X4: Foundations 9.0 Ship Upgrades & Global Orders Guide – Upgrade Faster, Command Smarter

Upgrade your ships and take control of your entire empire in X4: Foundations 9.0. This guide shows how to earn ship-modification components, unlock modification research, install and reroll upgrades, and configure Global Orders that keep your ships behaving the way you want. You’ll learn how to use faction and guild missions to find modification parts; compare basic, enhanced, and exceptional modifications; improve chassis, engines, shields, turrets, and weapons; and decide when a reroll is worth the material cost. The second half goes deep into Global Standing Orders, automatic resupply, marooning protection, notifications, custom alerts, Fire Authorisation Overrides, blacklists, and self-trade rules. You’ll also see how global defaults interact with settings applied to individual ships and stations. X4 version: 9.0 Required DLC: None for the core systems shown; available faction and guild mission examples vary by save and owned DLC. --Chapters-- 00:00 Ship modifications and Global Orders overview 00:47 Getting ship-modification components 01:16 Faction and guild mission unlocks 02:52 Finding component-reward missions 05:08 Finding the ship modification workbench 05:54 Unlocking modification research tiers 06:29 Modification qualities and random properties 08:20 Chassis, engine, shield, turret and paint slots 08:45 Installing and rerolling a chassis mass mod 10:18 Engine upgrades and exceptional rolls 12:32 Shield modification tradeoffs 14:19 Turret and weapon modifications 18:40 Global Orders overview 19:00 Attack, abandoned ship and lockbox responses 20:20 Build method, resupply and trade-loop defaults 22:00 Marooning protection 22:34 Notification settings 24:30 Alerts, Fire Authorisation, blacklists and trade rules 24:37 Creating custom sector and ship alerts 28:23 Fire Authorisation Overrides 31:36 Keeping ships out of Xenon sectors with blacklists 32:32 Self-trade rules for ships and stations 34:03 Outro --Related tutorials-- Beginner UI Guide:    • X4: Foundations 9.0 Beginner UI Guide – Ma...   Beginner Mining, Trading & Passive Income Guide:    • X4: Foundations 9.0 Beginner Guide – Minin...   Station Building Guide:    • X4: Foundations 9.0 Station Building Guide...   If this guide helped, leave your biggest ship-modification or Global Orders question below. It may become the next X4 tutorial. #X4Foundations #X4Tutorial #SpaceGames