What changed in Stellaris in 2022

Modders will publish their crises as individual Steam workshop items, allowing for better maintenance and updates.

A launcher will be provided to turn on/off specific crises and manage launch options.

Each crisis will function as its own standalone mod, allowing players to run them individually.

Teasers for various mid-game crises have been shared, showcasing designs from modders.

The Mod Jam mod is targeted for release on January 10th, 2023.

The default Habitat designation now acts similarly to the default Colony, providing stability and amenities while the habitat population is low.

Fixed a number of bugs where empires were not set up properly for static galaxies.

Capped resource upkeep/cost/production reduction modifiers to -90%

Significant revisions have been made to Static Galaxy creation to bring them in line with Random Galaxy creation.

Switched a number of leviathans (and their reanimated versions) to line computers instead of artillery.

Fixed a bug preventing many colony designations from being selected by auto-designation if Sector Automation was active.

AI now bases acceptance for taxes/subsidies on economic impact to itself, rather than Loyalty alone.

The Refinery planet and habitat designations now grant 15% bonuses to refiners, translucers, chemists, and all strategic resource mining professions. The benefit from Environmental Ordinance Waivers has been increased from +5% to +10%.

Planetary and Sector Automation should once again upgrade Capital buildings.

AI acceptance of discrete agreement terms can now be scripted like Loyalty can, separately for subjects and overlords.

AI overlords now value agreements that improve subject Loyalty, depending on the overlord’s personality and the subject’s power level.

Added an 'effect = {}' field for static galaxy systems that will execute on that system after the galaxy is generated.

Prevented AI Cyborg Hivemind empires from assimilating already cyborg hivemind pops, which could get them stuck in endless assimilation.

AI will no longer rent mercenary reinforcement fleets enroute to the main fleet.

Machine uprisings can now spawn fleets with all unlocked ship types.

Fixed a crash when older custom names contained certain special characters.

Juggernauts now have the same base maximum speed as Battleships and Titans.

Pre-FTL civilizations should now generate defensive armies.

Blocked pops with the Psionic trait to also receive the Latent Psionic trait.

Fixed subjects being able to become the federation president in arena combat successions.

Empty fleet templates generated automatically will now be cleared after a set amount of time.

Gateway Sites and Ruined Gateways show up in outliner.

Fixed graphical artifact appearing in the ship browser.

Fixed crash when overwriting certain pop jobs or districts individually.

Fixed DLC being listed as 'corrupted' in the launcher due to checksum mismatch.

Fixed overlapping portraits sometimes appearing in the first contact view.

Fixed adjective generator in the empire creator not working for some languages.

Several ship sizes that lacked role definitions now have them.

Fixed is_ringworld trigger being overwritten by a scripted trigger.

Fixed mechanical fallen empires missing part of their ringworlds.

Juggernauts will now move at the same max speed as Battleships and Titans.

Addressing a crash on startup caused by special characters in empire fields.

Investigating and addressing the launcher issue that falsely flags all DLC as corrupted.

Several crash fixes are prepared for the upcoming patch.

Several ship sizes that lacked role definitions, such as Menacing ships, will now have them.

Future updates will include a rebalancing of technologies to make the Engineering branch less heavy compared to the other two branches.

The final release candidate for the Orion Open Beta is now available, targeting a full release on November 29.

The Canis Minor update is scheduled for Q1 of 2023, incorporating feedback from the Orion beta.

Testing of a limited set of AI vassalization acceptance changes is planned for the next Open Beta.

A new megacorporation type that operates without commercial pacts under certain conditions.

Four new ascension perks related to MegaCorporations, including Arcology Project and Galactic Wonders.

New corporate authority with unique civics and gameplay mechanics.

Three new megastructures: Mega Art Installation, Strategic Coordination Center, and Matter Decompressor.

The Uncharted Frontiers Bundle is now available for purchase on Steam.

A new type of megacorporation that merges commercial and spiritualistic values.

Roaming trade caravans that offer unique trades and access to powerful planetary decisions.

A new planet type that provides significant bonuses and unique building opportunities.

A new civic allowing players to dominate the galaxy with zombie space fauna.

A new government type for Cordyceptic Empires focusing on biological reanimation.

