Mod trekking: The best Starbound mods so far. You can always install the Your Starbound Crew mod. But there’s a plethora of mods over at Starbound Nexus and the community forums that.
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)SteamsteamappscommonStarbound'.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.
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Creative ModeOr, 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 RasaDue 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. Simple Extended Character Creation ModThere 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.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 MechsThe 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 StoreIf 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.
Venturing onto an unexplored foreign planet is a bit like emigrating, but instead of immediately setting up a bank account, renting a flat, and/or hiring a car your primary is concern is, well, staying alive. In interstellar sandbox adventure there are plenty of moon-bound monsters out to get you from the off – be that of the biome, procedurally-generated or unique variety – so it’s absolutely essential your house/ship/pithy gathering of dirt and mud is in order quick snap.Luckily, Starbound packs quite the selection of mods to help that along. The following should give you an extra leg-up before the extra-terrestrials get you. AndBy Tatsu and Tripod respectivelyInventory Interface Redone is a handy mod to install early on which reconfigures how your inventory interface is displayed. As can be seen in the header image above, by rotating the items pane and running it vertically on one side allows enough space for text identifiers to fit alongside the five main criteria. With that slight adjustment, everything else suddenly feels like it’s in the right place, and what at first may seem like a pretty insignificant tweak makes juggling your inventory so much easier over time.Once the critters come calling, you’ll want your finest weapons at hand too.
Weapons Stats displays item level, the damage per second (DPS) and the damage per energy (DPE) for swords and guns. This is based on raw damage only – therefore abilities and combo attacks aren’t factored in – however this is a neat quality of life mod that should help you organise your offensive. AndBy By Lunchghost and v6 respectivelyThe Monica Geller-level of clerical organisation continues with both Container UI Tweak and Improved Containers.First the former, which is another superficial display tweak that separates your inventory and containers windows with a much wider margin offered by the game’s v1.1.
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“This mod changes four pixels (as standard in v1.1) to 160 pixels, which means you must manually move the inventory window to the left once,” reads the creator’s blurb. It’s worth noting that, unfortunately, the Container UI tweak isn’t compatible with the aforementioned Inventory Interface mod. While I personally prefer the one listed above, I like this one enough to recommend it here on the off-chance you lean this way instead.Improved Containers simply allows containers to be renamed, sorted and quick stacked which should boost your organisational needs to no end., andBy Kave Johnson, Neo and zecra respectivelyRight, now all of that boring secretarial stuff is out of the way let’s get onto the fun stuff. Like gardening. Hey, you guys and gals gotta eat. And if you wanna survive look, we spoke about this already.
Anyway, Compact Crops halves the required space for large horizontal-lying crops that in essence makes for more crops on less land.Following this, Craftable Seeds allows you to create all seeds and certain saplings – not to mention new Mushroom Seeds and Thorny Plant Seeds; and new saplings from Alienfruit, Mushrooms, Coconuts, Red Apples, and Plant Fibre – directly from crops and fruits. Simply open the new ‘Seed Maker’, craftable via your Inventor’s Table, and create away to your heart’s content.Then of course you have Efficient Watering. There’s perhaps not another Starbound mod out there that is so simple yet so satisfying. It lets you water your crops without those pesky cool-down times. It decreases the overall time it takes to water crops. And, crucially, it lets you water while walking. AndBy Mickyan and v6 respectivelyOkay, so it’s finally time to seek some help out in the celestial wilderness, but everyone you’ve happened upon so far is completely handless.
Enter Earth’s Finest, a mod that improves the crew system by greatly increasing the strength and services of your entourage. With balance in mind, each class gets treated to their own unique stats making crew choice top priority.Outlaws, for example, receive reduced health and regeneration capabilities, however can deal greater damage, have increased invulnerability time after being struck, and can run faster than before. Likewise, Soldiers are afforded higher damage rates, and increased health. “Additionally, your tailor will now consider your head slot items for your crew’s uniform,” says the mod’s creator, which is a nice touch.With Instant Crafting, you can put your newly-formed motley crew to work. Much similar to how crafting functioned in Starbound’s earliest days, Instant Crafting disables the more recently introduced timer on crafting tables so that everything you turn your hand to is created instantaneously., andBy Lukky, lophatkao and ZimaZang respectivelyNow, onto the real fun stuff.Once you’ve settled on your once foreign planet, how are do you plan to further explore? You could use the hoverbikes Starbound offers as standard.
