Installing Starship

Install from Fab

1. Buy or claim Starship on its Fab listing.

2. Open the Epic Games Launcher and go to Unreal Engine → Library. Find Starship in your Fab Library (called the Vault in older launcher versions).

3. Click Install to Engine and pick your engine version (5.4 to 5.8).

4. Open your project, go to Edit → Plugins, search for Starship and enable it.

5. Restart the editor when prompted.

Check the engine plugins

Starship depends on Enhanced Input and Niagara. Both ship with Unreal Engine 5. If either is turned off in your project, turn it back on under Edit → Plugins.

Check that it works

Open the included demo level and press Play. The demo level and BP_Starship are pre-wired: board the ship, fly it, land on water, cruise into space, and watch the landing gear and vectoring engines work.

Test multiplayer in the editor

The demo level works in PIE multiplayer as well as single-player. The pawn replicates out of the box for listen and dedicated servers, with no changes to your Character or PlayerController.

Next: Quick start.