StarSim: Mining Conglomerate Trailer

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What is Mining Conglomerate?
Mining Conglomerate is the first module for StarSim, providing a taste of our continued work on complementing Starfield with an immersive space simulation. The simulation system handles anything this Creation covers - including asteroids, ships, and stations. We have also included a new docking interface system on stations that allows the player to interact with a brand-new terminal interface rather than requiring boarding. Almost all functions are handled within this interface to save time, including communication with NPCs, mission boards with unique jobs, and various other features related to the Creation.
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[@quarteronion]

Please join our Discord to discuss StarSim and to ask questions for this Creation at discord.gg/quarteronion.

[@gianniwilliams8811]

I love the idea that people are gonna mod the regular jobs into Starfield. Seriously there’s nothing I want more than to be a delivery guy and have in depth dialogue and trips I have to make for multiple companies

[@XylaFox]

That's basically part of the main goal of StarSim; simulating how an economy would work in space. Long term the player would be able to pick any job that they'd be interested in and go do it.

[@DJDrLandWhaleOfficial]

"Pizza delivery for... I.C. Weiner?"

[@CrazyFrog94x]

😆​@@DJDrLandWhaleOfficial

[@0grifman1]

Y’all should have a mining war between Argos and Deimos that the player has to resolve in some way.

[@Vaernus]

Hmm....is someone leaking our story documents???? Though not with Deimos...

[@0grifman1]

@@Vaernus this mod is sounding better and better!

[@yertnert2624]

@@0grifman1 Paid mod*

[@0grifman1]

@@yertnert2624 duh, yes, I know that, your point?

[@yertnert2624]

@@0grifman1 that’s literally the whole point 💀

[@DirtyNerd86]

I'm excited for this because its a project that can be used to avoid the main story for a time. Theoretically, one could play this particular module until they have enough credit income to support some of the end game build requirements. Hell, I'm all for it because it expands on what The Starfield can be for people.

[@quarteronion]

Thank you! It will also improve over time with no additional cost.

[@georgesikorski9891]

Saw this on the store page today. Can't wait to see more mods in this series, this is dope!

[@Vaernus]

We're hard at work to get all the remaining mining features in over these next few months, and start working on the rest of the StarSim series.

[@ExtremeHardcoreGamer]

​@@VaernusI love you

[@thewatcher3561]

This is what I love about the modding community, they take an idea and just do it. This looks really well done and sure I'm going to get this mod when I'm on Starfield again over the weekend. I hope this "Star-Sim" is something thats going to be expanded upon; Passenger routes between large settlements, deliveries to LIST outposts, etc, etc ,etc. The possibilities are endless in the Starfield sandbox. 😀

[@Vaernus]

This is merely the beginning for Mining Conglomerate, and StarSim overall. We've intentionally segmented the various parts of StarSim so that we can get feedback early from the community on what is fun and makes sense. Is asteroid mining from the player's perspective fun and interesting? Do the missions make sense? As we add additional features for orbital stations, asteroid dungeons, etc., do they work for everyone? We are approaching everything as early access. If the current version's features meet what folks like, we layer on. When we get confirmation it all works, Mining Conglomerate is complete and we move on to the next feature. In the end, the combination of all these modules will activate the entire StarSim simulation.

[@thewatcher3561]

@@Vaernus Sounds good Thanks 😃

[@0grifman1]

This looks pretty cool. With a lot of content. Definitely interested in this one,

[@quarteronion]

Thank you!

[@0grifman1]

@@quarteronion if there are going to be further updates, how will those that buy it find out?

[@XylaFox]

@@0grifman1There will be patch notes in the discord, I’m unsure on what the game tells you but our discord server will have updates posted.

[@XylaFox]

@@0grifman1 Our Discord will have updates and patch notes posted, I'm unsure how that stuff works in game but it would be the same as other Creations.

[@Vaernus]

@@0grifman1 Discord will probably be the best place to go to as we are developing new content. We'll have developer streams and updates on future modules.

[@GoalOrientedLifting]

Finally space stations!

[@Vaernus]

Yup! And more to come as we build this out more.

[@User-rp2zw]

Nicely done (: thanks for sharing!

[@quarteronion]

Thank you!

[@McStar1997]

Need more stuff like this, Keep it up!

[@quarteronion]

Thank you!

[@McStar1997]

​@quarteronion How many missions do you need to complete to be offered management of a station? Also is Xbox and PC have the same level of features? I've currently done roughly 20 missions, but really want to try the management feature.

