Starfield Tips I Wish I Knew Earlier 

My tip to quickly get those destroyed ships for the piloting skill: start the Vanguard quest to get access to the flight simulator, every kill you get in the simulator also counts to progress the piloting skill. You get enemy ships to kill way faster this way instead of go looking for them by skipping systems

My tip would be to quicksave before collecting the Mantis Armor as the perks are randomly generated so you can just keep reloading until you get the best perks you want. Personally I went with chameleon and +carry weight!

Rotation speed... OMG, thank you. For someone who usually scrolls all the options when I start any game, I completely missed it in this one. Great tip!

The tip about the box in the basement of the lodge having infinite storage was a new one for me. I keep all my resources in the safe in my room. (I've got A LOT) A couple of other tips that some people might not know. A class ships are faster than B or C. A class engines mostly top out at 150 m/sec. (there's one type that tops out at 180, but you need Starship design level 4 to get it) B class engines top out at 140 m/sec while C class engines top out at 130 m/sec. You can also find A class reactors with up to 23 output while it's harder and much more expensive to find B class reactors that are higher. (I can't use C class yet) You can also convert a stolen ship to a large capacity cargo ship cheaper than you can buy a ship with the same storage. (with level 1 starship design you can get cargo pods with up to 950 capacity the same size as the 1 by 1 bricks) It's much easier to navigate using the surface map once your realize your watch has a compass. (the little white mark on the inner ring) For the early game when you need money, loot all weapons, suits, packs, and helmets and load it all into your personal inventory before trying to land at New Atlantis. Choose the lodge as a landing spot and store anything you want to keep, then do the sell loop. Centurian Arms first for guns, (12k credits) then Outland and UC Distribution for 5k each for any loot type, then Jemison Merchantile and the Trade Authority terminal in the spaceport district should put you back at your ship with up to 32k credits without having to wait on vendor cash to replenish. You can be vastly over encumbered, but the slow movement pace is worth the large payout.

Even though I figured most of this out through my own trial and error, that tip about slowing outpost build rotation is going to save me some headache. Thanks.

I would also recommend doing the Freestar Rangers side quests. The Star Eagle ship has a nice amount of cargo space and the main weapon is awesome for disabling ships.

03:30 VERY important detail about the Trade Authority, particularly in The Den where you won't get cargo-scanned : If you trade them your STOLEN gear, and go the the Buy section *_before_* you close the trade, you can buy the item back, WITHOUT THE STOLEN TAG.

Another tip I found useful selling lots of items. Can't be bothered landing on a planet, running around each stores selling a whole lot of weapons and gears you've looted? Just stay in orbit and hail a ship whose willing to trade. Most of the times they have 2,100-2,500 credits so it's quick and easy way to sell stuff without landing on a planet. Jemison has at least 5-6 ships in orbit so it's easy to sell 10,000C worth of stuff without having to land.

The ship inventory thing is already huge for me.. I have ran back into my ship SO much.

Quick tip, hold start on console to go straight to the map.

Omg thank you for the outpost rotation tip... that was bugging me so badly 😂

Lock picking is very easy. Always start lining up the inner most ring first. That way, you don't use the wrong didipick pattern. Then, when you're at the outermost ring spam A. It's so satisfying. Lol

There is also a safe with infinite storage in your room at the lodge.

Great video! Lots of updated info much appreciated! The third party map and digipik vendor was a life saver thank you!!!

The cargo hold was actually the opposite for me. I did it through the menu the whole time and only recently found out about the terminal in the ship. I then subsequently found out that npc ships have cargo hold terminals as well and cried over all the loot I missed

I seen another video where The time dilation thing were you go to sleep on Venus is the best spot where one almost 24 hr (like 23.40 hrs) is equal to 100 days on other planets, so one sleep and 100 years worth of mining. Great video thanks

Fellow loot goblin here.. As Jolsn said, becareful about what you use for unlimited storage, atleast for now. I saw a tip in one of the loading screens warning us of using storage that ain't ours. So for infinite storage i use the one in our room at the lodge.

