Starfield weapon mods

Even if you’ve found the best gun in Starfield, there’s always room for improvement. You can tailor your weapons to any playstyle by installing the best Starfield weapon mods. By adding a silencer to your weapon, you can take a stealthier approach, or you can add a muzzle to reduce recoil, and it doesn’t end there. Want to make your pistol a semi-automatic? You can do that. Want more damage? Upgrade your receiver.

Just remember: creating weapon mods requires research at a research laboratory to unlock them, and the necessary credits and resources to build them. You’ll also want to check out the best Starfield skills which boost your abilities to research modifications, mine resources, and build the best weapon mods.

Here all the Starfield weapon mods:

	Amplifier Mod Type Cover
	Annihilator Rounds Mod Type Magazine and Battery
	Armor-piercing rounds Mod Type Magazine and Battery
	Binary Trigger Mod Type Receiver
	Bull Barrel Mod Type Barrel
	Burst Fire Mod Type Receiver
	Choke Mod Type Muzzle
	Compensator Mod Type Muzzle
	Constellation Mod Type Skin
	Depleted Uranium Rounds Mod Type Magazine and Battery
	Drum Magazine Mod Type Magazine and Battery
	Electromagnetic Beams Mod Type Magazine and Battery
	EM-Charged Shot Mod Type Magazine and Battery
	Ergonomic Grip Mod Type Grip and Stock
	Explosive rounds Mod Type Magazine and Battery
	Flechette Rounds Mod Type Magazine and Battery
	Focal Lens Mod Type Muzzle
	Focus Nozzle Mod Type Muzzle
	Fully Automatic Mod Type Receiver
	Glow Sights Mod Type Optic
	Gut Buster Rounds Mod Type Magazine and Battery
	Hair Trigget Mod Type Internal
	High Powered Mod Type Internal
	High Velocity Mod Type Internal
	Holographic Sight Mod Type Optic
	Hornet Nest Mod Type Magazine and Battery
	Ignition Beams Mod Type Magazine and Battery
	Iron Sights Mod Type Optic
	Large Battery Mod Type Magazine and Battery
	Large Magazine Mod Type Magazine and Battery
	Large Muzzle Brake Mod Type Muzzle
	Laser Sight Mod Type Laser
	Long Barrel Mod Type Barrel
	Long Barrel with Laser Sight Mod Type Grip and Stock
	Magnetic Rails Mod Type Barrel
	Medium magazine Mod Type Magazine and Battery
	Medium Scope Mod Type Optic
	Muzzle Brake Mod Type Muzzle
	Old Mars Skin Mod Type Skin
	Overclocked Mod Type Internal
	Precision Tuning Mod Type Internal
	Recon Laser Sight Mod Type Laser
	Recon Scope Mod Type Optic
	Reflex Sight Mod Type Optic
	Removed Cover Mod Type Cover
	Semi-Automatic Mod Type Receiver
	Shock Charge Band Mod Type Muzzle
	Short Barrel Mod Type Barrel
	Short Barrel with Laser Sight Mod Type Grip and Stock
	Short Scope Mod Type Optic
	Slug Shots Mod Type Magazine and Battery
	Small Battery Mod Type Magazine and Battery
	Small Magazine Mod Type Magazine and Battery
	Stabilizing Barrel Mod Type Barrel
	Standard Barrel Mod Type Barrel
	Standard Barrel with Laser Sight Mod Type Grip and Stock
	Standard Battery Mod Type Magazine and Battery
	Standard Cover Mod Type Cover
	Standard Grip Without Stock Mod Type Grip and Stock
	Standard Magazine Mod Type Magazine and Battery
	Standard Muzzle Mod Type Muzzle
	Standard Shells Mod Type Magazine and Battery
	Standard Stock Mod Type Grip and Stock
	Stealth Lasers Mod Type Muzzle
	Stock Mod Type Grip and Stock
	Suppressor Mod Type Barrel
	Tactical Battery Mod Type Magazine and Battery
	Tactical Magazine Mod Type Magazine and Battery
	Tactical Stock Mod Type Grip and Stock
	Tech Barrel Mod Type Barrel
	Whitehot Rounds Mod Type Magazine and Battery

What are Starfield weapon mods?

A Starfield weapon mod is a component or modification you can add to almost any Starfield weapon. You will need to be at a weapon workbench in order to attach and detach different modifications. You can use weapon mods to completely change your playstyle by increasing a gun’s accuracy, magazine capacity, or giving a gun explosive ammunition for additional damage. Creating a weapon mod requires resources, but you can also loot them from defeated enemies, or find them randomly in containers.

Each weapon comes with a “mods” stat, determining how many modifications that weapon can support. For example, the Drum Beat can support 7 different modifications in total, allowing you to equip a new scope, receiver, magazine, muzzle, and whatever else you have researched.

How do Starfield weapon mods work?

Once you’ve unlocked a Starfield weapon mod at the research laboratory, you can build and equip them to the appropriate weapons at a weapons workstation. Building a weapon mod from scratch will cost you a few Starfield resources, so make sure you have a good mining setup on one or all of your outposts.

Starfield weapon mod locations

You may find some weapon mods attached to a number of weapons in random containers, for sale from a merchant. However, the main way you will find weapon mods is by crafting them at the weapons workstation once you’ve completed the prerequisite Starfield research project.

Legendary Starfield weapon mods

As in previous Bethesda titles, Starfield has a series of Legendary modifications which provide unique and powerful bonuses. Some are attached to named weapons, while others are added randomly to a large pool of weapons. The former are often rewards for completing quests or discovering and exploring secret locations, while the latter can be found randomly on enemies, or in containers.

It isn’t possible to craft legendary mods or remove them from weapons, but you can bet there’ll be a Starfield mod that does.

For more on customization, check out our character creation and skills guides, or check out our full Starfield armor database.