*FYI I am on an Xbox Series X

This is an updated version of my load order from last month, which was overly ambitious and bloated - find it here.

This is what I am running on a fresh playthrough, been testing it the past 3 weeks and no major issues that I have run into. Some framerate drops to be expected in heavier areas, and I have experienced only a couple of crashes that were not recurring.

Want to share this as an update for those looking for LO guidance, inspiration, or curious for an update.

Feel free to ask any questions or ask for any help (if I can I will try).

Added a few mods this week marked as [New] which I have not had the time to tell you they are tested, but I think all should be fine. Only one I am going to really monitor is the Exit To Landing Bay mod.

I am also debating adding in the StarLuminous series and Remove Color Filter, neither should be an issue to add to this load order - I just played with them before and giving Vanilla a chance.

Current target load order

1. Foundations

Non-Lethal Framework

2. Quest-start / Autostart / Progression Gates

Take Your Time - Quests Don’t Autostart
Take Your Time - Shattered Space
Take Your Time - Terran Armada Patch

3. New quests / faction content / handcrafted locations

Main quest / faction / handcrafted content

Trackers Alliance: The Complete Bounty Series
Cryomancers - A New Faction
McClarence Outfitters: Legendary Customization
At Hell’s Gate
Take Your Time - At Hells Gate Patch
Escape
The Perfect Recipe
Defying Fire: Welcome To Arinya
Everbright
Farseer
Beyond the Veil
Continuum
Crater 87
Last Flight of the Montero
Venera
Lost Colonies - Tirawa
Lost Colonies - Vesta
The Prax Dilemma
Codos Crater
Redgrave
VIGILANCE
Watchtower: Orbital Strike / Fleet Command
Not Yet Watchtower

Quest-state / reward / fix layer

Shattered Space - Better Rewards and Consequence
Flashy(JoeR) - These Are The Voyages [NEW / REPLACES ECS Constant fix]

4. New worldspaces / standalone locations

None currently live

5. POI / dungeon / encounter injectors

Static / handcrafted POI additions

Batten’s Shipwrecks (POIs)
Forgotten Frontiers - POI Expansion
Forgotten Frontiers 2 - POI Expansion
Lost Light
Old Secrets

POI / world logic and vanilla-location edits

Desolation - POI Overhaul
Immersive Starborn Temples
Life of Crime - Crimson Market

Dungeon / POI behavior layer

Bedlam - Dungeon Randomizer

Variant / repetition control

POI Variations - No More Duplicates
POI Cooldown - Fewer repeated POIs
POI Cooldown - Patch for POI Variations

Unmarked exploration / planetary discovery layer

Tiny Reasons to Explore
Tiny Reasons to Explore.. Too!

6. Multi-location systems / travel foundations

NPC Routines Expanded + Robot Vendors
NPC Routines Expanded - Dazra Standalone
UC Vanguard - Expanded Presence
Settled Systems Shuttle Service
Subtle Starport Visuals

7. Neon / Volii / Astral

Neon - Distant platforms
NEON VEINS
The Dark Side of Neon - An Ebbside Overhaul
Astral Lounge - NEON’S WILDEST NIGHT
Nightlife VS Corpo Life - Astral Lounge and Trade Tower [MONITOR]
Restored Aurora Animation
Astral Genders - All Females

8. UC / New Atlantis / station cluster

Positively New Atlantis
UC Distribution Center - On Duty (Compatibility Version)
Civilian Survival Suit [special placement: directly above Outland]
Outland - Frontier Ready [must load below Civilian Survival Suit]
Livelier Lodge Indoor Garden
NAT Station Lake Windows

9. Other settlements / hub overhauls / travel hubs

Gagarin - New Dawn
Settled Systems Shuttle Service PATCH - Gagarin New Dawn
Hopetown - New Dawn
New Homestead - New Dawn
Nova Galactic Store
Akila Outskirts Expanded
Akila Windmills
Red Mile Expanded
Dazra Uncut 2.1

10. Housing

None currently live

11. Environment / weather / sky / biome / space

Weather / atmosphere foundation

Complete Weather Overhaul
Complete Weather Overhaul - Shattered Space
Whiitake Real Atmosphere - AIO Bundle
Slightly Darker Nights

Surface biomes / fauna / local environment

Vanilla Biomes Enhanced - A GRiNDTerra Mod
Random Creature Sizes - A GRiNDTerra Mini Mod
Concept Art Akila

Space / sky / astronomy

Darker Space
Realistic Sun Disk Size
Mirrored Starfield Fixed
Immersive Star Colours
Increased Asteroid Field Density

