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Etalbyn's Dwarf Mod

This mod lets you play as a race of cyberpunk-esque space dwarves! I have always been a dwarf fanatic, & often lamented the scarcity of my favorite race in Starbound. So with over a year in development, & many hundreds of hours sunk into this labor of love, I hope you enjoy my first ever attempt at mod making!

CONTENT WARNINGS:
Parts of this mod depict alcohol use, tobacco use, & pharmaceutical use, so might not be appropriate for younger Starbounders.

1. Space dwarf race with a variety of unique traits, including:

• 3x normal hunger bar, allowing a full hour of gameplay before starvation sets in
  
• minor "darkvision" in the form of a persistent conical headlamp lighting effect
  
• immunity to poisoning & most vanilla slow effects
  
• +20% max HP, +25% poison resistance, +10% physical resistance & -40% fall damage
  
• -20% movement speed, -15% jump height, -20% power/damage output and -25% electric resistance
  
• improved matter manipulator function towards digging/mining (equip with the admin command "/giveessentialitem beamaxedwarf beamaxe")
  
• "Dwarf Shield Wall" tech (uses head slot), obtainable on the starter planet via a simple quest

2. Custom designed & fully furnished racial ship complete with NPC "crew" tenants, unlocked once you attain ship tier 3+ (leveling up your ship further won't change its appearance any more, but will increase your crew capacity as normal)

3. Over 100 new furniture items, many of which are animated, interactive, or both, including 4 custom mini games

4. Dozens of craftable tiered melee weapons/guns/shields, 4 craftable racial outfits, 10 craftable racial armor sets. Also included is a powerful tier 7 armor set (Goldbeard Armor) & hammer (Voidmaul), which are attainable after completing the vanilla main story.

5. 10 cooking recipes made with ingredients from farmable hydroponic tubes, meat-yielding cave crab critters with their own spawner, & a new variety of mushroom tree

6. 5 new monster allies that you can spawn; 3 types of golems, plus friendly twiguns & moontants

• This requires a character selection extender. I've only used "Xbawks Character Extender" for playtesting, but presumably others would work as well.
  
• This IS compatible with Frackin' Universe, and shouldn't have any conflicts with any other mods, though if you come across any, let me know.
  
• I'm working on a compatibility patch for Frackin' Universe to optimize some features that don't quite work as intended with FU installed. When that is ready, I will link it on this page.
  
• This mod is 100% safe to uninstall without corrupting your universe file. I intend to add planets at some point, but they will be presented as a separate add-on, to preserve the "safe to uninstall" quality of this mod.
  
• The 2 mini games based on Kawa's arcade game will severely lag out after playing for a few minutes. Exiting & restarting the mini game will fix this.

BACKSTORY:
Both to accommodate the nightmare that is hitbox modding, and to give a bit of unique flavor to this race, these stoutfolk do differ a bit from more traditional iterations of dwarves. Their flesh is a sort of organic stone, their hair/beards are crystalline formations. Their bodies also consist of far greater concentrations of minerals and metals, allowing them to manipulate certain elements, even to the point that their main method of movement is levitation via reverse magnetism. By repelling the iron in their own bodies from the trace amounts of magnetic metals found on most planets, they float several inches above the ground. Thus despite appearing shorter, their hitbox is the same size as any of the vanilla races, and their "crouch" animation shows their true height. Unfortunately the side effect of these changes to their limb animations means that virtually all normal pants and any chest pieces that have sleeves will clip on them, hence why I had to create a bunch of custom armor and clothing. That said, all head and back items should work totally fine without any issues.

LORE:
Culturally, these dwarves are a race of renowned craftsfolk, asteroid miners, and inventors, and they've struck many lucrative deals supplying arms and munitions to various galactic powers. As such, they explore the cosmos and settle new colonies to fuel their insatiable industrial complex. Dwarf society largely answers to the Trade Consortium; a collection of unfathomably wealthy clans who each oversee one facet of the dwarf's commercial interests. It is rare indeed for a dwarf entrepreneur to get the necessary funding or access to resources without first becoming ingratiated or indebted to the Consortium. In turn the ruling body of the Trade Consortium is the all-powerful Council of Goldbeards, which is made up of 1 representative from each of its member clans. The Council uses its ample resources to fund the entirety of the dwarven military, and is always seeking to expand its influence and capitalize on new business opportunities.

And so your story begins. In recent years, the Trade Consortium has worked its way into the Milky Way Galaxy, ultimately coming into contact with the Protectorate. While their profit mongering holds little in common with the idealistic dogma of their new human neighbors, the Council of Goldbeards recognized the value in establishing favorable relations with the Protectorate to gain access to trade routes in this sector. Whether a grizzled veteran of the internal politics of the Trade Consortium, or a young and promising dwarf who knew all the right people, you landed the job of spearheading these efforts. Assigned as the official Ambassador to the Protectorate, you are to be the first dwarf to graduate from their academy, as a gesture of good faith. Now with your graduation nigh, Runelord Etalbyn Hammerfist of the Council of Goldbeards has dispatched a frigate laden with supplies and personnel to establish the dwarven embassy on Earth, under your command. Best not to be late for the ceremony Delegate, as the Council will not take kindly to you souring relations with the humans on this most auspicious of days...

1. DrPvtSkittles, as this mod would never have been possible without his "Skittles Advanced Template Race Mod", which made things easy enough for me to get into modding with zero prior coding/programming experience.
   
2. Kawa, for the indispensable Xbawks Character Extender and for allowing me to use the arcade game assets from his "Felin Intro Mission" as the basis for 2 of the mini games in this mod.
   
3. Jotunbane, for allowing me to use the lovely beards from his "Make Starbound Beardier! - Apex" mod.
   
4. Voryn Dagoth, for allowing me to use the equally lovely beard assets from his "Elves of Tamriel 2: The Lost" mod, and for his Dwemer race being the only dwarf mod in Starbound up to this point
   
5. gay moth aunt, for the open permissions on their "Tech Additions" mod, which was instrumental in helping me get the correct coding to put together the tech in this mod
   
6. The myriad people who contributed to posts, guides, and tutorials on the Chucklefish forums, Reddit, and the Starbound wiki about modding the game, which provided answers to all the questions I had pop up over the course of development
   
7. Patman, Ironkoldo's Mandalorian mod, Frackin' Universe, & many other modders who have no idea they helped me, because I was able to study their work and figure out how they achieved similar things in their mods that I was getting tripped up on.

Cabaret Nocturne – Blind Trust (used in “dwarfradio”)