*BUG* ship missing

[BrokenCloud]

Im at "new Atlantis" spaceport, and after editing my ship it went missing, i edited it back by removing the added parts, and it still wont spawn.
I tried fast travel to another planet, it might spawn my ship - Nope, i cannot fast travel anymore now.
I also tried changing which ship is the main one, to respawn it, also nope.
The only fix is apparently load an old game and never edit the ship.

Any fix?

[SimpleMan]

I havent read through all this thread, so it might have been said, but all you have to do is edit your ship and or paint some parts. No need for console commands or anything like that. I've had such console commands corrupt 3 of my saves so far, and lost a hundred hours + of gameplay. I would avoid console commands at all cost until that is fixed.

[bspawn]

Originally posted by AoD_lexandro:

If you ignored the warning prompts when trying to exit the builder your ship would be broken and would not spawn.

You can not normally ignore the warnings; it will only give the option to cancel the changes.

[Commissar]

Originally posted by Ewokaclock:

I captured and have been using a Va’ruun Hymn and just encountered this bug without any changes to it besides weapon swaps.

I captured this model of ship then swapped to my main ship at a shipyard and it hasn't worked since.

[Delos]

As I had already progressed for several hours before realising my ship had disappeared. I bought the cheapest ship and changed that to my homeship, then changed my homeship back to my Frontier ship, then sold the cheap ship. I lost $12k between the buy and the sell, but it saved me having to replay through all those hours again.

I have also since had two crashes to desktop. Otherwise it has been ok, though I find the main story line appears to be a little buggy (you're apparently supposed to meet the two main antagonists before being invited onto their ship, but I only met one of them at two different bars where we debated philosophy, and never got to meet the other).

[3all*****]

Originally posted by BrokenCloud:

Any fix?

I have heard so many fixes from going back thru game saves, taking parts of ships and putting them back on (depending on location and situation), changing home ships, elaborate combinations to stickin a finger on top of your head, spinning, singing the umpalumpa song. Many, many fixes and suggestions getting slung around left and right; this is no rare bug.

One fact is you can often wriggle your way back into at least one of your ships... often may mean some game progress lost. Another fact is that this is a common, reoccurring, nasty, gamebreaking bug that keeps punching you right in your little game thingy repeatedly. Worst part is, I don't see them fixing it anytime soon, when they offer official fixes like,"reload a previous save." I think Bethesda is scared of this big bad bug.

My advise:
None. Good luck.

[Trolino]

Have a ticket in with support about this. They basically said thanks, we won't write back though. And filed it in their bugs db... or something. Then closed the ticket. I guess we are on our own.

The ship is a Va'ruun Hymn. I edited it at "The Den", spent 2 hours and $150k on it. Realized I couldn't switch it to my home ship, so flew to New Atlantis, and when I changed ships there was nothing on the launch pad.
I've tried everything in this thread without any luck. Along with many other things on my own - swapping parts, paint, changing ships back and forth, going to other planets - Akila City. So disappointed, my next save back before editing it takes me from level 49 to 42. :\

Also of note, so long as that ship is set as my home ship I cannot fast travel.

Also an oddity, anytime prior to me editing it to the point it disapeared, Vasco would always be on the roof of the cockpit, outside in space while I was flying it.

Game crashes like mad too - particularly in the cities. Well exceed the game reqs.
Thinking I'll go back to BG3 and check back in a few months. :(

[freelian]

So far, I have only encountered this bug with ships I have captured. Ships such as bought ships, Frontier or Razorleaf have not shown this issue for me. However, my capture Va’ruun Prophecy would disappear 80% of the time after I edit it. It got to be such a hassle of modifying, checking and reloading, when working with captured ships, that I started to just modifying ships like the frontier.

Also, ships I capture, I try to sell very quickly. I have had it happen to me several times now where I capture and register a ship without modifying it. Next day, it is gone. I did not sell by accident, it was just gone.

[SGT_Saunders]

I only recently got this bug about a few days ago. I made changes very early on after capturing it. Played for hours on end after logging in and out and even swapping it out a time or two as I captured other ships. Was even using it to build up funds till I could mod the one I like the best. I decided to remove the missile and add an EMP to increase capturing and that's when it broke. I've been trying everything to get the ship back. Fortunately I had captured a ship I like better but still the one I lost was better in a fight. I hope this gets fixed someday but until then I'm gonna have to sell the ship which is sad because I liked the layout on that one.

[harmless]

Here's how I fix this:

Use the console command to teleport somewhere, like the Lodge. The command is `coc CityNewAtlantisLodgeInt`. Then go to the spaceport. Talk to the technician and modify your ship. Remove a part of the ship, any part. Save changes to the ship. Add the part back, and save ship modifications again. Exit ship builder and the ship is fixed.

