Starfield - Ultimate SHIP BUILDING Guide

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

today I want to show you how to build and

customize your own spaceship in Starfield.

So for me personally, I believe that the

shipbuilding aspects of the game is

probably the most interesting part of the

game, and it's basically the only part of

the game that lets you have full creative

control over what you are doing. I think

Starfield probably has one of the most

in-depth shipbuilding and ship

customization systems in any kind of

sci-fi game, but it can be kind of

overwhelming if you're new to it. So I

thought I'd make a quick guide on how to

build your own ship and what everything

does and what everything means. So first

of all, you want to a shipyard. I like

this one called Deimos, but there are

other shipyards you can find across the

galaxy. And the Deimos one is in the Sol

galaxy, or as we call it in the real

world, the Milky Way galaxy. I don't know

why it's called the Sol system, but you

know, whatever. And you can find the

Deimos Star Yard nearby Mars, orbiting

Mars. There's a few other star yards or

shipyards in other systems, and they're

basically the same as this one, but they

just sell slightly different parts and

components. You can also modify your ship

by going to ship technicians who are on

the ground on certain planets in certain

outposts. So if you talk to that guy and

you click on Show Me My Ships, you'll be

able to see your ships. You'll probably

have this ship called Frontier if you're

still new to the game, but obviously it

won't look like this because I customized

and modified my Frontier to look really

cool. Do you like my wings? I think it

looks pretty good. And I also have this

second ship that I stole. It's called the

Varun Hymn. And actually, I have to

register this ship, and that would cost me

17,000 credits to register it, and then I

can start building it. But I don't really

care about this ship too much, so I

probably won't waste my credits. So let's

go in and have a look at the ship builder.

The controls, first of all, are quite

simple. To move the camera around like

this, you use the WASD keys. And to move

the camera around or pan it around like

that, you hold down the right button. And

then to select and move objects, and you

just left-click it and drag it around like

that. And then to move up and down, like

vertically, use F and R. R goes

up and F goes down. And whilst you're

holding items or objects and you hold R or

hold F, you can go up and down and place

them on different levels like that. You

see, goes up and down, up and down. And

the objects connect to each other via the

blue circles like that, and when it snaps

on, it will go green. Now a few tips. If

you want to select multiple ship parts at

the same time instead of just doing it one

by one like this, hold down Ctrl and it

will select multiple ship parts at the

same time. And then you can move them all

around like that all at once and

completely destroy your ship. But if you

do that by accident and accidentally

destroy your ship like that, then all you

have to do is hold down Ctrl and then Z to

undo, and then Ctrl and Y to redo, so that

would redo it. And if you want to select

every part of the ship, you have to hold

Ctrl and then double-click on one part,

and then it will select the entire ship.

And then you can just move around the

entire thing or just delete the entire

thing like, like this. And that's what

we're gonna do because we're going to be

making a brand new ship from scratch, and

I'll show you just how to do it. Okay, so

building a ship is very easy. It's kind of

like making Lego, or Legos as Americans

like to say. Press G or click on this Add

button at the bottom right, and here

you'll see all the different components in

different categories. We need at least one

of each of these, or sometimes maybe 2 or

more. So we got shields, we got

structural, which is just like cosmetic

things to create like an interesting

looking ship. We got weapons, bays,

cargo, cockpits, dockers, engines, fuel

tanks, gear, grav drives, habs. You get

the point. We need all of these. So I like

to look at the habs first. This is like

the main body parts of the ship, and this

will determine what your ship's going to

look like. As you can see, there's many

different shapes and sizes. We've got the

3x3, the 3x2, 3x1, the 2x1, and the 1x1.

So there's also different types of rooms.

So you can see little gray dashes under

the names. We've got different variants.

So we got the all-in-one berth, We've got

the armory, 2 by 1. We've got the

captain's quarters, the computer core,

the control station, the infirmary, the

living quarters, the science lab, the

workshop. And it's kind of up to you what

kind of ship you want to build. You want

to build like a small and nimble

starfighter, or do you want to build like

a massive big ship that has basically

every kind of room and plenty of cargo?

