I made a character and the difficulty I selected doesn't suit me anymore. How do I change it?
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During the Character Creation process in Starbound, the player will be able to choose between the available seven races.The player will also be able to choose the sex of the chosen race. Choosing a Sex Edit. Some races in Starbound do not use standard sex symbols.
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You can't change the difficulty by design after you create the character. But if you don't mind cheating these official rules, you can find your character save file in this folder (or its equivalent in other OSes):
Open the desired player file (you can figure out which one you want by looking at last modified date) with Notepad++ or a similar text editor which lets you see the special characters. Difficulties will look like this:
Note the
ACK
in Casual difficulty. This special character is important because it won't work if you just type 'casual' in a regular text editor and leave the invisible BS
before it. The game won't recognize the player file, but it won't delete it. You can just edit back or use Notepad++ to fix this.user1306322user1306322
In addition to savegame hacking, there are also various mods available which enable/disable certain difficulty-specific features.
For example, there are mods which enable hunger on casual difficulty or disable pixel and/or item dropping on death. So when there is one specific aspect of the difficulty level you've chosen which bothers you, you can change that one aspect through modding.
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starcheat is currently incompatiable with Starbound 1.0 - We are currently not accepting issues for Starcheat errors with users running starcheat 0.27 with Starbound 1.0. For updates on 1.0 support, follow issue #282 (early nightly builds with 1.0 support are available).
starcheat is a Starbound player save editor, you can get free pixels with this! (omg)
Downloads
Starbound | starcheat |
---|---|
Starbound 1.0 | TBD - nightly builds available |
Glad Giraffe | 0.27.1 |
Pleased Giraffe | 0.26 |
Spirited Giraffe | 0.25 |
Upbeat Giraffe | 0.21 |
Enraged Koala | 0.17 |
Nightlies
You can try out the latest in development version (which may not be stable) by following these steps.
Windows: Appveyor artifacts
You can download prebuild nightlies for the latest commit from our Appveyor build bot. Go to https://ci.appveyor.com/project/wizzomafizzo/starcheat/branch/dev or https://ci.appveyor.com/project/wizzomafizzo/starcheat/history for 1.0 nightlies (the ones labeled with
Pull request #288 - Starbound 1.0 Support
) choose the build matching your architecture (win32 or win64) and download the latest snapshot from the Artifacts tab.Mac: Homebrew HEAD build
Follow the steps below to set up our Homebrew tap but instead of installing the stable version run
brew install chrmoritz/starcheat/starcheat --HEAD
to install the latest nightly or brew install chrmoritz/starcheat/starcheat --devel
for the nightly with 1.0 support.Linux + all Platforms: Build from source
Follow the steps below to build the dev branch from source.
Reporting an issue
Please read and follow these instructions when reporting an issue. This will help us fix your issue faster, because we don't need to ask you for additional information.
Building from source
Here is how to build starcheat from source. Make sure everything in the dependencies section is installed before you do a build.
Dependencies
- Qt 5 (included in PyQt5 binaries on Windows)
NOTE: py-starbound is included as a git submodule and needs to be cloned with the following commands:
cd <starcheat top folder>
git submodule sync
git submodule update --init
Applications such as Sourcetree should offer to clone it automatically.
Windows
Lines starting with
>
can be run in PowerShell or cmd.exe.> cd <starcheat top folder>
> C:Python33python.exe .build.py
- Browse to newly created
build
folder - Double click
starcheat.py
Standalone Build
The standalone build makes an executable which includes all Python and Qt dependencies.
- Install cx_freeze
> cd <starcheat top folder>
> C:Python33python.exe .build.py -e
- Browse to newly created
dist
folder - Double click
starcheat.exe
Linux
Mac
Install
- Install homebrew
$ brew update
$ brew install chrmoritz/starcheat/starcheat
(optionally pass--without-app
to not create a.app
or pass--HEAD
to build the nightly version (or--devel
for the 1.0 nightly) instead of the latest stable release)brew linkapps starcheat
(symlinks the.app
into your Applications folder)
Update
$ brew update
(check if starcheat is in the updated formula list)$ brew upgrade starcheat
(if its in the list above or inbrew outdated
)
Release checklist
- Update item metadata to match current Starbound version in saves.py
- Update storage name in config.py and assets.py
- Update version string in config.py
- Update version string in starcheat tap's brew file
- Tag release