Stellaris News

• Fixed the preftl.180 event having no options for Ever Hungry empires.
  
• The Avatar Cortex building for wilderness should no longer delete itself upon being upgraded to max level.

• Prevent CTD from a district containing less built Specializations than expected to
  
• Fixed crash when an event has no valid options.
  
• Fixed one more CTD in government view using invalid species data
  
• Fixed CTD when cleaning up armies on country being destroyed
  
• Modding
  
• CreatePopGroup effect no longer creates any pop group for invalid species.

Naming the Stellaris 4.0 update 'Phoenix' was supposed to be a nod to the nine-year-old 4X space game's rebirth from the ashes. Landing alongside the Biogenesis DLC, the patch promised to give the strategy game new life courtesy of major, sweeping system overhauls from developer Paradox. Yet it's become a more of a literal descriptor than expected, as game director Stephen 'Eladrin' Muray admits that 4.0 arrived "a little bit on fire." In a new developer blog, Muray apologizes for disappointing players with the undercooked update, and promises that the team is focusing on fixes.

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• Converting a planet into a hive world or machine world now preserves the generator, mining and farming jobs. Known Issue: The special districts on these planets do not swap names or icons to rural districts.
  
• Void Dwellers, Aquatics and Cave Dwellers now grant their robots the relevant trait when they invent robots
  
• Updated multiple Databank articles, such as Buildings, Jobs, Housing, and Resettlement
  
• FE buildings have been made available to Wilderness empires (under the same restrictions as normal), and have received an additional biomass cost.
  
• The fallen materialist's Master Archive now grants additional research options
  
• The spiritualist fallen empire's shrine now offers improved shroud communing
  
• Font of Knowledge now includes all of the 4.0 research buildings

• Fixed Pearl Divers not mentioning both a food and mineral upkeep in the tooltip
  
• Fixed some duplicated text on the strong and very strong traits
  
• Blocked Behemoths from laying eggs in combat
  
• Fixed the Artifact Relay decision for hive minds
  
• Fixed the Galactic Market Nomination decision
  
• Fixed Fanatical Purifiers and Devouring Swarm getting the 'Declare a Rival' Empire Focus
  
• Bio Titans built in GDF service should now be made of meat and not metal
  
• Fixes ethics divergence always switching the entire pop group instead of amount
  
• The Automated Curation Algorithms technology will no longer be offered to Wilderness Empires
  
• Colonization can not be started again if there's already a colony ship in progress.
  
• Increased the amount of workforce Wilderness pops gain to 99999, this way if you ever have more than 1000 of a job the wilderness won't start trying to employ pops like a normal empire
  
• Wilderness Empires will no longer be able to build the automation buildings only to destroy them at the start of the next month
  
• The Automation Buildings should only show up in a research option once now instead of four times.
  
• Fixed multiple pre-FTL buildings sticking around after their owners had been invaded
  
• Advanced AIs now start with some extra unity
  
• Genocidal Necrophage empires no longer start with a Chamber of Elevation
  
• Incompatible Cybernetic Creed buildings are removed from the building list when you embrace a Creed
  
• Finishing Biomorphosis while having 7 tradition trees shouldn't reward a ghost tradition tree
  
• Fixed the Planetary Supercomputer demanding paperclips
  
• Permanent Employment now correctly starts with 400 zombies
  
• Added missing loc from Sanctuary World designation tooltip
  
• Scavenger Bot is now named correctly in the Timeline Event.
  
• You can no longer ruin your game-start economy by focusing on astro-mining while using resource consolidation to have no mining stations in your home system (Resource Consolidation and Astro Mining Drones now exclude each other)
  
• Fix issue where fleet/ship stats were not updated correctly when modifiers changed
  
• Fix modifiers not having an effect on displayed Fleet Power
  
• Biomimetic now applies a 50% workforce bonus to roboticist and replicator jobs
  
• Bodysnatchers now may edit Population Controls, similar to Necrophages.
  
• The War Fragment will no longer ask you to declare war on empires you have branch offices on. Profit comes first.
  
• Officials can now get Architectural Focus trait from Resourceful Ascension event
  
• Eternal Vigilance now also generates Defense Platforms for Deep Space Citadels
  
• Planet and slave market tooltips will correctly include dystopian specialist jobs into the general specialists list.
  
