Starfield - Unimaginable Power! Upgrade YOUR Claymore for MAXIMUM Firepower, Shields and Cargo

This is a easy guide to easily upgrade your ship in Starfield. In this tutorial I will show you the best way to upgrade building the Claymore for maximum firepower, fully functional, top speeds, and easier to navigate the interior of the ship!
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0:00 Intro
0:24 Unmodified Claymore Layout
1:40 Unmodified Claymore Tour
4:24 Skills Required
4:54 Location 1 Nova Ship Parts - Titan
5:27 The Build
7:00 Habs
10:49 Cargo
12:12 Additional Habs
13:28 Engines
15:03 Structural Modifications
17:01 Location 2 Weapons, Reactor, etc.
17:28 Reactor
18:10 Shield
18:53 Grav Drive
19:20 Fuel
19:48 Weapons
22:54 Paint Job
24:19 Modified Claymore Tour

[@dcatwell]

I just wanted to thank you for this build tutorial. I absolutely love this ship! I defeated two Va'runn ships like they were nothing, and I love the layout. I used a Claymore II for the build because I've never seen a III. I was able to do a few higher upgrades though, because I am a higher level than you were in the video, and changed one of the habs to another that I liked better. I also had to to refer to a few other videos though because this was my first build, and I didn't now how to flip parts, assign weapons, paint and re-name. Thanks again, your video gave me the courage to do finally do a custom build!

[@circuitscore]

No problem! Happy to help! You can find a Claymore 3 in Celebrai jumping in a circle from moon to planet. Claymore is my absolute favorite ship you can steal in the game! Especially after make it flow better with the trying to remove as many ladders as possible haha.

[@gregphipps7082]

Totally revamped mine. Basically rebuilt it from scratch while keeping the original look with some extension. Only Habs I kept were the cockpit & brig.

[@circuitscore]

Yeah I've seen some crazy Claymore builds but I also really like the original look of it.

[@JAZZYLGPRODUCTIONSLLC]

Just got this ship, best bridge by far! Great build, I'll try some of these mods possibly. I might experiment with an extra claymore.

[@circuitscore]

Thank you! Had to put a lot of thought into this one. Pretty happy with how it turned out for what is now my default ship.

[@DreddPirateRoberts]

I had already made some serious changes to my Claymore III before this video; made similar improvements to a mk 1 that I had prior to getting the III. However, I had never bothered with moving the loading bay to the front until seeing your video. So, thanks for the push. 😊 I tried eliminating the 1x1's in a similar fashion, but it ended up being a confusing mess, though that is probably because of the modifications I had already made to it. For now, I'm going to settle for having the loading bay in front. I might play around with eliminating the 1x's later. Thanks to the five SAL-6830s I have on the back of mine I have a perfect 100 mobility, even with the 650 fuel tank, two extra 2x1 habs and a couple more of those Galleon S204 cargo modules. (I took out those two piddly little ones.)

[@circuitscore]

Yeah man! Moving the Loading bay to the front makes the ship so much more accessible when trying to take off quickly. Eliminating those 1x1s adds so much more useable space. Ill have to check out those engines. That was the only thing with my build is I was trying to get 80+ mobility with the increased cargo however 74 isnt that bad.

[@DreddPirateRoberts]

@@circuitscore it works if the engines are placed in a U pattern The SAL-6830 is only available if you ended the mission on Neon, "All that Money Can Buy," in a civil manner, since Nicholas Slayton's company makes the SAL-6830 engines.

[@circuitscore]

@@DreddPirateRoberts I think I still need to do that quest. Thanks for the heads up!

[@highlandvalor]

This actually helped me build my own. Though I modified it with a few Deimos habs

[@circuitscore]

Happy to hear it! Yeah the Demios habs were my second choice. I really like the interior looks of them.

[@highlandvalor]

@@circuitscoreI probably will swap all the parts back to nova galactic though, the captains quarters looks a whole lot more comfortable and luxurious, not to mention the others do look good too

[@wisconsinbound2123]

thank you for build I just got ecliptic III

[@wisconsinbound2123]

PS I got this ship on Mercury following your other video thanks for that also

[@circuitscore]

No problem! I love the Claymore in this game. Best ship to modify hands down. Yeah I don't know what is up with Mercury but there are so many ships landing there. Its a great planet to get some free ships!