Facility capable of resurrecting space fauna continuously for food upkeep.

Reanimated Leviathans now feature new visuals including shaders and VFX.

A new federation type for Spiritualist empires providing bonuses related to unity, priests, and the spiritualist faction.

A fix to allow vassals to colonize Holy Worlds, expected to be included in the 3.6 update.

Details on the perks and levels of the Holy Covenant federation, including bonuses and priest appearances.

Fixed a number of tooltips not showing for hive-mind cybernetic ascension.

Fixed that the Cordyceptic Reanimation Facility wasn't buildable inside Amor Alveo.

Players should no longer be able to form covenants with all the entities if they refuse the first covenant.

Modular Cybernetics adds Augmentation Drones to Spawning Pools for hive-minds.

Added missing pop growth and assembly modifiers to unity designations for ringworlds.

Integrated Preservation for Machine Intelligences now affects Evaluators (and Chronicle Drones) not Coordinators.

Balanced numbers for the instrument of Desire.

The Whisperers stability penalty has been reduced. It now comes with a reduction in Unity.

It is no longer possible to engage the Marauders or Horde in multiple dialogs.

Moved most pop upkeep and resource production to inline script.

Updated a number of stern sections to have the correct number of aux slots for offspring ships.

Added missing tiyanki pop assembly for hive minds.

Removed pop_assembly_speed modifier. You should use planet_pop_assembly_(organic_)mult instead.

Tooltip for opinion decay rate now shows two decimal places.

Updated Integrated Anatomy tooltip.

Renamed 'Planetary Government' and 'Planetary Unification' for gestalts.

Added the Parasitic Overmind Government type.

The Whisperers will no longer kill up to 8 (!) pops on a planet.

Fixed the tooltip for Adaptability for Void Dwellers.

Knight jobs now give amenities instead of stability as reward from a quest.

Reunited the 'Code Changes' and 'Incompatible Code' modifiers with their icons.

Changed ethics attraction for the Composer and the Whisperer.

Moved the repeatable technologies for strike craft into Society - Military Theory.

Fix for terraforming candidates that shown when tech is missing.

The Epi-Genetic Triggers technology and Genetic Resequencing tradition now both allow the removal of pre-sapient traits from species via species modification.

Explicitly prevented various scripted solar systems from spawning inside Marauder territory.

Ringworld colony designations and ecumenopolis planet class now provide both mechanical and organic pop assembly.

Fixed show_in_outliner in megastructures not actually working.

Shroud cooldown modifiers should now appear as percentage without need for unique loc.

Fixed AI's difficulty-adjusted economic modifiers, plus certain misevaluations of modifier benefits in its economic strategy.

Reimplemented the localisation for the Trader Proxy Office.

Martial Law, Hunter Killer Drones and Compliance Drones planet modifiers now provide penalties to both mechanical and organic pop assembly.

Added checks for corporate civics for shroud patrons.

Pop Assembly modifiers now have decimal places.

Marauder clans may no longer spawn in systems which are adjacent to player empires.

Rebalanced synchronicity traditions to match with the changes to harmony traditions.

Fix for when becoming a vassal resets all Policies and Species rights to Default.

Larger Unbidden ships and structures now have a point defense solution.

Fixed most of the machine intelligence authority text having highlights.

Lead ships should no longer run into the enemy disregarding their combat computer.

Modular Cybernetics no longer gives hive-minds +10% pop assembly.

The Order's Keep now give 15 stability as a reward from that quest.

Pacifist Xenophobe empires are no longer ambivalent about attacks on the Caravaneers.

Shroud Chosen Leaders will no longer lose their chosen trait on becoming rulers.

The Energy Siphon is now a space fauna weapon.

Players now have a wider choice of leaders to become chosen through their covenant.

Modular Cybernetics no longer gives hive-minds +10% pop assembly; Spawning Pools gain Augmentation Drone jobs.

The Integrated Preservation tradition for Machine Intelligences now affects Evaluators and Chronicle Drones instead of Coordinators.

The stability penalty for Whisperers in the Void has been reduced, but now imposes a small reduction in Unity production.

