This page offers a quick guide on how to assign crew to your outpost in Starfield. You’ll learn all about how to set up a crew station, how to manage your crew as well as some information on handy outpost crew skills!

How to Assign Crew to an Outpost¶

Like your spaceship, you can assign Crew to your outpost and they’ll hang around at the chosen outpost. They are meant to (we’ll get to this later) help with productivity and increase your crew and robot capacity. To do house crew at an outpost, however, you’ll first have to build a Crew Station at your chosen outpost.

How to Build a Crew Station¶

Building a Crew Station is thankfully pretty easy. You’ll find the option to build a Crew Station under the “Miscellaneous” tab in the Outpost build tab. To build one, you’ll need x3 Nickel, x5 Aluminum and x2 Iron. If you haven’t already set up some mining extractors, head over to our guide for more information!

Once you’ve built one Crew Station, you can assign 2 crew members to the outpost. If you reach ★★★ Outpost Management, you’ll be able to assign extra crew members to each outpost by building more Crew Stations. To do this, you’ll need to open up the crew menu from the ship tab in your character menu, then assign your selected crew member to your chosen outpost

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Build a Crew Station so you can house some Crew members at an Outpost.

Best Crew for Your Outpost¶

Crew with handy skills such as Outpost Management and Outpost Engineering, and things like Geology, Botany and Zoology should theoretically be useful to your Outpost life. However, at present, it would appear that outpost crew skills are bugged as they do not have any impact on your outpost management or engineering. The community is mostly in agreement that it is likely a bug as there are obvious bonuses and buffs for ship crew members but outposts don’t seem to feel any effects.

That being said, modders (or a quality-of-life patch) will likely fix this issue and then crew members with high Outpost Management and Outpost Engineering skills will be great for (probably) increasing your productivity rates and/or outpost capacity. We suggest the following as potentially good Outpost Crew:

Crew Member	Skills	How to Get
Supervisor Lin	★★★ Outpost Management, ★ Demolitions	Obtained as a crew member during Back to Vectera.
Heller	★★★ Outpost Management, ★ Geology	Obtained as a crew member during Back to Vectera.
Rafael Aguerro	★ Outpost Engineering, ★ Outpost Management, ★★ Starship Engineering	Choose to save him during the Entangled main quest.

Supervisor Lin¶

Supervisor Lin (and Heller) become available as recruitable crew members when you return to Vectera during the main quest, Back to Vectera. Supervisor Lin has the Outpost Management Skill, which means she will help increase capacity at your outpost (when it works).

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(1 of 2) You can hire Lin after the Back to Vectera quest

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You can hire Lin after the Back to Vectera quest (left), she has ★★★ in Outpost Management. (right)

Heller¶

As mentioned, Heller can also be obtained as crew member during Back to Vectera. He, however, has the other Outpost skill - Outpost Engineering. When this works, it should boost productivity and allow you to build and reserarch higher tier resources/materials.

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Heller can be recruited during the main quest, Back to Vectera.

Rafael Aguerro¶

This guy is found pretty far into the main quest, during the Entangled quest, but he is unique in the fact he has both the Outpost Engineering and Outpost Management skill. He is, however, only ★ in both skills, so perhaps not as good as having both Heller and Supervisor Lin. To obtain this guy as a Crew member, you’ll need to save him when faced with the option.

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Rafael Aguerro is found during the Entangled quest.

Then, after the quest, you’ll find him in Viewport in New Atlantis. Head over to our guide on Entangled for more information!