Starfield: 7 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do 

Biggest tip I've found is using the flight sim thing in New Atlantis to level up your pilot score rather than trying to find random ships out in space to fight.

Directly related to dealing with stolen goods - contraband. You can sell it at a Trade Authority, but you need to be able to get to the vendor without having your ship scanned, which happens when you enter many systems. There's a system called "Wolf" near Alpha Centauri (just a bit up and to the right from the default map orientation), with a space station called "The Den", where you can reach a Trade Authority vendor without being scanned.

Pro tips: you can also just double tap the pins on the cuttable walls with normal guns. Also when you're using your scanner, the cutter is auto-selected as your weapon and you can use it, then when you close the scanner you go back to equipping the gun you were using before opening the scanner

If you want something from your ship's inventory while in a city, you can sell it from the ship's inventory to a local shop, and then buy it back at no additional cost. The item will then be in your player inventory without having to go all the way back to where you parked the ship.

That Buyback trick is a REAL good one, gonna be making use of that.

8:48 I thought this was gonna be a Skyrim Easter Egg where you put a bucket over a vendor's head so they can't see you stealing. 😁

Pro tip for anyone doing an important persuasion check: most of the time the game lets you exit the conversation (B on Xbox controller or Tab on M&K) right before you persuade someone, giving you the perfect opportunity to get into your best gear for boosting your odds.

In regards to the first tip; you can also pick up dead bodies and move them around. If you pick someone up and hold them in the air and then go into photo mode, make your character do the wave pose and it looks like you’re lifting them up with the force. I have several loading screens of this now lol

I spent a whole hour organising the plushie collection on my ship yesterday... If only I had known about the rotate

Lack of Tutorial : There is a mission to disable a ship's engines instead of bowing it up so you can board it and rescue someone. Pain in the butt Starfield neglects to tell you that you need a Tech skill to target the engines beforehand.

Another useful thing: if you're next to one of planetary trait spots, any fauna that spawns next to it will have significantly better loot than it normally would (typically some mix of less common resources). Always something.

While decorating your outpost/player home, open your scanner and select build/decorate. From there, you can pick up any dropped items and then place them like furniture. This prevents items from being knocked over, a feature Fallout 4 desperately needed.

Started the game as a miner, finished it as an adult.

for getting contraband past the scanners and to the trade authority you want shielded cargo and a scan jammer, both of which can be purchased at the red mile

One note with decorating the ship is that anytime you alter your ship, all free items are sent into your ship's cargo bay. It's why the cargo bay is most likely always full with random loot.

Wait, I can flip the toilet paper?! YES! My life is complete! That bugged me so hard the first time I saw it xD

If you pull out your scanner, you can enter Photo mode by pressing your right stick. Taking pictures that way will result in those pictures appearing in loading screens. You can do some funny stuff with the photo mode it actually makes loading screens a lot more bearable.

I actually like using the cutter from time to time. If you focus the lense with the aim button/trigger, I believe it does more damage and it can be really good for mitigating ammo usage on easy or staggerable targets.

A not insignificant number of people not realizing you can cut those walls, despite at least 5 parts of the wall screaming to do as such, is one of the most adorable gaming community moments this year.

Best tips I have are for ship building. Double clicking your ship in builder mode will select all parts and Ctrl-Left Clicking (I don't know the Xbox control) will select multiple parts, this is very handy for painting your ship rather than painting each part individually. Also if you hover over a connection point on you ship and press Add Part then it will filter all the parts that can fit there and save you scrolling time.

You can just take ships that have landed and I think that's neat

I knew a few of these but this video explained them *much* better than other places. Especially the bit with decorating. Thanks!

When you're at an outpost of yours, instead of going to the beacon or holding X/square/E on a building, you can enter the settlement mode by going into your scanner and clicking your button that youd press to set up a outpost beacon. Instead of pulling out a beacon itll put you into build mode.

