Plunder - Improved Piracy - Starfield Unity

Plunder - Improved Piracy (or simply Plunder) is an immersive gameplay overhaul for Starfield’s piracy system. Instead of settling for a quick cargo handoff through a trade screen, you’ll now be able to board enemy ships, confront their crew, and seize everything for yourself.

How It Works

In vanilla Starfield

When you select the piracy option, you can attempt to persuade an enemy captain to hand over their cargo. If successful, you’re presented with a trade screen to seize it.

Problems with the vanilla system:

Efficient, but not very engaging.
You never step foot on the ship itself, missing out on potential loot and immersion.

With Plunder - Improved Piracy

Piracy is now more hands on:

After a successful piracy attempt, the enemy ship can now be docked.
Choose between using the vanilla trade screen or disabling it entirely (default) with a new gameplay option.
Once docked, the crew will surrender—unless you provoke them, in which case they’ll fight back.
Explore and loot everything on board, not just the cargo hold.
If you loot the ship and do not attack the crew, they will grav jump away shortly after undocking.
The Intimidation skill gives a bonus towards Piracy dialogue success (added in v1.1).

To safely use the Piracy dialogue option in populated areas, make sure you’re within docking range of the target ship (500 m in vanilla). This lets you board quickly, before local security forces have time to react to the piracy report.