Hide Empty Ship Habs (and StarUI Ship Builder Workaround)

Hide Empty Ship Habs

(and work around StarUI incompatibility with SF 1. 11. 36+)

The Starfield 1. 11. 36 release introduced new empty hab modules, which unfortunately break the essential StarUI Ship Builder mod, making the game nearly unplayable on PC. This mod hides the new habs, making StarUI Ship Builder happy; making you (and I) happy 😁.

The main mod is now safe to add and remove - it simply disables the problematic "injection" of the empty habs into the vanilla lists. It does this in the "correct" way such that it can't conflict with other esm plugins and shouldn't conflict with anything.

Any other means of hiding the empy habs is a guaranteed compatibility nightmare. If you don't want the empty habs, and / or you want to use StarUI most of the time -- use this mod; don't use any other mods to remove the empties.

Update: Now CK friendly!

Mod Authors: If you need to hide the empty habs for your mod, please use this mod as a prereq until xEdit supports the new features / plugin type. (I'm disabling dp - no strings attached).

Don't replace the vanilla formlists or COBJs -- This will either make savegames dependent on your mod henceforth, or will break if any other mods modify vanilla ship module interior cells. (idk why, just saw it happen lol) That was a long sentence.

Update:

Version 0. 3-alpha is now a plugin of the same type as the newly added content, and directly disables the component that injects the new habs into the original list. Assuming there are no surprises (this required Hex editing to fix the new references), this should not affect any other ship mods or functionality - it is not yet known what happens to empty habs that exist - but since it doesn't touch anything from the main game files, empty habs are the only thing it should be able to impact at all.

Issue Explanation

Bethesda added a new plugin type with the 1. 11 update, similar to ESL "Light" plugins, but capable of handling more objects. These plugins load with the formids like FDxxxxxx and the order is independent of the main ESM list (this is part of why xEdit wont let you save an ESL). These new plugins are called "mid masters". Starfield now has 3 "types" (Master, Light, and now Mid master) (this is a simplification, there is some overlap) Huge thanks to Jonathon from the xEdit team for giving me enough info to be dangerous -- and just being a super nice guy!

Bethesda also added the long-overdue ability to "append" to another formlist without overriding it entirely. This will be VERY helpful at reducing the need for patches and coordination - especially for things like outpost and ship categories.

Using a combination of xEdit, Spriggit