@DuskDragonNight75 Copy-paste the entire error here, because there's not much to go off from what you've posted. About 4 messages down you can see how to access the game logs with said errors.

it keep's crashing, throwing an error about protoshipsupport or something, and I'm pretty sure its tied to this mod. Whats causing it?

All I did was add all the patches from Omeruin's Detailed Race Template with the species name swapped where necessary, and evidently I did miss something in there since the bounty system borked.

Ok, so update on before, I have talked with the other protogen mod dev via their comments section and their mod doesn't have support for bounties yet which has been confirmed.
They said they can add it but are currently unsure how to, have sent them a forum post I found on this but maybe you might be able to help them?

I'll have to get back to you on that since it was in a friend's universe save using my modpack collection. If I spot another bounty quest with a protogen, I'll check the logs immediately as I attempt it.

But yeah @Novie if it was a bounty then that was my fuckup, since I have a patch in there to add the species to the rng list and the other mod afaik doesn't yet.

Inside "\Starbound\storage" in your game files there's a log (or "\Starbound\logs" folder for OpenStarbound). I'll need to see the errors what quests throw in there to know what's actually broken. If you were to close the game right after the encountered bug, relevant messages should be right at the bottom of it.

Alright, also noticed some issues with yours or the other protogen mod required for mod integration with bounty quests. For some reason none of the quests have spawned the protogen npc properly for any bounties so far. I've had to abandon each one I come across since cannot complete them. Any chance you might be able to look into this?
I've got this and the other mod installed alongside the disable the selection of the other protogen mod so am unsure if something's just broken right now.

I really wanna do it, problem is it's a lot of bother with all the dialogue writing and quest scripts (pain), and I already have a bunch of projects I want to complete first, so gotta prioritise.
I'll give it another go when I get the time for it.

Ah, so update to my previous comment I did find author's response (5th March 2025).
It's a shame since they look really good even if it is just meant to be concepts, would've really loved to start out in some underground bunker.

Ok so, I might have been mislead but is the screenshots of the zone above from a custom intro mission or is that something else?
If not then is there anywhere it might be? It seems to just load the default protectorate intro mission, am not sure if this is because of the protogen race mod integration since I have that installed and stumbled across this one. Please let me know if am missing something.

Dublicate item entry found on game load, if I were to take a guess that's because of the original mod being installed and run alongside Redux, which is impossible to do due to said dublicate items.

If that's not the case then I'll need to know what other related mods you have in your install to see where the second item file could be coming from.

P.s. Copies of mods installed locally while also workshop subscribed could be loaded by the game twice and cause errors as a result, so might wanna check that as well if applicable.

Installing this mod causes the game to crash on startup. Found these in the .log file

[19:14:27.978] [Error] Duplicate projectile asset typeName spiritpentabolt. configfile /particles/guns/arrows/spiritpentabolt/spiritpentabolt.projectile
[19:14:28.071] [Error] Duplicate projectile asset typeName spiritdoublebolt. configfile /particles/guns/arrows/spiritdoublebolt/spiritdoublebolt.projectile
[19:14:28.089] [Error] Duplicate projectile asset typeName spiritbolt. configfile /particles/guns/arrows/spiritbolt/spiritbolt.projectile
[19:14:28.104] [Error] Duplicate projectile asset typeName spiritboltexplosionknockback. configfile /particles/explosions/spiritboltexplosion/spiritboltexplosionknockback.projectile
[19:14:28.168] [Error] Duplicate projectile asset typeName spirittriplebolt. configfile /particles/guns/arrows/spirittriplebolt/spirittriplebolt.projectile
[19:14:31.524] [Error] Application: exception thrown, shutting down: (ItemException) Duplicate item name 'nubtailback' found

Yeah, that makes sense. Thanks for the reply.

"Protogen race" is a separate species from the "Redux" so these 2 won't affect the latter.
Attached collection has the addons for Redux what I'm currently aware of (plus a head reskin, and a compatibility fix for Protogen Race to give it more exposure).

Hey, not sure if this has been discussed anywhere, but how does this mod interact with the protogen customization mod and its 0.9.5 patch ? Are there any issues you know of?

The blocks and other recipies are shared between them.

Why is protogen race a dependency when this adds another race to the list rather than modifying the existing one?

Is the humanoid version installed? It's shown as a required dependency to the side there.

i dont know if its just me but every time i try to make a protogen it immediately errors saying client ship world has errored

It has been resolved.

Hmm, let's discuss in DM's if you don't mind, I can send you the image there.

[09314f] [0a222b] [10141b] [080a0d]
How's this looks? (lighter to darker)

I can implement it for you no problem, but I'm gonna need the rest of the colour scheme for that. Needs to be 3 or 4 colours for 4 shades from the sprite-sheet that it'll replace.

Get the optional Head Module if you haven't already, open one of it's sprites, and pair the yellow fur colours it has with the ones you want, and send the hex code pairs to me here, and I'll drop an update.