• Fixed an issue where if you gained the jump drive tech before researching level 2 and 3 hyperdrives, your science ships and constructors would not be equipped with jump drives
  
• Fixed a bug that may have sometimes caused pop decline to be determined incorrectly on planets with multiple species.
  
• The Empire Focus "Build an Agricultural District" now requires food use to draw
  
• The Empire Focus "Finish First Contact" can now be completed
  
• The Empire Focuses "Have 1000 Consumer Goods" and "Have 1000 Food" have been blocked for ineligible empires
  
• The Empire Focus "Conquer a Homeworld" is blocked for empires that lack an interest in politics
  
• Empire Focus "Sign a Research Agreement" is blocked for homicidal empires
  
• Fatal Mutations no longer cause complete planetary extinction
  
• Pox Bombardment for some weird reason no longer works on mechanical beings
  
• Armageddon and Pox Bombardment are once again capable of bombing your enemies into the stone-age (tomb-world)
  
• Fixed the Identity Repository scaling at 100x the value it should
  
• Fixed a rare case of the Fallen Empire Building Received notification not telling you that you had unlocked the Sky Dome.
  
• Refugees have returned to their normal behavior, no longer will people flee from the devouring swarm by running back to the devouring swarm.
  
• Wilderness Biomass will no longer refuse to work simple drone jobs, back to work you malleable pile of goo!
  
• Fixed the size of the smaller Behemoths
  
• Fixes to the crystal manufactory system and event chain
  
• Fixed missing icon for the Truce End notification
  
• Bodysnatchers and Genesis Symbiotes are now properly incompatible
  
• Integrated Preservation and Instinctive Synchronization now share effects. Both now improve Automatic Resettlement Chance and increase Amenities from Logistic Drones
  
• Aquatic for Machine and Mote-Powered Tools tooltips no longer mention such outdated concepts such as job output modifiers
  
• Machine Worlds support basic generator and mining job buildings
  
• Fix to Planet Automation building upgrades
  
• Fixed a number of tooltips for Luminary traits
  
• Fixed some cases of leader trait picks not being given correctly.
  
• Evolutionary Predators now gain situation progress for Purging and keeping livestock pops. Happy hunting.
  
• Agrarian idyll Housing tech now correctly tells you what it does
  
• Buildings having sapient pop requirements will now list the number correctly
  
• The Management tab of planets is now visible if you can see planet features. World Consecrators rejoice!
  
• Behemoth now gets value properly from mutations
  
• Growth Penalty for bioships is now properly applied to naval capacity

• Reduced the biomass cost for planetary expansion for wilderness by roughly 50%
  
• Xenophobic Individualist Machines start with an Alloy Foundry instead of a Medical Center
  
• Void Dwellers now start with up to 3 hydroponics farms depending on food requirements
  
• Further tweaks to the ethics effects of civilians:
  
• Reduced the happiness for xenophobes and pop upkeep for xenophiles by 50%
  
• Increased the amenities for pacifists by 10x
  
• Doubled the trade for egalitarians.
  
• Habitats now have a Solar Farming Bay specialisation for their Reactor districts, this gives farmer jobs, turning the district into a hybrid energy/food producer.
  
• Knights OP:
  
• Halved the number of knight jobs from most sources
  
• Squires no longer grant the stability of soldiers
  
• Reduced the Bonus Pop Growth from the Lover's Pox
  
• Reduced the Stability from Memorialist job swaps
  
• Updated Scientist Expertise traits
  
• Assault armies now cost food instead of minerals for empires with biological ships
  
• The life support system on the Crashed Slaver Ship for Broken Shackles has been discovered to be working, granting +30% habitability
  
• Increased the Strategic Resource cost of Fallen Empire buildings from 100 to 300.
  
• Increased the amount of Trader Jobs from the Galactic Commerce Hub and the Interstellar Commerce Nexus from 100/200 to 600/1200
  
• Reduced the Dimensional Fabricator output from +5/+2 strategic resources to +4/+1
  
• The Shrinkspace Depot and the Extra-Dimensional depot now grant +500/1000 minor artifact storage capacity
  
• The Molecular Revitalization Institute and the Bioregeneration Institute now grant fewer jobs, from 400/600 Medical Workers to 200/300 Medical Workers.
  
