How To Install Mods For Starbound

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I was having trouble with this until I managed to piece parts of advice together to find out how to do it. This is my guide on how to install and run mods: Turn your Server Off - You may only need to reset it afterwards but I turn it off for good measure 1. Go to steam workshop 2. Go to what ever mod you like 3. Click the green subscribe button 4. Once you're in the 'File Manager', find the mods folder. Click on your mods folder to open it, and select the 'new file' button. Give your file the same name as your Mod. Now open your new file and press the 'Upload' button. Find your Mod folder containing your Mod's files, then click on the.pak file and upload that. Before publishing your mod, it is better to pack it as a single modname.modpak file. This process is recommended because it simplifies the installation (drop the file in the Starbound/mods/ folder). The alternative is to just put all the files into a zip archive. To assemble your mod into a modpak, follow bartwe's post or use ModPackHelper.

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Starbound is massive. Here are some mods to help you make it massive-er.

Despite the fact that it “launched” only a couple weeks ago, Starbound has been in various states of Early Access for years. The quadrillion-planet-strong side-scrolling space sandbox has a mod community nearly as vast as its universe. Here are a few (but hardly all) of the best.

Vehicles

How To Install Mods For Starbound

Explorerpod

Starbound is, first and foremost, a game about exploration. Often, that means hoofing it from place-to-place as mites of sleep begin to cloud your vision. The Explorerpod is a vehicle that makes the whole process quicker and more convenient.

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Submarine

Another exploration-focused vehicle. This one’s a sweet submarine. Why swim and slowly suffocate when you can travel in style?

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XS Mechs (and ZZ Mech Modifications)

This mod gives you a bunch of big ol’ mechs to clomp around in. Some are light, humble things that only have guns the size of several adult humans. Others have shoulder-mounted cannons the size of buses. Fun!

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Mecharachnid

A giant robot spider. The devil given glistening metal flesh.

Races

Avali

Space raptor things! People have put tons of work into turning Avali into a fully fledged race on par with anything else in Starbound, and it shows.

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Felin

Who doesn’t want to be a cat person? This is not a rhetorical question.

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Familiars

They’re fuzzy meerkat type things, I think. I want to hug them, which is good enough to get a recommendation from me.

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Munari

Undersea folk. They outgrew their ocean, and now they’re coming for yours.

Vespoids

Wasp people. I bet they love country clubs.

Overhauls

Frackin’ Universe

The mother of all Starbound mods. Here’s its description: “FrackinUniverse combines new biomes, a hugely increased crafting system, science, monsters, tiles and hundreds of other assets to the game. It’s 3 years in now, and quite encompassing.” If you want to change everything, this is the mod for you. Be wary, though: if you install the mod, it will permanently change your universe, and uninstalling the mod will probably wreck it.

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Frackin’ Races

A mod that adds species-specific powers and characteristics. Pairs well with Frackin’ Universe.

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Frackin’ Music

Another part of the Frackin’ series. Adds more than 200 new songs to the game.

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Spooky Tweaks

A bunch of tweaks in the name of making Starbound more streamlined and fun. Also slightly more spooky (allegedly).

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Improvements and Fixes

Efficient Watering

A mod that makes watering crops more convenient. You can water while walking! Thank goodness. Now I just have to figure out how to do that in real life.

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The Tabula Rasa

A unified crafting bench for mod content. Instead of scrambling to organize things you’ve downloaded, this mod offers a one-stop station for all of it.

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Enemies Aren’t Stupid

Starbound’s enemies can be kinda stupid. This makes them faster, more reactive, and more capable when faced with the most intimidating foe of all: doors.

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Weapon Stats

A detailed weapon stats readout for swords and guns.

Earth’s Finest—Crew Improvements

This mod expands the game’s crew system, turning it into a series of meaningful choices rather than a half-baked sideshow. Each class gets unique stats and abilities with an eye toward balance. This is an especially good mod to snap up if you’re playing solo.

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Purchasable Pets

Buy pets for your ship! Have as many as you want! This is the only Starbound mod that really matters.

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Crossovers

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Dead Squirrel’s Firefly for Humans - “You paid money for this, sir? On purpose?”

Replaces the human ship with the gorram ship from Firefly.

Metal Gear Solid Alert Sound

Plays the Metal Gear Solid alert sound when enemies notice you. Game’s unplayable without it imo.

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Dark Souls Armor And Weapons

Armor and weapons.. from Dark Souls!

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Castlevania

Tons of objects from Castlevania games. Be the Dracula you want to see in the world.

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Metroid’s Varia Suit Armor Mod

A bunch of Metroid armor mods.

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Deathclaw

You can flee from city to city, planet to planet, and even play a wholly unrelated video game, but you’ll never truly be safe from Fallout’s Deathclaws.

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Overwatch Mod

I’ll level with you: doing anything other than playing Overwatch is a pretty tall order for me these days. This mod lets you craft items, outfits, and weapons from Overwatch. You can basically be Genji, Soldier 76, Tracer, et al. If you’re an Overwatch addict, this one’s basically mandatory.

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Starbound Except It Makes That Weird Tim Allen Noise When Monsters Die

“You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’” - George Bernard Shaw

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Creative Mode is a mod for Starbound, created by aMannus.

Description:

This mod is aimed for providing a helpful tool for players to do what they want to do. The idea is taken from the game Minecraft, where this exact mode was introduced to help players build bigger projects. This mod aims to provide this same sort of experience (if not more), all through adding in-game items. So, what will this mod provide for you?

To provide such a worry-free building environment, there's a couple of things that are important. First off, this mod adds a way to 'spawn' items in the game. This way players don't have to fly around to gather their materials for this awesome building project they had in mind. Apart from that, this mod adds some ways to get rid of the hazardous elements in Starbound through armor, weapons and a new tech that enables flight.

If that wasn't enough, this mod adds ways for players to get to a certain progression point in the game, deciding themselves to what point they want to boost themselves. If a character wipe or a corrupt savefile wiped your progress, you can use the items this mod provides to bring yourself to the same point where your old character was. The control is completely in the player's hands, and you decide yourself how far you want to take it.

Instructions:

1. Remove any previous CreativeMode folders if you installed this mod previously. This is important!

2. Copy over the entire CreativeMode folder to X:SteamSteamAppscommonStarboundgiraffe_storagemods

-- And nowhere else!

Be sure to copy the entire folder, not just it's contents! This is important or your game will crash if you try to open the Ultimate Box.

3. Start up the game. Press C to bring up your crafting interface and craft the Ultimate Box.

4. Set the Ultimate Box down, get the stuff you choose to get. The Spawning Boxes are also available in the Ultimate Box.

Report problems with download to support@gamepressure.com

Name

Type

Size

Date

Total

7 days

Starbound - Creative Mode v.1.4.5mod1.9 MB2/20/20164.2K140
Starbound - Unlimited Health and Energy v.1.1mod5.1 KB2/14/201918532
Starbound - XS Corporation Mechs v.1.05mod4.5 MB2/21/20163K26
Starbound - Fully Customizable Ship v.1.1EKmod25.8 KB2/21/20161.4K20