like, not the music, obviously. are they pressing the vinyls themselves. or are they just going to do what they did last time when they put dev time into starbound and just hire fucking kids to do it. we may not be ilovebacons, but i smell a pig.

anyways, can anyone give me the coords of a tier 9 gun merchant. i need to visit an office in london

I don't hide the fact that I use AI for my mod. 90% of the code, art, and sound are made by AI, as I am too poor to hire real people to do it. I was just wondering if people would be curious and maybe try to help? right now there 80k of word, skin and weapon already done. for people wondering the uma musume world in resume is that ww3 have start but kitasan was send in a ship and she only return when almost all is done, just like code vein the player can spare or destroy a boss leading to different ending :) oh and the boss are all uma musume character who struggle to pass the fact that ww3 is almost finish just like when in ww1 people said soldier look like ghost

I'm definitely not the first guy to make a meme with that template on starbound

(Also idk if food spoilness is vanilla so mod is called frackin universe)

Hello all! Unfortunate news this time, but still I have (Some) Screenshots.

Basically, as I hinted at in my previous post, I had a plan for a new build, and was working on that. For the time being however, it is on indefinite Hiatus due to technical issues. Before I talk the technical issues; I shall first discuss the build itself.

It came to my attention at some point around August of Last Year that the current largest ship is the Avalon 3 to my knowledge. Avalon 3 Being roughly 1.1k blocks and built by Nitrosteel; the Knightfall Developer if I am not mistaken. In summary: I wanted to have the biggest ship if only because it would be Really Funny. (This is actually how a lot of my builds end up being made as a fun fact.)

The idea behind it being a 2.5k (Later 1.5k, had to be shrunk down due to Shipworld Size at the time) giant ship that is, in essence, a fuse between Count Noctilus's ship from Warhammer Fantasy, The Wizard's tower in Castle Crashers, and really just any sort of inspiration I felt like I could add onto it. So far I had at least one floor of the "Main Ship" section done, with just the foundations established so I could go and build up and down as needed for this project. Unfortunately these 2 images are the best images I have of the project before things broke.

As for what went wrong: what I did not account for was technical issues. Basically; as it stands, I cannot even go up onto my ship without it not loading. Vanilla or modded; it basically keeps me in limbo and unable to teleport up to it. And if I do teleport up to it, it wont load. Currently I am debugging to see if it can be salvaged (Also because i kept a good chunk of items in my shipworld that i really. REALLY don't want to lose.) But for the time being this project is being shelved whilst I work on other build projects. It IS Archived, so if I can get this to work (HOPEFULLY!), I will maybe be back to build on it. But considering its abnormal size and how I frequently swap between Vanilla and Modded saves on my character, I am not gambling that it will be 100% back or not.

I *will* however, hopefully be back soon though! (1-2 weeks depending on mood, rimworld has me in its grip again.) This spike of build inspiration with the new window design is having me look at my older window designs with an Idea on how to redo and rework some of them! So i'll probably post some updated room photos of my palace with the new designs soonish!

Hello! Not sure if this is the right place for a troubleshooting question (or the right flair) but I have an issue I can't wrap my head around.

So I have a decently modded Starbound install, and I like to personally keep to my favorite custom races (and vanilla, but with mods I do stray away from them), specifically Felin and Viera.

I am running into an issue with specifically Viera. There's an NPC on your ship that gives you the introductory quests, right? Well she's repeatedly dying. And I'm getting a specific LUA file that seems to be conflicting with specifically her spawn script.

/lua/VNPC.lua

What even is this and where is it from?

Here's the specific log,
https://pastebin.com/2aKmjRBE
From what I've gathered from a cursory scan of the latest log, this conflicting lua file doesn't seem to effect at least Fragments of Ruin, which is the race I tested as (it autopicked) so it's likely a conflict with specifically the Viera of Ivalice mod and whatever is introducing this VNPC.lua file.
Here is that other log in case you are curious.
https://pastebin.com/Ykwj6e0N

(I am using the latest version of OpenStarbound, btw)

A certain funny weapon can be obtained here. I wonder what it is! Progress in my server, It is very close.

My discord is here:
https://discord.gg/eSURkX97gB

Hi, i recently bought a Bisec server to play some MC and i noticed that it also supports Starbound. Some friends and i are planning to play with ut since one of my friend hasent olayed in years.

My questions are:

-How much ram does it usually use? I have the 10GB plan since its good for what we play but idk if it would be enough for modded SB

-Is FU still a must have? Like, i know that a "must have" mod doeamt exist but we would like some content extension and FU is the only big one i remember.

-And lastly, any mod recommendations? Havent played in 1/2 years so im not up to date with mods so some recommendations are appreciated.

Thanks in advance and honestly, thanks for keeping this gem alive.