[Max Sterling]

Originally posted by harmless:

Here's how I fix this:

Use the console command to teleport somewhere, like the Lodge. The command is `coc CityNewAtlantisLodgeInt`. Then go to the spaceport. Talk to the technician and modify your ship. Remove a part of the ship, any part. Save changes to the ship. Add the part back, and save ship modifications again. Exit ship builder and the ship is fixed.

Didnt work for me. Didnt behave any differently than all the other suggestions in here.

[cgillmore85]

Originally posted by D0cNocturne:

This worked for me and some others:
Visit the ship tech, enter the ship builder, click Flight Check at the bottom, click Change Ship Name, rename it, confirm, then make some sort of quick adjustment to the cosmetics or part placement. Once I finished these, ship spawned.

Thank you so much dude. I’m 200 hours in and have probably spent 15 hours of that customizing my main ship, which was a bounty hunter defender class C ship that I commandeered. This damn ship is literally my fav part about the entire game and I just lost it with this bug. I was frantically reloading saves (and getting weird results) when I decided to search google and it took me to this thread. OP should pin this comment. This worked for me and literally saved my Starfield gaming experience. I was so close to sending Bethesda hate mail lol.

I changed the name, added a small piece and painted it. When I was done my shop spawned at my outpost as you would expect. One of your “take my points” awards is from me, and you deserve it

[BrokenCloud]

Originally posted by cgillmore85:

OP should pin this comment. This worked for me and literally saved my Starfield gaming experience. I was so close to sending Bethesda hate mail lol.

Glad you found a solution, yeah sorry im not pinning them as the answer, but there has been a lot of different solutions, each one working for some people and not for others, so i dont want to just pin 1 and give a false hope on the next guys.
Im pretty sure that thanks to those awards on the answer it will pop up tho and people will find it more easly.

[cgillmore85]

Originally posted by BrokenCloud:

Originally posted by cgillmore85:

OP should pin this comment. This worked for me and literally saved my Starfield gaming experience. I was so close to sending Bethesda hate mail lol.

Glad you found a solution, yeah sorry im not pinning them as the answer, but there has been a lot of different solutions, each one working for some people and not for others, so i dont want to just pin 1 and give a false hope on the next guys.
Im pretty sure that thanks to those awards on the answer it will pop up tho and people will find it more easly.

I can understand that. Last night while I was frantically reloading games to find my ship, my "newest" save was on my main outpost on Sumati. The really weird thing about that save was when I would load it last night I would just appear in New Atlantis spaceport in the middle of the launchpad and my ship was missing. I walked over to the ship services tech and when I brought up my ship in the edit menu, it appeared as how it looked when I first captured it! As though I had never made any edits. I said F that and went back to an autosave from a few minutes before. My ship still didn't show up on the launchpad on these saves but it did show up in the ship editor in it's true form. This was where I changed the name, added a piece and painted that one piece. I did this at my main outpost ship pad/editor.

I've been having weird stuff happen at this outpost for a while. Every once in a while I'll travel to this outpost and my ship will land at a landing point outside of my outpost. When this happens I'll just slightly relocate my landing pad, fast travel to my ship, fast travel back to outpost and my ship will then land on the pad. This is the only outpost where I have this problem.

The way this ship bug happened to me was: I went to my ship and sat down in the pilot chair. But when I did this, even though the pilot chair slid up to the controls as it normally does, a copy of the pilot chair stayed behind in its original position. Same thing for the control console, you know how he makes a slight adjustment to the controls when he sits down. So then when the ship took off, the entire outside shell of my ship stayed behind on the ground and the thing that took off in the take-off animation was basically a ship skeleton. When I took control of my ship in orbit it appeared as the ship skeleton and the ship controls felt extremely heavy and basically unresponsive. This was when I started reloading saves, which I explained how that went at the top of this post.

[rtimm1]

I just had this issue, I fixed it by making an edit to my ship and save the change and it showed back up.

[pianojo]

I had the trouble when I landed at New Atlantis, saved my game, and ended the game session. When I came back, my ship, which I had just flown the day before was missing. So I did all the crazy things, saved and restarted the game, flew off to a new location in on of my other ships, built an outpost with my own shipbuilder landing pad, ran the flight check and tried changing the ship a little and saving it, it still didn't show up. But I did find a fix.

I went into shipbuilder again and this time I did a thorough look around the ship (at least it still showed up in shipbuilder!). I found a Landing Gear showing red when selected. So I removed it and put it back appropriately (It did look right before except highlighting red when single selected). Other parts started doing the red highlight (I confused myself for a moment because things turn red when you select several at once). Finally I just disassembled major parts all over, the cockpit, the habs, etc. Basically I tore the ship down and then put it back together. Then saved that.

When I exited shipbuilder, there was my ship sitting there all pretty and functional. Still have work to do on the ship, though. It needs a better reactor, I can't fully power my weapons, and I need a better shield. It's all class A parts now. I'll be moving it to class B as soon as I have the funds.