Hey All, A few people have pointed out they prefer the default/unique all in one hab as it also includes a bed anyway. So choose your preference, but note if you delete the default on you can't get it back. I've been using the captains quarters all of my playthrough but of course you go with what you like most!

The ship builder could use an "Inside Preview" Option.

You can fill the third weapon slot with an EM weapon and just not dedicate any power to it. This way you can take down the shields or destroy ships with the beam weapon and missiles, but if you want to board the ship, you can reroute power from the missiles to the EM weapon once you drop the shields. This will allow you to take out engines easily if you want to board enemy ships without potentially destroying them. It won't affect your overall effectiveness because you can just not have them powered when your goal is destroying rather than boarding. Makes it super easy to steal ships if you want to build more or farm the enemies on the inside for more exp.

Just keep the Frontier module... the Captains quarters actually doesn't add anything that the Frontier module doesn't have already. If you deleted it take the All-in-one A module, it is the same, but it is missing some themed items like the broken helmet. The All-in-one A usually has a bed, research station and a cooking module, also 2 passenger slots. If it doesn't have any of those three, then you might have to change the location to the left or right, since things move depending on where doors are.

DO NOT DELETE the Frontier module! It is uniquely named and spawns the broken Constellation helmet. It has a bed and research station, enough for a start. I would get the captain's crew quarters and control hub as they both have a storage crate with 150 capacity for 300 total, which is very handy for storing stuff early on when you're hurting for cargo space and don't have the funds to offset low mobility with weapons and engines. Workshop and research modules seemingly make sense, but I wager you're probably going to be spend a lot of time grinding at first. I'm 50 hours in and on hardest difficulty, I have enough stupid to throw at my enemies without bothering to update any single of my weapons or equipment. Combat is quite satisfying, I'm drowning in med packs, and I rarely buy things. I mostly sell my loot, just so much loot I barely have enough cargo space. Crafting in this game is not nearly as satisfying as it was in Fallout 4.

I didn't quite have available to me exactly what you have - haven't unlocked some of the components - but just having you guide me through each of the ship components and suggest each upgrade was huge. Great guide! Thank you so much!

I struggled for over an hour trying to correct all the flight errors making a custom ship and then ended up just reloading my last save and giving up. I will be using this design for sure. Thanks a lot for this!

The video was very thorough and helpful enough...then I come and check out the comments. EXTREMELY helpful everyone, thank you for your contributions. Ended up taking bits from commentors to really customize the Frontier and its awesome!

I usually avoid guides like the plague until I have done a playthrough, but there is so little info in game on this and not being able to even get close to a ship battle without being blasted, well here I am and this was so well done I subbed just to say thankyou.

This was a helpful video! I'd already stolen a couple of better ships, but switching out to these specific weapons and shield upgrades and dropping the 3rd weapon has definitely upped my space combat game. Thanks for the info!

I've been struggling with ship building the last 2 days after I stole a pirate ship and tried to upgrade it. This video really explained things better than any others. I wish that when choosing modules there was a preview of what each one looked like inside. Loving the game but as a UI designer, there are some UI quirks that feel not thought out well or just bizarre.

this is why i always watch guides even after learning tons.. i never knew about the windows. this will make things more immersive for sure,

Just finished watching 4 videos on this exact subject and yours is by far the best bang for the buck, and the most expositional (in a good way). Thanks!

This tutorial is excellent. XP and Credits aren't an issue for me (I was late to ship building), however, this budget build was excellent for getting me started. Thanks for walking me (us) through it.

Great build, although I had to realize myself that the Amun-1 engine has abysmal efficiency... 5660 thrust for 100 mass, meanwhile other engines can have double or more than thrust for the same mass. The problem is that those other engines are side-mounted, but you can provide the side mounting if you do the following: when you're replacing the grav drive to a stronger one, choose the one that has side mount options, and actually move it below the power plant, effectively switching the position of the back cargo and the (upgraded grav drive). Then you can add the side mounted better efficiency thrusters underneath the other thruster pair.

THIS VIDEO!!!!!! Mate, this is BY FAR the easiest to understand "How-to" vid ive seen so far !!!!! I was already subbed, but man, you outdid yourself here imo!!! Tyvm for this piece of excellence bossman!!!

Very nice job and easy to understand. This was one of the things I was rather timid about thinking I would "break" the ship. Thank you...

I know this makes me look stupid, but when you double-clicked and you where able to change the color of the whole ship, my mind was blown. That alone made it worth watching.

Went and did this twice, first to build my ship, then again to really understand what it all means. Fantastic video, much appreciate the effort you put into this.

Top tier content mate! Used your build almost exactly and love it! That extra cargo space makes the game more enjoyable during early game as well

Thank you very much, I have played many many hours, and was frustrated on the building aspect. You have made it clear, and now I have the basic down. MUCH appreciated.

Mate, thank you so much - you're the first person that has succeeded in showing me how the ship building system works! Subscribed and thanks again.

