How to Build Your First Ship in Starfield - Shipbuilding Guide

Hello and welcome back to a new video.

Today this is going to be a shipbuilding

guide, how to get started building—

fucking idiot getting in my shot. Hello,

welcome back to a new video. Today I'm

gonna be doing a shipbuilding guide, how

to get started, and some secret tips

nearing the middle to the end of the

video. Okay, so before you even start to

think about building your ship, there's

first of all some very important skill

points you really need to have. So you

need targeting control systems and and

this will let you target specific parts of

enemy ships, most importantly the engines,

so you can dock them. Once you've taken

out their shields and disabled their

engines, you can then dock them and then

either take over the ship or destroy the

ship. And you can actually steal your

enemy's ship, which is pretty cool. Also,

the piloting skill point is very nice

because now you can unlock the ability to

pilot Class B and C ships. So maybe you

can't build B and C class ships yet, but

you can steal a Class B or C ship if you

dock an enemy B or C ship. But you know,

we're not really into stealing ships here,

we're more into building our own ship. So

what you want to get is Starship Design,

and this will basically just give you

access to improved ship modules, rank 1,

2, 3, and 4 modules, and also let you have

access to Class B and C reactors, which

you need if you want to use Class B and C

other ship modules like weapons and

engines. You won't be able to use B or C

modules unless you have a B or C reactor,

and you can't use a B or C reactor unless

you have advanced piloting ranks unlocked.

So before you start wasting points in, I

don't know, science or combat, you might

want to think about putting those points

into tech, into piloting first, if your

main priority is going to be building

ships and having fun with the space

combat. So in Starfield, there's lots of

different types and designs of starships

sold by different companies, and they can

be found across the galaxy. In the Narion

system, you're going to find the

Stroud-Eklund Star Yard. In the Sol

system, you'll find the Deimos Star Yard

nearby Mars. In the Krix system, you'll

find the Crimson Fleet headquarters called

the Key. So it's up to you to choose what

kind of style of starship you're going to

go for. Taiyo Astroneering has like this

rounded, very stylized look, whereas

Deimos has like a very boxy military kind

of look. Okay, so what you want to do is

just head to one of the showrooms or one

of the star yards or one of the shops that

sell ship parts in Neon and go to the

sales assistant and just press Well, you

can see what kind of ships they sell, so

maybe have a look at that first. Just

basically pre-built ships that are very

expensive. If you're lazy and you don't

want to build anything, then you could

just buy a ship if you've got loads of

money, I guess. And these ships do get

increasingly more expensive and larger in

size as you get towards the end. And this

is the most expensive one, 360,000

credits. It better be good. Okay, so this

is my ship. As you can see, it's, it's

pretty complicated. There's a lot of parts

and each part is very important. And it's

basically like an infinite amount of ways

that you can customize this ship to look

exactly how you want it to look. I myself

wanted to have like these wings that come

out the side with the weapons mounted on

the end of the wings, and I wanted like

this massive engine system on the back,

and I went for like this starfighter kind

of design. Okay, so let's go through the

parts one by one. First you got the

cockpit, very important. That's where

you're going to sit to fly the ship. And

then you need landing gear. And if your

ship's really big and heavy, then you

might need more than 4 pieces of landing

gear. So to build a ship, it's not very

complicated. You just need one of each of

all the different ship components, and

they have to kind of line up and not go in

weird places. And then you just kind of

drag and drop these components like that

and place them connecting to the blue

circles. And as long as it's not red,

then it'll be fine, really. Some little

tips are if you double-click on your ship,

you'll be able to select the entire thing,

and then you can either just move it

around or delete the whole thing. Like

this by pressing Delete, and then press

Ctrl+Z, then it'll undo. And if you select

a component and hold Ctrl and press G,

hold G, then you can duplicate the

component like that. But anyway, I want to

talk about the most interesting parts of

shipbuilding, and that is the weapons. So

it took me a long time. I think I've been

playing this game for like a week, and I

only just found out yesterday that you can

have 4 of the weapons. I thought you can

only have 1 missile launcher, but I've

actually got quad missile launchers, and

they all fire at the same time and do

insane damage. I have tried adding 5 or 6

missile launchers, but it says I've got

too many weapons. So it seems like 4 is

the max. You see this bar here, Weapon 0?

