What changed in Stellaris in 2025

Introduced thermophile life and the Galactic Hyperthermia crisis.

Improved patch release cadence and hotfixing process after initial issues.

Expanded Psionic Ascension with new lore, mechanics, and a unique Shroud UI.

Introduced biological play with meat ships, genetic ascension improvements, and the Wilderness Origin.

Rebuilt Pops and Jobs into Pop Groups and Workforce for better future performance.

Ongoing plan to reset balance levels and gather player feedback.

+25% volcanic world habitability for machine climate preference traits to match their minimum habitability value on Volcanic worlds.

+25% volcanic world habitability for machine climate preference traits.

Fixed CTD due to race condition between UI and AI accessing base growth cache.

Most job efficiency modifiers have been reduced.

The Payback origin now gets the correct starting buildings as Materialist and Spiritualist.

Most stability bonuses have been reduced to one half to one third of their previous values.

Fixed random CTD with invalid ships.

Fixed some issues with machine empires, catalytic processing and alloy producing jobs.

Shows the 25% Minimum Habitability on Volcanic worlds for Mechanical and Machine pops.

Shows the 25% Minimum Habitability on Volcanic worlds for Mechanical and Machine pops.

Reduced most job-based sources of research, but also reduced tech costs by half.

Fixed stuck in combat when the defender refuses to actually do combat.

Changed stack allocation to heap in particle varied values to avoid CTD.

Fixed some issues with machine empires, catalytic processing and alloy producing jobs.

The trait Propaganda Machines now shows the correct modifier.

Increased power usage of Torpedoes and Energy Torpedoes on standard ships.

Various ethics production bonuses have been adjusted to job efficiency.

Volcanic Districts now improve tech weights.

Voidworm Troika designs can now be saved.

Preventing evasion to go negative from evasion against psionic modifier in combat calculation.

Fixed CTD due to race condition between UI and AI accessing base growth cache.

Higher tier Ship and Component costs and upkeep have generally been increased.

Ringworld construction and other binary/trinary restrictions correctly apply in binary or trinary hyperthermia systems.

Planet species caches are now stored in arrays instead of unordered sets or maps.

Fixed stuck in combat when the defender refuses to actually do combat.

Armor and Shields have been rebalanced, now higher tiers add a small amount of Armor or Shield Hardening.

Changed stack allocation to heap in particle varied values to avoid CTD.

Replaced minor additional food upkeep for hive mind unity boosting buildings with extra Alloy upkeep.

When transferring planets under colonization after a war is on, if the colonizing species isn't allowed to colonize the colony is destroyed.

Replaced Food output for some specimens with one quarter as Alloy output bonus for Infernals.

Naval Capacity usage has changed significantly for various ship classes.

Planetary Ascension now increases the Designation effect by 10% per tier instead of 25%.

OOS fix: Planet species caches are now stored in arrays instead of unordered sets or maps.

Colony Designations now universally add Job Efficiency to their appropriate Jobs.

Fixed infernal Alloy upkeep for Voidling, purging, and non-sapient pops.

Preventing evasion to go negative from evasion against psionic modifier in combat calculation.

The trait Propaganda Machines now shows the correct modifier.

Voidworm Troikas are no longer created without upgrades when three large voidworms combine.

The tooltip for Permanent Employment Civic's Reassigners say they use 'Food (or equivalent)', implying they use Alloys when you are Thermophile.

Volcanic Districts now improve tech weights.

The Payback origin now get the correct starting buildings as Materialist and Spiritualist.

Slightly lower Unity and Research rewards for several events in the Red Giant and Cosmic Dawn Origins.

When transferring planets under colonization after a war, if the colonizing species isn't allowed to colonize, the colony is destroyed.

Rebalanced Naval Capacity techs.

Fixing abduction code setting the species correctly when checking if species can live on planet.

Fixed random CTD with invalid ships.

Ringworld construction and other binary/trinary restrictions now correctly apply in binary or trinary hyperthermia systems.

Fixed abduction code setting the species correctly when checking if species can live on planet.

Optimized string allocation in ship component modifier processing.

Replaced Food output for some specimens with one quarter as Alloy output bonus for Infernals.

The tooltip for Permanent Employment Civic's Reassigners now correctly states they use 'Food (or equivalent)'.

Slightly lower Unity and Research rewards for several events in the Red Giant and Cosmic Dawn Origins.

Fixed leaders losing ascension related traits after species modification in some cases.

Optimized string allocation in ship component modifier processing.

The Dimensional Fleet Astral Action has been adjusted to the reduced general fleet sizes.

Replaced minor additional food upkeep for hive mind unity boosting buildings with extra Alloy upkeep.

Fixed leaders losing ascension related traits after species modification in some cases.

Voidworm Troika designs can be saved.

Voidworm Troikas are no longer created without upgrades when three large voidworms combine.

Fixed infernal Alloy upkeep for Voidling, purging, and non-sapient pops.

Removed the 'Rising Unemployment' event chain.

All living standards now include information for Slaves.

Many sources of Empire Size modifiers have been reduced.

Fixed crash in strike craft being damaged by non existing/dead fleet.

Fixed failure to read from shader cache resulting in crash.

Fixed object lifetime issue from scope used by on_resolution_failed leading to undefined behavior.

Replaced abuse of stack memory with heap allocated in the Localization system to avoid random crashing on some computers.

Fixed CTD that could happen when a science ship researched a special project.

Introducing the Cosmic Dawn and Red Giant origins, each with unique gameplay mechanics.

New civics including Fire Cult, Scorched World Heralds, and others that enhance gameplay.

The Infernals Species Pack is now available, featuring new gameplay mechanics and content.

A new player crisis path allowing players to harness energy from stars and terraform planets.

New mechanics for Volcanic Worlds, including new district types and habitability preferences.

Includes 10 new Infernal species portraits and unique traits for new species.

New shipset and diplomatic room themed around the Infernals.

Slight price variations anticipated due to changes in Dynamic Bundle pricing calculations.

All content from Season 09 will be added to the Ultimate Bundle after January 16, 2026.

A Last Chance Bundle will be available with a 22% discount for players to acquire missed content from Season 09.

The Infernals Species Pack is set to be released, concluding Season 09.

Shift from Upkeep reductions to Job Efficiency to prevent stacking issues.

The Infernals Species Pack will be released on November 25th.

A new origin where the Red Giant in the home system undergoes rapid growth, presenting players with choices on how to handle the situation.

Frigates have been buffed again, with ongoing data collection on the impact of these changes.

A new crisis path allowing players to manipulate stellar phenomena, including the creation of Ember Cruisers and Battleships.

Changes to modifier application and threading as a foundation for future performance improvements.

The Retirement Home achievement is once again achievable.

Corrected missing full stops at the end of the Great Awakening tooltip.

Improved handling of mechromancy.

The Hard Reset species traits will once again be localized.

The Opus core world for the Hard Reset origin is now size 25.

The Minor Artifact Decision 'Initiate Performance Competition' will once again be providing working modifiers.

Added missing upkeep modifier from Tankbound to habitat rural districts.

The Contingency should be able to purge pops again and should also properly gain control of them when they finish the purging.

The Divine Sovereign civic is now properly removed, should the chosen leader of an empire die.

