The Ship Builder in Starfield is surprisingly robust. You have so much customizability and can build almost anything you can put your mind to. You can even build a mech ship if that’s something you want to do for whatever reason. However, there are limitations to how large your ship can be. We’ll be discussing the biggest ship you can build and the biggest ship you can buy in Starfield.
How Big Can a Ship Be in Starfield?
While it would be nice to have a ship that’s just a massive platform and nothing else, you are limited on the length, width, and height of your ship. We went into the Ship Builder ourselves and messed around with parts, discovering that the maximum length and width of your ship is 80 meters each.
However, that’s a lot more space than you might think. 80 meters in length might be cutting it close for some longer ships, but 80 meters in width will almost never be hit. If you use one Hab and some landing gear, the furthest in width you’re seeing is around 20 meters. Needless to say, you have some room to play with.
The same can be said for height, though we sadly don’t have the same sort of concrete number as length and width. You do have a lot of room to play with on that front though. We’ve provided an image above of the max height we were able to get the ship before the Flight Check menu spat out an error at us. Unless you want to make an accurate recreation of a skyscraper, you shouldn’t have height issues.
Is There a Benefit to Making Your Ship Larger?
Making your ship larger does come with some benefits, provided you don’t abuse that length. More space means more space to slap stuff into, such as a heap of Cargo Holds so you can hold something stupid like 10,000 Mass in your ship’s cargo.
More space can also mean more room to have engines, so you can go even faster. With that being said, you’ll also increase the Mass and decrease the Mobility of your ship, making it have the handling of a tank with worn-out treads. Not ideal in a lot of scenarios. It’s important to find a healthy balance between the two or risk some of the better conveniences on your ship.
Biggest Ship You Can Buy in Starfield
Defining the biggest pre-built ship in Starfield isn’t easy without precise volumetric measurements. But we can tell you that Starfield’s biggest ship in terms of available space is the Silent Runner, coming in at a whopping 6060 cargo capacity. This ship stretches out to a length of 36M by a width of 17M, and it has some decent height on it too.
There may be longer and girthier ships out there, like the Dragonfire II which also has a higher crew capacity, but volumetrically, we believe the Silent Runner to be the overall biggest ship you can buy. Take a look at its stats below:
- Class: C.
- Fuel: 300.
- Hull: 1164.
- Cargo Capacity: 6060.
- Crew: 5.
- Reactor: 34.
- Jump: 29 LY.
- Shield: 975.
- MSL: 100.
- BAL: None.
- LAS: None.
- PAR: 38.
If you want this behemoth ship to haul around all the junk you will inevitably collect, you can purchase it in HopeTown on Polvo in the Valo System for a sticker price of 370,633 credits. You should be able to buy it from either the HopeTech Showroom or the Ship Services Technician in the same area.
If you’re looking to build the biggest ship in Starfield and want more details regarding shipbuilding, check out our guide on how to build a ship from scratch in Starfield.
