What, how did I not know about this???!

Also, are we peasants worthy of adding you on Steam? :D

Ehhh, I have a "nMoose" account, but I usually log in with a different once since I play games with some non-furries. I hope one day Steam will let me set them up as aliases or something, because you really can't switch back and forth...

Yeahhh, Steam isn't nearly as flexible as it should be :I

Well, thats downloaded. I'll have to try it out sometime.

this is fantastic, I love the ship AI

Haha, thank you! I knew exactly what I wanted for my ship AI as soon as I saw the Novakid horse one X]

Might have to give this a try.

Cool! :> Mine was recently updated as well~

Is this game a whole lot better than Terraria? I already own the latter, and thought it was pretty fun, even though it does get super slow near the middle without any friends with which to play/help. Is Startbound so much of an improvement to warrant buying another game and essentially starting over?

it's more of a survival games than Terrariathan, way more too explore with all randomly generated monsters and dtuff
It's really rad

hard to say...

If you'd asked me last month, I'd have said it's pretty slow, but they just released the latest version last week (the previous version was enraged koala, the current is upbeat giraffe) and it overhauled the entire progression. I haven't played more than a few hours in the latest release, but so far the pacing seems much improved.

They play very differently. And bear in mind that Terraria, while still receiving new content from time to time, is a completed game; Starbound is very much not.

There are things I like about Starbound, especially from the "building stuff" standpoint (your matter manipulator gives you far, far better range for placing and removing blocks than you can possibly have in Terraria; also, wiring can have actual logic circuits that work with far more polish than Terraria's wiring). And there is plenty I like about Terraria more than Starbound. Despite both being 2D sandboxes, it's not entirely fair to compare them on a "better/worse" scale - and such a scale wouldn't be the same for everybody anyway.

I didn't play Tererria until I had already played Starbound, and it just didn't grab me.. :/

This is awesome :v

now I just need a Koh race and my Starbound menagerie will be complete.

Fuzzass race :v

I'd totally make it if I had mod tutorials and time XD

Oh, just put a pointy head on the existing Avian body, what's the big deal? X]

Well if we're getting all true to scale a fuzzass race would be about 1/3rd as tall as the other sprites...and far more bitey :v

YUS!

I threw this on real quick to try it out. looks neat so far (I had tier 2 crafting stations from a previous character, so i got to see both tiers of armor and weapons) And I got a chuckle out of the ship AI.

One complaint would be that, while its nice that it can just be dropped in without any additional mods, it does not play nice with species selection screen extender mods that other race add-ons use.(I have a couple of custom races installed) Nani kinda hides behind the other rows of species and peeks over the top- it's like he's shy!

Hmm! Can you point me at some of these others? Maybe there's some standard that I'm not following.. >_>

Sure, when I get home I'll link you. I'm currently using the felin species from the official forum's mod section. I'm also using a small species extender that is also at the top if the species section of the mod area.

The standard seems to basically say "this is a character race" and let Starbound do the rest. Now, unless you have an extender, it won't be ABLE to do the rest, but if that's all you do, any character extender can do the work.

Source: http://community.playstarbound.com/.....4#post-1669911

links:

http://community.playstarbound.com/.....election.2492/

http://community.playstarbound.com/.....ces/felins.68/

Ah, thanks! I'll make a new build that uses that race selection mod -- it says it's free to redistribute, unlike the one I was using in 1.X, so that's good.

It's kind of annoying that you have to use an extender mod at all, and there isn't a generic ability for Starbound to expand itself as races get added. There's a bunch of weird issues like this -- for example, if I wanted to insert a Nani into the Outpost, I'd have to make a replacement PNG object map file; if multiple races did this, there would be merge conflicts and only one would win.

It does and it doesn't. The outpost is a special case; all the NPCs there are very specific. Other settlements can be procedurally generated, though; the Familiars race, for instance, you tend to find a few of those little fuzzies randomly in other race settlements. And the standard way to add a playable race is apparently to just flag your race as playable and let the creation menu do the rest. The vanilla menu doesn't have ROOM for more, which is unfortunate, but you shouldn't need to play with any PARTICULAR race extender if you just let them do the work themselves.

