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Ship cargo capacity always seems to get full in Starfield way too fast, encouraging you to increase the storage space of your vessel much sooner than you would think. As you collect more resources, weapons, and other items, you will need more room to keep the stuff you don't want to sell. While you could always buy another ship with a larger inventory, there are far easier ways to adjust the vehicle you already own.

Ships like the Stronghold and Starhawk are vehicles with a ridiculous amount of storage that you can use to hoard far more items than your starting vessel, The Frontier. Those searching for the best way to store resources in Starfield should consider building an Outpost. These structures created on various worlds can be designed to contain many of your belongings, freeing up space on your ship for new items you find during your journey.

Planets with lots of resources, such as Jemison, are excellent places to build an Outpost, with plenty of storage space to store materials and other items without taking up your ship's cargo capacity.

How To Upgrade a Ship's Storage Capacity in Starfield

Starfield Using New Cargo Modules to Have More Storage Capacity on a Ship

The main way to increase the storage capacity on your ship is to replace existing modules, obtain the Payloads Skill, or add more cargo sections with new attachments. The customization process for ships is only limited by your ideas, making it fairly easy to move around pieces to fit the design you might have in mind. Simply speak with any Ship Technician at many of Starfield's landing zones to get started.

To check the current storage capacity of any ship, interact with the behind the pilot's chair in the cockpit. Speaking to a ship vendor will let you sell items directly from your cargo if you are getting close to your vessel's limits.

Most Technicians will have multiple new cargo holds as parts for sale that could fit onto your ship. Feel free to remove sections of your ship that you might not need in exchange for more cargo modules in Starfield. Keep in mind that cargo holds will increase the overall weight of your ship, which could prevent it from moving fast while you travel or make it unable to take off at all.

Cockpit modules also increase storage space, but you may only have one cockpit part on your ship at a time. As you level up fast in Starfield, consider investing points into the Payload skill to bolster your ship's storage by 10% for every vessel you own at the ability's first level. Putting more ranks into this trait gives you a chance to boost a ship's cargo capacity to heights of even 50%.

As seen by content creator CurtisBuilds, there are many ways to combine these strategies to make a ship in your fleet designed purely for storing items. While the methods for increasing storage capacity in Starfield may be tough to understand initially, the options available give you plenty of opportunities to help your ship adapt to the many items you bring aboard from your many adventures.

Source: YouTube/CurtisBuilds