You can download a nightly build below, or the [latest release](https://github.com/OpenStarbound/OpenStarbound/releases/latest). At the moment, you must copy the game assets (**packed.pak**) from your normal Starbound install to the OpenStarbound assets directory before playing.
An installer is available for Windows. otherwise, extract the client/server zip for your platform and copy the game assets (packed.pak) to the OpenStarbound assets folder. the macOS releases currently lack the sbinit.config and folder structure that the Linux & Windows zips have, so you'll need to create those before running them. For macOS releases, it is recommended to build them from source (See guide below).
Note: Not every function from [StarExtensions](https://github.com/StarExtensions/StarExtensions) has been ported yet, but near-full compatibility with mods that use StarExtensions features is planned.
* Player functions for saving/loading, modifying the humanoid identity, manipulating the inventory. [Documentation](https://github.com/OpenStarbound/OpenStarbound/blob/main/doc/lua/openstarbound.md)
* Multiple font support (switch fonts inline with `^font=name;`, **.ttf** and **.woff2** assets are auto-detected)
* **.woff2** fonts are much smaller than **.ttf**, [here's a web conversion tool](https://kombu.kanejaku.org/)!
* Experimental changes to the storage of directives in memory to reduce copying - can reduce their impact on frametimes when very long directives are present
* Works especially well when extremely long directives are used for "vanilla multiplayer-compatible" creations, like [generated clothing](https://silverfeelin.github.io/Starbound-NgOutfitGenerator/) or custom items/objects.
* Perfectly Generic Items will retain the data for what item they were if a mod is uninstalled, and will attempt to restore themselves if re-installed.
* Musical instruments have their own volume slider in the options menu.
* The Skybox's sun now matches the system type you're currently in.
* Previously generated planets will not have this feature and will display the default sun.
* Modded system types require a patch to display their custom sun.
* You can also access the skybox sun scale and its default ray colors. For more details see, [sky.config.patch](https://github.com/OpenStarbound/OpenStarbound/blob/main/assets/opensb/sky.config.patch).
* Install [Ninja](https://ninja-build.org/ "Ninja Build System"). Either add it to your [**`PATH`**](## "Environment Value"), or just use [Scoop](https://scoop.sh/) (`scoop install ninja`)
* Check to see if your IDE has CMake support, and that it's [actually installed](## "If you're using VS, open Visual Studio Installer to install CMake.").
* Open the repo directory in your IDE - it should detect the CMake project.
* Clone [vcpkg](https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg?tab=readme-ov-file#quick-start-unix) (outside the repo!) and bootstrap it with the linked instructions.
* Set the **`VCPKG_ROOT`** environment value to your new vcpkg directory, so that CMake can find it.
* Change to the repo's **source/** directory, then run `cmake --build --preset=linux-release` to build.
* The built binaries will be in **dist/**. Copy the the .so libs from **lib/linux/** and the **sbinit.config** above into **dist/** so the game can run.
* From the root dir of the repo, you can run the assembly script which is used by the GitHub Action: `scripts/ci/linux/assemble.sh`
* This packs the game assets and copies the built binaries, premade sbinit configs & required libs into **client/**&**server/**.
* CMake is a C++ build scenario generator and your first target. You need at least version 3.23. Where Ubuntu uses APT, Fedora uses DNF as package manager.
* You will need at least the same dependencies ("basic libraries") as for Ubuntu. Some packages have different names or contents between Linux builds. Namely, Fedora uses "-devel" instead of "-dev" for development packages.
2. If you find out that you need any other dependencies not listed here, try finding them via [Fedora Packages](https://packages.fedoraproject.org/) first. And, preferably, improve this instruction.
* Next you will need VCPKG.
VCPKG is another package manager/dependency resolver for C++. CMake will need it to pull the rest of dependencies automatically early in the building process. If you've worked with language-specific package managers before (for example, NPM or YUM for JavaScript), VSPKG is similar. For reference, the list of dependencies VCPKG will try to install later can be found in `source/vcpkg.json`.
