Starfield is an amazing game with a ton of content and great features, but it can be tough to get the hang of them at first. To help you out, here are some tips, tricks, and under-explained systems that will make your playthrough smoother. Investing skill points into stealth, boost packs, or using your ship’s thrusters for a boost give you access to new abilities. You also have to complete challenges to level skills up past the first rank. To save your favorite planets, you can found outposts there, but you’re limited to eight (16 with rank four Planetary Habitation skill). Starting traits are also impactful as they introduce new quests and characters to the game. Playing on a controller gives you more control over walking speed and starship controls. Use your scanner to find quest markers, which may lead you astray. Remember to mine asteroids in space for resources and buy ammo for rarer weapons from weapon stores. Finally, use console commands like tgm, tcl, and player.setav CarryWeight to cheat, get out of sticky situations, or increase your carry weight limit.