Steam Workshop::Starbound - Visuals and Textures

Tanz Lighting Overhaul

Created by Sir Greaves

Makes every light cast shadows. May negatively affect performance. ...

Shadowed Atmospheres

Created by Fernanda

Makes the planetary atmospheric halo be affected by directional lighting....

(TanzLO) No passthrough

Created by Sir Greaves

Makes light not pass through any solid tiles. ...

Dramatic Deaths

Created by Limlis

Replaces the vanilla death animation with a weightier, more dramatic motion. More specifically, it replaces the first six frames of the animation using hand-drawn pixel art with the intent to make the act of dying and killing more impactful than the origin...

Racial AI Restorer

Created by Alex

Restores the racial AI portraits to those that were used in the beforetime. I was personally pretty disappinted with every race getting a recolour of the human version of SAIL after version 1.0. So... I did this... I guess. For the most part it's just a ve...

Dramatic Terrain

Created by Limlis

Tired of those blocky blocks? Are those mountains looking a little square? Do you find it oddly convenient that someone has hand-carved stairs specifically for you in a completely unpopulated world's underground caverns? Be troubled no longer with Dramatic...

(TanzLO) Medium Brightness

Created by Sir Greaves

Makes light cast through a medium amount of empty tiles. ...

[OUTDATED, CHECK DESCRIPTION] Slightly Improved Tech Station Holograms

Created by enewyn

THIS MOD IS DECREPIT. GO DOWNLOAD THE FIXED VERSION HERE - - - Old Description: 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬: - 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥: - The male and female versions now have more distinguishable silhoulettes (Broader shoulders for males, thinner jawline, waist and arms and broader hips for...

Parallax Fixes (Reupload)

Created by Xaliber

Tired of those rocks in the background of your garden planet that stand out like a sore thumb? No more! --- If you liked my mods, feel free to donate me a snack through: Ko-Fi | Buymeacofee | Trakteer | Saweria --- This mod fixes some annoying issues with ...

Protector Icons

Created by GrandProtectorDark

It always bothered me that when i was working with protectorate Objects , that most items had the same Medikit Icon which mostly caused long searching for a specific object in my inventory. So I've just decided to take the wheel in my own had and made Icon...

Freeze That Gate!

Created by aww

A simple mod that patches the animation files so that the Ark Gate or Portal or whatever you call it freezes at the first frame. The mod also disables the little particles that float around the monolith if those were causing the lag as well. In game, the F...

Ancient Text Translator

Created by Cinder

Can't read the Ancient Alphabet when people put it into the chat box without minutes of staring at the codex then back at the chatbox and back and forth? This mod is simple and will make it so you can read it! This is not compatible with anything that chan...

Stop That Damn Flicker!

Created by Tesserat

Tired if flickering objects during scan? Accidentally press the ALT key and game lurched to a stop? This'll fix your problem. I edited the highlight.config file to stop all that nonsense when scanning or highlight objects. While this saved me a few frames ...

Parallax Compression (FPS Improvement)

Created by Xaliber

This mod intends to improve FPS performance by compressing all parallax images size. --- If you liked my mods, feel free to donate me a snack through: Ko-Fi | Buymeacofee | Trakteer | Saweria --- Instead of removing the parallax background like other mod d...

Perfect Set Effect Remover

Created by Legate

It just removes that weird green particle effect from perfect armor and it increases FPS of the game when you have that armor equiped. Should work with current version. Tested 2025. ...

Dark Souls-like broadsword idle

Created by Magnus

This small mod changes the Broadsword idle frame to be more like Dark Souls by having the blade rest on the player's shoulder. It should work with any broadsword from any mod as long as the idle is not modified by the sword itself....

Red/Green Deficient Scan Overlay

Created by Sir Greaves

Changes scan colors to have more contrast for the red/green colorblind or deficient. ...

Glowing Chests - Halfbright

Created by JuliusDrake

This mod is intended for people who like to explore, loot, pillage, and go graverobbing. It makes chests easier to spot, so you don't have to spend your time shining a flashlight or shooting a flamethrower into every cave you pass by, or holding ALT consta...

Glowing Chests - Dim

Created by JuliusDrake

This mod is intended for people who like to explore, loot, pillage, and go graverobbing. It makes chests easier to spot, so you don't have to spend your time shining a flashlight or shooting a flamethrower into every cave you pass by, or holding ALT consta...

AnTiVegetation

Created by Annuschka

http://community.playstarbound.com/resources/antivegetation-extended-plant-parts.1174/ This mod aims to expand the variatons for plants. Right now it does not add "new" plants, but adds additioral frames and alternatives to existing plants: Farmables: Half...

Better Arcade Machines

Created by Reyquiem

Earlier, I had several requests for a mod that made arcade machines usable. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make them usable with my current level of expertise. But I could certainly make them better... with a little help. This mod replaces the textures of...

