Starbound Mods Psa

[PornLover86251]

so i've noticed that some of the starbound mods on here are formatted as .RAR files. just letting you know that that format doesn't even register, and when i tried to convert to .PAK by renaming, they kept crashing the game on startup due to the file format not being recognized. so, let's try not to post .RAR files when you submit mods.

[slurpy_commando]

Don't use the rar file in the mod folder, extract whatever is in there and put that into the mod folder. Only pak files or loose mod folders should go in there.

[red3dred]

53 minutes ago, slurpy_commando said:

Don't use the rar file in the mod folder, extract whatever is in there and put that into the mod folder. Only pak files or loose mod folders should go in there.

"Loose Mod Folders" is a bit of a broad term, its really only .pak or a folder per mod. Leaving the files from these folders on Mods WILL fuck up the game.

On another note, .rar mods are still not recommended though, its best to use .zip, due to 7-Zip to WinRAR incompatibility some people seem to have. Some users can't extract .RAR files while using 7-Zip. 

Edit: Pointer to people reading the OP; Starbound is not Minecraft Forge, it will NOT recognize compressed files, and don't even try renaming it, that will make your  game crash.

[slurpy_commando]

I misunderstood what OP meant then. I thought OP was trying to convert a rar file to a pak file by renaming the extension. Apologies. 

[Kawaoneechan]

On 7/15/2018 at 3:29 AM, slurpy_commando said:

I misunderstood what OP meant then. I thought OP was trying to convert a rar file to a pak file by renaming the extension. Apologies. 

I dunno, friend...

On 7/14/2018 at 8:06 AM, PornLover86251 said:

and when i tried to convert to .PAK by renaming

...sounds like that's exactly what OP meant.

[PornLover86251]

On 9/5/2018 at 1:27 PM, Kawaoneechan said:

I dunno, friend...

...sounds like that's exactly what OP meant.

that is indeed one of the things i had tried.