The safe in your room at the lodge also has infinite storage space

Thank you so much for the video. I never realized that I can slowdown the object rotation during building. That is a gamechanger. Few things I'd like to point out: 1. All Trade Authority vendors have 11k each on reset, while the trade terminal will have 5k (or 6k i forgot). This isn't limited to just The Den, and all trade authority vendors will also buy contrabands. (Assuming you get past the scanning process) 2. Combat perks at least for me, is a godsend on very hard difficulty. Without later perks legendary enemies take extremely long to kill. Maxed out ballistics/laser plus your preferred weapon types I feel is a must. Note that since you mentioned NG+ it's also a decent idea to take the utility perks later on or on NG+, after your character is very competent in combat.

I also like that I can bring up the STARMAP while on a planet. I do this to remind myself what resources are on the planet & how many TRAITS there are to find.

Wow, first time viewer, it so well explained, even though I’ve heard much of it in numerous vids already, you just iterate everything so damn well…you my friend earned a like and a sub for sure…

Very good! There were several I didn’t know. Enjoyed your delivery as well.

Mapgenie has been my go-to for open world games for a minute now. It's pretty awesome

That tip about the digipicks is clutch!

Outpost Item Rotation Speed Option ... thank you sooo much for this tip!

Another tip, if your cargo hold is full, you can empty it by dropping everything on your ship's floor. I allocate the storeroom in my ship for excess materials.

A easy source of credits up front for minimal time is go to a ship technician, like at New Atlantis, use them to modify your ship, delete a hab space and cargo space, then buy it back or sometimes just shifting them around if you have enough hab spaces. Then access your ship inventory and sell all the misc items it put into your cargo hold from the ship at the trade authority. Rinse and repeat, add habs to increase the value of the yield. Certain habs have higher value items with them. a 12 hab I made makes around 5-7k per cycle. Enjoy.

Thanks for sharing. I'm enjoying the game so much I'm actually going to start over to slowly reallocate my skills points

Very excited seeing you covering Starfield. Continually following your FF14 guides. Thank you very much!

If you choose the Kitchen Sink option during the "Overdesign" mission with no compromise gives you a free class C ship with high end parts and huge inventory.

Thank you for the outpost rotating speed tip!🎉🎉🎉

Map genie saves the day, thanks!

The setting to change object rotation speed while building is really helpful! Worth checking your video right there. As far as infinite storage containers, there are, I think, at least 4 infinite storage containers in the basement of the Lodge, and your room in the Lodge has a safe with unlimited storage as well. And of course, you can just throw crap all over the floor of your ship, and it'll be there whenever you come back.

50 hours in and never knew about peeking from cover. >.< Great tips!

Thank you, did not know 1st 2 tips & the cover system ::) Subbed

There is a way to “snap” things to the walls. You face a wall straight on, you press Q and T and you techies whatever you’re building, it’ll be square to the wall you were facing.

Great! I knew 80% of them, but the 20% was huge. Thanks

Thats great info, thx man.

this is a great video. thanks for the good work.

thank you so much from Depoe Bay Oregon your tip on map genie is awesome.

Thanks , that map genie was a life send 💯👍.

Excellent video, subscribed.

awesome tipps. Thanks!

Awesome, thanks!!!

the outpost alignment thing i never knew I started ffresh after doing the main story a few times . now I kind of have a idea how to play this game

A fun little tip for resources that i just found out is that you can blow up any asteroids with your ship and they'll give you minerals. A lot of it seems to be iron. But very fun early on for getting minerals

The only time you need to loot everything not part of the scenery is at the beginning to speed level up your commerce. You need 250 unique items to get to level 4. You can get filthy rich within hours of leveling this skill and selling Legendary Loot. ● Rank 1 - Buy for 5% less and sell for 10% more. ● Rank 2 - Buy for 10% less and sell for 15% more. ● Rank 3 - Buy for 15% less and sell for 20% more. ● Rank 4 - Buy for 20% less and sell for 25% more. ● Rank 1 Challenge Progress - None. ● Rank 2 Challenge Progress - Buy or sell 25 unique items. ● Rank 3 Challenge Progress - Buy or sell 75 unique items. ● Rank 4 Challenge Progress - Buy or sell 150 unique items.