Larger Unbidden ships and structures now have an Arc Defense Field to vaporize attacking strike craft and missiles.

Compete in a tournament against other players to fight back the Undead Invaders.

Bundle includes Stellaris, Nemesis, Apocalypse, and Necroids at a discounted price.

Participate in fighting back the Necroid Invasion on the Stellaris Official Discord for a chance to win prizes.

Subscribe to the Necroid Invasion mod to experience a new crisis affecting the entire galaxy.

Fixed issue with strike crafts flying too low during combat.

Scrollbar added for archaeology site or first contact options that exceed interface limits.

Empires released by those with the Divine Sovereign civic will no longer inherit it.

Defense platforms no longer move away from combat with distant enemies.

Missile accuracy reduced from 100% to 85%.

Culture worker modifiers for Egalitarians, Xenophobes, and Xenophiles halved; doubled for Pacifists.

New accessibility feature allows text to be read aloud using the operating system's TTS voice.

Percentage based regen modifiers now show correct values.

Players can now form covenants with Shroud entities, gaining unique bonuses over time.

Rebalancing aimed at improving space combat and encouraging mixed fleets.

Combat computers now ignore certain weapons for desired range, affecting ship behavior in combat.

Placeholder icons and text present; ships do not back away if trapped within minimum weapon range.

A minimum range has been added to all Large weapons except Lasers.

Ship Roles can now be selected to auto-design ships fulfilling specific roles like Artillery, Brawler, and Torpedo.

Torpedoes and select weapons now gain a multiplicative damage bonus based on the size of the target.

Ships now have a limited number of disengagement opportunities per combat.

Missiles have been moved out of the G slot back into S and M slots.

Strike Craft no longer intercept missiles and will continue to fight each other.

Flak Batteries now counter Strike Craft more effectively, while Point Defense counters missiles and torpedoes more strongly.

Introduction of Frigate, an advanced Corvette frame that delivers torpedoes.

Energy Torpedoes like Proton and Neutron Launchers changed to G class with adjusted damage and minimum range.

Genetic traditions now allow for advanced species modifications and new traits.

Mind over Matter and Teachers of the Shroud origin now unlock a new Psionic Traditions tree.

Ascension Paths have been restructured to include guaranteed research options and tradition trees.

The Mind Readers tradition introduces a new empire edict, Sight Beyond Sight, enhancing navy capabilities.

Cybernetic and Synthetic paths have been split for better gameplay integration.

New technologies represent basic cybernetic upgrades for populations.

New tradition trees are being introduced, gated behind various requirements.

Tradition swaps ensure unique benefits for different empire types in Cybernetic traditions.

Resolved an issue where the graveyard decorations ballooned in size upon reopening the system view.

Modders can now define new galaxy shapes in script and create custom combinations without replacing existing ones.

A special project allows pacifist players to lure away Tiyanki gravekeepers without harming them.

Combined random and static galaxy code to resolve issues and improve robustness for modders creating bespoke galaxies.

Introduction of a unique solar system with new ships on patrol and an arc site related to Tiyanki.

The Toxic Entity will no longer bless those unworthy, preventing selection of a Toxic God solar system initializer without the Knights of the Toxic God origin.

Players can no longer equip the Toxic God's strike craft on their ships after defeating the Prethoryn.

The Toxoids Species Pack is now available, featuring new quests, scavenging, and gameplay elements.

Crisis will now destroy the starbases of the systems it invades, fixing an issue with AI landing armies on colonies.

Adapt to consume hazardous food, living longer and enjoying diverse flavors.

Explore the depths of your homeworld for buried power, risking the potential release of a biological colossus.

Includes new story events, archaeological sites, and habitable planets.

Includes a new toxic shipset, cityscape, throne room backdrop, and advisor voice.

Ignore regulations to meet demand and gain resources.

Play as a species that gains traits at the cost of its lifespan, living for immediate gains.

A new advisor voice provides news and advice with sarcasm.

Your existence makes planets uninhabitable for others, but deters aggression from other empires.

Grow your population rapidly with mutagenic sludge, accepting the costs to your planet and people.

Players can now set Scaling Difficulty to Off, Mid-Game, or Late-Game.

New difficulty setting for easier gameplay, with bonuses for new players.

