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Hey! A couple folks requested that I post this info to help others who are curious.

Above is a screen shot from the Creation Kit, these are the systems that include the keyword LocTypeNoHumanPresence, which is used in conditions to prevent the placement of human POIs (not necessarily nature POIs) on planets in those systems. Also it prevents a variety of quests from using these systems and planets. There are 26 such systems without including Serpentis, which includes all planets in those systems.

Serpentis deserves a mention as I believe there is no friendly human presence. It has LocTypeNoHumanPresenceNonHostile which appears to be used in conditions that will restrict civilians from spawning at POIs, and restrict friendly or non-hostile space encounters. So it may still have hostile POIs and hostile space encounters.

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LocTypeNoHumanPresence is also found explicitly on two planets, Tau Ceti II, Porrima II

LocTypeNoHumanPresenceNonHostile is found on Niira

None of those three systems have the same keywords, so it is explicit to those planets in their systems.

CAVEAT

Keep in mind that quests and systems in the game don't have to check for these keywords, so there may be planets within any of these systems that are exceptions because a quest, mod or anything was intended to spawn a POI or encounter there.

Some mod-added POIs and quests don't properly check for vanilla keywords or conditions so they may spawn POIs anywhere. Most are pretty good about following vanilla patterns.

Other conditions used for POI spawn limit the amount of POIs and encounters that occur the further away you get from the core systems (faction systems involved in the Treaty) and closer to the fringes of the Settled Systems. So, even some of the systems with human presence, can have very little human presence.

THOUGHTS

26 systems out of 120 means about 21.6% of the Settled Systems map have no human presence. With the rest of the systems, 78.4% having some level of human presence, either currently or in the games past before the treaty.

Because we know about them, and have navigation paths to them, I would presume that the 26 systems had some minor exploration or charting however with no settlement of any kind. Essentially they are the fringe systems that humanity reached, but have not settled. That means if you settle in one of those, you may be the first!

FEEDBACK

Other CK junkies, if I missed anything here let me know!

Howdy! I'm getting close on this one. This will be my first release after I was accepted into the VC program. The mod will be free, along with a AF version later on if approved. Hoping to make available to all platforms.

A work in progress mod. I have a lot done, but it still needs some additional mechanics and a lot of playtesting to tune the economics. This quick video is showing the basic workflow of converting a category of weapons to parts, and parts to contraband crates for increased resell value at a small increased risk. I will be adding a number of other features including, gun runner decor items unlocked along with the benches, as well as multiple tiers of crates that require additional resources to squeeze out more profit, and potentially a simple radiant mission system for selling opportunities that are riskier than selling to trade authority.

Shout out to the authors of StarUI, AstralUI and Honkcore UI mods and any others I missed as I'm using those in this video.

I was playing and thinking how the heck could these ships carry enough oxygen, or the habs on worlds with no oxygen.

Turns out you create the oxygen! I won't spoil the video though.

The more I play Starfield the more questions I have about space and it's fun to look up how things currently work and for the more scifi elements to lookup speculation on how things may work in the future.

When they go off it looks almost just like Starfield to me. They were however more bullet resistant than I expected.

Shooting those tanks is one of my favorite things in the game lol, I'm a simple man.

The one at the very end reminded me the most of how bouncy they are in Starfield. Zoom!

ElminsterAU and team released a new version including the updates for Starfield! Download link is at the bottom of the actual discord message. Link above links to the message on xEdit discord channel.

Below is copy paste of the text only from the discord post.

What's New in xEdit 4.1.5q?

TL;DR

Development continues with ~250 commits since 4.1.5p, focused on Starfield .esp editing and small/medium master support, a major Referenced By tab overhaul, regular-expression filtering, BSArch Xbox-texture and compression-library work, and a large Fallout 76 record expansion.