[@jtkrpm1]

This is my favorite ship. Mine is maxed out. Best engines, best reactor, 700 or so in missiles, to lazers, two automatic particle turrets. In a way its boring because almost all ships get blown up by the automatic turrets before i can even lock on for missiles. And it can carry a lot of cargo.

[@circuitscore]

That's the way to do it! By far the best looking ship in the game even in its stock configuration.

[@craigferguson3240]

As for a name: The flatline, because nothing survives with a pulse.

[@circuitscore]

I like it!

[@craigferguson3240]

Neon for core parts like reactor.

[@Steve-ow5fm]

Great explanation help me out with building all you really need is a claymore 1 since your change n out some parts I got 1 and 3 have a strip down version of the claymore get the most mobility. Your ship looks AWESOME GREAT JOB!!! Helpful video recently started playing 1st time. Even though a few things annoy me about the game still love playing it . The sell ships without registering still works watched your vid on that thanks for that really awesome but can’t switch ships without having to go back to a ship tech if I try in space game crashes also trying to sell guardians 6 ship able to sell after tech credits go below value but as soon as I leave the sell menu game crashes every time have to quit game and start it over again. Any ideas on how I can sell the guardian and steal ships and switch back without game crashes. Any ideas would appreciate it thanks again for helpful vids Maybe the may 15th update put a stop to it

[@circuitscore]

Thanks! Glad I could help. Also glad the selling unregistered ships still works. I have not yet tried to sell the Guardian. Ill try and do some testing to see if I can get it to work!

[@arielfetters5662]

You can add equipment mounting spots to block potential unwanted doors/ladders. Hope it helps.

[@circuitscore]

I had no idea you could do this. I will give it a go! Thanks!

[@UpperDarbyDetailing]

@@circuitscoreyou can also use portholes on the top side of the bottom habs to block ladder generation, but you have to use a glitch to make the upper hab work. However, when inside the upper hab the floor is no longer flat. You can actually look through them from the lower hab.

[@JimBrodie]

I shrunk mine, downgraded jump drive, upgraded reactor and engines, decreased cargo, relocated loading bay to front, changed docking port, removed brig and added extra habs. Yours isn't far off what I did.

[@JimBrodie]

Also configured to no ladders except the loading bay.

[@circuitscore]

Yes! Deleting the ladder was my main motivation for this build. I like the idea of a smaller Claymore. I might try that with my Claymore II.

[@BrrGrrDelux]

Thank you for the tutorial! I hot-rodded my Claymore III by dropping a lot of cosmetic mass, stuck on three SAL-6830 engines, a 28T Defender Shield Generator, and a SF 40 Sheared Flow Reactor w/40 Power (the 104 DS Mag Inertial Reactor w/39 Power is also great.) For weapons, the four PBO-175 Auto Helion Beams really are the best you can get, but adding six more Vanguard Obliterator Autoprojectors makes for a ship-melting combination. For stealing ships, a single Nullifier 1750 Suppressor is all I really need, but if I'm not boarding, one or two PBO-300 Auto Alpha Turrets are indispensable for target acquisition, shooting at and identifying the closest enemy (the Obliterator 250MeV Alpha Turret fires too slow to make this effective). Also auto turrets will put enemy ships into defensive mode, firing their boosters to get away instead of attacking. The Disruptor 3320 Neutron Turrets work well too, if you don't want to use a Class C reactor. I love my Clankmore!

[@circuitscore]

I will have to check out some of those upgrades! I seriously love the Claymore. Even in its stock from its a pretty solid ship overall!

[@kevinvanhorne3080]

Someone else made the comment below, but the "wings" you add to make the ship more "aerodynamic" actually covered over the braking engines - the structural pieces in front of the main engines. A braking engine fires forward to slow the ship down as it lands and to give more maneuverability. I'm surprised the ship builder didn't give you an error for that. What does it look like when you land on a planet? Are there flames coming out of the gap or did the structural wings completely block them?

[@circuitscore]

From the underbelly when I land Im seeing flames coming out of the rear near the engines but not next to the wings. Ill have to look into this. Functionally the ship still seem to perform as it should. No issues with braking.

[@sinik8759]

I really wish the brig was functional. Would be neat if there were “dead or alive” faction missions, where you could incapacitate an enemy with an EM rifle (maybe then I’ll actually use them) and place them into the brig.

[@circuitscore]

Yeah this game is a bit too PG for a Bethesda game. Wish it was more edgy as well. At least the prison cell doors work in the brig however kinda useless if you cant take prisoners haha.