And also you can see these arrows. 4 means

front, so this will be the front of the

ship. Aft is the back of the ship,

starboard is that side, and port side is

that side. So let's, let's choose the

cargo hall 2x3 because it's an interesting

shape. And then next you want to get a

cockpit. And the problem is I want to put

it on top of here, but I can't because

there's nothing to connect it. So what we

can do is we can click on this and

duplicate it, or duplicate it by holding

down Ctrl and then pressing G will create

another copy of it. And And we just place

that straight on top to make like 2

levels, I guess. And then the cockpit can

go— I know it can't go there. So what

we're gonna have to do is we're gonna have

to raise this entire thing to go above the

landing gear. I was hoping I could put a

landing bay like on the same level as

this thing, but it doesn't seem like I

can. So I put the cockpit— so I still

can't put it there for some reason. So I

put it one level above like this. That

looks okay, I guess. And And then I'll

move the landing bay back a little bit

like that. So the landing bay is there.

Okay, so next we're going to need a

docker, and the docker is going to let you

dock with other ships. And this usually

needs to be at the very top of the ship.

So you just get this thing and then you

place it down. Maybe, maybe there will be

a good place. You have to check later

because sometimes it will say the docker

is not connected to the cockpit, which I

don't understand because it obviously is

connected somehow. And then the next parts

we're going to need is an engine. So yeah,

we're going to pick the engine. Now you

see the mass is a red number, that's

because we don't have an engine.

Basically you need to have powerful enough

engines to be able to lift the amount of

mass you have. So let's just choose this

really big one. I also— you have to be

careful about this class thing. You see it

says Class B, so the cheapest The cheapest

components are going to be Class A, which

confused me because I thought, you know,

usually A is the best in class and then F

is like the worst, but it goes the other

way around in this game. A is the worst

and then B is better and then C is the

best. But to be able to use B and C class

parts, you need a B or C reactor, and we

don't have a B or C reactor because we

haven't leveled up the piloting skills.

So if you just pause it quickly, I can't

exit the building thing, so I'll show you

it later. But there's skills for piloting

that lets you unlock Class B and C

components. Right now we don't have access

to that because I haven't leveled up

enough. But anyway, what was I saying?

Engines. Yeah, so for the engines, we are

limited to the Class A engines because we

didn't level up our piloting skills. But

that's okay because these engines should

be good enough. So you just get like

engine here. I don't know where you want

to put it. Could put one there.

And then you want to do Ctrl+G to create

another one, and then you want to press Z

to flip it. And as you can see, we have

now enough— we've now got enough engines

and our mass is no longer red, it's now

like a light blue. And then next you want

to get some fuel tanks. I like this one

because it kind of matches with my ship's

theme. Ctrl+G to duplicate it

and then Z to flip it again. And

basically, the better the fuel tank, the

further you can jump to other systems, so

it's pretty important. Okay, so next we

want landing gear. So ships in this game

need to have legs so they can land on the

legs. So we're going to use these

legs, and you have to place them

underneath somewhere so it's touching the

ground like that. Then we're going to

Ctrl+G and put one there. And I

guess we're going to need another 2,

otherwise this is not very stable. So

Ctrl+G again, put one there, and Ctrl+G,

put one here. Next we need to get a

reactor. Now the reactor is very

important, it's going to give us power.

And as you can see, here is the amount of

power, and as long as this is blue and not

red, then that's good. So different

reactors give more power depending on how

good they are. So let's say we're going to

get this, it doesn't really matter too

much, and then we'll just put it— let's

put it maybe here. And it actually says we

got red, which means our reactor is not

powerful enough. So we can only have one

reactor, so we probably have to go and

look for a more powerful reactor, like,

uh, yeah, maybe this one would be better.

Let's see. Yeah, now it's not red anymore,

so I think we have enough power. And if

you press C, it will tell you your errors.

So right now our ship is missing a grav

drive, and we need more grav jump thrust,

and we also need weapons and assign

weapons, and we need a shield. Okay, so

let's get the grav drive and the shields.

