Starfield Mod Adds Helpful In-Game Compendium

Highlights

• Starfield modder Ideki creates a compendium mod for comprehensive planetary data.
• The mod enhances in-game exploration by providing valuable information without external websites.
• Bethesda’s official modding tools boost the game’s popularity.

A Starfield modder has created a useful in-game compendium mod for the game that contains comprehensive data about a huge number of planets and systems. The mod launched via the official, Bethesda-supported Starfield Creations mod repository.

Though Starfield received positive reviews during the game’s original release period, many players expressed dissatisfaction with what appeared to be the limits of Bethesda’s vision of space exploration, particularly compared with rival space games like Elite Dangerous or the current versions of No Man’s Sky. But in the wake of the launch of the StarfieldShattered Space DLC, the game is experiencing a resurgence of interest from the community.

That interest is helped by the release of official modding tools for Starfield by Bethesda, making the game significantly easier to alter by modders. One such mod is the recently released Starfield Compendium mod, which adds a massive source of information to the in-game interface, available to players for calling up without having to resort to an external website.

The Starfield Compendium mod by modder Ideki compiles a huge amount of information on the different planets and moons available to explore in Starfield‘s Settled Systems game universe. The information is pulled up from the titular Starfield Compendium website, but makes the info available at the touch of a button from the player menu. The info focuses on planetary resources, and is thus most helpful to players seeking the ideal place to build an outpost in Starfield.

The mod allows players to directly search for planets in the database, as well as filter them to find what they’re looking for, such as when hunting for the rarest Starfield resources. According to Ideki (via a post from their Reddit account, Zorglub01), the mod’s functionality is limited compared to the website, and does not yet contain a complete list of organic resources available directly from a planet’s surface via manual gathering as opposed to outpost-based automated extraction. Ideki said they are working on adding it, and are 86% complete as of July 6, 2024. Support for Starfield on Xbox is also planned.

Reaction from players to the update was largely positive, with some exploration-focused players celebrating the ability to consult planetary data without having to leave the game. Others asked whether it was possible for the compendium to hide information that players hadn’t discovered themselves in-game, but Ideki responded that while a “dynamic” compendium that grows as players explore is their goal, it isn’t currently possible due to the technical limitations of the engine and its interaction with mods. They said that Bethesda is willing to “look into” making it possible, but it would be dependent on the company’s availability.