Starfield ships explained: Building, best designs & cool ships to steal

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Bethesda knew what we wanted from a spacefaring RPG — and it was outpost building and shipbuilding.

For the latter, we have Starfield ships explained with how to go about building them, the best designs and cool ships to steal.

The shipbuilding aspect of the game is easily one of the most interesting — and, fortunately for the tinkerers out there, the system in place is very comprehensive with many modules, weapons, engines and more to choose from.

Coupled with the character creator, it’s a wonder that any of us have actually found the time to play any of the quests.

Building a sneaky smuggling ship with Shielded Cargo will allow you to ferry contraband, too, so it feels like the possibilities are quite endless.

As well as building ships, you can recruit and assign companions to increase their stats, as well as romance them.

With that said, there’s a big spaceship-shaped hole in our hearts, so let’s get to it and see all there is to know about shipbuilding in Starfield!

To build ships in Starfield, you need to head to a spaceport and speak with the ship technician, and then you can ask to customise a ship in your collection, register a new one, repair your ship or buy a new one outright.

Or, if you have built a large landing pad at an outpost, you can use the shipbuilding terminal to do it yourself.

I.Eat.Games on YouTube has a great guide on shipbuilding if you’d rather watch and listen.

For those who like reading, we’ll continue!

When in the ship viewer, go onto the Ship Builder by pressing X (on Xbox) or the B key (on PC).

You can move and replace the individual modules by selecting them and pressing Edit. If you make a mistake, you can undo and redo actions.

To get to different modules, you can change the level by