@kylemendis10 - While I haven't had much time to work on it, as I understand it should still work just fine. I was playing starbound just recently with it enabled and nothing seems... obviously broken, anyhow. Did you notice an issue, or just curious?

Is this mod still functional in 2025 :D

Root Cause : Mod Conflict, [FREX] I'll Frack Your Races Expansion (Maintained)
Issue: Mod overwrites stats for its own purposes, ergo, mutually exclusive.

Added to list of known incompatible mods in Steam listing description.

@Just Wyvern : So, I did just load in, and insofar as I can tell with a cursory examination, This mod is still seemingly functional, I can mouse over known weapon categories for instance and the buffs do apply; same goes for the base stats. If you contact me on discord via the Contact there or accept the friend request, perhaps I can get more detail on what's not working? I will confess I have a very busy existence now, but if I can take a look I'm willing to.

I can double check that... I was under the impression it was still working.

Is this mod still functional? Tried installing it with FU and in character creation the stats haven't changed.

@Mechanos : Sorry for the late reply, I was under the impression comments were supposed to ping me...

Anyway, I've had a mind to do it for a while, ik there's a spreadsheet sayter uses specifically to score buffs/debuffs - gotta find that again.

One thing I'm probably not going to tweak is removing the tile-interaction buffs, since I f****ing hate slip n' slide. Anyway, when I get the time I'll revisit this - just been busy.

Heya. Any chance you'd be interested in making an FU balanced version? Default FU stats for Protogen are pretty bad/boring - https://frackinuniverse.miraheze.org/wiki/Protogen , and don't include new character descriptions. I was interested in your mod to fix that, for an FU tailored modpack. However, I soon realized.. you really changed the Protogen lol. Immunities and damage buffs all over. By far stronger than every other FU supported race.

Totally my bad for adding this mod without reading it's description better. But if you compare to any of the races here - https://frackinuniverse.miraheze.org/wiki/Races - you might understand my surprise. For now, I'm removing this mod, but it would be really cool if someone released a protogen description fix, or even better, if you considered a version of this mod that was balanced in the same way that other races are with FU, but still allowed the Protogen to be more interesting. Just a thought. Thanks either way.

Literally a lifesaver sheesh

@KirbyFreak It may be a while before Steam's automod gets through with it and it shows publicly, but this should be a Workshop-packaged version of the FR-standalone version of this patch. See here for details. It may not be available publicly yet.

I know the v2 doesn't, I did make a point of saving V1 on git for exactly the reason some folks are using FR uniquely. In any case, no pressure - but it's there with instructions should you find yourself wanting to make use of it. There's actually a decent chunk of stuff in the Protogen mod, it just takes a while to build to (ie, weapons, armour, etc - iirc, doing it organically you need at least durasteel.)

Anyhow, good to hear you found a mod that was FR compatible. If I may suggest another, (should you be looking to add species) I believe that the Lyceen mod offers both a FR patch and an FU one. Though... the naming is crap, so you may have to try each to figure out which one applies xD

It should, it certainly should, but the 2.01 version does not work with Frackin Races, and I found the Kitsune mod anyways so I really don't care about installing this one atm. Maybe tomorrow. The protogen mod isn't even that detailed oof and in base it doesn't have much difference from playing Starbound without any mods so no real loss there, just a big loss here.

I'm legitimately sad I had to nix Frackin Universe early on but at least I realized soon after that Frackin Races exists and has the original part of Frackin Universe that I wanted when I started playing Starbound. Yes, I was going to START my very first playthrough of Starbound with Frackin universe installed. I have no sanity, I suppose... so I guess I fit the mod lol

I should add the caveat that the FR-'compatible' version is untested as I only have FU. However... it was my sole reference in writing the initial set for this mod, ergo I would surmise that it should work in FR. I can't promise anything, but the install is painlessly quick if you want to give it a go.

@KirbyFreak No worries, you needn't take it the wrong way. If you're available at the moment, I can assist with installing the FR-compat version?

I have a VERY compelling reason to stick with Frackin Races: Frackin Universe does not want to work no matter what files I verify, no matter how many times I load up the game, no matter how many times I turn it off and on again, and at this point I just have accepted that it's my PC.

I can offer further guidance if you find it desirable/necessary - hence the friend request. If you don't need it, you can just ignore that. Alternatively, find me in discord per the link in the listing.

Note: It will conflict with this item if both are subscribed simultaneously. If you have no compelling reason to stick with Frackin' Races, Frackin' Universe supports all the same functionality - FR is deprecated and unlikely to receive any further updates. I'll say from mucking about in the stats files - there are a *lot* of adjustments and fixes made that only FU proper has.

There are full instructions on how to do this, and it really just comes down to copying and pasting a file. If you can do that, this is easy beans.

Unfortunately the Steam Workshop version is designed with FU in mind, and the author of that mod has made several major changes to the way character stats are written, such that it is no longer backwards compatible with the standalone FR mod. Hope that helps!

@KirbyFreak while using Frackin' Universe is advised (it rolls Races as an integrated component now), there is a version that theoretically works. In essence, you're just going to follow the instructions for how to do a non-steam installation. The TLDR:
1. Download the .zip linked here [github.com].
2. Find the .pak file inside, pull that out. (I believe it's right at the root of the archive, so easy to find)
3. Find your mods folder: /steam/steamapps/common/starbound/mods is its default location.
4. New folder -> protogen_race_mod or whatever. Name mostly unimportant.
5. Put that .pak inside.
6. Restart your game (as in, exit and open)
7. Should have the older patch active.

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I was looking for "Frackin Races" stuff and found this. I am very disappointed because this is really cool. Yes, I am aware that the 1.0 thing exists but I have literally no idea how to implement that manually I kind of just Subscribe and refresh the game and it works out. Did not work out this time. Rip...

@Lexxy Fox Glad to hear it! Let me know how you find the actual values if there are any issues! I realized I might not have calibrated them well, playing a mod that enables augments in all armour slots and having a seeming habit of starting at planets WAAAAY earlier than I'm 'supposed' to be in FU. Git might have some sort of notification feature, if you want updates when I update it.

Or, maybe you can do that here on steam. Dunno, at any rate, I'll try to push the updates to both whenever I do make them.

Thank you so much for this mod! I think it makes playing the Protogen race lots of fun. :3