Starbound mod installation
The Starbound Steam Workshop contains thousands of mods. This guide will show you how to install them on your server.
Download mods to your computer
- Open Steam on your computer
- Go to the Starbound Steam Workshop
- Pick the mods you want to install
- Subscribe to the mods, so they can be downloaded by Starbound
- Open Starbound to automatically download the mods
Prepare mods for upload
- Open the Steam folder on your computer
- By default,
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\
on Windows - By default,
~/.steam/
on Linux - By default,
~/Library/Application Support/Steam/
on macOS
- By default,
- Open the
steamapps/workshop/content/211820/
folder to find the mods you downloaded - Each mod folder containes a
contents.pak
file - Get copies of all
contents.pak
files and rename them to avoid naming conflicts
Upload mods to your server
- Start your server
- Pause your server
- Open the
Config
screen in the app - Upload all your mod
.pak
files togameserver/mods/
- Restart your server and start playing
Example
If you subscribed to and downloaded the Frackin' Universe mod, you will find the contents.pak
in one of the following folders on your computer, depending on your operating system:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\211820\729480149\
~/.steam/steamapps/workshop/content/211820/729480149/
~/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/211820/729480149/
To avoid naming conflicts with other mods' contents.pak
files, you can rename your copy to FrackinUniverse.pak
before uploading it to your server.