Race More "non-standard" races

What we have now are 6 anthropomorphic races, each with two genders. I think it would be more fun if we were treated to a more broad display, including:
- some X-gendered races, where X isn't 2
- some non-humanoid races (maybe even with their own movement gimmicks)
I know someone on the dev team said the racial difference is purely cosmetic, but a man can dream, right?

 

It would definitely be good to see some variation. However, it could prove to be quite tough to implement these suggestions in the playable races. Perhaps these ideas could be applied to NPCs/Mobs instead? I'd be happy enough with that, as the player would uncover new things that way, similarly to how we'd do it. ^^

 

I feel that nonhumanoid aliens need to be in the game, at least as intelligent NPCs, all the races right now are human in both psychology and physiology

 

As intelligent NPCs, I'm fairly that some non-humanoid ones will be in Starbound ^.^

 

I sure hope so!

 

Where...
Are...
The...
REPTILIAN RACE!?
Comon! They are not usual bunch!
Starbound! Whyyyyyy?

 

What about reptilian centaur insects? or cephalopod snakes.

 

I'm on your side with this, but I made a non-humanoid race, you can see it here:
http://community.playstarbound.com/...s-exotic-pink-and-stinky-playable-race.13051/
...And I've been told by a dev that my only hope to see that in the game was with mods.
But yeah, a man can dream...

 

I, too, wished for non-humanoid races. Some of my other race ideas would actually work well. Sucks non-humanoid races aren't really supported [canon-wise] for now.

 

well >.> I have made this race

also I see where your coming from and I agree! BUT the problem with having non humanoid races is the armor. all the other races armor WILL NOT fit the non humanoid races. this is one of the reasons making one is proving to be...difficult. simply put, its a time sink to make a bunch of armors OR modifying each one to fit the race right.

hope this helps !!

 

Yeah I love your race man, and I keep using your sprite sheet by the way. I'm sure that, given the time to make all the armors, we could add a bunch of awesome races made by the community like this one and put them all in a big Mod. It would be better than nothing.

 

Florans have no gender.

 

What about a jellyfish race? A jellyfish race could look like blob or anything else non-humanoid, and they wouldn't need a different armour look, because they could just fill the armour with their body substance, adapting to the form. I think that's fairly legit.

 

I agree that it would take way too long for them to do that, but it still would be pretty cool to see at some point.

 

well isn't there a system in place in starbound, that when you make a mod in the game, everybody will be able to see it. if lets say I make my race...people will be able to see my race, even if they don't have it
so you wouldn't need to make a huge mod with all those races in one...

 

well considering Tiy said he would try and make the game easy to mod it could work(and I wouldn't mind if they couldn't use all the armors... as long as they had some options...)

 

I just created a non stander race their called the Animus Weavers

 

so the hanar?

 

Any kind of blob/slime/goo/jelly race you can find in various merchandises (or think of a new one) can do.