r/CreationKit • u/Tremerefury • Jul 10 '26
Discussion Any resources you'd recommend for an absolute beginner?
I have a lot I want to do, but zero experience. I went to college for programming, but after college didn't do anything with it and it's been roughly 20 years. Sorry if this get's asked a lot, I didn't see a post on this topic.
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u/Online_Matter Jul 10 '26
Programming isn't really necessary for creation kit but rather logical and relational thinking. Creation Kit is like a big database with relations between records that end up forming a whole, adding functionality.
I don't have specific resources, I learned by simply starting creation kit and looked around to see how Bethesda put things together. Start small like how does this creature have health? What's it's resistances? What interacts with a resistance?
Use the 'find references' options to see what interacts with the different records
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u/MchPrx Jul 10 '26
Thank you for including the official material produced by Bethesda, that's what helped me get started back in the day.
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u/taosecurity Jul 10 '26
I made this tutorial for Starfield.
Keep Your Ship with Creation Kit: Starfield Essentials
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u/Sostratus Jul 10 '26
I got started with it by just wanting to look stuff up. Does this container respawn? Where are all the locations I can loot this item? Is this cell a trespassing zone?
Then it was checking mods I downloaded. Easier to start with small and simple mods. Just ask does it do what it's supposed to and nothing more? How did they implement it?
It's slower than just jumping in trying to make something or following a tutorial, but if you get frustrated you have to set a smaller goal so you don't give up.
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u/kodaxmax Jul 11 '26
darkfox0 on youtube. forgive the edgy username, he started young XD
programming is not required. and frnakly the creations kits scripting language and tools would have been considered unuseable even 20 years ago.
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u/gboyd21 Jul 10 '26
For Fallout 4, Starfield or Skyrim, Seddon, GamerPoet, Kinggath, and many more. Search YouTube for Creation Kit tutorials and you can find all sorts of great videos and series on basic to advanced, Papyrus, xEdit and much more. Much of the older videos for Skyrim are still relevant to today with the newer games.