RELEASED Elithian Races Mod - A Starbound Expansion 2.3.10

Most Darve'ras are rogues without a clan, but there's a few unregistered clans within the Darve'ras. The remains of what was once the Vathra clan are also part of the Darve'ras, but officially, their clan was disgraced and disbanded after their Terve was destroyed.

An alt ability to keep the weapons spinning might be nice! It should still consume energy per second - as the windup time is there to balance the minigun against other weapons (it has one of the highest DPS values in the game) - but allowing the weapon to keep spinning at the cost of a small amount of energy per second should be fine.

Hmm, that does sound cool! I'll add it to the Unique weapon concept list!

I wasn't even aware there were high gravity encounters in Starbound (is that part of a mod?). Either way, I'll add it to the list: not yet sure if the additional bounces will make it in (don't want to make it too powerful by allowing shots around multiple corners), but I think one or two additional bounces should be fine.

 

Some mod I have makes some planets... Really hard to traverse. Gravity is REALLY high. You hop, you slam into the ground and take damage even from a small height. No idea how many times I've died from it, but the Vhelins rifle has trouble killing things.

 

E.G.: Frackin Universe... my lord super dense planets are a pain to traverse

 

Well, there we go then. Superdense planets. I may have just died two more times by falling, by the way.
I need to make that sentinel controller.

 

Hope your not on survival lol.

I have a question, the Centensial (sorry if i butchered the name) stuff, is there anyway to craft it? i wanna see what is the available items from it

 

That sketch is really cool!
I never realized just how alien their hands and legs were.

 

There's no way to craft Centensian items and objects yet, but there likely will be in the future. The Centens are planned as a playable race, so when they get released, their items will become craftable too.

Yeah, the Avikan are a lot more alien than how they appear in Starbound. The small sprites severely limited what could be done for the Avikan, so I opted for a simplified leg and hand design in the mod, but that sketch is still their 'official' look. In addition to the altered hands and legs, the sketch also shows many more flaps on the body: in-game, you only have head and arm flaps, but the sketch also has flaps on the shoulders and the hips, and a small fin on the back too.

 

So, from looking at the Spore versions, compared to their silhouettes on the front page...

From left to right is Aeginian, Avakan, Hymid (?), Notix, Trink, Dremeton (with Exosuit), Erixian (?), Jorgasian, Thelean(?), and finally Centens.

 

That's exactly right!

 

Noice, especially considering half of those were guesses

 

Hey again, I've got some more things that I think could be good addons to the mod once you have the time. Here's the list:
1. Avikan themed rails, rail platforms, rail hooks, etc.
2. large scale storage ex. the shipping containers
3. a rack like the avikan weapon rack with space left on it but where you can actually display your own gear and take it off whenever you need it, like the mannequin but with weapons.
4. Is there any way to make the sidewinder, or a version of, to pair up with it's counterpart to be held at the same time, dual pistol style?
5. umm this one's is just a potential bug(I don't really know). I was testing the shield generator and I placed it down powered it up and it worked fine but then I was going to remove it and I couldn't. I don't know if this is a bug with the game or what, but hopefully it gets fixed later.
6.also can we get a weapon similar to the droden sword that can shoot and stab for the other two races. Maybe they could be more racially influenced, so the avikan might have a spear/rifle while the trink get more of a... well I don't really know what the trink use as their weapons, I haven't gotten around to playing as one of them yet.

Thanks for your time, Griffen

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go play as my trink avatar; GRF-3N

 

They could have a Prod/Wrench that has a laser rifle built into it, maybe.

 

1. These are on the TO-DO list! You can already spawn in an Avikan rail platform (ID is "avikanrailplatform"), but rails (and possibly a rail tram too) are on the list. Not yet sure if they'll make it into the next update, but I'll try.
2. Also on the list! I'll see if I can add them in the next update, otherwise they'll likely get added in the update after that.
3. I had actually hoped to include something like this some time ago, but didn't really know how to add it. I did find another mod that allows you to place items in a way similar to Minecraft's item frames, so perhaps I'll look at how they did it and try to replicate it for myself.
4. I doubt that the Sidewinder and the Skylighter will get dual-wielding versions, since the reload mechanic is currently bound to the alt ability (and losing the ability to manually reload would be an annoyance). I do have plans for other Unique sidearms/hand cannons, though: they'll use an overheating mechanic, meaning they don't need manual reloads and can be made into one-handed weapons instead. I also have some plans for one-handed Unique weapons which are meant to be used in pairs: their unique attributes would only function when both items are equipped at the same time.
5. Not sure why you aren't able to break it, but I know shield generators can be a bit wonky at times... Do you have it wired up to anything? Otherwise, you could try using this command to remove tile protection from your current world, which should allow you to break and replace the generator: /settileprotection 0 false
6. They won't be exclusive to the other races (since each race already has a Unique weapon of their own), but there are some plans for other weapons that can switch forms. I think somethign like a hammer/grenade launcher has also been suggested before, but a rifle/spear combo sounds good too. Not too sure about a Trink weapon, though: I've always found it difficult to come up with weapon designs for them, which is why they don't have nearly as much content as the Avikan. I might ask their original creator (the one who invented the race in the roleplay) for some ideas!

 

A hammer/grenade launcher? I feel like i've seen that somewhere before....

 

3. check the item frame mod on steam.

 

Very Excited!

Aikan Nora FTW!

 

I need Novakid Xiao Long artwork pronto, lol.

 

I im working on an avatar now

 

Just a random suggestion, but would it be possible for either you or someone within the Elithian Races community to set up a wiki with mod info and actual lore about the races within the mod?

I understand if you don't have the time, just be nice to delve into the background lore a bit without having to search for codices, ask here or trudge through the Elithian alliance forum.

 

A wiki is definitely something I would like to create! It's actually been on my list for a long time, but I never got around to actually creating it... I'll see if I can get started on it sometime this weekend, though I'll probably need some people to help me fill it all.