Another tip: if you are trying to stealth, take off the space suit and helmet. The game uses equip weight when doing sound and stealth checks

Side note, for those walls most weapons will do but the Cutter do has the bonus that it has unlimited Ammunition.

A very important tip is that when you are in the ship builder, you can actually scroll down in the menus and zoom in and out. Took me half the game to find out. Also if you get arrested and have stuff confiscated, than you can just go to a nearby chest in the building and steal it back

I'm dozens of hours in and still finding new Canadian themed food, so.. I'm happy.

Flipping the TP is the best feature since petting all the dogs/cats! Bless Todd.

Had no idea about the "laundering" method - thanks!

If you hover one of the blue slot thingies on any of your current parts and press G, it'll give you a build list with only items that fit to that particular slot ;)

I legit didnt know about the scanner button in ship thing. Saved me some time with that.

Our Dark Goddess Jane gets an extra cool points for referencing Event Horizon.

You can open the Toilet Seat, you just need to use some other item to pry it open (Yey Physics!), and the best part... there is sometimes loot in there.

Just remember; it's perfectly acceptable to hang bathroom tissue under IF you own a pet cat/dog that enjoys unraveling it when it's in its proper position.

Something I found useful is the navigation table you can use it to travel to planets and not have to watch the cutscene evey time

One thing I felt needed to share was that all major story followers absolutely hate piracy. However all named crew you can pick up at bars are totally fine with it

That fast travel scanner trick is a life saver.

Remember to hold the aim button to home in the cutter before you start firing cos it’ll instantly blast whatever resource you’re trying to get without having to wait 5 seconds

Jane this video is worth my Patreon sub for that trick to rotate items in the other axis ALONE.

That scanner trick with the planets is the coolest tip ever

What? I used the cutter as my main weapon for the vast majority of 3 whole faction quests and whatever in between. "Oh, don't have to worry about ammo and it blinds them?b that'll do"

I figured out the cuttable walls, but I didn't use the cutter, I just shot at it with my gun. I do keep my cutter with me though at all times, though I probably don't need to. Only use it when I occasionally mine things

I can't believe they added the exact same adoring fan from Oblivion, what a series

I hope there's an equivalent video for Baldurs Gate 3. Putting out a fire with Ray of Frost, shooting a lever to activate it, Talking to Animals potion/buff, equipping a salami as an offhand weapon, etc

If you bind the alternate jump button on PC and use that instead to boost, you move significantly faster. You can store items in your ship's cargo as long as you're within 250m of it by going to the ship menu (bottom left quadrant in the main menu) and pressing the cargo hold button.

Okay, I did NOT know you could cut open those doors. I thought they were just fancy set design like everything else.

For the second tip, you don’t even have to open your scanner. Just look at whatever marker or waypoint and (on Xbox) press A and you’ll jump to wherever it is you where pointing at

While alot of people havent noticed that you can change DIGIPICKs during the picklocking system

Tip: The cutter is quite effective against mechanical enemies i.e robots. laser turrets, people. A great option in close quarter combat playing peek a boo. Holding the LB will overcharge it, and deal more damage when pressing RB at the same time.

I learned these two tricks while pirating for the crimson fleet, but the first one is this if you're target is a lone ship you can convince them to just hand over their goods without getting into a battle useful if you dont feel like being a particularly bloodthirsty space pirate, the second is that if you initiate conversation and select attack your constellation buddies won't get on your case about it, like they would if you just blasting the poor ship you want to loot.

Thanks for this, its incredibly useful

When you go to Akila City for the first time, there's a general store on your left, and a hostage situation on your right. Ignore the latter, and walk up to the general store... get down on your knees, and take some time to admire your reflection in the puddle just outside. You can't actually see your reflection, but much like the infamous Dawnstar chest in Skyrim, you will eventually see the vendor's inventory. And you can loot it all free and clear, and then sell it back to them. However, watch the resources, there are a lot of rocks in there weighing hundreds of pounds... might wanna dump that off at your ship before dealing with the hostage situation. Chest is always available in this way, too. I spent 24k on ammo, went outside, and took all my credits back. Bethesda will likely not fix this. There are 3-4 chests in Skyrim like this, and these chests were fixed fairly early on by the Unofficial Skyrim Patch. When Bethesda made the Special Edition for the Xbox One, and the Switch edition of the game, they did not include these fixes. So, they knew about the easily accessible vendor chests, they had the code to fix them right there in the open, and they made the decision to not fix them. So it is highly likely that they will leave these alone, too. There are more - this is just the easy one to get.