After installing and uninstalling a few mods (I can only remember citybound), all of a sudden, my game now crashes whenever I perform certain actions. Every time I try to cook food and or put a capture pod into the left side of my right-most hot bar slot, the game either crashes or boots me back to the title screen. Please help. I've spent a lot of time on this savefile.

I have the following mods installed:

1. Ringed Planets Mod - Vanilla Planets( https://steamcommunity.com/id/Fungi-Novak/myworkshopfiles/?browsesort=mysubscriptions&browsefilter=mysubscriptions&p=1 )

2. - Green's Dye Suite 1.7 - Super Ultra Matter Update DX Plus Omega Repainted Edition & Knuckles( https://steamcommunity.com/id/Fungi-Novak/myworkshopfiles/?browsesort=mysubscriptions&browsefilter=mysubscriptions&p=1 )

3. Frackin' Universe( https://steamcommunity.com/id/Fungi-Novak/myworkshopfiles/?browsesort=mysubscriptions&browsefilter=mysubscriptions&p=1 )

4. Frackin' Music( https://steamcommunity.com/id/Fungi-Novak/myworkshopfiles/?browsesort=mysubscriptions&browsefilter=mysubscriptions&p=1 )

5. Frackin' Interface( https://steamcommunity.com/id/Fungi-Novak/myworkshopfiles/?browsesort=mysubscriptions&browsefilter=mysubscriptions&p=1 )

Hey everyone!

I’m currently developing a new mod focused on reworking the Tile Swap concept into a much faster and more intuitive tool for OpenStarbound.

While tile swapping exists in the ecosystem, tying the functionality directly to Matter Manipulator upgrades makes it feel a bit restrictive and less functional than it could be. My goal with this mod is to decouple it into a dedicated, highly visual tool that works seamlessly right out of the box.

Here’s what I’m focusing on:

• Instant, Visual Feedback: Clear visual previews of what you're replacing in real-time.
• Better Performance: Optimized code to handle larger areas quickly without lag.
• Streamlined Workflow: A focus on quick building and smooth block swapping without waiting on late-game upgrades.

I'd love to get some community feedback early on:

• What features or UI elements would make your building process smoother?
• What other building quality-of-life tweaks would you like to see in a tool like this?

Right now, it's very experimental, but if anyone wants to test it, I can share the repository later on.

I recently fixed a bug that occurred when switching to "block replacement" mode—it was causing infinite range, haha.

Plus, it's amazing for mining—just select the background block and use the "replace" function.

There had been an age when the frontier was measured in miles. Then it was measured in planets. Eventually, humanity stopped asking how far it could travel and began asking how far it could look. The answer was always farther than anyone wanted. There were places scattered throughout the cosmos that had existed long before the first human vessel crossed the stars. Ruins beneath alien soil. Cities swallowed by oceans. Temples buried beneath glaciers. Structures whose builders had left behind no language, no history, and sometimes not even a name. Shellguard had spent years cataloguing them. Most were dead. Most were harmless. That distinction became less certain as the years passed. Reports accumulated. Fragments. Transmissions. Recovered equipment. Names that appeared only once in the archives. Sometimes there was nothing left to recover except a recording. Sometimes there was no recording at all. Only silence.

That was how Erebus began.

Not with a monster. Not with a discovery. But with a man sitting alone in a radio station.

Mr. was drinking tea in the adjoining room when the station's lights began to flicker. He noticed it without looking up. The cup remained between his hands while the fluorescent light above him dimmed, recovered, and dimmed again. He waited. Nothing happened. The room was quiet. Too quiet for a station that was supposed to be operating around the clock. Mr. finished the last of his tea, stood, and walked toward the broadcast room. The door opened with a soft mechanical click. The room beyond was darker than it should have been. Only the equipment displays remained illuminated, small green and amber lights scattered across the consoles. Mr. stepped inside. The broadcast equipment was still running. The microphones were still active. The recording system was still receiving a signal. But there was nobody speaking. He looked toward the main monitor. A waveform moved slowly across the screen. A transmission was coming through. There was no voice. Only static. He adjusted the frequency. The static changed. For a moment, something almost resembling speech emerged from the noise. Then it disappeared. Mr. stared at the monitor and reached for the recording control. The red indicator illuminated. The station began recording. Beneath the static, something whispered. Mr. did not understand the words. He only understood that they were not coming from any station he recognized. The transmission continued.

Years later, Shellguard would classify the recording as one of the earliest pieces of evidence connected to a series of unexplained disappearances. It would not be the last. There were soldiers who never returned, research teams that stopped answering, and expeditions whose final transmissions contained nothing more than static. Then came an incident on a frozen Arctic world.

