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Starfield Gameplay Tips

AKA Stuff that the game doesn’t do a great job at telling you about but it’s good to know (no spoilers)

(I play with mouse and keyboard so I’m not sure about controller bindings for these)

Grab objects without picking them up by holding E
When you picked up an object, use left and right click to rotate it
Tap shift to change the rotation axis (there’s no visual indicator for this for some reason)
You can also throw a picked up object by pressing R
You can also move dropped objects around inside an outpost by entering edit mode in the build menu
When positioned in edit mode, placed objects are “stuck” down, they no longer seem to be affected by physics. This is a great way to decorate your outpost

In the inventory on the space suits screen, there’s an option to automatically hide the suit in cities
Similarly, there’s an option to automatically hide the helmet in breathable areas on the helmets screen
In space, hold E (with no target selected) to get up from your pilot seat and walk around your ship.
In the ship builder, double click any module to select all connected modules. This is great for moving around large chunks of the ship, but also extremely useful when you run into the problem where the game is telling you that *something* isn’t connected but you have no idea what it is. Just double click the cockpit and any loose parts won’t be selected.
Several cities have an “Enhance” store. This place lets you completely remake your character, including renaming, changing body type, face, etc. This only costs 500 credits so don’t worry if you’re not happy with how your character looks initially. You can’t change your background or traits though.

When in scanner mode (both on foot and in the ship) look at any objective or marker and you get the option to travel there without opening the map. This is especially nice in your ship, as you can easily fly between different planets and star systems without ever opening the star map.
In the ship, tap E to cycle your target and ESC to deselect your target. Especially useful in combat or when you wanna talk to a ship (you can hail and talk to any ship you see)
When modifying a ship, any loose items are placed in the ship’s inventory so make sure to check that if you lost something (I wouldn’t recommend decorating the ship’s interior for this reason)
If you have multiple ships, they don’t really have individual storage. All ship cargo is moved to your home ship whenever you switch ships. This can even result in ships carrying more than their max capacity when moving to a smaller ship.
There’s a quick melee button
You can favorite weapons and items to assign them to your number keys
Opening your scanner shows a path to the objective on the floor

If you have other stuff that you didn’t know for a while, let me know, and I might add it to the list. Hope this helps :^)