My most detailed Starfield guide so far - maybe not as entertaining as the others as it's very mechanical and menu oriented but hopefully the sort of thing that makes your playthrough a bit more enjoyable! If you want more ways to make credits then make sure to check out my Crime guide too! ua-cam.com/video/2kJ0BH8sbuw/v-deo.html
Good video! I knew most of it, but I missed the book seller and scanning gas giants. I have a few things to add as well: 1. There is another item that is very important that goes into your AID category: Ship Parts. Ship parts are what is used to repair your ships while you are in space, so they are considered an "aid". This is super important as they are VERY heavy (10 mass). So if you have more than 5, put the excess into unlimited storage and this may be the culprit if you are overweight and don't know why. 2. If you are heavier than you expect to be, select all items and use the Z key to change the sort so that it is by weight. The heaviest items will be at the top and you can adjust things from there. 3. Changing guns and armor can significantly alter your weight. Remember to take this into account. There are special weapons traits called a Titanium Build that drastically reduce the weight of the weapon. 4. There are weapon quality levels hidden in the game that are inherent to each weapon and cannot be modified in any way. The power progression is as follows: (None), Calibrated, Refined, Advanced. So a Calibrated Eon will just do more damage than an Eon and Advanced Eons will do the most damage. This is independent of the rarity level of the item, so you may want to save your rarest materials for upgrading only ADVANCED items. This system also applies to armor items. 5. When exploring, you will sometimes run into EMERGENCY Cuttable Doors. You can use your cutter to cut the pins on the sides of the door and it will fall over leading to new areas or providing shortcuts.
Haha 😄 thanks for the "door cutting" tip, i rather stupidly saw a few of these and gave up on them after trying to SHOOT out the bolts holding them. It didn't occur to me to "cut" the things with the obvious named "cutter". 😢😂😅
I got a titanium build Old Earth Shotgun or whatever it's called. And it's not like, amazing. But it weighs less than 200 grams! So it's kind of a cool last slot weapon to pull out for those close encounters. Might as well with that weight.
With automatic weapons, the "semi-automatic" mod is OP. It changes how your weapon fires, requiring you to pull the trigger constantly, but it doubles damage in most cases.
@@wtfronsson Yep, an Old Earth Shotgun is one of my last-slot guns too and they really lay down some smack as a bonus! Liked it enough that I eventually picked up the Shotgun skill and layer that on top of my Ballistics buffs.
In the age of multiple UA-cam ads appearing before the UA-camr tries to get me to download raid shadow legends for the millionth time, this was probably the best, straight to the point and fully comprehensive on the topic video I’ve seen in some time. Good job chap.
A little tip about the notes, specifically the skill magazines you can find. Sometimes you will see them in your notes section but can't read them to get the bonus. Just drop the magazines then pick them up again and they'll trigger the bonus stats.
One note about picking up special armor from glass cases. Apparently if you save before you open the case, the stats on the item will change, so you can save say, before you get the mantis armor, then just keep reloading until you get the stats you want
Same thing before you kill an elite enemy they drop a random rare drop. It goes rare, epic and legendary. The very first dungeon when you exist the abandoned lab 3 space pirates waiting for you. What I usually do is persuade them to not fight, One thing to notice there is a gas tank behind them, so your able to kill 2 of them while the elite boss knock down and finish him off. It only takes few seconds depending what weapon you got to kill the elite guy.
Tip: Use the scanner when looting as it highlights everything lootable with a blue outline. Very good for finding enemies you want to loot in bushes, etc. Great for finding loot boxes amongst tons of misc.
Can you tell me how to use a scanner? I'm on xbox, just started playing today. Also I can't seem to activate my flashlight like I did on 1st mission. Bonus question: what's the cargo hold thing? I'd very much like to sell my loot without searching for vendors Thanks
I discovered this by accident. It is incredibly useful for reducing the amount of time you spend looking of salvage. Also, I took Security skill first and prioritized it, as there is nothing so frustrating as finding a safe or locked box and not being able to open it.
@Kyle-nm1kh Press the left bumper to open the scanner, and press it again to close it. Hold the left bumper to turn the flashlight on and off. Hope that helps :)
just want to drop this tip, I notice you are not holding the aim key when using your cutter to extract resources. It drastically increases the gathering rate, and cuts down the time to extract by a huge amount. Also, using your scanner to find hidden loot is a big help. It highlights anything you can pick up. Then its up to you to check each thing out.
Thanks for sharing Ziggy! Inventory Management is a second job in this game! Maybe it's just an early game problem but I don't have enough space on my ship to store crafting mats, so they are all in the box at The Lodge, which super unconviently doesn't allow you to craft directly from...
Definitely an early game problem. My advice would be to not worry about crafting or resources at all until you have a ship that can store them. Completing the freestar rangers questline gives a ship with just over 2k storage. Easy after that.
As for "deep storage" i keep a centrally located cargo depot for resources. As i live a nomadic lifestyle generally speaking, i do almost all of my crafting and research aboard ship. So this cargo depot is just a builder landing pad surrounded by nothing but a small hab with a single crew table, cargo modules/links, a watchtower, and defenses. When i fill my ship cargo with resources, i go land on the pad and transfer to the depot, do any heavy or extensive crafting, and then its back out into the black.
