Mods

Mods (officially known as "plugins," in keeping with the original Escape Velocity naming scheme) add content to the game.
In order to access additional content, it is sometimes necessary to start a new pilot, as creators sometimes add new event flags and other mission content to trigger their missions, which do not affect players who have completed those missions on an unmodified save file.
This page is a work in progress and is continually being updated. If you want your mod added to this list, you can mention it on the discord. If a mod maker wishes for their mod to be taken off of this list, they automatically reserve the right to do so.
Eventually, there will be a mod database built into the game, from where mods can be reviewed and downloaded. A proof-of-concept website can be found here.
For mod guides, check the Guides page.
An official mod formatting scheme is given here.
== Installation - How to Install a Mod ==
Installing mods is simple: place the folder containing the mod files in a folder labeled "plugins" in one of the following locations, depending on your operating system.
=== Linux ===
* /usr/share/endless-sky/plugins/
* ~/.local/share/endless-sky/plugins/
=== Windows ===
* plugins\ (in the same folder as the Endless Sky executable)
* %AppData%\endless-sky\plugins\ which will result in something like C:\Users\[yourusername]\AppData\Roaming\endless-sky\plugins\
=== Mac OS X ===
* Contents/Resources/plugins/ (within the application bundle)
* ~/Library/Application Support/endless-sky/plugins
The end result should be something like [file-path]\endless-sky\plugins\[plugin-name], which in turn will contain that specific mod's data, images, and sounds folders, and possibly readme and copyright info.
== List of Mods ==
This page will list some of the most popular mods available to Endless Sky players. If you have a mod that you wish to post here, feel free to place it in the right category.
*Note that these categories are not finalized.
Mod Categories*
Official 	Mods designed by Michael Zahniser himself.
Story 	Mods that have (or intend to eventually have), a fully-fledged storyline. As a word of note, any mod published here must have, at the very least, a First Contact mission.
<Category>+ 	Polished Mods that are good candidates for inclusion into the main game. Balanced, no cheater content, and don't have any major conflicts with existing storyline(s).
Ships/Outfits	Mods which add weapons/outfits, new technology, and new ships
Gameplay 	Mods focused on improving an aspect of the gameplay such as sounds, visuals, usability, UI/UX, ship balance, etc...
Test/Cheat 	All Content, Cheat, or Godmode Mods, often allowing purchasing of every outfit in the game in one location. Useful for testing other mods.
Miscellaneous	Anything else
Mixtape 	A compendium of other plugins. Only listed here if it also has *some* part that is original.
== List of known Mods ==
Github: "Endless-sky-plugins" is the central plug-in index for Endless Sky. All plugins should get added to this github page in order to be distributed when plugin-manager is finished.
Click here to see the short list: 
All plugins wanting to be considered for game inclusion will need to have this information: RFC
category 	name 	shortDescription 	authors
Tool+ 	Endless Sky Map Editor 	More like a tool rather than a plugin, this is used to create new systems as part of a map. [Release] 	Michael Zahniser
Official+ 	Endless Sky High DPI 	This is a collection of 2x resolution sprites, for use by players with high DPI monitors or who increase the game's zoom factor above 100%. [Releases] 	Michael Zahniser
Test/Cheat 	All Content Plugin 	This mod starts you on Greenrock with a trillion (10^12) credits and access to almost every ship and outfit in the game. It is intended for testing purposes, but of course, as its description says, "it can also be used by people who want to ruin the game for themselves by getting a massive fleet without needing to work for it." 	Michael Zahniser
Story+ 	Eternals 	This mod adds a region of space northeast of Unfettered Hai territory, along with a new species and a human faction to go with them. [Eternals Website]. Note: missions & events are missing from the latest release. Instead check the GitHub database. 	by comnom
Story 	The Enclave /Updated version 	This mod focuses on the discovery of an isolated group of humans in a distant galaxy. Separated from the rest of their species for over half a millennium, how have these people developed? 	Storm Crow/Makuta Miras, updated by 1010todd
Story 	Irm 	Adds new aliens to the north of human space that can only be described as technocratic isolationists. They are not usually hostile, but you would be one unlucky pilot if you were to find yourself on bad terms with the Irm. 	Darcman99
Story 	The Adamas Project 	The Adamas Project is a medium-sized plugin introducing two alien species and their regions of space, as well as some storyline involving the two. 	toilethinges
Mixtape 	Shields Up Reborn 1.1 	Shields Up is a massive plugin package that seeks to expand the universe of Endless Sky through a number of different plugins, all with their own content. 	Direstorm/ Amazinite
Story 	Fallen 	This is a redesign of an older plugin. Most of the outfits use the same stats, the ships will get new sprites, outfits might not. This is not a revival, it's just a small nod to an old plugin. 	
