diff --git a/src/core/build/static-build.ts b/src/core/build/static-build.ts
index 8e72bc4b2650..1ccc0050650d 100644
--- a/src/core/build/static-build.ts
+++ b/src/core/build/static-build.ts
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ async function generatePath(pathname: string, opts: StaticBuildOptions, gopts: G
 		debug(logging, 'generate', `Generating: ${pathname}`);
 
 		const rootpath = new URL(astroConfig.buildOptions.site || 'http://localhost/').pathname;
-		const result = createResult({ astroConfig, origin, params, pathname, renderers });
+		const result = createResult({ astroConfig, logging, origin, params, pathname, renderers });
 		result.links = new Set<SSRElement>(
 			linkIds.map((href) => ({
 				props: {
diff --git a/src/core/ssr/css.ts b/src/core/ssr/css.ts
index 6c731c1ad606..4ee0e80d8635 100644
--- a/src/core/ssr/css.ts
+++ b/src/core/ssr/css.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ import { viteID } from '../util.js';
 // https://vitejs.dev/guide/features.html#css-pre-processors
 export const STYLE_EXTENSIONS = new Set(['.css', '.pcss', '.postcss', '.scss', '.sass', '.styl', '.stylus', '.less']);
 
+const cssRe = new RegExp(
+	`\\.(${Array.from(STYLE_EXTENSIONS)
+		.map((s) => s.slice(1))
+		.join('|')})($|\\?)`
+);
+export const isCSSRequest = (request: string): boolean => cssRe.test(request);
+
 /**
  * getStylesForURL
  * Given a filePath URL, crawl Vite’s module graph to find style files
diff --git a/src/core/ssr/index.ts b/src/core/ssr/index.ts
index d52a27eeaca5..daa627220373 100644
--- a/src/core/ssr/index.ts
+++ b/src/core/ssr/index.ts
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ export async function render(renderers: Renderer[], mod: ComponentInstance, ssrO
 	if (!Component) throw new Error(`Expected an exported Astro component but received typeof ${typeof Component}`);
 	if (!Component.isAstroComponentFactory) throw new Error(`Unable to SSR non-Astro component (${route?.component})`);
 
-	const result = createResult({ astroConfig, origin, params, pathname, renderers });
+	const result = createResult({ astroConfig, logging, origin, params, pathname, renderers });
 	// Resolves specifiers in the inline hydrated scripts, such as "@astrojs/renderer-preact/client.js"
 	result.resolve = async (s: string) => {
 		// The legacy build needs these to remain unresolved so that vite HTML
diff --git a/src/core/ssr/result.ts b/src/core/ssr/result.ts
index 32694dd05330..95ff36239937 100644
--- a/src/core/ssr/result.ts
+++ b/src/core/ssr/result.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,14 @@
 import type { AstroConfig, AstroGlobal, AstroGlobalPartial, Params, Renderer, SSRElement, SSRResult } from '../../@types/astro';
 
+import { bold } from 'kleur/colors';
 import { canonicalURL as getCanonicalURL } from '../util.js';
+import { isCSSRequest } from './css.js';
 import { renderSlot } from '../../runtime/server/index.js';
+import { warn, LogOptions } from '../logger.js';
 
 export interface CreateResultArgs {
 	astroConfig: AstroConfig;
+	logging: LogOptions;
 	origin: string;
 	params: Params;
 	pathname: string;
@@ -34,6 +38,26 @@ export function createResult(args: CreateResultArgs): SSRResult {
 					params,
 					url,
 				},
+				resolve(path: string) {
+					if(astroConfig.buildOptions.experimentalStaticBuild) {
+						let extra = `This can be replaced with a dynamic import like so: await import("${path}")`;
+						if(isCSSRequest(path)) {
+							extra = `It looks like you are resolving styles. If you are adding a link tag, replace with this:
+
+<style global>
+@import "${path}";
+</style>
+`
+						}
+
+						warn(args.logging, `deprecation`, `${bold('Astro.resolve()')} is deprecated. We see that you are trying to resolve ${path}.
+${extra}`);
+						// Intentionally return an empty string so that it is not relied upon.
+						return '';
+					}
+
+					return astroGlobal.resolve(path);
+				},
 				slots: Object.fromEntries(Object.entries(slots || {}).map(([slotName]) => [slotName, true])),
 				// This is used for <Markdown> but shouldn't be used publicly
 				privateRenderSlotDoNotUse(slotName: string) {
diff --git a/src/vite-plugin-build-css/index.ts b/src/vite-plugin-build-css/index.ts
index 0a175784229a..155fdc8ede06 100644
--- a/src/vite-plugin-build-css/index.ts
+++ b/src/vite-plugin-build-css/index.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import type { BuildInternals } from '../core/build/internal';
 import * as path from 'path';
 import esbuild from 'esbuild';
 import { Plugin as VitePlugin } from '../core/vite';
-import { STYLE_EXTENSIONS } from '../core/ssr/css.js';
+import { isCSSRequest } from '../core/ssr/css.js';
 
 const PLUGIN_NAME = '@astrojs/rollup-plugin-build-css';
 
@@ -13,13 +13,6 @@ const ASTRO_STYLE_PREFIX = '@astro-inline-style';
 
 const ASTRO_PAGE_STYLE_PREFIX = '@astro-page-all-styles';
 
-const cssRe = new RegExp(
-	`\\.(${Array.from(STYLE_EXTENSIONS)
-		.map((s) => s.slice(1))
-		.join('|')})($|\\?)`
-);
-const isCSSRequest = (request: string): boolean => cssRe.test(request);
-
 export function getAstroPageStyleId(pathname: string) {
 	let styleId = ASTRO_PAGE_STYLE_PREFIX + pathname;
 	if (styleId.endsWith('/')) {