Starfield ship bug launches player into space without most of their ship

Starfield modders are taking patches into their own hands, and they've already found hundreds of issues needing attention.

Starfield's ship building features are pretty deep, allowing players to create all sorts of weird and wacky vehicles that they can fly throughout the Settled Systems. You can recreate famous spaceships from other franchises like The Millenium Falcon and The Normandy, or you can go full goblin mode and just build a big cube. All hail the cube!

Starfield's community keeps getting smarter with their ship builds—we've had AI-exploiting nightmares made of corners, ladderless flat discs, and some sci-fi classics. But what about the little guys of the universe—pilots who don't want some big, fancy warship with 500 autocannons?

Creativity knows no bounds in the vast, boundless expanse of Starfield’s space. Some players have plastered their creative skills to make the most jaw-dropping ships ever touching the cosmos. However, and we will be pointing our fingers here, others have come up with outlandish and ridiculous ship designs.

After all these years, Bethesda Game Studios has finally released one of its signature first-person RPGs with functional ladders. Glorified teleporters no more: Starfield's ladders have proper interactive climbing animations, and since Starfield makes an attempt at somewhat realistic spacecraft designs, its ships naturally contain lots of them. 

Starfield got off to a predictably stellar start upon its release earlier in the month, becoming Bethesda’s biggest launch ever with over 6 million players and seeing over 1 million concurrent players across all platforms on the day of its release. Unsurprisingly, the sci-fi RPG has continued to see similar success in the days since then.

The Starfield community's ships are giving me some heavy Spore flashbacks. In case that's a game you missed, 2008's Spore was a funky little space-sim with several minigames stacked onto its back-end. 

In the neverending pursuit to build wacky Starfield ships, one player has created an homage to Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater’s famous long ladder scene. In simpler terms, this Starfield player has an excessively long set of ladders in their ship. Come look. 

Between surprisingly accurate recreations of pop culture spaceships, funky corner ships that trick enemy AI, and this one that is somehow just an entire F1 car, I am endlessly impressed by what the Starfield ship builder is capable of. Even I, a kid who didn't know what to do with Legos, managed to put together a cruiser with my ideal blend of boxy utility and sleek angles. By comparison the inside of ships are very dull—other than placing objects from your inventory on tables, you're stuck with whatever stock furniture comes with the ship modules you attach.

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Players have been getting creative with their starship designs in Starfield, ranging from the wacky to the downright cool, and as more players jump in and get familiar with the game, more incredible creations seem to be popping up every day.

In some ways, I regret to inform you that the most badass Starfield ship that exists and will ever exist has already been created, and it's this Batman-inspired spacecraft from Reddit user bmikey.