One of the most exciting early-game features in Starfield is the discovery of an infinite storage chest, which offers you the luxury of unlimited storage space for all the items you accumulate throughout your space-faring adventure. Alongside this chest, there are various ways to increase your ship’s cargo capacity and your personal inventory, ensuring that you never run out of room for your loot. Let’s dive into how you can get and make the most of this infinite storage, as well as other ways to enhance your carrying capacity in Starfield.
How to Get Unlimited Storage Space in Starfield
Early in the game, you’ll unlock the infinite storage chest by interacting with Matteo Khatri in New Atlantis. This happens during the second mission of the main storyline, “The Old Neighborhood.” After your interaction, you will be granted a room on the first floor of the Lodge, which contains the infinite chest.
Once you gain access to this chest, you can store an unlimited amount of items. It’s a perfect place to keep your weapons, equipment, and valuables without worrying about running out of space. However, there is a catch: materials stored in this chest are not automatically used when building outposts. For that, you'll need to use items from your personal inventory or ship’s cargo hold.
This means that the infinite storage chest is best used for storing non-essential items, like extra weapons, armor, or special collectibles. For everything else, it’s a better idea to keep them in your ship’s storage.
How to Increase Your Inventory and Cargo Capacity
While the Lodge chest takes care of your unlimited storage needs, there are still ways to increase your personal inventory and ship cargo capacity, which will be useful when you're on the move and need to carry a lot more with you.
1. Increasing Your Ship’s Cargo Capacity
To increase your ship's cargo hold, head to a Ship Services Technician at the spaceport of any major city in the game. From here, select the dialogue option: “I’d like to view and modify my ships.” Choose the ship you wish to upgrade, then go into the Ship Builder option.
Once in the ship modification menu, navigate to the Cargo category, where you can find cargo hold options. The largest cargo hold in New Atlantis costs only a few thousand credits, and it boosts your ship's capacity by about 600 kg.
If you’re feeling a bit more adventurous, you can also steal a ship that has a larger cargo hold. It’s risky, but the rewards can be worth it if you find a ship with a better storage capacity than your current one.
2. Increasing Your Personal Carrying Capacity
Pocketed Spacesuit Mod & Extra Capacity Mod: Head to a spacesuit workbench and equip your spacesuit with these mods to increase your carrying capacity by 10kg per mod. As you progress, you can unlock even more mods that add more weight capacity.
Followers and Crew Members: If you find yourself overwhelmed with items, consider giving your followers or crew members something to carry. They will always return the items to you once you're back on your ship or in a safe zone.
Physical Skill Tree (Weightlifting): The Weightlifting skill in the Physical skill tree is another great way to boost your carrying capacity. Each rank adds more to your total carrying weight:
- Rank 1: +10 kg
- Rank 2: +25 kg
- Rank 3: +50 kg
- Rank 4: +100 kg
Skill Magazines: Keep an eye out for Skill Magazines that provide a permanent carrying capacity bonus. These can increase your carrying weight by 5 kg each time you find one.
Temporary Boosts: Certain help items, like the UC Battlemeal Multipacks, will temporarily increase your carrying capacity. These come in handy when you need to lug around more items for a short period of time.
Outpost Storage Containers: If you're building outposts, you can set up storage containers to hold extra materials. These containers are found under the Decorations category in Construction Mode and can be placed at your outposts for easy access to storage.
Final Thoughts
With the infinite storage chest at the Lodge and the variety of options for increasing both your ship’s cargo capacity and your personal carrying weight, you’ll never have to worry about running out of space in Starfield. Whether you're collecting rare materials, weapons, or alien artifacts, these tools and methods will ensure that you can carry all of your precious loot without breaking a sweat. Just remember to keep your important materials in your ship's cargo or personal inventory for easy access when building outposts. Happy exploring, and may the stars be with you!
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