Stellaris News

• Fix Faction resource output being exponential
  
• Evosymbionts now have a description
  
• Fixed that eating a baby didn't give you any DNA or genetic insights
  
• Fixed the first tier of the physics lab requiring access to volatile motes to research
  
• A stray K should no longer haunt players that foolishly opened a certain window
  
• Explore a Wormhole' Focus Card is now 'Traverse a Wormhole', clarifying that you have to travel through it
  
• Fixed typo in "Colony View" Databank entry
  
• Added localization string for +3 Unity planetary feature
  
• Federation Cohesion tooltip now mentions Officials instead of Envoys
  
• Death Priests now correctly get +3 base unity output while a sacrifice edict is in effect
  
• Hard Reset event "Our [empire] Legacy" event now works as intended
  
• Observers can open the build queue of the empire they're observing.
  
• Fixed a case in which virtual ascended empires could get unworkable fallen empire jobs on habitats
  
• Fixed adSul not having any resource districts after terraforming it
  
• Species with Mutagenic Habitability now shouldn’t lose it when they bloom from Gaia-Seeders
  
• Xenophobic Pharma State Empires will no longer start with 2 Medical Centers leading to both being destroyed at game start.
  
• Broken Shackle Angler Empires will no longer spawn with a farming district in their city slot.
  
• Amoeboid Pacification Empire modifier now displays effects
  
• Enslaves species located in Synaptic Lathe will no longer switch back and forward between neural chips jobs and slave repurposing job.
  
• Fixed the Auto-Curating Vault (and equivalents) not having an additional bonus on ringworlds
  
• The Organic Paradise building can no longer be built directly
  
• Nexus districts no longer mention Logistic Drones when they shouldn't
  
• Fixed machine empires starting with the wrong number of pops
  
• Neglected Bio-Trophies now show as unemployed
  
• 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
  
• Fixed Wild Swarm mentioning ships when combined with Cordyceptic Drones
  
• Streamlined the tooltip for Catalytic Processing
  
• Improved the Dark Consortium tooltip
  
• Fix starting leaders often missing a background job.
  
• Fixed translation error in Korean text about lack of modifier.
  
• Added missing concept tooltip for District Specializations
  
• Fix the ship designer autogenerate checkbox sometimes not working correctly
  
• Weather Forecasting Mode is now listed correctly in Storm Chasers description
  
• Added Augmentor job description in english
  
• Fix the amount of pops affected by the voidworms bombardment
  
• Fix incorrect Megastructures build conditions tooltip
  
• The Synaptic Lathe should once again purge pops. (This will not retroactively affect existing saves.)
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented upgrading building that have planet limit set on them.
  
• Balance
  
• Increased the number of Bio-Trophy jobs provided by most sources
  
• Added the Creativity Exhibition Vault as an equivalent for the Auto-Curating Vault for Rogue Servitors
  
• Machine Intelligences no longer give a growth penalty to organic pops
  
• District specialisations that add unity jobs no longer give coordinator jobs for Rogue Servitors instead they give Bio-Trophy jobs
  
• Bio-Trophies now increase the Job Efficiency for Complex Drones instead of their resource output
  
• Rogue Servitors no longer start with an additional 2000 drones
  
• Rogue Servitors now start with 2000 Bio-Trophies instead of 500
  
• Rogue Servitors now have access to the Sanctuary Enclave district specialisation, granting a large number of bio-trophy jobs
  

• Notification Icons shan't be blurry no more
  
• Added more visible habitability information in the planet view.
  

• Reduced a number of unnecessary re-calculations of ship designs
  
• Sub-species with identical traits and rights will periodically merge together to reduce the total number of species and pop groups.
  

• OOS RANDOM_COUNT fix (caused by dependency between planet and galactic object ftl inhibitors)
  
• Fix common OOS related to ship behavior resulting in RANDOM_COUNT and NUM_MISSILE as well as many other OOS codes
  
• Fixed RANDOM_COUNT OOS caused by pop group assembly tooltip.
  
