Starfield Shipbuilding Guide Tips And Tricks 

Cohh in the first ten seconds be like "this will hopefully be pretty quick". *Looks at 33 minute video time* - Yeah, that's our cohh.

Here are some tips I found: Holding Ctrl while clicking parts will group them together so you can drag them together. Also holding Shift and then clicking and holding will let you select everything your mouse mouses over. Also if your mass is red it doesn't necessarily mean your ship is too heavy. It just means it is now heavier than it previously was before editing.

I love it when he does these short form guides! Jokes aside tho, I would seriously just enjoy watching someone build ships just for the sake of it. Love the shipbuilding in the game!

You don’t have to board your ship when you’re encumbered. As long as you’re within 250 meters you can transfer to the cargo hold from your inventory.

This is the only video ive found so far that actually explains how to build a ship and not just an overview of it. Thank you

These videos have been extremely helpful. wished the game explained it better rather than barret saying "youll get the hang of this"

At 3:12 i amost shed tears of joy, i don't know if i missed the tutorial or what, but i didn't figured out how to select all parts of the ship, thanks Cohh

Never did I think that the shipbuilding guide be longer than the outposts! This game has so much detail, and I love it! Still haven't started my first playthrough as of this comment, but I already have so many ship ideas! Knowing me, I am going to spend far too much time creating my ideal fleet.

One note: the red pips in the power section aren't showing slots that your reactor can't fill, that's just the comparison to your ship's current build. For example, you only have 8 power in weapon 1 at that point with the atlatl missiles, but there are four red pips, that's because before you started changing parts your original ship had 12 power in the weapon 1 slot. The game is just showing you "This is how much less power this part has available than your current build."

That is probably the most helpful video I’ve seen on ship building. The small tips that were sprinkled throughout the video are so so helpful. Thank you so much man 👍🏽

even that cat can build a ship now, he paid so much attention, what a cute cat

There is actually a class above C called M class but that is inaccessible without mods though it is in the game. The M class parts mostly work are usually used on bigger NPC ships, they have their own stats, price and everything so Bethesda may be planning something with them in the future.

With all the guides I've seen this is the most easy to understand thank you

Thank you Cohh, you saved me with those cockpit route tips, i was unable to figure it out why its not connected properly when its... connected. But i did not realized that there are DIFFERENT connections.

My dude your tutorial videos have been the best I've found for this game, both in depth/info value and in clear communication of concepts. Well done.

Holy crap this game is sooo much deeper then I even imagined. I'm still sooo early game but can't wait to get to this part. I'm obsessed. Thanks Cohh for all you do and keeping us entertained!

Thank you Cohh. An actual explanation is helpful. Lotta shit doesn't work very intuitively in starfield, the guides help a ton.

I spent an hour at like 12AM trying to design a ship and then realized I had a flight check and all these errors and then was like oh this thing doesn't work at all! LOL Great video, very helpful! Tons of great tips :)

Perfect timing on this video Cohh as I had zero clue how to build ships. Thanks as always!

14:55 Ctrl+G to duplicate, that's the one tip I've been looking for that is never ever mentioned by anyone or the game for that matter. Thank you!

I don't even own Starfield and I watched the whole thing! This is the most fun part for me

THANK YOU! This is the best breakdown ive seen yet. This feature was what I was looking forward to the most and i found it intimidating as hell so thank you!

This is what I was looking for, I appreciate how you go through and explain everything for ship building, made tons of sense! Thank you!

I havent even attempted building a ship yet because I dont have the skill, but now I feel ready to pick it up. Nice video.

Running whilst encumbered won't kill you. It will take your health down really low, and then stay there, So you use the bed on your ship to heal. It's handy if you're selling stuff off the floor or in a safe part of a city.

A hell of a better guide than all these other wannabes; who keep chucking at me words like "need" and "must have." The game has been out for a month, we don't need anymore. That said, my adhd goes nuts with builder games and I don't know where to start. You were able to teach me, rather than just "show" me. Very well done, I shall look for more of your Starfield videos should the need for research purposes or random meta questions arise :)

Definitely best guide I've seen so far

Thanks! This is the best ship build guide I have found!

Watched a handful of "guides" on ship building and this was definitely the best one. Thanks!

