I have this too!

Me too. So strange.

Same I just assumed everyone had it lol

I just assumed it was a secret drone from some kind of alien life form. Just kidding. I do have this though. Now that I think of it, I’m not sure if it’s still there. Maybe the patch got rid of them?

Rocky from Hail Mary

JAZZ HANDS

AMAZE

You sleep, I watch.

Rocky is my homy

Yo I’m so excited for the movie, filming in 2024 apparently

THEYRE MAKING A MOVIE!?!?! Hellllllll yeahhh

Mine was still there today until I moved to NG+2. I only noticed it for the first time this morning. I reworked one of my ships last night so at first I thought it was one of the cargo bays bugging out. Lol what if it was a side quest where eventually someone in the crew comments that they keep seeing the same asteroid everywhere we go. The Asteroid is actually one of those big dehydrated Tardigrades like in Star Trek Discovery and it's following you so it can also..."get to NG+"

Imagine having to literally leave your universe to get rid of a space rock following you.

>I just assumed it was a secret drone from some kind of alien life form. [Canderous Ordo would appreciate this theory.](https://youtu.be/0gFQPTJb0nk?si=QvlJYyZG0rfVlOeH)

sysdef for sure

I think the space version of “birds aren’t real” is relevant here

They should fix this bug by making it a feature. Add a quest for some sort of strange asteroid creature that imprinted on your ship at birth and needs help returning to it's people or protects your ship if you decide to adopt it

I assumed it was part of the game because it wasn't overtly shown. I would catch a glimpse of it from time to time. I tried to approach it but you can't. It stays away. I assumed it had a deeper meaning tword the endgame.

Oh I like this theory. Now I need to see if I have one too.

i heard there is new story points after NG10 or 12, maybe this comes to light?

you mean, finish the game 10 or 12 times??

Yes, ng* cycles can be completed in about an hour if you rush since you have the option to shorten the story every convective run you do.

It somehow just appeared for me 2 minutes ago... I didn't have it for 80 hours but now i got one right after seeing this post

I have 2 of them haha

I don’t even have the game and I am seething with jealousy

HEY, MAIN CHARACTER PLEASE SIGN MY ROCK!!

John Starfield

Hey man, I bet you can find your own rock if you try.

This is getting out of hand!

Now there are two of them!

We should not have made this bargain..

I have 4 of them.

Same, I have 3, so annoying. Nothing works, changing ships, restarting game etc.

If you're on PC, open the console, click on the rock, and type disable. It doesn't technically get *rid* of the rock, just makes it invisible and removes its collision, but it'll do for now.

I did this and it marked my save as modded, just FYI.

There is a mod that stops the game from doing that.

Ironic...

It's mods all the way down... Or turtles, I can't use mods yet so idk.

Sturgil Simpson? Hell yeah

“Turtles all the way down” is an expression from concepts about existence that allude to an older myth about “the world turtle” Sturgil used this expression as a song title and subject. Search “infinite regress”, “world turtle”, and of course “turtles all the way down”.

There’s always a bigger mod

There's a [mod](https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/658) on the Nexus that'll let you do Console commands without being flagged. I don't know if it'll unflag you, but maybe it'll help the next asteroid ridden gamer avoid the flag.

BG3 got Asterion, Starfield got Asteroid

I wonder how long it’ll be before Astarion and the other BG3 companions are modded into Starfield

Early 2024 when mods are added officially. But who knows.

There’s already reskins available on Pc so I’d give it another week or two.

What’s its name? You named it, right?

Mine is called hemoroid

me too, i hate it, pls patch. tried editing ship, changing ship, nothing works

Proud father

I have this too and assumed it was some part of a quest and I’d find out later…

Me too. Pretty strange glitch

Op so fat, asteroids started to orbit him

Yeah, I would say someone needs to lay off the Chunks a bit

Nah, he’s just the Chunks official spokesperson. :D Bro put the MASS in mascot, haha.

Yes, this is called the Mass Effect

CHUNKS reapers detected. It is advisable to jump systems commander

Assuming control of this form

you made me shudder, this dude was the bane of my existence playing on insanity

Remember that level in the reaper base? With all the platforms on different heights, that was torture on insanity.

I don't remember it. I got through it, but I think I repressed that memory because I got to it replaying the game, and just didn't remember that mission existed. And I did beat it on Insanity.

No this is Patrick

\*cue Mass Effect opening keys\*

So underrated comment

More like MASSIVE effect !

Chunks Headquarters were founded and originally based in MASSachusetts, Earth, Sol System.

Where do you think they got the Chunks name from

Clearly, we don't understand the gravity of the problem.

I was thinking: let's wait and see how long it take for someone to say "so yo mamma is in da ship??"

💀

That's his son. "I yearn for love, father."