• The Robot Manufacturing Nexus and the Robot Quantum Production Hub now grant fewer jobs, from 200/500 Roboticists to 150/300 Roboticists.
  
• The Quantum Innovation Nexus and the Transcendental Innovation Department now grant fewer jobs, from 400/400 of each researcher type to 200/400 of each researcher type. Politician jobs have been removed.
  
• Curator Councilors no longer grant nigh infinite amounts of trade production
  
• Synthetic Fertility pops now die off much slower

• Changes to modifiers are now mirrored in the UI immediately, even when paused
  
• Re-added pop decline alert.
  
• Improvements to the Build District tooltip
  
• Now tells you it will Build a District if you can afford it and click on it
  
• The modifier tooltip on a district will now also account for the modifiers coming from the district specialization.

• Fixed a common OOS after hotjoining due to leader trait assignments
  
• Fix common OOS related to wrong cached data about planet profit
  
• Fixed crash happening because a fleet was marked to be killed when the country was destroyed in special circumstances
  
• Fix to a wilderness growth related CTD
  
• Fixed a circular dependency in the French localization that was causing a crash.
  
• Fix crash with paragon special project
  
• Fix crash when merging fleets in reinforcements system fail
  
• Fix crash in economy fetching data from invalid diplomatic contact
  
• Fix crash with defensive armies removing dead army
  
• Prevented crash happening on special conditions that allowed holdings to be in regular zones
  
• Fixed crash when orbital bombardment ruins building

• Make creation of unnecessary jobs more sparse to reduce amount of objects.
  
• Make creation of jobs more sparse to reduce amount of objects.

• Updated species_uses_bonus_growth game rule to match can_species_procreate
  

• Fixed crash by preventing the deletion of a ship design that was only present in a build queue
  

• Monthly change in Biomass is now shown in the resource bar for Wilderness empires.
  

• Fixed some building upgrades being unconstructable or appearing with Planet Cap: 0
  
• Devouring Wilderness now correctly generates biomass from eating pops
  
• You will no longer be tasked with making an agricultural district if you are a Wilderness Empire and an Orchard Forest if you are a regular empire.
  
• The timeline completion and progression popups no longer remain open when the timeline UI is reopened after being closed.
  
• Fixed shattered rings not showing generator districts
  
• Fixed some unity buildings being broken
  
• Fixed politicians having double the resource output they should
  
• Fixed the bullet points for various species traits
  
• Fixed empire size from district modifiers being applied twice
  
• Zookeepers no longer increase the amount of research that other Zookeeper produce scaling with the number of zookeepers. Oops!
  
• Fixed assembly specialization for machine worlds giving the wrong jobs
  
• Fixed the council position for worker coop providing the incorrect amount of amenities.
  
• Wilderness empires can no longer become the Behemoth, they are perfect the way they are.
  
• Fixed some localization issues with some planetary decisions (English only)
  
• Fixed some tooltips mentioning regular jobs for wilderness
  
• Fixed Wilderness colonization button
  
• Fixed the Avatar Forest's volatile mote upkeep being too high
  
• Fixed the Thermoclastic Roar using improper syntax for killing pops
  
• Fixed some biological offspring ships not calling the correct 3d models
  
• The Order's Demesne should now correctly be swapped for a standard Planetary Defense specialization
  
• Pre-FTL planets should once again have their buildings
  
• Wilderness Deposits have been contained and will no longer be spawning across the galaxy. (Fixes systems generating with no resources.)
  
• Fixed ai megacorps not having an influence budget to build branch office buildings with
  
• Fixed the tooltip that said how many traders you get from branch office buildings depending on civics (English only)
  
• Fixed space fauna gauss weapons dealing -100% hull damage
  
• Fixed biological ship point defense and flak being identical
  
• Fixed juggernaut fusion reactors being equippable on titans not juggernauts
  
• The Faculty of Archaeostudies no longer gives broken jobs
  
• Fixed a planetary deposit making gestalt physicist jobs require consumer goods
  
• Fixed budding pops making robot assembly plants sometimes stop working
  
• Empire with the catalytic processing civics now start with additional food districts
  
• The Catalytic Processing civic now says that Metallurgists are converted into Catalytic Technicians
  
• Fixed some trait tooltips overstating effects by a factor of 100 (English only)
  
• Ancient Clone Vats can now be built in any urban district specialization
  
• Added tooltip description for Wilderness Refining World.
  
