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. Furthermore, many crew members give reductions to FTL fuel usage, stacking up to 99% reduced fuel costs albeit with diminishing returns.

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).
 * : Certain NPCs with a preset profession can also be found in the world. Certain quests or randomly generated dungeons can yield such NPCs who will be willing to join you once found.


 * Penguins
 * : After completing the quest "Dreadwing the Penguin", you can hire Penguins on the vanilla Outpost. They profession is always "Soldier", and they all dual-wield various pistols. 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).

List of possible crew members

 * TODO: join these two lists. The second one is more pretty, but may be somewhat outdated.

4/4/21 - Currently slowly updating Table 2, more comprehensive and up to date vs Table 1.