Summary

  • Starfield players can now experience space battles like never before with a mod that turns every ship into Thomas the Tank Engine.
  • The mod replaces every reactor model from Starfield with Thomas, guaranteeing that any enemy vessel will look like the famous locomotive.
  • Despite being the lowest-rated Bethesda title on Steam, Starfield's growing modding community, like the "Really Useful Starfield" mod, will continue to improve the game and deliver a better experience in the future.

It's not a Bethesda title if it doesn't have a Thomas the Tank Engine mod, and Starfield just got its own bizarre version that turns every ship in the game into the infamous locomotive from The Railway Series. The ship builder in Starfield has enthralled players since launch, as the community painstakingly replicated iconic designs from other sci-fi franchises such as Star Trek, Star Wars, Mass Effect, and more. Starfield players have also dabbled with original concepts, sharing the completed ship builds all across social media.

In this vast sea of starship designs, a few unorthodox or bizarre vessels began cropping up – from gun-shaped gunships in Starfield to sailing boats and locomotives. And though players attempted to recreate Thomas the Tank Engine with the base game's ship parts, the project was too ambitious to tackle without the use of mods.

However, thanks to the efforts of Trainwiz, the person responsible for designing Skyrim's Thomas the Tank Engine mod, players can now experience space battles in Starfield like never before. All ships, including the player ship, become Thomas the Tank Engine for anyone who installs the mod. Given that Starfield's official modding tools will only be released in early 2024, this accomplishment was made by replacing every reactor model from Starfield with Thomas. As such, the mod has some important caveats for players to consider.

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Namely, Starfield players are encouraged to design a fully-functioning ship that clips inside the locomotive model, and if they build outside those parameters, the parts will be poking out. While crude, this solution guarantees that any enemy vessel in Starfield will look like Thomas the Tank Engine, paralleling Trainwiz's Skyrim version which replaced the game's dragons instead. The mod that adds Thomas the Tank Engine is available on Starfield Nexus, as its library of modded content continues to grow.

While Starfield has shattered several player milestones, it is also currently the lowest-rated Bethesda title on Steam. The addictive sandbox experience that Bethesda's games are famous for certainly exists in the Settled Systems, but many players have expressed their disappointment over the disjointed feel of Starfield, as the game relies too much on procedurally generated content instead of the handcrafted journey of discovery that have come to define Skyrim and its predecessors. Thankfully, as shown by the "Really Useful Starfield" mod that adds Thomas the Tank Engine, the game's burgeoning modding community will continue to improve upon Starfield, and hopefully, deliver an overall better experience in a year from now.

Starfield is available on PC and Xbox Series X/S.

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Source: Nexus Mods