1. There are many ways to get VCPKG. Here's one: `. <(curl https://aka.ms/vcpkg-init.sh -L)`. This instruction should install VCPKG in your Linux home (user profile) directory in `.vcpkg`. Note that this dir is usually hidden by default.
2. Next you need to set your **`VCPKG_ROOT`** environment variable to the correct path. Run `. ~/.vcpkg/vcpkg-init` to bootstrap VCPKG. You may want to check if the path is now known to the system by running `printenv VCPKG_ROOT` afterwards.
3. Step 2 (init command) should be run in **every** new Terminal (Konsole) window **before** you begin building (environment variables set in this way do not persist between terminal sessions)
* Change to the repo's **source/** directory
* *Optional.* First step for CMake is now to run VCPKG and install the remaining dependencies as per `source/vcpkg.json`. You can run this step manually via `vcpkg install` on its own to check if it works, or *skip to the next step*.
If this step throws errors, Fedora probably still lacks some packages not listed explicitly before. Read error messages to identify these packages, find them via [Fedora Packages](https://packages.fedoraproject.org/) and install with DNF. What you need most of the time is the package itself as well as its -devel and -static subpackages.
* *Optional.* Next, we can ask CMake to assemble instructions for linux build without actually running them. The instructions generated will be stored under **build/linux-release**. To do that, run `cmake --preset=linux-release` or *skip to the next step*.
* Run `cmake --build --preset=linux-release` to build. It includes previous two steps, so if any of them throw errors, you will have problems. If that's the case, run and debug them separately as described earlier, as CMake itself can just throw `Error: could not load cache` without specifying the exact problem. In case of major changes (example: you've reinstalled VCPKG to a different location and need to regenerate path to it for CMake) purge CMake cache by deleting **source/CMakeCache.txt**.
Building will take some time, be patient ;)
<details>
<summary><b>Specific problem: If your VCPKG can't build meson for libsystemd</b></summary>
<br>
Diagnosed by
>ERROR: Value "plain" (of type "string") for combo option "Optimization level" is not one of the choices. Possible choices are (as string): "0", "g", "1", "2", "3", "s".
error in meson building logs when building libsystemd.
Fix for VCPKG is pretty fresh (May 2024) and can be found [here](https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues/37393).
</details>
* The built binaries will be in **dist/**. Copy the the .so libs from **lib/linux/** and **sbinit.config** (see beginning of this section) into **dist/** so the game can run. Sample sbinit.config can be found in **scripts/linux/**.
* From the root dir of the repo, you can run the assembly script which is used by the GitHub Action: `scripts/ci/linux/assemble.sh`. This packs the game assets and copies the built binaries, premade sbinit configs & required libs into **client_distribution/**&**server_distribution/**.
Next you need to copy original Starbound assets at **assets/packed.pak** of the Starbound copy that you own into **assets/** of either client or server dir (depending on what you're going to run).
The game now can be run by executing **client_distribution/linux/run-client.sh** (or the corresponding server bash script) from terminal.
<details>
<summary><b>Fedora-specific problem with OSS (dsp: No such audio device)</b></summary>
<br>
Diagnosed by this error message when launching *client*:
>Couldn't initialize SDL Audio: dsp: No such audio device
The reason is outlined on [StackEx](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9248131/failed-to-open-audio-device-dev-dsp/9248166#9248166):
> Most new Linux distributions don't provide the OSS (open sound system) compatibility layer, because access to the OSS sound device /dev/dsp was exclusive to one program at time only.
The same answer has the solution: use `padsp` to emulate dev/dsp.
*`dnf install pulseaudio-utils` to install padsp util
* execute `padsp bash run-client.sh` instead of running sh directly. To avoid doing it every time you can edit run-client.sh, replacing
* This last command makes vcpkg added to the current terminal path. This lasts only while the terminal is active, and will have to be rerun for new terminal instances.