Perfect timing as my plan for today was working out how to get all the decorations out of my cargo hold and back into the newly upgraded living spaces. Hooray!

The longer you Hold the X button when holding an object the harder you throw it useful for throwing explosive/corrosive/freezing barrels etc as a make shift bomb.

Since your cutter is your default weapon in scanning mode you don’t have to take up a favorites slot with it. Which, imo, there were barely enough of already when it was just guns and heal items and grenades but when you factor in powers… You need every favorite slot you’ve got. 4 more would have been nice…

Overhang is the objectively correct way. Thanks oxbox for being sane!

jane casually shooting adoring fan in the face just hit too hard😃😃🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I didn’t know about being able to hide your space gear and I’m glad I saw this because I probably would have never noticed the button prompts 😂

9:00 I gotta say, be careful about this, some carryable things like, for some reason, are somehow marked as owned, so if the owner sees you lifting it up, even though it’s not added to your inventory, they’ll act like you stole something. If you pick it up out of their sight though, no problem.

Well, after about 125 hours of plain Starfield, and thinking I’d pretty much figured out everything knew how to hide my helmet and all that fun stuff. Yeah I had no idea I can hide my space suit, so thank you very much for informing me of that I enjoy learning new things every day, and as always great Contant keep it up and now to infinity and beyond.

I love that you brought up Total recall. The first time I went and sedonia and looked out through the windows Total recall popped in my head lol.

You can get favorable persuasion option depending on what you say in conversations, its not always the same options so be mindful how you talk to people.

I literally noticed the "Cut Pins" words on the wall and it didn't occur to me to try because there was a generic tool on the ground so I thought it was decoration

3:06 you can also press A on xbox if the mission is the only thing on screen

Thanks! Outstanding info!

Yeah there actually are some of us who don't hoard junk. I never pick it up in the first place; the only time i have to deal with it is when I modify a ship and all the auto-generated junk winds up in the hold. I just wish I could get it to stop auto-generating junk. Oh and mining asteroids causes an asteroid to follow you wherever you go...

A better tip for the cutter is to aim with it, when the reticules line up you cut so much faster and do more damage with it

OMG tip 1 just made my whole playthrough so much better. My fish can now swim upright!!!!! Thank you, Jane!

It just occurred to me that all the free standing decorations would be scattered everwhere whenever you get in to a space battle

Free look when flying your ship by holding down the first/third person buttom.

Nice! Let me add: - The locks on these "cuttable" doors can also be destroyed with any other gun, explosive or melee weapon. - The toggle option for hiding the suit will also hide the helmet automatically.

You don’t actually have to use your mining laser on the cut away doors. You can use any weapon in your inventory. You can even use bash to break the pins (at least on the top two pins, for some reason bashing didn’t work on the bottom pins for me).

A lot of good tips in this comment section, thanks guys ❤

Damnit! Now I'm going to have to make sure all the toilet paper in the galaxy is facing the right way!

Yeah, hiding the Spacesuit is great, but I'm wearing a chemical suit because it got the best Stats I could find yet. 😅

The scoundrel perk removes the stolen status. It doesn’t say it does but I steal like crazy and the stolen tag immediately vanishes when I first pick things up 😊

Thanks Jane. I'm really enjoying Starfield in general but I'm remembering why I bounced off Fallout and Skyrim. The relentless resource management, storing stuff in the right place and not having access to things you've collected because you've left them in a storage box on the other side of the galaxy or even just in another part of town. It's all such a faff, seems to be like 70% of the game and it definitely ruining it for me.... Also the skill points are so slow 😭. I want to love you Starfield but you're making it real tough.