Key highlights

• Starfield - .esp editing is now enabled (with restrictions), including editing of modules that use small or medium masters; modules with a blueprint master can't be saved, and blueprints can't be masters
• Referenced By tab overhaul - filtering, sticky/column sorting, alt-navigation, Ctrl+A select-all, and selection counts
• Regular-expression (PerlRegex) filtering in the main window, module selection, and view filter, with a typing delay
• BSArch/Archive - Xbox texture support, Find Identical Assets, shared-file space reporting, and integration of libdeflate/lz4/xxHash as submodules
• Fallout 76 - large record/subrecord expansion (new TEPF, TRAP, and CMPT records; Enlighten, rewards, and many decoded fields) plus updated Form/HEDR versions
• Starfield - Freelanes updates, Reflection organization, and recent-DLC record additions
• Scripting - new wbSelectedFiles, TStrings extensions, ScriptProcessSignatures, and an adapter refactor for faster host-function dispatch
• SNIFF - new operations (Find Textures, Merge Properties, Transform Information), Xbox texture and .BSA/.BA2 support, and many fixer/tweaker additions

Contributors

robertgk2017, Jonathan Ostrus (jbostrus), eckserah, Bobbyclue, fireundubh, Cecell, ElminsterAU, sibir, sheson, c6, GammaMetroid, and thanks to Cobb and Ianpatt for assistance.

Bugfixes

• Fix access violation in the DIAL/DLBR/DLVW branch-quest reachability error check (null QNAM or unresolved quest)
• Ensure ChildGroups are removed when a containing MainRecord is removed
• [FO4] Don't remove XWEM on Fallout 4 - the engine reuses that subrecord for an unrelated purpose
• Fix DoubleBuffered handling for UI controls (VirtualTrees)
• Reset a union's result to its Default Value (and update sibling unions) when switching the active member
• Implement dfHasZeroTerminator handling for TwbStringDef
• Fix REGN RDAT type lookup to walk up to the Region Data Entry container
• [TES4] Fix ESM ordering
• [TES3] Fix Less/Greater-than operators being reversed in the INFO condition enum

Major Features

Starfield - .esp editing and small/medium master support (contributed by Jonathan Ostrus and robertgk2017)

• Starfield .esp editing is now enabled, with restrictions: an .esp may be loaded as a master for editing but cannot be saved as a master, and the small/medium flags cannot be set on .esps
• Edit modules that are, or use, small or medium masters; setting or removing the small/medium flag within xEdit is intentionally disabled (changing a published master's flag is destructive - export from the Creation Kit instead)
• Support Starfield's larger master limits - up to 252 full, 4095 light, and 254 medium masters in one file
• Master removal/cleaning reworked: the engine requires the full master chain, so adding a master also adds its required up-chain masters, and those are no longer removed during cleaning (other games are unchanged)
• Disallow saving modules that have a blueprint master; blueprints may not be masters to other modules
• Disable creating Update files in Starfield until they are supported

Referenced By tab (contributed by Jonathan Ostrus)

• Added filtering of the Referenced By list, plus alt navigation and Ctrl+A to select all (#829, #851)
• New sorting: click the Record column to sort by the displayed name, click again to sort by the fully-qualified load-order FormID; click the File column to sort by the displayed "[index] name", click again for the raw filename
• Hold Ctrl while clicking a column header to reverse the sort; a chevron in the caption shows the direction
• The caption now shows counts, e.g. "Referenced By (45 / F: 10 / S: 1)" - total / visible after filter / selected
• Show the selected count on the 'Compare Selected' popup-menu entry (#851)

Regular-expression filtering (contributed by robertgk2017 and Jonathan Ostrus)

• Added PerlRegex support for filters
• Regular-expression filtering in the main window and module-selection file filter boxes
• Added a typing delay so the view filter no longer reapplies on every keystroke
• The Enter key now starts filtering from any element on the filter form

