugly, it is wildly effective" lmmfao! Functionality first, always. Hilarious, whilst educated, big thanks and instant new sub.

[@colehaney8836]

I’m convinced Vash is just following my steam around to make content for the exact game I’ve gotten interested in. Thanks for the video dude!!

[@VashCowaii]

O_O)

[@teamofone1219]

I hope in a future update we get more building options for bases like actual walls.

[@deerpark1324]

How fucking stupid is it to have a giant open space for the hex hab and not be able section it off.

[@iamhuffman]

mods will fix everything

[@FahadKImtiaz]

Fallout 4 had a really good building system, it's kinda disappointing on starfield.

[@JESUSCHRISTISTHEKINGOFKINGS]

@@FahadKImtiaz everything is kind of disappointing on starfield. It's like they took everything bad from TES and Fallout and merged it into one shitty loading screen simulator.

[@mr.crowgamer6250]

@@JESUSCHRISTISTHEKINGOFKINGSyh why u think the game is free lol

[@Lv1Magikarp]

Imagine including base raiding and fuck all ways of defending it properly. I love the game but christ some things just make you go "...what were they thinking?". Great vid, short and to the point, appreciated.

[@juliocruz1355]

Awesome explanation on storage containers and foundation.. lots of 'tricks' that will be used by many. Thanks!

[@tomdearie5165]

Thanks for this - the Starfield construction interface and design is nothing short of obstructive. It feels like they sat around figuring out ways to stop the player from doing things.

[@dusterssixteen]

Now let’s see a Tower Defense style maze with turrets. I did something similar in FO4. “A settlement needs your help!” Lol, actually THAT settlement has The Unbeatable Gauntlet. Good Luck super mutants. 👍

[@Ananomos]

Here we go! Thanks for jumping into another game! Glad youre gonna break down this one!

[@NotThatBob]

Seriously great video. I loved settlement building in FO4. This is even better imo. Very cool outpost.

[@RealKeetz]

Eh, I wasn't a fan of it other than building small but nice-looking settlements. I'll build a smaller fortress for my Amilliary.

[@funtourhawk]

nah FO4 gave you so much more freedom designing/building compared to being locked into all the prebuilt stuff in Starfield

[@play3rjt181]

Found you today and am enjoying the videos. You're a cool dude and have a way for KZbin. Hope to see you grow with Starfield!

[@sevnsinnz6468]

Bro out of countless outpost videos I've viewed yours is the only one I've seen that has been extremely useful because of those walls! Great video!

[@BB77s]

This is awesome 😁 Considering nearly all my Fallout 4 playthroughs consisted of me building a fortress base somewhere, I love the idea of this. Excellent content 👍

[@vankesselable]

Fast , simple, to the point and at times funny. This is how you make tutorials !!! Thx dude !!

[@fenrirgaming37]

I think they should add defensive structures, such as walls and what not in a variety of styles, not just turrets and robots. I think that would allow for a much greater variety of outpost styles, plus if they incorporated more raids and animal attacks, that would also make it much more engaging, though I wish that they would increase the area in which to build, because it's very easy to run out of space quickly.

[@equalmc276]

This is bethseda... they can't let you have walls and barricades, or else they would have to start spawning raiders inside the outpost. Because that's how they roll...

[@OB.x]

@@equalmc276 they do in fallout 76, it works fine. radiers and stuff spawn outside the circle border. The reason why....is nothing ever attacks me. There's wildlife, i have a single turret, never had an issue.

[@tristenmaragh6537]

Attacks and raids are based on the value of the outpost meaning if you only have one or two resources compared to 5 or 6 being mined at a time the less likely you are to be raided if you have an outpost on a planet/moon with only two resources and random ships don't even spawn in no defense will be needed

[@mhg424]

Subbed for the beginner outpost video. Staying because the dry humor in this is gold.

[@panedrop]

Your content, for Starfield, is great so far. Keep up the good work.

[@IAmNumber4000]

Also you can build outposts on top of the plateaus on Kurtz lol. Find a small one the same size as the outpost and enemies shouldn’t be able to climb up the sides.

[@Bossjohinator74]

Big brain right here! Creative ideas. Thank you for great sound, good editing

[@LordBeef]

So far, having ships come at me hasn’t been an issue, because I’ve made a really nice class B ship with 3 vanguard obliterators, 2 vanguard autocannons, 2 vanguard missile launchers, and the ~1200 health vanguard shields generator. That said, when I get more into outpost building (I built a ton of settlements in F4 but my only outpost on Sumati isn’t that good right now), I’ll keep these wall tips in mind. Thanks!

