Stellaris News

• When a species is modified the new version will now automatically be the default
  
• Updated Job Efficiency modifiers from Purity, Cloning and Mutation traditions to only affect Organic pops (this includes lithoids)
  
• Technologies that when researched upset Fallen Empires are now marked as dangerous.
  
• Limiting the pop housing multiplier to never completely remove the housing needs. Added the define MIN_MODIFIER_MULT that allows modders to tweak the minimum value as needed.
  
• The Synthetic Fertility origin has received a little bit of love. The situation now shows the months until the end of the situation, and the situation progress is now representative of the actual steady progress. At the end of the situation the exact pops amount is now also uploaded, instead of losing the last few.
  

• Wilderness Empires that finish the Domination Tradition Tree now have access to the Hegemony Federation Type
  
• The Psionic Storm is slightly less mystical as it should no longer convert black holes back into real stars, The Great Wound is too mighty for a mere storm.
  
• You can no longer smuggle out Biomass from Wilderness Empires
  
• Technologies that grant Fallen Empire buildings now grant +1 to the empire limit of that building. In addition, these technologies are now repeatable. The technologies that unlock the upgraded versions of the Fallen Empire buildings increase the empire limit of the base version, but the upgraded buildings count towards the limit.
  
• Having the Cosmogenesis Perk that grants access to Fallen Empire Buildings multiplies your empire limit for those buildings by 3.
  
• Fallen Empire buildings that Fallen Empires start with are generally slightly more powerful than those that can be constructed and do not count towards empire limits.
  
• Effects that grant access to Fallen Empire buildings, e.g. dumpster diving in minor artifacts, now grant you one level of the relevant technology.
  
• Gestalt empires can now access Fallen Empire trade buildings
  
• Rare Fallen Empire technologies are now correctly affected by all modifiers to draw weight of rare technologies.
  
• The draw chance for Fallen Empire buildings from Enigmatic Engineering has been decreased from 3.75% to 1.5%.
  
• There is now no limit to the number of times you can research Fallen Empire buildings with Enigmatic Engineering.
  
• Removed technology requirements for basic City District Specializations. An upgraded capital building is still required for the second Specialization.
  

• The Awakened Control Fragment will no longer denounce itself in the Galcom when it comes to picking a side in the War in Heaven
  
• The Wilderness will no longer be taunted by the Strip Mine Planet decision, it is now hidden.
  
• Refactored Tzynn Tithe to use the new pop system and being much prettier script
  
• You can no longer raid the poor crisis factions for their pops. They aren't supposed to be real!
  
• Storm Chasers now properly have no rare crystal upkeep on their Storm Attraction Centers
  
• Pirates will no longer decide to set up shop in Leviathan controlled systems.
  
• The pirate event will now check that it has a system it can spawn pirates in before firing. So now if you want to ensure that you don't have pirates you have to build outposts everywhere, which kinda makes sense...
  
• Updated the Esteemed Quartermaster trait to mention 100 Soldiers
  
• Promising young officers will no longer show up when piloting civilian craft. Also updated the event to change picture if the officer was on a starbase or a biological ship.
  
• Deep Space Citadel will no longer display duplicated models in certain situations.
  
• Added missing descriptions to Space Fauna tab in Fleet Management.
  
• Added requirement of >=2500 Pops to Megastructure builder tooltip for Grand Archive.
  
• Fix Grand Archive thinking it's still destroyed after being rebuilt
  
• Fixed leaders getting the wrong number of trait selections.
  
• Cloned leaders now copy pending trait selections from the original.
  
• Fixed Xeno-Compatibility growth calculation using the wrong number of pops.
  
• Aligned Genetic Memory tooltip with effects
  
• Fix missing description for the coordinator job
  
• Corrected job information for Justice Complex and Ziggurat of Justice buildings.
  
• Fixed the Metallurgical Research Lab, Distributed Design Center, Data-Driven Theorem Facility and Military Academy not providing some bonuses for gestalt empires.
  
