Frackin’ Universe – Elithian BYOS Ships

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Adds Frackin’ BYOS ships themed after the Elithian Races. You require both mods for it to work, since FU adds the BYOS system and objects, and ERM adds the racial blocks and objects.

This mod does not add the races (ERM does this), and doesn’t enable you to play the Akkimari on the steam release of ERM, though you can choose their ship as a non-Akkimari.

You don’t need to play an ERM race to use these ships, and can use them as non-ERM races. You will need this patch to use the BYOS system.

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Q: ‘How do I repair my FTL?’
A: With FU’s BYOS system, you need to research and craft your own FTL drive in the Engineering tree. Speak to Esther at the Ark, she has a tutorial quest for FTL travel.

Q: ‘Will you add ships for the other Elithian Races?’
A: If and when races subsequent to the Akkimari are released, most likely. The non-implemented races don’t have tiles (and I know very little about them), so I can’t build ships for them.

Q: ‘What about the Centens?’
A: They have tiles and objects, but I wouldn’t want to make them freely available to the player until I see how ERM implements them as a playable race. They also have no in-game ship examples besides the blue anomaly station.

Q: ‘How do I make my ship bigger?’
A: They’re BYOS ships, build them bigger. I recommend picking up the racial crafting styles at the Creon Embassy, Starfarer’s Refuge and Trinkian settlements. For Akkimari blocks you’ll have to raid their microdungeons, in true scavenger fashion.

Q: ‘How do I get more Akkimari furniture?’
A: Wait for the Akkimari race to be officially released, or spawn it in.

Q: ‘How do I get the controller for the Akkimari vehicle?’
A: Unchanged from ERM, the Chaseflight controller is a very rare drop from the vehicle-riding Akkimari found in their tower microdungeons.

Q: ‘Can I replace my current BYOS with one of these?’
A: It’s possible with /placedungeon, but I wouldn’t recommend it. Pick up your BYOS components first if you try.

Q: ‘Can I replace my non-BYOS ship with one of these?’
A: No, and you will break your shipworld if you try. BYOS and non-BYOS is a binary choice, and you can’t go back on it.

Q: ‘You should do one for X race.’
A: That’s outside of the scope of this mod, which adds ships themed after the Elithian Races specifically.

Q: ‘Is this safe to uninstall?’
A: Yes. Once the ship is placed, the mod’s job is done. Uninstalling won’t break your ship since I don’t add any blocks or objects, they’re all FU or ERM.

Q: ‘Is this mod client-side?’
A: Definitely not. If you want to play with someone who doesn’t have it, or use the ships on a server without this mod: Make your character, pick your ship, then uninstall this mod. Your ship will be fine.

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This mod is very lightweight. The only changes it makes to other files is patching the FU ships.config to allow you to choose the new ships. As a result, if you’re having issues then your problems aren’t caused by me. You most likely have:

1: Mods incompatible with Frackin’ Universe. See this list.[frackinuniverse.miraheze.org]

2: Mods incompatible with Elithian Races. I’m unaware of any comparable lists for ERM.

3: Very old and outdated mods, which break everything they come into contact with. If a mod hasn’t been updated since Starbound 1.4 came out it’s probably at least somewhat broken, and mods that attempt to change how FU works (beyond compatibility patches) are usually outdated within a month or so.