But you’re BETTER using Lukky’s Explorerpod mod which adds a host of two-seater Explorerpod vehicles that can be claimed via Penguin Pete’s Vehicle Lot in exchange for a healthy sum of pixels. Oh, and not only can these hovercrafts skoot from surface-to-air-to-space – they can also dive deep as fully-submersible ships.But then again, is this the best way to get around? I mean, what if you get attacked while flying around in the pod?
Wouldn’t it be nice to ensure your safety too? Of course it would, which is where both XS Mechs and ZZ Mech Mods come in. The former adds a suite of ultra-cool mechs which boast lasers and turrets and cannons and skull heads and rail guns and whole range of other artillery and neat designs. ZZ Mech Mods then asks: “Love using XS Mechs? Ever wish your mech could stand out from the stock mechs?
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Then look no further,” before adding even more mechs to the mix.To gain access to this, you’ll first need to have completed Floran boss mission, before visiting Penguin Pete who’ll offer a new quest. Ultimately, he points you in the direction of an illegal mech dealer – who deals in special weapons, mech, and a mech recolouring scheme.
Be warned, though, the dealer ain’t cheap., andBy SayterSimilar to, Sayter’s Starbound Steam Workshop page is worth visiting in its entirety. Frackin’ Universe is essentially a total conversion that adds new biomes, expands the crafting system, adds science, micro-dungeons, custom crew members, armours, weapons, new monsters, tiles and loads of other incremental and superficial adjustments to the base game. Separate mods Starbooze and Bees are also slotted in there which add, funnily enough, alcohol and bees to the sandbox.Frackin’ Races and Frackin’ Races Foods are good complimentary mods to the above (although can be used on their own) which introduce more idiosyncratic options and ability alterations to race and foods. It’s worth noting that given these mods alter so much of the original game, they’re probably best suited to those who’ve spent a long time playing, or are perhaps fed up with playing, the vanilla game.Sayter has attached the following disclaimer to the Universe mod’s page:“Installing FU is a one-way trip.
FU will affect your game universe.and.ALL. characters. If you uninstall the mod, your game will inevitably crash, unless you wipe your universe and player folders. THIS CANNOT BE AVOIDED, so please do not request that we ‘fix’ this. It is not avoidable. If you are not sure you want to keep this mod, be sure to back up your universe and player folders before installing.”, andBy Magnus, Cookie the Ice-Cream Kookaburra and SwolarPug respectivelyOf course a list of best Starbound mods wouldn’t be complete without mention of crossovers. There are plenty of them out there (I’ve inevitably missed your personal favourites – sorry!), however these ones are probably the most fun and/or sophisticated of the lot.
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Erring towards the former, I just can’t get over how cute Smough of Ornstein and Smough of Dark Souls is shrunk, pixelated and forced into Starbound.If Overwatch is your thing (it’s not mine), then the Overwatch mod looks pretty nifty. In the style of Blizzard’s team-based multiplayer FPS, you can craft weapons, items and costumes, and make use of other miscellaneous items such as the Roadhog Gas Cannister and Legendary Panel.The stand out crossover for me, though, is Cookie the Ice-Cream Kookaburra’s Castlevania which borrows loads of items, objects and backdrops from the renowned Akumajō Dracula series. There’s genuinely hours of fun to be had in this mod alone.By Peasly WellbottUm yeah, this one is pretty terrifying. Creator Peasly Wellbott describes Mecharachnid as “the pinnacle of ill-advised Penguin research” with which you can “gain a vehicle of uncompromising might.” Only problem is, it’s tooled up with a rather uncompromising AI that’s not for the faint of heart. “Speak with the Barkeep after dealing with Dreadwing, and come equipped for a hard fight.”Look at that thing.
Best assemble the mechs. Honourable MentionsBy Doctor RagnarokHere’s what to do with all those spare gnomes.By SupaCUREAdd some intelligence to your adversaries.By LunchghostA handy item that guides you back to the site of your last death.By odkupiciel375Add a splash of the Wasterland to Starbound.Which brings us to the end of our best Starbound mods. But space is a pretty big place to explore.
Have we missed some mods along the way? Probably – tell us which ones in the comments below.Starbound is available now for Windows, Mac and Linux via,.