Starfield's latest update lets you decorate your ship just like an outpost

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Todd Howard said a lot of stuff during a recentKinda Funny interview, including—crammed in amidst all the talk about Fallout—that a new Starfield update was being revealed this week. Today it arrived, in Steam beta as is the tradition, with an array of fixes, tweaks, and as promised, some new options for your space-buggy.

This update is not the big one, which is to say Shattered Space, the full-on Starfield expansion: Howard said that’s expected to be out sometime this fall. It’s still a fairly substantial update, though, with new options enabling more granular difficulty adjustment, improved surface maps that will hopefully make it easier to find your way around, improved inventory management, and a new “Ship Decoration Mode” that will let you tart up the interior of your ship the same way you do with outposts.

I’m not a Starfield player myself but that ship decorating bit feels like it’s overdue. Base-building isn’t my thing but I’ve spent more time than I care to consider carefully fiddling with the decor in my various Elder Scrolls homes, ensuring they were just so. (I’m getting an urge right now to fire up Morrowind just so I can wander around Indarys Manor.) And what is a spaceship, after all, but a base you bring with you? But proper decor demands more than just dumping your crap into a corner, especially when all that stuff ends up being shuffled off into the hold every time youchange your ship design. This new mode promises to smooth out the process, and make all your deep-space Martha Stewarting a little more permanent.

New respec options for Starfield’s New Game+ mode are also being added, enabling players to change their traits and appearance when heading back into the game. Xbox Series X players will also have access to new display options, allowing them to set frame rate targets and prioritize visual quality or performance.

“The team isn’t slowing down with this update,” Bethesda said onSteam. “There are some major features on the horizon, including a land vehicle for speedier planetary exploration, official mod support for Starfield, and the massive Shattered Space expansion. Stay tuned in the coming months for more news on these!”

Shattered Space is still months away, but official mod support, which was confirmed as coming last year, will hopefully show up sooner: Howard said in his Kinda Funny interview that some Starfield content creators already have access to it, and the rest of us should be hearing more about it “soon.”

He said a lot of other things, too:

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The Starfield 1.11.33 update, as it’s called, is live now in Steam beta ahead of a full rollout set for May 15. The full patch notes are below.

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We’ve heard from many that you’d like to have more control over the graphic fidelity and performance on Xbox, similar to how PC players can customize their experience. We’re now enabling that on Xbox Series X with a few options that you can use to find the best fit for your playstyle and display.

For each of these, we highly recommend a Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) Display running at 120hz, and to verify your Xbox is setup to use it. If you have it setup this way, Starfield will now default to a frame rate target of 40, while keeping the priority for full visuals.

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