Optimizebound

Created by Munancho

Optimizebound aims to improve your game performance without any noticeable quality loss. To achieve this I've used PNGGauntlet, a png lossless compression tool, to optimize all png files found within the 'assets.pak' file....

Undertale's dying animation

Created by All-Seeing

Change the basic death animation to the Undertale death animation....

(TanzLO) Dark Brightness

Created by Sir Greaves

Makes light cast through less empty tiles. ...

Text To Speech Glitch Voices

Created by Pit

Want to hear some interesting voices when you interract with Glitches in-game? Well now you can hear actual Text to speech voices for glitches.... because it makes sense.... This mod includes voice replacements for: - male and female chatter - damage sound...

Better Snow and Arctic Parallax

Created by Nekobi

This simple mod improves the look of Snow and Arctic planets backgrounds. It removes weird huge trees in the deepest snow parallax, and clears a lot of the arctic parallaxes. Because why was there moutains everywhere on a frozen-sea planet anyway? Be aware...

Better Lush and Forest Parallax

Created by Nekobi

This little mod improves the background for the Lush and Forest planets. What it exactly does: -Removes the weird huge trees in the background. -Changed one of the parallax sprites so it fits with the others (on the "before" screenshot, you can see one are...

Islands for Ocean Background

Created by Nekobi

This mod adds islands in the parallax of Ocean Planets. I tried to make a background that fit the game's style, I hope you like it! Unfortunately, the new background does not apply to the already generated Ocean planets... You need to explore new ones to s...

RailTram Retexture!

Created by Nova

Simply retextures the Railtram to look like an elevator instead of a cage...

Orange Chat Box and Chat Bubbles

Created by Erisss

Replaces boring vanilla chatbox and chat bubbles with new one, stylish, easy to read hi-tech looking and orange! I think Avali players will appreciate this, non Avali I think too. Expect in the future orange teleport menu and maybe orange player interface....

Mech Blueprint Tier Colors

Created by VioVaeld

This mod changed the colors of the mech blueprints to better see what tier blueprint you got, before. All tiers had the same image. This just makes it easier to see what tier blueprint you have without having to go to your inventory and read what it is. Th...

Mech Visuals Overhaul

Created by AaronLee

Ever find yourself feeling like pilotable, spacefaring, modular mini-mecha could look cooler than they do in the vanilla game? I did. This mod overhauls the visuals for non-racial mech parts, increasing level of detail to match better with the rest of the ...

Hard impact

Created by p6kocka

This mod adds nice animation when deploying your mech. It adds some fog and dust when the mech is landing. Just look at the video. Great addition to awesome mod from @eZekiel 7 "Atmospheric Entry". https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=9532...

Magma Ocean Parallax Addon

Created by Ickura

Adds more to lava worlds. Lava oceans are made bigger, adds in a cluster of rock islands from original assets, spikes, and includes a huge volcano for all magma worlds. ONLY AFFECTS NEW PLANETS!!! Compatibility: (Compatible with Frackin Universe) (Compatib...

Generic Intro

Created by Kawa

Sometimes you just want to get through the Protectorate intro a little bit faster, but on the other hand you don't want to install some mod that makes all cinematics skippable. Sometimes, you're a trailblazer with a custom intro mission for your custom spe...

Animation Tweaks

Created by NobleFurLyfe

(for those hunting for client-side mods: clientside client side client-side clientsided client-sided client sided clientmod client) Small tweaks to small animations. I'm not the best modder, okay?! Changes the following animations - Dash (not Sprint) Typin...

Atmospheric Entry

Created by eZekiel 7

Changes the animation for the mech pod drop(the one with the space background), to simulate atmospheric entry. Vanilla races only(sorry). Non steam version http://community.playstarbound.com/resources/atmospheric-entry.4802/...

Better Chains

Created by Alb

Changes the graphics for chains so they can go diagonal and sideways. If this mod somehow isn't working for you, try out Better Chains Alternative which adds the chains as their own unique item rather than editing the vanilla one....

Detailed Species

Created by Rivi Warlock

*DISCLAIMER* This is not my mod, I just simply uploaded it here. All credit goes to Motionless! It is stated in the origonal page that "Anyone can alter/redistribute the mod's assets without the author's consent." LINK:http://community.playstarbound.com/re...

Blood Mod

Created by BakaKemono

Adds some blood and gore to combat. Client side mod Features: -New blood splatter hit animations -Increased the amount of blood spurt particles from hits and improved the physics -Blood particles will now collide and stain the environment -Gore piles on ki...

(TanzLO) No Player Aura

Created by Sir Greaves

Gets rid of the player aura / glow. ...

Guild Wars 2 Style Buff Icon

Created by Mikhail Haigen

For those who like to see tons of status effects show up on their HUD. Updated for 1.4: Changed some status effects' description, also added new elements for new added status effects. I am not sure if its all supported or not. Leave a comment if there is a...