WIP Meet the Varans (Reptilian Race Mod)

Release will come once ship and codex is finalised. ETA within the next few days, barring serious delays (so hopefully not Chucklefish wait times).​

The Varan are a lizardman race inspired by Arabian and South Asian imagery and Babylonian myth. Our goal is to create a unique and detailed mod on par with those in the base game.

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We're a team of three with varying skills and each with differing contributions. We have big plans for this mod and we hope that the community will like what we've done so far.
Our team consists of-

Neawx - Coding and character spriting
Jenohart - Lore, concept and misc. spriting
Holgast - Reference images and item spriting


Done:
- Character sprites
- Starter weapon and T1 dagger
- One custom starting outfit
- Starter quest
- 6 different hair/hornstyles (More in progress)

Almost completed:
- Lore and codex
- Extra T1 weapons

Still in development:
- Ship
- All other items

Planned:
- Tails
- Custom sounds
- Custom respawn animation
- Inspection prompts
- NPC reactions
- Decorative items
- Randomly spawned towns

 

Awesome ! I love how well they fit into the artstyle of Starbound.

 

Looks pretty neato. Can't wait to find out the lore behind these.

 

would love to see some fun ingame racism (speciesm?) between the Amfins and the Varan. With the Amfins using terms like "Dryskins" and "thickscales" and the Varan calling the amfins "wetscum" and "softhorns"

 

We may implement compatibility like this with other mods, when we are done with everything in the base game.
The goal is to have original items all the way up to Tier 10.

 

Ooh, this looks really awesome. I love that it seems like it'll fit right in with the default Starbound races. I'll definitely be looking at this.

 

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Making progress on the ship, but I'm still having a terrible bout of spriter's block.
Nobody on the team really has the skill to draw up a good concept drawing, so its still sitting as an edited, recoloured glitch ship.

Sorry for the delay, we'll get there some day soon, though. Haha

 

Really nice, keep it up, i'm very interested in this

 

Recolors are as good a place to start as any.

Also lol Starsaurus.

 

We now have two of three of the starting outfits and starting lore codices done, and while we're still finalising the ship design it's coming together quite well. I may tweak the namegen and create some more hairstyles (we currently have ten) before release. No further screens yet as Neawx still needs to compile the files.

 

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Here's a little thing to hold you over while I make super slow progress on the ship.

 

The codices are now done, but we're having some trouble getting it to work in the game. Any good coders able to discern the problem, PM Neawx or me.

We're also having a brilliant artist join our team, so we'll give him a formal welcome once we get to meet him.

 

Question: will we be able to customize their face to look like various different lizards, such as iguanas, bearded dragon, frilled neck, etc?

 

I've already designed a few hairstyles to do that.

 

these guys are one of my favorite new races.

 

looks very good indead great mod keep it up with the good work .