Fixed a localization issue in the Rogue Agent event chain.

Restored the ending of the Fleet Maneuver event chain.

Fixed the Nivlac trait not displaying an icon, it now shares its icon with the Extremely Adaptive trait.

AI exterminator empires with the chosen civic will not pick the Cradle of Souls as their patron.

Indentured Servitude and Battle Thralls no longer make any mention of soldier jobs as they are worker jobs.

Updated the outcomes of the Blue Lotus event chain.

Alloy megaforges now correctly have a volatile motes cost and upkeep.

Sabotaging Starbases should no longer generate ethics options that mention your target's ethic.

Fixed being able to take the Hegemon origin while being Egalitarian.

Fixed OOS in pop growth system.

Implemented some slavery, presapient, and robot category fixes discovered by fs_nanamedou.

first_contact.15 will no longer sometimes try to tell you about their star instead.

Added the soft_traits parameter to origins for traits the player should start with but can remove without making their government invalid.

Fixed issues with converting between the Cyberization Standards policies.

Updated ringworld colony designations to follow the new standards.

Fixed a duplicated cost issue in the Behemoth action tooltips.

set_hostile effect should now properly set relation both ways.

Changed the Cradle of Souls chosen trait to give +30%/+15% Political Power as Planet / Sector governor instead of +750%/+500%.

Hard Reset origin and Tankbound civic are now incompatible due to mutually exclusive mechanics.

Fixed checks regarding subject-overlord relations on if you are a legal criminal or not.

Updated leader trait handling after species modification.

Fixed an issue where your authority wouldn't change to Imperial after appointing your ruler as Divine Sovereign.

Cyberization pop conversion the situation now takes into account your Cyberization Standards policy.

The relic world specialization being blocked by the collapsed spire will no longer have repeat lines in it.

Many fixes related to Cybernetic Ascension.

Fixed scope errors in species assimilation.

Players now take ownership of claimed DSCs after war finishes.

Fixed Psionic Avatars sometimes spawning multiple times.

The Prethoryn should once again turn worlds into Infested worlds once they have finished purging the pops on it.

Fixed modifier removal being displayed twice in Order Restored event acceptance tooltip.

The Extradimensional Experimentation planetary decision now has the Data-Driven Theorem Facility increase physicist output and give them zro upkeep.

Cybernetic Creed empires with Civil Education no longer start with a massive consumer goods deficit.

Added the Visionary job swap for politicians, which combines Science Directors and Merchants.

Empires are no longer required to feed any pre-sapients they find in the galaxy.

The Cybernetic and Cyber Commando traits now allow species to live on machine worlds, even outside of a driven assimilator.

The Olonnais planet now properly becomes colonizable after completing the related special project.

Fixed missing species name in event title and descript when awakening psionic abilities.

Fixed a wide range of the galaxy's species going on a hunger strike.

Fixed handling of leader species when converting between limited and not limited cyberization policies.

Fixed the cyberization situation claiming you needed to build an augmentation center even if you had built one.

Added missing Production Overseers jobs to multiple rural districts for Tankbound empires.

Blind trait now properly displays its workforce efficiency modifier in the trait tooltip.

Fixed species assimilation not handling robots for synthetically ascended organics.

Improved Neural Chip conversion.

The Contingency should be able to purge pops again and gain control of them after purging.

The Divine Sovereign civic is now properly removed if the chosen leader of an empire dies.

Fixed being able to take the Hegemon origin while being Egalitarian.

Improved handling of mechromancy.

Fixed modifier removal being displayed twice in Order Restored event acceptance tooltip.

The Prethoryn should once again turn worlds into Infested worlds after purging the pops.

Players now take ownership of claimed DSCs after war finishes.

Alloy megaforges now correctly have a volatile motes cost and upkeep.

Improved Neural Chip conversion.

Changed the Cradle of Souls chosen trait to give +30%/+15% Political Power as Planet/Sector governor instead of +750%/+500%.

Implemented fixes for slavery, presapient, and robot categories to correct job loops and processing issues.

Updated leader trait handling after species modification.

Fixed a duplicated cost issue in the Behemoth action tooltips.

Fixed out-of-sync issues in the pop growth system.

Hard Reset origin and Tankbound civic are now incompatible due to mutually exclusive mechanics.

Restored the ending of the Fleet Maneuver event chain.

Sabotaging Starbases should no longer generate ethics options that mention your target's ethic.

first_contact.15 event will no longer sometimes incorrectly inform about their star instead of their homeworld.

Empires are no longer required to feed any pre-sapients they find in the galaxy.

Cybernetic and Cyber Commando traits now allow species to live on machine worlds, even outside of a driven assimilator.

Fixed the Nivlac trait not displaying an icon, it now shares its icon with the Extremely Adaptive trait.

set_hostile effect should now properly set relation both ways.

Fixed an issue where your authority wouldn't change to Imperial after appointing your ruler as Divine Sovereign.

Added the soft_traits parameter to origins for traits the player should start with but can remove without making their government invalid.

Updated the outcomes of the Blue Lotus event chain.

Blind trait now properly displays its workforce efficiency modifier in the trait tooltip.

The Minor Artifact Decision 'Initiate Performance Competition' will once again provide working modifiers.

Cybernetic Creed empires with Civil Education no longer start with a massive consumer goods deficit.

Corrected missing full stops at the end of the Great Awakening tooltip.

The Opus core world for the Hard Reset origin is now size 25.

Updated ringworld colony designations to follow the new standards.

Fixed a wide range of the galaxy's species going on a hunger strike.

The Retirement Home achievement is once again achievable.

The Hard Reset species traits will once again be localized.

Fixed issues with converting between the Cyberization Standards policies.

Now has the Data-Driven Theorem Facility increase physicist output and give them zro upkeep.

Added missing upkeep modifier from Tankbound to habitat rural districts.

Fixed checks regarding subject-overlord relations on if you are a legal criminal or not.

Fixed scope errors in species assimilation.

Tooltip now mentions the need to explore the Crashed Slaver Ship dig site before unlocking City District Specializations.

Fixed handling of leader species when converting between limited and not limited cyberization policies.

Fixed missing species name in event title and description when awakening psionic abilities.

Many fixes related to Cybernetic Ascension, with contributions from modder FirePrince.

The relic world specialization being blocked by the collapsed spire will no longer have repeat lines.

Fixed species assimilation not handling robots for synthetically ascended organics.

The Olonnais planet now properly becomes colonizable after completing the related special project.

Added missing Production Overseers jobs to multiple rural districts for Tankbound empires.

Fixed a localization issue in the Rogue Agent event chain.

Cyberization pop conversion now takes into account your Cyberization Standards policy.

Fixed Psionic Avatars sometimes spawning multiple times.

AI exterminator empires with the chosen civic will not pick the Cradle of Souls as their patron.

Added a job swap that combines Science Directors and Merchants.

Fixed the cyberization situation claiming you needed to build an augmentation center even if you had built one.

The Cybernetic and Cyber Commando traits now allow species to live on machine worlds, even outside of a driven assimilator.

The Extradimensional Experimentation planetary decision now has the Data-Driven Theorem Facility increase physicist output and give them zro upkeep.

Many fixes related to Cybernetic Ascension, including improved handling of leader species and neural chip conversion.