One more tip, weapon and armor have ranking based on your level, I wouldn't go for unique ones before level 50 or they will get outdated pretty fast as you level... like after level 10 you get calibrated weapons that are basically the levelled version...
One of the best loot tips I’ve gotten is the Ship Repair Kits are heavy and are classed as Aid. They can go unnoticed in your inventory and take up lots of room. Transfer them to your cargo hold.
If you and your ship/crew are all full and need to shed some weight temporarily you can drop stacks of items in your ship as well. Id save before doing it just in case but i havent had a peoblem with them disappearing on me yet. Id also drop one stack of items at a time since if you drop a bunch of things theyre just gonna fly in random directions around you and some items will separate instead of being a single stack. This also lets you drop something, and if you hold down the loot button on them instead of clicking it youll start carrying them in the air like in skyrim and you can put them on a certain shelf or table in your ship to remember where they are. Its a useful way to shed some weight if you have no where else to store them at the time and need to fast travel.
I swear the amount of Ship Repair parts I have sold because they are in 'aid' and digipicks I have sold because they are in 'misc' is soul destroying. I really wish food (mainly for crafting, who uses food for health?) was not combined with healing and buff items. Sold lots of trauma and medpacks for this reason :/. If there was one thing relating to looting I would like changed, is that I can prevent/lock items from ever being sold accidentally, like tick a checkbox as 'locked'. (didn't they have this in fallout?)
They did have it in fallout. Imagine that we got a stupid dumbass monster costume questline that provides 0 interaction with the world. But they cant code in a fucking lock for the inventory. its wild. Voice acted questline apparently easier to get done than coding a fucking lock.
This is very much needed. I just sold my favorite new weapon and couldn’t buy it back because I’m not sure where I dumped it. Need to be careful, some of the selling menus are confusing.
High lvl food recipes with high lvl gastro gives really good buffs, plus no risk of addiction. That's eating not drinking. Red Mile sells some great energy drinks.
For those who like picking up everything there is a mod called Galactic Junk Recycler. it turns everything into resources. There is also another mod called Legendary Module Recycler. It lets you take Legendary buffs and items off of things and then you can place them onto other things.
One thing I noticed is that you do not want to throw grenades into rooms that you have not gone around looking for loot yet. The explosion will throw everything all around the room, making it far more difficult.
One time I managed to get to a ship landing site before it landed and deployed its spacer troops. Once the bay opened I threw in a grenade which 1shot them all. It was hilarious to watch the spaceship fly off dropping corpses 😂@@realityresearch2974
(7:55) Given that even at the most basic level of trading you can sell one bullet for one credit, selling off the bullets you never use is a fantastic way to make money provided you're a melee character or you've committed your build to, say, sniper rifles or pistols.
Also necessary to say DO NOT save weapons or armour in the Razorleaf anywhere other than the cargo hold. Weapons and armour wil disappear from the weapons racks and armour stands if you leave them there
They do - its a known issue - its fine in ships inventory but not in the weapons rack, storage boxes or armour stands - it will all get deleted - not put in armour hold. Lost my parents pistol because of it but they know its a bug so hoping they fix it@@DaAngriestPanda
I noticed that when you have Crew member that you can't trade with, they take weapons from the Armory. I noticed this when i was boarding a ship but didn't kill everyone, i just went back into my ship and everyone was armed. I saw the crew using my weapons i placed on the ship.
The game is MASSIVE. You can get lost easily doing quests, got some mass effect space drip, boost pack make you feel like you skywalking Luigi from Mario bros. 2. The Good: This game is like Skyrim in space. The bad: Sometimes fast traveling seems overused. The Ugly: The busted ass broads at New Atlantis! Women so hideous they make Sarah Morgan look like a Super model! 😊😊
If you happen to forget to bring a cutter for some reason, there are still lootable rocks on most landable celestial bodies at locations like caves, natural spots, and sometimes structures. The rocks typically have 5 or so of the most abundant resources you find on a planet and sometimes have more rare or higher tier resources. In addition, there are usually some resources that won't even require a cutter at all that are in gas vents.
You didn't mention the two bottomless storage containers in the basement of the lodge. I keep all recources there as I can take all and access the terminals in the basement early game.
Thanks for the video ! I think it only miss one important item, the combat healing item for ships. I've failed to find a way to buy them but they sometimes drops from ennemy ships.
A loot filter mod when using the scanner would be amazing for this game! I'm such a loot goblin that it takes me forever to run through the different stages of the game
Same, but looting for me in this game seems worthless, and a waste of time. Resources, minerals, batteries, food, all seem heavy,useless, and worthless. I can just carry one random gun, and buy any items i need. Am I missing something?
Here's a tip I've never seen a guide show. You can launder your stolen items through the trade authority. Sell them then use the buy back option to get squeaky clean legal items back at no cost. Great for inventory management
In that 'home base" building in the huge city that's segmented into 3 or 4 areas. In one of those rooms, there's a safe with unlimited capacity. Go down the hallway to the left of the bar and start opening doors till you find it. Because the crafting tables are in the basement of said building, ive been dumping my resources in there primarily
i find it very hard to look for loot when going through stations as there is so much crap laying around and there is no minimap… should i just ignore all the loot and only check bodies and chests?
Do the magazines need to be kept on person for the buff? Or it does it "permanently" added the stat to your character once picked up...then you can get rid of the item? I'd like to keep them for collection sake, but things are starting to get cluttered.