• Fix CTD when calculating Branch office income
  

• Added new effect: set_planet_purge_type. Using it on synthetic lathe to have pops purge
  
• Replaced base_cap_amount with planet_limit for buildings
  

Stellaris Biogenesis has largely been a success, even if Steam ratings tell a different story. The new expansion for Paradox's space strategy game has been marked down because of its rocky launch and the game's troubled 4.0 update, yet the reviews are almost all filled with praise for the DLC itself. Creative, flavorful, and offering some of the most unique ways to chart your journey through the 4X game, it's an undeniably promising new chapter. Speaking exclusively to PCGamesN, game director Stephen 'Eladrin' Muray reveals his personal favorite addition, and talks about the team's plans for future expansions.

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• Bloomed Biomass is now prioritized if unqueueing a Building that costs Biomass on Gaia worlds.
  
• Cleaned up Terraforming options for Wilderness empires if they did not start with that planet type to avoid the painful game loop of colonizing a terrible world so that you could then pay in energy to improve it.
  
• Candidates that are not the primary species of an empire now have a reduced chance of being elected in Non-Xenophilic, and under the proper circumstances, non-Selective Kinship Empires.
  

• Augmentation Bazaars civic no longer claims to increase trade per cybernetic trait
  
• Wilderness Empires will no longer be offered Gene Seed Purification
  
• The final tier of the Gaia Seeder building will no longer be destroyed in Wilderness Empires
  
• Wilderness Biomass is now more likely to gain the Bloomed trait
  
• Democratic Transference will no longer be granting hundred times more efficiency than expected.
  
• Biological Ship empires should now be able to grow Fledgling Dragons when playing the Here Be Dragons origin.
  
• Fixed the Expand Planet Decision for Wilderness refunding the Biomass spent
  
• Updated the "Weak" trait tooltip
  
• Fixed outdated Overtuned Traits tooltips
  
• Restored icons to the "Win a War" Focus Card
  
• Total War Empires can now complete the "Win a War" Focus Card
  
• Terravores will no longer be give the "Terraform 3 Worlds" Focus Task
  
• Delicious and Felsic species traits now give +100% job efficiency to livestock jobs
  
• Secrets of Inetian Traders' vanilla modifier now reduces trade fees.
  
• Fixed the Mutagenic Spas descriptions because they weren't displaying the correct job swap.
  
• Fixed Clear Design for space fauna duplicating components and not clearing anything.
  
• Fix some incorrect text in civics tooltips during empire creation
  
• Slaves and purged pop groups no longer listed as being demoted
  
• Bio-trophies and some other jobs cannot be automated anymore, as funny as it was for the Rogue Servitors to be so sad at the empty domes and make animatronic trophies to care for.
  
• Fix some modifiers missing from job production tooltips.
  
• Fix to Tiyanki Graveyard animation
  
• Xenophobes are once again prevented from giving Full Citizenship and Military Service to Xenos
  
• Adjustments to Xeno Mediator to be correct for 4.0
  
• You can no longer build rural support district specialisations in urban districts if the planet type does not have the district type it would support
  
• AI will stop losing colonies due to resettlement
  
• AI will stop resettling from and into planets being colonized
  

• Augmentation Bazaars grant access to Augmentation Merchants which combine the benefits of Merchants and Executives in one
  
• Hyperlane Breach Points and Hyperspace Slipstreams technologies now also increase the number of pops that can move each month due to Automatic Resettlement by +25%
  
• Doubled the effect Transit Hubs have on Automatic Resettlement to +200%.
  

• Significantly improved Pop Job's production tooltip and details panel
  
• Buildings in the Planet UI do not escape their frames anymore.
  
• Updated the size of the Districts backgrounds, so their sizes and their padding are evenly distributed.
  
• Updated the District Cap Background size and also the district slots padding.
  
• Added more padding and even margins for the Planet UI.
  
• Updated the look of Planet Production and Planet Deficit section of the Planet UI.
  
• When opening the leaders view, the Available Positions window will now always start closed.
  

• Reduced the amount of pop groups by adding a mechanic for merging smaller similar ones.
  
