Modding Discussion Furniture for a Café?

Let's say, hypothetically, somebody was working on some new themed furniture sets and tenants. What kind of objects do you think... this person should include in a set like this? What could they improve on here? And what should the hypothetical barista tenant be wearing?

 

Hypothetically speaking, let's say someone who thinks this stuff looks great would like to see more of it as progress is made, what would they have to do?

 

well, I'd have to guess that this hypothetical person would have to watch this thread for updates, wouldn't they? while the artist melts into a gross puddle of tears of joy thank youuuuu

Don't tempt me, friend, I'll really do it.

and non-hypothetically speaking, thank you so much asdfghjkl

 

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And then I started imaging this but with an Apex woman.


But then I started imaging a Hylotl instead, and I can't go back.

 

Hypothetically a cupboard and bar or desk that match that theme would make for some beautiful hypothetical coffee shops. Hypothetically bk3k's idea of an apex in place of the human on the Starbucks logo would be genius, hypothetically a "Minibucks" with Big Ape in place of the woman on the sign would be hypothetically hilarious.

 

update! we've got steaming coffee now!

not sure why i didn't do it initially...
as well, I might've gone a liiiiiitle overboard on providing drinks as well. in my defense though, they were super easy and fun to do. A lot of mods in the past have tried to add placeable drinks in the past, but they never looked right to me!

not exactly sure I like the look of that pozest bottle though...
and lastly, some community suggestions from both here and the reddit page:

 

update: more food!!
I had a lot of fun doing these, but it's tricky adding recognizable details in smaller sprites!! I'm particularly proud of those cupcakes and muffins, hehe

and by popular demand...

@Sparklink & @bk3k i think they turned out decently enough? christ, they're terrifying...

I was thinking something like that too! kinda reminiscent of my last mod. and thank you so much! I adore building and decorating in any game I can get my hands on, but I always find myself chafing at the options provided. But with Starbound being so easily moddable and the graphics being so fun to work with, I found I couldn't be idle much longer! And you can expect this mod to be released in the near future!

 

all of my yes to seeing this be a mod. i still need to find a area to make a small town to set up and a store or two would be nice to add to it.

 

Someone did some great work so far.
Someone might want to consider tea and sugar cubes. Maybe even some kitchen/bakery utensils.

Hypothetically speaking of course.

 

Update: ... It's raining!
Good thing this café was here, huh?

meet the barista! they'll be supplying you with both the objects introduced in this mod, a few cooked foods, and award wining smiles! not pictured here. obviously.



And a new object: A shop counter! In the style of a similar mod, even. How about that.

And assuming I can figure out how to work Tiled, I might even include a few generated structures like the one above! That'd be nice, right?

 

wow, excellent work =o

 

update: presentation is half the battle!

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today's addition to the mod is the plating table! I didn't wanna weigh down the poor baristas with too many items, so a vast majority of the food and drinks in this mod will now be crafted at this table. You're guaranteed to be able to buy them from every barista npc.

the recipes for all the items here are just their vanilla consumable counterparts​

not to worry though! the table also allows you to change it back should you so desire:

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and now... a question for all of you familiar with the tiled program.
i'm trying to create a generated structure, but I'm running into a problem. I can place both my own tilesets and starbounds' on tile layers all I want, but not on an object layer like I know where they belong. No matter what I do, they won't allow me to place it down! If anyone knows what I'm doing wrong here, your help would be greatly appreciated!

 

the hylotl sign reminds me so very much of



also i think there should be a floran "buy ssssomething before i chew on your face" sign with an extra large toothy smile

 

update: back in business!​

Hey-o! Sorry for my absence - life matters and finicky programs kept me busy! But I come bearing good news!

not pictured: several days worth of frustration, crying, and tweaking object orientations​

café bistros are now coming to a lush planet near you! Equipped, of course, with a barista happy to provide some quick reprieve from the elements and fill your belly with sweets. A special thanks to @luna_panshiel for linking me to the correct version of tiled and a recently updated walkthrough to fix where I'd been going wrong!

Right now, all that stands between this mod and an official release is some fine tweaking and racial discriptions! Look forward to it!

 

*starts drooling*

 

Having access to techs wouldn't render your save unusable, but having those tech equipped would. Your character would fail to load until you reinstall the mod that adds the techs. At which point you can swap to another tech. Alternatively you can fix your character with Starcheat.

Custom tiles aren't a problem. Missing tile assets will turn to dirt. Objects in the world would disappear, but any collisions could remain(as metamaterials are vanilla). Mod objects in your inventory will become Perfectly Generic Items without that mod installed. So the risk is pretty small.

As for Steam unloading mods, you don't have to worry about that if the mods are installed into \starbound\mods\ at all. Steam can only stop Workshop mods from loading. Workshop mods will fail to load only if Steam is in "offline mode" and even that can be overcome if you edit your sbinit.config file to include the path to your workshop mods. Or you setup symbolic links etc - like replacing the directory the workshop mods would download into with a link to \starbound\mods\ for example.

There isn't much you (or Steam) can do which can't be fixed after. And even then, you can always make a copy of your \starbound\storage\ folder to somewhere safe. Then you know you can always get your progress back.

 

Thank you for your input! That actually puts me at ease too, truth be told. And @Jonesy, I'll be releasing this mod alongside another with just the objects.