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Do you hate protracted grinding and RNG-based frustrations? Then you've found the right collection! These mods should help your progression get unstuck fast, without being too overpowered.
Items (57)
(TanzLO) More Subtle Ore Glow
Created by Sir Greaves
Makes all ore glow very subtly, for those who just want to mine. ...
100% Boss Uniques Drop Rate
Created by Azure Fang
This mod was produced due to Kreek's wildly popular boss drop rate mod not including two bosses, causing some other compatibility issues, and the Enhanced Storage version breaking entirely. Should Kreek release revised versions of their mods, I will delete...
2 Hour Frogg Rotation
Created by MichaelTheDanish
Decreases the Featured Furniture rotation at Frogg Furnishing from 24 hours to 2 hours. If 2 hours is a bit too much, check out the original 1 Hour version! If you'd rather have the entire stock of furniture at all times, Star-X EverFrogg mod, is an excell...
2 Hour Lana Shop Rotation
Created by MichaelTheDanish
Decreases the item rotation at Lana Blake's Shop from 24 hours to 2 hours. If 2 hours is a bit too much, check out the 1 hour version! Compatibility Uses the Patch system, so should work with any other mod that doesn't change the 'rotationTime' value in 'l...
2 Hour Weapon Shop Rotation
Created by MichaelTheDanish
Decreases the item rotation at Biggy's Reputable Weaponry from 24 hours to 2 hours. If 2 hours is a bit too much, check out the 1 hour version! Compatibility Fully compatible with Portable Outpost. Uses the Patch system, so should work with any other mod t...
Armor Augments
Created by hebiohime
This mod is standalone, adds augment slots to back head chest and legs More than one of a kind of augment does not stack (example: 4 Healing III augments). Different levels of augments stack(example: 1 each of Healing I, II, III). ╔════════════════════════...
Bitcoin Mining Farms
Created by DemonX3
Low on pixels, huh? Try bitcoin! I heard it's good source of money! This mod adds bitcoin farms, they are mining bitcoin, simple, right? When they are working - their indicator is green, when work finished and you can gather money - indicator is red. There...
Bug Spawn Improvement
Created by Azure Fang
When a planet is generated in vanilla Starbound, the engine selects a single bug from the planet's biome, and that bug becomes the only bug capable of spawning on that planet; if you want to find any of the other bugs from that biome, you have to hunt down...
Ceiling Mounted Sprinkler
Created by Numenization
This mod adds a ceiling mounted water sprinkler that is meant to match futuristic style builds. It covers 8-10 blocks and constantly waters. It can be turned on/off with wiring and is a great solution to those who don't want to make holes in their crop fie...
Cheaper Capture Pods
Created by Fjarun
Cheaper Capture Pods This mod adds a crafting recipe that allows you to craft a capture pod for 3 durasteel bars, as opposed to vanilla's 3 durasteel bars and a single diamond. Summary This is quite honestly a very simple mod purely for those of you who ju...
Cold Storage
Created by Kave Johnson
"Keeps your food at a nice temperature above 0 degrees Celsius." - What Does This Mod Do?​ This mod supplies the player with cool storage for foodstuffs, adding an early game alternative to fridges, by adding slight refrigerative properties to ship lockers...
Craftable Collars + No Diamond Pods
Created by Ruko
Mod is asset-mismatch friendly - Only the client needs to have it installed to see the effects This mod aims to improve every pet keepers' experience without nearly requiring a seperate mod install to make diamonds easier to obtain. If you feel like this m...
Craftable Salvage Parts
Created by LCD
This mod lets you craft salvage parts for your mech so you don't have spend a bunch of time looking for a ton of salvaged parts just to make a mech part. You need an atomic furnace to craft these. I tried to make it as accurate as possible(considereing rea...
Crafted "Stable" Challenge Portal
Created by Azure Fang
You've beaten Ruin, delved ancient vaults, cataloged every bug you can find... but you still haven't seen the cat vs. bunny challlenge room. But who wants to hunt through every square inch of every planet just to have a chance to find a challenge door that...
Easy Ingots (1.4 ready)
Created by Naddox
Welcome to Easy Ingots Mod! THIS MOD IS CURRENTLY INCOMPATIBLE WITH FRAKEN UNIVERSE Easy Ingots is a mod that aims to remove some of the grind of the game by making it easier to get the materials you need so you can spend less time mining and more time exp...
EasyRAM - RAM from Robot Chickens and Crafting
Created by Numenization
I hate farming enemies for drops, especially when the drops are less than 50% and I need LOT of them. So I made RAM not only have a 50% chance of coming from Robot Chickens, but you can also craft them for 5 sand, 2 coal, and 1 gold bar....
Efficient Watering
Created by zecra
-Water your crops without a cooldown rate -Water while walking -Watering time decreased -Watering AOE increased...
Fishing Tweaks
Created by original
Do you like Fishing? No? Then keep browsing. Increased Uncommon fish spawns to 33% (from 20%) Increased Rare fish spawns to 11% (from 4%) Increased Legendary fish spawns to 4%(from 0.1%) POSSIBLE FUTURE FEATURES *increased drops of lures and baits *remove ...
