Starfield: Build a New Ship From Scratch, Here's how it Works

Starfield: Build a New Ship From Scratch, Here’s how it Works

By Alex NeySeptember 18, 20233 Mins Read Guide

Can you build a new ship in Starfield? Our guide shows that it is possible – and it works almost the same way as the folder selection in Windows.

Here’s the deal: Building a new ship in Starfield is not possible at first glance. Because the Ship Builder apparently only lets you access the existing spaceships in your possession and change individual parts of them. However, a complete new construction in an empty Ship Builder is actually possible. Our guide shows you how to “empty” the Ship Builder and build a completely new ship in it.

How to Build a New Ship in Starfield

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.

Starfield Neues Schiff bauen Guide 03 — Step 1: Open up the Ship Builder in Starfield.

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.

Select all Ship Parts

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.

Starfield Neues Schiff bauen Guide 04 — Step 2: Double click on a single part of the ship to select all parts.

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.

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Starfield How to build new ship from scratch Guide 02 — Step 3: Press the Delete key to delete the entire ship.

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!