Introducing 3 new civics: Toxic Baths, Scavengers, and Relentless Industrialists.

Harvest debris for quick construction projects.

New civics include Toxic Baths, Scavengers, and Relentless Industrialists.

Announcing the Toxoids Species Pack with new species, origins, civics, traits, and more.

New traits include Incubators, Inorganic Breath, Noxious, and Exotic Metabolism.

New gameplay feature included in the Toxoids Species Pack.

New toggle that increases AI strength on higher difficulty levels.

Lithoid pops gain access to Radiotropic and Crystallization traits.

Announcing the Toxoids Species Pack releasing on September 20th, featuring new species, origins, civics, traits, and more.

Buffs to Crisis, Precursor, and Event Relics for better balance.

Culture Workers now have base output/upkeep and ethics-based effects.

Your people produce valuable exotic gases, though respirators are costly.

Various optimizations to reduce lag spikes and improve performance.

Introducing 2 new origins for gameplay.

Includes 15 new species portraits, plus 1 for owners of the Synthetic Dawn Story Pack.

New gameplay feature included in the Toxoids Species Pack.

Megastructures and Starbases now show upgrade indicators in the outliner.

Includes new ships, species portraits, and cityscapes.

Includes a new toxic shipset, cityscape, throne room backdrop, and advisor voice.

The Toxoids Species Pack will release on September 20th.

Introducing 4 new species traits: Incubators, Inorganic Breath, Noxious, and Exotic Metabolism.

Includes achievements for each Species Pack and Synthetic Dawn.

New mouse and keyboard options for better accessibility.

Introducing 2 new origins for gameplay.

The Toxoids Species Pack is now available, allowing players to inhabit toxic worlds and make sacrifices for survival.

Includes 15 new species portraits, plus 1 for owners of the Synthetic Dawn Story Pack.

Repopulate quickly when your planet is empty.

AI now assigns idle fleets to nearest fleet groups during war.

Includes 15 new portraits and 1 machine portrait for Synthetic Dawn owners.

A new policy that provides benefits while managing the economic stress from the Knights and the Order.

Introduction of expensive specialist Knights and the Lord Commander ruler job, enhancing quest progress and providing boons.

A unique situation that progresses over time, offering multiple outcomes based on player choices.

A new habitat designed to support the player's quest for galactic dominance, featuring an imposing building.

Squires will come from the habitat's unique districts, supporting the Knights and Lord Commander.

Five unique blockers on the homeworld that reduce the number of districts available for building.

A new origin featuring unique mechanics and narrative elements centered around the Knights of the Toxic God.

Development of a unique aesthetic for Toxoid clothing inspired by High Tech Survivalism and Protective Fashion.

Introduction of robots with clothing, expanding the visual diversity of machine species.

Enhanced animation techniques for clothing to allow for more fluid movement and dynamic interactions.

Each Toxoid species will receive specific clothing designs rather than a single outfit per role.

Introduction of a diverse array of clothing designs for Toxoid species, including tailored outfits for each species.

A new origin that allows pops to gain 13 new overtuned traits, which can be mixed with existing traits.

An edict that doubles the positive effects of overtuned traits but also doubles the upkeep of those pops.

Allows empires to terraform toxic worlds into colonizable ones, with challenges.

Increases efficiency in alloy and consumer goods production with environmental effects.

An advanced trait requiring Genetic Ascension, offering strong benefits but severe upkeep.

Incubator pops receive a modest bonus on their capital worlds.

A small addition to the trait roster for exotic needs.

Allows empires to gain benefits from debris and salvage ships.

Noxious pops decrease the happiness of non-noxious pops while gaining happiness from them.

Boosts pop growth on industrialized worlds without starting with a special building.

New achievements added for Aquatics, Necroids, Lithoids, Plantoids, and Humanoids species.

A new section in the Outliner to list all megastructures within your territory, including ruined ones and Gateway Sites.

Loyal patrons of the Caravansary Caravan Coalition can now purchase unlimited Reliquaries directly for credits.

New Mouse Side Button Mode and camera zoom adjustments with Page Up and Page Down.

Various balance changes to existing relics, including new modifiers and effects.

