While most developers (and publishers) are against modding their games these days, it seems that won’t be an issue in Starfield, as Bethesda just confirmed today that Starfield mods adding new content to the game will be allowed.

Speaking during the Bethesda MainStream Special about Women in Gaming Twitch stream, Bethesda Head of Publishing Pete Hines has confirmed that Starfield modders will be able to add new planets, quests and even stories to the action-RPG!

Pete Hines: There’s a lot more coming and when you start to think about the kind of community that comes around Bethesda Game Studios games and putting a tool like that in the hands of people that go, “how would you like to make a planet?” Like, all of that is going to just be off the charts. When you start getting your community come in and add all the different things that they want to bring to it. Their own stories they want to tell.

That is very good news for would-be players indeed! No word just yet if this means for PC only or if Xbox gamers will be able to enjoy the fruits of the mod crowd’s labors. I wouldn’t put it past Bethesda and Microsoft to make it available on Xbox given it would seriously prolong the game’s lifespan.

While we can’t say whether Starfield will have mod tools out of the gate or not, from past experience, mod tools for games like Skyrim came four months after launch, with Fallout 4 getting it much later even. There is a recent (but unverified) piece of info that a modder got a review copy of the game, which could be what Hines was referring to.

In other Starfield news, the game’s review embargo is lifting this coming Thursday, August 31, and we can confirm that we have the game. While it’s massive, we are working hard to have a review up in time for the embargo lift.

You can watch HInes talk about Starfield mods around the 5:52:00 mark of the video.

Thanks, Darrius Fears!