You do not have to keep them (tested by dropping a carry weight magazine and picking it back up), sell them or stash them for display, whatever you like!.
In any Bethesda game with magazines or skill books, I always keep them in a special cabinet in my base/house. A sort of trophy if you will. It’s nice they don’t weigh anything.
What about ship inventory? If you have multiple ships are the cargo holds linked? If you sell the ship do you lose the inventory in it? EDIT: I believe figured it out. Everything on that ship will transfer over to another ship even if it exceeds the cargo hold capacity. I think anything in the captain’s locker gets lost though. 🤷🏼♂️
Get the commerce skill first and make sure you have 3 spare skill points because it goes up quick. When it’s maxed out you’re essentially playing on easy mode financially. So much stuff everywhere
Debatable seeing as you lose any creds on NG+ & having cash won’t save you in a fight. My recommendation would be go for science & tech trees to upgrade your equipment & ships.
one of the biggest things that you missed is that you can move all of your "resources" together at the same time whether it's picking them up or dropping them off, so they are the perfect thing to dump on your follower, as you can dump them all at the same time, and pick them up all at the same time completely separate from all other items in their inventory. Combine this with equipping them with a "mechanized" suit, which allows them to carry an additional 40K, and a "fastened" pack, 20K, and they become very useful.
@@ZiggyDGaming yeah, but it's not just about stashing them, it's about stashing and picking up independently of everything else, and so if you do this with companions you get about 200K of extra carry weight that you can instantly transfer, as opposed to not using them at all to carry loot.
Ah yes I see, you can use the transfer all resources back and forth with companions, which makes it easier to avoid accidentally taking their weapons and armor. Nice!@@kunk9533
Well there goes my Obsession with tape, desk fans and microscopes that i had stuck from fallout 4 Thanks for reminding me that disassembling items is not a thing here
Found the best armour, 'Chameleon' armour give you a solid snake edge where everytime you crouch you give off this invisible bubble as you become, yes, invisible and hidden to all.
Where can you sell weapons and gear for the most profit? The trade depot on jemison seems to rip you off compared to base value but I haven’t checked around
Stupid question; if you have all your resources in your cargo on your ship, can you use any crafting station? Or do you need to have the resource items on you while crafting?
Very nice guide @ZiggyDGaming - do you know if you have to keep the magazines in your inventory to keep the buffs, or can you sell/store them? While they weigh nothing, having to keep filtering them out mentally as I'm selling books is getting annoying.
You do not have to keep them (tested by dropping a carry weight magazine and picking it back up), sell them or stash them for display, whatever you like!.
So i have a question i'm trying to upgrade my weapons but it wont let me i have the resources but some have a blue magnifying glass by it what does it mean
I don't know where O2 recovery caps, but with the mantis backpack, terrabrew coffee and level 4 nutrition, encumbrance is such a non-issue, I regularly carry up to 1.7 tons of gear, unless I need to walk several kilometers on a planet. The reason why I don't like using the ship storage for vendors is that every time I change something on the ship in the builder, every item on the ship gets dumped into the ship inventory, which includes stuff I don't want to sell, and also involves item duplication. I neither want to profit off of dupes, neither do I want to memorize dozens of item names to make sure I don't sell keepsakes, so I'm simply not using the ship inventory for anything other than items I do not want to sell, food, and resources. Everything I do intend to sell is in my inventory unfavorited/unequipped. The aid items are such a confusing, convoluted mess (so far I discovered 3 different healing items alone, medkit, trauma kit, emergency kit), that I do not even bother with status effects, I just wait until they expire or sleep them off. And with literally every food item being a potential cooking or gastronomy research ingredient, I have a ton of those stashed too. I'm sure once I familiarize myself with the game's itemization mechanics I'll be a more organized loot goblin, until then, my character is never taking the mantis backpack off and is 24/7 hooked on espresso.
I’ve only used one digipick before other than just the original one to open it I and I hve maxed out security and picked every lock I’ve ever encountered from novice to master so don’t understand how anyone can “burn through them” you can literally figure out the entire puzzle before you commit anything so you know it’s solved properly
My game just keeps crashing at start up ... And once it did start ...the game crashed in the loading screen .... I feel terrible... What should I do .. I tried reinstalling and updating drivers and all nothing is helping ... 😢😢😢😢😢 Help anyone please
@@ZiggyDGaming Very cool, that must have been fixed. I saw a couple of people lamenting that they had sold quest items ... however ... I think that quest itself allows you to dispose of the yellow plate as you decide ... something about that quest line gives you some latitude ... can't remember though.
I'm knee deep in loot on my ship, and it's such a pain to try and sell all of it. With the vendors always running out of cash, and not really knowing which ones are fastest to reach etc. I kinda wish any stuff rolling around on the ship floor just counted as being in the cargo. Maybe a modder can make it happen.
I tend to go to the Den in the Wolf system, there is a trade authority there and you don't get scanned so Ive got in the habit of going there to sell all surplus goods and contraband before my next activity. The TA vendor there has 11000 credits which once he runs out, you can sit in the chair next to it and wait, fast forward time for 48 hrs and then the vendor has 11000 again. Seems a bit tedious to me so I'm sure this will get changed in the future, I mean, why not just have vendors with unlimited credits...
So if you fly in space, flip your space ship upside down and then proceed to get up, will you be upside down inside the ship? Or would it just look normal?
