14 DAY TRIAL // Barely has the Steam Workshop functionality been added to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and already lots of intrepid modders have released add-ons for the massive RPG through the system, after tweaking them with the Creation Kit that was just released yesterday.
While Skyrim impressed through great gameplay and story, it became even more popular on the PC due to support for user-generated mods. Bethesda has just deployed the Creation Kit for the game, which should make the modding process that much easier.
What’s more, after users are done tinkering with their add-ons, they can export them to the Steam Workshop, from which all Skyrim owners can browse and download mods.
Now, not even a day has passed since the release of both features for Skyrim and already hundreds of mods are available for the RPG.
Chief among these mods is one made by Valve itself, called Fall of the Space Core, Volume I, that adds the Space Core from Portal 2 into Skyrim by dropping it from space. After this unique introduction, the Space Core can be interacted with, replying with lines of dialog from Portal 2, as well as new ones that mention dragons and various other Skyrim-related things.
As usual, Valve also posted an amusing description for the mod on its official Steam Workshop page.
“To celebrate the opening of the Steam Workshop for Skyrim, Valve and Bethesda have teamed up to bring you the Portal 2 Space Core mod, which will let the aggressively space-centric little robot tag along on your adventures in Tamriel.”
Another impressive mod is the Open Cities one, which aims at making some of biggest cities in Skyrim, including Windheld, Riften or Solitude, part of the regular world, meaning you don't need to go through a loading screen to enter them. The current version is available here but only includes Markarth and Riften, at the moment.
For those who already made a name for themselves throughout Skyrim's biggest cities and bought houses to store their equipment, the Dovahkiin's Hideout mod is great. The add-on, available here, brings a common basement to all the player's houses where you can store all sorts of things, from weapons to armor or books, so you don't need to waste time fast travelling to each of your house to find a certain item. Plenty of other mods are also available via the Steam Workshop, although most of them are simply ported versions of add-ons that were already hosted by the Skyrim Nexus website.
Once Skyrim owners start really tinkering with the Creation Kit, however, expect lots of new add-ons to be uploaded to the Workshop.