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Each new world is decorated and designed beautifully. Really, it’s here because it’s a gorgeous addition to the game.

Arcana is a magic and technology-themed mod, rammed with 16 new planets, 40 new weapons and the same amount of armour, and 400 new tiles. This relatively new pile of content aims to bring a little bit of wonder to the Starbound universe. The rewards are extensive new biomes to uncover, a vast item storage network to build, and plenty of automation options to craft.Ī number of other mods build compatibility in for Frackin’ Universe. There’s little here that won’t require determination to uncover. There’s just so much more to do here.įU’s (aha!) science-heavy additions expand the foundations of Starbound’s progression, requiring a lot of research and items to uncover. The balance of the exploration, research, and experimentation is best experienced after you’ve played Starbound to death and want a new challenge in a comfortable skin. There’s no going back once you’ve experienced the 13 new races for you to meet and play as, each with their own backstories, dialogue, and fancy hairstyles. Doing that sort of thing is a bit of a lottery.įrackin’ Universe is a complete overhaul of Starbound, to the point where they warn you that it’s a “one-way-trip” if you install it. Frackin’ Universe by SayterĪsk anyone the street (or in random Zoom calls you’ve crashed) if there’s one Starbound mod they’d install over all others, and they might say Frackin’ Universe. A lot of the mods do the job well enough that there’s no need to hope for official implementation. The community has given Starbound plenty of planetary additions since release. There’s sadly no mod manager in either the game or from the community that can help enable or disable mods, though, so it’s a really good idea to check mods for compatibility before you smash them all into your game at once. It does all the work for you, enabling you to click on any mod and it’ll simply be installed. We are in the confines of the Steam Workshop with Starbound. It needs more things to do, more ships to encounter, more planets to land on. If it were released today, the biggest issues would be that it feels a little bit empty and underbaked. Starbound is somehow eight years old, but with its gentle nature, pixelly graphics, and procedural exploration, it hasn’t aged too badly.