A Review of Every Single Starbound Mod Ever! 

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Maybe popular opinion: The fact that Frackin Universe is almost mandatory in a playthrough just shows how incomplete and lack-luster vanilla Starbound is.

Glad you like my mod!! Sutekh94 made a video taking a closer look at Betabound (though they covered nowhere near all that it adds, as such a video would be hours long). It adds a ton of stuff throughout the entire game rather than just in a single crafting station (ie you'll only find Knightfall stuff in KF stations, so you know right away if what you have is from it), such as ship stat upgrades (ie bigger fuel tank, ship speed, less fuel usage), bosses, a new tech slot, new weapon types, new dungeons (beta dungeons but rebuilt with new blocks and redecorated, so no lazy copy-pasting like FU or PR)! Nothing in Betabound outright states "This is Betabound" like other mods do, so it can be easy to find something from it and assume it's from another mod! The theme is more 'if beta was completed and met vanilla standards' rather than 'just beta'. If you've ever used ladders or noticed that food rots differently (ie a jar of jam lasts very long, whereas all but 3 food items in vanilla all rot in 3h), that's Betabound!

i think you needed more frackin slander in this video

im one of the 12 people who loved the bee breeding. i legit went through and collected every single bee species and had an outpost dedicated to my expansive collection. eventually i had so many that i was able to make an absolutely absurd amount of pixels on them and their products. great use of 100 hours i would say xD

Ominous Yoda Voice: There is... Another... (That would be pyocynical's favorite)

Man the balance section on Frackin really resonated with me. The penultimate weapons of the game, the Eldritch weapons, take some of the most grind to get. You have to get lucky to find an atropus planet that has an Eldritch Biome(you can get it other ways, but it's SIGNIFICANTLY rarer, I have played around 8 playthroughs of Frackin and have only found the secret minibiomes with the chest about 2 or 3 times). Then, when you find said biome, you have to wait until nightfall to see if a star-spawn of Cthulhu spawns; biomes only have 3 or 4 types of mobs that spawn on the planet and will never change, so if you don't get the star spawn you have to go find another atropus planet with an Eldritch Biome. The weapon crafting for Eldritch Weapons requires specific combinations of items to be put into an Eldritch Altar, the only reliably way to get these resources is with the mentioned Star-Spawn of Cthulhu enemy, and you have to think of crafting the Eldritch gear as the crafting table in Minecraft...you have to just know the recipe or look it up, or find one of the most vague codex entries ever to give a very indirect hint on what might be able to be crammed into the Altar. So cool right? You have a super-mega awesome god-tier weapon...that does Darkness damage, which the end-game enemies of the mod...namely Eldritch beings, resist. By the time you are able to comfortably farm Star-Spawn and not get one-shot by them, you've already done everything the mod has to offer, and the Pyrite gear far outclasses Eldritch, and in most cases Aetherium tier gear because a lot of Eldritch enemies are weak to fire damage, and the 2h sword has a special attack where it creates a constant AOE sun zone that shoots fireballs out continuously and summons a fucking fire drone that seeks out enemies for you. I seriously played this mod for 8 playthroughs and my love for it has dwindled each and every time, because I have a good idea of how most gear works, invested in it, and found out how insanely garbage it all is, so now that I know exactly what to ignore and what works for each stage of progression in the mod there is no variety at all unless I purposely want to weaken myself, which is a super dumb way to introduce variety to a player in a mod that brags about adding back intense weather systems and challenging gameplay. And don't even get me started on the Madness mechanic, the dumbest resource to grind locking some of the funnest side-grade alternatives to natural progression away. By the time you get the night-time solar panel from the madness tree, you would have already gotten an easily renewable top-tier power plant with little-to-no maintenence required and outperforming every other generator in the game. I've seen Sayter in the past defend the madness mechanic, but it is by far the worst thing in this mod. It's not beneficial at all, it's boring in that it drops your energy to 0 so you can't mine with a laser, your defense goes down to nothing so you die in one hit, strong anti-afk measures are taken to prevent you from safe-boxing yourself to passively farm it, the books you can use as consumable items to safely farm it are expensive and have a MASSIVE cooldown on repeat-usage (like 5 seconds) so you'll have to farm hundreds of these books, then wait 5 seconds per use each time. Holy shit the madness system is a joke.

About the Elithian Races mod... there's a fifth, lost race. One that left its' toys lying around. If you've ever seen a blue swirl, look to there.

My fav weapon in frackin is the DEUS SMASHER (if you wanna get it, goto the science outpost all the way to the left when you have the microsphere tech, you'll know what to do), yeah, I upgraded my Atom smasher to a beam weapon, and it's description says and I quote: "The most powerful beam cannon in existence. Why kill mortals when you can kill gods?" That's literally the description in the wiki

Thanks for the warning on cosmic expanse 😥

Only ever played with Frackin Universe till now frantically trying to automate production. Nice Video imma subscribe

about fu: lunari (and later, crystal weapons) is mostly for eld'uukhar race that benefits a lot from this type of weapons, otherwise its skipable. its not forced, many parts of the research tree are purely optional or race specific. mod has 'lab directory' that can be used to find any currently available recipe to produce anything (any sub-component or resource) by simple search, so using wiki is not necessary at all. it also encourages experimentation. player can make plasmic fluid from water without any power, for example. or that almost half of the resources can actually be obtained on starting planet (I class one) through extraction and experiments, like protocite, irridium, titanium.... and so on (anyway people can just admin whole research tree out by spawning research lol). the rest of critique is on point, though. (i dont see however, how drama surrounding the mod affects the quality of it in the slightest)

Btw: Carbon weapons are overpowered upgraded and bleed actually stacks.

