Modding Community Rules/Guidelines [Updated Feb 24 2015]

Hey! Nothing crazy but have noticed a whack of Stardew Valley mods showing up in the Starbound mod section...don't they have their own section?

 

I just know it, I'm sorry

 

How do I mark my mod as Outdated? Because with all the changes in 1.0, I'll have to rewrite most of it and that will take time.

 

This states to keep mods in line with a PG-13 design, does this allow for mods that work off the themes of the Flesh and Heck Biomes (Don't know if the latter is still ingame: http://starbound.wikia.com/wiki/Heck )? Am looking into putting together a Daemon Engine mod, so living machines that you feed NPCs and mobs to fuel, so a mouth, stomach, usable facilities (Infernal Furnace etc), veins as wiring, potentially producing raw sewage blocks at the other end (Don't care about this last bit, just makes sense). Certainly pretty scary, but given these biomes exist, wasn't sure if this would be unacceptable content. If so where could I post such a mod?

Edit: That description sounds worse than I'm actually imagining, hard to summarise the idea properly. Not too explicit as such, just pumping organs with tubes, cosmetic blocks and some tools to 'feed the beast' XP

 

Infact i search how to pack my fridge texture without repack the full asset , any tips please ?

(answer here as possible please => http://community.playstarbound.com/threads/repak-a-texture.120791/)
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Since we have things like that in game http://starbounder.org/Anatomy_Set , maybe your mod can be posted IMO.

 

What do we do about people who upload a mod with the same name as your own, and with the same concept?

For example I uploaded a mod Craftable Ship Lockers on 7/27/2016 and three days later another person uploads a mod with the same name and does basically the same thing as my version, obviously the guy didn't use the search bar or he would have seen what I already had out.

Because of this I will never get the feedback needed to fix possible bugs with my work since no one is downloading it, and it also discourages me from working on new mods if another person is just going to steal.

 

But maybe he started working on it before you , but posted after , we can't really know things like that.

After if never someone copy past a mod IMO it's maybe possible to prove it then report his mod.

 

@Shadox2.0 A mod like this doesn't take long to make, I did my version in a few minutes, the other one was possibly about the same.

@The | Suit The other person's mod does exactly the same thing as mine, but with out being able to move that starting locker and with a different recipe, plus not only does my version of the mod make the lockers craftable, it also makes them breakable (this includes the starting one), I also plan for custom race support if people request that and I get the permission from the respective mod authors.

I have seen people stealing mods from each other on other sites, I thought this one would have been different, seems like I was wrong. I do have plans for another small mod, but if I'm just going to get attacked here and have mods stolen, then its no worth it (Note: I'm some one new to actually making mods, but if people are going to drive me out this early, then what is the point of continuing).

 

Congratulations on linking a long dead mod, I use the Nexus site a lot and most of the Starbound mods are long dead and the authors are long gone, next time check the last known version of something before comparing it.

 

Did you also look at one of my forum posts before any version of Craftable Ship Lockers came out, I was asking about a way to patch the blockkey files to be able to move those lockers to have increased compatibility with other mods (the other version has no reference to compatibility with other mods), once I had my question answered the mod was made and uploaded.

 

Fine I will drop this issue, but this just adds to the discouragement on making any new mods if I never get any needed feedback if anything needs to be fixed, and I thought this was an open modding community, looks like I was wrong again.

 

Hello

I have a question about modifying Starbound vanilla assets for modding purpose.
For example, if I change hue on an asset, or modify slightly a sprite sheet to make it recognizable/different from the vanilla game, and then use that in a mod among other things, along with a custom questline.
Is that ok in terms of what CF allows with derivating the game content ? How original do assets have to be in mods in regard to vanilla content ? (you can feel my lack of confidence in my pixel art skills here).

Edit : I don't mean replacing vanilla assets, I mean adding new ones that directly derive from vanilla ones.