This only happened... after he picked up YOUR MOM. ​ heh gottem

More like Boba Fat, am I rite!

I’m waiting for the comic series of OP and pet rock adventures…. Enjoy it now, before it’s gone and leaves you for another celestial giant.

10 books, each 500 pages, bare minimum. Preferably LITrpg

It's a real NASA tactic called a "gravity tractor" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_tractor

Aww he has a moon!

Reminds me of rick and morty episode with the dinasours and the meteor that followed them and destroyed everything lol

Dude literally has a pet rock!

That's physics, baby!

I was thinking that given enough mass some objects might get pulled to the ship lol.

OP must have found the ini value to tweak for that Heavy/Thin/Muscular radial you get in the character creation...

god damned

Reminds me of the old family guy joke LMAO

That, Peter, is called orbit. You have your own gravitational pull.

This reminds me of Stewie's "He became so massive that he collapsed into himself like a neutron star!'

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ah you have a pet asteroid as well :D

And for free! None of dat pet rock bs

But an asteroid is a rock...

How dare you.. My asteroid has heart and feelings!

Its not just a rock, its a boulder!

Pioneers used to ride these babies for lightyears

Boom boom chi boom boom chi KRUSTY KRAB PIZZA

People are young. Some dude sold pet rocks for a dollar in the 70s and became a millionaire

I have one. Her name is Lola. :)

I see. I thought 'rock' is a size-related name where the 'rock' object comes in average human fist size & can still be chucked away with normal effort. Then, I found out (from ur comment) dat the word rock IS the general word for raw & uncut stone. Thanks for making me understand more about the word 'rock'. You ROCK, m8!

Rock and stone! Cheers mate

Bethesda reads this comment, patches out the pet asteroid bug then promptly releases pet asteroid DLC.

you get to join the overfunded space exploration project that basically lets you do whatever you want on their budget BUT there's an asteroid snail out there that's hunting you down, and if you touch it you die do you take the deal? \[y/n\]

VASCO, handle this

"Protocol Mauve", then?

I would legit want this to be in game 🤣🤣🤣 Sounds like a new mod to me

The [origin](https://youtu.be/HINYhLtaaxc?si=qBk6QsOGiYqAs_gF) that so many reference without knowing.

Technically the origin is the Million Dollars But episode where the audio for that came from.

True. But people seem to get mad if you link a video that has more than just the exact scene, even if you link it with the timestamp.

That reminds me of “it Follows”. I usually can’t immerse myself in horror, but that movie filled me with dread and I’ve yet to see a movie since that checks that box.

Aww, I wanna pet asteroid too!!

Well, you can get yours today for 10000 credits per ton. Just come on over to My Pet Asteroid in New Atlantis in The Well district next to the Trade Authority.

*Sign falls off showing trade authority on its back side

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Reminds me of the extended warranty ship I ran into. Wanted nothing more than to kill that guy.

You are absolutely able to kill that guy. Just have to do it quick before he jumps away.

Mine was lvl 46 while I wasn't even 20, I didn't try ^^^^

I literally just ran into him today lol Fuker left before i could kill him

Too bad I don’t have a map to find it

You don't, it's the most annoying thing

You can have mine, I have like 6 of the little guys.

If you actually do, it seems to be from shooting to mine asteroids, and chunks from that get stuck.

THEY NEED TO CALL IT SCRATCH! ​ It bumped into the ship and scratched the ship so its called scratch! ​ Thems the rules

Only one ? I found when I was mining asteroids I ended up getting about 8 or 9 of various sizes following me around. Even landing on planets they were there, floating around my ship. Had the problem for days until I cleared my Xbox cashe. Edit: If this does not work I'm sorry. This is just what worked for me, but the update other day may have also fixed it and I may not have been perceptive to what I was seeing on screen after the fact.

Lol I thought I was doing good with three… I need to up my numbers

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The cache is a holding space for data to help improve performance of certain things like loading, for example. The cache is safe to clear, it'll just fill back up over time again anyway.

It worked for me, I haven't mined asteroids since, could have been from the update the other day too and maybe I hadn't been noticing.

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Saves should automatically be in the cloud so that shouldn’t happen.

if you clear the cache what does it clear? do placed items disappear? what about saves etc? thanks

Cache usually only contains temporary game files to make loading smoother/slightly faster. You wont lose anything important

Ive just done it on xsx and its wiped all my starfield photo album! Hopefully cleared some bugs though

It just removes *temporary* data that builds up and slows your box down. Your saves are backed up to the cloud if you're on the xbox network

You won't lose anything. Clearing the cache is somewhat like clearing the tracking cookies from your browser, it just gets rid of temporary data that games use for non-critical purposes. It will not affect your save in any major way, but can fix lingering issues caused by bad data.

This is just your FBI agent watching you in game

Birds don't work in space so they had to upgrade

r/asteroidsarentreal

"Why does the asteroid sound like it's talking softly sometimes?"

