That's pretty awesome! Thanks ^^

@Kinsect: I've largely finished work on the Modular Starting Systems collection. I'd recommend checking it out if you're looking for a more customizable starting system.

@Kinsect: Alright. You've convinced me to start work on a series of mods to allow finer customization of starting solar systems.

For now, here's Modular Starting Systems - Vanilla Starting System . Enjoy! (Still, you'd probably need to purge your universe files, so that your player's ship can be reset in orbit around a new starting system.)

If you can Shadowwolftjf can you update this mod or make a separate mod that accounts for mods that removes that desert planet spawn?
like everything you can get is from your starting Lush planet?

I did noticed that you can get Tungsten from other planets or asteroids but it's requires some hard work to put in like Planets that have hazardous weather effects or requiring a Mech (which is made even harder if you have Mech Overhaul since you also need to get Urchius fuel for it ^^;;)

It also might be awkward for races ships who don't start with a broken fuel hatch ^^;;

Yeah I'm running with Starburst Rework, Arcana, and The Starforge (nor what ShyDispatch recommends in their collection)
so that's more than likely changing the planet generation

One example of a mod that could produce this kind of softlock would be, surprisingly, TrueSpace, which, although it makes planet generation more realistic based on distances from their star, for some reason, the mod developer(s) had decided to do away with the requirements for

Unfortunately, this mod was designed with vanilla Starbound in mind, so it was assumed that players would start with a desert planet and a moon within their starting solar system. (It was also assumed that other mods that alter planet and star generation would've been considerate about vanilla Starbound progression, assuming that they were developing for vanilla Starbound in mind 1st and foremost.)

@Kinsect: Thanks for the feedback.

As for your softlocking issue, it's most likely a different mod that's responsible, especially one that does away with vanilla Starbound's need for players to specifically start in orbit above a lush planet, with a forest and desert planet, along with a moon, within the same starting solar system (all of which can be seen in "universe_server.config", except for moons, which were set within "celestial.config" to nearly always spawn within star systems that could harbor a lush, forest, and desert planet anyways).

Yeah I'm softlocked if I can't get any glass of any planets have any sand

It isn't guarantied to spawn a Dessert planet making glass very hard to obtainable

Say is this mod always guarantied to spawn a planet with Tungsten on it?

This pairs up pretty well with Slightly Painful Erchius Mission :3
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3034462368

Fair, also neat you right many thanks for the response.

@Somecraft: Sorry. Not interested in making "No Story" or "Story Optional" versions or patches of my mods. I've got my own projects to work on, which, right now, are focused almost solely on changing up vanilla Starbound, story included.

Instead, I'd rather let others make mod patches for my mods (or even make their own alternatives towards my mods if they're small-scale enough). I put my mods under open-source licenses for a reason, you know? (Besides, even for an aspiring modder, it can't be hard to move the quests from Esther to Penguin Pete, right?)

may I ask if you a version of this were we don't talk to esther but instead we can just automatically get the quest from penguin pete? you could just make it so he also wants gold or diamonds as payment.