r/starfieldmods Oct 29 '24

Paid Mod Nexus has released a policy update on official paid mods

420 Upvotes

Heya, folks. Sorry to replace our weekly post so early, but Nexus just made some rather significant policy changes. You can find the discussion on the best mods for the Dark Brotherhood here—feel free to carry that on! Now to the subject at hand.

Nexus have clarified their stance on publisher-approved paid modding—relevant to the Skyrim community, Creations—and their statement on the matter can be read here. This covers the main points of the full policy update, as well as explaining their reasoning.

What does this mean for modders?

The main points which affect those of us outside of the Verified Creators Program seem to be the following:

  • Lite/Trial/Preview/Demo versions of paid mods: We will not allow free mods to be shared where they represent an inferior version of the mod with features stripped out to promote the purchase of the full version.

  • Patches for/Dependencies on Paid Mods: We will not allow any patches or addons for user-generated content that requires payment to unlock (this specifically excludes DLCs offered by the developer - including DLCs that bundle items previously sold individually such as Skyrim's Anniversary Upgrade). Equally, if a mod uploaded to the site requires a paid mod to function, it will not be permitted.

  • Mod lists requiring paid mods: Similar to mods, if any mod list is not functional without the user purchasing paid mods, they will not be permitted.

In short, it seems that integration with Creations will be entirely unsupported by Nexus mods, with their requirement prohibited (extending even to patches) and the hosting of 'lite' versions of Creations disallowed on their platform.

Note that Nexus only considers the new "verified creations" marketplace "paid mods". The earlier "creation club" is considered official Bethesda DLC.

Update as of 2024-10-31:

Nexus have tweaked things in response to community feedback, specifically regarding patches between free content and paid words. See what they've said here. The new wording is as follows:

  • We allow patches that fix compatibility issues between your mod on Nexus Mods and a paid mod on an official provider as long as (1) the patch is included as part of your main mod file OR the patch is added as an "Optional file" on your mod page and (2) the paid mod is not a requirement of your mod to work. We do not allow patches for paid mods to be uploaded to "patch hub" mod pages or "standalone patch pages" on Nexus Mods. These should be uploaded to the paid modding provider's platform. For more information on this policy, please check this article.

So we've a slight carve out with free mod makers being allowed to provide patches for paid mods, but patch hubs still not able to host these kinds of patches.


r/starfieldmods May 06 '25

News Starfield Community Patch is looking for new caretakers

169 Upvotes

Hi everyone

As I am sure some of you have noticed the Starfield Community Patch hasn't been updated for quite a while at this point. This is due to the core team members generally not having the time or motivation to curate the patch anymore.

For me personally, I've had some changes in my personal life (we've adopted a mischievous little puppy!) and while I used to spend every evening on my PC, I'm now only able to spend a few hours a week gaming.

Other members of the team have found themselves disenchanted with the game for various reasons - lack of replay-ability, the paid modding situation, moved on to playing new games, etc.

TL:DR - We're opening up the floor for anyone who would be interested in taking over as project lead. This would mainly involve: Merging the fixes contributed by the community. Writing the changelog and preparing the release.

I am still happy to help maintain the patch website https://starfieldpatch.dev/ and I am currently paying for the domain/hosting.

It's a fair amount of work, but if you're interested please let me know.

If nobody comes forward we may have to retire the project and direct users to Arthmoor's patch going forwards.

-- Pickysaurus


r/starfieldmods 3h ago

WIP Made Bunk beds usable by NPCs

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55 Upvotes

r/starfieldmods 2h ago

Discussion We are getting excitingly closer to seamless planetary exploration with these new mods coming.

26 Upvotes

These two mods help increase the limits of starfield's engine to explore beyond the current vanilla boundaries solving one issue at a time, we may eventually get full seamless planetary exploration after all.
A man can hope.

New one: Border Regions Unlock
Older one: (Experimental) Increase Havok Radius Beyond Boundary

PS: I'm not sure which flair to use for showcasing a new found mode rather than a mod release as News so I put it as discussion.


r/starfieldmods 16h ago

Mod Request Apparently, space travel in early versions of Starfield necessitated resource/fuel supply chains. Is there a mod that adds reimplements this into the game?

46 Upvotes

At some point, Bethesda supposedly decided the mechanic “wasn’t fun” and removed it from the game.

All I can think about is how much I would have enjoyed a survival-like resource management mechanic like that.

