POI Cooldown - Fewer repeated POIs

Fully compatible with Free Lanes update!

Description

One of the biggest frustrations with Starfield is seeing the same POI again in quick succession (looking at you Abandoned Cryo Lab).  This fixes this, by putting  a cooldown on POIs you've visited, preventing them showing up again.  Note that the default cooldown is 10 in-game days - if you're sleeping or waiting a lot than you may prefer the Freelane setting or the Looter setting  which will set them to 30 or 50 in-game days respectively.

Even though Free Lanes has added much better cooldowns out of the box, the older POIs like Cryo Labs and Deserted Relay Station do not have this unless you use this mod.

It works with both planet generation and radiant missions.

IMPORTANT NOTE: You need to actually visit a POI before a cooldown is triggered.  You don't need to clear it but you do need to go up to it.  Then you shouldn't see anymore of them until the cooldown ends.

160 POIs are supported, including 28 added in the Free Lanes update.  I've also added support for the 34 different caves in Starfield - no more going into the exact same cave. (though no new caves have been added, don't expect to stumble across Blackreach)

There is a game setting which controls how long the cooldown is, you can tweak it to your game style.  I recommend and play on either 10 ingame days or 30 ingame days, that usually gives enough time to have a break from some of them, without it being so long that all POIs end up on cooldown; the perfect situation is a balance so that by the time you're down to only a few different POIs, the first ones start showing up again.

There's also a LOOTERS setting of 50 ingame days, which is good if you find that you are waiting to reset vendors or making lots of trips to Venus to wait there.

Finally there's an EXTREME setting - use it with caution as it sets the cooldown to 999 days - once per playthrough.  I'm not sure about removing all the POIs from the mission pool entirely, but if thats what you want to do, I'd love to hear how you get on!

Installation

Either use a mod manager, or copy the files into the data folder of the main Starfield directory

Compatibility

Should run with nearly everything. The latest version of Desolation has a small conflict, put Desolation lower in the load order if that one is important to you.  Includes a script but its pretty light, I don't anticipate any incompatibilities unless someone has done a big overhaul of the way POIs are generated.

No Idiotic Landings ideally needs a patch to run perfectly with this, but again, you can probably run both ok for now.

Tested with Free Lanes update released in April 2026.

Patches for Batten's Wrecks and POI Variations now available on the optional files tab.