first playthrough mod choices

[jpmunroe]

Frstly, I very rarely play modern games more than once. I played Skyrim, New Vegas and FO4 with what I considered 'must have mods' (using reviews/research), I never played them in their vanilla state.

Having played Terreria for 200 hours with no mods, I am mostly done with that but I did find the vanilla experience pretty decent. I played on softcore/normal.

Starbound has caught my interest and I will likely play it local co-op with my family. It seems there are a lot more mods for this vs Terreria, but this time I am keen to get the best possible experience for what will probably be my only playthrough.

What interests me:

- new weapons/monsters/dungeons/areas
- improvements to GUI (e.g. SkyUI for skyrim)
- improvements to crafting mechanics
- removal of annoyances, to me that means things like not being able to stack items in more than 10, when it could be 100 or 1000. Also low inventory weight limits/size - I dont want to constantly loot>sell in town>loot
-community bug fixes (e.g. skyrim community patch)

What I don't want:

-anything that makes the game too easy or overpowered items
-anything that makes it pointlessly hard (dark souls). I am up for a challenge but I am too old to be trying the same thing 1000 times over!


Can anyone make any suggestions to get me started on my research?

[MysticMalevolence]

I suggest taking a look at this collection for what could be called bugfixes:
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=881906735
As well as some of the other collections it links for optimization and general improvements.

I'm not sure of any currently functional UI mods, but Improved Containers is a good one:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=729427606&searchtext=crafting+time
I would also recommend considering a mod to remove the crafting time that every item has:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=729427744&searchtext=

Most things in the vanilla game stack up to 1000, but as a warning, you have four inventories that store different things and there are a lot of items to collect, so the inventory is not very inituitive because of this. I do not know of any mods that approach this.


Finally, you say you rarely play a game more than once--I'd like to state that Starbound really isn't the kind of game that you play once. It has a story, but the story is rather weak, and while it is a focus of the game most of the game acts independently from it, so it might not be so simple to decide when your one playthrough is done, I believe?

[Excal326]

Look up Frackin Universe. Adds a ton of content and really gives progression an awesome overhaul. Adds new species, crafting, ship upgrades, and honestly just new ways to do about anything. It doesnt make the game easy, it makes it more challenging and rewarding.