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As happens with all the best sandbox game, a huge and creative community has attached itself to Starbound. While the game's still in Early Access, through the use of mods you can expand it into something more varied, more vibrant, and specifically tailored to what you want it to be. Here are ten of the best mods, chosen from the many now available in Starbound's. Before we get to the mods, first download the Starbound Mod Manager. The game doesn't yet offer official mod support, but this third-party application does a great job of installing the files for you.

It doesn't matter where you install it, as long as you tell it the location of your Starbound install. You'll most likely find that in your Steam directory, by default in 'C: Program Files (x86) Steam steamapps common Starbound'. Once it's set up, you can install new mods by dragging and dropping their zip files into the main window of the Mod Manager. If compatible, it'll automatically unpack the files, and let you install or remove them with a single click. Creative Mode Or, to give this mod the alternative title I just made up, 'hello, I'm a massive cheating cheat' mode.

Ostensibly, Creative Mode allows you to spawn building materials for the purpose of terraforming a chosen planet into a paradise of your own design. But in addition, it puts complete god-like power into a selection of handy workstations. The mod's 'Ultimate Box' is available for free inside the crafting menu, and inside you'll find an item spawner, Tech unlocker, Super Manipulator, and more. It's great for its stated purpose, and also for turning you into an instant badass of unstoppable power. The Tabula Rasa Due to the type of mods popular in Starbound, some of the most useful downloads are almost entirely administrative in their design. This, admittedly, is not very exciting, but—like filing your taxes or regularly checking your oil—opens up the potential for hassle-free future excitement.

Tabula Rasa is both administrative and essential. It adds a giant obsidian tablet to the crafting menu that gives instant access to items added by other mods. It's a great way to cut down on the confusion that can be caused by multiple installations. If there's an extra you need, you'll almost certainly find it here.

Starbound saves your progress in two different folders; players and universe. Both of these are located in your main Starbound folder (in linux32 or in linux64 if you use Linux version). The players folder stores your character, your inventory and your ship. The universe folder stores all the planets you've explored and any changes made to them. Select the Download link above, and run the file or save it (recommended) to your selected destination. Please note the location of where you save the file. Due to file size, a broadband Internet connection is recommended. You should save a copy of the file to an external storage device for future access. Jul 1, 2014 - Before we get to the mods, first download the Starbound Mod Manager. The game doesn't yet offer official mod support, but this third-party application does a great job of installing the files for you. It doesn't matter where you install it, as long as you tell it the location of your Starbound install. You'll most likely.

Simple Extended Character Creation Mod There are for Starbound, and I'm not going to tell you which to download. Maybe you want to be a, or,. It's really down to your own personal preference.

Whichever race choose, you'll need this mod to select them. It adds additional slots to character creation that fill up as you install new species.

Starbound Wiki Ships

Personally, I'm a fan of the clean look provided by Simple Extended Character Creation's “Modded Species” box. But if you run out of slots, Kawa's offers a functional and expanded alternative. XS Corporation Mechs The fourth mod in this list and we're only just getting to the giant mechs? I know, I'm sorry. Hopefully the massive firepower offered by XS Corporation Mechs will make up for the delay. It bolsters Starbounds limited mech selection with an additional six hulking power-suits.

As well as looking brilliant, each has a unique set of abilities and weapons. The Sigma Mech, for instance, offers a huge cluster-bomb attack, while the Rho Mech features a “Graviton” beam that pulls enemies into range of its powerful plasma lathe. The materials required for each Tech schematic ensures they aren't (too) overpowered. Pixel Goods Store If Animal Crossing, Wildstar and the entire concept Ikea prove anything, it's that people will happily spend hours painstakingly choosing, buying and arranging furniture. The Pixel Goods Store brings that philosophy into Starbound, with a special store that contains a variety of furnishings and decor to compliment your constructions. With it you can buy items ranging from beds, chairs, appliances and electronics, as well as a selection of things themed around each race.

In all, there are over 300 new items included. Many of them are completely non-functional, but they nevertheless expand your potential to add personality to your home.

World File Download

Deep under the outpost lives a man with the secret to Building Your Own Ship. Inspired by the FCS (Fully Customizable Ships) by Princeofmar5 mod that was unfortunately abandoned, this mod brings you a ship that you can build from the ground up.

For but a mere Dubloon (and the wits to find our questgiver) you can now own your own BYOS! You want to travel around the universe in a tardis? Have a planet for a spaceship? Travel in the comfort of a spacewhale's stomach?

If you can imagine and build it, it is now possible. Warning: this will utterly destroy your old ship. I've put a platform down to catch anything that does not remain hanging in the air, but I advise you to 1: backup your player folder! (its in starbound storage player) 2: clean up your ship before accepting this quest. This mod works best on a new character. Older characters might need to go through the following steps if the shipworld is: stuck on the tier 8, has unmovable items.

Shown picture is after cleanup, manually placed items might drop to the floor or they might be. Clean up your ship before updating.

I'd advise bringing a broom before you start building (where's that useless janitor when you need him?) I'd advice you to not do this quest until your original ship is fully repaired (at that point it should be seperate from the main quest). It works before that, but there might be unintended side effects.

Features. The shiplocker that is spawned upon completing the quest has all the race items in plenty amounts. Every block is breakable. One note though: spawn location will always remain where the current teleporter is.

So build outwards from your teleporter, that way the spawn point can be in the bottom, top, left or right of the ship. There is enough space on all sides to build to your hearts content. update on this, it seems that /setspawnpoint will allow you to set a custom spawn point. The techstation (s.a.i.l.) will set your pet. You want a different pet? Just replace the techstation.

Only one tech station should be placed at any time. No need to replace files or manually delete stuff.

The ship is obtained through a quest at the outpost. The questgiver really doesn't want to be found. He's hiding for a reason. Bring a lot of rope or another means to get to places you can't normally get to if you want to find him. You can still play vanilla with this mod installed, it will only change your ship after doing the quest.

(except for the unintended feature. See below, this will be fixed one way or another). Works for all vanilla races. Custom races are possible now through addons.

Avali + tutorial Felin. This mod is only needed on the server or the co-players installation during the upgrade to byos. My advice is to upgrade in singleplayer mode.

After this you are safe to return to any server of choice, regardless of whether its installed there. Spoiler: How to skip the quest Warning, do not do this while on your ship.

While it works, you'll be stuck with outpostundersideman on your ship. Forever (or until you delete your shipworld file). Type the following commands in singleplayer, while having your mouse pointer in the same area as where you are standing. Code: /admin /spawnnpc human outpostundersideman /spawnitem dubloon /admin Now do the quest and immediatly turn it in Troubleshooting start the game, play your bugged character, and close the game go to starbound storage player sort by date, and rename the latest.shipworld file to.old then start the game and start your character If there are still problems, let me know the following in your post:. What version are you running: see in start screen, click the gear bottom left, and look for the version number.

What race you play, and if not vanilla if you have the appropriate addon. What other mods are running besides BYOS. If the update does not work, make a copy of your starbound.log file so it remains intact before restarting the game, put it on pastebin and include the link. Please describe if you did anything else to your ship/mods/game that you think might be of interest.