For those having issues with the ship component options being limited, you MUST be in Atlantis for those options to appear. I was in a different city on a different planet in a different system and those options were not available to me I assumed i was not far enough into the story for it but upon following the directions completely I realized I needed to be in this city. This was the situation for me so if someone else is having the same issue as I was thats the reason. Follow exactly what he is telling you to do and it should be smooth sailing/exploring. Each city has a ship component "theme" and specific parts are only available in those cities so if you don't find what your looking for chances are your on the wrong planet/system. Hope this helps, happy building/exploring👍

Wow! This is the build/video I was looking for. Gives me everything I want and need. Thx Arekkz!

Followed your guide almost to the t. Slightly different add-on engines, but virtually identical stats. Works great, freaking love having all the work stations. Thank you.

Man, I have been completely lost when it comes to the ship building feature, but after watching your video, I think I can give it a shot again. Thanks for the detailed info, very much appreciated it!

Personally, I'd keep the default hab, which has both the bed and research station, and just add the workshop hab in a vertical position. Save a bit on mass, and the only thing you lose inside is the pharmaceutical bench...which I've never had a reason to use anyway. You find soooo much medical items all over the place

An absolutely brilliant and clear explanation - thanks so much!

Absolutely beautiful video i finally understand how the building systems work. thank you

Thanks a lot for this video. I just recently had a chance to play Starfield, and I’m loving the game. I reached 3 or 4 missions that had space fights and I hated them. This really helped me in my play thru and understand the ship builder better.

Thanks so much! I didn't find upgrading the ship to be intuative at all and was struggling (apparently watching every episode of Star Trek ever didn't prepare me for Starfield) - so thank you :)

Maaan, finally someone made me understand ship building. Now I enjoy the jumps and even mining the asteroids on the orbit of the planets. I thought had a bad start on the game and after 30+ hours was thinking about to restart. You saved me from another character creation. 🤗

The starting center hab has a bed already and feels a lot more open when entering the ship.

Excellent video! Just what I was looking for.

Awesome video. Been stumbling with game in design and this helps greatly. Thank you!

Thanyou for info, starting this game and thought ship building was going to be a pain glad to see it simplfied a bit, and on my starter ship no less

thank you. very concise and to the point. plus great little tidbits of information. awesome content.

Huge help thank you for this! Doing this every NG as well so it helps get used to the ship builder

Great vid, been looking for some good Starfield content, very useful ... subscribed!

Awesome video! Thanks for making this.

An interesting build...I've never thought of trying out the PB-30 Electron Beam Weapons (@8:12) I wouldn't delete the orginal Hab or Cockpit of the FRONTIER, cause they are not buy backs. Play your ship until you make the Credits to buy a new ship , or steal one. Personally I would focus in order : 1) *Shields* 2) *Weapons* (Vanguard mission = Tau Ceti gives you access to *_4 or more Vanguard Obliterators Autoprojectors_*) 3) *Grav Drive* to increase the Weapons power systems 4) *Engines* for Space Combat mobility 5) *Fuel* to increase distance jumping from system to system 6) *Cargo* increase for more Resources 7) *Habs* for comfort and looks

Brilliant guide, I had no clue about shop upgrading as Im still new and was struggling with a few dogfights - thank you for this.

What a fantastic video Great job! You earned yourself an instant subscriber :-)

I absolutely love the ship design however I don’t personally like the captains quarters in the very middle of the ship. The captains room should be private from everyone as it’s your room. :)

I had no idea about the double click to colour the whole ship, nice tip!

straight to the point , thank you .

Thank so much for this guide. Now I feel like I have a decent starter ship!

I did the same but I had the cockpit at the right hand side, assymetrical, and added some Stroud nice curvy "fangs" on the other. Pretty nice stuff, what this game allows for.

Thank you for this video!! Seriously helped me soooo much with ship building. Thank you, thank you, thank you

Damn, haven't been here since PS4's Monster Hunter. Glad to see you still making quality content

Thank you for taking the time to make the video. I tried to do this exactly as you did on the Xbox but I could not get the Helios 300 it only had the 200 so I went with a different module and I was unable to make the build work. I had too much mass. I messed around a bit and it worked out in the end though. :D

I’ve been playing for 4 days time and I just found out about the different variants of Habs. Wow this game is amazing lol thanks for showing!

You helped me with this so much. Now I really understand how ship upgrades work :) Thank you.

Great video, and tips.

Fantastic guide, thanks!

This helped me a lot to understand the ship builder. Thanks!

Thanks for the video. I followed it and now it looks nicer. Thanks again

Thanks for the video, very helpful to upgrade the Frontier early (and a good tutorial for the build mode). However, in my game, I don't have the Helios grav drive an the Marduk shield. But the global modification are still doable with lesser part

Nice pick on the weapons. I added the crafty habs linear, and added two more of the same engines, lol. I got it to 1090 cargo so far, and can add +2 more of the big +320 cargo pods. Once I unlock class B engines & power plants, tho…

Nice vid. Learned a couple of things. Did similar changes, but, removed lasers for Disrupters and removed Missiles, and Balistics and put in a pair of the PB-30's. May regret it later if I find I really needed missiles, but, so far the Disrupter pair and PB-30 pair seem to be working well together.

