I just wanna say that your position in the Starbound community on here is absolutely incredible. Truly the backbone of the fandom. I appreciate everything u do, even if I've drifted away a bit(or a lot)

Heya,

Self-conscious, isn't good at taking compliments, silly answer: I took one look at at the SB community, said 'is anyone going to love and nurture that?' and didn't wait for an answer.

Serious answer: Thank you very much for your kind words. It has been amazing to see the change in 3 short years, and I'm honoured to be considered a community backbone 🧡️

🌠️

I found them, the starbound people

Extremely modded Starbound is definitely one of my top favorite games, as I'm still kind of obsessed with it.

I made this a while ago, but this was my character before I reset my game (to add more mods to it lmao)

“…Fine.”

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(WAHA I’VE FINISHED THE INTRO POST!! I hope this sets the right tone for the blog—it will have a lot of light moments, but this is the backdrop of it all.

And without further ado, welcome to this funky little blog! To the enthusiastic anon in my inbox, I see you, and I appreciate you very much)

guys i am so fucking sorry i thought i was on my main blog

- mod domino

Starboundoogleric: A gender related to the monster "Oogler" in Starbound requested by Tonsina discord sever after a bunch of weird chats, tagging @epikulupu

image: steam screenshot of ARK: Survival Evolved and Trove. ARK has 254 hours of playtime while Trove has 209. end image description.

win for me: trove is no longer my second most played game

Alright guys, time to talk about more vs community stuff.

Today we'll be talking about calc staking. For example, take a look at this profile for a character from Starbound.

Under their speed section, it is determined that the player moves at near light speed by comparing them to a laser. That feat is then used to calculate the kinetic energy generated by moving and attacking at that speed. This is known as Calc Staking, where the results of one calc are used as values in another.

Here's why this is a problem. It results in highly exaggerated statistics.

Can anyone who's played Starbound name an instance in which the Player Character punched with enough force to rival a nuclear bomb? No? That's my point. The results of these calcs are almost invariably much higher than the actual feats these characters perform would suggest. Killing the building sized bone dragon and destroying the Ruin's heart doesn't really compare to outputting megatons of force with every punch as these calcs suggest the Player can.

Year review 2023

Hello everyone!

2023 is slowly coming to an end, so let's recap the things that happened and what we achieved.

In August we relaunched Multiverstar modded with the Multiverstar community now being hosted on Guilded. Both the server and the community saw huge success (in Starbound terms). As of the writing of this annoucement over 800 characters have been registered on our Starbound server and around 200 people have joined Penta G, with most people having joined for Multiverstar.

Towards the end of September we released a mod pack update for Multiverstar Modded, which we now retroactively consider to be version 2.0: New Dawn. We also held the New Dawn celebration at a brand new hub built by @Dex . Both the update and the event were a success, with many people having expressed their love for the server and the community.

Around that time we expanded our staff team. @Zeta and @Dex have been promoted to Multiverstar staff members due to their exceptional contributions to the Multiverstar project.

Towards the end of October the mod pack of Multiverstar Modded got updated once more. This update was originally known as the Fixes and integrations update, now retroactively considered to be version 2.0.1. A bunch of issues have been fixed and I believe the update helped make the server more stable.

Around that time we also launched a new subsection of Penta G called Sussy G: An Among Us community. Not much has been done with this yet, but Among Us sessions are planned for January.

In November we launched another subsection of Penta G. This one was for the Penta G clan in the Zo Samurai Roblox game. This hasn't found much success yet.

Later in November I became an official Guilded partner and later on Penta G became a verified server/community. Many thanks to Guilded for appreciating what I do!

Towards the end of November we announced #👷Open staff positions for the Multiverstar project. @Thunder applied for the @Loremaster position and has been promoted.

In December a new way to review our server has been added: #👍Review us! . We also upgraded some of the Multiverstar channels.

So what's next in 2024?

Multiverstar Modded's 2.1 update

Among us sessions in January

Further Multiverstar Modded update(s)

We'll see what else the year brings (if anything) :D

Thank you for all your support so far! Thanks to everyone who voted daily for Multiverstar Modded at https://starbound-servers.net/server/8006/vote/ !