Changed the Cradle of Souls chosen trait to give +30%/+15% Political Power as Planet / Sector governor instead of +750%/+500%.

Cybernetic Creed empires with Civil Education no longer start with a massive consumer goods deficit.

Added the soft_traits parameter to origins for traits the player should start with but can remove without making their government invalid.

Updated leader trait handling after species modification.

Fixed scope errors in species assimilation and issues with converting between cyberization policies.

New species evolved tissues of metallic alloys to thrive on hot planets, introducing the Thermophilic trait.

New planet class that allows colonization of Molten Worlds with sufficient solid land.

Test of changes to how modifiers are applied, may have small hardware-dependent performance effects.

Fixed checks regarding subject-overlord relations on if you are a legal criminal or not.

The Opus core world for the Hard Reset origin is now size 25.

Fixed missing species name in event title and description when awakening psionic abilities.

Empires are no longer required to feed any pre-sapients they find in the galaxy.

The Divine Sovereign civic is now properly removed, should the chosen leader of an empire die.

Corrected missing full stops at the end of the Great Awakening tooltip.

Updated leader trait handling after species modification.

Fixed checks regarding subject-overlord relations on if you are a legal criminal or not.

The Hard Reset species traits will once again be localized.

The Extradimensional Experimentation planetary decision now has the Data-Driven Theorem Facility increase physicist output and give them zro upkeep.

Fixed the cyberization situation claiming you needed to build an augmentation center even if you had built one.

Fixed handling of leader species when converting between limited and not limited cyberization policies.

Updated the Broken Shackles Origin Tooltip to mention that you need to explore the Crashed Slaver Ship dig site before unlocking City District Specializations.

Cyberization pop conversion now takes into account your Cyberization Standards policy.

Added missing Production Overseers jobs to multiple rural districts for Tankbound empires.

Changed the Cradle of Souls chosen trait to give +30%/+15% Political Power as Planet / Sector governor instead of +750%/+500%.

Fixed issues with converting between the Cyberization Standards policies.

The relic world specialization being blocked by the collapsed spire will no longer have repeat lines in it.

The Contingency should be able to purge pops again and should also properly gain control of them when they finish the purging.

Fixed the Nivlac trait not displaying an icon, it now shares its icon with the Extremely Adaptive trait.

Improved handling of mechromancy.

The Cybernetic and Cyber Commando traits now allow species to live on machine worlds, even outside of a driven assimilator.

Added missing upkeep modifier from Tankbound to habitat rural districts.

first_contact.15 will no longer sometimes try to tell you about their star instead.

Added the soft_traits parameter to origins for traits the player should start with but can remove without making their government invalid.

Fixed OOS in pop growth system.

Cybernetic Creed empires with Civil Education no longer start with a massive consumer goods deficit.

The Opus core world for the Hard Reset origin is now size 25.

Full overhaul of the modifier dependency system included, originally expected for the 4.2 Open Beta.

Many fixes related to Cybernetic Ascension.

The Retirement Home achievement is once again achievable.

Hard Reset origin and Tankbound civic are now incompatible due to mutually exclusive mechanics.

Added the Visionary job swap for politicians, which combines Science Directors and Merchants.

The Prethoryn should once again turn worlds into Infested worlds once they have finished purging the pops on it.

Fixed modifier removal being displayed twice in Order Restored event acceptance tooltip.

The Minor Artifact Decision 'Initiate Performance Competition' will once again be providing working modifiers.

Improved Neural Chip conversion.

Alloy megaforges now correctly have a volatile motes cost and upkeep.

Fixed a wide range of the galaxy's species going on a hunger strike.

Sabotaging Starbases should no longer generate ethics options that mention your target's ethic.

Restored the ending of the Fleet Maneuver event chain.

Fixed scope errors in species assimilation.

Fixed being able to take the Hegemon origin while being Egalitarian.

Fixed species assimilation not handling robots for synthetically ascended organics.

Fixed an issue where your authority wouldn't change to Imperial after appointing your ruler as Divine Sovereign.

Updated ringworld colony designations to follow the new standards.

AI exterminator empires with the chosen civic will not pick the Cradle of Souls as their patron.

Addition of 10 new infernal species portraits and an infernal shipset.

Addition of the Galactic Hyperthermia crisis path.

New mechanics for volcanic planets and associated habitability preferences.

Announcement of the Infernals Species Pack set to release on November 25th.

Introduction of two new origins: Cosmic Dawn and Red Giant.

Introduction of four new civics: Fire Cult, Scorched World Heralds, Galvanic Empire, and Planet Forgers.

New infernal diplomatic room, city set, advisor, and flag emblems.

Introduction of thermophile mechanics and new infernal species traits.

Overview of the texturing process used for the new ship models.

Detailed explanation of the modeling process for new shipsets.

New portraits linked to a new Civic introduced in Shadows of the Shroud.

Introduction of new 3D shipsets for Mindwarden and Psionic factions.

Unique psionic portraits prepared with special 'Ascended' versions.

No longer displays string ID.

No longer removes buildings in rural districts.

Will no longer attempt to create pops on stars.

Fixed issue that caused uncapped districts to be destroyed on the monthly tick.

Now properly blocks Psionic Ascension.

Can be recruited as Assault Armies or Psionic Armies.

Fixed issue with building the same district zone specialization.

AI is now less likely to bankrupt itself through the use of Eternal Vigilance.

Now keeps two extra saves at 2275 and 2325.

Clarifies Psionic Assimilation living standard.

Keeps additional saves at specific intervals until 2600.01.01.

Fixed crash that occurred when starting to explore an astral rift.

Made their functionality part of the base type.

Now shows the farming district at game start.

No longer removes job output as governor; adds trust cap as councilor.

No longer requires EXACTLY 25k budding pops.

Now applies correctly.

No longer apply to fleets.

Distributed Design Center and Metallurgical Research Lab now give correct bonuses.

Prevents clogging by merging with existing fleets.

No longer have increased costs and upkeep on ringworlds.

Clarifies when the building will not automate certain jobs.

Fixed crash when it cannot create a relation between countries.

Now provide workforce efficiency bonuses instead of failing to apply production bonuses.

Now add Production Overseers jobs.

May no longer take Synthetic Evolution ascension perk if Cybernetically ascending.

Distributed Design Center and Metallurgical Research Lab buildings now correctly give additional bonuses on ringworlds.

Radiotrophic pop upkeep now applies.

Removed the duplicate uncapped district types and made their functionality part of the base type.

Disciple of the Cradle leader trait no longer removes job output as governor and now adds trust cap as councilor.

The Council Cleanup event will no longer attempt to create pops on stars.

Shroud-Forged pops can now be recruited as Assault Armies or Psionic Armies.

Adds tooltips to Automation Building for Tankbound when the Building will not automate certain jobs.

Terraforming a planet into a machine or hive world no longer removes buildings in the rural districts.

Added the -incrementalsaves command line parameter which keeps additional saves at specified intervals.

Fixed being able to build the same district zone specialization without closing the planet view.

Planet governor skill modifiers no longer apply to fleets now.

The overnight command now keeps two extra saves, at 2275 and 2325.

Teeth of the Eater fleets now move to merge with already existing ones on spawn, to prevent clogging.

Fixed default zone showing up in Broken Shackles planet UI.

