Starfield Steal Multiple Enemy Ships in One Go for Profit. Guide with Advanced Tips. 

Once you sit in the chair of the commandeered vessel you should manually undock and redock **before** setting the new one as your home ship - this prevents the automatic undock when you leave the menu so you won't have to chase your ship as it returns to base.

You found my favorite hunting grounds. I built a base to land on and swap ships. Nothing fancy, just a pad to land on.

An easy way to make credits is saying no reward needed when you grav jump into a system and rescue a ship from pirates. after about 10 of those you will start getting 5-6k in gifts from random guards in the cities. Reminds me of Kings members running up and giving you food in FNV "Hey your the one making the galaxy safer". Sure you lose out on the reward for saving the ships but in the long run you make far more.

If you have the sense star stuff power it reveals all the nearby enemies, very useful in those big multi-deck ships.

Watched 5 videos on ship raiding before yours and this one takes the 1st prize by a mile! All the detail and little mechanics u explained make it so much easier to understand!

I don't understand why people are complaining about the profit. I'm level 30, I have a couple points in the commerce skill. I go to a mission board, accept a mission to destroy a crimson fleet Wight or even a Specter or something something, the mission pays like 3k, profit from selling the ship is like 8k or 10k or something, the cargo hold and captains locker have like 7k credits in them combined, and then all of the loot from the ship including contraband sells for like another 8k. That's almost 30k all together, plus it's fun! I don't think the game economy could function properly if you got more money than that.

I discovered this accidentally when I was out capturing prizes (I use the naval term for "stealing ships", since it's totally legal to "steal" ships from pirates and terrorists) when I saw my ship leaving and thought "I wonder if I can just dock with it..." So, even thoug I'm avoiding Starfield videos to avoid spoilers, I had to see if you were doing it the same way. :) I'm glad I did, too! Boosting away to get time to scan them is a trick i hadn't thought of! I loved the video, thanks for making it. :)

I knew you could save money by registering in space and I knew the items would transfer over but I was still wasting time heading to my Outpost to change back to my own ship, never dawned on me to just dock again with my own ship. That's such a time saver. And overloading the cargo bay like that!! genius. I would spend so much time just standing up on my bridge and playing around with inventory... I feel like such a noob again >< Awesome guide Turtle :)

Wow I had no idea you could register mid flight. Easy mode unlocked! Thanks Turtle

I swear you have the best guides for Starfield BY FAR

A legit mod for this is „reduced ship register cost“ In Starfield it‘s like you buy a car for 50k and plate register is an extra 45k. So the mod is more immersive/realistic

EM weapons are fantastic for stealing ships, no need for target mode. Just blast them and board

Your tip about adding loot to the ship you just captured is a game changer. Now I can store what I find, as well as add more ship parts that I carry in my pocket to my full main ship. Additionally, are any planets/moons in that system worth building an Outpost with Landing Pad? This way you can land and swap ships.

If you are like me and use turrets probably best to power them down when you intend to capture ships. I'm running 4x 3340As for turrets and 2x 3340s for manual firing. Just something to note.

You have my great respect for your hard work in bending the system. This saves me a lot of time on calculations and experiments and allows me to focus on the gameplay. Although sometimes I feel jealous that you are ahead of me when it comes to trickery. Cóż taka to już dusza polaka.

Huge respect my dude, you dropped a lot of great info, including how unregistered ships can disappear, a bug i had unfortunately encountered. Now I know better, thanks bro!

This is a fantastic guide!! Thanks so much. Ad a new Starfield player, I've been watching a number of vids on how this process works, and by far yours has been the best!!!

This was absolutely the guide I was hoping that you were coming out with soon! Thanks!

You can don't register the ships to keep those unregistered ship in your ship bay, however you do need to "homeship" the boarded ship, that alone will prevent the boarded ship from disappearing.

Playing on newest update, you are able to make new ships home and register new ships without the undocking issue. Idk what happened but Ive stolen 3 ships without having to chase down my old one first.