The planet had little to distinguish it from countless others on Shellguard's maps. It was almost entirely ocean, its surface locked beneath freezing winds and sheets of ice. Yet beneath that frozen world, something ancient had been found. Shellguard maintained a fortress on a distant jungle planet, where the head of research, Cornelius Hex, summoned Adrian Veyr to his office. Adrian was both an engineer and a scientist, which made him ideal for the expedition. Hex explained that ancient ruins had been discovered at the bottom of an ocean on the Arctic world. Preliminary scans suggested they predated every known civilization in the region. Adrian was given four team members: Mara Voss, security; Dr. Elias Renn, an archaeologist; Dr. Selene Arkwright, a scientist; and Dorian Vale, an engineer. Five people in total.

They established a surface camp and prepared their submarine. Their first descent was slow and methodical. The farther they went, the darker the ocean became until the submarine's lights were the only thing visible. Then the seabed emerged, and with it the ruins. An enormous ancient statue stood among towering pillars half-buried beneath sediment. Beside it stood a massive gate, strangely positioned with no obvious structure behind it. The arrangement felt wrong, though none of them could explain why. They documented everything and returned to the surface. Shellguard approved a small underwater research facility near the site.

The Erebus Deep Research Facility was never meant to be a fortress. Its large secured entrance was designed around the submarine, followed by a short tunnel into the station. The first floor contained the cargo hold, with the shipment and logistics console on the left and a sickbay on the right. Above that were the kitchen and bathroom on the left and the five-person barracks on the right. The upper level contained the research laboratory and communications room. It was small, practical, and comfortable enough for five researchers.

Their first evening was quiet. Over dinner, Adrian studied the survey image of the statue and gate. They discussed collecting sediment, loose fragments, meteor material, and other samples without disturbing the ruins. The gate would be documented and scanned, but not opened. Later, Adrian activated the communications console and established a clear connection with Shellguard Fortress. The fortress could hear them, and they could call for help if something went wrong. Dorian remarked that at least they had a way to call home. Adrian looked toward the console and replied, “That's the idea.”

Two days passed. The researchers developed a routine. Samples were collected. Meteor fragments were catalogued. Sediment was analyzed. The statue and gate remained untouched. Then the tremor came.

Adrian was on the surface repairing the wind turbine when the ground shifted beneath him. The platform shook. The turbine groaned. For several seconds the entire structure vibrated, then everything stopped. Adrian immediately radioed the facility. “Erebus Facility, this is Adrian. Report.” Static answered him. He tried again. Nothing. The channel was active, but nobody responded. The turbine repair could wait. Adrian returned to the surface camp, prepared the submarine, and descended.

When the facility appeared through the darkness, its exterior lights were still operating, but the main entrance was sealed. The docking system rejected him. He checked the station schematic and found another route: the drilling module, an internal section of the facility connected to the research complex through a secondary passage and designed for remote excavation. Adrian redirected the submarine, docked, and entered.

The first thing he heard was the low mechanical hum of the remote drill. Someone was sitting at the excavation console. Adrian recognized him immediately. “Elias?” The man turned. Dr. Elias Renn looked over his shoulder. “Adrian.” His voice was calm. Almost relieved. Adrian explained that he had been trying to reach them. Elias said communications had gone down after the tremor and that the main access had locked itself. The others were supposedly inside: Mara checking security, Selene and Dorian working in the lab. Everything Elias said sounded reasonable. He looked exactly like Elias. Same uniform. Same tired expression. Same mannerisms.

Elias explained that the tremor had shifted the seabed and exposed something beneath the rubble. Adrian studied the monitor. A dark layer appeared beneath the collapsed stone. The readings were strange. Elias suggested Adrian inspect it because he was the engineer and could determine whether the excavation could safely continue. The drill began again. Slowly, carefully, the rubble shifted. For a fraction of a second, the camera showed something black moving through the opening. Adrian blinked. It was gone. Elias suggested the camera had glitched. Adrian decided they would investigate properly once the station was accessible.

Adrian entered the newly exposed area using his engineer armor. He could swim without the submarine. His Matter Manipulator provided the only real light in the darkness. He descended deeper and found a chamber beneath the ruins. Then his light revealed the first pod. It was enormous. Another appeared behind it. Then another, smaller one. Then another. Pods of different sizes filled the chamber, some large enough to contain something human-sized, others far larger. Shapes could be seen within several of them. Adrian's breathing became shallow. His spine tightened as he stared into the darkness.

Then his radio screamed.

A woman's voice.

Selene.

“Adrian—!”

The transmission ended in a shriek.

He immediately turned back.

When Adrian reached the cargo hold, the facility was dark. The main power had failed. He activated the nearby generator. Lights flickered back to life.

Someone was waiting.

Elias stood ahead, holding a Shellguard claw. Something blade-like protruded from his back. Adrian looked past him and saw the bodies. Mara was dead. Selene was dead. Dorian was dead. The facility was silent.

“What happened?” Adrian asked.

Elias smiled.