Where's the grav drive?

Grav drives. So yeah, just pick one of

these, doesn't really matter too much.

Just get the one you like the look of.

And I like to put it on the back there.

And then we'll get some,

some shields. This menu thing

is kind of annoying, it's hard to find

stuff. So I don't know, just get like that

shield and put it there. And what else do

we need? I think we need

some weapons. Yeah, so you go to the

weapons.

Why can I not see the weapons? Sometimes

this menu thing is weird because it

doesn't show you everything, then you

click off it and click it again, then it

does show you everything. There's weapons.

So we got cannons, suppressors,

autocannons, lasers, missile launchers.

They all do slightly different things,

like the missiles do very high damage but

then you got to have missiles, I guess.

And then the electron beam does good rapid

damage, and the cannons do— I don't know,

they all just seem to do damage, I guess.

But the suppressor does electromagnetic

damage, which is good for disabling your

enemy ship so you can board them. I'll

show you the boarding process later. The

annoying thing is you can't have more than

one of the same weapon because I kind of

wanted to have like 3 cannons, but you

can't. You can only have one cannon and

then one laser and then one suppressor.

So just like choose this one and then drag

it somewhere onto the ship,

like, like that. It could go up there.

And then maybe have 2 more weapons, one

there and one there.

It's doing that thing again. Look, it's

not showing the weapons on the list until

I exit and then move over to the side a

bit and And now it shows me the weapons.

Okay, and then we can have— what did I put

first? Uh, suppressor. Okay, like a

suppressor.

Um, some reason, for some reason it's not

letting me put the suppressor anywhere.

Not sure why. I'll just get a laser and

put it underneath like that and press C,

see what errors we have. Uh, we go to

weapons, assign the weapons, by clicking

on Weapons and then just assigning them

like this. And then we've got Ship Reactor

Class contains modules that exceed Reactor

Class. So we probably accidentally chose

some B-class modules that we shouldn't

have. I'm not sure what I chose. Oh, I

accidentally chose a B-class shield

generator when I shouldn't have. So let's

get a different shield, A-class. And we've

got one warning: ship is missing a weapon

assignment. So actually, I think the ship

would fly. It's just telling us we could

have one more weapon if we really wanted

to. So that's basically it. But one of my

favorite things to do is I like to go into

structural, and then I like to get the,

the port side porthole, foreside porthole,

and then you can just put some nice little

windows like that. It looks really nice

when you're inside of the ship like this,

and then get another one. Like that, or

maybe not there, maybe here. And then

we'll get another window, put it up there,

get another window, put it there.

So we've got a nice view when we're inside

of the ship. And we can put some around

the backside.

So we have one there and there

and there. And maybe a little window

there. Now you can really do a lot with

the customization with the structural

components. For example, we can get this

bracer and create like a wing. So we can

put this bracer thing and just put it

there, and then we can attach the fuel

tank to the little wing thing so it looks

like a TIE fighter, like a TIE bomber.

You can really get creative with this and

just spend hours tinkering with the way

your ship looks, and it's actually quite

fun. I could get maybe another one of

these and it can go, can go there. Looks

pretty cool like that. Do the same to this

side. Well, that looks kind of

interesting, don't you think? Looks kind

of weird though. This ship is not the

best-looking ship I've built, I have to

say. And then we could add some extra

engines onto the top like that, maybe. So

we have more speed. This is the weirdest

looking ship. It's like really wide but

really short lengthways. So we could

add some extra habs to the backside to

kind of even out. So we could get like a,

um, where is it,

habs. We could get a

2x1 captain's

quarters or living quarters for the crew.

So you have like the living quarters here.

So we will get rid of the window, get rid

of these 2 windows maybe, and then put the

crew quarter there. And then we could have

the captain's quarters.

Captain's quarters can go there, and then

maybe we can have like a connecting bit

here so they can have like a bridge that

connects the 2 parts. And then for

stability, we could just move these legs

over to there like that.

This is kind of a strange-looking ship,

but that's the fun thing about it. You can

make whatever you want to make. It's up to