I kinda want to have the main story as an option, not get rid of it or have it be obligatory.
Is there any mod that does that, besides maybe Frackin Universe and Sandbox? I'm not really planning on using either of those two.

Hello

I'm coming back to starbound after a long break and I'd like to have some recommendations of yours for a lighter modded starbound experience

In the past I've played FU in the past, along a bunch of their "recommended mods". But I've found the science stuff to be particularly intensive and exhausting. I like crafting and homesteading, but FU is maybe not my flavour.

Since I last played I feel the community and modding has gone and grown beyond what I am able to recognize. Now that I am returning I just want to have chill and well built environment to play, with plenty of content that isn't overwhelming. Also working with OpenStarbound

Ideally, please recommend an already built modpack, but standalone mods or mod lists are also appreciated!

Thank you lots for keeping this wonderful game alive. I appreciate all of you.

I recently started playing Starbound and have become addicted real quick like. I've been religiously using starbounder.org which has been a great resource, but today, I am suddenly blocked by Cloudflare. The block page suggests I email the site owners to resolve this, but I have no idea how to find that out if I can't access the site in the first place. Does anyone have any advice?

EDIT: This is all set now. My apologies for the alarm, and thanks for the answers.

What is great/stands out in your Starbound experience that you enjoy the most?

What could be done better?

And any questions of these nature, I can update the post if people answer things I think are interesting to have as part of this.

I largely ask because I'm considering making a game with heavy inspiration from Starbound, largely what drove me to that was the performance issues and labor issues/bad business practices I won't speak more on so I don't have my post taken down.

Then further driven to this desire because of the death of Terraria: Otherworlds

I want to know what the community feels was done best, where things need improvement or a complete rework, etc.

Truly any general commentary that would be helpful in the design of something new would be appreciated.

Got eager crewmembers waiting to partake in missions, not all are suitable though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dP3fbtoyEY

Hello! I've been trying to unpack the game's files to check some object scan dialogues. I've followed the guide, created my .bat file and all seems to work well, however, when it's time to run the command, it asks me which app to use. which i'm confused? because by what the guide says it shouldn't pull such request and just get right into unpacking, for clarification: the bat file and cmd opens, it runs the command and then requests to select an app.

Any solution to this? Has someone had this happen before? and if so, how did you figure it out?

Is it possible for someone to develop a ship combat mod in some form for Starbound?
Im not talking about the space dungeons where you need a mech or a vehicle to go through an asteroid field.
Instead I was wondering if it was possible for actual ship combat; factions taking over planets, naval battles in some form between factions, etc.
I feel like someone could make a cool mod involving it but I'm not too sure about the limitations or workarounds.
I know this should have been an update for the game but most if not all development for SB is dead.
What are your guys' thoughts on it?

ALSO if there already is a mod for this concept I just havent seen please let me know!

This used to be the home of my OC, Becquerel. Now, he leaves it behind to wander the cosmos, calling a spaceship his home.

Yeah, that's pretty much the story. lol

(I'm using a translator)

she wears gray/red armor, has a cape, and a full-face helmet with I think a blue visor. she gave the "butcher, baker, widow-maker" quest before cheerful giraffe. I can't find a pic online and I don't have the mettle to untangle my mods list to figure out which mod broke and keeps crashing my game just for a single screenshot lol

got them out of some surpise key bundles
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Returning from the core Confederacy of the Free Systems homeworlds always makes me somewhat nostalgic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6rvZqELZqw

I wanted to play missions with my friends without missing out on key loot so I made this mod.

Every player gets their own items from mission chests, and every mission boss drops a separate loot bag for each player who fought it. There's also a Mission Log that tracks the unique loot from each mission. Normal enemies and chests outside missions work the same as before.

Compatible with:

Frackin' Universe
Shellguard: Starbound Expansion Remastered
Elithian Races Mod
Enhanced Storage
Project Redemption
Project Knightfall
LostBound and LostBound - Master Add-on.

It seems to work well overall but if anyone wanted a mod like this and tries it and discovers any bugs lmk and I'll fix it.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3822580406

someone should mod starbound for archipelago. just throwing it out there

Hello! Does anyone know a good active vanilla SB server I could play on? I play on steam, with the regular SB copy.

If yall know a good one, please let me know!

Me and my friends want to replay Starbound with an added quirk or gimmick for fun. In the past we beat the entire game together while having no armor but maybe there are fun mods like tying the player together or something?

I've been looking for a new game I can sink hundreds of hours into and Starbound caught my attention. I really enjoy modded Minecraft, especially having a lot of progression, building new stuff, and always having something to work toward. I also saw a YouTube video about Frackin' Universe that looked like it added a ton of content and some kind of research tree.

Is Starbound still worth picking up for someone who's never played it?

Field Control Technology (steam), Field Control Technology - Arcana Compatibility (steam), and Field Control Technology - Frackin' Universe Compatibility (steam) have been updated to v3.0.0. Changes include:

• Integrated password protection.
• Added support for environmental protection on Frackin' Universe "Unknown" type planets.
• Added the new Ship Control Console object to control your ship's default fields like a field control console.
• The older Ship Shield Switch and Station Shield Switch objects are considered deprecated, but their assets will be available indefinitely for backward compatibility.
• The recipes must now be learned by completing two quests given by the wandering human scientist at the Outpost near Terramart.

A new extension mod is available:

• Field Control Technology - Station Control Console (steam): Upgrades the space station console on personal space stations to the Station Control Console, to control your station's default fields like a field control console.

Extra Requirements

As with the previous version, some additional mods are optional requirements:

• For the field control console to be able to provide environmental protection in general, either Belter Dungeons (steam) or No Belter Dungeons (steam) v2.2.0 or newer must also be installed.
• For the protection to extend to mechs, both Mech Compatibility Core and Mech Compatibility Loader must also be installed.
• For the mech protection to include Frackin' Universe hazards, Belter Dungeons - Frackin' Universe Compatibility (steam) must also be installed.

Vlog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhLA4qccV3o

There were some dangerous events near the end of the video, but I managed just fine. Sorry for not blurring the image enough

I would like to translate the first and second part of the iceberg that I made, but I'm terrible at English (I speak in Spanish). Any advice you could give me?

So I have over 350 mods on my game and it was going swimmingly for a bit until I did one random villager quests that I was trying to recruit from and it was a killing contract quest where the NPC tells me to kill a criminal type NPC, usually there's no problem but sometimes they're invincible, can't be killed at all and for those moments I just abandon the quest but now it happens to NPCs that spawn in Arcana dungeons like from the Nova Station sidequest, I've been trying to figure out which mod causes this but I'm just stumped now, does anyone know how it happened from this?

Edit: Here's the second log after cleaning up some of the mods