If You want to do the best on this game then you need to be overweighted 700-1400 at all times, never miss looting anything that sells and never leave behind resources until you complete your NUMBER ONE goal at your bases..."Storage"! Then you will have the resources needed to build your empire!
I might have a couple problems I hope someone can help me out with. 1. I think Vasco died on a planet somewhere. I assumed he'd just show up late rperfectly fine, but I haven't seen him in many hours of play. Any way to get him back? 2. I think I lost two artifacts. Is that possible? How can find them again? Thanks!
Why would they not tell you this and make it clear in the game how the loots all works, especially with cargo hold and how you can sell directly from it! Thanks for explaining it!!!
You can store a ton of stuff on the ground in your ship for basically free. Drop 20k iron on the ground by the ships door and all you need to do to build in an outpost is pick it up walk out the door and youre good to go.
It'll stay there until you change ships or modify your ship in some way, then it'll be dumped in the cargo hold. More ideal is to store things in containers or displays in your home or outpost!
What i noticed is that you don't loot the guns from enemies. Make sure to take it and throw it away if its too much weight, because you get some extra ammo out of them.
Ah yeah the zones that reset seem to fully reset, some people have used it to farm a casino full of enemies, loot and cash for example. @@PlusJulianGTChEN-jw6nl
My most detailed Starfield guide so far - maybe not as entertaining as the others as it's very mechanical and menu oriented but hopefully the sort of thing that makes your playthrough a bit more enjoyable!
If you want more ways to make credits then make sure to check out my Crime guide too! ua-cam.com/video/2kJ0BH8sbuw/v-deo.html
OY!
It's **et cetera**
Not exsetra.
@@themarlboromandalorian that's definitely an Aussie accent/slang thing.
Im, surprised with the mining you arent using the fast mining method I saw in another video
This was filmed before I knew about it! @@latenighter1965
I can’t imagine making “loot games” your thing when Rage was the best looter shooter of all time
Good video! I knew most of it, but I missed the book seller and scanning gas giants. I have a few things to add as well:
1. There is another item that is very important that goes into your AID category: Ship Parts. Ship parts are what is used to repair your ships while you are in space, so they are considered an "aid". This is super important as they are VERY heavy (10 mass). So if you have more than 5, put the excess into unlimited storage and this may be the culprit if you are overweight and don't know why.
2. If you are heavier than you expect to be, select all items and use the Z key to change the sort so that it is by weight. The heaviest items will be at the top and you can adjust things from there.
3. Changing guns and armor can significantly alter your weight. Remember to take this into account. There are special weapons traits called a Titanium Build that drastically reduce the weight of the weapon.
4. There are weapon quality levels hidden in the game that are inherent to each weapon and cannot be modified in any way. The power progression is as follows: (None), Calibrated, Refined, Advanced. So a Calibrated Eon will just do more damage than an Eon and Advanced Eons will do the most damage. This is independent of the rarity level of the item, so you may want to save your rarest materials for upgrading only ADVANCED items. This system also applies to armor items.
5. When exploring, you will sometimes run into EMERGENCY Cuttable Doors. You can use your cutter to cut the pins on the sides of the door and it will fall over leading to new areas or providing shortcuts.
Haha 😄 thanks for the "door cutting" tip, i rather stupidly saw a few of these and gave up on them after trying to SHOOT out the bolts holding them. It didn't occur to me to "cut" the things with the obvious named "cutter". 😢😂😅
I got a titanium build Old Earth Shotgun or whatever it's called. And it's not like, amazing. But it weighs less than 200 grams! So it's kind of a cool last slot weapon to pull out for those close encounters. Might as well with that weight.
With automatic weapons, the "semi-automatic" mod is OP. It changes how your weapon fires, requiring you to pull the trigger constantly, but it doubles damage in most cases.
@@wtfronsson Yep, an Old Earth Shotgun is one of my last-slot guns too and they really lay down some smack as a bonus! Liked it enough that I eventually picked up the Shotgun skill and layer that on top of my Ballistics buffs.
@@LynxStarAuto Yeah I always take the semi-automatic version of weapons.
In the age of multiple UA-cam ads appearing before the UA-camr tries to get me to download raid shadow legends for the millionth time, this was probably the best, straight to the point and fully comprehensive on the topic video I’ve seen in some time. Good job chap.
A little tip about the notes, specifically the skill magazines you can find. Sometimes you will see them in your notes section but can't read them to get the bonus. Just drop the magazines then pick them up again and they'll trigger the bonus stats.
One note about picking up special armor from glass cases. Apparently if you save before you open the case, the stats on the item will change, so you can save say, before you get the mantis armor, then just keep reloading until you get the stats you want
Same thing before you kill an elite enemy they drop a random rare drop. It goes rare, epic and legendary. The very first dungeon when you exist the abandoned lab 3 space pirates waiting for you. What I usually do is persuade them to not fight, One thing to notice there is a gas tank behind them, so your able to kill 2 of them while the elite boss knock down and finish him off. It only takes few seconds depending what weapon you got to kill the elite guy.
You must be me to these kinds of games. I'm glad you know about it.
That takes away the fun for me i get what i get at first and im good whit it :)
@@andrecontente6370that's the way to go for sure 👍
Digipicks shouldn’t be in miscellaneous, it should be in resources or aid. So easy to accidentally sell them.