Fixed CTD in set_hostile effect, on MacOS while highlighting demographics pie charts, and when starting to explore an astral rift.

Symbiosis living standard tooltip no longer displays string ID.

Fixed Ocean Paradise starts not showing the farming district at game start due to a mismatch between capped and uncapped districts for that origin.

Added tooltips to the Great Awakening tradition to clarify Psionic Assimilation living standard.

Alloy Nano-Plants and Civilian Repli-Complexes no longer have increased costs and upkeep on ringworlds.

Going for the Cybernetic ascension as a Hive-Mind now properly blocks the Psionic Ascension.

Hard Reset Empires that have started to Cybernetically ascend may no longer take the Synthetic Evolution ascension perk, and vice versa.

Ecumenopolis Urban Districts now add Production Overseers jobs.

Now shows the proper leader tier frame again in the UI.

Now also checks the Shroud-DLC-specific tree.

Now only gain +3 unity per 100 jobs if a sizeable percentage of population is sacrificed.

Now displays integer amounts instead of floats.

Allows cancellation of the abolish decision before it happens.

Now give -50% fire rate to Psionic Weapons in their system.

Makes unemployed slaves show up properly and enslavement of specialists and rulers work better.

Allows robo-modding without removing any traits.

When no authority was available for a government.

When they die.

Now costs 2500 alloys to remove.

Allows cancellation of the abolish decision if selected by accident.

From the summary screen when editing a user empire.

Now give -50% fire rate to Psionic Weapons in their system.

Instead of floats.

Now only gain +3 unity per 100 jobs if a sizeable percentage of population is sacrificed.

No longer start with a deficit.

If you have both Shadows of the Shroud and First Contact.

For the Holy Covenant federation type.

Makes unemployed slaves show up properly and enslavement of specialists and rulers work better.

A dedicated subteam from the Custodians exists that is exclusively focusing on performance.

Invalid armies were removed from savefiles after planet occupation issues.

Made Natural Design mutually exclusive with Shroud Civic and Origin combinations that would prevent ascension.

Death Cult sacrifices now require at least 100 Mortal Initiates.

Raiding stance will abduct Pre-FTL pops again.

Resolved a crash that could occur in the planet view demographics tab.

Resolved a crash that could occur in the Shroud view.

Teeth of the Eater no longer use naval capacity when merged into fleets.

Fixed an issue where allied armies were being removed from planets not in combat.

Resolved an issue where default leader tiers were not being loaded properly from a savegame, causing Psionic traits to be lost.

Secondary empire color is now used for country borders.

Colonist jobs are now available for Tankbound species.

The reduction in planetary district capacity by deposits granted by the Composer of Strands is negated if you have a covenant with them or are forging your own path.

Fixed an issue where leaders were not gaining Psionic traits when completing Psionic ascension.

The tankbound Toxoid portrait now counts as potentially having a big brain.

Resolved an issue where ground battles were finishing instantly.

Death Cult sacrifices are now available at the start of the game again.

Added checks for potentials before country initialization to prevent early patron relations issues.

Addressed a rare crash to desktop when interacting with the precursor selector in the galaxy settings.

Resource Consolidation and Void Dwellers now start with energy and mining districts again.

Implemented a technical safeguard to prevent crashes even with incorrect script.

Resolved an issue where Machine Intelligences were forced to have the Shroud-Forged origin if The Machine Age was not owned, causing a CTD.

Psionic Ascension now includes an Ascension Situation that explores its impact on your Empire.

The Shadows of the Shroud expansion is coming to Stellaris alongside the 4.1 ‘Lyra’ update on September 22nd.

Prioritization issue fixed for breeding adults over babies.

Includes an Ascension Path situation, tradition tree overhaul, and new advanced governments.

New civics include Chosen, Entropy Drinkers, Corporate Vampires, and more.

New traits and portraits reflecting the Psionic potential of species.

Fixed various scripted localization performance issues related to Paragons.

Includes new advisor, music tracks, and more.

Includes new music tracks and a voice advisor.

Three new origins introduced, including unique gameplay mechanics for each.

New civics include Entropy Drinkers, Secret Societies, and more.

More events added when delving into the Shroud.

Includes Deeds, Accords, Callings, and Covenants.

New Civics include Chosen, Entropy Drinkers, Secret Societies, and more.

Additional anomalies and events unrelated to the Shroud.

Now gives 1 miner per 25 pops instead of 1 per 4 pops.

The Chosen can no longer be declared the most delicious aliens.

Mindwarden Enclave & Shroud Seals.

New Origins: Endbringers, Mindwardens, and Shroud-Forged.

New mechanics for Psionic Auras and Seals that affect gameplay.

Completing the Psionic Tradition Tree unlocks the Psionic Ascension path.

Expanded content for new and old patrons in the Shroud.

Composed by Andreas Waldetoft.

Significant improvements based on player feedback.

Two new shipsets introduced for players.

Includes Deeds, Accords, Callings, and Covenants.

Track exploration of the Shroud and influence spiritual travels.

Encounter new events and gain 4 new Psionic technologies for ship components.

An advanced situation culminating in new Psionic government forms.

An enhanced situation culminating in advanced Psionic government forms.

The second installment of Stellaris: Season 09, Shadows of the Shroud, is now available.

The Shadows of the Shroud DLC will be released on September 22nd.

Now provides 0.5 alloys and 0.5 engineering research per 100 miners.

Includes a new Psionic Diplomatic Room and City Set.

AI will now build defensive platforms in orbit of deep space citadels.

New shipsets: Mindwarden and Psionic.

These empires can now Psionically ascend.

Introducing Shroud-Forged, Mindwardens, and Endbringers origins.

New traits and portraits reflecting Psionic potential.

Entropy Drinkers civics enable the transfer of life energy from the populace to the Empire's leaders.

Proxy Wars allow empires to incite conflict between other civilizations via the Diplomacy menu, requiring high Trust or Infiltration.

Secret Societies civics grant earlier access to Proxy Wars and introduce covert actors who influence galactic affairs.

Final Shadows of the Shroud stream showcasing the Endbringers will be held today.

The Endbringers are a challenging and doomed origin with a unique gameplay mechanic involving paranoia and a shrouded world.

Shadows of the Shroud and the 4.1.0 ‘Vela’ update will be released on September 22nd, included as part of Stellaris: Season 09.

A new organization providing services and technology to counteract psionic practices.

New ship designs featuring triangles and sharp edges.

A new origin allowing players to proactively deal with otherworldly menaces.

A new civic that automates rural jobs for pops in protective vats.

A new origin exploring a gestalt machine intelligence influenced by the Shroud.

New playable shipset, the Psionic shipset, introduced in Shadows of the Shroud.

New technology allowing empires to emit Psionic Auras for passive benefits and hindrance to enemies.

Eight Minor Patrons introduced, each with unique characteristics and powers.

Four Major Patrons introduced: Instrument of Desire, Composer of Strands, Eater of Worlds, and Cradle of Souls.

Cevantian Sovereignty gains a third civic, allowing focus on a branch of research with potential Test Subject losses.

Players must establish a Psi Corps to continue developing psionic potential.

Delving into the Shroud now has a five year cooldown with no material cost.