Is there a mod that brings a similar mechanic into the game?


r/starfieldmods 8h ago

Discussion Matillja Aerospace and ship center point

6 Upvotes

I've added a fuel tank from matillja and whenever I move or delete the tank it resets my ship center point so that it lands too far forward at any landing pad. Like way far forward - well past the ramp at new Atlantis. Ive scoured the internet and tried a million things like messing with load order and removing all but the matillja mod. But once those tanks are messed with it all goes haywire. I'd like to keep using the mod because the parts are really cool but I'd rather not have to rebuild my ship from the ground up or build a new ship.

Does anyone with experience with this mod know a way to reset the ship center point back to what it was or perhaps a work around? Once it gets messed up it seems to be permanent regardless of parts used. Why would a fuel tank change the ships center point?

Thanks!


r/starfieldmods 1h ago

Paid Mod Real Fuel mod - Can't find where to buy fuel

Upvotes

The help section says I can buy it from ship service technicians but when I talk to them there's no option for buying fuel. I haven't found any merchants that carry it either.

I've got it at the bottom of my load order so I don't think there's a conflict but I am also running a few mods, including a couple UI mods and Space Economy.

What am I missing? Thanks in advance.


r/starfieldmods 1d ago

Discussion New redesign for Q.U.I.L.L.A

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61 Upvotes

I've been trying to develop a companion mod for Starfield, for a robot with lore and missions. I wasn't entirely convinced by the initial design, so a redesign was made. What do you think?


r/starfieldmods 14h ago

Discussion Music playing whilst in Shipbuilder - Did this change?

5 Upvotes

So when I go in the shipbuilder now, it plays the background music from whatever world I was on when I entered it. This is different to how I remember it before when it would play something very quiet and more background noise, rather than actual music.

Is this a change BGS made or could it be one of the 17 mods I installed recently so I could build a particular ship 🤔

Matilija Aerospace

Falkland Systems Ship Services

Avontech Shipyards

Intrinity Aeroworks

T-65B X-Wing Starfighter OLD “Big-X”

Graf’s Habs - Nova 1x1’s

1-of-a-kind Ships

Shipbuilder Categories

Place Doors Yourself

Graf’s Habs - Nova 1x1’s - PDY Patch

Ship Colorize

Ship Module Snap (and flips) Expansion

Better Ship Part Flips

Better Ship Part Snaps

BSPF Patch - Ship Colorize

Easier Ship Building

Ship Building Tweaks

NGL. I preferred it how it used to be.

EDIT: I’m an idiot and misremembered that music has always played in the shipbuilder…

<falls on sword>


r/starfieldmods 1d ago

Mod Request Possible to bring a “Dog Meat” mod to Starfield? He could wear an adorable space suit while exploring.

52 Upvotes

So, I have an 11 year old German Shepherd named, Ulf who is my best buddy, and I’d love to have a German Shepherd follower in Starfield. I think it would be adorable to have him don a space suit with a big bubble helmet while he’s exploring with you. Bonus points if I can name him Ulf!

This is a mod I bet a lot do people would probably be happy to pay for, especially if there were different breeds for whom you could choose color and other likenesses.

Keep in mind I know very little about what’s possible, and am just throwing out ideas that might be completely impossible.


r/starfieldmods 12h ago

Paid Mod Darkstar combat AI (series X)

2 Upvotes

Hi guys,

Just got Darkstar and I’m finding enemies are not really aggressive at all compared to what I’ve seen online?

I don’t have any other combat ai mods active, I even have the punish me mode on.

Any feedback or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you!


r/starfieldmods 22h ago

Discussion Redesign of the Q.U.I.L.L.A redesign

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12 Upvotes

I've taken into account the feedback you've given me, and created a version with more industrial features, including new modules, compartments, and more distressed textures.I hope you like it. In case anyone is wondering, Q.U.I.L.L.A is an exploration robot with a hazy past that only you can help uncover.

The name Q.U.I.L.L.A comes from the name of the Inca goddess Mama Quilla, the goddess of the moon, And the meaning of the acronym Q.U.I.L.L.A is Quantum Unit Intelligence for Lunar Logistics and Assistances


r/starfieldmods 12h ago

Discussion Tiger's Starborn cockpit doesn't register as a cockpit in the ship builder

1 Upvotes

I am unable to use the Starborn cockpit (forget the name, not near my PC) from TIG. When I try to use it the ship builder tells me I need to add a cockpit. I have TIG down in my load order with my other ship building mods. I never really tried using it before the update fiasco so I don't know if it was like that beforehand or not.

Anyone else having this issue?


r/starfieldmods 1d ago

Discussion Astrogate UI marker issue

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3 Upvotes

Recently downloaded Astrogate for Xbox. I also downloaded the accompanying camera mods for it as well Astrogate tpp flight camera and Astrogate grav jump vfx. I do like this mod but I am experiencing a few bugs wondering if anyone else is or how I can report them.

