Crew

"Ah, what would a ship be without crew? Lonely and inefficient, that's what."

Crew are NPCs who permanently work on your ship. You can hire up to 12 of them. You can tell 2 of them to accompany you on other planets (they will fight as your alies).

Each crew member has a profession (such as "Engineer", "Arctic Explorer", "Red Shirt"). Many of them give bonuses to you (permanent bonuses on the ship, temporary bonuses for 60-300 seconds after you beam down, which can be extended when NPC accompanies you and both of you are fighting some enemy). For example, "Hunter" will give you 300 seconds of immunity to Burning and Proto-Poison.

Tailor and Geologist can't leave the ship, but everyone else is armed and ready to help you.

Ways to obtain the crew

 * Contracts
 * : Buy "crew contracts" at Hiring Office (shop at the Science Outpost). You need to research this (e.g. to buy Medic Contract, you need to research ).
 * : Kevin will give you several contracts (such as Alpaca Contract) as rewards for completing his quests.


 * Befriend NPCs
 * : Complete the quests of NPCs on the planets (not necessarily your tenants). They will eventually gain so much respect for you that they will ask to be employed on your ship.
 * : This crew member will have random profession. Non-specialized NPCs can choose almost any profession, but some unique tenants have strong preferences (for example, scientist-looking tenants will always want to be hired as Chemists).


 * Penguins
 * : After completing the quest "Dreadwing the Penguin", you can hire Penguins on the vanilla Outpost. They profession is always "Soldier". To hire a penguin NPC, talk to him while having 1 Dubloon in your inventory.

Maximum number of crew
When using BYOS, you need to place items like Crappy Crew Bed or Crew Bed on your ship. Each of them increases your crew limit by +1 or +2 (see tooltips). At the beginning your limit is 0 (you can't hire any crew), and maximum limit is 12 (you can hire 12 crew members).

As alternative to crew beds, you can make a proper room (with door, light, regular bed like Wooden Bed, etc.) and place a Crew Deed inside. Note that Crew Deed only increases the limit (by +1), it doesn't "summon" a crew member.

When using vanilla ship (non-BYOS), your limit is increased the same way as in vanilla Starbound: https://starbounder.org/Ship_Upgrade

Fire the crew member
You can see the list of your crew members in S.A.I.L.. There is a button "Dismiss", which will permanently remove a crew member whom you don't need (this NPC will beam away, and you'll never see them again).

Recruits & Storage of Crew
Unlike you, who can live with not even a chair to call as yours, your crew are a bit more picky in their requirements. They will at the very least require a Crew Bed or a Crew Deed (in BYOS); though dealing with beds is easier to start with. In BYOS, you will have a maximum of 12 crew. So choose and manage wisely. If you're using a normal ship, the normal limits apply.

Somewhere in this space below will be a table of the crew, describing them with pretty pictures.

(Note, this is a work in progress)