Create mod

The Create mod for Minecraft now features realistic boat physics, letting players build vessels that behave more like real watercraft. The update is drawing large attention from the Minecraft modding community, with fans praising the more immersive and dynamic seafaring gameplay it enables.

Attention is on BioWare's classic role-playing game Neverwinter Nights, which Ars Technica reports still has thousands of active players more than two decades after its release. The piece explores how the community has kept the 2002 Dungeons & Dragons title alive through user-created modules, persistent online worlds and ongoing modding, making it one of the longest-supported RPG communities in gaming.

Players of the Minecraft mod Create are showcasing increasingly elaborate door mechanisms that use the mod's physics and rotational systems to open in bizarre, convoluted ways. The builds are deliberately overcomplicated, turning a simple door into a Rube Goldberg-style contraption, and viewers are sharing them for the spectacle of watching absurdly complex machinery perform a basic task.

A Nexus Mods page has gone live for The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel, well ahead of the game's release. Gamers are noting that the modding community is getting ready early, anticipating the same flood of add-ons that has sustained Skyrim for over a decade. With no release date confirmed, the page is being treated as a sign of how much faith players place in the modding scene around Bethesda's RPGs.

Accessory maker JSAUX has released the software behind its Steam Machine faceplates as open source, inviting the modding community to customise and build on the design with the message 'show us what you cook'. The move lets owners create their own faceplate styles for Valve's upcoming Steam Machine console, continuing the tradition of user-made customisation around Steam hardware.

Modding tools for Alien: Isolation have reached their 1.0 release after almost ten years of development. The tools now support full custom maps, missions, modes, characters, weapons, animations, sounds, models and textures, effectively allowing the community to build entirely new content for the 2014 survival horror game. Fans of the title, which has retained a devoted following since launch, are celebrating the milestone as a major step for its long-term modding scene.

A demonstration of aircraft doors built with the Create Aeronautics mod is drawing attention for their extreme, overcomplicated engineering. The mechanisms involve intricate chains of mechanical components that make the final result unnecessarily complex, prompting amusement and bewilderment among viewers who enjoy watching elaborate contraptions solve simple problems in absurdly difficult ways.

An author with no prior programming experience created five mods for the survival game Valheim using AI tools including Claude and ChatGPT. The projects covered specific needs such as balancing game mechanics and managing tamed animals, and the author has outlined the process publicly. The case is being shared as an example of how AI assistants let non-programmers build working software for games.

A modding group that added a whole new town to Fallout 4 last month has released another quest mod, this time sending players into what it describes as a deep underground facility full of secrets and horrors. It is the latest in a long series of extra quests the team has created for the RPG, and coverage is highlighting the group's steady output of substantial free content for the decade-old game.

A new version 2.0 of MUGEN, the long-running fighting game engine used to create custom crossover fighters, is drawing enthusiasm from fans of the modding scene. Users praise its more intuitive, organized tools for building rosters, along with a new option to export creations to navigators, the menu systems used with IKEMEN GO. Fans say they want to try adding characters from RWBY, Melty Blood: Type Lumina and Under Night In-Birth.

A player of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion used the Claude AI assistant to help create a performance mod that raises average frame rates by up to 48% and cuts stuttering by 90%. The mod works without altering game assets or visuals, focusing purely on how the game runs, and the approach has drawn attention as an example of AI tools being used to solve long-standing PC performance problems.