In Starfield, you change your home ship by setting a different ship as your active “Home” in the ship menu, usually via a ship services technician at a starport or similar location.

Basic method: using a ship technician

Here’s the most common way players change their home ship:

  1. Land at a spaceport or station
    • Go to any major starport or a location with a ship services NPC (for example: New Atlantis, Akila City, Neon, or the Red Mile on Porrima III).
  1. Talk to the ship services technician
    • Start a conversation and choose the option along the lines of “I’d like to view and modify my ships.”
  1. Open the ship list
    • A menu will appear showing all ships you own.
    • Use the left/right navigation controls (bumpers or equivalent) to cycle through your ships.
  1. Select “Make Home Ship”
    • Highlight the ship you want to use.
    • Look at the bottom of the screen for the command that says “Make home ship” or “Make My Home Ship.”
    • Press the indicated key or button (often shown in the bottom-right HUD; for PC it can be a specific key like H, on controller a face/menu button).
  1. Exit and board your new home ship
    • Close the menu.
    • The ship you selected will now be on the landing pad as your home ship, and you can simply walk up the ramp and take off.

In forum discussions, players often note that if you don’t see your chosen ship on the pad right away, exiting the menu and reloading the area or fast traveling can help the game “refresh” the landing pad with the new home ship.

Alternative method: capturing or flying a new ship

There’s another, more “organic” way to change your home ship:

  • When you take over a ship (for example, by boarding and stealing it) and then take off in that ship , the game automatically flags it as your new home ship; your old home ship is sent back into your inventory.
  • If you only sit in the pilot seat of a new ship and then walk back to your old ship and leave without making the new one your home ship, that new ship may not be added permanently to your roster and can effectively be lost.

This is why guides strongly recommend formally making the new ship your home ship if you want to keep it.

Using outposts to switch home ship

You’re not limited to big cities:

  • If you’ve built an outpost with a landing pad and shipbuilder access , you can use that to summon and switch between your ships.
  • From the outpost’s ship menu, you can bring a ship in, walk aboard it, and set it as your home ship in the same way as at a starport.

Players on forums highlight this as a convenient way to manage ships if you’re avoiding certain factions or star systems due to bounties or hostility.

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<h1>How to Change Home Ship in Starfield</h1>
<p>To change your home ship in Starfield, you must set another owned ship as your active "Home" ship via a ship technician or an outpost landing pad.</p>

<h2>Step-by-step at a starport</h2>
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  <li>Land at a spaceport (New Atlantis, Akila City, Neon, Red Mile, etc.).</li>
  <li>Talk to the Ship Services Technician.</li>
  <li>Select "View and modify my ships".</li>
  <li>Highlight the ship you want and choose "Make home ship".</li>
  <li>Exit the menu and board your newly assigned home ship.</li>
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<h2>Key tips</h2>
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  <li>Taking off in a newly captured ship will also set it as your home ship automatically.</li>
  <li>Use outposts with landing pads to summon and switch ships away from major cities.</li>
  <li>Always confirm "Make home ship" or a captured ship may not be saved to your roster.</li>
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<p><em>Information gathered from public forums or data available on the internet and portrayed here.</em></p>

TL;DR: Go to a ship technician (or your outpost pad), open the ship list, select your desired vessel, hit “Make home ship” , exit the menu, and it will be the ship waiting for you on the pad.