• Fixed Automation buildings not having any upkeep on habitats
  
• Fix Robot species with negative traits costs sum declining
  
• Uplifted presapients now correctly enter the Civilian stratum
  
• The Nanite Interdictor can no longer equip both cruiser and battleship reactors
  
• Fixed Job Efficiency modifiers for species types not working in some cases
  
• Fix Synaptic Lathe view not always updating properly
  
• Colonizing planets will now take damage again from bombardment
  
• Abandoning and resettling the same colony multiple times will no longer grant you multiple Planetary Root Bundles.
  
• Vaults of Knowledge now once again tracks your leaders destiny traits, and will no longer reset if you lose your capital.
  
• Regular colonies will be destroyed of all the pop groups are already dead. Previously a 0 sized sapient pop group would have prevented the destruction of the colony and some other events (like an ongoing colonization) could have introduced some new pops into the planet - leading to a colony, that just would not die.
  
• Idle gestalt drones now demote much faster.
  
• Colony Auto-Designation no longer thinks that job producing buildings like Temples are 100x as awesome as it should consider them.
  
• Adopting Genesis Guides mid game will no longer prevent you from colonizing planets until you researched any new ship tech.
  
• Ecclesiastical Center colony designation now has proper tooltip
  
• Gestalt Lost Colony Empires will no longer be trying to create buildings they can't use.
  
• The planet view's portrait is now correctly displayed after changing planet class
  
• Common Ground federation allies now start with Planetary Administration building.
  

• Significant adjustments to AI priorities.
  
• The AI can now sell Energy for Trade.
  
• The AI is more willing to build Districts, and double down on District Specializations. (Or similar Specializations, like Physics and General Research might go together.)
  
• The AI will no longer feel content with itself if it has 10000 Pops.
  
• Job Output modifiers for AIs on Captain difficulty and higher have been changed to Workforce bonuses. Their jobs will now consume more resources than before, but the difficulty bonus now affects all outputs of their jobs, not just resources.
  
• AI (and Planetary Automation) will now prefer to build inside District Specializations than in free building slots.
  

• Add tooltips to Focus Card rewards
  
• Fix an empty cost string in the Change Focus confirm popup
  
• Add a pulsing glow to the district pip about to be built when hovering the build district button
  

• Fixed an OOS where a research agreement would go through on the client but not on the host, leading to random desync
  
• Fixed another OOS at reconnect due to espionage modifiers from the Active Reconnaissance fleet order
  

• Changed leader add_trait to have "trait", "consume_selection" and "show_message" parameters; removed add_trait_no_notify.
  
• Fixed traits override for clone_leader.
  
• Added more info about traits to create_leader and clone_leader documentation.
  
• Most Pop effects that use amounts can now have a randomized range
  
• add_building will no longer add districts that can't be built.
  
• Add country modifiers to District Specialization types
  
• District Specializations can now be limited per planet and/or empire, like buildings
  
• We now have an add_variable effect to complement the subtract_variable effect
  
• Add ai_priority field to District Specializations so AI and Planet Automation know better where to build structures
  

• Bugfix: Wilderness Empires will no longer destroy themselves when spending biomass
  
• Bugfix: Virtuality will not delete unemployed pops on colonization
  
• Fix numerous instances of OOS issues
  
• Savegame transfer goes brrr

• Fixed Hollow Bones being 1/10 as impactful as it should be. Stay away from big planets birds.
  
• Incubators modifiers will now be a bit more granular and not go from 30% bonus to -10% growth with 40 pops.
  
• Colony Auto-designation now better takes Urban districts into account for flipping to the various Urban-related designations. (We still recommend picking the one you want though. This was mostly intended for the AI)
  
• Gestalt empires can now build trade modules on starbases
  
• Non-gestalt empires can now build solar panels on starbases
  
• Added Logistic traditions for gestalt empires
  
• Split Enforcers and Telepaths
  
• Refactored the psionic pop output from telepaths to be on the psi corp building instead
  
• Introduced Job Efficiency for Psionic Pops modifier where appropriate
  
• Added Job Efficiency for Mechanical and Machine Pops modifier and implemented where appropriate
  
• Added Job Efficiency for Cyborg Pops modifier and implemented where appropriate
  