• Virtuality no longer allows an infinite workforce loop
  
• The experimental ship from the War Fragment now scale
  
• The experimental ship from the War Fragment no longer drops debris
  
• You can no longer build the Wilderness Glade holding on unnatural worlds
  
• The Wilderness can no longer build multiple shield generators, effectively becoming immune to bombardment.
  
• Fixed numerous buildings sticking around after a Wilderness took over a planet.
  
• Fixed numerous event buildings not having a biomass cost for Wilderness
  
• Fixed the First League Filing Office not giving the unity jobs it should have to most empires.
  
• Physics, Society, and Engineering focused District Specializations now trigger flavor text selection for their District.
  
• Improved post game Behemoth Behavior
  
• Fixed biological ships not having logistic upkeep
  
• Fixed habitats spawning with a broken orbital
  
• Civilians are now generated with a mix of ethics
  
• Pops are now created with a randomly selected ethic when appropriate.
  
• The Ministry of Culture building now says that Bureaucrats are converted into Culture Workers
  
• The Core focus task "Establish a Branch Office" can now be completed
  
• Fixed Natural Neural Network maintenance drones
  
• Fixed Spanish Translation of Precinct Houses
  
• Fixed all rural districts being destroyed when losing a colony
  
• Fix to an unemployment tooltip
  
• Fix issue with colonization on planets, specifically seen on shattered rings
  

• Logistic Drones now provide a small amount of amenities
  
• The Faculty of Archaeostudies now gives minor artifacts from biology/archaeo-engineer jobs if you have the Archaeoengineers AP
  
• Buffed Prosperity traditions
  
• Significantly buffed the scientist expertise traits
  
• Wilderness and Nascent Stage are now incompatible
  
• Nerfed spawning and assembly specializations for hive and machine worlds
  
• Rebalanced Natural Neural Network - reduced the research generated, but significantly reduced the additional upkeep
  
• Correctly put soldier job efficiency modifier on the Military Academy, not the Fortress
  
• The chance to get the cultist's flagship is now 20% instead of 100%
  
• Districts for Wilderness Empires now cost 50 Biomass
  
• The expand planet decision for Wilderness now costs 5×(Planet Size)^2 Biomass and 50 Influence
  
• Reduced the extra society research from zookeepers
  
• Civilian ethic outputs have been adjusted
  
• State Academy now has a planet cap of 3
  
• Betharian Districts now produce 2 Minerals and 6 Energy by default, rather than just Energy.
  

• Gave the AI a helper event so they don't leave their starting shattered ring segments uncolonised
  
• The AI now values buildings that modify production more.
  

• Fixed a crash when exiting to main menu
  
• Found an issue with Weaver growth auras that was lagging the game:
  
  • The weaver growth auras temporarily affect all ships in the fleet instead of only biological ships capable of growth due to these performance issues, however they no longer apply an upkeep increase.
• Significantly improved how Biomass is calculated
  
• Improve loading time of late game saves
  

• The default Eternal Vigilance policy will now only spawn defensive platforms in orbit of upgraded starbases
  
• Amenities Updates:
  
  • Logistics drones now produce additional amenities if Instinctive Synchronization is taken
    
  • Luxury Housing, Drone Storage, and Hive Warrens grant 1500 housing and 2500 amenities.
    
  • Paradise Domes, Upgraded Drone Storage, and Expanded Warrens grant 3000 housing and 5000 amenities.
    
  • Communal Housing grants 2000 housing and 3000 amenities.
    
  • Utopian Communal Housing grants 4000 housing and 6000 amenities.
    
  • 100 Entertainers now give 1250 Amenities instead of 1000.
    
  • The Entertainment Forum is again an upgrade to the Holo-Theaters, and grants 400 Entertainer jobs.
• Reverted many of the leader changes:
  
  • Leaders once again gain traits at every level.
    
