@Star-X Interesting idea, but I'm not into the idea of making multiple different mods for these little changes. If in singleplayer you could just admin add the copper/silver/gold into your inventory. Modding starbound is quite simple if you even want to give it a shot yourself.

Personally - Having ores highlighted and free matter manipulator upgrades (for a stronger mm) makes getting resources easier early on (and thus making the quest easy to do). Perhaps taking a look for other mods to enhance your gameplay early on would be helpful.

The mods I've thrown up on the workshop are changes I felt needed to be done to the core game (yeah I'm not a fan of the 'tech cards' or 'manipulator modules' you have to grind / rng for at the start of the game).

Any chance of making a version in which the techs still cost tech cards, but the initial quest to unlock them requires 0 copper, silver, and gold bars?

make it so u always have tech i mean u begin with it

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Also...I Have An Idea Instead of making the tech free,maybe Unlock It At the start of the game?

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Oh...Thx for the Advice mr_Oob i did have LOTS of Tech Mods,Im a tech guy!

Quick update - Nothing really changed except the metadata file to just try and ensure this mod gets loaded last (or nearly last).

@DogeStudios Yep, by clicking on the '+ Subscribe' button on the page steam will download the mod automatically. It might take a try or two of starting up / closing starbound for it to actually download and be good to go, but its rather simple once you get used to it.

You just have to be careful about mods that could corrupt your save after you unsubscribe from them (or just losing those mod-added items).

@DogeStudios: By subscribing, if you're talking about those on the workshop.

i just wanna know how to install these mods:(

thanks :D

@bellahtg No problem. Remember to be careful with how much you mod up starbound :P. It can get really crazy quick :D.

ok yeah i disovered a issue with the van mod

@bellahtg This mod does not do anything at all to ships and it does not delete any of the techs at all. Sorry, but it is probably the result of some other mod you subbed to.

it turned my ship to dirt COMPLETLEY and all of my techs were deleted ):

@harmbes follower - The mod doesn't modify the GUI for techs. All it changes is the price the tech costs so that is the default GUI for the techs...

i think that GUI is outdated

Also, this mod does NOT change the ENERGY cost, it is changing the tech chip cost (if that was confusing).

@tas0173 darkness core - "does not work" doesn't really help... Starbound needs to be restarted a few times for mods to get downloaded and needs to be played through steam to have steam workshop mods work (last I checked).

It may be that the mod was not downloaded yet.

This mod only changes the price of the default game's tech prices (if you have a mod that adds techs my mod does not change the price of those new techs).

does not work

Thanks for the comment :D! It is good to see people are still using this on occasion!

pretty good

@乃ｱ丂Ǥｲ乙З丂乇Щﾑ Er... but after the initial 'tutorials' for the first few techs you can just unlock any of them with tech cards..? Haven't played starbound in a little while am I missing something :o?

now we need a mod to be able to unlock all the techs

@|TRIX| TheAdmiralPanda - The files you change are [techname].tech.patch , just edit it with notepad or similar and change the line "value": 0 to what you want that tech to cost (e.g: "value": 4). If you are going to change the mod the best idea is probably to download the 'non steam' version so that you can easily edit it without steam workshop messing with it later :P.

I'm not sure about multiplayer compatible or not (I would guess that the server would probably need the mod installed on it and probably the players too). I've never played starbound multiplayer or ran a server sorry :/.

and is this multiplayer compatible?

what file do i go in to change the chip cost?

@raz334 You could download the non-steam version and edit it yourself easily. Just change the 'chip cost' to whatever you feel would be fair.

i thought about subscribing, then i realized its wayyyy to much of a cheat,,, any chance at getting a reduced cost one. Bcause not paying all all seems like a game breaker to me.

@[No GG]Japal Sometimes you have to start and close starbound a few times for the steam workshop mods to get downloaded. Sucks, but it happens to everyone :/.

The addon doesnt work for me, it still has th normal prices

@Lenn'Reegar vas Alarei True, I've never had a problem of ''I need these!", but someone asked for the mod so I provided :P. Was simple enough to make.

but you get those tech cards so damn fast... I have around 200 on my character.

Damn that was quick o.O and awesome.

@Awow.json You have to get to the Outpost. After a few of the initial quests you get there and you do some quests for the tech guy there and then you are able to buy and change your techs around.

how do you get to those skills