[@XylaFox]

@@McStar1997 25 missions is the requirement, so you're almost there!

[@invaderjoshua6280]

Honestly the only thing in the creation club that seems like its worth the money and fairly priced for what it is. I still cant believe Bethesda let someone modify the files for the jetpack and charge for it. The amount of people and time this clearly takes though I think its fair to pay you guys though if anyone is getting payed. I mean this obviously is approaching a true expansion with the new features, textures, models, and scripts. I personally feel if people want to charge for mods they should have to be on this level. Charging for a few textures/models/new items or a stat change on an existing item is insane. They should all have to include quests, new items, new textures, new models, new scripts, like this. Still wish it was free though as a paywall towards any part of community is toxic and I think will destroy it long term as people are greedy and will of course gravitate to easy cash. But if they are going to let people charge the mods should all have to be on this level.

[@Vaernus]

As our studio's financial situation stabilizes over time, I can very easily see situations where we can create larger scale content without charging anything (or charging less than the equivalent of $5 as we are now). Our goals though are to build full scale DLC content and that is expensive, especially for localization and voice acting. I can fully understand folks having resistance to paid content outside Bethesda, but this is opening up indie studios like ourselves to build DLC which will long term provide everyone with a lot more content to choose from.

[@emrebayram1778]

thanks for your efforts. will look this mod.

[@quarteronion]

Thank you!

[@PedroGomes-cx7ku]

I'll support this one for sure. Congrats!

[@louisbrown3793]

Already downloaded it excited to try :D

[@THEANSWER28]

You guys did this very good job 👏 🙌

[@sugar_beard]

Great mod, wish more interactions outside of boards

[@XylaFox]

There will be more features coming in the near future!

[@ginogarcia8730]

saw this on the new trailers or reviews of creation kit, the name sounds so good, i don't even own the game, but sounds like a great mod! I hope for all the success

[@quarteronion]

Thank you!

[@beezarkdrawings7414]

hope I can run this on my ongoing play through

[@Vaernus]

Unfortunately, there are issues in the game with trying to load new space cells in an existing save. It has seemed like some folks are able to load StarSim on an existing save, and some are having major issues. We have no way to resolve that issue as its an engine limitation currently until a bug fix is added to Starfield. It completely works on new game or NG+, and that is all we can recommend currently.

[@beezarkdrawings7414]

@@Vaernus thanks for the heads up. I appreciate it!

[@ekaetone7431]

You already have support, but I will wait for an achievement friendly for my main playthrough.

[@como.faz.tutoriais]

This is awesome, I'm definitively going to get it! One question, are there voiced dialogues in NPC interactions?

[@XylaFox]

Right now no, but it's a planned feature to add in the next few months.

[@THEANSWER28]

My guy I love this

[@Mr.Grumps565]

Games like this need the open availability to go do these jobs and then go explore after sounds dumb but people enjoy it

[@Vaernus]

Agreed! And as we build out the rest of the Mining Conglomerate roadmap, it will cater to all play styles. You can already mine if you want something simple and straightforward (and was requested quite a bit for folks from Eve Online), fight Spacers in whatever difficulty aligns to your ship combat tastes (and wait to see when our first patch gets approved how much fun the Protect Station Hard missions are now), and generate credits and levels. With the rest of the roadmap, you'll have new places to explore, new equipment, and a voiced storyline to work through.

[@imgnku]

Pretty cool! will probs throw my premium currency towards this

[@shutupkittyxD]

So I have an issue. When going to Argos HQ I can dock but I can't select anything nothing is working the only button prompt I can use is B to exit the HQ interface. Meaning I can't get any Jobs. Anyone know what the issue is?

[@Vaernus]

Is this on PC or Xbox? And was this a new game, or did you load Mining Conglomerate on an existing save? Currently the engine is unstable when loading any Creations that add any new planet-based point of interest or a space cell (as we do). There's nothing we can do to resolve that issue until the bug is fixed in the game.

[@palpaladin315]

If you can get BGS to enable Asteroid mining outposts, and tie it in with the outpost barter system. This will be big! - definitely sjould do it if / before multiplayer is in. Will also give you your achievement tag. Am watching this, genuinely, and rooting for ya. 👍

[@folencrowscrotch6165]

Looks great, keep up the good work!

[@quarteronion]

Thank you!

[@MizterMoonshine]

I'm really interested in this mod but the trailer doesn't really tell us anything about it. What does it do exactly?

[@XylaFox]

You can do missions related to mining or protecting mining stations/ships, and after enough missions you get promoted and can manage a station.