• Added Job Efficiency for Organic Pops modifier and implemented where appropriate
  
• Empire and Planet Limits for Fallen Empire Buildings now have the following rules:
  
  • If you stole the plans through artifact diving or were gifted them by the Hive FE: Empire/Planet Limit = number of times you rolled the building, capped at 3
    
  • If you got the tech through Enigmatic Engineering: Empire Limit: Uncapped, Planet Limit = 3
    
  • If you have Cosmogenesis: Empire Limit: Uncapped, Planet Limit = 6
    
  • If you’re a Fallen Empire: Empire/Planet Limit: Uncapped
    
  • Note: It is our intention to replace this with a system that turns Fallen Empire building techs into Repeatable Technologies that base the maximum number of how many you can have be tied to the number of times you have researched it. This is likely to be in 4.1, though may sneak into a late 4.0 patch.

• Reintroduced the Build District and Clear Blocker button in the District Details side panel.
  
• Planetary Habitability and Devastation should no longer overlap
  
• The column for number of pops in the species view should now correctly display larger numbers of pops without forcing a new line
  
• Added a tooltip to make the inability of building on an occupied planet clearer
  
• Improved Zone replacement popup

• Dictatorial Cybervision Enforcers will no longer give themselves an infinite amount of bonuses generating infinite amount of resources
  
• Fixed Corporate Angler council positions giving mult modifiers instead of add modifiers
  
• Fix occupied planets still adding their production and modifiers to their owners
  
• Modifier now scales with pop amount in production box and tooltip of planet view
  
• Prevent jobs with 0 workforce being displayed in the Strata production tooltip
  
• Assimilating a species now assimilates all armies, colony ships, and leaders of that species
  
• Added a 1 day count before VIR's enclave tutorial.
  
• Exotic Metabolism tooltip now lists Pop Growth and Habitability.
  
• Fixed the energy cost that scales with pops in the Cyberization event "Radical Physiology"
  
• Changed the French translation of Research from Enquêter to Recherche
  
• Added appropriate effects tooltip for Augmentation Bazaar.
  
• The Celestial Orrery Supercomputer now only gives Physicist jobs
  
• Removed incompatible tech from Wilderness Agenda option
  
• Players can no longer colonize with a prebuilt colony ship if the species isn't allowed to colonize.
  
• Fixed a bug with the years_of_peace trigger that made it not evaluate the delay properly, it was always treated as zero
  
• Fixed an exploit where people could edit their saved empires to start with late-game rewards and effects.
  
• Enforcers now benefit from Specialist modifiers again.
  
• Fixed tooltips for Angler civics
  
• Fixed tooltips for all Astrometeorology civics
  
• Fixed issues with the Astrometeology building for gestalts
  
• Fixed the Beastmaster civic tooltip
  
• Updated nested tooltips for Civil Education
  
• Fixed stability from Byzantine Bureaucracy not applying
  
• Streamlined the tooltip for Catalytic Processing
  
• Fixed Wild Swarm mentioning ships when combined with Cordyceptic Drones
  
• Improved the Dark Consortium tooltip
  
• Contingency will no longer fail to sterilize branch offices on a planet
  
• Demolishing a building on an occupied planet is no longer possible
  
• Blocked Resource Processing Center technology for Wilderness
  

• AI empires will focus a bit more on Industry and Alloys.
  
• AI empires value capital building upgrades more.
  
• AI empires are more likely to build Anchorages if their naval capacity usage is high.
  
• Adjusted the bonuses AI empires receive on higher difficulties. AI empires will now also gain bonuses to automatic resettlement on higher difficulties.
  

• Fixed OOS with different amounts of popgroups
  
• Fixed a Ship Design related OOS
  
• Fixed another possible OOS at reconnection
  
• Fixed CTD that happened on the planet UI for Contingency taken planets
  

• Prescripted empires' starting flags now need to be defined in the 'prescripted_flags' folder
  

A little over two weeks on from the launch of Stellaris 4.0 and the Biogenesis DLC, things are starting to stabilize. Developer Paradox has just launched Stellaris patch 4.0.13, the latest in a long string of updates delivering more performance improvements, balance tweaks, and bug fixes for the space 4X game. As the studio looks ahead to the Shadows of the Shroud expansion, game director Stephen 'Eladrin' Muray ponders how success is measured in Stellaris, and ways that its enemy AI can provide a more rewarding challenge.

