Fallout 4’s August 18 Patch May Disrupt Mods, Bethesda Says

Fallout 4 will receive a patch on Tuesday, August 18, focused on general improvements to Creations. Bethesda Game Studios has warned that the update may interfere with mods, and it wants players to protect their load orders before the patch goes live.

Creations is Fallout 4’s in-game system for mod content, including items that can be purchased with digital currency. Changes to that system can affect how installed content is handled, which is why Bethesda is asking players to take a precaution before the patch arrives.

Save your Fallout 4 load order before August 18

In Bethesda’s announcement on X, the studio asked players who have not opened a save recently to log into the game before the update. Players can also manually save their load order.

After the load order has been saved, Bethesda says the entire Creations list can be downloaded again at once when the patch is live. The studio did not identify which mods might be affected, so the warning applies broadly to modded Fallout 4 installations rather than a specific group of files.

Bethesda is also working on a Skyrim update

The same announcement included a brief note about Skyrim. Bethesda said another update is in development, but it did not provide a release date, feature list, or other details about what it will change.

Fallout 4 has faced mod problems after past updates

Players have seen similar disruption before. Fallout 4’s 2024 next-gen update broke modded saves, while the game’s 2025 Anniversary Edition update later left many mods unusable. Bethesda scheduled a hotfix and two additional patches after the Anniversary Edition update, as detailed in the earlier Anniversary Edition coverage.

Bethesda has not confirmed that the August 18 patch will break mods in the same way, but saving a load order ahead of time gives players a way to restore their Creations collection if the update causes trouble.

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Fallout 4

Developed by Bethesda Game Studios

Bethesda Game Studios welcome you to the world of Fallout 4, their most ambitious game ever, and the next generation of open-world gaming. As the sole survivor of Vault 111, you enter a world destroyed by nuclear war. Every second is a fight for survival, and every choice is yours. Only you can rebuild and determine the fate of the Wasteland. Welcome home.

• Genre Shooter, Role-playing (RPG)
• Platforms Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One
• Perspective First person, Third person
• Modes Single player
• Release November 9, 2015
• Publisher Bethesda Softworks
• Age Rating
• Time to Beat

  Main

  16.6h

  Main + Extras

  75.3h

  Completionist

  196.6h

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