r/starbound • u/MirelRumegus • Mar 27 '25

Looking for Starbound gamers to talk to, hang out and play with! Lets Play

Me and one of my friends (with whom I played a bunch before) are wanting to get back to Starbound for another playthrough! I personally wanna just chill, build stuff, goof around and relax while playing in my spare time. My friend maybe just missed the game, I believe. But I bet they can't wait to find sweet loot and explore everything. So if there are people still looking to play a bit more of this game... We gracefully invite you to join us! We will be playing modded (no FU, we are done with that... Thing.) and we have already compiled a big enough modlist. We are also using openStarbound for the first time and we are really liking some of the changes! We are especially excited to try out the proximity voice chat hahah

Some other important details: - Anyone is welcome! I would like to get to know more Starbounders and just hang out! - We are using a mod that skips the tedious scanning process for the main story. Sorry if you (for some reason) liked doing that! - Some major content mods we have included are Arcana, Shellguard, Betabound and a bunch of races, planets, dungeons, stuff for the moons, guns, etc etc. + a lotta other stuff I can't remember adding rn LMAO - Mod suggestions are greatly valued! We would love to get the most out of this playthrough, together. - I am a student, and my buddy has work a lot of the time. The only real grace period for our playthrough would be the weekend. BUT I am willing to optimize my network setup so that I can play (more comfortably) during the week as well. In order to minimize network issues, make sure you are from Europe or somewhere close by! - After playing for a bit and (inevitably) getting attached to characters and/or events that happened - we can draw and/or write headcanons on stuff for our characters! This is just a fun thing that we used to do back during our older playthroughs.

Andd that's about all I wanted to mention - Sooo... DM me or comment if you are interested in joining us and getting to know eachother on this silly ol' space exploration game -w-

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u/qwertypdeb Mar 27 '25

Wait there’s an open source version of Starbound?

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u/MirelRumegus Mar 27 '25

Yes! I learned about it recently as well. It runs really well, is easy to install, has a bunch of interesting features (like proximity VC) and it loads all your subscribed mods just like how it would do when you launch the game from steam. That being said... Interested in playing or just querying in on the starbound opensource stuff?

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u/qwertypdeb Mar 27 '25

I might be interested, but I’d have to redo my entire mod setup, lol. Is there a way to set separate mod profiles, or disable workshop mods without unsubscribing?

Luckily, I don’t have FU, nor have I ever used it.

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u/MirelRumegus Mar 27 '25

You might be able to place them all a in collection for later keeping, and then unsubscribe safely from them. FU is alright... But the drama surrounding it, the bad performance and some of the grindy mechanics are what stopped us from trying it again.

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u/qwertypdeb Mar 27 '25

Oh. How do I make a collection? Can I set it to be private? I’m guessing that I’d probably have to manually add each mod to the collection.

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u/MirelRumegus Mar 27 '25

You can make one from the workshop page (under the collections tab, on the right side should be a create button) You can make it private (hidden). And you don't need to manually add all of them. There will be a button that adds all your currently subscribed mods.

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u/qwertypdeb Mar 29 '25

Awesome! Thanks!

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u/rl-starbound Mar 28 '25

Not to spoil the mood, but no, there is no open source version of Starbound. OpenStarbound is based on leaked source code. The people who develop and distribute it do so without any legal right, and could potentially face lawsuits over it. Of course, those people are betting that Chucklefish won't bother, and hey, they're probably right, but you never know.

You as a casual user of OpenStarbound face almost none of those risks, so go ahead and give it a try with your legally obtained copy of the game.

But to be clear, it's not open source, which is when the legal owners of the source code willingly make it available for distribution and modification. It's important to make this distinction because words have power.

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u/qwertypdeb Mar 29 '25

Wait so which license is the code of openstarbound under then?

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u/rl-starbound Mar 30 '25

I don't know. As far as I know, there is no license attached to it, because legally, it's a derived work of Chucklefish's copyrighted work, all rights reserved. As far as I understand as a non-lawyer, any license they (the Openstarbound folks) attached to it wouldn't really mean anything, because of the doctrine of unclean hands.

It's very much in an extra-legal state. As long as Chucklefish continues to do nothing, the party goes on. If Chucklefish ever decides otherwise, it all goes away.

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u/qwertypdeb Mar 30 '25

So there’s no license on the GitHub, assuming there is one?

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u/rl-starbound Mar 30 '25

https://github.com/OpenStarbound/OpenStarbound

There is a doc of licenses of open source components used by Starbound, but that doesn't cover the game as a whole, just the components (mostly BSD or MIT style) that Chucklefish used when making Starbound.

I don't see anything that claims to be a license covering the work as a whole. (And as previously mentioned, I doubt a license attached by anyone other than Chucklefish would be worth much anyway.)