Enhanced flavor and fewer pain points for relics, including new functionalities for several relics.

New toggle that increases AI strength on higher difficulty levels as the game progresses.

Three new achievements added to each previously released species pack.

Introducing a new Civilian difficulty setting that provides additional bonuses for new players.

New option for Crisis Type setting to spawn all crises sequentially, increasing in strength.

Players can now set Scaling Difficulty to Off, Mid Game, or Late Game, affecting AI bonuses.

Culture Workers will have output modifiers based on the Ethics of the empire, affecting various aspects like Amenities and Crime.

Culture Workers now belong to the Administrator category, benefiting from bonuses to Administrator output.

Sensorium/Simulation Sites now provide Evaluator jobs for hive-minds and machine intelligences, producing Unity and Amenities.

Culture Workers are being reintroduced as a Specialist job that produces Unity and Society Research.

Chronicle Drones provide Unity and Amenities output with additional Stability, now categorized under Evaluator jobs.

Passive increased from +15% Sublight Speed to +30% Sublight Speed and +20% weapon range.

Passive changed to +1 pop on every new colony and +20% energy weapon fire rate.

Active can now grant 1-3 rare resource deposits instead of 3-5.

Increased fleet size spawned by the Prethoryn Brood-Queen.

Active cost changed from 10000 minerals to 2000 minerals for gaining 1000 alloys.

Passive changed to Bombardment Stance and +20 Leader Lifespan, with active now providing 50% increased biology research.

Passive now allows the construction of 2 of each megastructure instead of 1.

Active now always levels your ruler up a level instead of granting a flat XP bonus.

Active now grants one of 4 random buffs lasting for 1 - 5 years instead of 1 year.

Increased passive bonus from +30 society research to +50% society research for the Prethoryn Brood-Queen.

The active decision for the Baol now takes 5 years to create a Gaia world.

Active now provides 10% more happiness and 10 stability to every planet.

Planetary automation will no longer seek to build gene clinics for synthetically-ascended empires.

Corrected the notification message for forced approval of a negotiated agreement.

New designation that removes 2 housing from Habitation Districts in exchange for adding 1 farmer job.

A new music track for Overlords will now play in the main menu.

Players can now access Automated Exploration and Automated Research from the beginning of the game.

New setting in Galaxy Setup allows players to disable L-Gates.

Construction ships can now automatically build Research and Mining Stations over appropriate deposits.

ETA is now correctly displayed in the fleet view.

Tooltips for Subjugation War Terms now clarify that they only apply to Vassals and Subsidiaries.

Experience gain for ships in battle has been increased from 1 to 5 per day.

Bulwark Battlewright aura now provides 0.25% hull regeneration per day.

The base unity output for telepaths has been doubled.

New event art images for Quantum Catapult and Hyper Relay.

Automated Exploration and Automated Research are now available from the start of the game rather than being tech-locked.

Ships now gain 5 experience per day in battle instead of 1.

Planetary automation will now clear blockers based on multiple conditions.

New Hydroponics Station designation for habitats that adds farmer jobs at the cost of housing.

Various changes including overlord restrictions on offensive wars and starting colonies for members.

AI will no longer stop all colonization during late game crises.

Construction ships now have an Automated Construction mode to build Research and Mining Stations over appropriate deposits.

Overlord Holding buildings and Branch Office buildings now support empire_limit.

Addition of new achievements related to species packs.

Planned experiments to improve fleet combat dynamics including roles for Destroyers and Cruisers.

Proposals for a balance pass on relics to narrow the gap between them, including buffs and nerfs.

Experiments on introducing new tradition trees gated behind various triggers.

Experimenting with multithreading and modifier calculations for late game improvements.

Improvements for accessibility options including mouse side button functionality and potential text-to-speech for events.

Showcased early sketches and concepts leading to the final design of the Salvager station.

Details on the texturing process using Adobe Painter and Designer to create the station's materials.

Process of creating a destroyed version of the Salvager station, including adjustments to the model and materials.

Description of the process from blockout to highpoly and lowpoly modeling for the Salvager station.

Overview of how the Salvager station is implemented in the game, including ship attachment mechanics.

Presentation of the final concept art for the Salvager station, including detailed drawings.