Tip: Use the scanner when looting as it highlights everything lootable with a blue outline. Very good for finding enemies you want to loot in bushes, etc. Great for finding loot boxes amongst tons of misc.
Can you tell me how to use a scanner? I'm on xbox, just started playing today. Also I can't seem to activate my flashlight like I did on 1st mission.
Bonus question: what's the cargo hold thing? I'd very much like to sell my loot without searching for vendors
Thanks
I discovered this by accident. It is incredibly useful for reducing the amount of time you spend looking of salvage. Also, I took Security skill first and prioritized it, as there is nothing so frustrating as finding a safe or locked box and not being able to open it.
@Kyle-nm1kh Press the left bumper to open the scanner, and press it again to close it. Hold the left bumper to turn the flashlight on and off. Hope that helps :)
Tip while mining with cutter - Hold down alt fire(mouse 2) and the sight will shrink and mining is 2-3x faster(burns power faster).
I hardly use weapons, cutter is great for enemies too, saves ammo
@@neXibtry playing vs lvl 70 enemies while lvl 30 in very hard and we'll see if the cutter effective range and dps will be enough 😂
@@neXib IDK about lower difficulties, but on very hard the cutter strat stopped working pretty fast as enemy levels rise.
Smart video. I see a lot a streamers that dont pay attention to inventory enough, so its not just me. this really helps....
Be ready to really take your time at first guys. Learning this kind of thing will help you so much. It’s slow going at first but I like it
just want to drop this tip, I notice you are not holding the aim key when using your cutter to extract resources. It drastically increases the gathering rate, and cuts down the time to extract by a huge amount.
Also, using your scanner to find hidden loot is a big help. It highlights anything you can pick up. Then its up to you to check each thing out.
Great guide! Starfield is a great game with a lot of painful UI/systems slowing down your fun but this guide really helped me get going.
Dude I've been going through videos all night. This is THE BEST video! Thank you subbed and liked.
A d20-dice-looking containter would have 8 more sides than the one you showed. That was a d12-looking container.
You're correct and my nerd card has been revoked for my failure 😢
;)
Thanks for sharing Ziggy! Inventory Management is a second job in this game! Maybe it's just an early game problem but I don't have enough space on my ship to store crafting mats, so they are all in the box at The Lodge, which super unconviently doesn't allow you to craft directly from...
Definitely an early game problem. My advice would be to not worry about crafting or resources at all until you have a ship that can store them. Completing the freestar rangers questline gives a ship with just over 2k storage. Easy after that.
As for "deep storage" i keep a centrally located cargo depot for resources.
As i live a nomadic lifestyle generally speaking, i do almost all of my crafting and research aboard ship.
So this cargo depot is just a builder landing pad surrounded by nothing but a small hab with a single crew table, cargo modules/links, a watchtower, and defenses.
When i fill my ship cargo with resources, i go land on the pad and transfer to the depot, do any heavy or extensive crafting, and then its back out into the black.
Great strategy and advice!
One more tip, weapon and armor have ranking based on your level, I wouldn't go for unique ones before level 50 or they will get outdated pretty fast as you level... like after level 10 you get calibrated weapons that are basically the levelled version...
Keep em coming ziggy
Thank you! This is one of the most information dense, yet clearly understandable, videos for newbies to Starfield.
One of the best loot tips I’ve gotten is the Ship Repair Kits are heavy and are classed as Aid. They can go unnoticed in your inventory and take up lots of room. Transfer them to your cargo hold.
Best guide I've seen so far on managing inventory and loot. Instant sub, thank you
If you and your ship/crew are all full and need to shed some weight temporarily you can drop stacks of items in your ship as well. Id save before doing it just in case but i havent had a peoblem with them disappearing on me yet. Id also drop one stack of items at a time since if you drop a bunch of things theyre just gonna fly in random directions around you and some items will separate instead of being a single stack.
This also lets you drop something, and if you hold down the loot button on them instead of clicking it youll start carrying them in the air like in skyrim and you can put them on a certain shelf or table in your ship to remember where they are.
Its a useful way to shed some weight if you have no where else to store them at the time and need to fast travel.
You have made my first play though so much better
That's awesome to hear mate!
Don't waste a quick slot on the cutter, just switch to scan mode and click the trigger, it automatically loads the cutter for you...
Yes 7:12
I swear the amount of Ship Repair parts I have sold because they are in 'aid' and digipicks I have sold because they are in 'misc' is soul destroying. I really wish food (mainly for crafting, who uses food for health?) was not combined with healing and buff items. Sold lots of trauma and medpacks for this reason :/. If there was one thing relating to looting I would like changed, is that I can prevent/lock items from ever being sold accidentally, like tick a checkbox as 'locked'. (didn't they have this in fallout?)
They did have it in fallout. Imagine that we got a stupid dumbass monster costume questline that provides 0 interaction with the world. But they cant code in a fucking lock for the inventory. its wild. Voice acted questline apparently easier to get done than coding a fucking lock.
The vendors have a buy back section if you didn’t know
This is very much needed. I just sold my favorite new weapon and couldn’t buy it back because I’m not sure where I dumped it. Need to be careful, some of the selling menus are confusing.
Agreed with comments here, I find the inventory system very irritating in this. The "aid" category in particular is huge PITA to scroll through.
