Always Play Landing Animations (APLA)
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 0.7% endorsement rate
- 🏆 #35 of 44 Animations mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Please disable/uninstall this mod if you haven't done so after the update. I'll keep this mod on for educational purposes, but I will stop supporting this mod going forward. Thank you for all your support.
In vanilla behaviour, you only see landing animation when you attempt to land to spaceports or landing spots only for the first time. Then the game will mark those spots as "Discovered/Explored". This allows you to Fast Travel to those spots for ease of use. Unfortunately, this fast travel will always happen as soon as you mark those places as discovered/explored, preventing you from seeing the landing animation again even when you visit those same places from orbit around the planet. This takes away the immersion aspect of the game when you want to always see the scene where your ship lands.
In order for you to be able to see the landing animation play all the time consistently, the game needs to think that it's your first time visiting those places by preventing those landing spots from being discovered/explored in the first place.
I've went through all the map markers in the base vanilla game and Shattered Space DLC for all the map markers that are visible from space and the star map which is used for you to land your ship on and changed their properties into 0. 01 radius and flag them to suppress discovery. Any other markers that have been flagged as pre-discovered/explored have been marked as undiscovered as well as preventing them from being flagged as explored. You'll still see all those markers from your star map and from space using the scanners. It's just that they'll be "black" in colour and will never turn into the "white" variant because they will never be marked as explored.
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[]It modifies all 128 map markers from the base game, and 1 map marker from Shattered Space DLC as a separate optional mod in case you don't have the DLC. The full list of all the map markers modified by this mod are included in the separate article page for your reference.
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]Custom landing sites that you have when you land your ships will also never be flagged as explored, allowing you to revisit them and see the landing animation plays again.[]POIs that you can see from space also will never be flagged as explored so you can revisit them and see the landing animation play again all the time.
Limitations:
[]This mod doesn't work with player-placed outpost beacons for some reason. While I did my best to disable the Outpost marker from being fully flagged as discovered/explored in this mod. The game still applies fast travel regardle
Always Play Landing Animations (APLA) is an animation mod for Starfield that ensures landing animations play consistently. The mod is now obsolete as of game version 1.16.236 (April 7, 2026), since Starfield natively supports a landing animation camera via Accessibility Options. It has 118 endorsements and 17,906 downloads.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Solid community trust with 118 endorsements and nearly 18k downloads
- Fixes a common annoyance for players who missed the landing cutscene
- Lightweight and straightforward—no extra dependencies to fiddle with
⚠️ Cons
- Completely obsolete as of April 2026—the base game now has this feature built-in
- No longer receives updates, so it's dead weight for current versions
- Potential conflicts with other animation mods if you're on an older patch
For Starfield players on versions before 1.16.236 who want consistent landing animations. Skip it if you're on the latest patch—just use the in-game Accessibility Options instead.
💡 Beginner Tips
- If you're on the latest Starfield patch, don't install this—use the built-in Accessibility Options for landing camera.
- For older versions, place the files in your Data folder or use a mod manager for easy removal.
- Check your game version in the main menu before installing to avoid confusion.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Starfield Mods
- Author
- NeoKingArthur - xtcrefugee
- Version
- 1.3
- Downloads
- 17,906
- Endorsements
- 118
- Category
- Animations
- Created
- 12/23/2025
- Updated
- 1/17/2026
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