Starfield: How To Store Items On Your Ship

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Your spaceship is your most important tool in Starfield. You can use it to travel the galaxy, fight enemy ships, and store all the stuff you can’t carry around with you. Because inventory space is so tight in the Settled Systems, you’ll need to dump items in your ship cargo hold every so often. Not only does your ship have a large inventory, but it can be expanded. Inventory space is a huge problem in Starfield, one we’ve talked about multiple times.

Here, we’ll talk about the most basic step of storage — how to actually access your ship inventory and store items on the ship. It isn’t as easy as it sounds. Once you’ve learned more, I recommend checking out how to increase inventory space and cargo size. You may also want help ranking up Weight Lifting to carry more stuff with your custom character.

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Every ship has two cockpit storage containers — the ship inventory (cargo hold) and the Captain’s Locker. Depending on your ship, you may also have more storage containers, ammo containers, chests and other lockers, but we’ll be ignoring those for now.

It’s easy once you get the hang of it. Here’s a shorter explanation.

Your Cargo Hold, like your personal inventory, has a limited amount of space available. You’ll see the max mass at the bottom of the item list on the left. There’s more you need to know about Cargo, so here’s a quick list of bullet points you should keep in mind.

That’s what makes the Cargo Hold so useful. It can store valuable items that you can then use to sell, research, or