In Starfield, it's possible to build new spaceships from scratch. Our guide explains how you can achieve this using the ship editor of the space role-playing game.
How to build a new spaceship in Starfield (TLDR):
Building a new ship in Starfield might seem off the table at first glance, as the Ship Builder appears to only grant access to existing spacecraft in your possession for modifications and part swaps. However, creating a completely new vessel from scratch in an empty Ship Builder is indeed doable.
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If you're not familiar with Starfield's ship building, here's a quick look at it all. In order to modify or build a ship, you need to open the Ship Builder, but this doesn't work at all times or in all places.
You can only access the Ship Builder via a ship technician, whom you have to talk to. These guys can often be found in spaceports, for example in New Atlantis. This is also the easiest place to get to, as long as your ship is not on the edge of the universe.
In New Atlantis, a ship's technician is standing by at the vending machine of the trade supervision, and thus almost directly in front of the ship. Select the dialog option "I want to see and modify my ships" to display the Ship Builder.
The ship editor opens as usual with a model of your home ship, which you can now modify part by part. However, to build a completely new ship, move the mouse cursor to any part of the current ship and double-click it. All parts of the ship will then light up red, which means that all parts are selected.
What comes now, you may already know from other editors or from Windows: Press the Delete key ("Del") to delete all parts of the ship. This way you really remove the complete spaceship and only an empty space remains.
And that's almost it. Lastly, simply press the "G" key for "Add" to open the window with all the ship parts that can be built (see picture below). Use the "Q" and "T" keys to navigate between categories within the window, such as reactors, shield and structure. We wish you success in building your first space ride!
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