Detailed overview of the visual development and concept art process for the Salvager station from the Overlord expansion.

This was often undesirable as it may lead to running out of necrophytes.

Revolt Situations are disabled on them.

The revolting planet counts as the aggressor.

This change should increase their overall stability in the early game.

Revolt Situations will now only start if the planet is capable of succeeding the revolt.

AI is now more likely to accept harsher tithes/subsidies.

AI overlords and subjects will now be more likely to accept specialist subject types that disagree with their ethics.

Revolts can now only start after 8 years of unrest instead of 1.

This only affects English localization until the next patch.

Prevents specialist job creation for slave pops.

Now scales with the game year.

Legacy Human portraits have been re-added as an option in empire creation.

Can now activate even without resources available for planet automation.

The newest major expansion for Stellaris, Overlord, is now available.

Players can assign Vassal Specializations to subjects, including Bulwark, Prospectorium, and Scholarium.

Includes Shroudwalker, Salvager, and Mercenary Enclaves with unique functionalities.

New Origins include Imperial Fiefdom, Teachers of the Shroud, Slingshot to the Stars, Subterranean, and Progenitor Hive.

Construct three new Megastructures: Orbital Ring, Quantum Catapult, and Hyper Relay network.

New Megastructures include Hyper Relay, Quantum Catapult, and Orbital Rings with lower tech requirements.

Explore five unique Origins that open up more roleplay possibilities, including Imperial Fiefdom and Teachers of the Shroud.

Stellaris: Overlord will release on May 12th for USD 19.99/GBP 15.49/EUR 19.99.

Gain access to new mechanics to specialize your Vassals’ role within your Empire, including negotiating Vassal Contracts.

Holdings are buildings owned by the overlord on a Subject’s planet, affecting the subject's opinion.

Meet three new Enclaves offering unique abilities, including the Shroudwalker Enclave and the Mercenary Enclave.

A new Hive Mind origin that allows players to manage Offspring Vessels and gain unique bonuses.

Subjects now have customizable Vassalisation Contracts affecting various aspects of their relationship with Overlords.

New buildings called Holdings can be constructed on Subject planets, affecting resources and loyalty.

A new folder for defining custom actions that can be traded between empires has been introduced.

Overlords with the Environmentalist civic can build a Ranger Lodge to reduce consumer goods usage on subject planets.

A new feature that progresses in stages with different effects based on player choices.

Pops will now consider free jobs and housing better when deciding where to resettle.

Added new Human phenotypes, outfits, animations, and hairstyles for further customization.

Introduction of 72 new icons, 45 new backgrounds, and 50 new colors for customization.

Resource Deficits now gradually increase in strength and resolve based on monthly income.

New scripting language changes allow modders to define custom modifiers and improve event inheritance.

Expanded in-game localisations to include Korean and Japanese for better immersion.

New scripting fields allow for better control over AI acceptance of diplomatic actions.

AI will now use full fleets for military objectives and better handle fleet merging.

Enhanced automation settings for planets and sectors to improve player experience.

Synced localisation has been removed, allowing for better multiplayer compatibility and potential for translations.

New origin allowing players to build underground with unique traits and advantages.

AI will now propose resolutions more in line with their core beliefs and can withdraw or oppose their own resolutions.

Introduced a cooldown for AI votes on federation laws to prevent repetitive proposals.

Resolved issues where AI fleets would get stuck alternating between two orders indefinitely.

New settings UI for planet automation allowing players to toggle components on/off for individual planets.

AI will enter a state of war preparation, gathering fleets and moving them towards the target border before declaring war.

AI will aim to have full fleets as their smallest unit for military objectives and will actively try to merge fleets during peacetime.

AI will handle envoys more appropriately for federation and diplomatic actions.

Improvements made to automated migration, including higher scores for ideal worlds.

Hyper Relays are a new Tier 2 technology that speeds up travel across the galaxy.

Over seventy new flag emblems and forty-five new flag backgrounds added for customization.

Players can now nominate other empires to Custodianship if they meet the requirements.

AI Subjects of Player Empires now receive AI bonuses as if the difficulty level were one level lower.

