Note - This step will not remove or change your packed.pak file, but simply extract its content for use as reference material. This means we need to unpack the assets before we can start modding. pak format which improves loading times and eases mod distribution. Optionally, for easier packing and unpacking of mods and assets, you may use ModPackHelper (available for Windows and Linux) or PAK GUI.įurious Koala introduced a. Only UTF-8 is supported, other encodings are likely to cause crashes. Do not use a word processor such as MS Word instead of a text editor. You will need a text editor that is not the Windows included notepad.exe, as it does not support UNIX line endings. If a part of the save is corrupted and it is possible to track the corruption to a certain planet, wiping that planet instead of the whole universe is less damaging.This article will show you the steps you need to take before you can start actually modding, and also the steps you can take after you are done modding, to pack and publish your mod.

Universe reset is necessary when universe generation is changed (most probably via modding the game). The easiest (and the most crude) way to do this is to delete the entire storage/universe directory. Universe reset, also known as 'Universe wipe', is an action of reverting the universe of Starbound to its initial state prior to being modified by a player. The more the player modifies a certain planet, the bigger this file get. If this file is deleted, that specific planet/moon gets reset to its original state. Everything that is built or preexisting in that planet/moon.

(Starbound considers a planet orbiting another planet a moon if the file refers to a planet orbiting the star itself, 'moon number' part is absent). (XCoord)_(YCoord)_(uuid)_(Planet number)_(Moon number).worldĬontains planet/moon data. If this file is deleted the player's ship will be teleported to a new randomly chosen starting planet ( Lush type of lowest difficulty). If your only desire is to reset the outpost it is highly recommended to use the appropriate console command instead of deleting this file.Ĭontains current ship location, current player location, admin state.

If this file is lost or corrupted everyone in server loses their bookmarks/teleport locations (because the unique identifier is lost) and outpost state is reset. Results of deleting this file vary depending on whether star generation code has been modded.Ĭontains outpost state and universe unique identifier. Only star name, seed, location and information on planets (only type and slot) is saved in this file. Each star which you have seen in navigation console (farthest zoom level) is partially saved here. Universe of Starbound is procedurally generated and preserved atĬontains known starsystem locations. 1.5 (XCoord)_(YCoord)_(uuid)_(Planet number)_(Moon number).world.

Where is the starbound save file