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Improved Ship Encounter Descriptions
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Improved Ship Encounter Descriptions

In 3 collections by Azure Fang
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Description
In vanilla, every friendly ship and every hostile ship carry the same descriptions. What if you are looking for the penguin ship for codex entries and are tired of sifting through the merchants? Too bad.

Well, not anymore.

This mod alters the titles and descriptions of the six different vanilla ship encounters to clearly define the occupants, similar to the vanilla space stations.
  • Friendly ships have their occupants listed in blue
    • Penguin
    • Research Ship
    • Industrial Merchant
    • Astro Merchant
  • Hostile ships have their occupants listed in red
    • Pirates
    • Cultists

This mod does not alter the encounters themselves, nor does it add new encounters. Only the vanilla descriptions are changed to be able to tell the difference between the possible encounters.

Before anyone asks, the same cannot be done with anomalies. I want to. I REALLY do. But all anomalies are randomly generated from a single pool with a single description, whereas the ships are each a unique entry with a unique (if vanilla duplicated) description. The only way to do similar for anomalies would be to completely rewrite how they are generated, which is beyond the scope of this mod.

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75 Comments
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💖 Officer Hotpants 💖 18 Dec, 2022 @ 2:48am 
Or this one. Man, how many of the mods I've been using for the 5+ years did you make?
ꜰᴀʏʙʀ 20 Dec, 2021 @ 8:19am 
Welp, considering that Redone Ship Encounters was later updated (2020) compared to this mod (2019), I'd say that it's preferable to always sub to the newest one. Although, the former mod have small additional features in play compared to the latter.

So either sub to Redone Ship Encounters that adds detailed descriptions AND a bit of features OR sub to Improved Ship Encounter Descripts that, well, just adds description.
ꜰᴀʏʙʀ 19 Dec, 2021 @ 1:43am 
Following the previous person below me, I too would like to know.
Ashtar 14 Dec, 2021 @ 8:37am 
This compatible with (Redone ship encounter)?
I can use both together?
Bat 27 Jan, 2021 @ 5:52am 
Wait there's a penguin ship encounter? I didn't figure they'd put something unique into such a bland and boringly implemented system
๖ۣۜFenris 27 Jun, 2019 @ 8:42am 
Another major, and excellent mod ! Thanks you ! ;)
Azure Fang  [author] 24 Jun, 2019 @ 8:27pm 
@Quilldragon
In the defense of most creators, as long as they used JSON patches to create their mods, most will support 1.4 with no updates needed. To be honest, the only real reason mine are "updated" is because I promised back in 1.3.x that I'd categorize all of my mods when 1.4 dropped, which requires a "fake" update to register the categories.

That said, welcome back!... run while you still can.
Quilldragon 24 Jun, 2019 @ 7:43pm 
rejoining the starbound universe with this patch and am updating my mod list to find a lot arent up to date, so happy this one is. Cheers creator, GJ.
Cemuvi 14 Jun, 2019 @ 7:53am 
@Azure Fang nice thx :D
Azure Fang  [author] 13 Jun, 2019 @ 5:19pm 
@Cemuvi
Yes, though I haven't looked into the new ships to see if they can be updated with improved descriptions.