If you like what we do, the best way to support us is with a Guilded subscription (link below). This helps us with covering costs and could even let us expand to other projects that are not cheap to maintain once the current costs are covered by subscriptions.

GL HF!

Happy STS!

Your OC is scheming, something big, something world shattering. Is there anyone they share their plans with? @catharticallysarcastic

Happy STS @catharticallysarcastic :D

The name picker has chosen Paris Currie, from Starbound (Beta), for this one. While I'm not sure what world-shattering events he could get away with, for sure the one person he'd share his plans with would be Lynx, his potential partner. They've been dancing around each other for some time now, but Paris is convinced she's his One, so he'd be sure to tell her about anything grand he's plotting.

Thanks for the question! 🫖🌿

This year's r/place really fucking sucked, terribly run and an obvious(failed) distraction, but we did get some nice stuff done

Another bench! 45 communities! Here's the fully planned piece, Quote sadly got added last minute and wasn't visible before blackout.

Full character list below the cut.

Batter from OFF, Beheaded from Dead Cells, Ori from Ori and the blind forest, Bugs from APICO above Ori, Moon from Outer Wilds next to bugs, Purple guy from FnAF, Mae from Night in the woods, Omori from Omori, Commando from Risk of Rain, Madeline from Celeste above Commando, Engi, Bosco and Lootbug from Deep Rock Galactic, Soul Knight logo below Engi, Tiny Niko on top of Bosco, Sprite Companion from Hyperlight Drifter next to Tiny Niko, Isaac from Binding of Isaac, Chompy from Bug Fables underneath Isaac, Engineer from Factorio, Strabby on Engineer's shoulder, a penguin from Starbound, Junimo from Stardew Valley, Oneshot bulb above Stardew Valley's apple, A router from Mindustry, Keg from sea of thieves, Lamb from Cult of the Lamb sitting on the keg, Monika from DDLC above Lamb, Fishbowl from FSSH, Spooky from Spooky's Jumpscare Mansion, Whiteface and flower from IMSCARED above Spooky, V1 from Ultrakill, The Conductor from Final Station in front of V1's legs, Moth from Sky: Children of the Light above V1, Apollo from Ace Attorney bottom right of V1, Gnome from Everhood, Rivulet on Looks to the Moon from Rain World, Gail from Phoenotopia above Rivulet, Captain Viridian from VVVVVV above Gail, Flowey from Undertale below Looks to the Moon, Grimm from Hollow Knight, Paprika from Them's Fighting Herds above Grimm, Deltarune red heart above Strabby, King Slime in front of Grimm, The Spiral Heart from Grime next to Grimm, Carp from Lisa, Richard Mask from Hotline Miami above The Spiral Heart

The Monthly Starbound Prompt for April is:

✨ Music ✨

A chorus of angels, or a caterwauling drunk - whatever "Music" makes you think of, I can't wait to see it!

Remember: Art, building, graphics, or writing. Use this prompt to inspire you, however you create!

Use the tag #sbprompts24 to share your work for the 2024 Starbound Prompts challenges.

4, 5, 23, 24?

Clouds and Beyond enjoyed socializing with other iterators as much as any other. It gave them something to do other than calculate distance between the sun and themselves and studying how each organism melted in void fluid. Unfortunately for them, they lost access to most broadcasts as their communication towers collapsed or were struck by meteorites.

Being stuck floating in space rarely has any perks.

The Starbound of course. Or general fauna and flora. They're not too picky.

eager. you know what im still on this. gender as a concept peaked with the glitch from starbound. i mean. put aside the tone indicators before every message for a moment and look at their whole Thing. a bunch of robots designed to occupy a single point in history: medieval times. which is cool enough on its own BUT theres a bunch of buggy broken ones that all break that lock and start progressing forward, technologically.

passionate. so imagine being a robot living in an extremely rigid political system and being told that you are One Thing and you have to live One Lifestyle. and it gradually dawns on you that your brain does not work like that. you simply cannot process the lifestyle that everyone else is living because you are Something Else and your brain works Differently. and when people find out about this, instead of being like "intrigued. oh cool this girl knows a lot about electric trains" theyre like "furious. your majesty, this guy's thinking Fucked Uuuup Magic Thoughts. send its ass to the robot lion pit NOW!!!" and you have to escape and you have to escape and you Have to Escape.