Despite my not having played this game in ages (in part because last time I tried it wouldn't open), I'm still updating this mod on my game anyway. It's fun little mods like this that make the game a little more interesting to try out and play.

The update itself makes the game waaaaay more enjoyable, too. There's just so much stuff!

That is a nice thing to hear about, hopefully it'll actually run properly again some time when I come back to it. So many mods I've added and never gotten to try out again. D:

AWESOME!!! I'd been playing on the Unstable branch for a while, having wanted to see how the Nani progression worked out but lost interest in Starbound a while back, and the mod wasn't compatible with the update... until now, when it's pushed to Stable! ...My new Floran character is still on the starting planet digging towards core fragments, he can wait... >_>

It seems now that all players started on your computer start on the same planet, so you can just continue in the existing hole.

I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing overall.. I started a lot of characters in my test runs, and my home planet is pretty much stripped bare X]

I'd say it's not quite so good if you want to have alts. I can understand using your existing character, charting a course to your new one's home planet and dropping off a care package of resources. But this route, all the low-hanging fruit in terms of early-game resources will already be stripped from the immediate vicinity of the beam-down point. On the plus side, it WILL be much more convenient to reach the same planet even if all your characters haven't even repaired the thrusters yet (I wiped the universe from the way I had it in Unstable, starting fresh, and found out about the Nani update before my new Floran had even dug to the core fragment layer.).

Do you do anything with the alignment of the character-creation buttons? If I try playing with other races, and add a char-creation extender to get them to fit, I get a really weird misalignment where the Hylotl, Glitch, and Novakid buttons are behind and somewhat to one side of the extender's extra buttons, and I'm trying to track down why.

Yeah.. I haven't been using any other races. I'll have to make another version soon that's other-race-expansion friendly.

That would be much appreciated! It's FUNCTIONAL as it stands, at least with the particular expansion I have, but it's visually rather odd.

Hey wow, 'dese are super cute :o

Hey, I wonder if anyone else is having this issue. Lately, I've tried to fight the crystal at the end of the first mission, and at the third phase, the lasers suddenly hit at odd intervals. I think the visuals are messed up for them. I remember fighting it many times before as other races and I didn't have this problem. Was there an update flub since last I played or is the visuals messed up playing as Nanis?

Hmm, I replayed this mission and it looked right to me... Plus I didn't touch any of the mission files. There have been several little patches to the core game recently, tho, so maybe they've been messing with it?

holy smokes you went all out with this!!! it looks so cool!!

don't you do anything half assed!?!

No, I am a whole ass!

This is the best thing ever! I love it! Thank you Nani!

I'm having an issue and I'm unsure whether it's the mod, or the current state of the game (because I can't find any reference to it on the Starbound forums). I've got TITanium bars, and more than enough to upgrade the Matter Manipulator, but Birdo keeps telling me I don't have enough. @_@ Is it just me?

AHA!! It's actually not a glitch in the program due to the mod... it's just that, in the latest stable version, the first size upgrade now costs 10 titanium bars AND 10 gold bars! It's just the text Birdo was saying that's wrong. Should be much easier fix than trying to hunt down some weird not-accepting-correct-items glitch.

(found this out by punting metal bars over to a Floran character until they were at the same stage in MM upgrades, and discovering the discrepancy, then verifying that the upgrade DOES indeed proceed on a Nani character if they also have the 10 gold bars in their inventory)

Ah yeah. I found a later one that was wrong too. Huh. The example-mod I based my AI off of musta had the wrong values in its text. Guess I should double check all these things.. >_>

=^_^= No [permanent] harm done!

And I just ran into the later one: the final size extension requires ten diamonds AND ten solarium stars.

I have now let hordes of nanis loose in many villages on many planets causing sexy mayhem.

Heheheheh. I do wish that there were options for more villager interactions...

the fact that you have a race mod for starbound... So glad I bought this game XD the mods make it worth it