• Calculate the planet upkeep/produce/profit during the monthly tick and use the cached amount for all the calculations
  
• Prevented monthly job assignment from triggering again the next day
  
• Reduced memory allocations between monthly job distributions
  
• Tweaked the grain size for planetary threaded updates
  

• Fix common OOS related to wrongly recalculated planet profit (again, for real this time)
  
• Some changes that are an attempt to fix a RANDOM_COUNT OOS that we cannot reliably reproduce internally.
  
• Fixed crash when opening leader level up message if there is no trait to pick.
  
• Fix CTDs related to Behemoth
  
• Fixed OOS due to ship designer using synchronized random
  

• Add can_be_automated token for jobs that cannot be automated
  

• Bloomed Biomass is now prioritized if unqueing a Building that costs Biomass on Gaia worlds.
  
• Cleaned up Terraforming options for Wilderness empires if they did not start with that planet type to avoid the painful game loop of colonizing a terrible world so that you could then pay in energy to improve it.
  
• Candidates that are not the primary species of an empire now have a reduced chance of being elected in Non-Xenophilic, and under the proper circumstances, non-Selective Kinship Empires.
  

• Augmentation Bazaars civic no longer claims to increase trade per cybernetic trait
  
• Wilderness Empires will no longer be offered Gene Seed Purification
  
• The final tier of the Gaia Seeder building will no longer be destroyed in Wilderness Empires
  
• Wilderness Biomass is now more likely to gain the Bloomed trait
  
• Democratic Transference will no longer be granting hundred times more efficiency than expected.
  
• Biological Ship empires should now be able to grow Fledgling Dragons when playing the Here Be Dragons origin.
  
• Fixed the Expand Planet Decision for Wilderness refunding the Biomass spent
  
• Updated the "Weak" trait tooltip
  
• Fixed outdated Overtuned Traits tooltips
  
• Restored icons to the "Win a War" Focus Card
  
• Total War Empires can now complete the "Win a War" Focus Card
  
• Terravores will no longer be give the "Terraform 3 Worlds" Focus Task
  
• Delicious and Felsic species traits now give +100% job efficiency to livestock jobs
  
• Secrets of Inetian Traders' vanilla modifier now reduces trade fees.
  
• Fixed the Mutagenic Spas descriptions because they weren't displaying the correct job swap.
  
• Fixed Clear Design for space fauna duplicating components and not clearing anything.
  
• Fix some incorrect text in civics tooltips during empire creation
  
• Slaves and purged pop groups no longer listed as being demoted
  
• Bio-trophies and some other jobs cannot be automated anymore, as funny as it was for the Rogue Servitors to be so sad at the empty domes and make animatronic trophies to care for.
  
• Fix some modifiers missing from job production tooltips.
  
• Fix to Tiyanki Graveyard animation
  
• Xenophobes are once again prevented from giving Full Citizenship and Military Service to Xenos
  

• Augmentation Bazaars grant access to Augmentation Merchants which combine the benefits of Merchants and Executives in one
  
• Hyperlane Breach Points and Hyperspace Slipstreams technologies now also increase the number of pops that can move each month due to Automatic Resettlement by +25%
  
• Doubled the effect Transit Hubs have on Automatic Resettlement to +200%.
  

• Significantly improved Pop Job's production tooltip and details panel
  
• Buildings in the Planet UI do not escape their frames anymore.
  
• Updated the size of the Districts backgrounds, so their sizes and their padding are evenly distributed.
  
• Updated the District Cap Background size and also the district slots padding.
  
• Added more padding and even margins for the Planet UI.
  
• Updated the look of Planet Production and Planet Deficit section of the Planet UI.
  
• When opening the leaders view, the Available Positions window will now always start closed.
  

• Reduce amount of pop groups by adding mechanic for merge smaller similar ones.
  
• Calculate the planet upkeep/produce/profit during the monthly tick and use the cached amount for all the calculations
  
• Reduced memory allocations between monthly job distributions
  
• Tweaked the grain size for planetary threaded updates
  

• Fix common OOS related to wrongly recalculated planet profit (again, for real this time)
  
• Some changes that are an attempt to fix a RANDOM_COUNT OOS that we cannot reliably reproduce internally.
  
• Fixed crash when opening leader level up message if there is no trait to pick.
  
• Fixed OOS due to ship designer using synchronized random
  

• Add can_be_automated token for jobs that cannot be automated