#Starbound not launching through steam mod#

take the content.pak file out of every numbered mod folder.Seriously, magic button.ДЄfter uploading the mod folders, go to the 'Mods (WIP)' tab of the control panel, and click on the blue button labelled 'Steam Workshop Fix'. So, here at Nodecraft, we have a magic button that does it all for you. If you have a lot of mods, this will take a while, and it's kind of tedious. The usual method is to rename them to the workshop ID number (the number that the mod folders are named). So they all need to be renamed something unique. In the Nodecraft File Manager, this will cause them to overwrite each other when you start moving them (move 20 files with the same name, and when you finish, there's only 1 there. The problem with that is, they're all named the same exact name: content.pak. The server will not load any files inside other folders inside /mods. The last step before the server can actually use the mods, is the file inside every numbered folder needs to be moved out of that folder and directly into the /mods folder. You simply select a single zip format file, and an 'Unzip' button will appear along the top of the file manager window.

We have support for unzipping file directly in the file manager view. You can use drag and drop in the file manager, or an actual FTP program to move the file.

#Starbound not launching through steam zip file#

Then upload that zip file to the server, to the folder /mods. This will make a single file that is often smaller then all the separate folders were (and smaller means faster upload). We highly recommend using a program to package and compress the folders, such as a program that does.

#Starbound not launching through steam mods#

Upload all the numbered folders for the mods you want to use to the server. Leave the mods in those numbered folders.

Inside each folder is a file called contents.pak. The names of the folders are the Steam workshop ID for that mod. Inside there, you will see a folder for every mod that you subscribed to. The ID number for Starbound is 211820, so click on that folder. Those are the master ID numbers of Steam games.

Inside 'Content' are folders with numbers on them.

Then click on the folder named 'Content'.

The 'Workshop' folder is where Steam stores all the content that it downloads for all games. In the next level up, you will see a list of all the Steam games installed, and you will click that same arrow one more time to go up another level.

#Starbound not launching through steam install#

The 'mods' folder is where you manually add your own mods, and after a fresh install this folder is usually empty. That is NOT where Steam stores the workshop mods that it downloads automatically. In the screenshot below, you will also see a 'mods' folder. To get to where Steam hides the mods, click on the arrow in the upper left to move up one level, which is circled in the screenshot. You will see this view of the game files on your local computer, as shown below. On the next pop-up window, click on the 'Local Files' tab across the top, and then on 'Browse Local Files'. Right-click on 'Starbound' in your game library, and the menu shown below will pop up.To find where Steam stores the mods it just downloaded, please do the following: Preparing the Mods to Upload to the Server For a large number of mods, you might have to wait a little while for Steam to finish downloading them all. When it's subscribed to, the button changes to say 'Subscribed' with a checkmark, and Steam has begun to automatically download the mods in the background to the local computer files. Navigate to the workshop for Starbound on Steam, find the mods you're interested in, and click on them to open up their workshop page. The easiest way to get Steam Workshop mods is described below, and starts with subscribing to the mods in Steam Workshop and letting Steam download them automatically to the client on your local computer. Non-workshop mods are installed the exact same way on the server as on your computer simply use the File Manager on the left side of your NodePanel to access the server's mods folder.