Weapon 0 is assigned to the missiles, and

when this bar gets full up, then you can't

add any more weapon systems. So you got 3

weapon systems: Weapon 0, 1, and 2. On

Weapon 2, I've got these proton beams,

and then Weapon 3, I've got these

suppressors. Now, different types of

weapons do different types of damage. So

you've basically got 4 different types of

weapons. You've got the cannons or the

autocannons— they do ballistic damage and

they do very good hull damage but weak

shield damage. And then you've got the

suppressors— they do really good

electromagnetic damage, which is good for

disabling enemy systems. So if you want to

disable the enemy ship without destroying

them so you can board them, then having a

good suppressor is very handy. And then

you've got the laser weapons. They do

really good shield damage, but they do

less hull damage. And then you've got the

missile launchers, and they just basically

do amazing shield damage and hull damage,

and they do really good high damage, but

they do too much damage so that you might

accidentally destroy the enemy ship by

doing too much damage, and that might be

bad if you want to disable them. Now, as

you can see, if you keep scrolling down to

the bottom of the weapons list, you'll get

more and more powerful weapons. See these

Class C weapons? Well, you're gonna need a

Class C reactor to use them. And towards

the end of the list, you'll get things

like turrets, alpha turrets. And if you

get the piloting skill, you can actually

have these automated so they shoot at

enemies without you having to do anything.

So as you can see, you can get some really

cool weapons, but you're going to need

Starship Design Rank 4. So you

can see, getting the piloting skill points

is really important. Look at these missile

launchers, they're really nice, but it

says I needed Rank 2 Starship Design,

which I have. I'm currently working on

unlocking Rank 3 But you know, it's a slow

grind. I got these Starship Design Rank 2

engines, and I've got Starship Rank 2

shield generators. So my ship's nearly

full of Starship Rank 2 parts and Rank 1

parts, but need a lot of money to be able

to grind out and buy those parts. A good

way to test your ship out on real enemies

and earn some credits is to come to Mars

and then turn right here and then go to

the mission board, and they'll usually

have missions where you have to destroy

Crimson Fleet. Enemies. The problem is if

you start destroying Crimson Fleet ships,

then you're gonna get a bounty against you

and they're gonna be upset with you. But

if you take other missions from other

factions, they'll get you to destroy UC

ships or Freestar ships, and then you'll

have to pay them a bounty. So I guess you

have to pick at least one faction that

you're okay with fighting against. Okay,

so this is gonna be really easy. This is a

level 2 enemy and we're like level 28. So

before you go into battle, look at the

bottom left of screen, you've got

different systems. And use Z and X to

switch between the different systems, and

C to remove points from it, or V to

add energy to it. So we don't really need

too much in the engine, so I might just

put 2 there, and then I'll max out my

missile systems. And yeah, that'll be

fine. Then we just kind of head towards

this Crimson Fleet guy who thinks we're

his friend for some reason, but we're

gonna blow him up with my quad missiles.

Now watch my quad missiles fire. It's

insane. I don't know if it's going to hit

it from this range. I think it might hit

it. Yeah, we're kind of far away. Let's

get a bit closer. We're like 2,500 meters

away. And when you get near enough, you

can start locking onto it and you can do

the targeting system. Maybe I'll put a few

more points into my engines. It's taking

ages. But look at my quad missiles. It

looks so cool. I guess later we could try

the laser, like quad lasers on the

wingtips to have like that X-wing kind of

look. And we've got the right mouse button

does some kind of energy weapon, or was it

the autocannons? And then my third weapon

does like some energy. So we've locked on.

Have we locked on? Okay, now we fire quad

missiles. I'll probably one-shot it. Oh,

I took out its shields and half its hull

in one shot. Now watch. Oh my god, I just

like 2-shot this guy with quad missiles.

Didn't stand a chance. So if you want

maximum damage with each shot, I

definitely recommend going for the quad

missiles, but they do have a long reload

time if you don't put enough power into

the missile system. See, just a few shots

and we've run out of energy in the

missiles. We have to wait for it to reload

now. And as you can see on the right side

of the circle thing, it'll say missiles.