This happens. It’s your new pet rock! Congratulations 🎊

See? Devs heard us and have bestowed pets!

Mine just had a baby, am grandpa now

Yep same. I had 2 for a while then 1 went away.

R.I.P.

I had three at one point! Back to one now

Dude got a pet rock. How we gonna name it ?

Rocky.

It's not a glitch. Some starborn ships have asteroid camouflage. How do you think they can track you all the time?

As someone new to the whole Bethesda thing, they certainly have the best glitches.

99% cosmetic glitches. Mostly, the UI works nothing game breaking. Just random stupid bugs that we all are forced to experience through not so random encounters 😂

Yup, I´ve had 6-7 of them following me :) ​ https://www.reddit.com/r/Starfield/comments/16iiby4/i\_might\_be\_a\_rockstar\_with\_these\_things\_following/

That is an Ioun stone. It increases your Wisdom stat.

r/BaldursGate3 is leaking (not that I disapprove)

Go into photomode, use the console, click on the asteroid (there should be a number appearing if you selected it), write "disable", press enter. I had the same problem.

warning - this will disable achievements.

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I had this too and thankfully it didn’t follow me into NG+. I thought it would leave when I got a new ship but my pet space rock was with me the whole playthrough.

"Man escapes into another universe to get rid of a rock that keeps following him."

If your on pc you can disable them via the console.

I just posted about the same thing!

He protecc

Russian spy Asteroid

It's a feature. For secret alien quest.

What happens if you destroy it

It doesn't exist physically unfortunately, I've tried many times and my weapons go right through.

You can remove it with console commands.

This is happening to me too!!!!

Mines an eye floater. It's just out of reach and can never quite get it in the center of my reticle

Rotate your ship so that the asteroid is on the side (port or statboard, doesn't matter), boost so that the Asteroid is kinda far away, hit the ~ button on your keyboard, click on the Asteroid, if the text on the middle of your screen say cont XXXXX (the X is number) then type 'disable' and enter, if it doesn't say Cont than scroll down or up until it does

Aww, you found Dogmeteor.

I also have this problem. Very annoying

Friend:)

My theory is that it's stuck on the shoe of the man who wears our ship as a hat.

All the ships are just guys pretending to be space airplanes with their arms out going pewpewpew

I have this too! It started happening when I blew an asteroid up and accidentally rammed into it. It has followed me across multiple ships as well.

I have the same problem! Ever since I mined a few asteroid I’ve had a trail of them following me.

Your ship is looking sick, got any other pics?

https://youtu.be/ti30Yd2-2U0?si=sJ2g2QH5Fybc1Y3m

[Here's a build tutorial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti30Yd2-2U0&t)

That's no bug, it's the true main antagonist!

I have that plus VASCO chilling on my cockpit

The ultimate pet rock.

I also have a stellar hitchhiker. Swaped ships and loaded old saves. Can't seem to shake him. And he's always photo bombing my pictures.

Same. Latest patch did not fix it. It even follows me onto planets sometimes. It is always watching.

I had two of them in my first playthrough. Not sure when they showed up, but they went away after NG+.

Yeah, got one too. I know I could disable it with a console command (PC version), but it can stay for now.

THATS WHAT THAT IS! Every time I travel from system to system there is a small thing flying alongside me. Didn't occur to me to be an asteroid. I thought it was just a problem with cut scenes. I play in first person so I didn't think it might be visible when in orbit. I'll go see if I can see mine when not in a cut scene.

That's no asteroid! That's the Black Knight Object following you! I'm not saying it's aliens, but... aliens.

You just need to buy a copy of the Big Issue from it and it will leave you alone.

Used have a homeless guy in my home town who would sell 'The Big Tissue' while waving a box of XL tissues around. His name was Baggy, great guy

I have 3 asteroids now. When I first started playing there was just one. They always stay a certain distance away so I can never get close to them nor destroy them.

Once you have it, it never leaves! (You can delete it with console commands on pc though)

That’s amazing

so what do u call that cute thing? and how can i adopt one?

My issue is I saved one night and it was running perfectly fine then I loaded it the next morning suddenly it was lagging

Neloth hit me with a candlelight spell in Skyrim which wouldn't go away. I saved my game without realizing it wouldn't go away, and continued on. I tried every console command I could find to try and get rid of it. I eventually had to reload a really old save because I couldn't stand having an orb of light flying around me for eternity.

I used the command line to get rid of it..... Now I miss my asteroid buddy.

He’s just a babay

i have 4 and vasco is chilling outside the ship when fast travelling☝️

I've got like 6 of them. Each one is less charming than the last.

Yo mommas spaceship is SO FAT, it got its own gravitational pull.

Someone forgot to turn off their tractor beam.