Startroid: Booster Techs

This mod adds the Speed Booster, Mini Booster, and Blue Suit to the game.

It is standalone and does not require any other mods.

To use Speed Booster, double tap left or right while on the ground. You will begin sprinting and accelerate to a maximum velocity. When at maximum velocity, crouch to store all of your speed energy temporarily.

With this speed energy stored, jump into the air and double tap left, right, or up to Shinespark in that direction. Shinesparking consumes a larger amount of energy and sends you flying in the direction you chose, until you run out of energy or reach a wall.

If you shinespark horizontally into a slope while holding the direction you’re moving in, you will swap back to a speed boost at full speed, allowing you to smoothly maintain momentum. It costs 32 cards to unlock.

The Mini Booster is a more agile version of Speed Booster. Since normal boosting requires a lot of distance and speed to shinespark, it is better suited for longer travels and flatter areas.

Mini Booster requires less distance to reach max speed, and the ability to change directions mid-spark. However, it is slower, and consumes more energy to use, reducing its effectiveness for longer travel. It costs 16 cards to unlock.

Blue Suit was a glitch in Super Metroid in which the player kills a boss with a shinespark, resulting in a glitched version of shinespark always being applied, allowing you to shinespark whether or not you had speed boosted.

Now, Blue Suit is an expensive version of speed booster that takes a lot more energy to use, but allows you to shinespark and speed boost instantly. It constantly applies a blue glow to your character. It costs 64 cards to unlock, putting it at around end-game tier.

If you’re using a new character, these techs will appear directly after you complete the mission in the outpost that rewards the Dash tech.

If you’re using an existing character, make yourself admin with the command "/admin", then make these techs available to purchase with "/maketechavailable [Name]" where [Name] can be substituted with speedbooster, minibooster, or bluesuit.

Features I would like to add in the future, but currently do not have the ability to do so:

* Diagonal shinesparking

* Distortion Sphere shinesparking

* Block-breaking abilities to both speedbooster and shinespark

If you’re a modder and would be able to give some pointers/tips for adding these features, it would greatly improve chances that these features are added and the speed of their implementation. Thank you!

Features I’ll might add in the future, if requested:

* Alternate shinespark sounds/ability to mute shinespark

* Other potential feedback, but no guarantees ;]

Save game location:
Back up storage
[Drive]:SteamsteamappscommonStarboundstorage

Frackin’ Universe (I built this mod while playing FU, but it’s not needed) should be fine.

Most likely any other mod that doesn’t modify the tech station (New techs should be fine)

Mods that change the Dash or Sprint MIGHT be incompatible. Use at your own risk! Should be fine.

v1.1 Released 9/24/21:

— Reduced volume of all speedbooster sounds

— Jumping tech and Special tech (Distortion sphere, etc.) can now be used while speedboosting and shinesparking. This means you can jump during the sprint, and even speedboost and shinespark with the distortion sphere!

Note: In order to speedboost with the distortion sphere, you must begin the dash before you transform. You can ‘crouch’ to store the energy, but you must exit the sphere in order to begin the shinespark (Sorry, this is just how the sphere is built. I can’t change that without breaking compatability with other things). After shinesparking, you can transform back into the sphere again.

You can use ANY tech now while speedboosting/shinesparking. This is fun, but be careful with techs other than jumps and spheres. I have no idea how other modded techs will interact with this, so some strange things might happen which could result in breaking things. Enjoy, but be warned ;]

Yup, I just finished the next mod actually! It’s the second mod in my Startroid project, called Beams & Missiles.

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