Give me Cotton!
Created by lornlynx
Adds Cotton Seeds to the Terramart and Cotton to the Infinity Mart at the Outpost, as well as Cotton Seeds to the Flower Merchant. In case you are like me and unlucky with your cotton. Everyone needs cotton. Changelog: Fixed an issue with npv merchants (I ...
Ground-Penetrating Radar Station (for 1.3.X)
Created by Erisss
All Credit Belongs to Wellbott Link to his original mod: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=729512636 The power of radar comes to you! The GPR Station scans and displays surrounding terrain, letting you map caves, find structures, and lo...
Instant Crafting
Created by v6
This is a client-side mod. Disables the timer on client-side crafting tables so that everything you craft finish instantaneously. Support mods If you find any table that isn't instant just reply with mod name & crafting table name in top left corner next t...
Instrument Crafting
Created by Joshua
Just wanna jam out with your crew without having to worry about finding the perfect guitar? Instrument Crafting is a quality of life mod that allows for the creation of music instruments through the Instrument Table. The new Instrument Table can be found i...
Job Offers
Do you really, really want a NPC as a crew member? No worries, now you don't have to hope for them to give you enough quests to trigger the change. With one of these craftable/buyable job offers you can instantly make them happy to work for you. - Make any...
Memento Mori
Created by Lunchghost
A mysterious craftable item that guides you back to the site of your last death! Craft a Memento Mori with your bare hands and 1000 pixels. Simply hold it and follow the unnatural essence back to your corpse. -- - Memento Mori begins tracking your deaths a...
More Space Items
Created by Mazzle Dazzle
Makes every non-trash container in space have 5-8 items in them. So space is less grindy. I increased volume but not quality in anyway. Let me know of any suggestions to tweak it....
New Farmables: Flowers
Created by Azure Fang
Only technically new, this restores farmable functionality to vanilla Red, Blue, Yellow and Spring flowers, as well as corrects misalignments in the sprites for three of the four, allowing players to plant fields of harvestable flowers. This mod was actual...
New Farmables: Hemp for Plant Fibre
Created by Azure Fang
Reducing the tedium of going out to forage for plant fibre, this mod adds Hemp as a farmable (occasional "green" joke included), which produces Plant Fibre, right from the comfort of your farm/colony/ship! No more clear cutting forests, razing meadows, or ...
No More Erchius Ghost
Created by Suphax
You know that annoying flying noclipping lovely and enjoyable pink ghost that follows you around on moons and speeds up with the more fuel you mine and one hit kills you on touch? Yeah, this mod removes that. Enjoy! If you encounter any problems like seein...
NpcSpawner+
Want to be able to spawn in and customize npcs well beyond even what the chargen gives you? Want to just find that one bloody human npc with the short green hair? Well brother(or sister!), we at N.P.C. Inc. have got good news for you! Introducing: NpcSpawn...
Optional Erchius Mining Facility
Created by Xaliber
Hated the Erchius Mining Facility quest gating your space exploration? This mod is for you. --- If you liked my mods, feel free to donate me a snack through: Ko-Fi | Buymeacofee | Trakteer | Saweria --- This mod aims to remove the hassle of doing introduct...
Perennial Crops
Created by Toyi
--Perennial Crops-- Plant once and avoid the annoying chore of replanting your crops! What does it do? This little mod makes that every base crop of the game (wild and planted) behave like tomato, grape, banana and coffee plants; so once you harvest them, ...
Pixel Compressor Plus
Created by fruzstrated
Makes the Pixel Compressor upgradable and available at the first table by adding two lower tiers. This allows you to start saving your pixels immediately. t1 - Pixel Press (20% Loss) t2 - Pixel Compressor (10% Loss) t3 - Pixel Consolidator (No Loss) Non-St...
Reclaimable Turrets
Created by Azure Fang
Per request, this mod allows vanilla crafted turrets (Defense Turret) to be reclaimed when removed, rather than smashed for a paltry Silicon Board and Copper Wire. Non-Steam Version Nexus Mods links removed in protest of recent changes removing creator rig...
Resource Extractor
Created by gay moth aunt
CAUTION: This workshop item will no longer receive updates. I no longer have time to work on maintaining these items due to now being a full-time sprite artist, so consider these workshop items to be fully open-source. You are free to upload or publish you...
Sensible Fossils
Created by Nirrudn
Tired of digging at what appears to be a t-rex skull, yet getting a measly amber for your work? So was I, and thus this mod was born. This creates brand new treasure pools for fossils, and sets all the default fossils to use the new pools. The small pool r...
Shut The Fish Up
Created by soopytwist
Silences the laugh of Chuckles the fish on the intro screen. I don't know about you but after a while of hearing it each time I loaded the game up I got increasingly annoyed by it. Now I don't have to hear it and neither do you with this tiny but essential...
Stop Dropping Consumables - Survival Tweak
Created by groobus
Dropping those healing items and food stuffs can be annoying when traveling across the universe. Thankfully this mod disables that from happening, and you can now go loot your other valuables even in the harshest environments. I found it kind of odd that h...
