Anyone who’s tried establishing some mods for Starfield will know that the method is a tad bit extra sophisticated than it was with prior mainstream Bethesda releases, like Skyrim or Fallout 4. That’s partially as a result of modifications made to Starfield‘s recreation engine, however there’s hope on the horizon.

Notably, whereas the Vortex mod launcher hasn’t been in a position to deal with Starfield‘s mods all that properly attributable to them needing to be put in into a number of totally different directories, relying on their file format, an alternate has now sprung up. The legendary Mod Organizer 2 now formally helps Starfield “with some basic caveats,” in accordance with the announcement, which needs to be an enormous boon for many who haven’t been in a position to get mods to work simply but.

Mod Organizer 2 might resolve Starfield’s problematic modding setup

Whereas MO2 assist for Starfield has been in beta for a while now, the builders have lastly launched a secure, mainline model of the modding software for anybody to make use of. The official assertion says that options corresponding to “save parsing, archive extraction and packing, plugin administration, computerized archive invalidation, INI-enabled plugin and archive detection.” In a broad sense, putting in mods needs to be pretty simple and easy now, which hasn’t been the case.

Although Starfield on PC already has a wealth of vital and attention-grabbing mods to select from, such because the current survival-focused gameplay revamp, the sport is but to obtain official mod assist from Bethesda itself.

Extra particularly, Todd Howard has already confirmed Starfield will obtain its Creation Package someday in 2024, which ought to give gamers rather more energy over the sport than they now have. Regardless, this hasn’t stopped potential modders from engaged on Starfield within the time interim, and it rapidly turned clear that Bethesda has modified issues up from the times of Fallout 4. For instance, putting in easy texture replacers now necessitates dropping unfastened information into the sport’s ‘My Paperwork’ folder, which led to some confusion on the matter.

To that finish, the truth that MO2 now consists of assist for “each the My Video games Information listing and the sport Information listing” ought to make the method of modding Starfield far less complicated. “This gives most mod assist with minimal work wanted by the tip consumer,” the assertion explains.

Mod Organizer 2 model 2.5.0 might be downloaded from the undertaking’s GitHub web page, and it seems that that is going to be the beneficial mod administration software for Starfield, a minimum of in the intervening time.