The 337 books that Bethesda gave us in Skyrim held stories that made the whole world come alive. It wasn’t just reading; it was like embarking on a mini-adventure within the game. Whether it was uncovering the lore of ancient civilizations or stumbling upon hidden tales of legendary battles, each book added a layer of richness to the gaming experience. At night, I would often rent a room in a tavern somewhere and read a few stories I had I had collected throughout my adventures before sleeping for the night.
Starfield brings a completely different vibe. There are just 53 books if you don’t count the Dragonstar Force series and they feel more like placeholders than immersive elements. The stories lack the depth that made Skyrim’s reading experience so captivating. In Skyrim, books were a key part of the adventure, but in Starfield, they are an afterthought, a missed opportunity to build upon this new world. It left me missing the excitement of uncovering hidden gems and discovering the world through the written word.
Books Revamped takes all those books that just included excerpts or didn’t really add anything meaningful and updates them with actual stories.
What has been changed?
Expanded Books:
– A Christmas Carol
– History of the Pyrates (Corrected to A General History of the Pyrates Vol 1)
– A Tale of Two Cities
– Amala’s Journal (from the ECS Constant)
– Bad People, Bad Jokes volumes 1 – 3
– Bleak House
– Carrie of the Cosmos
– Charity in a Godless Universe Parts I – IV
– Chunk’s Employee Handbook
– Crimson Cabin
– David Copperfield
– Diary of Kyosuke Nagata
– Dracula
– Dragonstar Force volumes 1 – 30
– Essentials of Modern Macroeconomics
– Fields of Everglass
– Great Expectations
– Hard Times
– History of Xenobiology
– Hope Family Tree
– Jake and the Enu: Parts 1 and 2
– Maurice Lyon’s Journal
– Moby Dick
– My Life, Chunk by Chunk
– Neon Gang Culture
– Nicholas Nickleby
– Oliver Twist
– Omega: The Last Days
– Our Lost Heritage
– Race to the Heavens
– Red Rover, Come Over
– Report – The Clark Lewis
– Shadows in the Attic
– Ship Repair Fundamentals
– Simpler Times
– Sir Livingstone’s Journal
– Sir Livingstone’s Second Journal
– Story of the Heavens
– Sword of Damocles
– The Comet
– The Count of Monte Cristo
– Tales of Space and Time (Corrected to ‘The Crystal Egg’)
– The Ancient Civilization of Egypt
– The Fruit Cellar
– The Gravity Paradigm
– The Orchid Merchant
– The Origin of Species (Corrected to ‘On the Origin of Species’)
– The Paradiso Complex
– The Pickwick Papers
– The Price of Destiny
– War of the Worlds
– What if I’m Right?
Expanded Poems
– Dover Beach
– Forever Among the Stars
– Rhapsody On Windy Night
– The Light of Stars
– The Learn’d Astronomer (Corrected to ‘When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer’)
Inspired by Expanded Books
– A Greater End, Vol 2 (was not in the game)
– A General History of the Pyrates Vol 2 (book was originally released in two volumes)
New Dataslates
– Extraordinary Voyages #1 – Five Weeks in a Balloon
– Extraordinary Voyages #2 – The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
– Extraordinary Voyages #3 – Journey to the Center of the Earth
– Extraordinary Voyages #4 – From the Earth to the Moon
– Extraordinary Voyages #5 – In Search of the Castaways
– Extraordinary Voyages #6 – Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas
– Extraordinary Voyages #7 – Around The Moon
– Extraordinary Voyages #8 – A Floating City
– Extraordinary Voyages #9 – The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa
– Extraordinary Voyages #10 – The Fur Country
– Extraordinary Voyages #11 – Around the World in Eighty Days
– Extraordinary Voyages #12 – The Mysterious Island
– Extraordinary Voyages #13 – The Survivors of the Chancellor
– Extraordinary Voyages #14 – Michael Strogoff
– Extraordinary Voyages #15 – Off on a Comet
– Extraordinary Voyages #16 – The Child of the Cavern
– Extraordinary Voyages #17 – Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen
– Extraordinary Voyages #18 – The Begum’s Millions
– Extraordinary Voyages #19 – Tribulations of a Chinaman in China
– Extraordinary Voyages #20 – The Steam House
– Extraordinary Voyages #21 – Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