Gestalt Machine Empires or Shroud-Forged empires require one extra Ascension Perk to interact with the Shroud unless they have a Chosen civic.

Players can now improve relations with Shroud entities through envoys and gain passive effects from Psionic Accords.

A new set of civics highlighting civilizations that rely on predictions and numerology is now available.

Players can now select the Mind Over Matter Ascension Perk as their third Ascension Perk.

Fixed multiple broken text icons in non-English languages.

Damn the Consequences now explains what it means to damn the consequences.

Fixed Agrarian Villages disappearing on wet worlds for non-angler empires.

Fixed necrophage purge sometimes not generating pops.

Fixed Planet view job types tooltips being wildly incorrect.

Fixed Necrophage secondary species refusing to work any Worker jobs on game start.

Head of Education can now correctly be filled by both Scientists and Officials.

Fixed an issue that caused the Distribute Luxury Resources decision cost to cap out very early.

Fix to a relatively common crash related to the toast notification manager.

Fixed an issue with job assignment not being able to fill all jobs on a planet properly, particularly for Virtuality.

Shadows of the Shroud is a Major Expansion completing the 'Arc of Ascension' trilogy with a remastering of Psionic Ascension.

Auto-modding traits will now scale to 100% efficiency even if a pop group is assigned to multiple jobs.

Several space fauna weapons are now correctly tagged as space fauna weapons.

Fixed Corporate angler councilors being a tenth as powerful as they should have been.

Effects that create a pop group will now correctly generate a tooltip entry.

Completing the Clone Potential special project will no longer block Clone Army empires from undertaking non-Cloning ascension paths.

Prethoryn Scourge now purges pops on planets they occupy.

Fixed automation building not having upkeep, or being able to build two in a single district under some circumstances.

Jobs that require non-slaves should now actually enforce that limitation.

Fixed being unable to fire the Devolution Beam.

Fixes some country map colors being white upon loading of the savegame.

Ion Cannon reactors now have more power output, reducing the likelihood of running out of power for the main armament.

Capturing Tiyanki in your Gravity Snare will no longer upset the galactic community.

Resolved a job assignment error that was affecting production and migration features.

Updated build may resolve crashing issues encountered by players.

Jobs for Wilderness are now properly represented, allowing customization of job sliders.

Arc Furnace no longer decreases Mineral output as it increases Alloy output.

Trade buildings should no longer self-destruct.

Fixed calculation causing incorrect removal of buildings.

All Wilderness jobs are now automatically worked without requiring biomass.

Fixed achievement checking for pre-BioGenesis genetic ascension.

Substantially increased the base Command Limit of fleets.

Fixed constant reassignment of slaves and never enslaving workers.

Strategic resource maximum for invalid countries is now calculated as zero.

Holo-Museums now swap Entertainers to Curators, producing Unity and Amenities.

Unlocks research policies to increase draw weight for technology categories.

Tooltips now display a better source than 'From Buildings'.

Updated broadside stingers to follow the correct slot equivalency for weapon slots.

Grown pops now spawn in a default stratum and job instead of being unemployed.

New policies to reduce the chance of drawing dangerous technologies.

Planetary Automation no longer actively tries to keep some civilians around.

Fixed building limit calculation causing incorrect removal of buildings.

Grown pops are now added directly to Civilians, Maintenance Drones, or Unemployed Slaves, preventing overspecialization.

Amenities have been rebalanced, with housing buildings no longer being the optimal choice.

Fixed the achievement checking for pre-BioGenesis genetic ascension.

Optimizations to combat targeting and ship upkeep to address mid to late-game performance issues.

All Wilderness jobs are now automatically worked by your primary species without requiring biomass assignment.

Fixed Slaver Guilds constantly reassigning slaves and never enslaving workers.

Changed the outliner to show planets with a large number of Civilians or Unemployed pops.

Command limits on fleets have been generally increased to reduce the number of fleets in the end-game.

Strategic Resource production has been significantly decreased with new District Specializations added.

AI should no longer stall during certain points of its development and will continue scaling its growth through the endgame.

Refactored Restrictions added to the Ethical Guideline Refactoring GalCom resolution.

Stasis Wardens no longer scale their own or Civilian workforce into infinity.

Artisan Drones now have a food upkeep instead of a mineral one if you have a Catalytic Processing Civic.

Fixed situation alerts showing the wrong severity based on current stage.

Fixed Pirate Events not spawning pirates.

Added alert settings to the settings menu.

Pops resettled to the Synaptic Lathe should no longer retain incorrect beliefs.

Improved the logic that checks for hidden Cutholoids.

Reactor Boosters now give a percentage boost to reactor output.

Fixed cases in which pops that should be bio-trophies weren't being pampered correctly.

Updated the Chronicle Drones production tooltip to reflect that they no longer produce amenities.

Fixed Buildings modifiers not being calculated at game start.

Civilians will now be properly used in the Lathe.

Fixed crash when using the 'Alerts.ShowAll' console command.

Fixes OOS due to ship construction time calculated to 0 on client but correct on server.

District specializations for strategic resources and special features introduced.

Continued improvements to AI economic plans.

Dramatically increased the weight for Offspring Drones.

Various trade policies have been rebalanced for regular empires.

Later growth stages of biological ships now have an inherent reactor output percentage boost.

The Lethal Ecosphere blocker will no longer require a technology to clear.

Fixed OOS with ship positions due to combat.

Added volatile mote cost and upkeep for alloy reclamation plant.

Fixed the Housing tooltip not correctly showing district modifiers.

Wilderness empires now have a fallback if their capital buildings are deleted.

Leviathan Parades should now have the name of the beastie you killed in the title again.

Fleets that are fighting are no longer eligible for special project requirements.

Assorted planetary features now apply to miners or farmers respectively.

The Spare Organs species trait will no longer interfere with Envoy assignment.

New policies allow reduction of chances for drawing dangerous technologies.

Fixed the space time anomaly saying it converted physicists into dimensional researchers.

Fixed undefined behavior in planetary construction potentially leading to CTDS and OOS.

These traits now provide job efficiency modifiers for elite strata and bio-trophy jobs.

Technological Ascendancy AP now unlocks research policies to increase draw weight for technology categories.

Purging now properly disables regular pop upkeep.

Over 15 new player crisis paths available for exploration.

Winners will be revealed on August 25th, with prizes for the top 3 modders.

Community voting for the top five player crisis paths closes on August 22nd.

A crisis path aiming to create a perfect idyllic utopia without conquering the galaxy.

A crisis path focused on terraforming planets into Bloom Worlds for the player's benefit.

A journey across Branchial Space with themes of time travel and rewriting history, inspired by recent physics theories.

A crisis path revolving around the Shroud and the concept of shroud cults wanting to summon their gods.

A diplomatic focused crisis aiming to take over the galaxy, inspired by the Galactic Empire and the Imperium of Man.

15 to 20 new modded player crisis paths will be available for testing and release on July 29th.

A crisis path that allows access to extreme mining techniques as players progress.

Hovering a district now shows the scaled and separated modifiers.

AIs now have distinct advanced and endgame economic plans that focus largely on Research, Naval Capacity, and shipbuilding.

The AI is less enthusiastic about building Storm related buildings.

Continued improving the AI's economic plans to be more effective.

Fixed certain events not correctly creating buildings when initializing planets or otherwise changing AI controlled worlds.