Oi, bro, I was trying to add some more colors to your protos, but for some reasons it never worked. I tried patching, changing priority, add inclusion of your mod so my patch loads after it, nothing works, my palette just doesn't appear. Any guesses why that might be?
Or maaaaaaybe you'd be so kind as to add the color for me, pretty please? ) It's just one fur color I need to recreate my main OC, [0a222b] as main tint (I don't have shades and highlights specified since I just sorta figure them out when I draw, so you can just see what works, yes?). Would mean a world to me

Totally amazing!!

Alright, as a bit extra, I've put more elbow grease into it and (finally!) ported the fins over from the Head Module. Now all 28 ear options are unlocked in this mod by default, and will resemble each other in both versions as close as possible. There's one more thing I'll maybe add at some point, but other than that this mod is pretty much done and dusted.

Hope you enjoy.

Hell yeah dude this is amazing

It is done, check the newly created collection please.

I apologize for causing you trouble.

It's probably just a case of OCD that makes me definitely want to put some wings or something on my back along with making my character have a tail, and I appreciate your work and response.

I had actually subscribed to the mod and played through the original mainline again before I left the message, and loved it. Just try to leave a message here to see if there's any solutions, so again, sorry for the hassle. And thanks for your answer!

Why are you asking for less choice? Do you really wanna see the EPP that badly?

Fine, I'll assemble them later. It'll be a patch, so you will have to subscribe to this mod regardless.

If this is the case, would it be a possible solution to fix the tail to the body as an integrated part?

Pick one or two common tail styles as different integrated body addons for a selection of different tails? A separate addon is a body with one type of tail fixed to it? Llike, banded tail (maybe the most common tail been seen for Protogens?).I'm not sure lol)

Actually, now looking at it again... it's even worse than I remember.
There are 2 sub groups for the character sprites, hair, which goes over the head sprite, and facial hair, which goes over both. Now, with some cropping it would be possible to put the tail spritesheets in there, but.

Neither of these have any animation functionality, the game expects there to be only 1 frame of hair or facial features and nothing else. So even if I were to dump everything already assigned into just 1 slider, making people click through +200 variations to get anywhere, the end result would just leave you with 6 cardboard cut-outs to choose from.

So, one could say, refer to your username for the definite answer on this implementation.

Thanks for your answer!
Unfortunately, I have no idea what the difference between xStarbound and OpenStarbound is for me as a mod user, and what I'm supposed to do on the user side.
I've also read some of the instructions for xStarbound, and it's in serious conflict with some of the key mods I'm using right now, such as Futara's Dragon Engine.

Also, regarding merge the horns and LEDs together, if it's not too much trouble for you, maybe do consider making a separate addon?
Because it feels like a large portion of racial mods (like draconis, etc.) do use the method of merging a portion of the entity together. (draconis's horns+hair )
Kinda used to it.

That'd be 6 extra species' entries to the character editor, as I've already ran out of sliders what were available and had to merge the horns and LEDs together, I just don't think it's worth it.

On the bright side, xStarbound sourceport [github.com] has support for underlaying and overlaying cosmetic items, letting you have, say, both the tail and an EPP visible at the same time. OpenStarbound sadly doesn't have that functionality at the moment, at least as far as I understand it.

any chance with tails in character creation, rather than cosmetics?

My vision for this mod was less of a 'replacement' and more like a 'side-grade' to the humanoid version. So you basically have both a plantigrade model and a digitigrade model of the same synth line running around. But I guess there's no harm in making a small patch real quick.

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3451585162

Note: if you have more than 50 species' mods installed the patch will most likely miss the "protogenrace1" value and not work. Due to the letter P being pretty far down on the alphabet.

And I also don't know any better way to do it at the moment, other than just checking for that value in 50 positions that may or may not exist, so use at your own discretion.
It'll stay Unlisted for that reason as well, at least in so long as I don't find a better implementation, not really satisfied with hackfixes like this.

naa just to disable the old version if we have the new version ^^;;
but not it's clothing or what have you since they can fit mostly every other race
like are we suppose to have both versions of the Protogens?

Hmm, what do you have in mind in particular?

would it be ok if you can make a addon that disables the old Protogen race?

Nah, I was just out of ideas for filler screenshots between the character showcases, so I used some proof-of-concept rooms for the racial intro mission as such.
Unfortunately the rooms aren't even the hardest part of making it by far, so it had to be thrown into the concept limbo for the foreseeable.

those picture on the main page.. the lab n such.. is that a dungeon? or how can i find it?

City dungeons are currently not present and probably won't in the future. There are tennants available though.

towns and cities?

say with these Protogen's can we find them in the wild?
like in town's or city's?

They're in your ship storage yeah. I tried replacing the pants option in character creator with the back but it didn't work out from what I remember.

nevermind, my eyes skipped over the part of the description about tail cosmetics several times

in some of the screenshots, the player is shown with a tail, but in game, i do not have one. Is that a seperate add-on?

Ah, that's an upstream issue I'm afraid. So it would be on either party of the conflicting mods to find a solution. This is more of an expansion type of deal and so I'd rather not mess with the master mod's workings if possible.

I'm curious about does Redux version have solve the conflicts of tiles between the Kenopsea mod. Can you tell me if you change the tile files to make it compatible when you integrating the protogen's mods to become the Redux mod?

Kenopsea mod link :
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2331991026