Starfield

There's a few methods of acquiring new ships, from doing missions, dogfighting & boarding or buying them outright from a Ship Builder.

But for me ship "Jacking" has been far easier to pull off.

While roaming around the planets you'll often see random ships land on the surface. It's possible to "jack" these ships if you have a couple of points in the Security perk (2 points - advanced locks, 3 points - master locks). Sneak into the back of the ship and use a "Digipick" on the ladder door. Once inside make your way to the cockpit, sit in the captains chair and the ship is yours!

Hold onto 10 of these stolen ships to get the Fleet Commander achievement. If you want to use or sell on these stolen ships, you'll need to pay a few thousand credits to a ship builder to register it. But it's a fraction of what the ships actually worth. Easy money!

For this achievement, the best option I found was to land in different parts of the Moon (SOL) until you find landed ships. I also recommend playing with a headset so you can hear if any ships land near your location.

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This no longer works as of the 1.7.33 update, which was released on September 26, 2023

This is a glitch that works as of publication of this game guide, Sep 17, 2023.

You will need a power boost jetpack (you can do it without a power boost pack, but you have to use a different route, more on that in the bottom), and thats about it.

On Jemison/New Atlantis, start in the commercial district. Run up past Galbank, to where you should see a tree (2) up against a colorful wall:



Jump up to the top of this colorful wall (3), and jump through the door (4) that will be off to the right. You will pass through it, and fall a ways down beneath the map. Tap your boost pack before you land to avoid sprains/breaks.



Run in a south-south-west direction (2), keeping to the right of the little square rooms (1). There's fountains on the left side (3), that have water geometry extending down, and if you go into them you'll have to swim, which uses oxygen.

Eventually the ground will start to slope down below, and you'll see a cliff in front of you:

Jump off the cliff, avoiding the "upper" level of ground (1, 2, and 3), aiming for the little hole thats open (4).


Down on the lower level, there are a couple merchant chests you can loot; one for Terrabrew (1), and one for Jemison Mercantile (2). Both have a good number of items and credits that you can resell later. Regardless if you're looting them or not, travel off to the right (3).

Once you get past the buildings, keep running forwards, and you should see the ground drop out in front of you. This is the walkway off the landing pad into New Atlantis proper. Drop down into the lower gulch area, and you should see, in front, above, and to the right, another merchant chest:

This is the ship merchant. Steal all his credits, and then jump up through the map in front of him.

You can now purchase a ship (or multiple). Buy as many as you can afford, you'll get the money back. Once you've bought all you can afford, fast travel to the Commercial district, and repeat the process. You won't be able to loot the other merchant chests the second time, as they've yet to restock, but you can get your money back out of the ship merchant's chest. Rinse and repeat until he's out of ships to sell.

Now you need to jump to and land on Venus. Once landed on Venus, rest or sleep for 10 local hours (1000 hours UT), and then you can travel back to New Atlantis and repeat the process. You can also stop at any merchant you like and sell the items you've looted from the shop, for easy credits.

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If you don't have a power boost pack, when you get to the tree, you'll see a rise over to the right, with some trees between the building with the door and it. You can jump your way across those trees onto the building, and get through the door.

For me the easiest way to do this was to go to the Serpentis system and just travel from planet to planet, disabling Va'ruun ships, boarding them and then taking them. There's a high chance to spawn at least one ship every time you travel, they do often take between 10-20 seconds to spawn after you arrive so wait before you fly to another planet.

The system is Level 55 so make sure you're a fairly high level before attempting this, I used the Targeting Control Systems perk to target their engines and disable them, but you might find using
EM weaponry easier if you don't have any skill points available.

After you sit in the Pilot Seat, press , go to the Ship option on the bottom left and then press again to make the new ship your home ship. After that, hold so you exit the menu, this will automatically undock you from your main ship. Then quickly use to target your old ship before it flies away, hold to dock and then make your way back to the Pilot Seat and make it your home ship again. Exit and then the ship you just took over will fly away, leaving you to carry on to the next planet.

I just completed this achievement (it even unlocked at 9 ships, who knows why). I just wanted to list some unique ships that you get just playing the game, if you don't feel like capturing or buying random ships right away:

1) Frontier, the first ship you get in the game after the beginning quest.
- Razorleaf, complete the

2) Datura, obtained in the quest line, however be advised that, to get it, you need to . This way you will be able to take the ship.

3) UC Prisoner ship, at the end of the first quest.

4) Star Eagle, that you get by finishing the questline.

5) Kepler S or R, which you get at the end of the "Overdesigned" side quest, given to you by which is part of the Main quest (it is a B or C class ship so you will need Rank 3 or 4 Piloting for this one!)

6) Dagger, for which you simply need to clear out Vulture's Roost on Jaffa Iv, then take the ship at the end.

There are probably more but that is the ones I got while playing the game normally.

Easy achievement if you know what to do.

What to do beforehand:
1. Finish all faction questilnes.
2. Beat the game or progress until before you start the main questline's last mission called One Giant Leap

At this point you should have at least 4 ships, plus +1M CR.

Travel to Alpha Centaury - Jemison - Viewpoint.
Create a manual SAVE.

Now, go to the Ship Services technician that is located in front of your ship.
He has 8 ships for sale, just buy the ships that cost less than 200K CR each, should cost you up to 800K CR total.

Enjoy your achievement