In the meanwhile the Creation Kit has been patched several times, reaching its current version number 1.8.151.0. On February 7th, the Creation Kit was released, along with a High Resolution Texture Pack. Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 will not have the Creation Kit. However, the kit was scheduled for release on February 7th, 2012 as stated by Pete Hines, one of the game's developers. A post made on January 27th, 2012 stated that Bethesda anticipated the release of the patch to be 'next week,' with the Creation Kit not far behind. KitGuru Says: This means that we may see larger mods on the Skyrim Workshop fairly soon, it may even take over from the Skyrim Nexus as the place for some of the more ambitious community projects.In a statement made on the Bethesda forums, the Creation Kit was supposed to be released alongside the v1.4 patch. If you would like to beta test the upcoming feature updates for the Skyrim Launcher and the creation kit then you have to right-click on each program in your Steam library, select properties, select the beta tab and opt in. The Skyrim launcher will then update the game after the Steam Client finishes its download. The launcher will no longer download mods from the Steam Workshop, they will now be managed by the Steam client instead. The second update is coming to the Skyrim Launcher. The preview image for each mod is limited to 1MB in size though. The creation kit is getting a new update, supporting unlimited file sizes for mods on the Steam Workshop.

The feature is currently being beta tested before going live, those that want to can get in on the beta. The Steam Workshop will soon contain even bigger mods for Skyrim as Bethesda is updating things to remove the 100MB file size limit, allowing for mods of any size.

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