[@Brentt777]

Ship fighting is more fun anyways. It makes far more sense. All you have for defense in a fort is some tiny 6 turret guns.

[@galenjones9529]

I use 4 Hellion Beams. Absolutely obliterates anything I look at for longer than 10 seconds.

[@ProneOyster]

Whoah, a Starfield video that contains actually useful information

[@seeksnothing9822]

ROFL - 4:03 onwards is priceless! :D Such an on-point description of what living at a very large, active outpost is like. Great video!

[@ItzStwigz514]

For real bro deserves more likes an subs, just solid easy to understand guides on how to better your gameplay

[@pyromethious]

You can us the smaller containers in a staggered (zig-zag) arrangement to actually make flush corners. Somone has a video out there explaining it, but basically, you start with one of the containers you want, put a smaller one (snapped) to it, snap another container to That but offset and with some patience, you can get them to Actually connect. You'll still get the annoying snap where you don't want issues due to proximity, but it can be done. As for an alternative to being out in the open, it's apparently possible to fit one of these inside the animal husbandry's large version, so you could make one of those and box the doors in.

[@DowieYT]

The use of swearing so much made this so funny and refreshing! nice video dude!

[@graxxor]

Ugly is in the eye of the beholder. those tall walls give me a great feeling of impregnability and comfort... Love it.

[@cmpoliver3499]

Great info and the 03:23 shot where you talk about geting the wall over rock was an epiphany moment for me. That wall intersecting in the back solved 2 problems for me 1st, in place of building a walled in area with 4 walls i did 6. And second was the walks i did were 5 high with the lower 4 foundation but for the build to have the contours of the land addressed i went one higher then adjusted the links. Bonus was i could top off the top as needed with 2nd 2c1 cargo. One trick i wsed was a sheet if graph paper and then carboard cut outs so i coyld maximise the space. I included a kill zone entry maze as 1st time i slept in the outpost i woke with Bounty hunters (the wanted trait) trhing to kill and same time messing with the outpost. Now i farm them as seems that trait has the perk of sendkng them regularly. Thanks to the outpost I'm now lv65. But still need to find a way to auto sell the manufactured outputs. Thats the big thing missing IMO that @ Bathesda should patch in ... designated byers of manufactured goods. Our cargo ships could be doing the runs. Great vid please if you can keep them coming as there great quality and content

[@vidarmyge8721]

I love how you present and talk in this video. I can relate and connect to that! Excellent video, got my thumbs up and suv.

[@michealnelsonauthor]

Awesome! I'm just glad all the outpost-to-outpost features work! I've been setting up resource farms and cargo transports and they're all working. Even between planets! I'm getting copper from the planet delivered to a beryllium-heavy outpost on its moon, to craft Tao parts. Getting iron from a great spot with 4 spawns delivered to an aluminum farm so I can make adaptive frames. Just found an even Better spot with Al & Beryl and Europium so I'm reworking my transports to deliver everything There so I can print XP and print credits. I got +8 levels in 3 days just crafting & selling while figuring out how to set this all up. This is all working amazingly well! GG Bethesda! A little more tweaking & I can go play for 3 days and come back to print $$ and XP when I want to push a few more levels I've unlocked the qualifications for. Gg, I wish more games had a mass crafting system that worked So well!

[@camolog]

The GOAT back at it. From Remnant to Starfield. I'm glad you're playing the same games as me. Makes my life so much easier!

[@chasef4253]

I thought it had amazing commentary and it wasn't ugly. thank you for this idea!

[@manicmarauder]

The tip on how to fix/fill the gap was awesome. Obvious in hindsight, but man my happy hide never figured it out lol. Thank you!

[@VashCowaii]

Almost didn’t mention it, but figured it’d be good. Glad I did

[@koolkevin2357]

Not ugly - Effective, That is beautiful. Problem solved, also beautiful and effective.

[@YoungSlim51]

Time consuming but satisfying to look at once done! I'm standing over my finished cargo fortress at the moment lol. Also got it so there absolutely isn't a gap in sight using the trick you used with the rock, on other cargo containers.

[@eigokudemangaka]

The fugly has a beauty all of it's own, and I like it.

