Summary
- Customizing and upgrading spaceships is a key feature in Starfield, allowing players to build their dream ship for a significant cost.
- The game emphasizes resource gathering, trading, and crafting, with players needing to carry necessary equipment, which can be challenging.
- Players can optimize their ships for different purposes, such as being a space trucker or space explorer, and owning a cargo freighter can solve storage issues while providing ample space for carrying items in the game.
Players being able to customize and upgrade their own spaceships is a big part of Starfield, and one player showed off their own awesome design of a space freighter capable of storing and shifting huge loads of cargo. With many aspects of Starfield clearly sharing design ancestry with some of Bethesda's other massive franchises such as Fallout, it's no surprise that resource gathering, trading, and crafting are all crucial parts of the game – and carrying around all the necessary equipment isn't always easy.
Unlike previous Bethesda titles, though, Starfield allows players to own their own spaceship. The helium-fueled spacecraft found all throughout the galaxy make traveling around the universe a breeze, and can be fitted with no end of attachments and upgrades too. Starfield's ships are fully customizable, with players able to strip out and replace anything from their laser cannons to their interior habitat modules, allowing fans to build their dream ship – at a significant cost, of course. Players should keep in mind that the best ship components don't come at any small credit cost, but the expense can be well worth it for players who want a leg-up in space combat or a little extra storage capacity.
Ships can be optimized for all sorts of purposes in Starfield, so every player will undoubtedly have a slightly different ride depending on whether they're a space trucker or a space explorer. For those looking to carry as much as possible, few seem to have designed as great a vessel as the Reddit user ggalaxyy has, who recently showed off their space hauler in a popular post on the site. Most of this large ship's bow section is devoted to housing a plentiful number of storage containers, with the ship itself apparently capable of packing up to 24,000 mass. This is an unbelievable amount of space considering that the game's starter ship can only hold a few hundred units of mass, with a cargo freighter of this scale able to store more than most players would ever need to carry at any one time.
Like other games from Starfield's developer, furthering the ability to carry things is possible in many different ways, with certain ship and gear perks combining well with character skill perks that can afford a greater carry capacity. Players eager to loot the weapons and suits of fallen enemies will find their inventories filling up extremely quickly, and while mined resources tend to incur a small mass individually, hoarding minerals can also fill up a cargo hold surprisingly fast.
Putting together a fully-fledged cargo freighter may be expensive, but doing so can certainly provide a decisive solution to storage issues. With Starfield offering so many options for starship engineering, though, there's more than one way to build a hauler, and it's exciting to see what wild designs fans will come up with next.
Starfield is available on PC and Xbox Series X/S.