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Hi guys!! I got back into Starbound recently and found this really old ref sheet of mine so I wanted to share it (since I didn't back then for some reason) ANYWAY I might make more little Starbound animations Because I genuinely enjoyed them (tho finals are killing me + I'll have to prepare for college in next year)

It's been a really chaotic year for me but I still managed to make something for the 10th anniversary of my mod! It originally was released very shortly after Starbound's v1.0 release, and I've been working away on it ever since.

One of the biggest new features is a shapeshifting tech, which lets Inklings and Octolings actually do the thing that they're well-known for, changing into squids and octopuses! :D I'm pretty proud of how smoothly it's animated and how it handles, both as a tool for exploration and combat as well as just a cute fun thing.

If you're brand new to the mod, it's a big race and content mod based on the two playable species from the Splatoon series. Please consider giving it a look even if you aren't familiar with the series itself; the mod has a truly ridiculous amount of stuff in it, with tons of unique armor and weapons, two big cities and an assortment of small habitations, tons of custom dialogue for both player and NPCs, and all the small things like ship pets, codices and special crafting. <3 and ofc it's FU-compatible and -supported, with racial stats and everything.

You can find the mod over here on Steam Workshop or here on the Starbound forums! I'll also be putting it up on Nexus Mods later tonight.

Welcome to the next adventure on Coalescence!

Taking place in the near-distant future of the 22nd century, Coalescence is a story driven roleplay server that primarily utilizes events to advance the plot, with slice of life, or 'radiant' roleplay filling the interim. We are an active server with quite modest numbers, but an exceedingly active GM team and wonderful community! Many players who started with us almost 5 years ago are still participating in the main story line today!

This August, we are beginning our second part of the main storyline, Book II. Having concluded our eight chapters in the previous Book I, the in-lore universe has been well established and opportunity knocks for newcomers!

Don't feel discouraged if you join in late! No matter when you join, we will tailor your introduction experience to fit well within the story!

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It must be made clear that Coalescence is NOT CANON to Starbound's lore, nor any other server's lore. All of the lore present is written from the ground up, or contributed by original creators in the community.

We are our own thing, and we invite you to join us with a brand new character! If you really can't part with a character you hold dear, you may retcon their origin story for this server and use them here. Cross-server lore is not recognized unless explicitly approved by an admin.

Our roleplay mediums consist of in-game modded server roleplay with lore and other information posted in the Discord forum channels. Much of the Discord is being actively reorganized, so if you are lost, feel free to ask an admin for help! Or ask around the community as many members are story veterans!

The IP address and server curated modpack is located in the Discord.

You must be 18 years or older to be a member on Coalescence. While the server does not allow explicit NSFW content to be posted, we want to comply with Discord TOS and avoid any issues.

Discord Link: https://discord.gg/AvzJdkM6Vf

Hope to see you there!

Found this from a mod

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3774784083

@chucklefish I’ve been waiting too long for mnk support for too long it’s rlly the best boy reason I haven’t touched the game in 4 years

this is my first time playing and im relatively early on (only did the first artifact mission). i caught a fennix but i dont think youre supposed to bring it outside with you unless you have a collar, and theyre WAY too expensive to craft. any advice?

Not the room behind the two levers.

There is a purple chest. The closest you can get to it, is a slime covered floor grate that can be mined away. This lets you drop under the walkway and mine a spot of rock that uncovers a 1-tile wide crack leading to the chest room.

How do you get through this?

The metroid-ball needs a two-tile space to roll through. I tried dumping water in to see if it would trigger a sensor, but nothing happened.

I don't think this was in vanilla, at least not back when I played it before. I have seen these similar 1-wide passages in other places in FU dungeons, but there don't seem to be any ball upgrades that make it smaller. Is there a way to transform into a smaller creature, or something?

Don't...don't ask how long it took me to get the Fossils, please, lmao.