[@Recoil1808]

I love the idea of just building a giant fuck-off wall around your personal forest retreat. If not for the Starborn squatters, then at least for the literal fearless crickets you may or may not be sharing *your* moon with.

[@ZerofeverOfficial]

the end, the loud ass cargo freighter noise, too real, had me rollin' 😆

[@myHEXOR]

i think that is beautiful and you are a amazing human being for showing me this

[@rekkitc1587]

They did such a good job with base building in Fallout 4, just to fuck it up in Starfield.

[@regimaine6118]

I felt that roar of frustration about the cargo links at the end😩 If the devs would add it to allow the daisy chain method to be applied to transfer containers.

[@d3m3n70r]

that was the first useful information about this game I came across. Well done!

[@HalcyonDaze33]

Brilliant concept and excellent delivery.

[@anthonybyrne5641]

Honestly best new content creator I have found

[@truegamer2819]

i love what you did with the base

[@MercDaUnclean]

Hell yeah. Thanks. As always Love your videos.❤

[@cnewtonc]

Excellent Idea. I love it.

[@slickhuey2356]

Dude, Mind BLOWN! Lol you would think I could of thought of this…but I didnt so props I will be doing this asap!

[@razorback0z]

Ha. Your opening is funny because I figured if I put it on the ship it would cause space attack spamming. Glad to hear I was right lol.

[@Megadriver]

Ugly? It's amazing. This looks like a proper military base. I am so using your method to build space Fort Knox.

[@smileonempty]

Another great video. Love tricks like this.

[@FerrousAradicen]

You can use the second tier containers to build forward and backward instead of just side to side.

[@rispy4875]

^^^

[@Tyshark]

GREAT VIDEO. Thank you for the tips and the humor. Subscribed!

[@YsmirDovahkiin]

It’s ain’t ugly! It’s a piece of ART! Sun Tzu would be proud 🥹

[@michaelpuskar6975]

Thanks for taking the time to make these videos!

[@andrewfewtrell3983]

I love your videos, I am currently building the outpost links for vytinium fuel rods from your other video, realised today that outposts randomly get attacked. How naive of me.

[@fud1238]

Got my subscription in the first 10 seconds. Both because i've been stalling the ship/outpost decision for a while now and because i was already laughing. I also love the wall trick. So, the enemies spawn outside of the outpost borders? Sounds like Bethesda fixed the "settlement' attack system from fallout 4. Walls are actually effective. I wish i could use your trick at my outpost. I didn't think walls were an option so i built mine at the top of a dead volcano. All the habs are on the ring with my ship builder in the center. I'm hoping the attacks spawn from the ground level. It will interesting to see them try to reach it. Took me 20 minutes of boost pack shenanigans to get the outpost up there.

[@hatchetman2010]

I will definitely be using this as a guide to build on

[@TheCaptain3850]

This is going to make my next full run so much easier. Bethesda jank is the best jank.

[@ladyicewolf]

Thank you, I wished they added foundations or walls. Great tip & video.

[@devinsmith2114]

What I got from this is 2 things. 1) This had the explanation on resources I was looking for. 2) The fk you mean I'm going to get jumped constantly? I ditched Sarah at the start and never went back.

[@mysticdragonwolf89]

What’s funny as that every attacker of my outposts seemingly forget they have jet packs and they do an in-line march into my 200x turrets

[@ciocki]

Does this work only with large containers? For me I get an error saying foundation is too tall when i try to add containers left or right...

[@WARL0CK]

Again with the great vids!!! Keep em coming!

[@dartanion10]

Damn..You've done it again. Thank you sir. Amazing

[@kevlarchicken]

its like the early days of fallout 4 when everyone was trying to repair the fort going to give this a go

[@ravereview4022]

"Cargo containers don't give a Fuck, and neither should you." - Instantly subscribed.

[@Nimoot]

So he's not a one trick pony ... he plays other games to the elite skill of making something look so easy to do... Well done 🙂

[@TN-uh9sd]

hahaha love the comment about the deafening fucken roar of cargo ships! At first I thought, that's cool when I saw/heard them. Got old pretty quick though 🤣

[@Subpac_ww2]

As someone who plays on hard difficulty I enjoy being "ambushed" by the starborm ships. That is EASY XP. Almost 500XP per ship, they toss 2-4 at a time at you. Easy XP. I keep it on my ship for that reason.

