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Starfield game notes, tips tricks and knowledge base
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Starfield game notes, tips tricks and knowledge base
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/mistralys/starfield-game-notes
- Owner: Mistralys
- License: mit
- Created: 2023-12-31T16:21:53.000Z (over 2 years ago)
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# Starfield Game Notes
Starfield game notes, tips tricks and knowledge base
## Game Concepts
### Slow Leveling
How slow skills progress initially had me annoyed.
I felt that some of the skill levels also had increasingly unrealistic requirements.
However, once I finished a playthrough, I understood why.
The game is built around the _New Game+_, as you continue to level up your character between playthroughs.
That put a completely different perspective on things, and now I find myself enjoying the slower pace,
focusing less on skills but still being happy when I can upgrade one.
### Learn to improve ships
My first space battles were quite frustrating in the starter ship.
Even after buying a better ship later on, I was still getting my butt handed back to me by pirates and the like.
Later on, when I finished the Free Rangers story arc, they gave me the ranger ship.
That was a revelation: Suddenly I won battles, and could even go against bigger enemies.
The problem was not my skill at destroying ships, but the fact that all my ships were terrible.
What I learned from this experience:
- Boosting breaks missile locks.
- Don't use your entire boost, brake to cut it off mid-boost.
- Don't use the ship builder's upgrade feature, use the ship builder directly.
- Improve reactor, shield, thrusters and weapons as much as you can.
- Skill up your _Starship Design_ skill for access to better modules and weapons.
- Missiles are your friend: They have awesome range.
- Invest some time to increase your _Piloting_ skill to hire more crewmen for bonuses.
Mods can help:
- [StarUI - Ship Builder][] much improved UI for easier module comparisons.
- [Remove Reactor Class Requirement][] This is a light cheat, but makes everything so much easier.
### Farming
1. Get the Botany perk
2. On a planet, scan a plant to 100%.
3. Build an outpost on the same planet.
4. Build the Greenhouse (in the Extractors tab)
5. Connect required resources to the greenhouse (for ex. Water)
> The existing Hydroponics Hab module is cosmetic only.
> It serves no specific function.
### Selling and buying
The following is a spreadsheet with all known shops and the type of
wares they sell, to quickly find places to sell and buy things.
[Shops and wares Spreadsheet][]
#### Selling ships
Took me a while to find: Go to a spaceport technician and ask him
to show you the ships he has to sell. In this view, there is a key
to switch into sell mode, like in other shops.
#### Selling Contraband
This is best in systems where there is no police. There are two
good locations for this:
- _The Den_ (Station, Wolf System)
In the Trade Authority shop
- _The Key_ (Station, Kryx System)
Several shops available, but only during the Crimson Fleet mission arc
## Modding (Vortex)
### Folder Junction: Juggling with data folders
Starfield loads data (and by extension, mods) from both the game installation folder and the `Documents/My Games/Starfield` folders.
Because the game seems to prefer the My Games location to the game folder, **textures in particular will not be loaded** if installed into the game folder.
Vortex handles this with the "Folder Junction" feature, found under Settings > Mods > Starfield settings. If you enable this, the My Games data folder will be replaced with a link to the game folder, forcing Starfield to load everything from there.
### Repairing a Folder Junction
In my case, for some reason the link in the My Games data folder got broken: It is possible a game update overwrote the link.
To solve the issue, I reset the folder link by doing the following:
1. Turn off the Folder Junction setting in Vortex.
2. If Vortex complains that it failed to turn it off, delete the `My Games\Starfield\data` folder manually.
3. Enable the Folder Junction setting again.
## Useful Console Commands
### Increase max ships in fleet
Increase the maximum number of ships in your fleet:
```
SetGS uSpaceshipMaximumOwnedSpaceships 50
```
> This must be repeated in every game session.
### Add perk points
This will add `4` perk points:
```
CGF "Game.AddPerkPoints" 4
```
### Add a perk
This will add a level of the _Gymnastics_ perk:
```
player.addperk 28AE29
```
See the [list of perk item codes](item-codes/skills.md).
### Increase carry weight
This increases the carry weight permanently:
```
player.modav carryweight 9000
```
### Increase walk speed
Increase walking and running speed permanently (in percent):
```
player.modav speedmult 200
```
### Skip to the unity
When starting a NG+ game (New Game Plus), it's possible that the universe
will not fit what you want. In my case, there were no constellation members,
but I wanted to have them all with me. With the following command, you can
skip directly to the unity:
```
coc MQUnity
```
### Unlock every power (maxed out)
This command will unlock all available powers at the maximum level:
```
psb
```
### Give an item
This adds 20 med packs:
```
player.additem ABF9 20
```
> The zeros at the beginning of the code can be omitted.
> They are also case-insensitive.
#### Item codes
A selection of the most useful item codes:
- Money `F`
- Digipicks `A`
- [Aid](item-codes/aid.md)
- [Ammo](item-codes/ammo.md)
- [Extractable resources](item-codes/extractable-resources.md)
- [Crafting materials](item-codes/materials.md)
## Resources
- [How to use batch files][]
[How to use batch files]: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3035637950
[StarUI - Ship Builder]: https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/6402
[Remove Reactor Class Requirement]: https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/1482
[Shops and wares spreadsheet]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/126SnzkduhmUHLUkY5SXfRyF6x9AmrTtTbe5SPMTeEtY/edit?usp=sharing