Starfield’s new ship modding framework lets players share ships

Slowly but certainly, Starfield is turning into the modding powerhouse it was always meant to be. With the Creation Kit opening the door to a huge array of advanced new creations, we’re now privy to the Ship Vendor Framework mod, allowing us to share our LEGO-like starships with one another.

Courtesy of modder Rux616, we now have a way of sharing custom-built Starfield ships with the world. Or, at least, other Starfield players on PC and Xbox. According to Rux616, their plan all along has been to create a stable, comprehensive solution for how the in-game vendors handle ship blueprints. By default, Starfield does not allow you to tweak and/or replace vendor-provided ships, which makes them kind of boring on a long enough timeline. With Rux616’s Ship Vendor Framework mod, however, it is now possible to add entirely new, custom designs to the vendors’ blueprint offerings, and virtually anyone can export them quickly and easily.

Starfield: Ship Vendor Framework is the vessel-sharing system we’ve all been waiting for

Granted, it’s not quite as straightforward as, say, sharing a code with one another. The way Ship Vendor Framework works is that it “allows people to design ships inside the [Starfield] Creation Kit and add them for sale ingame easily, then share those [as] mods,” explains Rux616 in a Reddit comment. Still, it’s a way better system than anything available in the base game, and it’s fully compatible with both PC and Xbox builds of the game, which makes it that much more useful in the long run.

Alongside the Ship Vendor Framework, Rux616 has also created their own custom ship blueprint to show the system off: the Warhawk. This is a small and lightweight, yet heavily armed B-class vessel that has a simple, straightforward interior that makes it handy as a mobile forward operating base. Nice! The Warhawk is available at the New Atlantis Ship Services after you hit level 50, and you will of course need the Ship Vendor Framework to access its blueprints.

• Ship Vendor Framework mod
• The Warhawk mod

Expect lots more Starfield ship mods in the coming weeks and months, then. All thanks to Rux616’s continued efforts in developing the Ship Vendor Framework.

In other related news, have you added Destiny‘s Exos into Starfield yet? Or did you lean more heavily into the Star Wars aesthetic, creating your very own Mandalorian experience along the way? Whatever the case may be, there are more awesome mods coming out for Starfield virtually every day, and Bethesda is already planning Year 2 content at this time. That’s coming after the hotly anticipated Shattered Space DLC, of course, which is its own point of interest. Starfield: Shattered Space is launching in Fall 2024, but in the interim, it’s not like we’ve got nothing to do with all those mods coming out left and right.