Story 	Aben 	This adds new aliens that are incapable of spaceflight as far as the player is concerned, offers the player multiple missions in aiding the Aben which also benefit the player in turn. 	darcman99
Story 	Core Mining, Inc 	This mod adds a storyline to the game, letting you join up with a newly started company named Core Mining, Inc. 	DJF113
Story 	Endless Sky N7 	Dive into a quick quest line to unlock your next end game flagship, the Normandy SR3. 	Dogmeat137mods
Story 	Akasha Chronicles 	This plugin adds a new species and area to the map with a storyline. 	Gillax / jchamlin
Story 	Galactic Couriers 	Tells a story of a small breakaway community of humans who (with the help of the player) manage to discover a new place to settle. 	Derekcz
Ships/Outfits	ES Restock 	A visual mod that improves the look of many vanilla human outfits, either greatly detailing the original model or using a completely new one. 	beccabunny
Ships/Outfits	Czartrak's Ship Pack 1.7.5 	This plugin adds several new, mostly human ships. 	czartrak
Ships/Outfits	Human Ship Expansion 	This plugin adds a few new ships and outfits to human space. 	loiseer
Ships/Outfits	Sci-Fi-Flavours 	This plugin adds many new ships and outfits, and is intended to eventually incorporate various science fiction content into the game. 	LinearPerk
Ships/Outfits	Korath Automation Upgrade 	A plugin for Endless Sky which adds a new Korath warship after the end of the Wanderer storyline. 	Kriegstofu
Ships/Outfits	Bardagh's Ship Variants 	This is a plugin which adds variants of human ships to select shipyards. No stat changes, just loadouts. Right now it's mostly bare-bones versions so you don't have to pay for a bunch of outfits you're just going to sell. 	Bardagh
Ships/Outfits	Defense Drone Plugin 	This adds a few new human drones. 	starmlerp
Ships/Outfits	Endless Cargo 	This plugin adds shipping containers and container ships to the game. 	Ryan S. Northrop
Ships/Outfits	Boarding-Enhancements 	This plugin adds boarding enhancements into Endless Sky. It has many new hand-to-hand outfits fully integrated into the game. Also adds semi-random distribution of boarding outfits on AI ships. 	Cat-Lady
Ships/Outfits	Hand to Hand Outfits (1)
(2) 	This is a plugin for Endless Sky that adds a number of additional hand-to-hand outfits. 	tmbutterworth /
Cat-Lady
Ships/Outfits	Flamethrower Turret 	This adds a turret version of the Flamethrower. 	ItsNickBarry
Ships/Outfits	The Machines are Taking Over 	This is a small plugin that adds six new outfits to the game. 	spiral03
Ships/Outfits	Hyperdrive Boosters 	This adds outfits that increase the speed you can start a jump at. 	Jafdy
Ships/Outfits	Space Conversion Outfits 	Adds several outfits to fine-tune your ships, convert weapon slots, existing bunks to outfit or cargo space and even create more engine space. 	Whismerhill
Gameplay 	Pirate Expansion 	Expand your pirate experience with new ships, outfits, systems and even mechanics! This plugin expands the northern pirate section to a large area, big enough to allow trading or similar activities one could do in the rest of the galaxy. 	beccabunny
Gameplay 	Better Vanilla Pirates 	This plugin is designed to enhance/improve/fill gaps in many aspects of pirate combat in human space, especially in the late-game. It does not contain any new weapons/ships/sprites, or any new or replacement storylines, nor does it make the early game any harder. 	ZBok
Gameplay 	Ursa Polaris 	Spend (hundreds of) millions of credits building and stocking a Universal Outfitter Space Station after you complete the main storyline 	Local God
Gameplay 	Beccas-Endless-Expansion 	This plugin adds new weapons, outfits and ships for many factions of the game Endless Sky, all with new sprites close to the vanilla ones! All you have to do is explore, fly in your ship and meet all the factions in the game. 	beccabunny
Gameplay 	Mass-ive Fix 	A bunch of things in .9.11 ES and afterwards have differing mass and outfit space values. This plugin fixes that. 	Anarchist2
Gameplay 	Epic Trucker 	This plugin adds additional cargo and passenger (and both at once) missions to the game increasing the scale and scope for a player who wants to focus on running a huge trucker shipping delivery and passenger service. 	KelvallRogers
Gameplay 	Boarding Missions 	This plugin adds additional boarding missions to the game, increasing the chance for the player to receive payment when repairing a ship. 	tmbutterworth
Gameplay 	Paradise World Jobs 	This plugin adds additional paradise world jobs to the game increasing variety. 	tmbutterworth
Gameplay 	arr-mateys 	This plugin adds several new pirate jobs to the game. 	Ryan S. Northrup
Gameplay 	Casual Mod 	This plugin makes ES gameplay more casual, by slowing down ships, increasing weapon range, adding larger ship sprites, and making asteroids slower and weaker. 	pphotography
Gameplay 	A Galaxy Far Far Away 	This is a plugin that aims to replicate Star Wars in Endless Sky. 	Ember369
Test/Cheat 	Omnis 	The most extensive all-content plugin to date. It includes many opportunities to test balance or ship builds against AI driven ships or fleets, all vanilla content and the content of many plugins available to use to put together different ship builds. Many more essential cheat tools are included into Omnis too! 	Darcman99
Test/Cheat 	World Forge 	This mod, the precursor to the All Content Plugin, adds a galaxy that contains all outfits and ships in the game, even deprecated ones. It can be reached in normal gameplay by passing through a wormhole in Nocte. 	