[@ShevaiAsan]

Yeah, the two trailers are rather lackluster. I was expecting more explanation and actually showing more of what the mod does; not randomly flying around shooting asteroids and quickly going through menus. Gonna have to check youtube reviewers or something to really see what the mod offers other than reading it's description.

[@THEANSWER28]

🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

[@jimg1787]

Nice.

[@qwertyvypez]

Does this include mining missions on planet surfaces?

[@Vaernus]

It has been discussed, but we're trying to limit this to space only to limit compatibility issues for other authors/teams with planet-based content. The more we touch, the more it clashes with something else. What it does do, once we have orbital support stations added in the next monthly update, is provide an interface for surface-based projects to hook into StarSim's space economy. I.E. outposts you build hook in. Simulated businesses on planets hook in. Vendors at permanent locations (like New Atlantis) hook in. Anyone building content for the planet can interface with this as well.

[@DirtyNerd86]

Does this Mod disable or allow for achievements? There are still a few I'd like to try to get but id also like to try this Mod.

[@Vaernus]

For the moment, it disables achievements as there was a last minute issue with the achievement friendly flag. All StarSim modules are achievement and lore friendly, so as soon as we get the greenlight from Bethesda, we will be turning the flag back on. There's currently no ETA though for when we're allowed to do so.

[@Starfield-Guy]

It tells you on the mod page, if it’s not a BGS mod or an approved creator it won’t be achievement friendly

[@rodneybray5827]

I just want to see someone playing the mod. The produced trailer is neat but like all such things, it just leaves questions unanswered.

[@Vaernus]

We're in the process of building a developer commentary video which will go in-depth into where the build is now, and what we're currently working on for the current monthly sprint. We should be able to get this out soon (just pinged our lead artist on progress). We are also going to start getting some of the team streaming on our Twitch channel as we build out more content for Mining Conglomerate in the near future. Especially as we create the orbital support station orbiting Jemison.

[@Falsechicken]

How are people making creations without the creation kit? I know we have hacked together PC mods but how are you making Creation Club stuff?

[@XylaFox]

The Creation Kit is available on Steam.

[@WEET_]

This looks solid

[@Vaernus]

We hope you enjoy it! And let us know what you'd want to see added or changed.

[@imsober69]

Does this disable achievements

[@quarteronion]

Currently yes, though this will be achievement friendly. That may change in the future when we're able to update it with the achievement friendly flag. No ETA though.

[@imsober69]

@@quarteronion Thank you. It still sounds and looks great I'm going to get it anyway thank you for your hard work I can't wait for the rest of the sim series.

[@funkytowel360]

​@quarteronion will wait then. Really excited for more things to do with your ship, the space battles are my favorite part of starfeild.however I worked hard to get close to the achievements and don't want to lose all that work.

[@lazyprojector7890]

Is that a Bethesda thing? Such that even though the mod itself doesn't impact mechanics in such a way that it's technically a 'cheat,' it's not a Bethesda-made mod and therefore not eligible to be achievement-friendly?

[@SolidHound871]

OMG...my dream

[@danielmartinbenitopalomo7236]

All mods in Creations are free or you have to pay like Creation club in skyrim?

[@isee3665]

It's up to the modder.

[@XylaFox]

This is paid, but updates and added features will be no extra cost.

[@0grifman1]

Some are free, some are paid.

[@migueleterusete-lt8pf]

I am very interested in this mod, I want to know if it is only in English, I speak Spanish, I am very bad at English. translated by Google.

[@Vaernus]

It is currently only English, but we will be looking to translate to as many languages as possible as the funding allows.

[@Alex-ty2hl]

Still a little confused on what this is?

[@starbez]

its a mod in works created using creation engine

[@XylaFox]

A ‘Creation’ that you can add to your game in Starfield, similar to a mod but is verified and can be accessed in game.

[@THEANSWER28]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Just-Ignore-It_88]

Content that I can get for free on PC.

[@0grifman1]

There is no mod like this on the PC.

[@Snillomator]

@@0grifman1 If you mean that as if this isn't on PC too, you're wrong it is also on PC. If you mean as in free mod, not yet but give it time and there definitely will be loads. These mods have been made in advance for the launch of creations.

[@0grifman1]

@@Snillomator he said that he could get it further free on the PC. That is false - as I stated previously there is no mod that does what this mod does on the PC. It should be pretty clear what I meant. And the fact there will be lots of mods as you say is irrelevant as to whether THIS mod will be free on the PC. You are changing the subject if you start talking about other mods.