– Extraordinary Voyages #22 – Godfrey Morgan
– Extraordinary Voyages #23 – The Green Ray
– Extraordinary Voyages #24 – Kéraban the Inflexible
– Extraordinary Voyages #25 – The Vanished Diamond
– Extraordinary Voyages #26 – The Archipelago on Fire
– Extraordinary Voyages #27 – Mathias Sandorf
– Extraordinary Voyages #28 – The Lottery Ticket,
– Extraordinary Voyages #29 – Robur the Conqueror
– Extraordinary Voyages #30 – North Against South
– Extraordinary Voyages #31 – The Flight to France
– Extraordinary Voyages #32 – Two Years’ Vacation
– Extraordinary Voyages #33 – Family Without a Name
– Extraordinary Voyages #34 – The Purchase of the North Pole
– Extraordinary Voyages #35 – César Cascabel
– Extraordinary Voyages #36 – Mistress Branican
– Extraordinary Voyages #37 – Carpathian Castle
– Extraordinary Voyages #38 – Claudius Bombarnac
– Extraordinary Voyages #39 – Foundling Mick
– Extraordinary Voyages #40 – Captain Antifer
– Extraordinary Voyages #41 – Propeller Island
– Extraordinary Voyages #42 – Facing the Flag
– Extraordinary Voyages #43 – Clovis Dardentor
– Extraordinary Voyages #44 – An Antarctic Mystery
– Extraordinary Voyages #45 – The Mighty Orinoco
– Extraordinary Voyages #46 – The Will of an Eccentric
– Extraordinary Voyages #47 – The Castaways of the Flag
– Extraordinary Voyages #48 – The Village in the Treetops
– Extraordinary Voyages #49 – The Sea Serpent
– Extraordinary Voyages #50 – The Kip Brothers
– Extraordinary Voyages #51 – Travel Scholarships
– Extraordinary Voyages #52 – A Drama in Livonia
– Extraordinary Voyages #53 – Master of the World
– Extraordinary Voyages #54 – Invasion of the Sea
– Extraordinary Voyages #55 – Lighthouse at the End of the World
– Extraordinary Voyages #56 – The Golden Volcano
– Extraordinary Voyages #57 – The Thompson Travel Agency
– Extraordinary Voyages #58 – The Chase of the Golden Meteor
– Extraordinary Voyages #59 – The Danube Pilot
– Extraordinary Voyages #60 – The Survivors of the “Jonathan”
– Extraordinary Voyages #61 – The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz
– Extraordinary Voyages #62 – The Barsac Mission
Original Books
– The Gravitational Leap – An account of the first public demonstration of a grav jump
– Earth’s Silent Exodus – Regarding the discovery of Earth’s weakening magnetosphere
– A Technological Reckoning – One scientist’s caution reveals a delicate balance between human ambition and Earth’s destiny
– Tethered Horizon – a family is unable to leave Earth in the face of the weakening magnetosphere
– Paradox – An Artifact is discovered at the heart of a gravitational anomaly on Mars that may lead to the downfall of earth
Miscellaneous Changes:
– Book weight has been standardized based on the book model used (small, medium, large)
– Leveled list fixes based on book model used and rarity
– Rare books don’t spawn at the same rate as common books
Compatibility:
– Starfield 1.8.86
– Starfield Community Patch v0.04
– Cora Wants All The Books by VenpiTheGamer
– Paper Books by animandan
– No dependence on SFSE, does not require update when that mod updates
Installation:
– Preferably use Mod Organizer 2 or Vortex. Install as you would anything else
– Installing mid-game is 100% safe, book text will show up immediately, new books will spawn with any others.
– Uninstall mid-game is 100% safe, book text will revert back to being terrible, new books will (I think) disappear.
– Update mid-game is 100% safe, any changes will appear immediately on game load.
Manual Installation:
– Manually Download the mod.
– Unzip the contents into %userprofile%\Documents\My Games\Starfield\Data.
– Download and install Plugins.txt Enabler.
– Create a Plugins.txt file in %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Starfield if you don’t have one and add *BooksRevamped.esm to it.
– Go read
Known Issues:
(Investigating, don’t pressure me. Go read a book.)
– If using StarUI, new books don’t get the updated book icon (inventory or HUD)
– Extraordinary Voyage series dataslates spawn horizontally, sometimes underneath other books
– Ahjong Sinclair doesn’t use her voice when you turn in A General History of the Pyrates vol 2
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