Starbound

Starbound

488 ratings
Enable Monsters Special Attacks
   
Award
Favorite
Favorited
Unfavorite
File Size
Posted
Updated
127.048 KB
11 Aug, 2017 @ 4:35am
11 Apr, 2020 @ 12:20am
12 Change Notes ( view )

Subscribe to download
Enable Monsters Special Attacks

In 1 collection by Xaliber
Vanilla Gameplay Tweaks (Safe to Uninstall Anytime)
28 items
Description
Bored of seeing monotonous attacks from the randomly generated monsters? Not anymore!

---
If you liked my mods, feel free to donate me a snack through:
Ko-Fi[ko-fi.com] | Buymeacofee[www.buymeacoffee.com] | Trakteer[trakteer.id] | Saweria[saweria.co]
---


This mod allows procedurally generated monsters to use special (ranged) attacks. Now they will breath fire, vomit acid, spout eyeballs, shoot rainbows, and many other ranged attacks!

Features:
  • The attacks are enabled on ground monsters (both large and small) and flying monsters (large fliers always use ranged, small fliers have a chance of ranged).
  • Large ground monsters have melee and ranged attacks; small ground monsters have only ranged attacks.
  • Each attacks have unique sound so you won't be hearing fire breath SFX on ice sprinkler attack.
  • Large flying monsters now have two ranged attacks and hover above you instead of trying to charge on you.
.
This mod uses vanilla assets so it is safe to be uninstalled at any time without any repercussion.

.

Non-Steam download:
Official Chucklefish forums:
http://community.playstarbound.com/resources/enable-monsters-special-attacks.4925/

.

Alternative mod
Looking for more improvements to monsters, not just ranged attacks? Better AI, more monster skills, and various monster tweaks?

Go get the fantastic Supper's Combat Overhaul instead!



Use either Enable Monsters Special Attacks or Supper's Combat Overhaul. DON'T USE BOTH!

The difference between Enable Monsters Special Attacks and Supper's Combat Overhaul:
  • This mod only uses existing monster skills, Supper's mod adds new skills and behaviors. Supper's is more advanced.
  • You can remove this mod mid-game (because this mod only uses vanilla files), while with Supper's mod you have to regenerate your universe before removing it (because Supper's mod adds new monster skills and behaviors).

.

Other relevant mods/collection:



.
117 Comments
Charlie 20 Nov, 2024 @ 11:49am 
This mod is neat, but I've found that often on certain planets it'll cause the game to crash with the following error in the logs:

[Error] Application: exception thrown, shutting down: (AssetException) No such frame 'idle' found for alias 'idle.1'

seems like it might be some problem with an animation?
IDrankALavaLamp 25 Jun, 2024 @ 10:21am 
I wish that this mod worked along side suppers mod.
Ferguson 8 Jun, 2024 @ 10:56am 
This mod overwrites some special attacks of base game monsters, and often cases this can make them weaker. For anyone that uses pets, this mod is not for you sadly.
A-Sartek 27 Feb, 2024 @ 9:29pm 
This mod is good for single player however in multiplayer it causes random EOF crashes just like @Sassy Archon Haver said.
Mabra 2 Sep, 2023 @ 5:19am 
This mod make snaunt's attacks spawn a large quantity of slime for some reason.
bundy 21 Aug, 2022 @ 7:23am 
Causes Eof crashing if installed in a dedicated server to players that also have the mod
mewlynx 13 Jun, 2022 @ 11:34am 
As cool as this mod is, npcs are extremely vulnerable. The new attacks absolutely destroy them, and they'll just stand there and take hit after hit. I don't imagine there is a way to counteract this, but it's somewhat problematic imo.
AkuChihiro 30 Mar, 2022 @ 5:03pm 
Scary
Lienom Zekon 31 Dec, 2021 @ 9:37am 
monster don't fight each other anymore is there a fix
Max Payne 10 Nov, 2021 @ 2:50am 
Many thanks to you, dear sir, for this great change in the gameplay! I don't know why the devs deleted this feature, it really adds the monsters their special features and makes them more interesting and challenging. And, to be honest, their attacks aren't so unbalanced as some say, personally I'm quite satisfied with what the mod provides. Thank you!