“Space vats” oh turtle I love your content so much. Glad to see you making starfield vids.

I wish there was something you could do with your other ships besides sell them. would be awesome to be able to create a fleet or just send them off with an npc crew to do other things.

$2k-$3k per ship. you would make more money just doing minor side quests or selling planet scan data.

Very glad you're faming in Sepentis. I recommend it to everyone. Love the video. Also i recomment people upgrade their ships at one single Ship vendor, or home base, this way you build up your ship while funding the vendor - and then he will have money to pay you for the Captured ships you sell. DO NOT register the ship at the vendor, register from the menu, and you will get your commerce discount on the registration fee.

My random method of stealing ships is by doing abandon outpost missions. When I see a ship landing i run toward them, and if they start shooting me i take them out, and go into the ship. Best ship i stole, so far was Ecliptic Claymore!

Thanks for the video Turtle, you're the best channel I've found for ship stuff in Starfield. Hope you get more followers.

You just taught a lesson about the scanner relative to quest makers I did not know. Thank you!

The biggest problem with this guide is that you made such a good one on weapons before it's now difficult to destroy enemy ship engines without completely destroying it :D

Turtle a thought just occured to me. the outpost ship vendor has credits that refresh every 600 UTC hours. And Katydid 3 has the same 1:100 as Venus, so you can plonk down a ship builder, a bed, and sell ships like crazy and never worry about a bounty (or pay off said bounty easily after selling ships)

I’ve found that in most systems with a decent amount of planets/moons, if you land on anything and just wander for a little bit, a ship will land near you that you can raid for xp or steal and sell/add to your fleet. Great way to practice early game

This was totally worth a sub. Thanks for doing the legwork for us

Love this guy! I can barely understand him, but he knows what he is doing!

1:58 For some reason Borat came to mind here.

You don’t have to have the docker in front since you can dock within 500m, but this method is how I’ve commandeered many ships.

I tried doing this and kept messing it up. I see what the issue was now thanks! Time to get make some money!

You know if you use an EM weapon you can take out the engines without dropping the shields first and it won’t damage the hull.

I like to land on Serpentia V-d and steal landed ships. They are often pretty rare class C.

Some books contain coordinates for hidden sites, e.g. on Mars and Earth. So there is more to them.

Great techniques. Thanks for taking the time to make this video. Subbed.

Oh I see if the docker is in the front the AI has to turn because of the other ship infront of it instead of yeeting off. Smart. Never thought of this.

wait a minute you said you can register ship in space? is it from the new patch? dam i destroy all of them when i board because im too lazy to bring it to port. when i think about it. this is new and viable early game strat with the help of reduce register ship fee mod. register fee in this game is ridiculous. do you buy a lambo and have to pay 90% the price of that car to use it? i think not

10:48 space V.A.T.S. Lmao

LOL. Did you say "the brown ship vendors?" 😂

The Stroud Eklund shipyard vendor in the Narion system has 160K credits, so if you have a lot of ships to sell, I'd suggest going there.

I built a small outpost (just a landing pad with tech kiosk, a bed, and three gun turrets) on Sepentis 4. Then I could go fishing in the Serpentis system and have a friendly place to land and switch back to my real ship in case it snuck away and I was stuck in a low powered ship. Otherwise I’d have to limp home, making multiple jumps and hoping the piratea don’t ambush me. 😂

1:42 Holy Crap! DMG is for real...

Be careful with your crew doing this. I somehow tripped a bug and completely lost a crew member doing this. He's no longer in the list. It's like I dismissed him.

When you first hit "make home ship" and the register fee pops up, can't you just pay the fee and in the same menu go to your main ship and click "make home ship" to make your original your home ship again? and from there just get out of the seat of ship you just took over and go back to your main? Instead of undocking and docking again I mean?

