Exploring the myriad planets is central to discovering the perfect location to build your outposts inStarfield. The process involvesscanning the planetfrom orbit, landing on it tobuild an outpost, and exploring theterrain for resources. To survey a planet completely, you may need to land your spaceship on multiple locations around the planet. When doing so,the game logs your landing sites and stores up to five landing sites per planet.
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Eventually, these landing sites can to crowd the user interface,compelling you to remove the ones that are no longer necessary. However, at the time of writing this guide,there isn’t a dedicated method to get rid of unnecessary landing sites in the game, but a workaround has been saving the day for many spacefarers. If you’re scratching your head trying to remove landing sites in Starfield, this guide has you covered.
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Remove Landing Sites Via Outpost Beacons
To remove a specific landing site, first, land your spaceship at the landing site on the respective planet and then follow the steps outlined below:
In case, the landing site has not been removed,you will have to repeat the above-mentioned steps once againwhile paying extra attention to setting up the beacon as close as possible to yourspaceship. If you do this correctly,a small circle will momentarily appear after setting up the outpost beacon, and you must ensure that your spaceship is within that circle.
An alternate, but less effective method to remove unnecessary landing sites involves landing on different locations around the planet. This approach forces the games to auto-delete unused landing sites while logging a new one.
How To Increase Landing Sites
If you’re interested, you may also increase the number of landing sites you can have on your planet map. However, it’s only possible with the help of aPC modcalled “More Custom Landing Sites,” which may help in speeding upplanetary surveys.
Potential Bug
Since there’s no official way to delete the landing sites in the game, the Starfield community considers this to be an unaddressed bug. Given that issue is picking up pace on the internet, Bethesda might soon roll out a patch that makes it easier to remove unnecessary landing sites.