The Unbidden can no longer spawn in pulsar systems due to star disabling their Dimensional Portal's shields.

Low Military Intel is now gained at 30 Intel instead of 40, and Medium Military Intel at 60 instead of 70.

Eleven new achievements have been added in the Overlord expansion.

Corporate subjects can now open branch offices in subjects of their shared overlord.

Successful Force Ideology wars with a corporate aggressor now result in the target empire having the Oligarchic authority.

Gateways and Hyper Relays can now be built in vassal space.

New origin that reduces distance penalty for building starbases in remote systems.

The Grasp the Void Ascension Perk now grants increased draw weight for FTL travel techs.

The Parliamentary System civic now allows factions to be generated much earlier in the game.

The Outliner now differentiates between unemployed pops that are migrating and those that are not.

Orbital Rings are a new Tier 3 Voidcraft Engineering technology that can be built around colonized habitable planets.

Each specialist empire can build unique holdings that provide various benefits to their overlord.

Quantum Catapults can hurl fleets across long distances but have accuracy issues over long ranges.

Two new resolution lines in the Galactic Community focusing on Suzerains and Sovereignty are introduced.

A new origin that grants civilizations the Latent Psionics trait and treats them as if they have the Mind over Matter Ascension Perk.

The Scholarium is a new specialist empire focused on scientific advancement, providing unique benefits to their overlord.

A monastic enclave that provides insights into the Shroud and offers knowledge about travel through it.

A friendly and pacifistic enclave focused on engineering, offering scrapping and refurbishing services.

A new specialist that provides strong defense benefits and relies on overlord subsidies for resources.

Start as a Specialist Empire subjugated by an Advanced AI Empire with gifts from the overlord.

New holdings that tax subject production and provide various resources and amenities.

New enclaves that can be founded by regular empires, offering security services and fleet rentals.

Defense Platforms receive faster build speed and increased range, fire rate, tracking, and hull points.

Stellaris: Overlord introduces the Imperial Fiefdom origin, adding new flavor to gameplay.

Prospectorium specializes in resource acquisition with a chance to discover caches of resources each year.

Added a summary screen tab for tracking subjects and their agreements in the Contacts panel.

Three types of Specialist Empires introduced: The Bulwark, The Prospectorium, and The Scholarium.

Names and details of five new Origins coming in Overlord were revealed.

Introduced various new holdings including Overlord Garrison and Recruitment Offices for spreading civic traits.

Expansion of the branch office system to include holdings on subjects' colonies, providing various benefits.

Significant changes to vassalization mechanics in the 3.4 'Cepheus' update, making subjugation more compelling.

Overlords and subjects can propose alterations to vassalization contracts, including integration and independent diplomacy.

Introduction of holdings related to specific civics or origins, enhancing gameplay diversity.

Loyalty becomes a currency between overlord and subject, affecting negotiations and vassal behavior.

Introduction of new vassal contract presets such as Vassal, Subsidiary, Tributary, Protectorate, and Bulwark.

Significant changes to vassalization, including customizable Vassalization Contracts and Specialist Vassals.

New megastructures to help counter threats and enhance civilization.

A new full expansion introducing features for empire management, vassalization mechanics, and megastructures.

Introduction of five new Origins, including one for Hive Empires and new enclaves.

Enhancements to make revolts feel less random and more impactful.

Deficits will now start a Situation that escalates based on resource balance.

Penalties for being in a deficit will start light and increase in severity.

A new system to tell stories about current affairs event chains in the game.

Plans to adapt slave revolts and AI uprisings into the Situations system.

New planet-based narratives will be added to enhance storytelling.

New consequences for bankruptcy, including downgrading buildings and fleet disbandment.

Localization issues affecting articles in French, Russian, and Brazilian Portuguese have been fixed.

Fixes a crash that would occur when attempting to apply a species template to a species with a different amount of traits than what is in the template.

Combat benefits added to enhance ECM and ECCM capabilities for empires focusing on Subterfuge.

Gaia Seeders can be built on planets of the same general climate type once terraforming technologies are acquired.

The Double Agents tradition will now provide one additional Envoy and increase Maximum Infiltration Level by 10.

Initial costs for Espionage Operations will switch to Influence instead of Energy Credits.