Stealing ships isn't very profitable unless you mod it, because well, the resell value is basically 25% at most after expenses from registering. You make 3-5k easily selling a single 'advanced' high end gun (like say a Magstorm or a Magpulse) to a vendor, but vendor money is very limited. Once you hit level 40+ and is in NG+2 or NG+3 you'll notice profit comes easily simply by murdering enemies you dock and taking all their guns, and then destroying their ship for the XP (The bigger and higher level the ships the higher the XP you get in addition to the kills you do while docked). You only get XP for the ship itself btw, if you never docked the enemy ships to steal their goods and murder the crew for XP, you only get the XP and a random drop from the ship, unless it's a trader ship of which you get 'everything' or mostly everything on it. You also cannot rename 'event' or 'quest' oriented ships you steal, like 'Damaged Ship' or Valentine or any unique names for a event. It might even get buggy and such ships might vanish or things might change on them randomly. If you want ship slots to build a custom ship, always steal a crimson pirate ship of any levels, and don't try to take event based ships unless it specifically makes it seem like it's given away to you for free.

Be sure to hard save before you do this, I've done this many times and it is hella buggy. Docking with your old ship after registering the new one mid flight can lead to broken ship controls, stuck in a void unable to fast travel etc.

Turtle, would potentially breaking down and selling the ship as parts be more or less profitable than selling ships outright? Am curious if it is a viable alternative method? Appreciate the tips, great work

Have you ever encountered the bug where stuff disappears in New Atlantis when capturing ships this way?

Starting out, I would explore different planets and any ship that landed, I would go check it out. If it was pirates or Va'ruun I would take the ship. I wouldn't even fight the soldiers outside the ship, only the ones people inside.

Lots of good tips. TYVM. I'm going to have to try ship juggle. Very nice.

what weapons are on your turtle one. those things were doing work.

You can dock your ship before making the new ship your home ship and registering. Removing the need for quick reflexes lol

Turtle is the god of Starfield space combat. Thanks for this!

Va ruun revelation III is one of my favorite ships to go capture in NG+, I'd like to see a Revelation IV eventually if it exists as the 3 is nearly maxed in best in slots just swap the weapons and I'm good to go. Unfortunately the game for me eventually bugs out if I over modify a stolen ship, aka my lock on timer bugs out and takes 2-3× the normal time and new Atlantis looses the ground or sometimes my ship disappears underground or spawns overlapping the last ship I used. Latest bug I've encountered is landing somewhere and turning around to see my ship is actually several km away and not at the landing pad or landing site, ah Bethesda you goofy bastards. But you know what, I still really like this game.

I'm sitting here. In the fetal position. It's been a few days since my family has seen me. The windows are covered. My phone has 305 missed messages. But none of that matters. I am repeating the same phrase over and over: "....Sell ships. You can press R to sell ships. You can press R to sell ships. You can press R to sell ships. You can press R to....." HOW DID I NOT SEE THAT UNTIL NOW!?!?!?!

Great method to grab ships and save time before running back.

One of my complaints is the lack of credits sell spots have. I will probably only play this game one time through. Due to having to watch 1000 cutscenes to sell a few items and the lock picking mini game.

Dont see ships with a frontal docking port much. Thanks for the video Mr Angry Turtle!

@Angry Turtle Gaming, you are one Lovely little critter !!!

ayeee the turtle making more guides kudos bro, im glad you can make more content for the masses. your 76 guides were peak

I just realized lastnight that you can jettison cargo haul items in your ship from your ship inventory. I was doing some renovations at my house and had too many misc. Decor items to get rid of. I noticed you can just delete them pretty much from inventory instead of dropping or selling. Im sure most people know but if you don't, there ya go :)

Nice one Turtle, I've been doing it the hard way clearly lol.

best ship related videos on youtube by far!

You are a fun - gamer to watch video of! I always have fun checking your content. Gives me always a laugh! Cheers mate, keep up!

As I just found out last night, unfortunately contraband does not transfer over so you gotta pick it up :/

You saved me so much time gosh I used to M every captured ship back to dock.