[@ThorStone214]

What skill and research upgrade do I need to get the large storage container?

[@chico6988]

This is amazing! Thank you!

[@SteveBonario]

Oh my god the noise of the three cargo links I have at one outpost are bad enough and I can't image the roar of six of them...

[@djmando6235]

Great idea & video! All I need now is some 2x1's and some robots. Is that a skill up thing I have to do or am I just maybe missing it in the item build menu?

[@user-tu9eq4dj2o]

OMG thank you!! I had just been stacking containers, very helpful.

[@mdfm28]

Great outpost! I can imagine you struggling for hours with the snapping system. BETTER OUTPOST SNAPPING you can check better Outpost Snapping at Starfield Nexus. it is a config file that changes the interval of snapping refresh. so you didnt have to wait for 3 seconds for the structure to change its snapping position. OFFSHORE OUTPOST FYI you can build offshore outpost, just build structures on land and extends it to the ocean, deletes the structure on the coast, put the armillary on the top of offshore Structures, never had a starborn attacks for a while. Or you can build your outpost on a little island

[@RealKeetz]

Sooooo...additional counter point. What if you built a fortress with NO entrance, in which you can only access from the air, AKA landing pad? Would the raiders be able to use the landing pad?

[@chiikkit6935]

another funny educational video :) thanks Mr Vash No idea if I'm going to be able to duplicate your exceptional work but sure will try. Also would have loved to see them try and raid lol.

[@delindsay]

Genius! Although it's super dumb that Fallout 4 came out 8 years ago and has all manner of Walls/Foundations that we could place just about anywhere to defend our Settlements yet Starfield has... 6 Turrets and a few meh Robots, weee.

[@ChrisAlbertH47]

Wow, I never realized that you can build walls by exploiting the foundation mechanics of outpost building. Nice find 👍

[@NoName-cq3sr]

I don't have starfield yet, so I can't try myself, but did you try using the tcl consol command while building? In fallout 4's building mode every object you put down or moved while tcl was active was basically not there until you turned tcl off again. This way you could build stuff into each other and avoid annoying clipping. Hope this still works and helps filling this gaps in your wall.

[@Limozo]

I actually did initially place the armallie in my ship but half way I canceled because I wanted to build it on a planet but then It must have bugged because I was never followed by anyone and it never allowed me to build it on a base saying it has already been built.. but it hasn't, I don't know if this will affect gameplay later but for now I have no idea where this thing was built and how to access it

[@glenmcl]

Even if you build it on a base, just don't approach the enemy ship that lands, and you don't get attacked. Maybe a bug, but only had my base attacked once

[@michealnelsonauthor]

@@glenmclive been farming those guys in space like crazy. I have a C Class BH ship I can't fly just sitting over the ridge from my base waiting for me to level up and go fly it off. Not sure but I'm thinking it's blocked me from further ground attacks! Lol.

[@LanceEdmunds]

They really need a FO4 system of base building for this game.

[@ekonnic]

Thank you, really great video, does your landing-pad needs to be inside the walls because i wonder if just anyone can land on it and it's better to have it not included it within your walls?

[@TheWtfnonamez]

Very helpful, thank you mate.

[@dusk1947]

This was excellent

[@xshangheighx]

Another banger video

[@GrimGearheart]

This is outstanding...shall I do this on Bessel III-b when I'm fresh out of the tutorial? lol. I don't even know what an armillary is.

[@bombomos]

This is amazingly beautiful. Subbed

[@sophiepatrick3420]

@vash, I am trying your build however when i remove containers the one above is left floating with no foundation below. UPDATE: As stated in the video you have to delete the lower containers to get the foundation. I was moveing them which was causing me problems. Also fyi i found deleting them from the bottom up caused me less issues as deleting random ones caused different instances of the foundation in the same location making a whole different issue. On xbox btw.

[@thisisjames4474]

I'm still pretty early in the game so I'm trying to go into this as blind as possible. One thing i am curious about though is do your defenses actually take care of any threats if you aren't there to actually take part in defending? One of the most annoying things about Fallout 4 is no matter how much you built up your defenses for a settlement, if you didn't show up to help defend it, it always lost ( at least as far as I could tell). I literally built walls completely surrounding some of these settlements and lined the walls with high powered defense turrets and they would still lose in a raid. I severely hope this is not the case in a game that literally spans light years.