So, Starbound is a well made game (Patreon)

Making a separate post just so people see

Turns out starbound probably does something funky and unexpectedly different when a mod is packed into a .pak and when it’s a folder something I’ll look into come Monday

Which would finally explain why so many times, things work fine for me, and then suddenly don’t work when I post them for other people, because I work with it as a folder, I release things packed

If you’re dead set on trying out this week’s version, do a quick search on how to unpack starbound mods and unpack the .pak files you/the script put in your mods folder, and then they should actually function as they do for me