Highlights
- Players should always carry Med Packs in their inventory for healing and faster health regeneration in Starfield. Having plenty of them is crucial for survival.
- Affliction Cures are essential to treat different conditions and injuries in Starfield. They can prevent negative impacts on gameplay and keep players at their best.
- Always have a Cutter on hand in Starfield as it is necessary for mining minerals and freeing Artifacts. It serves as a useful defense tool and is crucial for progressing through the story.
The galaxy is a dangerous place, and in Starfield, the sentiment has never been more true. There are some essential items in Starfield that players will want to make sure stay in their inventory. Otherwise, players are in for a bad time, and they might miss out on some goodies, or simply suffer a harsh fate, depending on their wits.
Players should always have these key items in their inventory if they are going to survive out there in the cosmos. Some of these items could involve healing players, whereas others involve fighting, and simply breathing out in space and uninhabitable worlds. The choice is the player’s in Starfield, but it’s best to make sure those choices are made with the best items in mind.
6 Med Packs
The first item that is nearly essential to players is the trusty Med Pack. This is the standard way of healing in Starfield, and players can find Med Packs from practically all vendors that sell aid, as well as around the galaxy in pharmacy containers. Med Packs will heal players greatly, and carrying a bundle of them is a great idea.
Players can never have too many Med Packs, and consuming them means that their health will regenerate faster and with a boost, ensuring that a fight with an alien creature or a Crimson Fleet armada won’t result in the death of the player.
5 Affliction Cures
There are many different afflictions in Starfield, as well as treatments and cures to solve them. Players should head to their nearest pharmacy and medical clinic in Starfield to purchase some of these items. There is nothing worse than suffering from frostbite, lacerations, or a broken bone. These effects can impact gameplay, and cause players to lose out on their normal stats and bonuses.
Carrying affliction cures is a great idea so that players can continue on their dangerous journey without having to worry about the risk of injury, as they will be able to patch themselves up as good as new, instead of hopping around injured and praying to go back to the safety of New Atlantis.
4 Cutter
The story of the Starfield protagonist begins as a miner, who gets their pay from cracking minerals on different planets. Due to this origin as a miner, players should always keep a Cutter on hand. It may not be the best weapon in Starfield, but it can be used for a good level of defense and is the only weapon capable of mining minerals, common, rare, exotic, or unique. It’s a trusty tool.
Players should always have a Cutter on hand, as it will be the default item used when players are in their Scanner mode. Cutters are essential for freeing Artifacts from their rocky prisons, so without one, players are going to have a pretty hard time navigating through the story, and lacking the crafting resources to create more power.
3 Digipicks
Where there is life, there is loot. Players can find all manners of goodies stashed away behind pesky locked doors where humans live, or used to in these abandoned areas. Players will need to upgrade their Security perk to access harder lockpick areas, but nevertheless, a Digipick is essential to even begin the process of trying to unlock such a room.
There are many areas in Starfield where a Digipick is needed. Although not essential for progression, players are missing out on curiosity and loot if they don’t try and use a Digipick to unlock computers, doors, and loot crates that will see them net a decent reward. Considering Digipicks take up no inventory space, it’s a good idea to carry as many as the player can to loot like a true space pirate.
2 Ammunition
It might sound obvious, but sometimes, an axe or a knife won’t do the trick. All enemies in Starfield are likely to have a gun or two, so players should shoot back rather than charging at them with a weapon meant for someone in Tamriel. The future is here, and it’s best to use classic ballistic weapons or laser rifles for maximum impact when dealing with these threats.
To do so, players are going to want ammo, and lots of it. Ammo can be looted off of the corpses of enemies, in ammunition and weapon crates, as well as purchased from vendors. Players will want to make sure they know the ammo type of the gun they are using so they do not buy the wrong ammo, but considering ammunition takes up no mass in the inventory, why not just carry every single bullet?
1 Spacesuit
It would be rather silly to decide to ditch a spacesuit in Starfield. Although players have this option, and can instead decide to wear a cowboy hat and a sweater, it’s a bad idea. The environments outside inhabitable planets and cities are hostile. Not only will players be without armor, but they could embark on a planet with harsh elements, and without console commands, death is assured.
Players could see themselves dying due to a lack of oxygen supply, or freezing to death due to no insolation in their spacesuit. Players should always have a spacesuit and a helmet, rather than sticking to what is fashionable. It’s better to be alive than dead and pretty.
Starfield is available now for PC and Xbox Series X|S.