Other

• Add invalid-filename character detection (contributed by Jonathan Ostrus)
• New non-template modules now also receive the game master when Always Load Game Master is set (contributed by Jonathan Ostrus)
• Container Item summaries now surface the referenced FormID as a clickable link (e.g. '5x ItemName'); Component summaries likewise in FO4/FO76 (contributed by Jonathan Ostrus)
• Strip a typed plugin extension from new-file input so 'MyMod.esp' no longer becomes 'MyMod.esp.esp' (contributed by Cecell and Jonathan Ostrus)
• Add a game-mode selection dialog instead of forcing the Fallout 4 default (contributed by Jonathan Ostrus)
• Log which masters are removed during Clean Masters (contributed by Jonathan Ostrus)
• Master handling for non-Starfield games: an option to require the full master hierarchy when adding a master, and the EnforceAllMasters CLI argument to apply that enforcement to any game mode (contributed by Jonathan Ostrus)
• Replace TMemo with TRichEdit in three bundled edit-script dialogs (Assets Browser, NIF batch texture replacement, RegEx Workbench), where TMemo is aliased to TSynMemo (contributed by sheson)
• Integrate libdeflate, lz4, and xxHash as Git submodules for archive compression/hashing

Definition Updates

All Games

• CELL \ DATA - Update flags (FO3/FNV/TES5/FO4/FO76/SF1)
• REFR \ XPRM - Make defs consistent across games (FO3/FNV/TES5/FO4/FO76/SF1)
• REFR \ XAPD - Convert Parent Activate Only to Boolean (FNV/TES5/FO4/FO76)
• REGN \ RDAT - Make the last 2 bytes wbUnused(2) (FO3/FNV/TES5/FO4/FO76/SF1)
• File Header \ ONAM - Make dfCollapsed and dfExcludeFromBuildRef (FO3/FNV/TES5/FO4/FO76/SF1)
• DIAL \ INOM/INOA - Make dfCollapsed
• DIAL/DLBR/DLVW - Reachability adjustments and a new error check (TES5/FO4/FO76/SF1)
• SCEN \ VMAD - Sort Phase Fragments, which the CK writes in random order (TES5/FO4/FO76/SF1)
• wbConditions \ IsOwner - Display the Player when the Owner parameter is NULL (confirmed by Ianpatt)
• Preserve a single space in dialogue text
• MESG - Update defs and move shared callbacks to Common
• SOUND \ SDSC - Make Required and disallow NULL, verified against the CK (TES5/FO4/FO76)
• INFO \ ENAM \ Reset Hours - Set float digits to 2 (TES5/FO4/FO76/SF1)
• IDLE \ DATA \ Flags - Rename Parent to Loose, confirmed by Cobb (TES5/FO4/FO76)
• PERK \ Effects \ DATA - Quest Stage is a 2-byte integer (FO3/FNV/TES5)
• QUST \ Aliases - Update Fill Type handling; add error detection for non-optional unfilled aliases and event-started quests missing from the Story Manager (TES5/FO4/FO76/SF1)
• HDPT - Updates (TES5/FO4/FO76/SF1)
• PACK \ PSDT - Fix the schedule enum for form version >= 122 and make the definition consistent across games (contributed by Jonathan Ostrus)

Common

• MODT - 3rd Counter is SRGB Count
• WTHR \ Cloud Textures - Add back missing layers #29-#31 (M0TX/N0TX/O0TX) (contributed by Jonathan Ostrus)
• Refactor LSCR/LNAM into shared Common defs - TES4/FO3/FNV (contributed by sibir)
• wbEnchantment - Add dfStructFirstNotRequired
• wbLandLayers - Switch AfterLoad to ToStr to show the default landscape texture used
• Add TwbDivFDef class
• VMAD - Move shared functions to Common (TES5/FO4/FO76/SF1)
• Move LGDI rank handling to Common defs (contributed by Jonathan Ostrus)
• Convert Common variables to functions (removes the DefineCommon procedure)
• Remove redundant wbPosRot/wbDATAPosRot aliases in favor of wbVec3PosRot
• Move two functions from wbImplementation to wbInterface to break a unit-dependency cycle

TES4

• CSTY \ CSTD - Fix OptionalFrom
• wbConditionVariableNameToInt - Fix exceptions/handling (TES4/FO3/FNV)

FO3/FNV

• Update the FO3 condition function list (contributed by c6)
• EXPL - Add a missing flag and cleanup
• RCCT \ DATA - Convert to Boolean with AfterLoad to hide unused bits (FNV)

