To get to where Steam hides the mods, click on the arrow in the upper left to move up one level, which is circled in the screenshot. You will see this view of the game files on your local computer, as shown below. On the next pop-up window, click on the “Local Files” tab across the top, and then on “Browse Local Files”. To find where Steam stores the mods it just downloaded, please do the following: Preparing the Mods to Upload to the Server For a large number of mods, you might have to wait a little while for Steam to finish downloading them all. When it’s subscribed to, the button changes to say “Subscribed” with a checkmark, and Steam has begun to automatically download the mods in the background to the local computer files. Reading: how to add mods to starbound server Navigate to the workshop for Starbound on Steam, find the mods you’re interested in, and click on them to open up their workshop page.
The easiest way to get Steam Workshop mods is described below, and starts with subscribing to the mods in Steam Workshop and letting Steam download them automatically to the client on your local computer. Non-workshop mods are installed the exact same way on the server as on your computer simply use the File Manager on the left side of your NodePanel to access the server’s mods folder. Preparing the Mods to Upload to the Server.