«Attenzione! I think you’re a pickpocket!»
The classic method of Bethesda bucket burglary doesn’t work in Starfield, as confirmed by our own Morgan Park, who placed not only buckets but also bins and boxes on the heads of various NPCs. All of them were still able to see him commit theft, though none of them cared he was plonking objects over their faces. That doesn’t mean you can’t commit ingenious criminal acts by manipulating objects, however.
As Dave78905 demonstrated on the Starfield subreddit, you can still facilitate the acquisition of a shiny new gun using a bucket or, indeed, a plastic bin.