Open Beta Only: Spy Networks should once again grow properly.

Fixed Neural Chips in the Synaptic Lathe not functioning properly.

Planetary Logistic Deficits slider should now correctly apply.

Fixes wilderness biomass not being updated when loading an older savegame.

Erudite trait now correctly applies to Leaders when gained through Adaptive Evolution.

The num_empires trigger now correctly counts the number of empires instead of the number of fallen empires.

Substantially increased the base Command Limit of fleets and most sources of Command Limit.

Pop Strata with no possible unemployment hide the Unemployment values in collapsed planet jobs view.

The AI will no longer constantly be starting and canceling Arc Furnaces and Dyson Swarms.

Added on_queued, on_unqueued, on_built effects for district specializations.

It is now possible to override the Icon for the dynamically generated modifiers by adding a _icon entry in the localization.

Holo-Museums acquired from the Curator enclave now swap Entertainers to Curators and can be constructed in research and resort specializations.

Fixed a bug where the AI would order fleets to follow one another, resulting in no fleet movement at all.

Add displace_pop_amount effect that simply raises on_pop_displaced.

If you change your civics but not your authority the Ruler Chips modifiers should no longer reset.

Strategic resource maximum for invalid countries is now calculated as zero.

Fixed edge cases where shipyards could have ships from the old owner in the construction queue after being taken over.

The hive Sensorium building no longer mentions Evaluators.

Pop Count of Pop Group in the Ressettlement Window does not overlap when it has more than 4 digits.

Galactic Curator civics also swap Entertainers to Curators.

Habitability and Dig site no longer overlap each other in the Planet UI.

New icon for strange wormhole.

Improved Nascent Stage Logic by roughly 75%.

The effects of the Galactic Curator civic councilors now apply to Entertainers.

Centered the army icons to be in the middle on background.

Fixed Integrated Preservation still giving modifiers to Evaluator jobs.

Unrest.4200 will no longer generate descriptions that don't describe the planets.

Minor improvement to refugee_effect.

The diplomacy tradition 'The Federation' now gives 25% progress in the Federation Code technology.

Synapse drones job modifier will use the correct icon in the building effect summary.

Virtuality Machine Empires on Ringworlds should no longer get regular engineering or physicists jobs, only gestalt ones.

Refactored the has_x_capital scripted triggers to account for capital building tiers.

Add research speed and draw chance modifiers for tech types (rare, dangerous, insight, custom).

Memory leak fix from faulty pattern.

Science ships can no longer continue progressing archaeological sites without a leader.

Fix to building limit logic that was destroying things like the Archaeostudies building.

Refactored parts of the Planet UI to improve performance, benefiting lower end machines.

Various guardian space critter factions will now ignore FTL inhibitors.

Added a new ignore_ftl_inhibitors flag for the country type.

Improved dead object database.

Maze Harbingers now use the correct amount of naval capacity.

Behemoth empires that have become Ever Hungry will no longer get 'Nice Guy' event options.

Fixed an OOS at reconnect.

Pop amount in the Current Population does not overlap other elements when it has more than 2 digits anymore in Planet UI.

Console commands now use country index instead of country ID, making them easier to use.

Improved consistency with the tooltips for the Galactic Curator civics.

Minor improvement to handling modifiers.

Introduced min/max pitch settings for Ship model preview to prevent sharp turns.

Biomass and Neural Chip Processing and Unprocessing jobs now have unique names.

Grown pops now immediately join an available job (like “Civilian”) instead of being processed for a month.

Land Appropriation once again kicks pops off their planets and makes them into refugees.

Added a capital_tier parameter for capital building and an associated planet scope trigger.

Jobs production modifier fix in nested tooltip for Serviles trait.

Job swaps that require buildings on a planet now require the building to not be disabled.

Transport ships for eager explorer civics now equip a subspace drive if you haven't researched hyperdrives.

Secondary specializations for fortresses and civilian industries on special worlds correctly have doubled jobs.

Serviles should no longer end up as Specialists or Elites.

Empires with biological ships can now access repeatable technologies for explosive weapon damage and fire rate.

The Necrophage Purge option will now only be displayed if you can take it.

Add refresh_auto_generated_ship_designs effect.

Fixed ringworlds colonized by gestalt empires having a mysterious city district that shouldn't exist.

Evolutionary Predator Empires can now once more gain and keep the Psionic Ephase trait.

Corrected a localization issue where an AI empire accepting peace would incorrectly refer to the player as having 'better things to do'.

Fixed an issue that could occur when machine empires colonised ringworlds.

The Resettlement Prohibited policy now grants +100% Automatic Migration.

The Entrepreneur traits once again grant Commercial Pact Efficiency.

Fixed the tooltips listing the effects for the Subsume World decision and Xeno-Compatibility AP.

Reforming the government to Genesis Guides allows building Genesis Arks.

Save game transfer speed is now increased in multiplayer by default.

Resource Consolidation no longer has the Malfunctioning Replicator Bay blocker.

Ringworld districts now correctly spawn on pre-ftl ringworlds.

The Purity Breach event can no longer destroy colonies.

Storm Aftermath events will no longer happen in systems where you are constructing megastructures.

Fixed the leader survived notification text.

Armies that have landed on planets show properly in the outliner.

Necrophages should no longer sometimes start with unemployment.

Memorialists now give their priests the ethics modifiers their civic tooltip promises.

Fix a tooltip in the Demographics tab of the Empire view.

Fixed Fear of the Dark random empires being able to get bioships.

The Colonize planet button can now be accessed on the management tab as well as the surface tab.

Reduced the Pop Growth Speed penalty on the Necrophage trait from -75% to -50%.

Resource Consolidation now starts with fewer Generator and Mining Districts.

Biologist jobs that aren't zookeepers now have the correct upkeep.

Pops with the Necrophage trait can now grow (slowly) even if there are pops being Necrophaged on their planet.

Fixed an error preventing refugees from behaving properly.

Machine Worlds now always have their maximum number of jobs.

Removed an errant plus from some of the mutagenic habitability tooltips.

Fixed an issue where AI empires would respond with generic text when accepting a Status Quo peace deal.

The Fatal Mutations event should no longer destroy colonies.

Necrophages begin with more of their prepatent species (and fewer of their Necrophage species).

Gestalt empires have access to fallen empire trade buildings.

Evolutionary Predator Empires can now once more gain and keep the Psionic Ephase trait.

Necrophages should no longer sometimes start with unemployment.

Fix a tooltip in the Demographics tab of the Empire view.

Storm Aftermath events will no longer happen in systems where you are constructing megastructures.

Fixed the tooltips listing the effects for the Subsume World decision and Xeno-Compatibility AP.

Resource Consolidation now starts with fewer Generator and Mining Districts.

Ringworld districts now correctly spawn on pre-ftl ringworlds.

The Fatal Mutations event should no longer destroy colonies.

Serviles should no longer end up as Specialists or Elites.

Corrected a localization issue where an AI empire accepting peace would incorrectly refer to the player as having 'better things to do'.

Biologist jobs that aren't zookeepers now have the correct upkeep.

Fixed an error preventing refugees from behaving properly.

Secondary specializations for fortresses and civilian industries on special worlds correctly have doubled jobs.

