One Small Step is the 1st main mission in Starfield. This walkthrough will guide you through all objectives of the One Small Step main quest.
- Starting Location: Star System: Narion > Planet: Vectera (Moon of Anselon)
- Quest Giver: Supervisor Lin
- Requirement: N/A
- Reward: 400 XP, 8000 Credits, Constellation Pack
- Quest Description: Whatever I found in the mine knocked me out cold. Now whoever paid for this whole operation is making a landing, and we need to meet him.
Objectives:
- Follow Supervisor Lin
- Get the Cutter
- Collect mineral deposits
- Return to Supervisor Lin
- Follow Supervisor Lin
- Explore the cavern
- Break up the deposits
- Take the strange object
- Follow Lin
- Meet with the client
- Hold off the pirates
- Talk to Barrett
- Board the ship
- Take off from Vectera
- Learn to fly
- Deal with the Crimson Fleet
- Travel to Kreet
- Land at the Kreet Research Base
- Deal with the Crimson Fleet Captain
- Return to the ship
- Grav jump to Jemison
- Land at New Atlantis
- Go to the Lodge (Mast District)
- Enter the Library
- Talk to Sarah
- Listen to the meeting
- Place the artifact
- Listen to the meeting
- Talk to Sarah
Follow Supervisor Lin
From the start of the game, you’ll first have a long elevator ride down while a couple of characters talk to you about mining. After the elevator stops you’ll be able to move, and can follow Supervisor Lin ahead.
Get the Cutter
After Lin stops, she’ll direct you to grab the Cutter from the crate nearby. Interact with it to pick it up (hold to immediately equip it).
Collect mineral deposits
Head into the nearby section of the tunnel with the marked spots and hold shoot on them to mine the Beryllium.
Return to Supervisor Lin
After mining all five spots, head back to Lin.
Follow Supervisor Lin
Keep following Lin through the tunnel again until you reach the spot with the large machine drilling into the wall.
Explore the cavern
After following Lin and Heller into the next area, she directs you to explore. Follow the objective up the path and through the area ahead.
Break up the deposits
When you enter the cavern with the strange rock in the middle, you will need to shoot the deposits around the center to clear them away.
Take the strange object
After they’re cleared, interact with the object stuck in the wall for a scene.
After the scene is finished you’ll finally be presented with the character creator. Everything related to physical appearance is entirely up to you and has no effect on gameplay. Background determines what your 3 starting skills are, but has no purpose past that (all skills can be selected with skill points later). Traits are entirely unique (and optional) effects that determine some starting bonuses or things that will affect your entire playthrough in minor ways.
After character completion is complete you will encounter your first dialogue options. Typically dialogue in Starfield does not affect the story in major ways. Picking one of the top options is generally required to progress the dialogue, picking lower options phrased as questions gives extra information. Feel free to answer how you like in most situations, and explore or ignore the questioning dialogue for more information.
Follow Lin
After the dialogue is complete, continue following Lin.
Equip a helmet
You’ll not have likely done so already, so before going outside you need to re-equip your helmet. Enter your inventory and select the Deep Mining Space Helmet to equip it, then continue following Lin.
Meet with the client
Out at the ship, wait for Barrett to come out and speak with Lin, then speak with you.
Hold off the pirates
While Barrett is talking, another ship comes in, filled with pirates that you’ll need to fend off. You’ll need to deal with them all to continue. You can shoot them with the Cutter, but a nearby spot will be marked where you can pick up a pistol, a much more useful combat weapon. Make sure to equip it from your inventory, then take out all the pirates that arrive from the ship.
Talk to Barrett
Once all the pirates are dealt with you can loot them for some new weapons, then head over and speak with Barrett again. He’ll send you on your way with the ship and stay behind. After he hands you the watch you can ask him some questions for more info, or exit without asking.
Board the ship
When you’re ready, follow your new companion Vasco over to the ship and interact with the ladder in the hold to enter.