12. Gameplay systems

Character creation / backgrounds / traits

Meaningful Backgrounds Plus
Origins - Trait Overhaul

Core gameplay rebalance

[Dropped Deadly Effective, Suit Up RE, and Balanced Ballistics in preparation for Manticore Tactical Overhaul release in the near future, which replaces all three]
GRiNDTerra Hardcore Combat [REPLACES Free Version and adds HUD + Sandbox Features]

World / progression / AI / faction behavior

Dynamic Universe
Dynamic Universe Shattered Space Patch
Dynamic Universe Terran Armada Patch
Immersive AI Overhaul
Immersive AI Overhaul Shattered Space Compatibility
Immersive AI Overhaul Watchtower Compatibility
Terrifying Terrormorphs
Neutral Prey ALL DLC - A GRiNDTerra Small Gameplay Tweak [NEW / REPLACES old Neutral Prey]
Starfield Crime Overhaul
Crimson Fleet are NOT Lawful
Trackers Alliance - Fight Or Flight

13. Survival / travel / environmental systems

Peak Performance - Minimalist Needs
Real Fuel - Immersive Exploration
Excursion - Zero Atmosphere Survival
Extremophile - Environmental Gameplay

14. Gameplay tweaks / quality of life

Core interaction / utility

Simple Immersive Looting
Lower your weapon
Sit (And Wait) Anywhere
Crowd Gun Fear, No Companion/Crew Friendly Fire, and Companion Immune to your Attacks
Skeleton Key - Simple Auto Hack
Smart Heal
Player Speed Revised
Uniforms

Inventory / automation

Smart Inventory
Smart Inventory - Shattered Space Patch
Smart Inventory - Terran Armada Patch
Smart Inventory - Trackers Alliance Patch

15. Ship gameplay / space encounters / piracy / boarding / collision

Add Spaceship in your fleet
ModularSeries - Fleet Size Increase
Captains Matter
Plunder - Improved Piracy
Heatleech Infestations
Spaceship Self-Destruct
Better Boarding Encounters
Brave Crew
Deadly Debris Fields - Hard Version
Deadly Ship Ramming - Hardcore Version

16. Combat / weapon behavior

See Through the Scopes (STTS)
See Through the Scopes (STTS) - Shattered Space [NEW]
See Through the Scopes (STTS) - Terran Armada [NEW]
Precision Laser

17. Economy / vendors / loot / services

Economy / extraction / rewards

The Space Economy
Mining Conglomerate
More Lore Accurate Bounties
Better Survey Rewards
Legendary Aspiration Weapons - Base Game

Loot / contraband / distribution

ISC - Immersive Starfield Contraband
Explorer’s Sun & Planet Globe Collection
Capital Planet Desktop Globes
Varuun DLC items in base game

Book / archive distribution

Constellation Archives: The Ultimate 3D Book Overhaul

Vendors / kiosks / shopping

Vendors Sell Faction Gear - VSFG
Useful Vending Machines
TerraBrew+
Shopping List
Droppable Credits
Faction Requisition Kiosks

Ship service economy

Mordrid’s Cheap Register Ship - Less Cheaty
Variable Ship Repair Cost

18. Companions / followers / crew

Follower / crew frameworks and utilities

The Gang’s All Here
The Gang’s All Here - Shattered Space
The Gang’s All Here - Terran Armada
Make Rosie A Real Doctor
Companion Shared Carry Capacity
No Chameleon Effect For Companions
Keep Generic Crew Members Around

Companion appearances / additions

Alternate Vasco
Andreja’s Walk
Robin Locke - UC Fly Girl Companion
Lyria - A Starfield Companion
The New Crew
Starfield: Now with Competent Companions

19. Character / NPC appearance / outfit replacers

Crowd / civilian base

Starfield Crowd Overhaul
Starfield Crowd Faces (Addon)
RTM’s Apparel Variety Expanded
RTM’s Fashionable Suits Redone

Named NPC / faction / quest outfit replacers

Prisoner clothes for Mir’za
Sahima and Tane Default Spacesuit Replacer
Groundpounders Uniform Fix
RTM’s Naeva’s Outfit Redone
Sanctum Universum Overhaul
Starfield Spacer Overhaul
Ecliptic Mercenary (Replacer)
Starfield Disciples Overhaul
Paradiso Security Armor
UC Military Overhaul: All-In-One
Starfield NPC LEDs

Late NPC / faction record fixes

Walter Stroud Faction Fix

20. Armor / weapon additions / gear mods

KZ / gear packs

KZ Meridian Transit Regalia
KZ Tachyonic Core Arsenal
KZ Techno-Corporate Repository
KZ Venatorial Frontiers Armory
KZ United Colonies Depository
KZ Mantis 2.0