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• Behemoth Fury is now available to Wilderness Empires.
  
• Improved tooltips for the following civics:
  
• Functional Architecture/Constructobot
  
• Environmentalist
  
• Astro-mining Drones
  
• Maintenance Protocols
  
• Ascensionists
  
• Augmentation Bazaars
  
• Brand Loyalty
  
• Death Cults
  
• Dimensional Worship
  
• Balance
  
• Mutagenic Habitability now counts all planet types as ideal for upgrading Gaiaseeders
  
• Dramatically increased the draw chance for the Mineral Purification, Global Energy Management and Food Processing technologies
  
• Rebalanced the Pleasure Seeker civics to transform Civilians into Hedonists
  
• Logistic Drones are now Complex Drones not Menial Drones

• Fixed invaded pre-ftls not becoming biotrophies
  
• People once more die when they are put in the Lathe
  
• Bio-Swarmer missiles can now be used by all biological ships with medium weapon slots (including defensive platforms)
  
• Pops that are being pampered will now be forcibly switched to the correct living standard
  
• Replacing a district specialisation no longer destroys CyberCreed buildings that should be kept
  
• Corrected a tooltip bug where a planet would display itself as a possible migration target.
  
• Fixed capitalisation for resources in trade policies
  
• Updated assorted modifiers that still referred to Clerks
  
• A Trade deficit now causes Job Efficiency and Empire Size issues
  
• Fixed the tooltip for the Polymelic trait
  
• Armies now protect 200 pops from raiding, not 2
  
• Blocked the Federation Code technology for some empires, for example homicidals. To draw the tech, the empire is also required to be in contact with someone they can form a federation with.
  
• Blocked the Development focus task Form a Federation for some empires, for example homicidals
  
• Added swaps for some empires, for example homicidals, for the Development focus rewards Federation Code, Xeno Diplomacy, and Xeno Relations
  
• Updated the Colony view tab mentioned in the hint of the focus task Enact a Planetary Decision to say Management
  
• CyberCreed pops with Ritualistic Implants can now colonise planets
  
• Fixed Recycled and Luxurious traits not applying to Roboticists
  
• Catalytic Processing Civic now lists correct information regarding job swap
  
• Cost for repairing orbital rings when you use bioships is now correctly calculated
  
• Gale Speed trait gained from Defeat no longer causes errors
  
• Fixed scope for LeaderShipSurvivalReason
  
• Fixed scope bug for ruler in leader_election_weight
  
• Fixed Worker Coop gaining Elite strata jobs in too many places and tidied up the civic tooltip
  
• Updated tooltip for Warrior Culture civic
  
• Added a pre-list colon to the Feudal Society civic's tooltip
  
• The everychanging stone can no longer cause artisans to have negative mineral upkeep
  
• Gave the Neural Chorus advanced authority the pop growth speed modifier that had accidentally been assigned to Memory Aggregator
  
• The Planetary Supercomputer no longer has an empire cap of 1
  
• The Research Institute/Planetary Supercomputer no longer give scientist capacity
  
• Added dashes to Traits tooltips and list items
  
• Fixed trigger logic for criminal syndicates and federations
  
• Fixed Offspring Bioships not being visible in game
  
• Fixed Offspring Bioships not being labelled as non-offspring ships in the ship designer
  
• The Machine Uprising will no longer spawn 100 machine pops for every 1 missing housing. However the pop-rework seems to have handled 6 million machine pops okay.
  
• Stopped removing occupation armies for bombarded and invaded planets on savegame load
  
• Repairing ruined buildings in zones is now always possible.

• Flattened pop job modifier node into planet one
  
• Made clearing modifiers a fire and forget job

• Fixed a possible OOS when a player leaves the game.
  
• Fix CTD when generating a Cosmic Storm mesh.
  
• Fixed a random freeze when loading save with stations containing multiple defence platforms.