High lvl food recipes with high lvl gastro gives really good buffs, plus no risk of addiction. That's eating not drinking. Red Mile sells some great energy drinks.
Dude literally looted everything and dropped it just to make a video what a g
Great having some good ziggy guides again!
For those who like picking up everything there is a mod called Galactic Junk Recycler. it turns everything into resources. There is also another mod called Legendary Module Recycler. It lets you take Legendary buffs and items off of things and then you can place them onto other things.
One thing I noticed is that you do not want to throw grenades into rooms that you have not gone around looking for loot yet. The explosion will throw everything all around the room, making it far more difficult.
this is why i haven’t used a single one yet and i got like 15+ lol
i’ll use the nade when i’m killing megafauna
One time I managed to get to a ship landing site before it landed and deployed its spacer troops. Once the bay opened I threw in a grenade which 1shot them all. It was hilarious to watch the spaceship fly off dropping corpses 😂@@realityresearch2974
Invaluable video! Cheers!
(7:55) Given that even at the most basic level of trading you can sell one bullet for one credit, selling off the bullets you never use is a fantastic way to make money provided you're a melee character or you've committed your build to, say, sniper rifles or pistols.
Ziggy, ice to see ya. Miss the POE days, you inspired me to make a channel and still one of my biggest inspirations
Also necessary to say DO NOT save weapons or armour in the Razorleaf anywhere other than the cargo hold. Weapons and armour wil disappear from the weapons racks and armour stands if you leave them there
Mine all disappeared when I modded my ship, but all went directly to the cargo hold. Not sure if they disappear otherwise.
They do - its a known issue - its fine in ships inventory but not in the weapons rack, storage boxes or armour stands - it will all get deleted - not put in armour hold. Lost my parents pistol because of it but they know its a bug so hoping they fix it@@DaAngriestPanda
I noticed that when you have Crew member that you can't trade with, they take weapons from the Armory. I noticed this when i was boarding a ship but didn't kill everyone, i just went back into my ship and everyone was armed. I saw the crew using my weapons i placed on the ship.
Man, I’m so ready to play this game. Half of the people on the Internet already beating it. I haven’t even had a second on it yet.😢
Fomo?
Been playing for three days and only done side quests and faction missions
The game is MASSIVE. You can get lost easily doing quests, got some mass effect space drip, boost pack make you feel like you skywalking Luigi from Mario bros. 2.
The Good: This game is like Skyrim in space.
The bad: Sometimes fast traveling seems overused.
The Ugly: The busted ass broads at New Atlantis! Women so hideous they make Sarah Morgan look like a Super model! 😊😊
Mate, it's brilliant. Look at it this way. You will get that brilliant feeling of playing it for the first time, very soon.
Probably beating the quests. But there's soooo much to explore
how do you not mention the unlimited storage safe in your room at The Lodge??
Yay. I am such a loot goblin, so the run down is good.
If you happen to forget to bring a cutter for some reason, there are still lootable rocks on most landable celestial bodies at locations like caves, natural spots, and sometimes structures. The rocks typically have 5 or so of the most abundant resources you find on a planet and sometimes have more rare or higher tier resources. In addition, there are usually some resources that won't even require a cutter at all that are in gas vents.
Love your guides Ziggy. You always present all the details in a way that’s so easy to digest.
You didn't mention the two bottomless storage containers in the basement of the lodge. I keep all recources there as I can take all and access the terminals in the basement early game.
There are 6 down there. One behind the research lab, one in the kids room, one in the room next to the kids room, and 3 behind the weapons workbench.
Thanks for the video ! I think it only miss one important item, the combat healing item for ships. I've failed to find a way to buy them but they sometimes drops from ennemy ships.
UC distribution on Atlantis sells them! A few other stores too but that's where I get mine.
Wow that's a game changer for me, ty a lot !@@ZiggyDGaming
Check the aid section of vendors
An important tip for keeping high value loot is whether they are advanced, refined or calibrated weapons/armor; even if they aren’t rare/legendary
A loot filter mod when using the scanner would be amazing for this game! I'm such a loot goblin that it takes me forever to run through the different stages of the game
Lmao I just started playing and it took my 3-4 hours to get through kreet. I was exploring every inch for times of value.
There is a perk for that you know 👍🏼
Same, but looting for me in this game seems worthless, and a waste of time.
Resources, minerals, batteries, food, all seem heavy,useless, and worthless.
I can just carry one random gun, and buy any items i need.
Am I missing something?
Here's a tip I've never seen a guide show. You can launder your stolen items through the trade authority. Sell them then use the buy back option to get squeaky clean legal items back at no cost. Great for inventory management
In that 'home base" building in the huge city that's segmented into 3 or 4 areas. In one of those rooms, there's a safe with unlimited capacity. Go down the hallway to the left of the bar and start opening doors till you find it. Because the crafting tables are in the basement of said building, ive been dumping my resources in there primarily
Sorry, i can't remember the name. Have only been playing like 3 days
A tip for you. Use right click/left trigger with the cutter to focus the beam and mine much faster. Also does more damage as a weapon.
Thank you!
Are items left scattered on the ship (like those sandwiches) safe?
Yep! If you change ships or modify your ship they get dumped into your cargo bay
@@ZiggyDGamingSo, I suppose, by scattering the stuff around the ship, can I have an actual cargo beyond the limit offered by the storage?
i find it very hard to look for loot when going through stations as there is so much crap laying around and there is no minimap…
should i just ignore all the loot and only check bodies and chests?