Standalone gear / apparel / utility

CoreTech Spacesuit
Tactical Security Spacesuit [NEW]
RTM’s Mark II Spacesuit
Water-Cooled Miners’ Outfit
Creature Plushie Set
Starborn Gravis Suit
Golden Multiversal Hunter - Gravis suit Retexture
Deployable Chemlights
Railgun Bundle
Firework Grenade
A Staple Addition

Late distribution / injection

Creation Loot - All-in-One

21. Skin pack lane

None currently live

22. Texture / visual / object replacers

Global mesh / model fixes

Galactic Mesh Fixes
Rug Seam Fix

Ship / cockpit / engine visual tweaks

RTM’s Yellow Jump Seat Exposure Packs
RTM - Engine Trail Fix

Character / face textures

Iris - Photorealistic Eyes Overhaul (Formerly Retina)

Combat VFX / impact effects

Better Weapon Impact Visual Effect
HPE Better Grenades and Mines Visual Effect
Better Explosive Container Effect
Better Actor Get Burned Fire

Item / document / local visual upgrades

Expanded Dossier (Standard)
Ryujin Dataslate (Dark Mode Glowing Screen)
Dataslate Dark
Precious Metal Credsticks
RTM’s Safes Redone
Water Visual Improvement
HPE Better NA Waterfall
Better LilyPads
Milkdrinker’s New Atlantis Mesa Trees Reborn

23. Audio

Atmospheric Audio

24. Lighting

SOL - Sensible Outpost Lighting
SETI - Ship Exterior True Illumination

25. UI / HUD / camera / photomode

Utility / menu tools

Proper Companion Previews
Configurable Spacesuit Auto-Hide
Chronomark+

StarUI independent modules, non-HUD only

StarUI Inventory
StarUI Ship Builder
StarUI Workbench
StarUI Outpost

Filter / color controls

Global Filter

HUD / camera / visibility

GRiNDTerra SPACEHUD - A Hardcore Spaceship HUD UI
Vanilla Flashlight Improved (VFI)
First Person Running with Hands

Map / marker helpers

Remove Overlapping Markers For Cities

26. Outpost systems / buildables / décor / craftables

Outpost Mission Boards Enhanced
Auto-Equip Spacesuit Mannequin
Around The World Flags
Hjalmere’s Aquariums [NEW]
Strap It Down

27. Vehicle / mobility additions

Deimog
Roverhaul - Simple Vehicle Fuel and Management
All Vehicles Have Storage
Shape Casting BGS Vehicles AIO

28. Ship-local frameworks / ship building / habs

Ship interior gameplay / crew utility

Red Dog’s Crew Station Overhaul
Integrated Ship Optimization Terminal
Bunk Assignment Clipboards
Bunk Assignment Clipboards - Shattered Space Add-On Patch
Useful Mess Halls
Useful Mess Halls - Expanded Patch
Useful Infirmaries
Useful Brigs
Useful Generator Habs
Useful Morgues
Vault Habs
Immersive Cargo Halls

Ship builder / framework / vanilla ship edits

Place Doors Yourself
Terran Armada - PDY patch
Ship Builder Categories
TN’s Space Mining and Salvage
TN’s Space Mining - Starsim: Mining Conglomerate Patch
Landing Bay Cargo Access
Immersive Landing Ramps
Exit To Landing Bay [NEW / UNTESTED]

Ship part / manufacturer additions

ASC Deimos
Lambent: Street Rat Ship Services
Useful Brigs x Lambent Patch

29. SVF ship block

Ship Vendor Framework (SVF)
SVF Capability Patch - Watchtower
SVF Expansion Patch - Shattered Space
ASC Deimos Ships
Community Spaceship Expansion - Lite Version
Community Spaceship Expansion - Lite Version - Buyable Ships
WH Nautilus

30. Late-loading quest / station exceptions

The Veil

31. Load-last / final authority

Gravity is Real - Interior Gravity Matches Exterior
Real Lights Starfield
Rabbit’s Real Lights Dazra
Rabbit’s Real Lights Asteroid Mansion
The Final Patch
Northern Lights - Aurora Borealis [physical-bottom Xbox exception]

Not currently included / parked or undecided

Motel Akila - A Unique POI — still debating
Euphorika - Underworld — planned only when available on Creations
StarLuminous series — not currently live
ECS Constant is missing (fix) — replaced by Flashy(JoeR) - These Are The Voyages

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