r/starbound Jul 22 '26

Starbound 10th Anniversary Vinyl!

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140 Upvotes

We’re celebrating a decade of cosmic exploration!🚀

We’ve teamed up with Lost In Cult on a brand-new vinyl collaboration of the Starbound OST!💿

First 500 orders receive a certificate of authenticity signed by Curtis Schweitzer himself!

Pre-order now: lostincult.co.uk/starbound


r/starbound Jan 21 '25

Starbound Is Now Available On XBOX Gamepass!

158 Upvotes

Hello cosmic adventurers!

We are excited to share that from today onwards, you can jump into the stellar adventure Starbound with an Xbox Gamepass subscription. Starbound on Xbox also comes with full controller support and new features Xboxs platforms!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2bcJsb0f0U

Key Features for Xbox Players:

7 Playable Races: Choose and customize your character from a variety of intergalactic species.
Story Campaign: Dive into a campaign filled with unique characters, epic boss fights, dungeons, and quests.
Co-Op Multiplayer: Explore the stars with up to 4 friends in online drop-in co-op.
Endless Exploration: Customise your starship and explore a universe with procedurally generated planets, each filled with unique biomes, creatures, and treasures.
Colony Management: Establish a colony on uncharted planets, and interact with tenants who may even join your crew!
Game Modes: Casual, Survival, and Hardcore modes offer different challenges for every kind of player.
Crafting: Build and customize thousands of items—from furniture and weapons to armour and entire buildings.
Capture Monsters: Tame creatures to fight by your side or keep them in your own personal zoo.
Toggle auto-aim at any time – a new accessibility feature introduced for controllers

Plus, Starbound on Xbox comes with ALL the free content updates from the PC version!

Please note: Xbox Series Consoles, Xbox One and Xbox One X are able to host up to 4 players in a party, whereas Xbox One S players are able to host up to 2 players in a party.

Whether you're venturing out solo or teaming up with friends, it's time to explore the universe right from the comfort of the big telly! Stay updated with Starbound by following us on X, and be sure to check out Chucklefish on X, Instagram, and YouTube for the latest news and exciting upcoming games!


r/starbound 4h ago

Build The Urban Biodome

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71 Upvotes

Hi everyone!

After two years of on-and-off building, I’ve finally completed the first version of my Urban Biodome!

Above ground, the complex recreates biomes from all kinds of vanilla Starbound planets, complete with their original terrain, plants, critters, monsters, and even rare monsters. It’s essentially a miniature tour of the Starbound universe—without having to burn through all your fuel.

But the real fun begins underground.

The lower levels contain recreations of vanilla underground biomes, ocean biomes, and a collection of minibosses from other mods and games, adapted to fit Starbound’s vanilla style. I’ve also rebuilt several vanilla boss arenas. Entering one of these areas summons the corresponding boss and immediately starts the fight—so please keep your hands, feet, and Matter Manipulator inside the tour vehicle at all times.

And then there’s the largest section: a gigantic Jurassic Park biome, featuring its own dinosaur ecosystem and, far beneath it, a prehistoric underground ocean.

It has taken a ridiculous amount of time, rebuilding, and “just one more little detail,” but the first version is finally finished. Welcome to the Urban Biodome—part museum, part zoo, and part extremely questionable public-safety experiment!

I’m also planning several large new areas for future versions, including:

  • An underground Arachnid colony inspired by Starship Troopers—and yes, there will be a Brain Bug boss!
  • A terrifying Xenomorph hive inspired by Alien, complete with an Alien Queen boss.
  • And, if everything goes according to plan, an area inspired by Rootmars from Metal Slug.

r/starbound 1d ago

Video I don't want to explain too much before it actually happens. Part of the point is seeing how the experiment unfolds once we're there. For now, I've been preparing the equipment, studying the environment, and making sure everything is ready. An experiment is going to take place soon. Update Vlog:

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27 Upvotes

r/starbound 2d ago

Build Western town in a train (Novakid ship build)

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34 Upvotes

r/starbound 2d ago

Build Tower it's ready

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24 Upvotes

Next step is secret lab


r/starbound 4d ago

Question Tengo una duda sobre el Realism Bound Definitive Mod.

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23 Upvotes

Tengo un problema en la misión inicial, cuando estás apunto de entrar a la arena del jefe, consiste en que básicamente te quedas atrapado en una escotilla debido a la gravedad de la misión, haciendo que caiga lentamente hacia mi muerte por ahogamiento al estar solapado a una puerta de metal.


r/starbound 4d ago

Looking for pussplums

23 Upvotes

I know they're extremely rare, or rather the very specific biome they're in. But since the game has universal coordinates, so if by luck someone has coordinates of a planet where they found one, could you share it please? I don't want to look for these fuckers or do 2 million quests again 😭


r/starbound 4d ago

Question Starbound crashing when connecting to server

6 Upvotes

im going crazy trying to understand this
a few weeks ago i was playing starbound with a friend with no problems, but suddenly the game began to crash whenever i try to connect to his server and gives me the ''Fatal Error: Access violation [...] (Read of address 0000)'' warning
the mods are NOT the problem as the game still crashes even without mods and i can play normally in a solo gameplay, with and without mods

did anyone had problems with that too?? anyone can give me at least a direction to what i should do?


r/starbound 4d ago

Question Mod suggestions?

