Puddle Glitch Explained

The Akila City puddle glitch in Starfield involves vendor chests that are accessible through the ground in the streets of Akila City. Find out more details of on how to replicate this glitch, and why it works this way.

How to Do Puddle Glitch

Attention!	This exploit has been fixed in Version 1.7.33 of Starfield.

Approach the Location

There are three locations in Akila City where you can loot the vendor's inventory.

Shepherd's General Store Location

The Shepherd's General Store vendor chest is below the ground, outside the store entrance. On the surface, the chest is beside a puddle in front of the store and is slightly towards the right if you're facing the entrance.

The Hitching Post Location

The vendor chest for The Hitching Post is underneath the blue canopy beside the bar's entrance stairway. The chest is between a blue tapestry and a green utility box and beneath the ground.

Rowland Arms Location

A third location would be found right in front of the weapon shop named Rowland Arms. The chest is deep under the ground between a small puddle and the corner of the stairway.

Crouch to Reach the Chest

Since both chests are underneath the surface, it is only accessible once the player crouches. Once crouched, point the crosshair towards the ground and search for an interactable container.

Shepherd's General Store Vendor Chest

This vendor chest is below a puddle in front of the store, hence the puddle glitch.

The Hitching Post Vendor Chest

This vendor chest is between the blue tapestry and green container. This location requires a bit more precision than the other chest.

Rowland Arms Vendor Chest

This vendor chest can only be accessed when in third-person mode. Use the Mouse Wheel or Middle Mouse to change POVs into third-person.

Puddle Glitch Loot

Vendor's Entire Inventory

This chest is what the game accesses when interacting with a vendor's shop. Therefore, these chests contain all of the vendor's inventory that they sell.

The items in these chests will not count as stolen and looting them will not count as stealing.

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Shepherd's General Store Loot

The Shepherd's General Store vendor chest will contain a variety of valuable items including weapons, armor and apparel, ammo, aid items, resources, digipicks and credits.

The Hitching Post Vendor Chest Loot

As The Hitching Post is a bar, the vendor chest only contains various aid items and a couple thousand credits.

Rowland Arms Vendor Chest Loot

The Rowland Arms vendor chest will contain credits, and various weapons and ammo.

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