Bounties can be removed by using a self-service bounty clearance booth or by giving yourself up to a guard. Learn how the bounty system works, how to check if you have a bounty, and how to remove the bounties placed on your head!

How to Remove Bounty in Starfield

How to Remove Bounties
Pay Off Bounties Spend Time in Jail Bribe a Guard

Pay Off Bounties

Using a Self-Service Bounty Clearance Kiosk

The best way to remove your bounty is by using a self service bounty clearance kiosk. This lets you pay to remove bounties placed by factions for a small usage fee. Paying this way won't confiscate your stolen goods, and it won't deduct XP.

You won't be able to pay off a faction's bounty in the kiosk if you're within that faction's territory. Move to a different system with a different faction, and pay it off there. You can find these kiosks at inside the bars of major cities.

Choosing to Pay to a Guard

After you commit a minor crime, guards will start pursuing you and will try to arrest you. Once a guard catches up, you can choose to pay your current bounty. All stolen goods in your possession will get confiscated, but this won't deduct your XP.

Paying Fine in Space

If you jump to a star system with a faction colonizing it while you have a bounty, a ship patrol will attempt to communicate with you. You can pay off your fine this way and the officers will escort you to their security building in the star system, confiscating your stolen goods.

Spend Time in Jail

Talk to a Guard

Another way you can get rid of the bounty is by giving yourself up to a guard. You will need to head to a different area where guards are not shooting at you, and you will need to end combat to talk to a guard or NPC. Then, choose the ''Don't worry, I'll go quietly.'' dialogue choice.

Time will skip for a certain number of days while you are locked up, and you will also lose XP and get your stolen goods confiscated!

Talk to the Ship in Space

If it is difficult to leave combat and talk to a guard, you can also go back to the Frontier and travel to space. While you're there, talk to the ship that is attacking you and the same ''Don't worry. I'll go quietly'' prompt will appear. The results will be the same as giving yourself up to a guard.

Bribe Guards in Neon

In Neon, you can bribe guards instead of paying off your bounty. When bribing, stolen goods will not be confiscated but the guard will still escort you to their security building!

Do note that you do not need to have the Negotiation Skill to do this. Also, this dialogue option is only available in Neon and does not show up when caught by other guards such as the ones in New Atlantis.

Neon Map, Shops, and Location Guide

How to Check Bounty

Hover Over a Star System

Open the starmap and hover your cursor to a star system, and the faction colonizing it will show up on the top right of your screen, with your bounty shown under it.

List of All Star Systems

How Does Starfield's Bounty System Work?

Bounty System Explained
Bounties Are Placed By Factions Carried Over to Faction-Controlled Star Systems You May Be Attacked While Exploring The Higher the Bounty, the Tougher the Enemies

Bounties Are Placed By Factions

The bounties placed on your head are controlled by the Factions across the Settled Systems. Offending a particular faction by working against their interests, and committing crimes like stealing, pickpocketing, assaulting, or killing their own faction members or civilians within the faction's territory, will land you on their bounty list.

List of All Factions

Carried Over to Faction-Controlled Star Systems

Since bounties are placed by factions, these will carry over to other star systems within a faction's territory. Security will recognize you right away and they might open fire depending on what crime you committed.

List of All Star Systems

You May Be Attacked by Factions While Exploring

Due to the bounty in a star system, you may randomly be attacked by members of that faction while you're exploring planet-side and even in outer space. This poses a danger to you, so make sure you're prepared for a fight in a star system that has a bounty on you.

Space Battles Combat Guide

The Higher the Bounty, the Tougher the Enemies

Freestar Collective Settler	You gain access to special Freestar Collective dialogue options, and better rewards from some missions given by the faction. But, crime bounty towards other factions is greatly increased. (Can't be combined with any other faction allegiance trait.)
Neon Street Rat	You grew up on the mean streets of Neon. You gain access to special dialogue options, and better rewards from some missions on Neon. Crime bounty by other factions is greatly increased. (Can't be combined with any other faction allegiance trait.)
United Colonies Native	You gain access to special United Colonies dialogue options, and better rewards from some missions given by the faction. However, crime bounty by other factions is greatly increased. (Can't be combined with any other faction allegiance trait.)

The traits Freestar Collective Settler and Neon Street Rat state that siding with one faction will increase the other faction's bounty on your head. This implies that higher bounties will cause the other faction to seek you out more aggressively, or possibly send more powerful enemies to attack you.

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