70+ hours in and there were still things here I didn't know, very useful!

"I might need this later you don't know." Love it

There are stone walls that look like broken stone that you can use your cutter on as well. For example there is one in the old NASA base.

The proper toilet paper placement of over hang is done by big toilet paper to get you to waste the roll quicker. By pulling down, the roll will spin a little extra and burn through your paper quicker. Put it back ways so when you pull from underneath, it will be less likely to spin, preserving the roll for longer use.

You can buy an easter egg gun fromthe dealer in the key. Its ak style like in nuka world and has the same perks as the splattercannon. Increase damage with each hit.

First tip should be familiar for Bethesda fans however one unique aspect to Starfield I don’t see anyone else doing is with so many flammable tanks around you can set traps for your enemies by picking them up and moving/throwing them. I like using them more as ambush traps (place a few at a door way where you know enemies are, draw the in and when the get to the tanks shoot one) then “grenades” but both options are viable. And there are also sorts of different tanks that do all sorts of different types of damage. Explosive, poison/corrosive, fire, etc.

Me, I've just been romancing the heck out of Elias Toufexis' character. Because he sure purty. ;)

If you are having issue with maxing out cargo space and a cluttered interior. Make a quick stop at ship services, and make a small cosmetic change that triggers the "everything moved to cargo bay" message, and voila, no more mess.

Thanks a couple of tips actually helped 😮🤣🤣🤣

wait we finally have a Bethesda game where you can play an item on a shelf and it won't clip through into the floor the next time you visit that room? Rejoice!

You missed the "best" one - You don't need weapons, just simply spec into laser and use the laser cutter as a weapon using the "focus" fire mode. It only really have one major weakness which is range - however it scales up very well and you can literally complete the game with it no problem - though a single long range "sniper" would be a nice addition. Try it out - it just works!

I was having an issue with mission waypoints/markers and having quite a few at once. When you’re on the missions screen, at the bottom there is an option so that only the active marker shows! Just for anyone else needing to know this.

Getting into ship inventory to move your material to it or vice-versa doesn't require actually going to the ship's cargo panel. Anywhere inside the ship you can open your own inventory, tap whatever you use to swap between buy/sell with vendors (Q on PC), and it will jump you to ship inventory. Tap it again and you're back in your own, and now you can dump all your black market organs right into your shielded cargo pods.

Make sure to go to a cool space club wearing the Waterbug suit you get from that silly mission on Titan too. (It's a moral imperative.)

Number 3 is just some additional content for the Hardspace Shipbreaker Union boys and girls to enjoy.

ooh more on stolen goods: modifying them at a suit or weapon bench removes the stolen tag as well!

I've cut through a bunch of those walls but never once using the cutter. Usually I've used whatever weapon I've already equipped, or my "rescue" axe if I can be bothered to switch weapons.

6:57 O.O AWESOME! I thought I’d figured it out via using the favorites buttons, but then it wouldn’t let me take the spacesuit off by using those buttons. It drove me nuts so I’ve just kept to first person and ignored any remarks (I was wearing a legendary space suit anyways (no, not exactly the gear tier) so it felt in character for it anyways) Definitely going to set this up next time I’m on. So many different apparels, it’s a massive waste not to!

Alao, as long as you have your Cutter on you, you can always pull it out and use it if you use the attack button when you use the scanner.

That last one at the end for tip 6 had me chuckling.

fun fact, you can shoot the cuttable pins with your gun. I dropped my cutter in a chest some time back and I needed to escape from a building but there was only a cuttable door, so I shot the pins and voila. You can even use a melee weapon too

What outfit are you wearing in most of the third person scenes? (Around 6:52 is most noticeable.) I haven't seen it yet, but I love the look of it!

Being able to grab sarahs hair when onboard your vessel is the most random feature I noticed,hair physics are decent tbf though