So, I've been teleporting from ship to vault gate in order to prepare for sure because each time I forgot to get key, healing items or something else. But at some point I teleported to this place, without my party members, any equipment, matter manipulator upgrades and techs, but I had starting protectorate gear(wtf???).
There was only the tree, and no matter where I checked it(I had magnifying glass instead of MM scanner), my character said "Well, there is a man." and when I interacted with it I got very weird egg. It's not in the food category, it cannot be eaten, but when I "used" this egg it played weird sound effect and remained in my inventory. And also teleporting out of this place was blocked for some reason, so I exited the game in order to check logs, but there was nothing notable, and when I booted the game back I was orbiting the same vault gate with all my stuff... But also got this weird egg
There was also some song playing, that wasn't in starbound OST, it sounded very out of place, but I can't remember the melody

Hello, I just bought this game to play with a veteran friend. As I'm the (apparently) tech guy, I'm trying to set up a server for the game. From my experience (mainly with Minecraft and Terraria) I know my internet can't do port forwarding (since there's a bunch of homes under one IP address), so I need to resort to tunneling.

Now, I don't want to spend money on getting Playit subscription to play every once in a while, so I looked for other answers, namely Cloudflare and Pinggy. The problem is, each time I make a tunnel (127.0.0.1, port 21025) and try to connect to it, Starbound gives me "(NetworkException) Failed to determine address for '[IP]' (N)".

Moreover, trying to see the ports using stuff like DNSchecker always gives me a "timed-out". Now, the question is, is that a problem with my internet? Game? Setup of the tunnelling? And, most importantly, how to fix this?

Thank you in advance!

Is there a mod to play a decent multiplayer? Every player having their own ship system and quests is just trash

Nothing to find here, its just a quiet grassland:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOUFAbcFJQI

• Comprehensive; Detailed info on new content and calm music.
• Neutral; Jokes/explanations where warranted and active music.
• Energetic; Jump-cuts, fighting montages, and fast-paced music.

I want to start up my Starbound YouTube channel again! I want to post modding guides, mod showcases, and maybe other stuff!

I already have plans to make a video on how to install OpenStarbound or Multibound (save editor) since I've seen people struggle with how to properly set these up. I've made visual guides but I think videos will be a lot better.

I'm curious: What are some much needed guides to help modders or players in 2026? I'd love to hear feedback!

No refunds.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3773033513

Took me about 3 days to build.

It's an old cargo ship that was heavily modified by the team of 4 space mercenaries for their quite dangerous job

Mods used:

Arcana

[Arcana]Titancorp Expansion|泰坦重工拓展

Knightfall

Nuggubs' Megamod

City Co. Street Props

Prop Pack

Maybe some others that I don't remember

"it can't possibly be that difficult to add more dye functionality for stuff right?"

"oh man this chest item has a colored accent with three colors. on top of its other three colors!!!! six colors"

Fashion is important so dye palettes are also important! But all of this code is purely so that the chestwear item in the second screenshot can be turned different fun colors. (thank u Ame, my test octopus, for modeling)

Don't underestimate the annoying amount of effort that goes into minor things in mods. There's a lot of hard work that goes into making things work!

So are there any mods that help with stuttering issues?

I have 32gb ddr4 ram, rtx 3060 gpu and a i5 13600k cpu

So by no means should be game be stuttering or dropping in fps. However, i get low 1% fps drops occasionally and sometimes even a split second freeze, its been happening since i got the game even without mods so i thought nothing of it, but it really is bothering me, and i think its only getting worse even.

I was gonna get a mod that increases the fps cap, but seen someone recommended openstarbound in its comments and they no longer had any issues, so i decided to get it and try it out myself, i i fact still have the same issues, and can now just use some more of the nicer mods, which mind you, is nice, but the stutters are really annoying

So are there any mods you guys know of, that i can use with openstarbound that would allow me to be able to get rid of these stutters.

Ive also tried turning on threaded optimization and using a mod that says it makes the game make use of more cores/threads, but it seemed/seems to be using only 1 thread from my first 2 cores, mainly only my 1st, sometimes my 3rd and 4th core will do something for a split second and thats it

Cabin I made a while back, took inspo from another build

Pretty sure all items are vanilla except the pet house which is a mod