So what is the best unofficial/modded version to play?

[Ghost314]

I'm one of those people that bought in EA and had high hopes but stopped playing shortly after the dev team announced they were no longer working on it. A random youtube video reminded me of it and said something like "The devs just made it open source as if to say 'hey modders can you finish it for us?' which they did".

That got me curious to see if the community managed to pick up the pieces and make something better than what it was when I stopped playing. It's been a few years at least. Is there a database of mods, or a fork of the main repo or something that people are playing now?

[Ghost314]

Think I found a partial answer to my own question. Looking through the 'official guide to the unofficial patch' lead me to the git repos, but I'm guessing the discussion of unofficial patch 1.09 is the most up to date thing we have to work with?

I had to make a small adjustment to the linux install script though. It seems to look for directory 'Win' to copy files from which is how the directory is named on the master branch of the repo. The supplied linux .zip file has that directory renamed to 'Linux' so I just edited that line in the script and it seems to work.

Still not sure where/how people are sharing mods though.

[Skenners]

hello,

heres the linux v1.09 code. You'll probably need to make your modifications on the linux script as I didnt have a distro setup to make the installer or check it.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/spacebasedf9-patch-1-09-final/files/spacebase-v2-updated-code-Linux109.zip/download

might need this to add to it as well as its the 1.09.1 patch that fixes a couple of bugs I missed from Erbkaiser:

http://erbkaiser.com/shared/spacebasedf9-unofficial-109_1-patch.zip

essentially, overwrite the files in your linux directories of the game which will give you the mods. You might need to make backups of the files it overwrites (or the whole directory/subdirectories).

These are all in the Unofficial Patch 1.09 thread : https://steamcommunity.com/app/246090/discussions/0/3761104498514249525/

Other than that, hope that helps

-Skenners

[Ghost314]

Originally posted by Skenners:

hello,

heres the linux v1.09 code. You'll probably need to make your modifications on the linux script as I didnt have a distro setup to make the installer or check it.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/spacebasedf9-patch-1-09-final/files/spacebase-v2-updated-code-Linux109.zip/download

might need this to add to it as well as its the 1.09.1 patch that fixes a couple of bugs I missed from Erbkaiser:

http://erbkaiser.com/shared/spacebasedf9-unofficial-109_1-patch.zip

essentially, overwrite the files in your linux directories of the game which will give you the mods. You might need to make backups of the files it overwrites (or the whole directory/subdirectories).

These are all in the Unofficial Patch 1.09 thread : https://steamcommunity.com/app/246090/discussions/0/3761104498514249525/

Other than that, hope that helps

-Skenners

Linux support actually turned into a bit of a train wreck. The edit I mentioned above got the shell script to work without errors, but the game itself was crashing saying it couldn't load the background music for the main menu screen.

I deleted the game in steam and manually deleted all game folders then did a fresh install + verify game files to remove all traces of the patch and had the same issue just running the base game. So either DF borked Linux support in their final release or something changed in latest Ubuntu (I'm on Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS).

My solution to get the game working was to enable proton compatibility mode and install it as if it were a windows game. I then used proton again to run the WINDOWS unofficial patch installer, and now everything seems to be working.

Not sure what the issue is with that sound file on native Linux, but after spending a bunch of time trying to figure out how to do anything with an .sfb file on a Linux machine I just threw up my hands and took the path of least resistance.

[Skenners]

that was a concern when we were working on the patches because the sound files are actually encrypted, which is probably why you wouldnt get too far with the .sfb files.

Maybe changing the configuration files of the game without sound could bypass it to get it to run on native linux, but obviously, no sound.

unfortunately, im not developing the patches anymore. thanks for looking at it though!

-Skenners

[Greg]

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