
The official modding forums are the best source of up-to-date information on specifics. You can add new assets, although getting those assets into the game may be tricky depending on what you're trying to add. Editing an existing asset will change the base behavior of the game. The moddable assets are located in the Asset Tree, which is located in your Starbound directory under /Starbound/assets.

Starbound cannot handle them, and you'll have to unzip them first.

): those are generally unpacked compressed mods. They do not need to be moved to the Starbound\mods\ folder, the game will load them automatically. Workshop mods are automatically downloaded in Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\211820. If purchased from Steam, the location of the main Starbound directory folder typically looks like this:
#Starbound download steam mods mod#
Once downloaded, you will want to place the files within Starbound's mod directory:

Steam users can also browse the Steam Workshop. Many aspects of Starbound are available for modifying or expanding, from items and monsters, to villagers, towns, and even whole planets.Ĭhucklefish Games provides two official sources for mods, the Starbound Mod Repository and the Starbound Modding Forum.