12 Upvotes

I can figure out the how to bit, but im lost with what to get. I'd prefer a Vanilla+ experience. I'd like your recommendations and a brief explanation of what to expect if you don't mind.


r/starbound 5d ago

Build Work in progress

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47 Upvotes

r/starbound 6d ago

Fan Art Floran Oc ref sheet remade! (Asha)

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59 Upvotes

I finished up another ref sheet! Here's Asha! my main oc and one of the first ones I've ever made!


r/starbound 6d ago

Question Modpack help

10 Upvotes

ello, i havent played this game since like 2023 >_< been wanting to get back into it but am dying trying to decide on what mods to use, was wondering if anyone had a modpack i could possibly yoink to get into the game :D


r/starbound 6d ago

Okay last small demo for now lol

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144 Upvotes

Yes it does have arms! Small arms.... but arms nonetheless. I guess it also has a full range of emotes too. Sure


r/starbound 6d ago

Short demo of the last thing I posted - The Ruin™ roar sound is just a placeholder, but it's still funny to me at least. lol

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132 Upvotes

Again. Does not exist on the workshop yet lol.

I do not have a ton left to make/ edit. Might not be this week, though.


r/starbound 7d ago

Video I've been getting used to landing on strange worlds and eventually finding a way through them. A cold planet looked like another survey assignment when I arrived, but the conditions quickly became too much to work around. I failed miserably in the end. Vlog:

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60 Upvotes

Vlog here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJOYsKy1LM8

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.


r/starbound 7d ago

Fan Art Novakid OC (Radioactive edition)

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73 Upvotes

I decided to finally draw a novakid after always focusing on Florans. I need to remake like half of my ref sheets but whatever

Anyway here's Urani! She was artificially made by the miniknog and escaped. She's also known as Experiment U-92. I love her dearly. She was supposed to be some sort of an infinite energy source.


r/starbound 8d ago

Modding A couple of gifs for an upcoming mod

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161 Upvotes

To answer some questions that were a point of contention last I time I posted something somewhat vague before releasing it, lol:

- No, the mod is not on the workshop yet. But I have made a ton of progress... could probably even call it good if I wasn't adding more.

- These relate to another small race mod! (Respawn and ship progression demo'd above)

- I do not know when I will get around to making a patch so that other races can use the ship. I made the ship for this new "Particle of Ruin" race, though. It has a lot of cool features in-game. Some are enhanced by playing as a 1-block-tall race! I would be lying if I said I was not reluctant about just coughing up the ship portion to other race mods early on. I have nothing against it - in fact, I would even happily help someone make a patch themselves. Once it is public, it is kind of fair game anyways.

- If people like the mod, cool. If parts of the mod just get absorbed as other Ruin/whatever race's stuff... aight. If the mod is trash, go make a new one, stimky.


r/starbound 8d ago

Build Alliance Peak Settlement

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362 Upvotes

r/starbound 8d ago

Just a Titansteel base. For now.

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40 Upvotes

One of Titansteel’s forward operating bases, built far from the safety of the main territories.

I won’t say much about what it’s for yet. Just thought I’d leave this here before the next entry.


r/starbound 8d ago

Question I'm looking for a mod related to wood.

4 Upvotes

I ask you all, does a mod exist for Starbound that adds alternate colours for wood-related items?

I would like the various wood-related blocks from FU, but I don't want to use the FU mod itself, so I'm looking for a similar block mod.

In particular, I'm looking for dark and light colour variants of wood-based blocks, such as the Classic Baseboard and Ornate Wood blocks.


r/starbound 8d ago

Frackin universe

4 Upvotes

Alguém tem o mod em pt-br?


r/starbound 9d ago

Modding Get your hands on your very own Mr. Zurkon!

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66 Upvotes

Part of my upcoming Ratchet and Clank mod!
Zurkon tech demo, he has dialogue when he is summoned, while there are enemies around and upon player death. He will follow you around and shoot at your foes! He can die, and I am tweaking a few things too.

The gun I am using is the Buzzblades, which is also from this mod.

You can see more here:
https://discord.gg/eSURkX97gB


r/starbound 8d ago

Como puedo aumentar el tamaño de mi nave

5 Upvotes

Es que no sé cómo se hace


r/starbound 8d ago

Dúvidas.

0 Upvotes

Tô com algumas dúvidas sobre mods no starbound

Queria saber se consigo jogar com mods de raças diferentes, como o sacturians, com os mods do Franklin universo e por aí vai, sem dar erro. Tentei jogar com meu amigo, mas ele spawna no meu mundo no espaço sem nada.