POI Cooldown - Fewer repeated POIs
By paulbrock
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Fully compatible with Free Lanes update!
This mod addresses one of the biggest issues players have with Starfield - seeing the same Point of Interest (POI) again and again, or in quick succession. As well as not offering variety, this can be immersion-breaking especially for those POIs with notes or named NPCs in them.
It works by putting POIs on 'cooldown', preventing them from showing up again for a set period of time after you already visited them. This applies to locations generated in mission boards, scanning from space, and what appears when you land on a planet. So no more repeated cryo lab! It also means you're more likely to come across some of the rare POIs.
Even though Free Lanes has added much better cooldowns out of the box, the older POIs like Cryo Labs and Deserted Relay Station do not have this unless you use this mod.
IMPORTANT NOTE: You need to actually visit a POI before a cooldown is triggered. You don't need to clear it but you do need to go up to it. Then you shouldn't see anymore of them until the cooldown ends.
160 POIs are supported, including 28 added in the Free Lanes update, including support for the 34 different caves in Starfield - no more going into the exact same cave.
There is a game setting which controls how long the cooldown is, you can tweak it to your game style. I recommend and play on either 10 ingame days or 30 ingame days, that usually gives enough time to have a break from some of them, without it being so long that all 32 POIs end up on cooldown; the perfect situation is a balance so that by the time you're down to only a few different POIs, the first ones start showing up again. There's also a LOOTERS setting of 50 ingame days, which is good if you find that you are waiting to reset vendors or making lots of trips to Venus to wait there. Finally there's an EXTREME setting - use it with caution as it sets the cooldown to 999 days - once per playthrough. I'm not sure about removing all the POIs from the mission pool entirely, but if thats what you want to do, I'd love to hear how you get on!
Compatible with most other mods, except Grindfield which offers a differing solution to the same problem. Search on here for a patch to work with POI Variations.
For more details and to leave feedback see the nexus version: https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/9532
Release notes
Xbox
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3Integrated the new POI cooldowns into the system, ensuring that all of them use the user set delay. Includes correcting the faulty cooldowns on Abandoned Mine(he3) and Defunct Shipping Facility.
Total number of POIs now supported:
Dungeons: 71 (including 28 added in Free Lanes), Non-hostile+miscellaneous:53, Caves 34
Introduced new delay value FREELANES of 30 days to take into account there are now far more POIs. VANILLA is now set to 10 days, up from 2 days inline with Free Lanes changes.
Note that Abandoned Shipping Depot does not have a cooldown. This is to ensure that missions can always load correctly, even if everything else is on cooldown.
Now includes support for Playstation! -
2.00== Describe this release ==
Full rewritten release
Playstation
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3Integrated the new POI cooldowns into the system, ensuring that all of them use the user set delay. Includes correcting the faulty cooldowns on Abandoned Mine(he3) and Defunct Shipping Facility.
Total number of POIs now supported:
Dungeons: 71 (including 28 added in Free Lanes), Non-hostile+miscellaneous:53, Caves 34
Introduced new delay value FREELANES of 30 days to take into account there are now far more POIs. VANILLA is now set to 10 days, up from 2 days inline with Free Lanes changes.
Note that Abandoned Shipping Depot does not have a cooldown. This is to ensure that missions can always load correctly, even if everything else is on cooldown.
Now includes support for Playstation!
PC
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3Integrated the new POI cooldowns into the system, ensuring that all of them use the user set delay. Includes correcting the faulty cooldowns on Abandoned Mine(he3) and Defunct Shipping Facility.
Total number of POIs now supported:
Dungeons: 71 (including 28 added in Free Lanes), Non-hostile+miscellaneous:53, Caves 34
Introduced new delay value FREELANES of 30 days to take into account there are now far more POIs. VANILLA is now set to 10 days, up from 2 days inline with Free Lanes changes.
Note that Abandoned Shipping Depot does not have a cooldown. This is to ensure that missions can always load correctly, even if everything else is on cooldown.
Now includes support for Playstation! -
2.00== Describe this release ==
Full rewritten release
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- Published
- Jan 31, 2025
- Last Updated
- Apr 17, 2026
- Platforms
- Playstation, PC, Xbox
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