OpenStarbound

This is a fork of Starbound. Contributions are welcome! You must own a copy of Starbound to use it. Base game assets are not provided for obvious reasons.

It is still work-in-progress. You can download the latest test build here.

Changes:

• You can now make .patch files that are just merged in. That's why the patch files in here are unusually simple.

• Some Lua functions like getters and setters for player identity values, but not every function from StarExtensions has been ported yet.

• Character swapping (rewrite from StarExtensions, currently command-only: /swap name case-insensitive, only substring required)

• Custom user input support with a keybindings menu (rewrite from StarExtensions)

• Positional Voice Chat that works on completely vanilla servers, uses Opus for crisp, HD audio (rewrite from StarExtensions)

  • Both menus are made available in the options menu in this fork rather than as a chat command.

• Multiple font support (switch fonts inline with ^font=name;, .ttf assets are auto-detected)

• World lightmap generation has been moved off the main thread

• Experimental changes to the storage of directives in memory to greatly reduce their impact on frametimes

  • Works well when extremely long directives are used for "vanilla multiplayer-compatible" creations, like generated clothing.

• Client-side tile placement prediction (rewrite from StarExtensions)

  • You can also resize the placement area of tiles on the fly.

• Support for placing foreground tiles with a custom collision type (rewrite from StarExtensions, requires OpenSB server)

  • Additionally, objects can be placed under non-solid foreground tiles.

• Some minor polish to UI

• Skybox 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. Additionally, you can also access now skybox sun scale and its default ray colors. For more details see sky.config.patch.

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Building

Note: Some blue text only contain tooltips.

Windows

• Install vcpkg globally.
  • vcpkg recommends a short directory, such as C:\src\vcpkg or C:\dev\vcpkg.
  • If you're using Visual Studio, don't forget to run vcpkg integrate install!
  • Set VCPKG_ROOT to your vcpkg dir, so that CMake can find it.
• Install Ninja. Either add it to your PATH, or just use Scoop (scoop install ninja)
• Check to see if your IDE has CMake support, and that it's actually installed.
• Open the repo directory in your IDE - it should detect the CMake project.
• Build.
  • You need to create a sbinit.config and manually copy DLLs from lib/windows/ to the output directory to run the client.

Linux

To be written.

macOS

To be written.