Machine Worlds now always have their maximum number of jobs.

Pops with the Necrophage trait can now grow (slowly) even if there are pops being Necrophaged on their planet.

Reduced the Pop Growth Speed penalty on the Necrophage trait from -75% to -50%.

Add refresh_auto_generated_ship_designs effect.

Armies that have landed on planets show properly in the outliner.

Fixed an issue where AI empires would respond with generic text when accepting a Status Quo peace deal.

Save game transfer speed is now increased in multiplayer by default.

The Colonize planet button can now be accessed on the management tab as well as the surface tab.

Transport ships for eager explorer civics now equip a subspace drive if you haven't researched hyperdrives.

The Purity Breach event can no longer destroy colonies.

Fixed ringworlds colonized by gestalt empires having a mysterious city district that shouldn't exist.

Empires with biological ships can now access repeatable technologies for explosive weapon damage and fire rate.

The Necrophage Purge option will now only be displayed if you can take it.

Memorialists now give their priests the ethics modifiers their civic tooltip promises.

Fixed the leader survived notification text.

Fixed an issue that could occur when machine empires colonised ringworlds.

Removed an errant plus from some of the mutagenic habitability tooltips.

Reforming the government to Genesis Guides allows building Genesis Arks.

Fixed Fear of the Dark random empires being able to get bioships.

Resource Consolidation no longer has the Malfunctioning Replicator Bay blocker.

The Entrepreneur traits once again grant Commercial Pact Efficiency.

Gestalt empires have access to fallen empire trade buildings.

The Resettlement Prohibited policy now grants +100% Automatic Migration.

Necrophages begin with more of their prepatent species (and fewer of their Necrophage species).

Fixed an issue with ringworlds colonized by gestalt empires having a mysterious city district that shouldn't exist.

Introduced a toggle in settings to enable or disable faster save game transfer, defaulting to off.

Jobs for Wilderness are now properly represented, allowing customization of job work amounts with sliders.

Resolved a remaining issue with loading savegames that caused crashes or freezing.

The Wilderness Open Beta is now available on Steam, experimenting with a new model for Wilderness mechanics.

All Wilderness jobs are now automatically worked without requiring biomass, worked by your primary species.

Included experimental fast save transfer feature for multiplayer in this build.

District specialisations now visually swap to the appropriate art and district names for easier differentiation.

Fixed Wilderness issues including random implosions.

Added the Voidspawn Myocardius relic awarded to whomever manages to take down the Elder Voidspawn.

The Synaptic Lathe will now ask for a refill if it drops below 50 pops instead of letting itself drop all the way to 0.

The event A Complete Collection will now only take one pop, avoiding depopulating entire planets.

Fixed issue with loading savegames crashing or freezing the game.

The host now gets a tooltip in Multiplayer on the Start Game button with a list of players that are holding up the game.

Starbase Capacity tooltip now shows the number of owned systems contributing to Starbase Capacity.

Reverted the most recent changes to fallen empire building limitations.

Reduced habitability recalculations done by pop growth/decline.

Adds swap_type and swap_type_weight for districts to District Specializations.

The Synaptic Lathe now correctly purges pops and produces science.

Wilderness empires now start with a Heartgrove specialisation instead of a Threadway specialisation.

Reduced mil power recalculations done by outliner fleet entry.

AI empires will be more likely to declare a Cosmogenesis empire a crisis as they develop more Infinity Theses.

Wilderness Empires no longer have to consolidate 2500 biomass on a planet to build a Grand Archive.

Fixed non-slaves being assigned to jobs before slaves.

Habitats once again can build Archives in their habitation districts.

The Hive Fallen Empire ships are now available for Biological Ship Empires if you progress down the Cosmogenesis Crisis Path.

Experimental changes to Wilderness are being tested in an open beta.

Reduced amount of times planet view tries to update pop group clothing.

District Specializations now belong to sets, and Zone Slots can now include or exclude entire zone sets.

Secondary districts now have double the jobs of the primary districts.

Further Improved the Behemoth Fury endings.

Updated scripted triggers for districts and zones.

Added a 1 day count before VIR's enclave tutorial.

Starting flags now need to be defined in the 'prescripted_flags' folder.

Contingency will no longer fail to sterilize branch offices on a planet.

Exotic Metabolism tooltip now lists Pop Growth and Habitability.

Planetary Habitability and Devastation should no longer overlap.

Fixed a bug with the years_of_peace trigger not evaluating the delay properly.

Fixed an exploit where players could edit saved empires to start with late-game rewards.

Added a tooltip clarifying inability to build on an occupied planet.

Modifier now scales with pop amount in production box tooltip.

Players can no longer colonize with a prebuilt colony ship if the species isn't allowed to colonize.

Non-gestalt empires can now build solar panels on starbases.

Fixed tooltips for Angler civics.

Fixed Wild Swarm mentioning ships when combined with Cordyceptic Drones.

Assimilating a species now assimilates all armies, colony ships, and leaders.

Enforcers will no longer generate infinite bonuses.

Fixed Hollow Bones being 1/10 as impactful as it should be.

Gestalt empires can now build trade modules on starbases.

Build District and Clear Blocker button reintroduced in the District Details side panel.

Updated nested tooltips for Civil Education.

Fixed occupied planets still adding their production to their owners.

Improved the Dark Consortium tooltip.

Added Job Efficiency modifiers for Psionic, Mechanical, Machine, Cyborg, and Organic Pops.

Celestial Orrery Supercomputer now only gives Physicist jobs.

AI empires value capital building upgrades more.

Fixed tooltips for all Astrometeorology civics.

Adjusted bonuses AI empires receive on higher difficulties.

Changed the French translation of Research from Enquêter to Recherche.

Enforcers and Telepaths have been split.

AI empires will focus more on Industry and Alloys.

Added Logistic traditions for gestalt empires.

Fixed issues with the Astrometeology building for gestalts.

Demolishing a building on an occupied planet is no longer possible.

Fixed stability from Byzantine Bureaucracy not applying.

Fixed the Beastmaster civic tooltip.

Removed incompatible tech from Wilderness Agenda option.

Fixed the energy cost that scales with pops in the Cyberization event.

Column for number of pops in species view now displays larger numbers correctly.

New rules for Empire/Planet Limits based on how tech was acquired.

Added appropriate effects tooltip for Augmentation Bazaar.

Fixed council positions giving mult modifiers instead of add modifiers.

Enforcers now benefit from Specialist modifiers again.

Prevent jobs with 0 workforce from displaying in the Strata production tooltip.

Incubators modifiers will now be a bit more granular.

Colony Auto-designation now better considers Urban districts.

Psionic pop output from telepaths is now on the psi corp building.

Streamlined the tooltip for Catalytic Processing.

AI empires are more likely to build Anchorages if their naval capacity usage is high.

Cost for repairing orbital rings when using bioships is now correctly calculated.

Updated the Colony view tab mentioned in the hint of the focus task 'Enact a Planetary Decision' to say Management.

The Machine Uprising will no longer spawn 100 machine pops for every 1 missing housing.

Logistic Drones are now classified as Complex Drones instead of Menial Drones.

Catalytic Processing Civic now lists correct information regarding job swap.

Corrected a tooltip bug where a planet would display itself as a possible migration target.