It's funny that a game created using unpaid labor has a mod with stolen content as the most downloaded

Starbound has a lot less mods than I remember.

What other race mods are you planning to review in part 2?

Th Left Lunari Nut of Jesus! *Wheeeeeze* I love that!

I'm not a huge hater of the research system but it would be so much better if researching each new tier of gear in the tree also unlocked the recipes for the side grades, and if scanning stuff in the world gave you research with the amount depending on what it is.

i havent modded starbound for like 8 years i should get back into it and recreate my 40k mod

"That worship the monolith" Missed S.T.A.L.K.E.R. joke there.

I have never watched one of your videos before but you are funny as fuck. i love the dry ass humor goood shit

If only crab mod allowed you unlock crabs just a bit earlier and not after basically completing the storyline, they are just too good.

honestly i like frackin universe even with the skill prograssion thing, just kinda wish it isnt poorly optimize

I think your point on lunari equipment indirectly brings up a major problem I brought up with Sayter who then just dismissed it, and I bring it up multiple times; Research system does NOT encourage people to explore what the weapons/gear on lower tiers do. It discourages players from exploring the technologies. Some techs are overpowered, one laser gun for example does energy and fire damage at the same time in full splash damage and DoT patches on the ground and shreds armies in seconds, but most players will never discover it because they have to dip all the way into tritanium gear to unlock it which is a LOT of research for tier 4. AND upgrading that weapon makes it into a more advanced super version of itself that probably outclasses everything in the elemental damage lines, especially against robots. While its certainly worth it now, likewise, I worry Sayter would nerf it eventually, making the research points spent worthless. Its a huge problem the mod has. Sayter and FU devs claimed that the research system was designed to slow people down to experiment with lower tier weapons and uprades, but it achieves the opposite. It also indirectly achieves the opposite by the fact that upgrade modules are still rare and a pain in the ass to acquire, even if you can craft them, you still need to have researched means of processing some rare materials that are honestly a complete pain to find and very luck based, and ultimately optional for progressing the main technology tier. If I had two cents for every FU run I had where I didn't research mechs due to wanting other technologies and then never needing them.....

Bit sad that you didn't use the USCM alt progression mod because it would entirely fit the racism part lol

I liked Arcana, but you got to get close to end game armor and weapons if you want a chance to survive on the planets

Galaxy in abusive relationship, les' gooooo!

How can you DMCA a mod built on top of a game you don't own?

Welp this is an unpopular opinion, but I actually like the beefiness of the fracking universe. Just feels like it adds way more depth to the game.

I have argued against the creator for having the ability to disable the research system, I remember the game before that was added, and the mod was soo much better, I don't think there is even a command to do that, that whole system makes me want to play without fracken sometimes

kinda suprised you didnt talk about how galaxy in conflict made you angry or whatever it did to you lol

If there was anything I'd want from FU, it'd for them to fucking update their mishmashed potato mash of sprites to be fucking consistent, cause you can NOT tell me the same team made the science outpost sprites AND the eldritch shit... I'd also like a fucking mod to remove all the complicated bullshit quantum hoolahoops this mod seems to crave like a delicious glass of tea... which is actually a piss jar. (why the fuck ARE THERE EXTRACTORS!?!)

Tax evasion

-100000000000000 social credits no cosmic expanse

Where's SXB?

Tax evasions

You should add negative numbers to your reviews. Just because the mod is bad, it doesn't mean the mod is boring. It can be entertaining in the wrong ways. 🙃

No HLD Hud review :'(

what abt the mods in..... L O V E R S L A B?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Tax Avoidance.

I don't use frackin universe for a couple reasons. The research system is one of them, I don't like arbitrary time-gating. The other reason is that the mod is 95% stolen content and the creator is a terrible person who refuses to change his ways. Consider Project Ancient Cosmos, Voided, Arcana (without FU), and Maple32 if you're looking for something to replace it. Every modding community has its Arthmoor. Sayter is Starbound's.

I would also like shellguard to touch up on their sprites, cause its kinda starting to show its age. (seriously that red color is weird... also why the hell do the gunracks need it?)

You sound like you're from Colorado

"Sayter got pissy someone made something better so he sent a DMCA takedown." Totally not a mischaracterization of the situation, speculating on his intentions, in a segment engaging in character assassination of the creator, in what is supposed to be a review of the mod. I know you don't write off FU based on these details, however: I now know why Sayter is so pissy all day in the discord, because he's got people jumping down his throat about this shit that happened years ago. Shinigami Apples was the one who sent the takedown, not Sayter. The reason wasn't anyone getting "pissy" but that they were concerned that their art assets were blatantly stolen. Parody is a shitty excuse and I'm guessing the reason the ThisImageSoRaw/ave didn't challenge the DMCA (something I've been informed is possible on Steam) was because they knew they'd lose on that point. Seems like a small thing to get wrong, but I know- you have the possibility of knowing these details because you showed a screenshot of a Reddit post (that I assume you read) that ends with an addendum that corrects these records. Let me know if I'm out of line here, I'm just confused as to how those events (even if as described by you are true) have any bearing on the mods quality. I definitely understand the principle of why the research system is flawed and I've personally bypassed the research system before. "/admin, /spawnitem researchvoxellarge 1000" goes a long way. Great music choice, particularly Space Pirates. Waterflame is GOAT.

yknow, I never liked fu and now I know why. too much bs starbound is good enough with 300+ other mods I've not crashed in months of playing either

Do you recommend fracking universe if I’m a new player