The gamer group I’m part of recently launched a brand new Starbound server that uses a new, custom-curated modpack of 69 different mods that add an astonishing amount of content to the game. This includes Frackin, Arcana, Enhanced Storage, and a number of others that aim to give everyone lots of new story lines, quests, and adventures.
I wanted to post here to Lemmy and see if anyone would like to join us! Details are below.
Our group has been around since 2021. It’s 18+, and it’s run by folks in their 30’s. It’s a mature (I use that word loosely) community that spans many age brackets, but we’re all equally fun-loving, and united by our love for this amazing game, as well as a few others we explore regularly/seasonally.
Our dedicated server is open to anyone who wants to play with us, permitting they join up with our group (free, no donations). I welcome anyone who would like to play with us to pop into our Discord, and/or check out our website. Here is our information:
Discord: https://discord.gg/q9ZYD3JNEA Website: https://www.volitiongaming.com/starbound/ (WIP) Member Application: https://www.volitiongaming.com/apply/
I put 200hrs into that game many years ago. Had a good time for a while, but it was one of those games where eventually a switch clicked in my brain and I felt like I was wasting my life away playing it. So I just stopped.
The last time I got interested in it again, I saw that the devs had basically abandoned it, or were relying on modders to do all the work to maintain it or something along those lines. I am glad to see people are keeping it alive and making it something more.
PVP? Strictly yes, strictly no, or opt-in?
Never forget what they’ve taken from us.
Hopefully this doesn’t count as excessive self-promotion. This is actually largely a very single-player oriented game, and as such we don’t need additional players to enjoy it by any means… this said, I thought it would be really neat to connect with other Lemmy folks and bond over Starbound!
Our group primarily uses Discord to communicate (I know, it’s a terrible platform, but it’s really hard to replace when you’re trying to keep gamers connected to one another). It’s a very active discord - we chat every single day with one another in it. It’s been a hot minute since we’ve advertised a new server, what with the country and the world being so chaotic and negative lately… but I believe distractions like Starbound can be really important!
I hope a few folks check us out. It’s a great group of people, and we enjoy some really fun games together on a regular basis.
Got a list of the mods used or does the client automatically download the required mods when connecting? Like others here I dropped it shortly after the 1.0 release and finishing the game rather quickly.
Now that’s a game I haven’t thought about in a while. I backed the game in 2013 and played it for 100+ hours in beta, but dropped it shortly after 1.0 because I didn’t like many of the fundamental changes they introduced. Last played September 2016 apparently. How is the game these days? Maybe I’ll join and give it another try.
I just wrote some detail on this into another reply here, but suffice it to say that the game with mods these days is nothing like the original game.
Out of the hundreds of games I’ve played, I’ve never seen a community put so much effort into modding a game. It’s turned a game that held my groups attention for 2-3 weeks into a half a year endeavor.
Saving this post. I have never played but want to. Might check it out for real now.
I’ll tell you, the original game is just okay. It’s kind of fun, but it never really drew me in… The big wildcard here is the mod scene. Mods like Frackin’ Universe (which we are running) turn a game that holds most people’s attention for a few hours into a game that’s highly addictive, which tends to span for months on end.
Our last season was expected to run for a few weeks (that’s how long we lasted with the non-modded server). Instead, it ran something like 4-5 months. And most of us put hundreds of hours into it.
So, if you check it out, be sure to check out mods like Frackin’ Universe along with the core game. I don’t think it’s inaccurate to say that Frackin alone adds many times more content than the original game serves up.
It’s the perfect game for Lemmy in that respect. It’s all about free contributions (mods) from the community. They basically saw potential in a base game, and decided to create hundreds of hours of content for the entire community to enjoy. Very inspiring stuff in a somewhat darkening time in human history.
Oh, and the game is only $5-6 if you get a cd key! Be careful when using these services, but I’ve yet to be ripped off after buying dozens of games this way.
https://www.allkeyshop.com/blog/en-us/buy-starbound-cd-key-compare-prices/
(this is an aggregate, I have used Kinguin with success which is on this list at $6 right now.)Nah. This is a chucklefish game. Best to just give chucklefish all of the $15 they charge. They’re worth it.
Also, check out wargroove!
Wargroove was great! I saw a lot of people didn’t like the second one as much though. Do you have any experience in the sequel?
I never got around to playing the sequal. I get like 20 minutes of freetime a week these days.
Fair enough! I put the cdkey information out there for those that can’t afford the full $15 price tag. It’s been a hard year for a lot of people, so I always try to be sensitive to that. I think I paid $10 back in the beta myself.