Wow. So many great quality of life tips I had to save the video. I'm never going to remember them all 🙂

I have mastered the art of lockpicking in Starfield and I never use more than one Digipick for each lock that I pick because I created a method that I follow religiously and each time I can pick a lock so easily. Okay, I've said this on a few YT channels and here is my tip for lock picking follow my instructions and you can't go wrong. The most important thing you need to do before you pick a lock is DO NOT rush. SAVE before you pick a lock because if you mess it up and rest assured you will until you get used to it and have a notepad and pen to hand I will explain what the notepad is for later. Lockpicking requires muscle memory so if your memory isn't good use a pad and pen. STEP ONE Before you pick any locks I cannot stress enough to SAVE before you start picking any locks because if you mess it up just go back into settings and load a Quicksave or a Save and ALWAYS line up from the inside out and if you haven't got a good memory write down the sequence. WHY LINE UP LEAVERS FROM THE INSIDE TO OUTER RINGS? Why line up the rings from the inside out, well if you line up the leavers on the centre wring first you then know that all the other leavers are from the remaining rings from the centre outwards. You have white wings and blue rings and blue rings as you progress making it easier to crack the lock. I can crack a Master Lock in a couple of minutes once you line them up you just go to each leaver and open the circle. I would suggest levelling up the lock picking as soon as you can because there are so many goodies huttedn behind locked doors. I've picked up legendary weapons and heat early in the game because I mastered the lockpicking early. At first, I was utterly confused then all of a sudden I realized it was easier to start from the inside out and line up each ring. For example if 1 and 3 open the centre ring that leavers 2 out of 12 leavers for a Master Lock. Then 8 and 2 open the next ring and that leaves 8 leavers the next ring is 9 and 4 that now leaves 6 leavers. The next ring is 5 and 6 now leaves 4 leavers our of 12 the rest just line them up. When you open a blue it can change white just go to the next sequence for that ring that you made a note for either in your head or you wrote them down and it will go blue. Honestly, it sounds complex and complicated but it isn't it is simple once you get used to it you will say to yourself its simple and it is.

For lining up items in build mode just line up the bottom of your screen with the edge of a floor or whatever then switch to another item and back. It loads in facing right at you.

There a total of 5 unlimited storage in the lodge. One in your room, and four in the crafting area (3 are ammo boxes)

110 hours in, level 55, I've not spent a single skill point in combat skills so I agree with that statement 100%.

OMG THANKS was going nutz trying to align my crates in outpost...

Waiting with building outposts is actually the best advice. Especially when you are going to play NG+ & the progress gets deleted.

in the basement of the lodge there is a suit helmet and back that is in a display cabinet. this is better than the mantis. put your pointerin the crack of the door and take what you like.

The easiest way to travel fast without stims on PC is to bind the alternate jump function which boosts you forward more instead of up and unlock all the boost skills. I just fly everywhere and it's great fun, even more so when you have boost slow motion for combat

Thank you giving us spoiler with not actually giving it. I laughed so hard 😂

I didnt know about the cargo hold from outside the ship I did the Mantis mission when I was lvl4 and added cargo hold to it so I had 1700 cargo hold early on. Also, the sage in ur room in the Lodge has unlimited storage too.

I do feel so overwhelmed by the game! Even by getting from A to B. I just wish that there would be a map tbh.

Yeah, I'm a loot goblin. Once I put points into Research Methods though and found that vendors offer almost everything with a bit of patience I started to skip most resources. I still vacuumed up Aid items though. While you can't fast travel while overencumbered, you can fast travel while sitting in the ship. So if I'm hauling heavy stuff I'll fast travel to the Lodge and get deposited just outside the front door.

the amp tip is gold, thanls

Mapgenie, thank god. So nice of Bethesda to let a third party make the game navigable for all of us.

In Fallout 4 i quickly adopted a method to set things properly by rotating it roughly with the mouse before using my character movement to fine adjust. No need to manipulate settings, after all, your character can MOVE. And you can usually pick stuff back up again and set it in a better spot after a quick check.

The Safe in you room at the Lodge also has infinite storage.. I use the one in the basement for resources and crafting, and the safe for all the Armor and Weapons I cant part with just yet.

