Drumsticks

Podotheca: (n) the scaly covering of the foot of a bird or reptile. TEMPORARY UPDATE: With the update to Starbound 1. 0, the .modpak format doesn't work anymore. Thankfully, Kyo21943 on Steam has, in my general absence, brought the mod into line with the new Steam Workshop-supported system! Currently, it's only the full package of Tailfeathers AND podotheca on hands and feet, but as far as I can tell, that's the setup everyone seems to prefer. In the coming week or so, I'll get things updated here and over on the CMDB. In the meantime:

Get it here! <<(click me, I'm a link!)

Being as artistically gifted as a rock tumbling through a puddle of wet paint, I naturally nitpicked the hell out of the fact that the Avian race have feathers on their hands (as evidenced by the sprite color.) They aren't analogous to wings; Avians see wings as a separate body part. (The whole deal with ritual plucking and loss of flight and all that I'm still not entirely able to wrap my head around.)

All that said, I've seen some nifty fan art wherein Avian hands and a portion of their forearms were, rather than feathered/colored like the rest of their bodies, covered in skin and scales akin to how their feet are. So, I summoned the full extent of my vast history in the art of pixel-coloring (IE the grand total of an hour I spent in Mario Paint before playing with the music maker) and gave them the skin-and-scale hands that I felt they deserved.

After that, I thought it would be a good idea to extend the podotheca for the legs, which wasn't hard to do within tolerances for silhouettes, but giving them a "scaled" appearance was a bit of a challenge.

(I'd have an easier time of it if we could sort out how to get the game to draw higher resolution sprites at comparable scale, but that's just me nitpicking.)

TL;DR: Bird hands with feathers made no sense to me (lawl sensemake in space birds and plant people and fish with boobs) so now they've got skin/scales on their hands like their feet, which now have longer legs! They even change color to match! (What little color change there is.) And now you can have your drumsticks AND eat them too tailfeathers!

INSTALLATION:

Unzip "Drumsticks and Tailfeathers.zip" and pick your version of choice: With or without Tailfeathers, and with or without taloned hands. Then, just drop it in your "giraffe_storage\mods" folder! (Note: Having multiple versions in there will needlessly drag out your load order, and I have no idea which one it'd wind up picking.)

Uninstallation from there is as simple as dele