Summary
OneStarfieldplayer was recently heartbroken to discover that Labrador Retrievers are extinct in the game’s universe. While this has been a well-established fact aboutStarfield’s lore for a while now, it would appear that many fans have remained oblivious to it up until recently.
Bethesda’s galaxy-hopping RPG takes place in the 24th century, a period that its lore establishes as a time by which humanity has long abandoned its home planet to settle the final frontier. Discovering what prompted that migration isone ofStarfield’s central mysteries, which players who decide to pursue the game’s main quest will spend a long time exploring.
What’s much less of a mystery is the fate of canines in this universe: they all went extinct. This is confirmed by one common type of loot, Chocolate Labs, whose description states that it’s a breakfast cereal “shaped like an extinct canine called Labrador Retriever.” And whilesomeStarfieldplayers have discovered this sad lore detail about dogswithin hours of the RPG’s September 2023 release, Reddit user Serafim42 noticed it just recently, labeling it as “the saddest thing” they’ve found in the game to date. Hundreds of other fans voted to send their Chocolate Labs screenshot to the front page of the largestStarfieldcommunity on Reddit, indicating that the knowledge of dogs' extinction in this world has still eluded some players.
Some Players Think Starfield’s Lack of Dogs Doesn’t Make Sense
The thread thus gave rise to yet another popular discussion about this aspect ofStarfield’s lore, which saw a number of fans argue that the game’s lack of dogs doesn’t make sense. Those opinions largely come down to the belief that people wouldn’t be willing to leave their pets behind. However, several players argued that many denizens of the Earth may have indeed stayed behind with their pets, thus simply going extinct alongside them.
Starfield Pet Mods Are a Distant Possibility
The discussion also yielded renewed calls for the modding community to add pets toStarfield. While no such projects have been announced to date, the chances of modders eventually getting around to this idea seem plausible. After all, Bethesda’s other popularRPGs likeSkyrimhave no shortage of high-quality pet mods.
But since pet models don’t exist in the game, even the simplest mods of this sort would ostensibly require significant effort to create. Expecting such a level of commitment from the modding community at a time when Bethesda has yet to releaseStarfield’s official mod tools isn’t realistic. On the bright side, the wait for Creation Kit 2 may be nearing its end, as some recent activity in theStarfieldSteam repository suggests that the toolset is close to entering beta testing.
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Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4. In this next generation role-playing game set amongst the stars, create any character you want and explore with unparalleled freedom as you embark on an epic journey to answer humanity’s greatest mystery.The year is 2330. Humanity has ventured beyond our solar system, settling new planets, and living as a spacefaring people. From humble beginnings as a space miner, you will join Constellation – the last group of space explorers seeking rare artifacts throughout the galaxy – and navigate the vast expanse of the Settled Systems in Bethesda Game Studios’ biggest and most ambitious game.
