Category:Server Documentation

Adding Custom Pirates

Pirates can spawn from any blueprint flagged as 'Enemy Usable'. Adding a custom pirate is quite simple:

1. Add a blueprint file to yourstarmadedirectory\blueprints
2. Start up StarMade
3. Open the menu, select Catalog
4. Click the blueprint you added
5. Click Permissions
6. Ensure that the 'Enemy Usable' box is selected.

Additionally, a server administrator can use the /catalog_enemy_spawnable [BlueprintName] to toggle the ability for a blueprint to be spawned as a pirate vessel.

Custom Factions

StarMade features AI factions run by the game itself. These factions gain territory, trade, and periodically declare war and sue for peace amongst each other. Server admins or people running single-player universes can control what factions generate, where they appear, and what ships and stations they tend to build.

Custom Factions

In *yourstarmadefolder/data/config/npcFactions*, you'll find a file called *npcSpawnConfig.xml* that lets you control how factions generate.

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Custom Faction Ships

In order to make a faction use certain ships and stations, you must add a child directory to *yourstarmadefolder/data/config/npcFactions*. The name is important - it must appear in the Presets tag for the factions in your npcFactionConfig.xml file.

Each directory requires two files. The first is *npcFaction.xml* This file determines how the NPC faction actually behaves in game. The second file is *blueprints.zip*, a ZIP archive containing all blueprints that the faction will use. It's highly recommended that you set roles for each blueprint you add in StarMade prior to adding them to the file, as the npcFaction.xml file will spawn designs more or less frequently depending upon their classification.