I love my modified Mantis ship, the Razorleaf. I have modded it to have more weapons & a greater Grav jump distance (27 ly),

I only use outpost to lvl up I’m a lvl 400 now I think I can now play the second Mission. Took so long but thanks to movies and rewatching break bad for keeping me distracted

The item rotation speed helps but it's still difficult to get it to line up 100%. Also, I disagree with looting crafting items early on. You fill up? Just hop in your ship, fast travel to the Lodge, go to the basement where the crafting stations area, and on the table right behind the research station is a yellow storage case, which is BOTTOMLESS STORAGE. Yes, you have to pick your resources up out of it when you need them(via the "take all resources" button), but it's no big deal since every station is right there. When you're done, just put it all back with your "store all resources" button. I don't necessarily agree with sticking to the main story at first. There's no real way to tell people when to stop without spoilers, so I won't go into anything- BUT, learning the game in your first playthrough is going to be the most fulfilling for you for several reasons. Once you are ready to go to NG+, you won't need to worry about learning basic game mechanics, and you can play NG+ as intended(metagaming FTW!)

Had no idea for space suit/helmet. Mass Effect games did that by default, so just figured starfield would but didnt lol. Mining Laser, hold left trigger until crosshair 3 prongs center, then right trigger laser instantly gathering node instead.

In early game, of you are trying to level up commerce,everything you sell counts toward the goal. Selling all that worthless junk comes in handy. No need to buy ships when they can be found all over the place for free. The scanner in ships can also be used for interstellar fast travel. If you have a mission selected, look for the blue dot on the sky and select it and off you go.

There is also an unlimited storage safe in your bedroom in The Lodge. I would also say do the Freestar Rangers quest line to completion for a nice ship, the UC Vanguard line for a free penthouse apartment and complete set of epic armor/helm/jump pack that I think is better statwise than the Mantis armor and lastly the Ryujin questline for a free skill point in Manipulation.

when using the laser on ore, hold down the aim button to get the crosshairs to move to the center the use the fire button to shoot two laser and break up the rock a lot faster.

Best video on RU-vid

The Mantis quest is kind of misleading... both the Bounty Hunter armor you find in the locker and the Tracker Guild armor you find in the bathroom of the Mantis Lair are MUCH stronger armor than the mantis armor.

Rotation speed.. Holy shit! Game changer!

Quick correction on the looting : you reeeeeally want to get your _Commerce_ skill up to tier 4 as soon as possible, so that everything you sell earns you 20% more, and everything you buy is 25% cheaper. Since that requires only that you sell items -- INCLUDING trash like pens, folders, cups, forks, etc -- you really DO WANT to loot everything in the beginning. Playing cards especially, since those have such a huge variety and weigh nothing.

before you open the case with the mantis armor save the game. that way if you dont like the stats reset the game and try again. it doesnt decide the stats until you open the case. took awhile but i got a set with all the weight carrying perks. gun weigh less, resources weigh less, +40 and +20.

That first one is gold

I find outposts and the premade player housing almost entirely useless as they currently exist. The only real purpose for getting resources (outside of building outposts) is for making mods and the research required to be able to make the mods. And you can very easily just buy any of the resources you need for those things without the need for outposts. Outside of gathering resources the only other real purposes for outposts or player housing is to have a sort of "main base" where you can keep all your stuff. But all the storage containers available have ridiculously small inventories. You have to fill huge areas full of storage containers just to equal the capacity of a ship with a very modest cargo capacity. Not to mention objects in outposts and player housing routinely just decide to disappear, and that includes storage containers full of items, armor stands with full sets of armor on them, and weapon racks full of guns. It could be fun to play around with creating a really cool base and decorating it up like I used to do in FO4. But until they fix all the bugs and glitches I don't touch any of it other than to temporarily throw down a landing pad when I want to build out a new ship design.

You can also access your ship cargo while inside just by opening your inventory and hitting Q

Grid snap would definitely be a massive change, but one you can turn on/off

Holding down the "start" button While your outside of the menus will take you straight to your star map.

You can fast travel by setting course using the quest menu without having to divert power to your grav drive. That way when you arrive at your destination and there's enemy ships you don't have to fiddle around shifting power back to your weapon systems. Likewise, even if you're a long distance from your ship you can use the world map to fast travel to another location on the planet without having to move back to your ship. You'll also appear outside your ship saving a couple of load screens.

I don’t know why they did not include a ground vehicle. I am sure that someone will mod it in the game or allow our ships to free fly on planets.

