This is a guide involving the larger Better Ships collection.

For more details, see the Better Ships collection HERE.

BETTER SHIPS - PROTECTORATE SHIP (which will require these three mods (and this as well)).

These files: https://pastebin.com/RrCjDfre | https://pastebin.com/2nJGR95F
(download by clicking "download" at the bar on top of the text.

1) Go to your "Starbound/mods" folder and create a new folder there.
Call it anything you'd like, like 'ProtectorateShipUnlocker' or something.

2) Move both text files you downloaded from Pastebin to your newly-created folder inside Starbound/mods.

3) Rename both files, removing the .txt extension. So both files should become like this:
"universe_server.config.patch.txt" => "universe_server.config.patch"
"_metadata.txt" => "_metadata"

4) Done! All vanilla species should now have the protectorate ship.
Your folder should now look like this (note the extensions of the files):

1) Open universe_server.config.patch on your editor of choice (like Notepad).

2) Delete any sections for species you don't want to be affected
(for instance, if you want only humans to have the protectorate ship,
delete all sections but the // HUMAN one).

3) MAKE SURE ALL SECTIONS ARE STILL SEPARATED BY COMMAS.

4) Save, and done!

1) Open universe_server.config.patch on your editor of choice (like Notepad).

2) Copy-paste one of the sections, duplicating it.

3) On that duplicate section, substitute the name of the species in the "path" value
to the one of the species you want to enable the ship for.
"path":"/speciesShips/novakid","value": => "path":"/speciesShips/felin","value":

• Make sure the species name is in fact the one the mod uses internally.
  Examples of species with different internal names that I know of:
  Draconis: dragon | Saturnians: saturn | Mantizi (FU): fumantizi
  Kirhos (FU): fukirhos | Tenebhrae (FU): shadow

4) MAKE SURE ALL SECTIONS ARE STILL SEPARATED BY COMMAS.

5) Save, and done!

• Make sure the commas in the universe_server.config.patch file are correct.
  All sections should be separated by commas - a.k.a. all but the last should have commas after them.
  
  
• Open your starbound.log file (located in the Starbound\storage folder) (full path on Steam version : ...\Steam\steamapps\common\Starbound\storage) and search for the term "Protectorate Ship Unlocker", or for the name of your folder. There should be two things there:
  
  [...][Info] Root: Detected asset source named 'Better Ships - Protectorate Ship Unlocker' at '..\mods\{folder's name}'
  [...][Info] Loading assets from: '..\mods\{folder's name}'
  
  
• If you're still having problems, inform me, preferably telling me what mods you're using that could be negating the changes (likely a species or ship mod)