Craftable Weapon Skins - CWS

⭐ ⭐⭐ (1,487 endorsements) 📥 89,463 downloads 📌 v1.8.3 📅 10/22/2023
🟠 Updated over a year ago

By frogs345 · Weapons

⬇ Download Mod Source: Nexus Mods 📅 Updated: 6/19/2025 📅 Created: 10/22/2023
⚠️ Install Order · 2 steps
1🛠️ SFSE — Starfield Script Extender Download ↗
2🔧 Community Patch — Starfield Community Patch Download ↗

Install in this order, then this mod last — most mods fail to load without their framework and dependencies in place.

🔍 Analysis

  • 👍 1.7% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
  • 🏆 #13 of 228 Weapons mods in this game by downloads

📋 About This Mod

Craftable Weapon Skins

Despite most weapons having slots for skins, and a number of weapons having skins as well, there's no way to customize the appearance yourself, leaving an awkward slot in the crafting menu that's either completely unused, or blocked by a skin you can't change.

But with this mod, all of the weapon skins are now available for crafting! This means you can finally decide whether you want your Kraken and Maelstrom to be clean, and you can finally put the nice looking unique skins on the better legendaries you've found. Most of the skins are associated with unique weapons, but there's a few that aren't, and there's also a couple that were previously unobtainable.

Within the Gameplay Options menu, there's an option to allow you to disable the quest requirements for skins, options to enable the crafting of No Decals Skins and Partial Skins, and an option to enable the originally intended backfire effect for the Ember/Fiery Skin, with the choice of whether additional skins with or without the backfire effect are also available.

There are a couple of optional files in the installer as follows:

  • []No Maelstrom Decals Normals Change - Removes the change to the normals for the decals for the Maelstrom, if you have a mod that uses different normals for the clean and dirty verisons

    []Unique Names - Alters the names of the skins to use the one associated with their unique weapon, rather than a more generic name

The (non-spoiler) skins that are now available are as follows:
  • []Cutter

    []Worn Skin (previously NPC only)

[]Kraken and Maelstrom

  • []Clean Skin

The following are the more spoilery skins, along with their generic names (if it has one) and the requirement to unlock them:

  • []Cutter

    []Heller's Cutter Skin/Orange Skin - Complete the 'Back to Vectera' quest

    []Shipbreaker Skin - Complete the 'Bounty: The Starjacker' quest

[]Equinox

  • []Electromagnetic Skin - Complete the 'Eyewitness' quest

[]Grendel

  • []Acid Rain Skin/Acid Skin - Complete the 'A Shipment for Salinas' quest

    []The Buzzcut Skin/Tactical Skin - Visit Neon

[]Kraken

  • []Street Sweeper Skin/Ebbside Skin - Complete 'The Showdown' quest

[]Lawgiver

  • []Justifier Skin/Freestar Rangers Skin - Complete 'The Hammer Falls' quest

[]MagShear

  • []Revenant Skin/Crimson Fleet Skin - Complete the 'Eye of the Storm' quest

[]MagShot

  • []Keelhauler/Crimson Fleet - Complete the 'Echoes of the Past' quest

[]MagStorm

  • []Mantis Skin - Complete the 'Mantis' quest

[]Microgun

[]X-989 Microgun Skin/United Colonies Skin - Comp

🤖 AI-enhanced — based on mod data

Craftable Weapon Skins (CWS) by frogs345 lets you craft every weapon skin in the game, including those normally unobtainable, and fixes various skin-related issues. With 1,487 endorsements and 89,463 downloads, it's a popular quality-of-life mod for players who want full customization without hunting down rare drops.

✨ Key Features

Enables crafting of all weapon skins, including normally unobtainable ones.
Fixes a number of issues with weapon skins.

📊 Pros & Cons

✅ Pros

  • Community favorite with 1,487 endorsements and nearly 90k downloads.
  • Unlocks normally unobtainable skins, giving you the full cosmetic collection.
  • Fixes skin issues, so your gear looks as good as it performs.

⚠️ Cons

  • Last updated June 2025—check compatibility with your current game version.
🎯 Is This For You?
For completionists who want every weapon skin without grinding or relying on luck. Also for players who've noticed skin glitches and want them patched. Skip if you don't care about cosmetics—this is purely visual.
📦 Install:Easy· Under 1 minute

💡 Beginner Tips

  • If you're on PC, use a mod manager like Vortex or MO2 to install and manage this mod easily.
  • Check the mod's posts or comments for any known conflicts with other skin mods.
  • Make sure your game is updated to a compatible version, as the mod was last updated in June 2025.

📊 Mod Details

Game
Starfield Mods
Author
frogs345
Version
1.8.3
Downloads
89,463
Endorsements
1,487
Category
Weapons
Created
10/22/2023
Updated
6/19/2025

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