You can get free class C ship early in the game from the old guy from lodge ( his quest ) just you need to pass persuasion check

One more tip - you can actually destroy asteroids for materials and some loot. And another one - pick up all weapons, even terrible one, if you struggle with ammo because they are loaded. After that you can just drop that weapon.

Technically, the vendors restock the second time they pass the UTC midnight. 11PM tuesday to 1AM thursday will restock them.

7:45 Oh this is great. I always have trouble navigating around in Bethesda games. Most of the areas are copy-pasted assets so they looks the same and i just get lost.

Another thing that most people don't know, especially if this is your first BGS game, is that you can pick up anything without actually "taking" it just by holding down the interact button. It occasionally comes in handy if you want to steal something without getting caught, just pick it up and move it. You can rearrange decorations or even move dead bodies, which comes in handy if you steal ships and don't want corpses in the cockpit for a week lol

Thx for the placement tip.I habe lost Lin and Heller were can i find them?

I really hope they add blueprints, so you can save a ship or outpost design that you can access again in NG+.

Quests to focus your first play through all faction quests. And locate all the temples and the main storg of course. out piloting as soon as possible so you can drive class C ships. Do this by joining the UC Vanguards first mission is passing a simulations ship combat free xp to run it over and over. Tier 3 in tech i believe your going to max ship designers it lets you use the best stuff for your ship. Max out particles cannons. Neon has some nasty ones 80 dmg to hull/shields with a range of 3000 or 3200. Max out those on yourship and add the same turret but make then auto turrets they do 150 to hull and shields. And finally buy some suppressors as your third. Or if you wanna nuke and leave no survivors theres also missiles there that do 277 add 2 of those and youll be unstoppable. So youve maxed the ship designer and piloting. And your just starting new game plus if your good at ship combat*** sell the missiles buy a suppressors and if you can afford 2 perfect. Then jump all the way to the level 70-75 areas. For 2 reasons it'll be worth it. Even if your a low level. Once there build an outpost on a planet where they have lots i mean lots of wildlife. Sleep get the buff. Also way back in new Atlantis go to the wells go to the cafee. Buy all the thier shepards pie. The pie gives you 2% exp buff for 60mins it stacks with sleeping buff. And if your married also it helps. Go buy yourself a good rifle and lots of ammo. If you invest in weapons mods upgrade your rifle (Advanced Beowulf) to max dmg mine was about 135dmg i think and it shoots cheap 7.7 i believe. Fly to your outpost shoot the wildlife that herds it self and they mass shoot anything really get yourself to level 60 fairly quickly then your able to buy the best of the best stuff for your ship. Also before you build your outpost on your way to that level 70 zone fly pass the crimson fleet the key. They spawn alot of ships. Power down weapsons and max into grav drive bc we out dis bish. On your way to that level 70 75 zone use your suppressed weapons and shoot out out engines and board the ship take only armor and weapon's. They sell for the most. If the ships better then yours class b keep it sell your ship. Buy a suppressors and repeat until you get to your level 70 75 world with wildlife. By then you should have a class C ship worth around 250k to 300k that youve stolen from pirates or spacers. Then my favorite part familiarize yourself witb ship building. And edit your 250k ship add build your own. Save yourself money by using their reactor and gravjump and shields and probably some good particle cannons. I should make a youtube it would have been easier to show and explain haha. But loving the game so far. Just starting my third playthrough

The reason you buid an OP early is for the power leveling you can do with Al and Fe farms. You don't really make them to accumlate resources.

Get the personal atmosphere skill so you have infinite 02 while its active.

Too late, i spent 50+ hours making ships and outposts only to walk away from them in NG+. I'm now going to NG+10 and THEN i'll start over :) Its ok, as elaborate my network of outposts were, I can build them again, better than before :)

Finally! Someome who doesnt assume i played Fallouts. Im a Skyrim boy 😊 thanks!

There is an update coming for the map inside cities

Bind the Boost key to left Alt, it will let you boost faster and further.

Matis armor is better then the Mark I?

so the only thing different than fallout 4 is 1 you have a ship and 2 new game plus adds a feature you don't have to spend so long in console commands giving yourself experience to max out your character to get the skills you want. oh and gathering resources is far easier.

Just commenting because all I needed was the thumbnail lol,why did I not think of checking the settings