Steam Workshop: Starbound. For all you Bk3k Fans, there is a little secret unreleased mod by Bk3k that you can only get from becoming a member of our Discord. Actually, there is a way to start the game non-steam (but you will need steam to keep it updated, etc.) if you navigate to the steam folder, e.g. U: Steam SteamApps common Starbound win32 launcher, there will be a file called launcher in there. Just use that to start up the game. Hope this helps. Purchase the Starbound OST for access to the game's full soundtrack, composed by Curtis Schweitzer and Solatrus. Also contains a whole bunch of experimental tracks not available in the finished game. The soundtrack contains a whopping 64 tracks for over of 6 hours of play time. Steam Workshop: Starbound. For all you Bk3k Fans, there is a little secret unreleased mod by Bk3k that you can only get from becoming a member of our Discord. Steam Workshop: Starbound. h1-WARNING-/h1 It is recommended that you create backups of both your character files and your universe if you ever plan on unsubscribing from the mod.

1. Starbound Steam Mod
2. Starbound Steam Key

A small rusty boiler, for turning freezing water into steam.

Small Steam Boiler is a decorative object found in steamspring mini biomes.

Racial Descriptions

Data

Since release of Furious Koala, game assets have been packed into a database instead of an uncompiled file structure. This has huge benefits to start-up times, and implementation of mods. While this benefits gameplay, it makes it difficult to access the core files for the purposes of this wiki and modding. Luckily, the tools to unpack and re-pack the files are also included.

• 3Unpacking
  • 3.1Windows

Installing Nightly

Remember, Starbounder uses data from the nightly builds. Every day, when the developers go home from work, the nightly build is uploaded to Steam. It is the most current incarnation of the game, including all developer's work from the preceding day. It may or may not be playable, because its stability changes day-to-day.

Finding the Packed File Location

Unpacking

Now that you know where the nightly's assets are, it's time to unpack them. If the unpacking process for your operating system isn't shown below, there's a compilation of guides on the forums.

Windows

Windows has a unpacker executable: win32asset_unpacker.exe that can be run from the command line. If you don't know what a this means, or aren't comfortable using the command line, skip to the next section. If you're comfortable running it directly from the command line, its syntax is:

Running From Command Prompt

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If you have installed Steam in the default location, and installed the unstable/nightly in the default location relative to Steam, this code will unpack into a new Starbound Assets on your desktop:

A couple notes:

1. It's very, very not recommended to unpack anything directly into assets/.
   This may cause game crashes.
2. The unpacking process can easily take 5 minutes or more. If you don't get an error, and only see a blink cursor, it's working.
3. The code above can be copy/pasted into the command prompt in some versions of Windows.

Writing a .bat file

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The alternative to using the command line is to write a file to run it for you. This time, it's totally OK not to know what that means, just follow these instructions:
Using a text editor (if you don't have one, or know what this means, use Notepad), copy and paste this into a blank document:

Save the file as unpack.bat and put it in /assetsthe same folder that packed.pak is in.
Make sure you named the file unpack.bat, not unpack.bat.txt because it won't work.
Double-click the file you just made. This will open two command prompts, one in the foreground, one in the background. Leave both open.

Like the prompt says, this will take a long time. Once the process is complete, the prompt will indicate it is Done.Once the prompts are done working, close out of them if they haven't closed themselves. You will find all of your game files on your Desktop.