Starfield mods explained

Will Starfield have mods? Mod support is an important part of many PC games, especially RPG games. Skyrim has endured all these years partly because it’s a great game, partly because Bethesda keeps releasing it on hitherto unknown gaming platforms, but also because it’s powered by a vibrant and creative modding community.

Thankfully, Starfield mod support is one of the few things we have a definitive answer for, like whether or not it will be on Starfield Game Pass when the release date comes around.

Will Starfield have mod support?

Yes, Starfield will have mods. Todd Howard himself has confirmed Starfield mod support, stating “Our plan [is] to have full mod support like our previous games,” in a Reddit AMA from 2021. In the future, you can expect to see reskins, texture replacements, and tweaks to the game’s settings alongside more outlandish and ambitious approaches.

Best Starfield mods

The best mods for Starfield could include:

We can look to games like Skyrim and Fallout 4 for an idea of what the best Starfield mods might look like, but obviously, there’s no word on what exactly the tools will be, nor what kind of timetable we’re looking at for Bethesda Game Studio to add “full mod support” to the game. We’ve added multiplayer to our list, as it has been confirmed that Starfield will be a single-player experience and will not have multiplayer features.

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Starfield Nexus Mods

Since Starfield isn’t even out yet, you might be shocked to learn that there aren’t any mods available yet. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t anything to talk about at all. The community over at Nexus mods has already started planning for the eventual release of Starfield mods.

Nexus Mods shared that Starfield will be using an updated version of the Creation Engine which powers Skyrim, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76, meaning that modders are familiar with the processes for modding Starfield to a certain extent already.

As well as engaging with Bethesda directly to get more information that they can share with modders and tool-makers, Nexus Mods also announced that there’s a Starfield modding Discord server, a Wiki, and a dedicated forum. The Starfield game section on Nexus won’t come online until closer to launch.

Starfield Steam Workshop

In terms of Steam Workshop integration, while it hasn’t been talked about specifically, we would be surprised if Starfield didn’t support mods via Steam’s platform as well. Skyrim, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76 all have mods available via the Steam Workshop, after all.

It’s worth noting though that, like these older Bethesda titles, many of the more inventive and creative mods aren’t available via Steam Workshop. There are usually many reasons for this – sometimes Steam’s platform can’t handle certain kinds of mods, sometimes authors genuinely don’t like working on the platform, and so on. Even if Starfield Steam Workshop support is very likely, you might end up looking to Nexus or other mod platforms for the best the community has to offer.

Still looking for more? While a good Starfield wiki can be a handy source of information, our new Starfield Database goes further, offering you daily news, searchable databanks, and even interactive tools.

That’s all we know about Starfield mods at this point. If you want more insights into this upcoming space game, then we’ve put together guides on everything we know about the Starfield cities we’ll be able to visit, and the Starfield factions we’ll meet as we journey through the galaxy.