Starfield: How to get digipicks? Starfield guide, tips

Digits are electronic tricks in the Starfield game that will help you disarm locks and security devices. This page of the guide tells you how to obtain digits, where to use them and how to consume fewer tricks.

Last update: 05 September 2023

Starfield features a lockpicking and hacking minigame which requires digipicks, digital lockpicks. This page of our guide explains where to find or buy digipicks, how to use less of them and where can you use them.

• Where to look for digipicks?
• What to use digipicks for?
• How to limit the use of digipicks?

Where to look for digipicks?

1. Digipicks are frequently found as loot. Use your hand scanner to search for long objects (example pictured above).
2. Digipicks can also be found in containers and in other characters' inventories, to be looted off their corpses or stolen.

1. You can also buy them at stores. This makes it easy to stock up on them, nearly guaranteeing you won't run out.
2. One such digipick shop is Apex Electronics in The Well, in the city of New Atlantis. You can get there via an elevator from the Atlantis landing site. The store is run by Henrik Zuran.

1. You'll find digipicks in the miscellaneous tab in the trader's inventory, and they aren't too expensive. A single pick should cost about 35 credits by default.
2. Always buy all digipicks available for sale. You can also cheat the system a bit, as the traders restock every two days. Look for a nearby bed or chair and rest a full 24 hours twice. Returning to the same store two days later lets you purchase more picks.

What to use digipicks for?

There are two main uses for digipicks, those being:

1. Opening locked doors and containers;
2. Hacking computers.

In both cases you'll need at least one digipick and a sufficiently high Security skill. Security Rank 3 lets you pick locks of all levels. Disarming the lock itself plays as a ring opening minigame. We've described how it works on the Lockpicking page.

How to limit the use of digipicks?

1. Unfortunately, digipicks are consumables. By default, every attempt at opening a lock or hacking something uses up one digipick.
2. There's also a risk of wasting more. It happens if you fail the minigame or redo your previous action (it costs a digipick per rewind).
3. We recommend saving your game before each digipick use. This reduces the risk of wasting them, and of being detected when breaking into a forbidden container or computer.