If searching for scattered items is feeling like a drag you can likely get by pretty well just looting bodies and the lit up containers.
Love these guides! Thanks, ZiggyD!
Starfield has been so much fun!
"Don't hoard heavy and low value junk"
No; what if I need those 874 dumbbells?
Thank you! The first useful guide!:) Helped a LOT!
Do the magazines need to be kept on person for the buff? Or it does it "permanently" added the stat to your character once picked up...then you can get rid of the item? I'd like to keep them for collection sake, but things are starting to get cluttered.
You do not have to keep them (tested by dropping a carry weight magazine and picking it back up), sell them or stash them for display, whatever you like!.
In any Bethesda game with magazines or skill books, I always keep them in a special cabinet in my base/house. A sort of trophy if you will. It’s nice they don’t weigh anything.
I like how when I find a obscure area with a obviously hard to reach place I know there's gonna be some contraband up there.
This is the guide i really need.
What about ship inventory? If you have multiple ships are the cargo holds linked? If you sell the ship do you lose the inventory in it?
EDIT: I believe figured it out. Everything on that ship will transfer over to another ship even if it exceeds the cargo hold capacity. I think anything in the captain’s locker gets lost though. 🤷🏼♂️
Get the commerce skill first and make sure you have 3 spare skill points because it goes up quick. When it’s maxed out you’re essentially playing on easy mode financially. So much stuff everywhere
Debatable seeing as you lose any creds on NG+ & having cash won’t save you in a fight. My recommendation would be go for science & tech trees to upgrade your equipment & ships.
Someone please tell me where he is in 15:57 😭 i lost that place and ive been looking for it everywhere
Good video! I would probably emphasized that an important limiter to making credits is the fact that vendors have limited funds.
one of the biggest things that you missed is that you can move all of your "resources" together at the same time whether it's picking them up or dropping them off, so they are the perfect thing to dump on your follower, as you can dump them all at the same time, and pick them up all at the same time completely separate from all other items in their inventory. Combine this with equipping them with a "mechanized" suit, which allows them to carry an additional 40K, and a "fastened" pack, 20K, and they become very useful.
6:19 I didn't miss that tip, that would have been a crime as it's a crucial time saver!
@@ZiggyDGaming yeah, but it's not just about stashing them, it's about stashing and picking up independently of everything else, and so if you do this with companions you get about 200K of extra carry weight that you can instantly transfer, as opposed to not using them at all to carry loot.
Ah yes I see, you can use the transfer all resources back and forth with companions, which makes it easier to avoid accidentally taking their weapons and armor. Nice!@@kunk9533
Great detailed info ! Lots of great tips 👍
Sometimes there are disturbing items in illogical places. Like one time I found a mine inside a locker in a bathroom at a research station.
Or a carton of milk in a toilet stall .. 🤢
oh good lord I haven't seen that yet@@ZiggyDGaming
Well
there goes my Obsession with tape, desk fans and microscopes that i had stuck from fallout 4
Thanks for reminding me that disassembling items is not a thing here
Yet.... Modders rise!
i´d allready be happy if those useless items would weigh less and traders would have more money@@MolnarG007
Found the best armour, 'Chameleon' armour give you a solid snake edge where everytime you crouch you give off this invisible bubble as you become, yes, invisible and hidden to all.
Love the bug where if you add weapons to a weapon rack in your ship, quick travelling away and back makes them disappear. Classic Bethesda.
They should at worst go into your cargo bay but if they are indeed disappearing then hopefully that gets fixed asap!
Next time you’ll gonna mine resources, hold RMB to sorta focus the cutter’s beam. It saves a lot of time.
Where can you sell weapons and gear for the most profit? The trade depot on jemison seems to rip you off compared to base value but I haven’t checked around
It doesn't matter where you sell, everywhere gives you about 10% of value as a baseline (value is the price you would *buy* the item at).
AHOY! Great video as always!
Stupid question; if you have all your resources in your cargo on your ship, can you use any crafting station? Or do you need to have the resource items on you while crafting?
Cargo resources work for crafting!
Very nice guide @ZiggyDGaming - do you know if you have to keep the magazines in your inventory to keep the buffs, or can you sell/store them?
While they weigh nothing, having to keep filtering them out mentally as I'm selling books is getting annoying.
You do not have to keep them! I'm going to stash/display mine in my home I think.
Do you have to keep the magazines in order to have the effect or is it permanent once you have picked them up?
You do not have to keep them (tested by dropping a carry weight magazine and picking it back up), sell them or stash them for display, whatever you like!.
@@ZiggyDGaming thanks, buddy!
I kept mine, just sort the notes by weight for selling books and such
So i have a question i'm trying to upgrade my weapons but it wont let me i have the resources but some have a blue magnifying glass by it what does it mean
I don't know where O2 recovery caps, but with the mantis backpack, terrabrew coffee and level 4 nutrition, encumbrance is such a non-issue, I regularly carry up to 1.7 tons of gear, unless I need to walk several kilometers on a planet.
The reason why I don't like using the ship storage for vendors is that every time I change something on the ship in the builder, every item on the ship gets dumped into the ship inventory, which includes stuff I don't want to sell, and also involves item duplication.