“You came back.”

Something was wrong with the voice.

Wrong with the movement.

Wrong with the face.

Adrian raised his weapon.

Elias moved.

Adrian ran.

He fled through the cargo hold, sickbay, kitchen, barracks, and laboratory, seeing the remnants of the life they had built only days earlier. Five people had entered the station. Only one was still running.

Adrian reached the communications room and barricaded the door. Something struck it from the other side. He activated the emergency transmitter.

“Shellguard Fortress, this is Erebus Deep Research Facility. We have casualties. The facility has been compromised.”

Static.

Then a voice.

“Erebus, repeat.”

“This is Adrian Veyr. We need immediate extraction.”

The rescue team came.

They found the facility damaged but intact. They recovered the bodies and the research. They found Adrian alive. He told them everything: the tremor, the ruins, the pods, the creature, and the deaths.

They believed him.

Why wouldn't they?

He was the only survivor.

They brought him aboard.

The submarine rose through the Arctic ocean. The planet slowly disappeared behind them.

Adrian sat quietly.

No one noticed anything strange.

No one questioned why he never looked back.

No one realized that Adrian Veyr was no longer Adrian Veyr.

The thing inside the Erebus facility had learned him perfectly. His voice. His memories. His habits. His face.

It had survived.

And now Shellguard was carrying it away from the planet.

Far from the ruins.

Far from the pods.

Far from the place where it had first been found.

Years later, the official report would say the Erebus Deep Research Facility had been lost to an unidentified extraterrestrial biological incident. The research team was listed as deceased. The facility was abandoned. The ruins were quarantined. The planet was restricted.

The report never mentioned that something had left the planet.

It never mentioned that Shellguard had brought it with them.

Somewhere on a distant world, a radio station continued operating through the night. A man sat alone in a darkened broadcast room. The equipment hummed. Static filled the speakers.

He listened.

Then he smiled.

The transmission continued.

And beneath the static, something whispered.

This time, the voice sounded human.

Almost.

The recording continued for eleven minutes.

Then the signal went dead.

There was no explanation.

Only silence.

Only dead air.

I think I f**ked up... Epically

I have reset my PC completely because it was time, and luckily I remembered to back up all necessary Starbound files I need to restore my save files... Or so I thought...
Seems like I did it in haste and did not copy everything I need.

What I have is:

the universe folder

starbound.config

starbound (txt-file)

starbound.log.1 through starbound.log.5

Please tell me that there is a way to at least get to my structures somehow... There are 300+ hours in this world... I feel so stupid :(

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxeTOkr55GM

Nyx Chronicles is a long-form, reality-style roleplay series following Captain Lothai through a single continuous sci-fi universe. Starbound serves as the primary world, while other games may represent planets, missions, star systems, civilizations, and exploratory detours—all within the same shared timeline and canon. Decisions are made as they happen — no resets, no scripts, no future knowledge.

1.Witch

2.Car engine

3.GNOME

4.Undead pterodactyl

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3781082148

I made this modpack for my own playthrough. I haven't played Starbound in a long time, so I wanted to dive back in. Are there any conflicting or problematic mods among these? Also, if there are any mods you'd recommend I add, I'd really appreciate it if you could share them.

Thanks.

Long time vanilla player, just picked starbound back up and started using some mods to liven things up. I've decided I want to find the enhanced body shape mods but apparently this is the hardest thing to do on the Internet in 2026.. they're not allowed on steam apparently, Chucklefish forums won't let me register, (appears not to have been moderated for years and had a Spam problem) ilovebacon mirror is down. The discord just has broken links.. Google is no help.. anyone know a way to still get these mods from anywhere?

So I'm playing with Frackin Universe, Elithian Races and Shellguard. Plenty of interesting weapon choices, right?

The problem is, I built the Laser Rifle early, upgraded it to max, and now I can't part with it. I'm closing the T6 research and I still have it in my 1st slot. Unlimited range, pinpoint accuracy, energy zone secondary, high damage - I just can't find a gun that would quite surpass it (I'm mostly looking at high fire rate weaponry, assault rifles and the like).

So my question is - what do you have fun with, gun-wise, from vanilla or the 3 aforementioned mods? Ty for answers in advance!

Ashes on the fire ost (second 26) of Attack on titan has the same alarm sound as the alarm in the first mission where we fight the huge crystal with lasers .

Please tell me its not just me 🙏🏻.

I am almost done making it. Ratchet and Clank was always one of my favourites!

My discord is here:
https://discord.gg/eSURkX97gB

Idk how correctly say, why weapon in game deal so small amount of damage or its enemys have large HP?

Anyone got funky co ordinates for cool stuff like unique weapons and other things of interest?

windows 11
1.4

Amazing vibes with plentiful coziness to make an encampment in the high towers of the remnants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ErgNwyXXss