Great idea, saves flying a ship back to a yard just to sell it

Awesome, thank you. I love the ships but boarding, taking & selling felt too slow to really be worth it.

One question (well, two technically): do the contraband items and the ones on the bodies of pirates also transfer to your inventory?

Glad to find you playing Starfield. I haven't touche Fallout 76 since Starfield came out lol. I am still trying to stop the hoarding mentality though, I pick up everything that I find in Starfield, much like I did in Fallout 76. Old habits die hard.

So glad to be back to your videos!

Great video. Some really good tips and some nice tactics

you don't have to register when capturing. That's simply not true. When you make a ship your home ship, that is what locks it to you.

Can you make a video on how to make your ship? I'd like to use it for my game it just shreds the enemy's

Finally got 10 ships and sadly learned that I can only have 10 😢

On keyboard... what F*kin key activates the targeting mode??? I've tried this repeatedly and all I can do is bring up that little ship scanner. The targeting mode just... appears randomly, and it drives me NUTS. Also... once you register can't you go and re-set your original ship as the 'home' ship and re-board it?

I have docked with a ship mid combat stolen it then watched my main ship get destroyed by the remaining pirates 😂 I did not get that ship back I had to reload. Not sure if that was a glitch but it was kind of surprising!

Stealing ships is really pointless, unless you intend to keep that ship and have it as the one you actually use. The last ship I stole was listed with a vendor value of 96k, registered in my inventory for 9.6k, then when I went back to the vendor to sell it it's value is magically now only around 11.5k. So at best you're getting around 2k out of that. I can do one quest and come back over encumbered with a full inventory of weapons/gear that each sell for double that.

As I was watching this I swear I was watching a Starfield guide by Borat Sagdiyev wawaweewa!

ship value:257056 Jemison Mercantile: "Best I can do is $86 in game credit."

I wish you could breakdown and save the modules to build custom ships from the parts

I just found that system last night and nabbed 3 varuun ships myself. I didn't have a class C ship yet, and i took over a Prophecy II (i am only level 20 so this is a good ship)

Could you also just stand up in the cockpit after registering your new ship then walk back to your main ship through the docking bay? That way you don’t have to dock, undock, and quickly dock again?

If you don't loot the ship before you sell it, does contraband also automatically go to your inventory like the weapons and other items?

Nice video. It's madness how much tedium we have to go through just to have a little fun with our toys in starfield though. :/

you can absolutely steal a ship if there's more than one, i did it multiple times when i was struggling to take on multiple ships at a time. If i managed to get knock one's engines out i would swoop in and dock and the rest of the enemy ships backed off and disappeared

Geez. What weapons are you using to take out those ships so quickly? Those laser blasts are insane!

Nice video. However, 10k per ship... you made more off of selling the weapons and gear of the pirates you killed. As in real life you would make more money chopping the ship up and selling the parts or being able to use the parts for your own builds. I guess we have to wait for the modders to get around Bethesda's stupidity again.

I really wish selling items was better. The vendors never have enough money and the waiting mechanic is painful

Great guide!

There is a mod that allows you to increase your ships from 10 to 50! Might be helpful to have when stealing many ships for profit. Edit: I also recommend the mod to give vendors more money!

Awesome info. You got a SUB. Would like to know more about your ship. 😊

What ship are you using? The weapons look kick ass.

Hello angryturtlegaming, I did the Crimson Fleet missions and got some new ship parts: 1 - Conduction Grid (Mass=1, Hull=1, Crew Capacity=1) Grid reduces EM damage by 50% and increases shield regeneration by 25%. 2 - ComSpike (Mass=1, Hull=1, Crew Capacity=0.5) time to lock onto enemy ships is reduced by 25% and weapons cost 20% less to use in Targeting Mode. Are these parts good enough to install on your ship or should I not use them?

I needed this, I am struggling to find ships

The Happy Turtle.. thanks again u r da best!