I neither want to profit off of dupes, neither do I want to memorize dozens of item names to make sure I don't sell keepsakes, so I'm simply not using the ship inventory for anything other than items I do not want to sell, food, and resources. Everything I do intend to sell is in my inventory unfavorited/unequipped.
The aid items are such a confusing, convoluted mess (so far I discovered 3 different healing items alone, medkit, trauma kit, emergency kit), that I do not even bother with status effects, I just wait until they expire or sleep them off. And with literally every food item being a potential cooking or gastronomy research ingredient, I have a ton of those stashed too.
I'm sure once I familiarize myself with the game's itemization mechanics I'll be a more organized loot goblin, until then, my character is never taking the mantis backpack off and is 24/7 hooked on espresso.
do you simply need to pick up magazine for buff? or need to keep it in inventory?
You don't have to keep them!
Nice video, I'm not sure I will be able to retain all that but I guess I can do what I've done in the past just watch it again and again :)
I'd be okay with that! :3
Right click to "charge" your cutter and then fire. The ore then blows up instantly. You can be charging the cutter as you look for ore.
I’ve only used one digipick before other than just the original one to open it I and I hve maxed out security and picked every lock I’ve ever encountered from novice to master so don’t understand how anyone can “burn through them” you can literally figure out the entire puzzle before you commit anything so you know it’s solved properly
Great guide, thanks for the tips!
My game just keeps crashing at start up ... And once it did start ...the game crashed in the loading screen .... I feel terrible... What should I do .. I tried reinstalling and updating drivers and all nothing is helping ... 😢😢😢😢😢 Help anyone please
It looks like you sold the yellow plate you needed for one of your quests, is there not a warning when you try to sell a quest item?
In my experience you cannot sell or drop or store quest items!
@@ZiggyDGaming Very cool, that must have been fixed. I saw a couple of people lamenting that they had sold quest items ... however ... I think that quest itself allows you to dispose of the yellow plate as you decide ... something about that quest line gives you some latitude ... can't remember though.
I'm knee deep in loot on my ship, and it's such a pain to try and sell all of it. With the vendors always running out of cash, and not really knowing which ones are fastest to reach etc. I kinda wish any stuff rolling around on the ship floor just counted as being in the cargo. Maybe a modder can make it happen.
I tend to go to the Den in the Wolf system, there is a trade authority there and you don't get scanned so Ive got in the habit of going there to sell all surplus goods and contraband before my next activity. The TA vendor there has 11000 credits which once he runs out, you can sit in the chair next to it and wait, fast forward time for 48 hrs and then the vendor has 11000 again. Seems a bit tedious to me so I'm sure this will get changed in the future, I mean, why not just have vendors with unlimited credits...
Fast forward 48hrs by sleeping and the vendors should restock their cash
You can sit beside many vendors for 48 hours and their money will replenish
So if you fly in space, flip your space ship upside down and then proceed to get up, will you be upside down inside the ship? Or would it just look normal?
Super helpful outline on everything lootable!
If You want to do the best on this game then you need to be overweighted 700-1400 at all times, never miss looting anything that sells and never leave behind resources until you complete your NUMBER ONE goal at your bases..."Storage"! Then you will have the resources needed to build your empire!
I might have a couple problems I hope someone can help me out with. 1. I think Vasco died on a planet somewhere. I assumed he'd just show up late rperfectly fine, but I haven't seen him in many hours of play. Any way to get him back? 2. I think I lost two artifacts. Is that possible? How can find them again? Thanks!
Why would they not tell you this and make it clear in the game how the loots all works, especially with cargo hold and how you can sell directly from it! Thanks for explaining it!!!
FYI the aid category also includes 10kg Ship Repair Kits too!
Lol I've been picking up Vacuum Tape for no reason then, thank you for pointing that out.
I always pick up packs of playing cards. Low weight high value easy sell.
Weightlifting skill, items that increase carry limit make a huge difference. My carry capacity is now 260
You can store a ton of stuff on the ground in your ship for basically free. Drop 20k iron on the ground by the ships door and all you need to do to build in an outpost is pick it up walk out the door and youre good to go.
Great information thanks!
Thanks learned two things.
Great video, thank you!
I never thought to use that space in the ship to drop my loot. Does it stay or will it cause issue and just disappear?
It'll stay there until you change ships or modify your ship in some way, then it'll be dumped in the cargo hold. More ideal is to store things in containers or displays in your home or outpost!
What i noticed is that you don't loot the guns from enemies. Make sure to take it and throw it away if its too much weight, because you get some extra ammo out of them.
S tier guide.
Hey ZiggyD, I just want to know do enemies and loot containers respawn in Starfield? Because I'm watching your video to see any info.
After a decent amount of time some areas can repopulate enemies and reset, it might be like 2 in game weeks?
@@ZiggyDGaming and what about containers?
Ah yeah the zones that reset seem to fully reset, some people have used it to farm a casino full of enemies, loot and cash for example. @@PlusJulianGTChEN-jw6nl
@@ZiggyDGaming okay, thanks man.
thanks for the tips
Love it. Thanks Ziggy
I pick up a weapon that's worth 30k. What locations can you sell for 30k or are you limited to much less?
All items sell for 10% of their value anywhere (barring some edge cases like survey data at Vlad). So any trade authority or weapon merchant is fine.
You didn't mention that another contraband item you can find are Varun zealots books