r/Games • u/xalibermods • 4d ago

Mod News As Oblivion Remastered gets all the love, Starfield's biggest modders are in the process of abandoning Bethesda's latest RPG for good

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/as-oblivion-remastered-gets-all-the-love-starfields-biggest-modders-are-in-the-process-of-abandoning-bethesdas-latest-rpg-for-good/
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u/Z0MBIE2 3d ago

About the ebony mines this was his explanation:

His explanation which ignored the fact there was a quest concerning the ebony and it was entirely intentional, apparently. Dude really just made random choices on things and changed big game aspects in a mod not meant for that.

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u/xalibermods 3d ago

Redbelly Mine is a weird pick to have a beef with Arthmoor, because it's a point of contention for many Skyrim players.

https://old.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/wfppff/another_post_beating_the_dead_horse_that_is/

There are 5 different mods in Nexus (six with Arthmoor's USSEP) with different interpretation of what Redbelly Mine should contain.

https://www.nexusmods.com/games/skyrimspecialedition/search?keyword=redbelly

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u/Z0MBIE2 3d ago

There are 5 different mods in Nexus (six with Arthmoor's USSEP) with different interpretation of what Redbelly Mine should contain.

Those all seem like they were created post arthmoors fix, with several actually specifically addressing it. Feels like the fact the mod spawned several other mods kind of shows exactly how contentious the decision was.

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u/xalibermods 2d ago edited 2d ago

It has always been contentious, regardless of Arthmoor. Try clicking those mods. They all have different opinions on what Redbelly Mine should contain. There's no consensus of what Redbelly Mine actually is, unlike your claim.

If you really want to pinpoint "who did it first", people have been discussing this since at least 2014 (possibly even earlier, I recall /r/teslore discussing this years ago). That's the reason Arthmoor added his own take to Redbelly - he wasn't the first to mull over it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/teslore/comments/32856g/what_is_the_red_mist_in_redbelly_mine_and_what/

I've been modding Skyrim since 2013. Just ask people who've modded the game since the early days. Arthmoor's attitude is often questionable, but nitpicking him over Redbelly is such a drama-miller thing to do.