Anyone have any success stories on Xbox running 200 - 300+ mods?

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I have been at my wits end on trying to get a substantial save going even to the point I started a brand new save. Fresh off the ground and honestly, don't want to go to new game plus. Just a straight non-starborn play.

I was playing just fine on this save, completing Ryujin and UC Terrormorph questlines lines with no issues. However, upon completing the UC questline, I found that I cannot go into a space sandbox that requires scanning my ship for contraband without an infinite load time that becomes a black screen crash or just a straight up crash that takes me to the dashboard which I found irritating granted this is on a brand new save.

So yes, I am running just over 300 mods and while yes, I know that is alot, I don't see anything that clashes with anything else (that I am aware of)...especially that affects the skybox of planets that require ship scanning.

I know somehow my save "might" be bugged as it shows I have contraband on my ship (when I know don't) which is confirmed by a 100% chance to bypass the scan when it happened. But sometimes it says I don't have contraband. It is random, but for sure I know I don't. I even edited my ship so that everything on the ship was removed. This issue is more of a side note.

So I guess I am trying to figure out if there is some kind of conflict still in play or if running 300 mods (at 20GB out of 100GB) is simply too much. I know the more mods I have, the greater the likelihood of a conflict occurring.

If anyone has success stories of running 200 - 300+ mods on their xbox without issue, then I will continue to try to find the conflict by continuing to remove mods in question.

However, if running 300+ mods is just too much for the game to handle over time, then I can just continue to prune my mod list and really work it down to what is recommended as more manageable for the game to run.

I cannot tell what are considered masters and what my plugin limits are as most mods don't list that information. So I don't know what that is like.

But I was able to play 20 ish hours on this save with no issues at all (minus having to be forced to scan my ship for cargo even though I don't have contraband) <-- this may be intentional from a mod, but not sure, but all of a sudden I cannot enter the space skybox anymore.

I have tried removing mods, loading up the game, going to venus and sleeping for 2 full 24 hours cycles and trying again. Sometimes, I can get get into a space skybox and and complete a scan, but going to another one will get me the infinite load time and/or crash. So far, my record has been 3. I went to 3 skyboxes successfully only to crash on the 4th. So it sounds like a stability issue of some kind.

These are facts I can provide about my save.

    1. Over 300 mods, but I am gently pruning to see if anything helps.
    1. My ship is using the max amount of modules, so I cannot add a single thing extra to it. The ship itself isn't big at all, just a lot of packed stuff on it using cheats to overlap stuff.
    1. I am on a fresh save and NOT in new game plus.
    1. I have been playing without fail for 20 hours+ and ran into this issue WITHOUT installing or uninstalling anything other than Bedlam Dungeon as Bedlam Dungeon softlocks the game on the opening mission with Lin and Barrett (dropship that arrives is empty with no one to kill). So installed it after completing that mission.
    1. I have roughly 35 ish people on the ship.
    1. Game has no issues I am aware loading up in any other skybox. While this hasn't be tested for every planet, the other areas I have tested seem to load with no issues.
    1. I am looking over my mod order and seriously struggle to find conflicts as most mods are self sufficent and "should not" conflict with each other. (etc: all zone's clothes, guns, rabbit lights, a few cheats, all ship vendors like Falkland, Stroud Premium, Tiger, Matilija.)

I know this has been a bit wordy and I apologize. I have just exhausted so many hours into this and just need to know what area I should be tackling. My LO is neatly organized. If you are somewhat curious to what it looks like, I have another post on https://www.reddit.com/r/starfieldmods/comments/1oulrzh/brand_new_save_file_no_enemies_in_opening_mission with the full list. Maybe my LO is not ordered category wise well?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Posted Dec 1, 2025, 8:09 PM UTC

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