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Starfield Digipicks
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Starfield: How Lockpicking works – How to use Digipicks

How do I find lots and lots of digipicks fast in Starfield?

Whether or not you’re a sneaky rogue space pirate in Starfield, one thing you’ll need are Digipicks. Digipicks are the lockpicks of Starfield, and only the best loot is hidden behind locked safes and doors. If you find yourself always out of Digipicks like I am, here is your guide on how to buy and use them in Starfield.

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How to farm Digipicks in Starfield

Digipicks can be hard to come by in Starfield if you don’t know where to look. During my first playthrough, I felt like I was always out of Digipicks. However, I learned from my mistakes and now I have plenty of Digipicks in my second playthrough. The first way to find a lot of Digipicks in Starfield is by scanning rooms and looting dead bodies.

Digipicks are available randomly in rooms. You can pull out your scanner to easily see what is lootable in a room, and this can help you find Digipicks faster. However, I usually just quickly walk around a room looking for Digipicks in lockers and on tables. It all comes down to RNG, but I’ve found plenty of digipicks just by being thorough.

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The other way to find digipicks in Starfield is to find them on dead bodies. There are a lot of corpses in just about every building in Starfield, and you can usually find a Digipick or two on them. Also, always loot the enemies you kill to potentially get a few Digipicks. They’ll add up in time.

Where to buy Digipicks

The last way to get Digipicks really easily in Starfield is to buy them. Digipicks can be bought from any general vendor shop in the Settled Systems. Search in the Miscellaneous section and you should find a few for sale.

While exploring, we found that the best place to buy Digipicks in Starfield is at Jemison Mercantile, which is a general store in New Atlantis. You’re sure to find other general stores that sell Digipicks, all while you are looking for new crew members to recruit.

How To Buy And Use Digipicks Starfield

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How to pick locks with Digipicks

The lockpicking mini-game can be challenging at first, but once you get it, it becomes a lot easier. You’ll see layers of rings on the lock, and on the right, different sets of rings with notches you can rotate. Select one at a time, and twist them around to see if they fit into the open slots. if you see an area where your notches fit, don’t slot them in just yet, it still may not be the right placement.

I recommend lining up every key before using any and then using them all at once to complete lock picking quickly without using a key in the wrong place. Line them all up so they can clear out all the rings, and voila! At first, I was really struggling to understand how this minigame works. But now, I’m a pro, and you’ll be one too after a few tries.

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Noah Nelson
From his early days of blog-style music, movie, and game reviews to working as the Esports Writer at Coastline Community College, Noah Nelson now works fulltime as a Staff Writer for Attack of the Fanboy and PC Invasion. He has been helping gamers everywhere with Destiny 2 god rolls, Warzone 2 DMZ missions, and collectibles in any indie game for over a year and a half. His Bachelor's Degree in English Rhetoric and Composition with a minor in Journalism from CSULB has shaped him to be a strong writer and editor. His fondest gaming memory is playing Sly Cooper 2 after begging his mom (for hours) to play it before his birthday and he still cries myself to sleep remembering the time he accidentally saved over his 99% completion save file in Kingdom Hearts 2.
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Anyka Pettigrew
Anyka Pettigrew has been a Staff Writer for PC Invasion since November 2023 and a Contributing Writer since February 2023. She is a Canadian graduate of a Bachelor of Arts degree who has been writing in games journalism for four years. Anyka is an avid guides writer but also enjoys writing anything from news pieces, to reviews, and even opinion pieces. Having a never-ending passion for video games for as long as she can remember got her into a plethora of genres like action adventure, RPGs, horror, survival etc. Some of her favorite franchises are God of War, Persona, The Last of Us, Zelda, and Resident Evil. She also enjoys reading fantasy and sci-fi books, as well as drawing digital art. Anyka also regularly listens to podcasts on gaming news from 'Kinda Funny Games', and 'Play, Watch, Listen'.