[@chrislouis4928]

Awesome tutorial, but wondering how you got the grav drive to go down one slot, unable to do this, as i cant get it to drop down?

[@circuitscore]

So on PC you can move your parts up and down using R key and F key. On controller its Up and Down on the dpad. Bethesda did a horrible job explaining this haha.

[@chrislouis4928]

Awesome thanks!

[@Ridingharleys]

Do you have a place I can send you a build of my Ecliptic Claymore that has 12.5 k cargo 81 mobility and no ladder from front to back. Also has every hab needed.

[@circuitscore]

That sounds awesome! Feel free to email me at [e-mail]

[@Ridingharleys]

@@circuitscore sent

[@PaulGarwood]

I'm hopeless at rebuilding ships, can you recommend some other decent ships I could buy please?

[@circuitscore]

The Stormrider is a solid ship. If you dont want to buy it you can go to Serpentis and steal a Revalation from the VaRunn. Its the same ship as the Stormrider. I have not tried to modify it yet but its on the list of things to do.

[@wdygoaphagfy]

The "bracing " outboard of the fuel tanks is actually braking engines.

[@circuitscore]

I had no idea there were engine brakes in this game 😅

[@capg5806]

Pro tip: use your boost pack to jump up ladders instead of climbing them. Takes wayyy less time and you don’t have that slow ass animation

[@circuitscore]

Oh yeah I do this too but I'm also really good at messing it up 😅

[@marlonlacert8133]

Needs a stairs or ramp only Block!

[@circuitscore]

Not sure I know what you mean? Ramp is moved to the front.

[@spongiform]

I named my ship Chastity. It’s an ancronym (Come Here And Say That, I’ll Take You)

[@pastyman3247]

Name it Bluetooth. Better layout than my Claymore. I'm off to rework it now I've seen yours. 👌

[@circuitscore]

Haha I like it! Yeah man gotta get rid of those ladders!

[@prw956]

You don't have to pull out the old habs and replace them with different ones,...then the colors don't match. Just leave the old ones there as long as they are the right dimensions, and if you need more of the same dimensions just duplicate them and then change the type. You just select them and change their type to Workshop, Infirmary, Battle Station, etc. You can completely change a ship and pay "0" for it by doing that. You only pay for the new parts that you add.

[@robmaurer1618]

Was just going to say this. You have to select the Hab, move it slightly and then snap it back into it's original spot. Then you can change the variant to what you want.

[@prw956]

@@robmaurer1618 Yea, but you don't even have to snap it, just select it. I'm on Xbox, just hover over it an hit A, then left or right D-pad. I use a PC laptop when away from home, but I plug an Xbox controller into it and play it just like the Xbox.

[@circuitscore]

I had no idea you could just swap them out like that for future. Thanks for the tip. For this build I was trying to force some doorways to eliminate ladders hence why I was adding new habs with the "attach" function.

[@DreddPirateRoberts]

10:45 - You didn't need to move the Brig. You could've just switched it over to a different variant, since they're both 2x2. Also, the infirmary is redundant if you have a science lab.

[@circuitscore]

That is good to know! Could have saved a bit of time. The other habs I did need to reattach in order to force some door placements. Thanks for the heads up on the science lab and infirmary. I guess I could add a Type A hab on that side.

[@DreddPirateRoberts]

@@circuitscore Force door placement? How do you do that?

[@circuitscore]

In the video if you hover over the opening between habs and hit the "attach" button (G on PC) you can attempt to force door placement however it doesn't always work especially if there are multiple connecting habs as you could see during the tour of the bottom back part of the ship.

[@DreddPirateRoberts]

@@circuitscore BGS _really_ needs to allow us to decide where we want the doors and ladders go.

[@circuitscore]

@@DreddPirateRoberts 100% agreed. There's apparently a mod on PC that allows for this but still don't understand why they didn't include this into their ship builder. Doorway and ladder placement can be so random.

[@paulhakansson6916]

Blueberry star..😂

[@circuitscore]

😂 Perfect!

[@anthonyjohnson4390]

I get the feeling everyone eventually goes to the Claymore. The bridge is clearly the best. I've seen the list for best ship and they have the Claymore about the 20th best ship. BS.

[@circuitscore]

Claymore is my number 1 ship for sure. Only ship I know of with stairs in it. Too bad there arnt more bridge modules with stairs. The ladders in this game are so bad and slow.

[@erinpitt580]

that's sexy