Fixed species template application trait add/remove checks being inverted.

Up to a 50% decrease in the time it takes per year at the start of the game due to various optimizations.

New system allowing players to improve core worlds by expending Unity, with multiple tiers of ascension.

A new civic for MegaCorp and Necroids Species Pack owners allowing construction of Posthumous Employment Centers.

Several systems that used to cost Influence are now paid in Unity, including planetary decisions and faction manipulation.

Changes to how Unity is generated and used, including removal of Edicts Cap and new costs for hiring leaders.

AI is better at managing jobs, dealing with bio-trophies, and scaling its economy into the late game.

Fixed issues with mod overwriting to ensure that modifiers function correctly when jobs and districts are altered.

Introduced complex_trigger_modifiers to allow more intricate trigger evaluations in scripts.

Created a new container to optimize script value calculations, reducing performance costs during runtime.

Updated error log messages to specify which object is being used during overwrites, reducing ambiguity.

Introduced significant improvements to the scripting system, including consolidation of weight fields and new mathematical operations.

Extended the feedback period for the 3.3 Unity Open Beta until February 7th.

Added 'script values' that allow for dynamic calculations based on defined keys, improving script efficiency.

AI now considers actual unemployed pops when creating jobs, improving job allocation.

Improved AI handling of rogue servitor civic and bio trophy management.

Updated AI tech selection priorities to favor resource production and mid-game scaling.

Updated job assignment process to reduce mass migrations and improve job stability.

Introduced scaling subplans for AI to adapt its economic strategy based on current resources.

AI manually selects planet designations based on economic goals rather than default settings.

Revised AI priorities for alloy spending to improve ship and starbase construction efficiency.

AI will now delete unnecessary buildings to optimize job and housing slots.

AI can now specialize planets by gradually replacing districts based on economic needs.

Authority bonuses have undergone changes due to the removal of certain systems.

The Edicts Cap system has been removed, introducing monthly Unity Upkeep for toggled Edicts.

All means of increasing Administrative Capacity have been removed, affecting gameplay differentiation.

Several systems that used to cost Influence are now paid in Unity, including Planetary Decisions.

Most Megastructures now cost Unity rather than Influence, with exceptions for travel-related structures.

Empire Sprawl penalties and generation values have been significantly changed.

The generic 'Administrator' job is renamed to 'Politicians', with changes to job categories.

Planetary Ascension Tiers allow players to improve core worlds by spending Unity, tied to Ascension Perks.

Ascending a planet costs Unity, affected by Sprawl and total Ascension Tiers across the Empire.

Leaders now cost Unity to hire instead of Energy, increasing the cost of hiring multiple leaders.

Some Civics that granted Unity bonuses from jobs have had their bonuses removed or modified.

The unity rework changes how Administrative Capacity is managed and introduces new mechanics for Unity production.

Players can improve core worlds by expending Unity, unlocking up to 10 Ascension Tiers for increased bonuses.

The 3.3 Unity Open Beta is now available for players to opt into and test new features.

Technocracy now grants +1 Research Option and doubles research expertise bonuses for scientists.

Various civics and authorities have undergone changes, including the removal of Sprawl bonuses from Capital worlds.

A new civic allowing construction of Posthumous Employment Centers and reanimation of Leviathans.

List of known issues including missing Unity costs for sacrifice edicts and unclear tooltips.

All means of increasing Administrative Capacity have been removed, modifying sprawl penalties.

Hiring leaders now costs Unity instead of Energy, with a small Unity Upkeep.

Authority bonuses have changed due to the removal of certain systems.

Toggled Edicts now have monthly Unity Upkeep modified by Empire Sprawl.

Reworking Unity to make it a meaningful resource and improve Spiritualist ethics.

New buildings that increase planetary Unity production based on Ascension Perks.

Several systems that used to cost Influence are now paid in Unity, including Planetary Decisions and Resettlement.

Most Megastructures now cost Unity rather than Influence, except for travel-related structures.

Bureaucrats, Priests, Managers, Synapse Drones, and Coordinators will be primary Unity sources; Culture Workers removed.

Changes will be available in a limited Open Beta for playtest and feedback.