Great video, 10/10. You are an expert and clear and concise communication and I appreciate that

I love how interested his cat is. Yet another interesting and helpful video too😊

So glad I found this one. I didn't care as much about the most powerful build. I just wanted to successfully build a ship. Thank you.

Thank you for this. You made ship building seem easy. Broken down like a "ship building for dummies" book. You got yourself a new sub.

The information was great, and the entertainment watching your car was also great😂

thank you for explaining ship building i was stuck on plane movement until i watched your video, So THANK YOU!!

Thank you so much! I'll make good use of this over the weekend.

Barely started the vid, you answered all my questions. I'll stay to finish the vid, ty.

Fantastic man! i have a grip on this now. Explained it clear 👌

Just found your channel. I haven't bought Starfield yet, but when I do, I do plan to get very detailed with building ships. I found this video very helpful! Thank you, sir!

This was EXTREMELY helpful. Thank you

Thankyou man, this was extremely helpful I learned a lot. I like how they took a chance and made ship building more free with more designs. Yes it’s hard to learn how to build, but it’s worth it once you understand it.

This is the absolute best video when it comes to ship building. Tank you very much. Subscribed 😎😎

Dude this helped me so much, first video ive seen and im here to stay. Subbed. Good stuff bro. Ty

Your ship looks so badass!

There is a big diffrence between Beam (continous) and Pulse/Missle weapons: the later ones can fire multiple times and then go into reload, the beam type need reload after every shot. So if you use 1 beam and 2 pulse type weapons you get more out of your reactor power, specially important if you have less than 24 reactor. Bigger reactor might be usefull to have 2 beam and 1 pulsing weapon. But bigger reactor is also a lot heavier.

I notice the easiest way to attach modules is not to drag them. But press g on the area you want to attach and it will give you a list of all the items that are compatible with that spot so you aren’t wasting time scrolling around and not wasting time frustratingly trying to drag things into place.

Extremely informative, thank you.

Bro. This helped so much. Thank you! Btw been watching you since ESO, but work the 9-5, straight lurker status. You and you're community are the best out there. Keep it up buddy.

What a great vid. I had just jumped in and made a few ships, and learned much of this by trial and error (which sometimes sucked!). But didn't know stuff like the keystrokes of r/g and crtl/g. Much appreciated!

Thank you so much. Great job!

Thanks for the video, it taught me a lot.

I am buying a whole new rig to play this game properly lol, so that means saving up from now until mid January when I will get it. Oh man it's gonna be worth it. I love the ship building stuff! When they get the UI right, that will be the game seller!

For a "quick" video that went from me not wanting to play to spending time in that builder changing the base ship as I'm still doing side missions for the vanguard ahah. Thanks for this!!

That was really helpful. Thank you.

Thank you SOO much. You have helped me a lot. Great video and very cute cat you have there.

Thank you for the tip on gow to correctly align the cockpit and landing bay!! It was doung my head in until now. Subbed!✌️

This was really helpful! I wish I could like video's more than once!

Cohh this was a Great video... helped a lot... thank you very much and continue the great work 😁👍

Great video man, thank you. 🍻

Great tutorial, thanks! love the cat 😊

18:36 this tip let me know i can filter ship components based on the socket i've got selected 😊 Thanks Cohh!

Two other tips/glitches in shipbuilding that may be useful: 1. If an item is able to be flipped, then you can put it on any attachable point even if it's red. All you have to do is grab whatever item it is, attach it to said point, then flip it a few times and hit esc. This is great for hiding items in other items in order to have a more sleek looking ship. 2. I haven't done this myself, but I've seen videos of people doing this. Supposedly you can get items even if you don't have the perk for them (they still have to match your reactor class though.) For example, say a cargo piece requires ship design rank 2 and you don't have that. If you talk to the ship engineer and immediately go into ship building and quickly add a lower level cargo item, then it should sort of glitch out. You can then use W and S to scroll through the other cargo items to find the rank 2 item and should be able to use it when placed. Hopefully this helps some of you other there that are struggling with the kinda wonky shipbuilding.

You da man! Thank you for the great info. 👍

Thanks Cohh!