TES5

• BOOK - Update data flags AfterSet; BOOK/LIGH handling cleanup
• PERK \ Effects - Alignment fix
• FACT \ DATA - Update flags list
• LIGH \ DATA \ Flags - Add Flag 15 (Linear) for Community Shaders
• REFR \ Water Current Velocities - Add a missing Union name; make water-current defs consistent across TES5/FO4/FO76
• NNAM is not required - setting the Loading Screen NIF to NONE in the CK removes NNAM entirely (TES5/FO4) (contributed by sibir)
• WEAP - Decode the Embedded Weapon flag, node, and Actor Value, previously marked unused (#1491, contributed by GammaMetroid)

FO4

• BNDS \ DNAM - Change default values from Edit to Native (fixes copying as override)
• MESG \ TNAM - Should not be marked required

FO4/FO76

• IMAD \ Depth Of Field - Add a Form Version check for NAM5 and NAM6
• wbOBTSReq - Set Include/Property Count as cpBenign (also OMOD)

FO4/FO76/SF1

• NOCM - Add EDID, SetRequired/DefaultEditValue, and match the corrected FO76 structure
• INNR \ Naming Rules \ Ruleset \ Count - Make cpBenign and dfSkipImplicitEdit

FO76

• Add the new TEPF record type
• Large record/subrecord expansion (contributed by eckserah; also touches Fallout 4 and shared Common defs):
• New records: TRAP and CMPT (Camp Title); the existing PLYR (Player Reference) gained Base and position/rotation fields; plus many newly decoded subrecords
• Rewards (XPCT/CODG), Enlighten (ENLM/ENLT/ENLS), Auto UV (AUUV), Physics Sync (PHST), and DMGT status subrecords
• Additional blend modes, ZTestFunc values, and template flags (shared Common defs); ACBS (FO4 + FO76 NPC_) and LVLI flag updates
• New challenge types, keyword/icon types, and DEST stage handling
• BPVB - Move to the end of the Body Part struct
• CELL VISI and wbAmbientColors fixes; updated QUST info (contributed by eckserah)
• Update Form and HEDR versions; decode a few more unknowns

SF1

• Reflection support organization; recent-DLC sub-records added (some still unknown); Form Version is now 581
• Freelanes updates (contributed by Bobbyclue, robertgk2017, and Jonathan Ostrus): a new condition, a perk entry point and entry function type, BGSAdaptiveTriggerData/BGSQualityUpgrade components, package groups, terminal backgrounds, and a REFR FNAM flag
• New records GWED (Gravity Wielder Effect Data) and TDED (Track Damage Effect Data), with matching MGEF archetypes (Gravity Wielder, Track Damage) linked via Assoc. Item
• SCEN struct fixes; LGDI - define rank/quality tiers and handling (keywords, re-roll/pick and quality-upgrade costs) (contributed by Jonathan Ostrus)
• PERK \ PRUC - Define as Quantum Essence Upgrade Cost (contributed by Jonathan Ostrus and Bobbyclue)
• Decode perk upgrade challenges - small tweaks are supported, but full editing is best done in the Creation Kit (the JSON keys can be confusing) (contributed by Jonathan Ostrus)
• TERM Art Theme - correct terminal-background indices (Terran Armada is now 11) (contributed by robertgk2017 and Jonathan Ostrus)
• Fix Location Alias fill-type name; QUST Reference Alias - add a Match Conditions named struct
• Add the new DLC .esm files to the DLC list
• Add a Geometries root asset folder for Starfield .mesh files