Does take quite a long time to start

recharging. Okay, we just jumped into a

level 20 to 30 star system and this guy

just popped up on my screen. Level 20,

the Valentine. Let's take this guy out.

So I'm gonna load up full systems onto the

missiles, all energy, take out his shields

easily. Watch this. So his shield's

already down, then we can just blow up his

engine. We could dock him. Should we dock

him? Can we dock him? I don't think I— oh,

you gotta disable the engines more. I

might accidentally blow him up though

before I destroy his engines. That's the

problem with missiles. You want something—

no, he's gonna blow up now. That's why

you need a suppressor, because it will

disable— oh, I can dock. Yeah, so you need

a suppressor to disable the systems

without accidentally blowing them up, and

quad missiles are not great for doing

that. So So I'm just gonna dock him. It's

quite fun docking the enemy ships and then

taking them out up close and personal.

Okay, so we're inside the ship. We can

either kill the crew or leave the ship,

and we can also steal their stuff from

inside their ship and steal their ship and

then go and sell it, which I might do

because I need credits. The ship's pretty

big. Is this where they— I will climb up

the stupid ladder again. Okay, I finally

found the cockpit. Oh my god, that took

ages. Then just take out the crew, use my

magic powers. They keep trying to arrest

me as well because I got a bounty. Got a

bounty of like 100,000 credits, as if I'm

gonna pay that. So that's the captain

there, and he's got some weapons. The fun

thing is you can steal— oh my god, what's

that legendary item helmet?

I got legendary helmet and 2,000 credits.

I'll take that. That's just the captain's

locker. Where's the cargo hold? Cargo hold

is over here. Oh, I got 1,600 credits.

Ship parts and some metals,

and then we can actually steal the ship,

I think. No, I need to upgrade my

piloting skill. Yeah, I might actually

unlock Class B. I don't know if this is a

Class C, because if it's a Class C, then I

can't take it. It might be a Class B, and

then I can take it. Oh, I can take it!

Yeah, this is a Class B ship. Wow, we

could sell this for parts and get quite a

lot of money. So we've now stolen the ship

and we can basically use it as our own

ship, or we can go and sell it. So what we

want to do to sell it is, uh,

we can go to Neon again because Neon is

friendly to me. A lot of the other places

like Crix Crimson Fleet and Freestar

places are hostile to me because I keep

accidentally killing them. Look, 100,000

credit bounty from Freestar Collective,

but they don't seem to be able to catch me

when I land on Neon.

Oh, it's out of fuel range. It's kind of

annoying, so I have to jump twice.

So say goodbye to my old ship. So when

we're talking to the sales assistant at a

star yard and we look at their ships, we

can press R to sell our ship. So this is

the ship I stole. It's called the

Valentine. Wow, look at this ship.

Compared to my ship, the Frontier. So my

ship has reactor of 23, this one has 18,

so mine's better. This has 19 light-year

jump distance, mine has 25. Mine has 624

shields, this has 684, so this has

slightly better shields. And in order to

sell it or to customize the ship, we have

to register the ship, and that's going to

cost us 24,000 credits, which seems

expensive, but usually we can sell the

ship for more than it costs to register

So, so to sell the ship, it would cost—

but first we need to make the other ship

our home ship. So first we make this our

home ship, and then we go back, and then

we see her selection,

and then we can go to our ship and then

sell. And we can set it for 29,000, so it

costs 25,000 to register, so we profit

like 5,000. But let's— before we do that,

let's, um, because I want to see the

individual parts,

we can go into Ship Builder and we can see

what parts it has. So it's got Class B

neutron beam and a— what else does it

have? It's got Class B parts for almost

everything. So that's pretty good because

I don't have access to Class B stuff yet

because I don't have enough ranks on the

piloting skill. Uh, I think I'd rather

just sell the ship because it's kind of

ugly and it doesn't seem that great even

though it's Class B. So I'm just gonna go

ahead and sell it.

Sell. 29,000. Yes,