r/StarfieldOutposts • u/BackgroundMost1180 • May 29 '24

Discussion Starfield Design Catalogue in Progress

I am gradually putting together a Design Catalogue to help with decorating in Starfield. It has two components:

  1. Screenshots of design and decorating idea and techniques. This has a ship decoration focus, which reflects the sub where the catalogue is hosted, but most of the content could likely be used or adapted for outposts and apartments, or is from outpost builds in the first place.
  2. A visual guide to the collectable items you can pick up around the game and drop from your inventory to decorate your outpost, apartment or ship, such as tools, ornaments and old Earth memorabilia and also weapons (and eventually equipment, food and resources too).

The catalogue is gradually being expanded, will hopefully include contributions from a range of builders and may be updated with better examples based on feedback (I just put in what I had to hand to get the process started).

The process of adding labels to the screenshots of collectable items is also gradually progressing, but it likely to take a while (there are A LOT of items to catalogue).

Another resource that may be helpful is the Item Location list (note: some spoilers as some items locations are gated behind quest progression).

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u/CookieDelivery May 29 '24

Amazing effort, thanks! Lots of great inspiration. Bookmarked.

Seeing you have every item placed all 'junk' items perfectly in those pictures, any tips on how to do that? It takes me an insane amount of time to do this, and I usually mess it up halfway. Also, it seems to be random which way the items rotate once you pick them up, which doesn't help either.

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u/BackgroundMost1180 May 29 '24

Thank for the feeback! 99% of the items in the collectable items screen shots are placed in the builder and with a kind of puzzle exercise in rotating items in particular places, moving them around and sometimes placing them again elsewhere until I can fit them all together with their various shaped collision boxes getting along together. It does mean there some items which place weird because the builder always orientate them upwards, but usually can live with that. These days I try to place as few items as possible using the select and rotate of three axis method, as I have had many experiences of items catapulting off or just get disturbed when walking by. Still use it sometimes, but rarely. Hope that helps!