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 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.
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.
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.
@@Morphologisalso you can color just a few different components by holding control then clicking each component then releasing control and pressing j.
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.
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.
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
@@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
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
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
@forrestedgar2776 thanks for that info. Definitely need remember remove everything before remodels then. Wonder if disappears when get a new ship also
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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.
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 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 RU-vid, you will find it. 👍🏻
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?
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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) 👍
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)
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
@@jonmacdonald5010 Your message has absolutely nothing to do with op comment. Something that you can customize yourself is bound to have a "home" feeling.
@@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
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.
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
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.
I can't even get the proper ship builder menu to happen. The guy at New Atlantis just lets me swap out my existing parts. I can't move or customize parts around.
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!
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.
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.
love you dude, always stellar content (get it? :D xD) informative, relaxing - love that you give pointers on stuff without the reasoning behind being *because it looks cool duuuude* but more so backed by your background in architecture, great vid Morph - enjoy your adventure mate o7o7
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
What's the deal with "equip power"? No matter what I do I never have enough power when I had basically nothing. Why couldn't they just make the power issue simple to understand, or actually tutorial it!!
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Forget it. I still don't understand. LOL. My head hurts. It's just way too over my head. I wish there was a more....preschool ship design setup that I can understand and go by. I guess I won't be modifying any ships! Too complicated for Mt brain.😅
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.
The Piracy/Borrowing feature can be greatly expanded with future DLC - like forming your own faction. I'd love to run a big corporation or a vast criminal enterprise. I can also see DLC that will simply allow for larger ships, which means larger landing pads will exist - or you just land on the outskirts or specially dedicated docking facilities. Would look weird if you could just land a 100-200m long ship on the current landing platforms, after all. Can just land a small Star Destroyer anywhere. Or very small one-man fighters on the scale of (for lack of better analogies at this moment) TIE Fighters or X Wings, that scale. OR, modding will just add to all of this on a gigantic scale.
could you please explain this, when i try to set my weapon systems it gets frustrsting, i set one up and then another is unassigned. then i just give up, what am i doing wrong?
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!
Easiest way to empty a ship of items is to just switch home ships and switch back. Then all the items will be in the cargo hold. If you have the Dream House or an Outpost, just put Contraband there for storage.
Landing pad in your Outpost will have all five vendor types and the large majority of their parts. So it's the closest to a one-stop-shop for ship building.
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.
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
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.
This is so annoying, why isn't there just 5-10 presets to start from, I want to change my mantis because it only supports 2 crew members, but all this work is just crazy, I don't care to do all this or figure out what goes where, obv don't want it to look ugly or weak, but obv don't wanna sit and build this like fking legos
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.
Can we please adress the topic of the video, as in HOW TO... there's no "how to" here at all, there's "what you can do" and some advice, but no actual how to, as in where do you access the builder, how to add the modules and where they go etc. I'm trying to build a ship but the game doesn't tell you how to do it and i can't work it out, everything i try to add to my ship just hilights red everywhere and it doesn't tell me why, that was what i was looking for when i saw the title of this video.
If you are running into missing ship module errors and your ship is put together--use the select all option for the parts and the ones highlighted in red need to be repositioned. Much faster than pulling all the parts and putting it back together.
My advice is, when you can afford it, get a Shieldbreaker from New Atlantis (or capture a Spacer Coyote) and just work with it. It doesn't require any complex alterations to be amazing, just new reactor, grav drive, and Poseidon engines. Then just rework the habs to your liking (those worthless hull sections on the bottom can go for another hab like a workshop or science lab). I normally do top floor science lab, bottom floor workshop. You get two separate ladders, one for each deck, so no multi-floor ladder annoyances. Port side / center on main deck 2x2 battle stations, right all in one berth, rear living quarters or whatever you want. Swap the engines for a pair of Poseidons that can be attached directly to the side of the rear hull, avoiding the problem of a lack of mounting hardpoints on the rear of the 40-power reactor. No changes to hull form, just a fairly easy conversion. It won't be cheap, of course, but it's the easiest ship to upgrade and no more expensive than any other.
What about when you ship disappears and you become stranded? The game-breaking bugs are killing me. Also ship cargo space is 100x smaller than in should be. Even the Space Shuttle in 1981 could haul 25,000 kg.
Something I figured out about colouring a ship component to match what's already there. Click on the new component, hold down the left CTRL key (PC, I have no idea on Xbox), and click one of the existing components. That now has selected both (or you can select several...but definitely select one original one), and then hover the mouse over the existing one. Hit "J" and then for each of the 3 colours, move one slider slightly and then back again to original position. This will colour everything new like the originals.
Thank you! There are so many things to remember that it gives me headache. Not sure if Bethesda ever tried to write a manual 😃I think they gave up midway through
Recommeded ships desings for you collection update: GoldStar series of ships. Had a lot off fun in makeing one a Legend (GoldStar 3 - brand New design) have free fun and gameplay and enjoyment with the GoldStar designs. Nice video. I give you likes needed. Have a nice day
Hey brother can you tell me the specs of the ship you show at the end, I’m trying to make a similar style with different shape, what’s the mass of yours? Top speed and mobility? Thanks in advance Edit) also what engines are you using? Supernova? 4 of them? What reactor? And how much cargo space do you have?
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!
"designed to be done mid to late game" thats where the problem starts. by the time you can, your almost finished. that good for console commands in the creation engine. also: waiting for mods.. just a matter of time, untill some mods come, that add a millenium falcon and a normandy to the game. overall, compared to the fallouts and skyrims, i find starfield hard to navigate and getting into. not very far yet, but it feels like one of those games, when you know everything there is to know, when youre 80% finished with the content. which leaves 20% of gametime to be enjoyed to the fullest extend.. and the thing for me is, re-plays of content you already know, doesnt bring the same joy
Glad to hear your voice buddy, I watched alot of your Star Citizen videos. I think i'm going to lean towards Hopetech, reminds me of my beloved Drake Interplanetary!
