Just a few issues are inevitable in life. Demise and taxes, in fact. After which there’s Bethesda video games having bizarre, physics-y methods of getting round its programs, as Starfield gamers are presently doing to steal their method throughout the galaxy.

On social media, varied Starfield gamers are popping up with examples of utilizing the physics of Starfield to steal some good loot out from underneath guards and NPCs. Often, while you choose up an merchandise in Starfield that you simply’re not presupposed to (famous by the pink icon within the nook of its pop-up description), guards shall be alerted. And, in my expertise, they reply fairly shortly and violently.

Whereas some video games have allow you to get away with selecting up the article and relocating it someplace the place nobody can see, that doesn’t at all times work in Starfield. Selecting up an object counts as stealing, so if somebody sees you do it, it triggers the alarm. The strategy for getting round this, it appears, is to easily transfer objects with one other object.

Ah, you assume you are slick Todd? Making it so dragging an merchandise you do not personal counts as stealing it, so I am unable to pull a Silver Rush and throw all of them right into a room out of sight to steal?

You FOOL. pic.twitter.com/ueWYwpBTcK

— GoogleyGareth (@Googleygareth) September 6, 2023

As GoogleyGareth reveals, dragging an object round to maneuver different objects will allow you to relocate Starfield loot for a straightforward steal. You are able to do this by both grabbing one thing that doesn’t rely as stealing, quietly nabbing an object away from prying eyes and bringing it over, or dropping an object out of your stock.

Starfield gamers are already getting fairly inventive with this, too. A clip from a Japanese streamer utilizing each a pushing object and a container to assemble up huge quantities of credit from a card desk, in entrance of the gamers, has made the rounds too.

JP Gamers have additionally innovated pic.twitter.com/3xMRmn1wWM

— Flare3500 (@Flare3500) September 6, 2023

It does appear to all work, however I can’t depart it at simply clips. I needed to take a look at this for myself, in fact.

A layperson’s information to enjoyable with physics and theft in Starfield

I went out to Neon, popped over to Madame Sauvage’s, and thought I’d attempt my hand at this trick to see if it really labored. First, I wanted to learn to choose up objects; the sport doesn’t explicitly inform you, however maintain E over objects on PC to raise them. It really works on something you’ll be able to put in your stock, in addition to environmental objects. Watch out although, as once more, selecting up objects could be seen as stealing, and a few in any other case innocuous issues like rubbish cans or buckets additionally rely as theft.

Screenshot by DestructoidI suggest both bringing your individual receptacle and/or pushing your object of selection, or discovering one thing you received’t get in hassle for stealing. I grabbed a close-by succulent. Apparently, Madame Sauvage doesn’t need her buckets disappearing however doesn’t care about clients strolling out with vegetation.

Close by, I situated some liquid-filled bottles with the telltale pink marker, and began pushing them round with my succulent. Regardless of creating fairly a ruckus — and even re-enacting these bottle-breaking TikToks at one level — nobody actually appeared to care I used to be sending valuable property ricocheting across the bar.

I pushed all of it the best way to the lavatory and right into a stall, the place I might then safely raise my newly acquired property. Even by means of a number of re-tests and actually sweeping the bar off in entrance of everybody utilizing my succulent-in-crime, nobody cared. It really works! And genuinely, I hope it retains working. That is an excessive amount of enjoyable to not depart in. Similar to the notorious bucket-on-the-head trick in The Elder Scrolls, I hope bucket-pushing turns into a brand new go-to for stealing objects in Starfield.