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Starfield Potato Physics

Creator moment · 2023 · Notable

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A player’s reported 20,000-potato spill became a Starfield physics test others copied.

Clip · Dennios on YouTube
Clip · Dennios on YouTube
Starfield vs Skyrim vs Oblivion - 10.000 Objects Physics Comparison and Skyrim lost
Dennios on YouTube
Starfield - thousands of blocks of cheese spill out of the hatch of a cockpit
PC Gamer / Lauren Morton
Spilling 10.000 Milk Cartons | Starfield's most impressive Physics
Dennios on YouTube
A room filled with potatoes in Starfield
GamesRadar+
Starfield Fan's Potato-Filled Spaceship Shows Off Impressive Physics System
Pure Xbox
See Starfield's physics engine handle 20,000 potatoes stuffed into one room
TechSpot
Starfield, a ship airlock door is open, thousands of brown russet potatoes fall out into the hallway
PC Gamer
『スターフィールド』の海外コミュニティにて「ジャガイモの物理演算がすごい」と話題に。開いたハッチから転がり落ち、閉めるときも押し出される大量のジャガイモ
Denfaminicogamer
Starfield’s Intricate Physics Are Blowing Fans’ Minds - Kotaku
Kotaku
Overhead view of thousands of milk cartons landing on a building in Starfield
PC Gamer
Several toilet paper rolls are floating around inside in Starfield
GamesRadar+
Starfield Players Test Its Physics on Milk, Potatoes & Toilet Paper
80 Level
Starfield, Zelda Tears of the Kingdom : pourquoi leur moteur physique nous rend gaga ?
Jeuxvideo.com
Starfield
GamesRadar+
An image of a salad turbine in Starfield, hucking masses of vegetables into the air.
PC Gamer
Reddit users potato stash tumbling from the air lock in Starfield
Windows Central
Starfield (video game) - Wikipedia
Wikipedia

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Reported seed-post score
>16K
Reddit · Reported Sep 6, 2023 · Reddit · MeinMMO
Seed to peak
1 day
Sep 4 ’23 to Sep 5 ’23
Platforms
4
Started on Reddit
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Organic
Gaming

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The potato spill became a reproducible experiment: Morton tested other food shapes and published console-spawning advice. Moozipan also used the successful post to request accessibility features, an appeal TechSpot relayed by September 5.

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  1. September 2023

    u/Moozipan seed · Sep 4 ’23

    Moozipan posted the cockpit spill at 22:55:34 UTC, according to archived Reddit metadata.[1][2][20]

    A room filled with potatoes in Starfield
    Open the first post ↗

  2. Pure Xbox press · Sep 5 ’23

    Pure Xbox covered the cockpit spill and compared it with the earlier sandwich-filled Starfield Direct.[3]

    Starfield Fan's Potato-Filled Spaceship Shows Off Impressive Physics System

  3. John Linneman platform jump · Sep 5 ’23

    Linneman praised the clip’s object physics on X.[4][1]

    See Starfield's physics engine handle 20,000 potatoes stuffed into one room
Origin
Organic
Sector
Gaming
Region
Global
Reported seed-post score
>16K
Reddit · Reported Sep 6, 2023 · Reddit · MeinMMO
Evidence
Grade B

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Oct ’23RedditPressXYouTube
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  1. September 2023

    u/Moozipan seed · Sep 4 ’23

    Moozipan posted the cockpit spill at 22:55:34 UTC, according to archived Reddit metadata.[1][2][20]

    A room filled with potatoes in Starfield
    Open the first post ↗

  2. Pure Xbox press · Sep 5 ’23

    Pure Xbox covered the cockpit spill and compared it with the earlier sandwich-filled Starfield Direct.[3]

    Starfield Fan's Potato-Filled Spaceship Shows Off Impressive Physics System

  3. John Linneman platform jump · Sep 5 ’23

    Linneman praised the clip’s object physics on X.[4][1]

    See Starfield's physics engine handle 20,000 potatoes stuffed into one room

  1. peak · Sep 5 ’23

  2. owner response · Sep 5 ’23

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