* Download the source code [here](https://github.com/OpenStarbound/OpenStarbound/archive/refs/heads/main.zip). This is the current code in main. Unpack the code to your downloads folder.
* Unpack the zip, and open it up. Navigate to OpenStarbound-main/source using the terminal -> `cd ~/Downloads/OpenStarbound-main`. Then navigate to the source folder, using `cd source`.
* While in the source folder in your terminal, run ` cmake --preset macos-arm-release `. This will get dependencies.
* After that command has finished, run ` cmake --build --preset macos-arm-release `. Wait for this to finish, then go to Finder. Navigate to the OpenStarbound-main folder using Finder.
* There will be a folder called <b>dist</b>. Inside dist will be your game files, but you still need to do a few more things to run it.
* First, in the OpenStarbound-main folder, there will be lib. Open lib, and open the osx folder. Inside is libsteam_api.dylib. Copy this file, and paste it into OpenStarbound-main/dist, so that it is in the same directory as the game files.
* Navigate back to OpenStarbound-main/lib/osx, and open up the folder arm64. Here, rename libdiscord_game_sdk.dylib to discord_game_sdk.dylib. The name must be that, or else the game won't be able to load.
* Grab the packed.pak file from your current Starbound install. It will be located in the assets folder. Copy that file into OpenStarbound-main/assets.
* Make a new file called sbinit.config (Make sure it is .config, not .somethingelse), and copy and paste in the sbinit.config text from above, located right underneath the title Building. Place sbinit.config inside OpenStarbound-main/dist. To make a new file, open the program called TextEdit on your mac, paste in the sbinit.config text from above, and click File (located at the very top of your screen), then click Save. It will prompt you, asking where to save it. Save As: sbinit.config, Where: Navigate to OpenStarbound-main/dist. Find the file you just saved, and rename it to get rid of the wrong extension, making sure the full name and extension looks like sbinit.config.
* You can now run the game by double clicking on the file called starbound in dist/. If it says unverified developer, open up the same folder where the game is in in the terminal. ` xattr -d com.apple.quarantine starbound `, which will get rid of the lock on the file. If that doesn't work, run ` sudo spctl --master-disable ` to allow all unverified apps.
* While in the source folder in your terminal, run ` cmake --preset macos-release `. This will get dependencies.
* After that command has finished, run ` cmake --build --preset macos-release `. Wait for this to finish, then go to Finder. Navigate to the OpenStarbound-main folder using Finder.
* There will be a folder called <b>dist</b>. Inside dist will be your game files, but you still need to do a few more things to run it.
* First, in the OpenStarbound-main folder, there will be lib. Open lib, and open the osx folder. Inside is libsteam_api.dylib. Copy this file, and paste it into OpenStarbound-main/dist, so that it is in the same directory as the game files.
* Navigate back to OpenStarbound-main/lib/osx, and open up the folder x64. Here, rename libdiscord_game_sdk.dylib to discord_game_sdk.dylib. The name must be that, or else the game won't be able to load.
* Grab the packed.pak file from your current Starbound install. It will be located in the assets folder. Copy that file into OpenStarbound-main/assets.
* Make a new file called sbinit.config (Make sure it is .config, not .somethingelse), and copy and paste in the sbinit.config text from above, located right underneath the title Building. Place sbinit.config inside OpenStarbound-main/dist. To make a new file, open the program called TextEdit on your mac, paste in the sbinit.config text from above, and click File (located at the very top of your screen), then click Save. It will prompt you, asking where to save it. Save As: sbinit.config, Where: Navigate to OpenStarbound-main/dist. Find the file you just saved, and rename it to get rid of the wrong extension, making sure the full name and extension looks like sbinit.config.
* You can now run the game by double clicking on the file called starbound in dist/. If it says unverified developer, open up the same folder where the game is in in the terminal. ` xattr -d com.apple.quarantine starbound `, which will get rid of the lock on the file. If that doesn't work, run ` sudo spctl --master-disable ` to allow all unverified apps.