Unbreakable Tech Console
Created by soopytwist
You can use the matter manipulator to pick up and store the tech console without it breaking. You can re-position the tech console on your ship or base without paying another 5000 pixels for another one! Plus you can be a dirty cheat-bag and take the conso...
Unbreakable Teleporters
Created by soopytwist
Craftable/store bought teleporters don't break when you collect them with the matter manipulator, allowing you to place them wherever and whenever you want. v1.2 now supports: Avali, Felins, Fenerox, Inkling, Neko, Orcana, Ponex (all races), Vespoid and Vi...
Ursa Miner Upgrade: Mech Beam Drill Recipe
Created by Azure Fang
Tired of hunting through countless T5 anomalies and hostile ships, hoping that a blueprint will drop, then praying that the blueprint will give you the only replacement drill arm in the vanilla game? Well, Papa Ursa has gotten his paws on a few extra bluep...
Ursa Miner Upgrade: Ore
Created by Azure Fang
Formerly named "Ursa Miner Downgrade: Ingots to Ore" Per request, this mod causes the Ursa Miner shop on the Outpost to sell raw ore in place of refined ingots. Need ore instead of ingots just so a tenant can tell you to refine that ore into said ingot? Ha...
x5 Basic Drop Rates
Created by Tripod
Compatible with Starbound 1.1 * Does not stack with "x10 Basic Drop Rates" (One will override the other.) * Increases the drop rate of the Basic Treasure pool (x5) for the following monster categories: - basicMonsterTreasure - noMeatMonsterTreasure - weakl...
Disabled drop for Survival Mode
Created by Tatsu
Disable item drop when dying in survival mode. Pixel lost is still there. Not compatible with other difficulty mods....
Racial Recipe Requisition
Created by Kais
Free yourself from the tyranny of race-exclusive crafting recipes by using your piles of spare upgrade components to steal them! To get started, use a once-upgraded Inventor's Table to build the Phyletic Cyanotyper; choose a race in this machine's interfac...
Peacekeeper Space Station Teleporters
Created by Azure Fang
Sure, when the Peacekeepers are first introduced the organization is little more than a shack on an asteroid and a vaguely Orwellian job description. But by the time you've funneled enough "evidence" to Captain Noble to pawn off to afford a third space sta...
Planet Navigation Tools
Created by Dread_Lord369
This mod is no longer being actively worked on I built this reworked mod as a hobby project because it was something I wanted for my own gameplay. Due to life and responsibilities, I no longer have the spare time to work on this mod. If anybody wants to ex...
Salvaged Mech Part Ships
Created by ❤Marigi❤
Ever wanted to upgrade your mech and realised you would have to grind for hours just to get enough of one of the required salvage parts? Well now you don't have to! Just find one of the new Salvaged Mech Part Ships and talk to the robot inside! He'll sell ...
Bounty Hunter - Rapid Rank Rising!
This simple mod is designed to Save You Time by allowing you to Rise through the Peacekeeper Ranks faster. Thus enabling you to reach the harder and higher tier bounties/post-end game missions sooner, with less time spent grinding out errands through the s...
Station Upgrade Modules!
Created by Silver Sokolova
Space stations are pretty neat. You can make your own private world and expand it! All you need is... Ouch, the Station Transponder that spawns your station is a bit costly, but it's probably just a rough start. Now that I got my station, it's time to expa...
LR's Dynamic Equipment
Created by Linkronny
Short description: Scrap unwanted equipment, and enhance equipment of your choice using the recycled materials! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Not-so-short description: Ever tired of jus...
Buyable Mech Blueprints
Created by Mabra
Makes mech blueprints buyable at the Treasured Trophies. While i like Craftable Mech Blueprints, a good alternative to the grindy space encounters, i though it didn't really make sense to make them yourself, so i made my own version that adds them to the t...
Plant Fluffalo - Living root farming made easy!
Created by vodci
Getting living root SUCKS! No longer. Meet Plant fluffalos!...
Swansong Health Nerf
Created by Partonetrain
Reduces The Swansong's effective health from 51,000 to 12,750. Reduces Ophanim effective health from 2,975 to 850. You still have to deplete The Swansong's healthbar twice. Drastically speeds up a tedious fight. Compatible with FU, doesn't change the resis...
More Bars!
Created by zTotto
Makes it so that two bars will cost one ore to make, instead of one costing two. Now compatible with Frackin' Universe! If you think this mod is too op i also made a 1 ore to 1 ingot mod: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2478673028 Gi...
Minimap - Alpha
Created by Namuli
Changelog 0.4.0 * Added more zoom levels * Fixed a bug where changes to tiles were not properly applied when the map interface was open * Added entity display to the bigmap interface (Experimental Feature / If it doesn't introduce some bugs, in the next up...
Tar to Oil
Created by FantasyGames
A simple mod to add some recipies for turning tar into oil for when you cant find any oil...
Penguin Bay Peddles Monster Drops
Created by IndigoTail
blackmarket feel like an actual blackmarket now :3 No Processor Version: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3300260344 Does what it says on the tin. Penguin Bay now sells monster drops- Core fragments, sharpened claws, carapaces, the 4 ...