  • The number of trait picks per level has been set back to 2 by default.
    
  • Low level traits that were merged and buffed remain so.
• It automates:
  
  • Automation buildings upkeep now only scales their upkeep with districts they automate: 8/10 for rural districts, 10/12 for city districts - buildings no longer factor into its upkeep.
    
  • Automation tooltip now mentions the scaling upkeep
    
  • Automation buildings are now associated with Assembly Patterns and Construction Templates technologies
    
    • It automates...even for hives.
• Gestalt Machine Empires can now turn off Migration Controls.
  
• Maintenance Drones now auto-migrate like the Denizens that they are.
  

• Fixed space fauna cost values
  
• Fixed various checks for Offspring Drones that were broken
  
• Fixed the Permanent Employment civic
  
• Fixed the planetary supercomputer not having the same modifiers as the research institute
  
• Fixed the Logistics Hub going missing from the game
  
• Fixed a broken modifier on the Hive Confluence building
  
• Fixed telepaths not gaining correct modifiers
  
• The Clone Army starting event no longer fires twice
  
• Commercial specialisations now accept all urban buildings
  
• Fixed BioGenesis not unlocking the crisis tab if you do not own either The Machine Age or Nemesis
  
• Neglected bio-trophies should now show on the planet UI and have a happiness penalty
  
• Fixed planetary deposit researcher interactions with gestalt empires
  
• Maintenance drones now count as better than slaves for assorted checks
  
• Starting the game as a Nascent Stage Life Seeded empire will no longer leave you with only presapients and immediately game over.
  
• The opinion penalty for purging pops have been reduced by 100
  
• The amount of Menace gained from purging pops has been reduced by a factor of 100
  
• Fixed the Splinter Hive Holding being 100 times more effective than it should have been
  
• The Coral Portrait now has access to rooted instead of the platypus.
  
• AI Megacorps will no longer be dirty cheaters that ignore the branch office building limit
  
• Debris is no longer incorrectly displayed as coming from our own empire.
  
• Scripted species can now inherit their parent species rights instead of getting default rights
  
• The Logistics Ceiling setting has been reset to default for everyone since it changed in 4.0
  
• You may no longer use Fallen empire technology to mine for minerals in the mantle of ringworlds
  

• The Build District icon is now more clearly labelled.
  
• Made some adjustments to the Planet UI to hopefully make it clearer when you can build District Specializations.
  
• The Build Queue will now automatically start opened in the Surface or Management tabs of the Planet View if there is something in the Queue.
  
• Clearing a blocker will open the Build Queue if it is closed.
  
• Fixed the diplomatic window showing the city elements based on the ship set instead of the selected city set.
  
• Fixed some modifiers from jobs being unlocalized in tooltips.
  
• Fixed being able to disable event messages if their default settings haven't changed.
  
• The pop totals in the job strata tooltip are now consistent with the strata UI.
  
• Fixed missing information in tooltips for why you can't upgrade buildings.
  

• Added more safeguards around ship graphical culture to avoid a crash
  
• Fix CTD happening when hovering over some leader traits in the selection UI
  
• Fix CTD related to districts getting deleted while a specialization was in the build queue
  
• Fixed crash on startup when generating modifiers (Thanks for helping us find this, More Events Mod!)
  
• Fixed issue with script killing pops assigned to a job may CTD
  
• Fixed CTD in colonization view due to invalid deposit entry
  
• Fixes CTD in planets and sector view due to species
  

• Multiple AI performance optimizations
  
• Reduced memory footprint in growth calculations
  
• Threaded and cached procreate calculation on pop groups to improve performance
  
• Reduce calculations done for planet economy
  

• Converting a planet into a hive world or machine world now preserves the generator, mining and farming jobs. Known Issue: The special districts on these planets do not swap names or icons to rural districts.
  