Take off from Vectera
Head to the front and interact with the pilot seat to sit down, then select Take Off to head to space.
Learn to fly
Now in space, you’ll be given a short tutorial on how flying and powering ship systems operates. Follow along to learn the basics.
Deal with the Crimson Fleet
After the basic tutorial, a Crimson Fleet ship will warp in and attack you. Deal with it to learn the basics of ship combat.
When the ship is destroyed, you’ll be prompted to search the wreckage. Make sure to interact to highlight the icon for it, which will then allow you to search when you are close enough.
Two more ships will warp in after. Destroy them to complete the ship combat tutorial.
Travel to Kreet
You’ll now be prompted on selecting locations from the Starmap (press “M” to open Starmap). Select the moon of Kreet, and then travel to it to progress (press “X” on PC / 
on Xbox to fast travel).
Land at the Kreet Research Base
In space outside the planet, open the Starmap again and then interact with the planet. Find the Kreet Research Lab location and select it to land there.
Deal with the Crimson Fleet Captain
On the planet surface, you’ll need to make your way to the Research Base nearby. Follow the objective down the hill to progress toward it. On the way you will be prompted on using the Scanner, which you can pull up at any time and scan the various Flora, Fauna, and Resources found on the planet. While the Scanner is activated shooting will have you automatically pull out the Cutter, so you don’t need to specifically equip it to mine resources or shoot lower-level Fauna (which is good for XP early on).
As you approach, follow the objective toward the entrance and interact with it to enter the Base.
Inside the base, follow the obvious path through dealing with the Crimson Fleet enemies as you go. You can search around if you wish, but there’s nothing major to find in this area aside from a few new base weapons to try out. If you get lost while progressing you can activate your scanner which will show a line of arrows on the ground representing a path to the current objective. Remember to loot any enemies you kill as you go.
When you reach the end of the area you will need to use a ladder to progress, but are also prompted about a safe on the ground. If you didn’t pick up any Digipicks yet, you can find some from the body in the prior room, then interact with the safe for a tutorial on how lock picking works.
When you’re ready, interact with the ladder to head up to the rooftop. Here you’ll find the final set of enemies, including the Captain. If you don’t immediately shoot them while walking out the door the Captain will talk to you, and you will have your first chance at a Persuasion attempt, which if successful they’ll leave you be. If not or if you choose the other options, they’ll attack you and you’ll need to finish them off, along with another group of enemies that fly in on their ship. Higher-level enemies will have segmented health bars, which means you have to deal the normal health bar worth of damage multiple times to defeat them.
Return to the ship
Once they are dealt with, you can return to your ship to continue. If you don’t want to continue the story immediately, you’re free to continue exploring the moon right now.
Grav jump to Jemison
Back in the ship, you’ll be prompted on Grav Jumping to other locations. You can select the location from the Starmap, or have it selected directly for you from the mission menu.
Land at New Atlantis
Once in the Alpha Centauri system at Jemison, open the Starmap again and select New Atlantis to land your ship there.
Go to the Lodge (MAST District)
Exit your ship after landing, and start making your way toward the objective. You can talk to the Ship Services Technician on your way if you wish. These technicians will repair your ship, allow you to make upgrades, or even purchase entirely new ones. When you’re ready to continue head to the marked transport shuttle and select the MAST District to travel to it.
At the Lodge, interact with the front door to enter.
Enter the library
Head through the doors ahead to enter the library area.
Talk to Sarah
When you enter the library you’ll automatically be spoken to by Sarah. Go through her dialogue however you like.
Listen to the meeting
After speaking with Sarah everyone will gather around the center of the room. Wait while they continue talking.
Place the artifact
When prompted, interact with the pedestal in the center to place the artifact in your possession.
Listen to the meeting
Once placed, wait for the rest of the scene.
Talk to Sarah
Speak to Sarah once more to complete this mission.
This finishes One Small Step in Starfield.
For all other Quests refer to Starfield Walkthrough.
Next Quest: The Old Neighborhood
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