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Yes, you can spacewalk in Starfield, and yes, I am trying to build an asteroid outpostWitness Mary Read’s fumbling efforts at orbital homesteading

Witness Mary Read’s fumbling efforts at orbital homesteading

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The player spacewalking towards the surface of an asteroid in Starfield.

Space sure is bigger outside a spaceship, isn’t it? Just as well you brought that jetpack. If your vessel of choice is on the bulky side, like mine, you might need to increase the number on the end of “player.setpos” to escape the invisible barriers around your craft’s exterior. Witness my character Mary Read’s first attempts at a spacewalk below. If you’ve somehow discarded your jetpack, you can always punt yourself about with the recoil from an appropriately chunky firearm.

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A spacewalk in Starfield with a huge asteroid in the foreground

The player’s ship navigating an asteroid field in Starfield

The player spacewalking above an asteroid with their spaceship visible in the top-left corner.

The player spacewalking towards the surface of an asteroid in Starfield.

WeirdConcern4666 also alleges, without providing footage or screens, that you can build onStarfield’s asteroids using the game’s outpost tool. I’ve just tried this, and either I’m missing something or the redditor is telling porkies. Asteroids are only solid when you bash into them in a starship. Try it while spacewalking and you’ll ooze eerily through, as when trying tomanually fly to planets. Argh, it’s got me! It’s got me!

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The view from inside an asteroid in Starfield, thanks to the magic of no collision detection.

The player clipping into an asteroid in Starfield.

Still, it’s surely only a matter of time beforeStarfield modcreators address this, and I’ll finally be free to raise a homestead on some benighted boulder down Altair way. It’s going to have a porch with a rocking chair, in which I’ll huddle cradling my shotgun, while behind me, sundry members of Constellation toil away in the asteroid mines. Cheer up lads, I’m sure there’s an artifact down there somewhere.

Oh, I should probably mention how to get back to your ship? Just fast-travel using the scanner view, or reload your game. Bear in mind, too, that faffing around with Starfield console commands disables the earning of achievements.