elated. and when you do you find out that theres other people like you. youre not alone. maybe thats how you got here. because you thought it was just you thinking like this and then it dawned on you when you saw someone else that maybe, just maybe, there's a tiny chance they're like you. and they think like you. and they're not what the world told them they are. and they want More.

dreamy. and theres a whole community out there like that! the further you run from what you thought was the Entire World, the more you find that there's LOTS of people like you. and you weren't broken because you didn't fit the rigid mold you were "supposed" to be in. the design choice of what "normal" was supposed to be like was arbitrary. and it was holding you back. and you said "fuck that. i want to be happy." and fucking went for it.

warm. and i love you for it.

sheepish. what was this post about again

I was surprised to see some people express an interest in my Starbound characters, and I've been thinking about it ever since, so I hope you guys don't mind if I open up about them a bit. Here's the first character I played as after being introduced to Frackin' Universe.

This is Neutron, a member of the X'i race. Their story is more than a few years old now and not quite up to my current standards, but I hope that you enjoy it anyways.

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As a new and oblivious seedling, they were discovered by a star faring group of human scientists from Earth. At first, the group took the infant alien in and hoped to use them to improve relations between the species, but two of the scientists, an older couple, came to care for them like their own child.

Despite the X'i's natural level of radioactivity, the couple was able to adopt the infant, and at first brought them along on their studies, teaching them many of the things they'd known. The child took a quick interest in physics, and the couple would name them Neutron soon after. Eventually, after several years, they would retire back to their home planet and bring Neutron with them.

Once coming of age, Neutron decided they wanted to become part of Earth's Protectorate, mostly to travel and begin their own studies out in the galaxy. Their parents, now much older and just wanting to enjoy their retirement in peace, would stay on Earth and communicate with them from afar.

However, after the induction ceremony, the Ruin came. It tore the planet of Earth apart, and Neutron's parents were two of the many casualties lost that day. Neutron themselves managed to make it to a junker starship, which was thrown from the planet during the final blast.

Neutron awakened after several days, finding radioactive bulbs growing on their skin. At first, they did not remember what had happened. They walked through the wrecked ship as S.A.I.L spoke to them, informing them of their next steps, but the AI was ignored. Neutron went first to a handheld communication device that their parents had given them for their travels. Even though the system within the ship was beyond repair, this was always supposed to reach them - but there was only static.

Once they remembered what had transpired, they began to tear the bulbs from themselves, bringing their emotional anguish into a physical form as well. Neutron broke down and landed on their knees as the faint green glow of the bulbs around them slowly began to fade.

After another day or so, Neutron's hunger has become insatiable. Though they wish to die as well, they have noticed and begun staring at the seemingly lush planet their ship had brought them to. S.A.I.L's constant prodding to visit the unfamiliar world was wearing on their nerves, and begrudgingly, they decided to go and investigate.

While upon the planet, Neutron would notice its nature's unmistakable similarity to Earth's, although it was of course hardly inhabited. They traveled across it's surface, meeting the occasional starhopper, and even a few who simply lived there.

Eventually they came upon a lab, which was tended to by a massive, sapient amphibian creature. Enthusiastic for a student, the being enlisted Neutron's help in fixing some of his broken machinery. Even in their current state, Neutron was able to remember their fascination with the sciences, and agreed.

The final task given to Neutron saw them travel all the way down to the core of the planet, where the heat was scorching. Neutron was particularly averse to heat, and it was here that they once again began to think of how easy it would be to let go, to let the magma consume them. It would take only seconds.

But some part of them wanted to keep going, to keep learning, in their parents' wake. Even the planet they'd accidentally come upon was full of new knowledge and experiences. Neutron realized that to fully honor their parents' wishes, they should continue to chase their own.

Now, Neutron travels in a ship they built themselves, using the junker as a base. It is full of the research they've gathered. They still wear the remains of the ripped Protectorate uniform around their neck and carry the communication device without fail, and their goal never changes - to continue to study, even when that research sometimes blows up, literally.

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It really is true that small fandoms have SUCH HYPERSPECIFIC DRAMA. Can you imagine trying to explain frackin universe's infamy to someone who hasn't been knee deep in the starbound modding community for multiple years. It would take me hours