Space combat is really kicking my butt and I had no idea about the many options I have for ship upgrades and building. I want a ship that can fight but can also take punishment from enemy ships. Thank you for the video.

Great video! But available choices in my game were a bit different. Also, I kept the original Frontier module. It had a bed, and just has that cozy, familiar look. It also has a research station and kitchen, so all the science module really adds in a ddition to that is a pharmaceutical station.

Double Click to color the whole ship DUDE!!!!!!! Great video, time saver....

Thanks...been searching for a guide video like this since I started playing about 6 hours ago ..LOL

Your Video made my day! So much more room and capability! Thank you!

Nicely done, best explanation/tutorial I have seen on ship building

Good informative video, thanks!

You gave me some ideas for moding my Frontier. Thanks!

Super awesome and will do!

New sub here just from this vid. Thanks for all the great info!

Thank u so much this helped me loads 🤘

Very helpful thank you. Playing on hard hasn’t been that difficult but with ship combat….If there are 3 or more ships I’m screwed

Thanks for a super helpful and very clear video

Sweet. I plan to keep the Frontier for a while this time through, and this is a fantastic vid. Thanks...

Thanks for the video! I appreciate that you went slowly to make the interface much more understandable, before that, ship building was pretty daunting and uninteresting due to the barrier of entry just from a UI perspective!

Very good tip thanks you.

load up on Particle weapons to wreck enemies early game. later, go particle heavy, and have a few EM weapons to steal ships and make a couple bucks or get a platform to use.

SO AWESOME THANK YOU !!!!

Just the appearance is awesome enough to get a "Like." That looks fearsome.

Thank you so much for this 😎🥂✨

thanks a lot! that really helped

Thanks for the tips

You got my sub this is a life saver. tyvm

Thank you for this. Finally got around to playing more Starfield. The system is so bulky and unintuitive I had to look for help. This has got me started. At least for building starships.

Gave me some ideas, to build to the sides, and underslung engines. Also I’ll be colouring the whole thing much more easily.

Awesome - thanks

I find that early game a one weapon system is best. You can dedicate all energy to one weapon system and your rate of fire will increase. Idk if damage increases also, but I don’t think so.

Excellent video! Thank you for that. It gives top notch info on both a particular topic and some help on starting to upgrade and even build generally. Very useful! But are there any necessary skills you need as a prerequisite?

I’m new to SF! I did this build! I made my ship a little more beefy tho! It looks awesome!

Great Video, thank you...i will definitely try this one 🌍💙

That was really helpful

Saving for tonight’s playing

Yay, I started last week and I put about 18 hours into one character but I didn't like her background and I made her a UC Citizen but I wanted her to be more of a nomad so I restarted and now I'm happy with my Enlightened Pilgrim. I have $80+ so I'm ready to upgrade my ship and start an outpost!

Awesome video, liked, subscribed and here's a comment sir

You can have 3 crew to start with. I actually run the computer core or whatever its called for the 3rd slot and crew buffs ship weapons. Able to take on ships that are out of my level range.

Used this simple build with class c in mid-game and it’s solid

Legend fr built it the exact way for anyone wondering if it actually helps destroy other ships yes!

Few things to consider if you want to min-max A class ships. I would go one weapon type only, easy to manage energy and only one damaging perk required to be effective. Beam weapons are highly recommended they do everything good. - Shield Generator: 30S Protector vs Marduk 1010-A. You get better Shield capacity to price ratio with 30S and it has 5 max power instead of 4 on Marduk. - Electron Beam: Disruptor 3300 vs PB-30. 59% less cost for 8% less DPS and 86% more range. - Engines: overall the best in the game engines in scope of rates of Mass/Health/Thrust/Manoeuvre/Price will be White Dwarf 1020 for better Manoeuvre and White Dwarf 2010 for better thrust (heavier ships). 4800 and 6350, but you need other dock that sell them. As for other best value out of your money: - Grav Drive: Helios 300 absolute champ if you don't want to invest in ship research perks both in A and B classes - Reactor: 360T Stellarator same here, great value without investment for both A and B classes. - Cargo: Actually the lowest cost one has best ratio of Mass/Cargo/Price, but if you are low on wielding points 116 mass cargo will be second best. - Fuel Tank: 900T He3 will your best Mass/Fuel/Price ratio with M50 Ulysses He3 being second best. While i was writing this comment i noticed that only reason to go for Class B ships without ship research will be PBO-100 Auto Neutron Beam. An i think it's not worth to go to Class B for me personally or i need to invest into ship research perks to validate going Class B ships.

Thank you, this ship help me beat the crimson mission I was stuck on!!!!!!!!

So useful, at least I know what I'm up to tonight