Blocked the Development focus task 'Form a Federation' for some empires, such as homicidals.

Dramatically increased draw chance for Mineral Purification, Global Energy Management, and Food Processing technologies.

Armies now protect 200 pops from raiding, not 2.

Updated assorted modifiers that still referred to Clerks.

Flattened pop job modifier node into planet one.

Stopped removing occupation armies for bombarded and invaded planets on savegame load.

Tooltips improved for Functional Architecture, Environmentalist, Astro-mining Drones, Maintenance Protocols, Ascensionists, Augmentation Bazaars, Brand Loyalty, Death Cults, and Dimensional Worship.

Added swaps for some empires, such as homicidals, for the Development focus rewards Federation Code, Xeno Diplomacy, and Xeno Relations.

Transforms Civilians into Hedonists.

Counts all planet types as ideal for upgrading Gaiaseeders.

Bio-Swarmer missiles can now be used by all biological ships with medium weapon slots, including defensive platforms.

Blocked the Federation Code technology for some empires, such as homicidals.

Pops that are being pampered will now be forcibly switched to the correct living standard.

This will not retroactively affect existing saves.

Using it on synthetic lathe to have pops purge

Clarifying that you have to travel through it

Caused by dependency between planet and galactic object ftl inhibitors

Fix to Tiyanki Graveyard animation.

Fixed outdated Overtuned Traits tooltips.

AI will stop resettling from and into planets being colonized.

Restored icons to the 'Win a War' Focus Card.

Updated the size of the Districts backgrounds, so their sizes and their padding are evenly distributed.

Augmentation Bazaars now provide access to Augmentation Merchants, combining the benefits of Merchants and Executives.

Updated the size of the Districts backgrounds for even distribution.

Tweaked the grain size for planetary threaded updates.

Calculate the planet upkeep/produce/profit during the monthly tick and use the cached amount for all calculations.

Bio-trophies and some other jobs cannot be automated anymore.

Bloomed Biomass is now prioritized if unqueueing a Building that costs Biomass on Gaia worlds.

Secrets of Inetian Traders' vanilla modifier now reduces trade fees.

Add can_be_automated token for jobs that cannot be automated.

Xenophobes are once again prevented from giving Full Citizenship and Military Service to Xenos.

Democratic Transference will no longer grant a hundred times more efficiency than expected.

Fixed OOS due to ship designer using synchronized random.

Significantly improved Pop Job's production tooltip and details panel.

Wilderness Biomass is now more likely to gain the Bloomed trait.

Updated the District Cap Background size and district slots padding.

Tweaked the grain size for planetary threaded updates.

Wilderness Empires will no longer be offered Gene Seed Purification.

Bio-trophies and some other jobs cannot be automated anymore.

Add can_be_automated token for jobs that cannot be automated.

Reduced memory allocations between monthly job distributions.

Fixed the Mutagenic Spas descriptions because they weren't displaying the correct job swap.

Total War Empires can now complete the 'Win a War' Focus Card.

Biological Ship empires should now be able to grow Fledgling Dragons when playing the Here Be Dragons origin.

The effect of Transit Hubs on Automatic Resettlement has been doubled to +200%.

Added more padding and even margins for the Planet UI.

Fixed the Mutagenic Spas descriptions because they weren't displaying the correct job swap.

Fix common OOS related to wrongly recalculated planet profit.

The final tier of the Gaia Seeder building will no longer be destroyed in Wilderness Empires.

Fix common OOS related to wrongly recalculated planet profit.

Updated the look of Planet Production and Planet Deficit section of the Planet UI.

You can no longer build rural support district specializations in urban districts if the planet type does not have the district type it would support.

Calculate the planet upkeep/produce/profit during the monthly tick and use the cached amount for all calculations.

AI will stop losing colonies due to resettlement.

Updated the look of Planet Production and Planet Deficit section of the Planet UI.

Secrets of Inetian Traders' vanilla modifier now reduces trade fees.

Democratic Transference will no longer grant hundred times more efficiency than expected.

Updated the 'Weak' trait tooltip.

Restored icons to the 'Win a War' Focus Card.

Delicious and Felsic species traits now give +100% job efficiency to livestock jobs.

Added more padding and even margins for the Planet UI.

Fixed some modifiers missing from job production tooltips.

Doubled the effect Transit Hubs have on Automatic Resettlement to +200%.

Augmentation Bazaars grant access to Augmentation Merchants which combine the benefits of Merchants and Executives.

Fixed to Tiyanki Graveyard animation.

Wilderness Biomass is now more likely to gain the Bloomed trait.

Fixed Clear Design for space fauna duplicating components and not clearing anything.

Slaves and purged pop groups no longer listed as being demoted.

Some changes that are an attempt to fix a RANDOM_COUNT OOS that cannot be reliably reproduced internally.

Fixed some modifiers missing from job production tooltips.

Hyperlane Breach Points and Hyperspace Slipstreams technologies now increase the number of pops that can move each month due to Automatic Resettlement by +25%.

Fixed outdated Overtuned Traits tooltips.

Buildings in the Planet UI do not escape their frames anymore.

The Augmentation Bazaars civic no longer incorrectly claims to increase trade per cybernetic trait.

Updated the 'Weak' trait tooltip.

Total War Empires can now complete the 'Win a War' Focus Card.

Fixed crash when opening leader level up message if there is no trait to pick.

Fixed some incorrect text in civics tooltips during empire creation.

Fixed crash when opening leader level up message if there is no trait to pick.

Fixed CTDs related to Behemoth.

Fixed Clear Design for space fauna duplicating components and not clearing anything.

Buildings in the Planet UI do not escape their frames anymore.

When opening the leaders view, the Available Positions window will now always start closed.

Adjustments to Xeno Mediator to be correct for 4.0.

Fixed the Expand Planet Decision for Wilderness refunding the Biomass spent.

Reduced amount of pop groups by adding mechanic for merging smaller similar ones.

Reduced memory allocations between monthly job distributions.

Cleaned up Terraforming options for Wilderness empires to avoid painful game loops.

Prevented monthly job assignment from triggering again the next day.

Some changes that are an attempt to fix a RANDOM_COUNT OOS that cannot be reliably reproduced internally.

The final tier of the Gaia Seeder building will no longer be destroyed in Wilderness Empires.

Terravores will no longer be given the 'Terraform 3 Worlds' Focus Task.

Xenophobes are once again prevented from giving Full Citizenship and Military Service to Xenos.

Fixed OOS due to ship designer using synchronized random.

Delicious and Felsic species traits now give +100% job efficiency to livestock jobs.

Augmentation Bazaars civic no longer claims to increase trade per cybernetic trait.

Wilderness Empires will no longer be offered Gene Seed Purification.

Reduced the amount of pop groups by adding a mechanic for merging smaller similar ones.

Slaves and purged pop groups no longer listed as being demoted.

Candidates that are not the primary species of an empire now have a reduced chance of being elected in Non-Xenophilic Empires.

Fixed some incorrect text in civics tooltips during empire creation.

When opening the leaders view, the Available Positions window will now always start closed.

Updated the District Cap Background size and also the district slots padding.

Hyperlane Breach Points and Hyperspace Slipstreams technologies now increase the number of pops that can move each month due to Automatic Resettlement by +25%.