Vellum — modern scripting language for Skyrim
Hi!
I'm glad to announce the project I've been working on for the past year. Meet Vellum. It offers clean, modern syntax, more helpful compiler errors, and several features Papyrus for Skyrim doesn't have:
- for loop, continue and break statements
- automatic type inference for variables
- ternary conditional operator ?:
More features are planned. Extension for VSCode is in progress too.
v0.1.0 is out and targets only the Skyrim PEX subset. Support for Fallout 4 and Starfield is planned.
The project is listed on Nexus Mods, but downloads are pending while the file is quarantined. I'm in touch with support and awaiting their review. You can still download the compiler from GitHub Releases. I'll update this post when Nexus moderation is complete.
Links:
I'd love feedback: questions and ideas here are fine, and compiler bugs or weird errors are easiest to track on GitHub Issues
Posted Apr 8, 2026, 1:09 PM UTC