Starfield Ship Storage: Upgrade, Types & Guide

Starfield Ships are irreplaceable when traveling to different Planets and Star Systems, primarily with Grav Jumping. Moreover, they have a variety of uses, such as space combat, docking to space stations, and, most importantly, Storage or cargo. This guide will explain everything you need about Ship Storage in Starfield.

What Is Ship Storage?

In Starfield, your Ship has Storage. This is also called Cargo Hold. Moreover, all the items you collect in Space are kept in your Cargo Hold. In particular, items you get from destroying enemy ships in Space will be stored in the Cargo Hold. Furthermore, this could include valuable materials for crafting or research purposes.

This Ship Storage or Cargo Hold will fill up as you progress the game, and you’ll eventually reach your Cargo Limit and be unable to pick up any additional items from a shipwreck. However, if you plan for this situation in advance, you can upgrade your cargo or manage it so you can always be ready to pick up loot instead of taking a detour and wasting time.

Using Ship Storage

Thankfully, it is straightforward to access and manage your Cargo Hold. You don’t need to jump through several hoops to access your Ship Storage, like being in Space or inside your Ship. You can pause the game and see the menu with your character and the other information tabs next to them. Over here, hover over the bottom left of the screen and access your Ship menu.

At this point, you should view your Ship’s parameters, including but not limited to its Fuel, Hull, Value, and Mass. However, we’re concerned with the Ship Storage, which you can access by pressing the Cargo Hold button, which opens up the Cargo Hold Menu, where every item on your Ship is neatly sorted.

Here, you can do a variety of things, such as:

1. Moving the item from the ship storage into your inventory.
2. Opening your inventory to see what you already have and need from the ship storage.
3. Throw out items from your cargo hold to organize your ship storage. This process is called Jettison.
4. You can sort the items to understand better what you’re carrying on your Ship.
5. Depending on your weight, you can take all the items from your ship storage with one button, which may or may not be a good idea.
6. If you find the design interesting, you can inspect items to get a more detailed view of some items.

You can use these items for crafting and research or sell them for easy credit. The latter would be a good idea if you consider upgrading your ship storage to increase the Cargo Hold Capacity.

Upgrade Ship Storage

Upgrading your Ship is a relatively straightforward process. All you have to do is find an NPC who is a Ship Services Technician and talk to them.

To be more specific about the entire process, here is a short step-by-step guide to upgrading your ship storage:

1. Head to the City, New Atlantis, which is on the Planet Jemison, in the Alpha Centauri Star System.
2. Find a Ship Services Technician NPC near the landing area of your Ship.
3. Talk to the NPC and select the ‘I’d like to view and modify my ships.’ dialogue option.
4. You will be taken to a Menu Screen like the one you saw when accessing your Cargo Hold.
5. At this point, press the button to access the Ship Builder and go to that screen.
6. Now, try to find a component of your Ship called Cargo Hold. You may need to pan the camera and hover over many parts until you find it.
7. You have a couple of options at this point. Firstly, you can detach and remove the cargo hold to reduce the Hull. Secondly, you can duplicate the Cargo Hold component and attach it to another free space on your Ship to double the capacity. Thirdly, you can remove the current cargo hold and replace it with a different one you like.
8. Then, you can exit and save your changes as long as the parameter checks are passed.

It is fun to customize several components of your Ship to get the optimal result. However, it should be noted that to change the cargo hold components, you will need to invest 1 skill point into the Starship Design Tech Skill. More complex components may require you to invest even more skill points and overcome several challenges to reach Rank 4.

Storage Comparison

There are 3 ways to increase your Ship Storage in Starfield. You can either do all of them, a combination of them, or just one of them:

1. Firstly, buy or steal a Ship with a higher Cargo Hold Capacity from NPCs or Factions.
2. Secondly, buy a Cargo Hold Ship module with a higher Cargo Hold Capacity.
3. Thirdly, buy a Cockpit Ship Module with a higher Cargo Hold Capacity.

Regardless of which route you wish to take, here is a table of cargo hold components, cockpit modules, and ships comparing their cargo hold capacity and other parameters.

Ship Comparison

Name	Fuel	Hull	Cargo	Crew	Value
Vanquisher	1100	908	4120	6	335655
Kepler R	2800	999	3905	6	457641
Shieldbreaker	550	940	2280	5	265443
Warhammer II	550	791	2280	5	237133
Marathon	700	639	1606	2	151467
Frontier	50	366	495	2	54191
Achilles II	50	515	445	2	94875
Crimson Fleet Phantom	50	478	429	2	66707
Rambler II	50	502	260	2	94614
Phalanx II	800	793	200	5	196086
Trebuchet II	210	629	200	4	189966
Galileo II	1100	563	200	4	175073

Cargo Hold Comparison

Name	Cargo	Hull	Value	Requirement
Galleon S204 Cargo Hold	1480	5	10450	Starship Design Tech Skill (Rank 3)
40T Hauler Cargo Hold	1270	5	8835	Starship Design Tech Skill (Rank 3)
Galleon S203 Cargo Hold	1200	5	8312	Starship Design Tech Skill (Rank 2)
30T Hauler Cargo Hold	1000	5	6792	Starship Design Tech Skill (Rank 2)
Galleon S202 Cargo Hold	950	5	6395	Starship Design Tech Skill (Rank 1)
20T Hauler Cargo Hold	760	5	4940	Starship Design Tech Skill (Rank 1)
Galleon S201 Cargo Hold	720	5	4607	Starship Design Tech Skill (Rank 1)
10T Hauler Cargo Hold	585	5	3610	Starship Design Tech Skill (Rank 1)
Caravel V104 Cargo Hold	550	5	3325	Starship Design Tech Skill (Rank 2)
400CM Ballast Cargo Hold	435	5	2422	Starship Design Tech Skill (Rank 1)
StorMax 60 Cargo Hold	435	5	2422	Starship Design Tech Skill (Rank 1)
Caravel V103 Cargo Hold	395	5	2137	Starship Design Tech Skill (Rank 1)
300CM Ballast Cargo Hold	320	5	1567	Starship Design Tech Skill (Rank 1)
StorMax 50 Cargo Hold	320	5	1567	None
Caravel V102 Cargo Hold	300	5	1425	None
200CM Ballast Cargo Hold	245	5	997	None
StorMax 40 Cargo Hold	245	5	997	None
Caravel V101 Cargo Hold	225	5	807	None
100CM Ballast Cargo Hold	210	5	712	None
StorMax 30 Cargo Hold	210	5	712	None

Cockpit Comparison

Name	Cargo	Hull	Crew Stations	Value	Requirement
DS10.1 Phobos Cockpit	200	5	2	3657	None
Magellan C1 Cockpit	200	5	2	3705	None
DS10.2 Phobos Cockpit	220	5	2	4322	None
Magellan C1X Cockpit	220	5	2	4417	None
DS20.1 Phobos Cockpit	240	5	2	5462	None
Magellan C2 Cockpit	240	5	2	5605	None
DS20.2 Phobos Cockpit	260	5	2	6935	None
Magellan C2X Cockpit	260	5	2	7077	None
Magellan C2X Cockpit (NASA)	260	5	2	7077	Starship Design Tech Skill (Rank 1)
DS20.3 Phobos Cockpit	280	5	2	9310	Starship Design Tech Skill (Rank 1)

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