A new Starfield glitch uproots trees, rocks, and entire cities
A new Starfield glitch popped up recently, and it’s yanking up rocks and even a whole city in Bethesda’s space game
A new Starfield glitch popped up recently, and it’s yanking up rocks and even a whole city – and having them follow you around in Bethesda’s space game. Depending on what latches itself to you initially, it seems like a harmless glitch at first, like you just have a really big pet rock trailing you around the galaxy (thanks, PC Gamer).
Or a pet cave, in some cases.
Posts started showing up on Reddit of rocks, caves, comets, and in one instance, an entire forest slowly moving along in space behind the player. Innocuous as it seems, the glitch could actually cause a very big problem.
Did I win the game of who has random stuff following them?
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Some players started noticing the entire city of new Atlantis floating ominously behind them. When they tried landing at the actual city – you can’t land on or interact with the tagalong version, apparently – they found chunks of it missing and much of the ground transparent. Their character fell through the ground, and nothing they did fixed the issue.
It’s unclear what causes the problem, but one common thread in some of the Reddit comments is that the players tried registering one of their Starfield ships at The Key, headquarters of the Crimson Fleet faction. The screen turned bright, and then when they boarded their ship again, the unwanted follower appeared.
You can use the console commands menu to delete the unwanted item, but that’s hardly a good idea when the item is a plot-important city. If seems like your best bet for now is just keeping multiple, up-to-date saves just in case something disastrous happens.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF