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 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.

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.

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.