[@Snillomator]

@@0grifman1 Not really. Just because he said he can get this content free on the PC does not necessarily mean straight away. It may not be this EXACT mod. But there will definitely be more, some most likely even better that covers all the type of content they hope to include in this mod. Completely free too.

[@bryantbarnhart3631]

Just allow me to automate shipments of my already existing outpost materials so I dont have to haul 80k adaptive frames to Jemison.

[@dnwarrior199]

spent 300h+ on the vanilla game after launch(noob numbers, ik). day to reinstall is getting real close with the release of creation mods, new updates and all.

[@TheSteelMagnum]

I hope you'll update it to add more personality to the mod in the future. I like the idea.. but just docking into the station and being hit with a terminal screen for more radiant quests is a bit disappointing.

[@XylaFox]

Features like voiced NPC's and interior stations will be added in the next few months.

[@Detac3]

Can't wait til someone makes a free version of all these stupid paid mods

[@Vaernus]

We're all ears on how to pay professional developers without money. Those pesky bills and all. Only real option is to get funding, but whomever we get that from would expect it to be paid back at some point so that doesn't solve anything. If there's some other way we can build free content and compensate the team, we would gladly do it. We will build free content in parallel but when we're able to comfortably pay the team and it won't impede the studio's stability.

[@NOLA_playmaker]

Literally told us nothing 😂

[@TheRobbie1991]

I prefer the original asteroid game 😅

[@Vaernus]

You mean the one on Atari? We really should find a way to bring holotapes back, and have Argos provide you a version of Asteroids to play.

[@justinchauvin8167]

I’m on series s and this creation doesn’t work great. More than quadrupled loading times for every loading screen and the game kept crashing. Had to uninstall it. Waste of 500 creation credits.

[@ashla_bogan]

I can’t wait for someone to inevitably build a Star Wars mod for this creation!

[@rootbowy825]

Shame this ain’t vanilla

[@brettkeane]

A ship blowing up rocks...exciting.

[@quarteronion]

Vaernus: I'm more blowing up other ships personally. Pretty much only do the protect missions, but quite a few folks really enjoy asteroid mining and requested it as our first module.

[@brettkeane]

@@quarteronion I think you should do an in depth video of this mods purpose.

[@quarteronion]

@@brettkeane Definitely on the agenda. Going to work with V to do a playthrough with commentary breaking down what you can do in MC currently.

[@caiooca5793]

@@quarteronion Amazing work guys. Congrats. Making in-depth videos is always great too, helps a lot of people get into it.

[@okinawagaijin9344]

@@quarteronion I have absolutely no idea what is and isn't possible within the creation kit because there are still engine limitations and whatnot, I assume. But for a mod focused on mining, it would be really cool if you could create a system like they came up with in Elite Dangerous. They added core mining to the game in an update some day to give players more interaction compared to basic laser mining (aim and shoot). High chance you already know what I'm talking about, but if you don't, here's a quick rundown: First you have to use a pulse wave scanner to find fissures on an asteroid, then plant seismic charges in these locations with varying detonation strength to crack it open. A timer runs out, the charges detonate, and the asteroid splits open (in a premade animation I presume, but it still looks cool every time). This is just me talking though. No matter what the mod does in the end, it sounds promising already. Something with a bit more scope. The only reason i'm not jumping in right now is because I still have other mods that rely on SFSE, which needs to be updated for now (or the mods themselves, so they don't rely on SFSE anymore, whichever comes first)

[@lavozlavozlavoz]

Trop de bugs avec les mods sur xbox, seul les mods officieux de Bethesda fonctionnent correctement!

[@StonedAF101]

5$ HAHA shove it where the sun don't shine! If you want to charge for a mod, I'm just not going to use that mod. quite simple.

[@Vaernus]

That's fine. We hope you change your mind in the future and give the StarSim series a shot. As a game studio, we're looking to build DLC content, and with a team that we need to pay, that's unfortunately just not something we can do for free.

[@Dark__Thoughts]

Nope nope nope. Fuck the whole Creation Club shit.

[@XylaFox]

That doesn't sound very sanitary.

[@LunaMoon0]

You dont have prove your worth sry.

[@parkranga]

oh yay more paid mods

[@yertnert2624]

Creation Club is a joke

[@nepoliansumal3547]

Cry

[@yertnert2624]

@@nepoliansumal3547 get out that wallet and gargle that daddy meat you love paid mods dont ya