Scripting

• Add wbSelectedFiles and several TStrings/TStringList extension methods (AddPair, Contains, LoadFromFile/SaveToFile, and more) (contributed by fireundubh), and update wbSelectedFilesToFileNames to return file objects and support group nodes (contributed by Jonathan Ostrus)
• Add the ScriptProcessSignatures variable to restrict Process() to a comma-separated signature list, main records only (contributed by Jonathan Ostrus)
• Expose IwbElement.ContainingSubRecord and TwbAsset.AssetTypeByExtension/Folder
• Replace wbNormalizeResourceName with TwbAsset.GetAssetName
• Skip empty Initialize/Process/Finalize functions; sort procedure implementations and registration calls (contributed by fireundubh)
• Refactor the script adapter into interface-specific units with O(1) hash-based host-function dispatch (contributed by fireundubh)
• Add missing declarations and fix argument lists in the scripting API reference (xEditAPI.pas) (contributed by Jonathan Ostrus)
• [Assets Manager] Refactor onto the new TwbAsset class with optimizations; Oblivion book-image handling; Skyrim NPC FaceGen .nif detection now respects template/CharGen flags and the race FaceGen Head flag; don't report RACE .egt files on Skyrim; Papyrus source handling fixes
• [Undelete and Disable References] Move undeleted references to Z = -30000 and set their enable parent to the player ($14) with the opposite-of-parent flag

SNIFF

• Update to version 1.9.2
• Reorganized operations: added Find Textures, Merge Properties, and Transform Information; reworked Havok Search Material; added an operation-list filter; removed several standalone operations (Change Partition Slot, Find Several Strips, Priority of Controlled Blocks, Rename Controlled Blocks, Rename Strings)
• Add support for .BSA/.BA2 archives, and for Xbox textures in Find Textures
• [Universal Fixer] Fix bhkCollisionObject flags; stricter Solver Deactivation for clutter/related collision layers; remove non-standard and control (0..31) characters from texture paths; remove the Set_Local flag when unneeded; fix Accum Root Name on NiControllerSequences
• [Universal Tweaker] Add "Round" and "Mul and Round" options (round, or multiply by a value then round the result)
• [Check For Errors] Expanded checks - collision/MOPP and collision order, multiple-strip geometry, _0/_1.nif morph-model mismatches, vertex-color alpha/HDR, invalid SHADER_NOLIGHTING, invalid Manager/Accum Root Name on NiControllerSequence, and zero ragdoll Cone Max Angle (jittering)
• [Optimize Animations] Support .nif files, not just .kf
• [Update Havok Inertia] Handle Compressed Mesh Chunks that are not tied to a Chunk Transform
• [Update Ragdoll Constraint] Option to convert all constraints to bhkMalleableConstraint
• [Apply Transforms] Skip the root block; remove bad handling of skinned BSTriShapes
• [Unskin Mesh] Ignore BSTriShapes
• [Vertex Color Painting] Add a shape-name filter and skip-color option; fix loop control in Remove mode
• [Copy Geometry Blocks] Optionally copy shader data and texture set
• [Real Time Reflections] Add a Blend Intensity setting
• [Add NiLODNode] Choose between NiRangeLODData and NiScreenLODData
• [Havok Information] Selectable list for additional fields
• Particle-system handling and consistency-flag fixes; bhkCMSDChunk field-name updates
• Move Windows-version detection to MSHeap

BSArch

• Add Xbox texture support: BSArch unpacks Xbox-format textures (shared core); BSArchPro also packs and converts PC textures to Xbox format
• Add a Find Identical Assets function (find duplicate files)
• Account for and show shared-file count and saved space when packing; sort identical files first
• Support packing from multiple sources combined with '+' (including existing .BSA/.BA2 archives), enabling archive merge/override workflows
• Support split archive packing by size (-split:N GB), producing numbered archives when the limit is exceeded
• Add a Filter argument to selectively pack assets by name or extension
• Set Compressed where applicable; fix the compression type per game mode; handle empty and NOR error texture paths in .nifs
• The pack '-z' flag now accepts a compression type (-z:zlib|lz4|lz4f); omitting the type uses the game default
• Fix File/Folder hashing in games pre-Skyrim
• Return a non-zero exit code on error; fix a false DDS warning (BSArchPro)
• Fix luminance DDS texture-format detection

Just wanted to shout out Checker90 for this mod. Been using it a while now and when I started my last run I forgot to add it back. Quickly noticed it missing!

It gives you slowmo while changing your ship power allocation. Very simple, but can be both cinematic and essential if you like to play lasers, ballistics and EM.

Hey all!

I was checking pointer handles allocated by my load order and wanted a quick summary, as the dump file is massive.