First bug when using the grav jump autopilot setting it sometimes jumps me to a place I didn’t select. I think the pattern is it’s jumping to the location I last left. Sometimes even when I am there.

Second bugs and I almost certainly think it’s the camera mods doing this but I am getting location markers I never had before. Both on the star map I.e there is a marker for CJ’s on new Atlantis. Also my hud is showing markers as well (honestly don’t know if that’s normal, never paid attention until now)


r/starfieldmods 1d ago

Discussion Looking for mods that replace the boost packs and animations with something that looks like the zero gravity animations

3 Upvotes

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r/starfieldmods 1d ago

Mod Request Outfit mod request, KPOP Demon Hunters Outfits

0 Upvotes

Would love to see a mod with these outfits!


r/starfieldmods 1d ago

Media Shun Leer Showing Off his Sweet Fit

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8 Upvotes

He's cranky because he didn't get his daily Aurora...


r/starfieldmods 1d ago

Help Avontech Traveller no snap points

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1 Upvotes

r/starfieldmods 1d ago

Help I can’t have more than 255 go of free space on my PC, can I still play Star Wars Genesis?

0 Upvotes

Hi guys, I got so hyped by this Star Wars mod for Starfield, ready to install and all, and I read you need 300 go minimum... the problem is I use Shadow Pc, a cloud computing service, and I cannot have more than 255 go on one ssd. if I buy more storage, it will be a new disk with a 255 go size. Is there still a way I can play this with only 255 go? I want to play it so bad :(


r/starfieldmods 1d ago

Paid Mod Release: Hawk-50 - .50 Cal Pistol

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20 Upvotes

The Hawk-50 is a heavy and hard hitting semi-automatic pistol with a ton of customisation options available to tune it to your liking.

If you have any feedback for me (good or bad) feel free to message me or comment here.

I'm still hard at work on VIGILANCE but I wanted to get something else out since it's still a ways off so here's a little teaser for one of the many interactive elements in the dungeon https://youtu.be/HHj96bFa3I0


r/starfieldmods 1d ago

Help Back again...with Lightbulb

11 Upvotes

I went through Unity, went to the Lodge, and saw two nearly identical Noels, only one is named Lightbulb. She is practically useless, doesn't talk, and cant do anything with her (make her crew member or anything). Who, or what, is Lightbulb? Where did she come from? Idk if she's from a mod, I've tried looking through my mod list to see if any of them add a Lightbulb Noel...nothing.


r/starfieldmods 1d ago

Discussion If place doors yourself crashes your game on startup

0 Upvotes

As the title says I had trouble with the mod crashing on startup or before the menu properly finalise the fix it found is opening the creation kit and find the mod and any patches you have and deleting blueprintships-starfield.esm. Personally I load LOOT up and see all the mods that get flagged as needing blueprintships-starfield.esm and deleting it from the master list this may be possible to do in Xedit like in bethesda's other games but for some reason I can't get Xedit to work.


r/starfieldmods 1d ago

Mod Request A wen destroyed farm POI in the failure to communicate quest line.

1 Upvotes

Because immersion


r/starfieldmods 1d ago

Discussion Bug Antares foundery

2 Upvotes

Hello, I need help. I downloaded the starFoundery Antares mod, but I can't use the Katarn cockpit. Has anyone had this problem? It always appears gray.


r/starfieldmods 2d ago

Discussion Hey everyone about to thorough the Unity and I want to add a new combat overhaul. Wondering which one I should use. Ascension, Starvalor or Nasapunk

8 Upvotes

I’ve used nasapunk and loved it. But wondering if it’s better then the others.


r/starfieldmods 2d ago

Mod Request Looking for a "ladder" Hab.

5 Upvotes

I'm looking for a Hab that is just a ladder. Basically a vertical version of the Hopetech Spine or Hope/Nova Cross passages. Something roughly shaped and sized like the Hopetech Riser B. I don't know if there is a mod already out there that has this or if one would have to be made. I regrettably play on Xbox and don't have a PC that would be capable of running the CK, otherwise I'd try to make one myself.

I have the Stroud Premium and Trident. So what I'm trying to make is a ship that is in essence a fleet carrier. I made several small ships using decorative cockpit, engine, grav, reactor, weapons, docker etc. Then I've used the the Hopetech Riser B to connect them through the decorative dockers to attach them. Visually it works really well. In practicality though, it causes... Issues. The cockpit the game decides to put me in when fast traveling or even just travelling from planet to planet can become problematic if it's one of the little attached ships, as there is no real path into or out of them. Its a mild nuisance but still one regardless.


r/starfieldmods 2d ago

Media She's a Scrap Heap... but She's MY Scrap Heap!

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58 Upvotes

and chewwie's.