Xeno's No Credits for Upgrades (NCU)
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 5.0% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #1 of 35 Crafting mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Spend resources instead of credits for high tier equipment upgrades
Well Gee Whiz!
Having a hard time keeping your check book in, well, check?
Always a little to short on credits?
Well now you can only blame yourself with Xeno's No Credits for Upgrades mod!
All these hard earned resources you've gathered up, especially the rare ones are just LACKING a reasonable use.
Why collect so much Caelumite, when it has near no purpose? All that hard to find Aqueous Hematite, just to be sold for credits?
NO! How sad, why sell it when you can use it? As of v2. 0 Aqueous Hematite is no longer a heavily used material.
This mod changes the crafting recipes for tier upgrades and x-tech related upgrades to no longer take credits, but instead an assortment of resources.
With the new database, finding these rare elements will be a bit more doable, but still a grind. This also increases the X-tech cost of upgrades a minor amount; I've found myself swimming in it even without my Craftable X-Tech mod installed in which I highly recommend.
This also adds a Tier 6 to some armor to be crafted, similar to weapons.
I will update with a more thorough list for more spacesuits to be upgraded higher. Currently only armor with generic tags will be upgradeable to tier 6. Most modded equipment should work, the TA DLC equipment should be compatible as well
This mods adds A LOT of Caelumite and Aqueous Hematite high tier manufactured material usage and it increases in the higher tiers. However these aren't the only materials used. The rarity of the necessary materials increases based on the tier you're upgrading to. This is still meant to take effort, just something a little more mechanically friendly than paying your workbench to upgrade your stuff. What is this, FO76? JK i like FO76
Please let me know if this feels like it needs rebalancing
Check out my other mods!
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📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Starfield Mods
- Author
- xenosphor-JimmyThLocke
- Version
- 2.2
- Downloads
- 959
- Endorsements
- 48
- Category
- Crafting
- Created
- 4/15/2026
- Updated
- 4/21/2026
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