Thank you so much for this

Instant subscriber. This is how I needed to be taught in school. I wasn't. Look forward to new vids. Cheers, bruv

thats a really cool ship cohh, im stealing the desing

Thank you SO much for this guide! It has really helped me with things that I was struggling with. For example, I couldn't for the life of me find out how to move things up or down, and I think the F key is close to the only one I hadn't tried. lol But there's still one thing I don't quite get. You mention using the C key in order to flip things to face different directions. I have tried to do this so many times, I've lost count, and I've had to give up every time. I've spent at least ten hours trying to get this to work, but I just can't do it. Maybe I've just been unlucky and tried to do it with modules that you can't flip? Maybe that's all it is. I had no idea that you get more options in a ship builder that you set up yourself at your outpost than you do everywhere else. I'll try and add a ship builder to my outpost. That's a great tip! :)

Cohh is a great teacher

Helpful. Thank you.

My man! lol. You're awesome Cohh!

Great video!

Excellent video🤝

Plus thank you a lot, I think your guide will be most useful!

As always amazing.

Perfect video thanks

Very helpful video 😃

Cat be like, "who is he talking to?" Now seriously, very helpful. Some things I had already figured out just by fumbling, but some were great useful "aha"s for me.

I really want to get into starship building, mostly so i can make some super wacky star wars esque kinda ships- this guide was super helpful as I’ve mostly just been winging it

Thanks for sharing sir, a great instruction video. 🇧🇻☕

Super interesting. I'd love to see one where you go into the crew side of things.

Great video.

What i like to do when designing a ship is put every structural piece available off to one side in their manufacturer groups. It really helps visualize how things are going to fit together, basically it looks like a model kit set laid out on a table. Keep in mind not all parts are available immediately, some wont show up till you're higher level. Not just the better versions, but some entire designs. So visit shipyards regularly. Also dont worry about mobility. Even with 100 mobility and the maneuverability perks you're still not going to be nimbly dodging enemy fire. so go chonky.

Great video

I don’t plan on playing Starfield anytime soon, if ever. But I’m watching this because it’s Cohh telling me things, and I listen.

Good upload 👍

Great video. New follower!

Thanks so much for the overview! I feel like the game just completely leaves you in the dark with how to build. One thing that drives me nuts is the habs - while toggling hab variations, it doesn't tell you specifically what it includes and there's no way to see the interior until you make all the changes, have to exit the builder, board your ship, and look around. This is a very tedious process that I wish they allowed you to preview.

Once he explained “Weapondry”. Immediate subscribe.

sick ship

Damn...that's how you do a guide. This guid is for pc players buy pc player. Respect

i spent 3 hours trying to connect a landing bay without knowing which way the door faced, thanks brother

The planes! Oh my god! Last night I was tryna build and it was doing my head in that they wouldn't connect for being "too low" or "too high". Oh I'm jumping right back in knowing this.

Brilliant.

I managed to mod the heck out of the Kepler R ship to make it legendary (nearly 10k cargo capacity), all workbenches, weapons max'd out (both 3k range, one is auto turret - I like to aim the other) and nearly max'd missiles, 1.8k shields, largest He3 tanks. The ship is a beast, nothing can touch it.

Cheers bro

Could you please create a guide on how to build your amazing looking ship?!

A must have imo is a railgun. Whereas the longer it is (snapping consecutive pieces in line) the more powerful it is but slower fire rate or charge up is and heavier for some give and take Side note: I’ve got around 24hrs in this game, and it’s taken most of that 24 hrs but this game is really starting to get its hooks into me. So strange for me. Usually BGS games are an instant rabbit hole for me. This one took a little bit. Great vid bud. Beautiful boat too

FYI crew needs both crew capacity and crew stations. Your crew will be the lower of the 2. So if you had 8 crew stations but 2 crew capacity. You’ll only be able to get 2 crew. The hardest to up is capacity. So if you want 8 crew members (max you can get with skills) you will need the following 4 x engines (0.25 x 4 = 1 max crew) 1 x reactor (2 or 3 max crew) 1 x shield (0.5) 7 x weapons (0.5 x 7 = 3.5) For weapons to get the energy mix out I used 4 dragon pulse turrets and 3 missile launchers.

Ty sir 🤗