Welcome to the STF Mod Creators Group!

Welcome to the modding creators group for Star Traders: Frontiers. Check out the links below for details on how modding will work and what tools are available.

This was the private group used during the modding beta. You do not need to join it to create mods.

How To Start Modding

To join in the fun modding the game, you’ll need to do 3 more things:

You may optionally join this group to post on its discussion board.
Join the Discord stf_modders group[discord.gg] on the Trese Brothers Discord server. In the #bot_talk channel, type “max!stfmod”. You will then gain access to the mod beta channels under the Star Traders: Frontiers category, #stf_modding

We can't wait to see what you create!

Wiki Documentation[startraders.gamepedia.com]
Discord Server[discord.gg]
Story Mod Doc[docs.google.com]

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RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

Modversion 3.1.85 for Error Handling

18 August, 2021 - Trese Brothers | 0 Comments

Modversion 3.1.85 is now live and includes a number of nice features to help solidify the approach.

If a mod activated by a player has a SQL error, the Mod ID and the SQL error will be displayed to the screen and then mod will not be loaded.
You can see an image here:

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/843203260802269215/877588575909212170/unknown.png?width=960&height=447

Also, we have reduces the restrictions on SQL in the data.sql:

You no longer need to do anything special if you are including the % character
Multi-line SQL commands are now successfully executed!

Finally, your folder names do not need to be integers!

Cheers!

Final Modversion Update

17 August, 2021 - Trese Brothers | 0 Comments

Hi mod team! We're excited to post up the final mod update, version 3.1.83. This final update before the upcoming public release of mods makes some key changes and introduces a built-in mod manager and auto-merge for mods.

Mod Config Menu

On the main menu of the modversion, you'll now find a Mod Configuration menu that will allow you (and players) to pick, activate and give priority order to mods.

This menu is driven by the latest metadata provided by the latest version of the STF Mod Uploader -- specifically icon.png and manifest.json which are created when uploading your mod now. If your mod is showing up only as a number, please be sure to re-upload it using the latest version of the tool.

Auto-Merge

We've updated the access to the data database (data.db) to allow multiple mods to be merged easily. Any mod that provides a data.sql file will have this SQL run against the game's data.db on launch. With some careful authoring of your SQL, you can create mods that are update-proof and very well set up to merge with many other mods.

This means you should immediately delete your pre-existing data.mp3 file and replace it with at data.sql file.

Two rules of thumb:

one statement of SQL per line. SQL statements cannot be spread over multiple lines
if using % in a string, escape it with a second % (such as "15%%")

We've tested the majority of ready-to-go mods to make sure they work in the new setup. We'll have one more shot to make any minor cleanups before the release next week, so be sure to post your feedback!