This script is intended for processing the extended dump that Starfield Engine Fixes can provide. This processes a dump generated with these SEF options.

bDumpPointerHandlesConsoleFunction=1
bDumpPointerHandlesExtendedPluginInfo=1

After you generate your dump from the console (dph command), then you can run this powershell script on the dump file

param(
    [string]$InputFile,
    [string]$CsvOutputFile = "reference-counts.csv"
)

$plugin = $null
$rows = @()

Get-Content $InputFile | ForEach-Object {
    $line = $_

    # Extract total Reference Handle Count
    if ($line -match 'Reference Handle Count:\s*(\d+)') {
        $rows += [PSCustomObject]@{
            PluginName         = "TOTAL COUNT"
            TotalCount         = [int]$matches[1]
            EditorDefinedCount = $null
            PersistentCount    = $null
        }
    }

    # Track current plugin
    if ($line -match '-> Exporting:\s*(.+)$') {
        $plugin = $matches[1].Trim()
    }

    # Extract plugin-specific counts
    if ($line -match '-> Number of loaded References originate from the plugin:\s*(\d+)\s*\(of which\s*(\d+)\s*are editor defined;\s*(\d+)\s*are persistent\)') {
        if ($plugin) {
            $rows += [PSCustomObject]@{
                PluginName         = $plugin
                TotalCount         = [int]$matches[1]
                EditorDefinedCount = [int]$matches[2]
                PersistentCount    = [int]$matches[3]
            }
        }
    }
}

$rows | Export-Csv $CsvOutputFile -NoTypeInformation

Usage:

.\ProcessExtendedDumpScript.ps1 DumpFile.txt

Running this script may require you to temporarily change your PS execution policy.

* IMPORTANT: You should never run scripts from strangers on the internet without verifying the safety of the script, especially if your OS blocks execution by default.

* Research and learn, ask your IT friend or your AI to help you verify safety of the script, and how to bypass your policy if necessary.

If you run the script, the results will look like this: (excerpt)

"PluginName","TotalCount","EditorDefinedCount","PersistentCount"
"TOTAL COUNT","1624278",,
"Starfield.esm","679636","514984","54721"
"ShatteredSpace.esm","100154","95257","9168"
"SFBGS00D.esm","66453","61871","3938"

Which is easy to read, but you can then open in Excel and make it as fancy as you want, or have your AI make it pretty for you.

Notes:

* My understanding is it is best to dump from Starfields main menu before loading any save, that way you are looking at all loaded ESMs total allocated reference handles without being confused by temp handles allocated when loading into a location
* For comparison, then also go dump at New Atlantis in a new vanilla save as that should likely be the location in the game with highest temporary handles and you want to see what that spike will be on top of your LO, especially if you have mods that add to NA. I think its going to be around 200k in vanilla.
* Don't ask me to help you interpret your counts, I was just trying to make the output readable, I'm still not sure I completely understand the difference between the total count, editor defined and persistent.

TL;DR: If you are on PC, running Starfield Engine Fixes with bEngineLoadOptimizer=1 solves some types of stutter.

I was having a very slight stutter in framerate every few seconds (accompanied by very mild color shift sometimes) while on land, at certain POIs, planets and usually while near my home ship. This happened with some ships and not others.

I remembered that I had this early on in vanilla and I believed it had went away after starting to use Starfield Engine Fixes based on recommendations from others. Due to the base game update the other day I had disabled Starfield Engine Fixes temporarily, but saw the mod was updated today. Decided to throw it back in!

I installed SEF again and set:

bEngineLoadOptimizer=1

Deployed the mod, and all was good again! No stutter, smooth sailing.

Sharing in the hopes this helps some others who are searching for a solution to stutter.

Hey all! Trying my hand at video tutorials. This is my first one, just got setup with my tooling so I'll have to refine as I go along.

This tutorial shows you how to quickly edit layered material swaps on statics and packins when editing in the render window, using some handy hotkeys!

Basically, change the color and texture of objects quickly when they have prebuilt options to do so.

Most of my tutorials will be on CK basics, and then some specifics around POIs and dungeon setup.