Travis
The main reasons starbound players upgrade their ship is for space purposes .
Whether it’s for fitting more objects , loots and people on the ship , upgrading is definitely worth the grind for it as it gives you more flexibility and utility .
Also , upgrading your starbound ship means also you’ll be able to upgrade your level on starbound or try new starbound mods and this can give an edge and an advantage over other starbound players , whether they are your rivals or your friends .
There are at least two methods that allow you to upgrade your ship in starbound .
These are the best ways to upgrade your ship in starbound :
Recruiting A Crew
By recruiting new crew members you’ll have players on your starbound server following you all over the place , so you can sign them tasks that can benefit both of you .
You’ll just need to find someone that wants to join your crew which could be anyone essentially , you can send quests so you have a settlement .
Once you’ve done enough quests you’ll be able to find players that want to join your crew .
You can check your crew by going to your little AI computer (the one you use to Get Mech In Starbound) and check if you have new members on your ship crew .
Once you get to home you can go back up to your ship and you get a license key , once you get the license you go to the outpost and you give Pete your upgrade modules .
To upgrade your starbound ship for the first upgrades you need two crew members and for the second upgrades it will take you four crew members.
You can have up to 4 ship members that you can assign missions to , they can be soldiers , outlaws , mechanics or even tailors .
Most of the time two of them will always follow you all over the place , and if one of them dies he automatically gets reincarnated on your starbound ship .
We will see that we can get the new ship license , we might have to go up to the ship first to be able to see that we have actually obtained the license .
Buying Licenses
By using this method you don’t have nor need to recruit any ship members , it also is less time consuming and is considered the fast way to upgrade your ship in starbound .
However it is more pricey than the ordinary method of recruiting crew members .
Here is the step by step process in order to buy your license so you can upgrade your ship :
1. Beam Into Your World
We do this so it can facilitate the way to buy our license. By teleporting from the ship to our world we can get the resources needed to get the job done .
2. Talk To The Penguin Bay
Make sure you first have all the resources needed and also check if you have a good amount of soap .
3. Buy Your License
After you give the Penguin Bay the needed the ressources , he will in exchange give you a license .
4. Communicate With Penguin Pete
This is the last step you’ll need to do , talking to pete will give you the ability to upgrade your ship fast .
By This time you normally can see that your ship has been upgraded , if not then you’ll need to go back to your ship to be able to see it .
Before you upgrade your ship you just need to make sure that you’ve gotten the required grid modules .
Starbound Ship Upgrade Command
In Starbound you can find a lot of different commands and cheats for different purposes , this is a list of the commands that you need to use to upgrade your ship :
- /upgradeship ‘{“shipLevel” : 4}’
- /spawnitem shipT3