• Void Dwellers, Aquatics and Cave Dwellers now grant their robots the relevant trait when they invent robots
  

• Fixed Pearl Divers not mentioning both a food and mineral upkeep in the tooltip
  
• Fixed some duplicated text on the strong and very strong traits
  
• Blocked Behemoths from laying eggs in combat
  
• Fixed the Artifact Relay decision for hive minds
  
• Fixed the Galactic Market Nomination decision
  
• Fixed Fanatical Purifiers and Devouring Swarm getting the 'Declare a Rival' Empire Focus
  
• Bio Titans built in GDF service should now be made of meat and not metal
  
• Fixes ethics divergence always switching the entire pop group instead of amount
  
• The Automated Curation Algorithms technology will no longer be offered to Wilderness Empires
  
• Colonization can not be started again if there's already a colony ship in progress.
  
• Increased the amount of workforce Wilderness pops gain to 99999, this way if you ever have more than 1000 of a job the wilderness won't start trying to employ pops like a normal empire
  
• Wilderness Empires will no longer be able to build the automation buildings only to destroy them at the start of the next month
  
• The Automation Buildings should only show up in a research option once now instead of four times.
  
• Fixed multiple pre-FTL buildings sticking around after their owners had been invaded
  
• Advanced AIs now start with some extra unity
  
• Genocidal Necrophage empires no longer start with a Chamber of Elevation
  
• Incompatible Cybernetic Creed buildings are removed from the building list when you embrace a Creed
  
• Finishing Biomorphosis while having 7 tradition trees shouldn't reward a ghost tradition tree
  
• Fixed the Planetary Supercomputer demanding paperclips
  
• Permanent Employment now correctly starts with 400 zombies
  
• Added missing loc from Sanctuary World designation tooltip,
  
• Scavenger Bot is now named correctly in Timeline Event.
  
• You can no longer ruin your game-start economy by focusing on astro-mining while using resource consolidation to have no mining stations in your home system (Resource Consolidation and Astro Mining Drones now exclude each other)
  
• Fix issue where fleet/ship stats were not updated correctly when modifiers changed
  
• Fix modifiers not having an effect on displayed Fleet Power
  
• Biomimetic now applies a 50% workforce bonus to roboticist and replicator jobs
  
• Bodysnatchers now may edit Population Controls, similar to Necrophages.
  
• The War Fragment will no longer ask you to declare war on empires you have banch offices on. Profit comes first.
  
• Officials can now get Architectural Focus trait from Resourceful Ascension event
  
• Eternal Vigilance now also generates Defense Platforms for Deep Space Citadels
  
• Planet and slave market tooltips will correctly include dystopian specialist jobs into the general specialists list.
  
• Fixed an issue where if you gained the jump drive tech before researching level 2 and 3 hyperdrives, your science ships and constructors would not be equipped with jump drives
  
• Fixed a bug that may have sometimes caused pop decline to be determined incorrectly on planets with multiple species.
  
• Fatal Mutations no longer cause complete planetary extinction
  
• Pox Bombardment for some weird reason no longer works on mechanical beings
  
• Armageddon and Pox Bombardment are once again capable of bombing your enemies into the stone-age (tomb-world)
  

• Reduced the biomass cost for planetary expansion for wilderness by roughly 50%
  
• Xenophobic Individualist machines start with an Alloy Foundry instead of a Medical Center
  
• Further tweaks to the ethics effects of civilians:
  
  • Reduced the happiness for xenophobes and pop upkeep for xenophiles by 50%
    
  • Increased the amenities for pacifists by 10x
    
  • Doubled the trade for egalitarians.
• Habitats now have a Solar Farming Bay specialisation for their Reactor districts, this gives farmer jobs, turning the district into a hybrid energy/food producer.
  
• Knights OP:
  
  • Halved the number of knight jobs from most sources
    
  • Squires no longer grant the stability of soldiers
    
  • Reduced the Bonus Pop Growth from the Lover's Pox
• Reduced the Stability from Memorialist job swaps
  
• Updated Scientist Expertise traits
  
• Assault armies now cost food instead of minerals for empires with biological ships
  

• Changes to modifiers are now mirrored in the UI immediately, even when paused
  
• Re-added pop decline alert.
  
• Improvements to the Build District tooltip
  
  • Now tells you it will Build a District if you can afford it and click on it
    
  • The modifier tooltip on a district will now also account for the modifiers coming from the district specialization.

• Fixed an OOS after hotjoining due to leader trait assignments