Test 	Ciu-Kreo 	This is an all content plugin for Endless Sky. To be used to assist in content creation, or just for general use. 	RestingImmortal
Gameplay 	Animated-ships 	This plugin adds animations to many of the ships in Endless Sky. 	beccabunny
Gameplay 	undisruptive-animated-ships 	This is a version of the animated ships plugin with slower, less disruptive animations. 	Cat-Lady
Gameplay 	animated-stars-nova 	This plugin adds undisruptive animations for Endless Sky stars.
Note: (Bug: breaks ramscoops as of April 15, 2021) 	Derpy Horse / Cat-Lady
Gameplay 	Realistic Solar System 	This plugin modifies the Sol system adding every planet, large moon, and two dwarf planets. Everything in Sol has also been resized to a much bigger and realistic size, including the Sun itself. 	beccabunny
Test/Cheat? 	Chop Shop 	 	Dr Anthrax
Mixtape 	Spiral Mod 	Contains (EMP, Inheritance, Project Olympus, The Machines are taking over, Station of Dr. Rousseau) 	FallenCat / Isacc_Clark
Story 	West Iron 	Adds ships, planets, weapons in Flamsteed and a system connected to it 	OmegaZanicus
Gameplay 	Visible Mineable Asteroids 	Adds colored squares (for easy spotting) on all minable asteroids. writeup 	hellminster
Gameplay 	Tribute Domination 	 	Joker
Ships/Outfits	Mereti Plugin 	An endgame QoL plugin I made that gives the Mereti some shipyards/outfitters at the appropriate time in the story 	narf0708
Test/Cheat 	ZRemnantX 	Test-Bed plugin for Endless Sky. Not intended for general distribution, but rather serves as a temporary holding area for various ideas and thing that I am testing or have recently been tested. 	Zitchas
Ships/Outfits	Kestrel Rework 	Some edits which allows user to play the Kestrel differently. Loremongers beware. 	MinneIceCube
WIP 	Comprehensive Star Trek Mod 	(Work In Progress) New universe that connects with original universe via "Prime Wormhole" Addition of hopefully 200+ ships from canon Star Trek and the MMO Star Trek Online. New outfits including various forms of beam arrays, a new cloaking device, warp, quantum slipstream, and transwarp drives, Borg systems, etc. New fighters and drones including temporal fighters, iconian fighters and drones, starfleet shuttlecraft and fighters, etc. New governments New classes of ships New Fleets And so much more.	CTheta / gajensenjensen777
Story 	The Final Frontier 	A Star-Trek themed full overhaul mod for the open-source game 'Endless Sky'. planned to feature hundreds of ships from dozens of races, weapons and outfits of all shapes and sizes, a galaxy map multitudes larger than the original, and authentic Star Trek themed content throughout. 	Swingfire
WIP 	Businessman Mod (2015) original (no files)	
* Buy a trade routes
* Buy stocks
* Gamble
* Hire Merchants
* Hire Mercenaries
* Give out loans
* Build Spacestations 	DevE
Gameplay 	Grape's ES Custom Portraits 	129 custom portraits that override the generic ones in the base game files. I wanted to have a better variety of people talking to me at the Spaceport bar--something that would make me feel like I'm flying across the galaxy for adventure. 	hikeemt
Gameplay 	Grape's Landscape Collection 	This mod replaces many landscape pictures to make planets look more alien. 	hikeemt
Gameplay 	Colorful Void Sprites 	This mod makes Void Sprites appear in different colors. 	Rob59er
Ships/Outfits	Starbridge Pack 	This mod adds several Starbridge variants from Escape Velocity. 	Autohummer
Ships/Outfits	Modular Haulers 	This adds several new types of Haulers to the game. 	PhantomBerserker
Story 	Galactic War 	This is a massive mod about a war in another galaxy. 	1010todd
Ships/Outfits	The Heroes 	This adds a number of new unique person ships to the game. 	mdsmestad
Ships/Outfits	Altera 	A WIP plugin adding several clusters of systems mostly inhabited by the Alterans, where you can purchase high level ships and outfits. 	EricD112
Story 	Lost in Midnight 	A mission focused plugin, adding many new mission chains as well as several new systems, ships, and outfits. 	MidnightPlugins
=== Other Mod Lists ===
* Mention it on the discord to get it added here.
* The Plugin Archive has collected over 500 ancient and new plugins.
* Github.io: OpenGameMods Group
* Github: Endless Sky Plugins
* Reddit: r/endlesssky... This Mods collection page (Sept 2020 by endlessmodgamer):
* Steam : Library of Plugins (Amazinite; Jan 9, 2021):
* Endless-Web (Endless-Sky In Browser): (Nov 23, 2020 by Grape)
** (save and load game files via debug bar)
** Reddit discussion
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