Starfield Players Report Game-Breaking Ship Bug

Some Starfield fans have recently taken to social media to report an unusual bug that makes ship doors inaccessible, on top of breaking the game in a variety of other unexpected ways. Their experiences extend the list of known Starfield bugs that the fandom has uncovered to date.

The initial player reports detailing the issue date back to the first half of September, indicating that the problem has been present in the game since day one. The bug itself locks stolen ship Landing Bay doors by labeling such modules as “inaccessible,” a designation that’s normally reserved for purely cosmetic doorways that cannot be lockpicked or opened using any other means. As a result, this Starfield ship bug effectively prevents players from entering their hijacked spacecraft.

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Starfield’s Inaccessible Landing Bay Door Bug Is More Far-Reaching Than First Thought

However, one newly emerged player report indicates that the issue is much more far-reaching than that. Taking to Reddit, user tossaway3244 explained that their testing suggests this Starfield bug removes the stolen property designation from a hijacked ship, thus breaking the game in some additional unexpected ways. Among other things, the issue will reportedly lock all ship-related quests that require the player to take any kind of action with their vessel, simply because the game no longer recognizes any ship as actually theirs.

Although switching one’s home ship in Starfield and using console commands can both reportedly circumvent the issue with the inaccessible landing bay door, tossaway3244’s testing suggests that doing so will not resolve the underlying problem. For example, the lack of a home ship will make the player’s entire crew disappear even if they manage to force their way into the bugged vessel. On PC, the bug is also said to break a wide array of mods that interact with the protagonist’s spacecraft, including Rysel’s Call your Ship and wSkeever’s Ship Remote Control.

The Bug Reportedly Only Affects Stolen Starfield Ships

In conclusion, tossaway3244 warned fans against trying to use any kind of fixes to circumvent the inaccessible landing bay door bug if they encounter it, positing that reloading the game is the only way to avoid further complications that will completely break their playthrough. Since both their findings and past player reports on the matter indicate that the problem can only materialize after modifying a stolen vessel using the ship builder, saving the game before hijacking a ship and again before modifying it should be enough to avoid losing significant progress to this Starfield bug.

Bethesda has yet to confirm that it’s aware of the problem. Should it manage to address the bug in the future, its fix will likely first roll out to Steam users in the form of a Starfield beta update before making its way to all players, which is how the studio has handled the game’s patches so far.

Starfield

Developed by Bethesda Game Studios, Starfield is a sci-fi action role-playing game where players interact with multiple factions, engage in combat, customize their main character and ship, as well as explore a universe that features over 100 systems and 1,000 planets.

Platform(s)

PC, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S

Released

September 6, 2023

Developer(s)

Bethesda

Publisher(s)

Bethesda

Genre(s)

Action, RPG

ESRB

M For Mature 17+ Due To Blood, Suggestive Themes, Use of Drugs, Strong Language, Violence

How Long To Beat

20 Hours

X|S Enhanced

Yes

File Size Xbox Series

101 GB (November 2023)

Metascore

86