Installing FrackinUniverse

= Installing FrackinUniverse =

Steam
Installing FU via Steam is quite simple.
 * 1) Go here; either online or in your Steam Client.
 * 2) Click Subscribe.
 * 3) IMPORTANT You'll need to wait a short bit for Frackin Universe to install. At least five minutes or tea.

Pros
There's really no way to mess up this installation process; aside of being impatient or a corrupted install. But even that is a simple fix. Just click Unsubscribe, and then Subscribe again. It helps to keep your mods all centralized to the workshop. FU is prepacked on the Steam version, meaning it is smaller overall.

Cons
FrackinUniverse is a very popular mod. This has made it the popular subject of may attack vectors, with Steam unfortunately being one of them. To wit, many people have attempted to get FU removed from Steam.

Github
Installing via Github properly involves a little setup. You'll either need a git client or a command line tool. Thankfully, the kind folks at Chuklefish already made a guide on how to get started.

Cons
By subscribing to FrackinUniverse via github, you are in essence, signing up to an active beta. This mean things are wartier than normal. This version is huge and unpacked. Longer loading times, larger file size. Updating is on the user to keep up with.

Cons
This is the most manual way to install the mod. Nothing is automatic.

Windows Store
If you have the Windows Store version, installing the mod for this version is a bit different.

1. Just download the mod files from the Chucklefish Forums or from the releases page on Github.

2. Unzip the files on the path "%USERPROFILE%/Documents/Starbound/mods".

3. Open the game. (if it crashes, try opening again, if it crashes again, the logs files will be on the path "%USERPROFILE%/Documents/Starbound/")