Best Starfield mods: 32 must-have mods for all players

For most players on most machines, it means a big gain in FPS without any noticeable graphical difference.

This makes Neutral LUTs one of my immediate go-to Starfield mods going forward.

No more jittery ship scanner HUDs or menu transitions.

A close-up of the compass UI element in Starfield, with the oxygen bar almost fully red with CO2.

And just so you know - it’s fully compatible withStarUI!

It might not make quite the same noticeable difference as the Starfield Upscaler above - or maybe it will!

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The weapon inventory screen in Starfield, made more compact with the StarUI Inventory mod.

But then, maybe that’s what you want!

It simply cuts down on some of the needless faff, and allows me to play uninterrupted.

By which I mean, none at all.

A comparison of two dialogue UI screens in Starfield. Top: vanilla. Bottom: Enhanced Dialogue Interface Mod.

Don’t worry - it won’t necessarily make the game harder.

Some may call this cheating; me, I call it… well, yeah, it’s cheating.

Download Link:Easy Speech

Better Sprint Costs

Thank goodness for Better Sprint Costs.

A street scene from planet Neon in Starfield, showing lots of cyberpunky shops with colourful glowing signs and smoggy yellow air.

I can run faster and further than my character in real life!

Better Sprint Costs allows you to configure the rate at which sprinting consumes your oxygen.

Undelayed Menus is essential for making the whole game feel much snappier and more responsive.

A side-by-side comparison of the same scene of a player in Starfield standing outside their ship. Left: vanilla Starfield. Right: Neutral LUTs mod.

The Better Alt-Tab mod stops this from happening.

Download Link:Better Alt-Tab

More Subtle Scanner Sounds

Another small but lovely change.

They will also blink more, hopefully avoiding that uncanny valley feeling when conversing.

An expanded view of the Pistol Certification skill in the Starfield skills screen, showing the different skill’s ranks and effects.

The Easy Digipick mod essentially makes the process more streamlined.

Although master locks will still provide a challenge, most will be rebalanced to offer an easier experience.

This avoids time-wasting and agonising over locks only to receive sub-par loot for your efforts.

A pop-up in Starfield tells players that use of certain console commands will disable achievements.

These are essentially libraries of curated mods gathered into one place for download.

This means players will need to download their mods from NexusMods for the time being.

It proved unpopular, so the vast majority of Skyrim SE mods are now hosted on NexusMods.

The interior of the Lodge, headquarters of Constellation in Starfield, with the incomplete set of artifacts floating around the central podium.

That wraps up our guide on the best Starfield mods that have been released so far.

The rocky landscape of Kreet in Starfield with a Research Lab in the background. A red circle highlights the Research Lab discovery UI element, which has been moved down to the bottom of the screen thanks to a mod.

A terminal screen in Starfield, showing a note about a Terrormorph specimen. The screen is in Dark Mode thanks to the Dark Mode For Terminals mod.

A player in Starfield stares through a glass window at an enemy. A mod means no enemy dot appears on the player’s compass despite the enemy’s presence.

The player in Starfield stands outside in New Atlantis with low health. A mod makes the healthbar red because it is low.

A close-up of the compass UI element in Starfield, which shows the player’s current encumbrance level thanks to the Scanner Encumbrance Display mod.

A ship in Starfield flies towards The Den, a space station.

Sam Coe in Starfield talks to the player about the deplorable lack of FOV settings in Starfield.

The player in Starfield shoots an automatic rifle at a robot enemy in a hallway.

Fighting a Spacer in zero-G in Starfield.

A side-by-side comparison of the same unfinished ship in Starfield. Left: Vanilla Starfield, showing that a module won’t fit in the ship. Right: the same module will now fit thanks to the Ship Builder Tolerance Tweaks mod.