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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fixed issue with loading savegames crashing or freezing the game.

Habitats once again can build Archives in their habitation districts.

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

The shipyard should always display ship design names for military ships again.

Fixed common OOS by recalculating the profit instead of using the cached data (COUNTRY_RESOURCE).

Eternal Vigilance now fills out your Defense Platform capacity to 50% instead of fully.

Simulation Sites and their upgrades now increase Unity output instead of Upkeep on their planets.

Cleaned up a few tooltips not being updated for the new 100 pop system including Artifact Relays.

Now only applies empire size penalty on edict costs, not the full empire size.

Effective Councilor Skill and Effective Ruler Skill finally add to agenda progress speed.

Added triggered_planet_pop_group_modifier_for_all for triggered planet pop group modifiers that are intended to be split across all pops on the planet.

Fixed a major performance issue caused by outliner starbase entries.

Fixed expansion planner species entry crashing in tooltip.

Horizon Needle description now specifies where it has to be built.

Ship Designer will no longer allow saving a ship design with the name of a design with a different ship size.

The Perpetual Lightning modifier now has a description.

Fixes ground combat CTD.

The Fallen Shipyard Deposit will no longer be creating unworkable jobs for Gestalt Empires.

Multiple auto modding traits will now work together.

Fixed crash in grow_pops console command.

Fixed replace zone confirmation popup sometimes crashing.

Fixed recommended DLC staying visible after exiting the empire selection view.

Tech-World Designation description is more specific.

Fixed duplicated description for Numistic Shrine.

Remove obsolete defense_armies_add modifier, in favor of planet_defense_armies_add.

Refitting a DSC no longer costs unity.

Behemoth death animation particles are now spawned correctly.

Removed NGameplay.MAX_PLANET_POPS define as it's not used anywhere anymore.

Fixed CTD when dlc is not readable for unknown reasons.

Added a Minerals Upkeep to Maintenance Drones from the Simulation Site, their upgrades, and their Hive Mind variants.

Triggered Planet Pop Group Modifiers should have improved performance.

Fixed an edge case that would fail to remove the tier 3 behemoth after completing the Mind Meld special project.

Clicking top bar resource a second time now always closes the market view.

Reduced the amount of Research added to Civilians from the State Academy and Center of Guidance by 33%.

Fixed invalid memory reads as a result from on_pop_displaced and/or on_pop_purged on actions.

Fixed CTD when events without options are timing out.

Leader upkeep is now rounded to 1 decimal for consistency.

REVERTED an attempted fix for an Out-of-Sync error (COUNTRY_RESOURCES) that was causing serious performance issues.

Added a Consumer Good Upkeep to Civilians from the Autochthon Monument, their upgrades, and their MegaCorp variants.

Random ethics changing should now work properly and not complain about invalid pop group.

Fixed invalid memory reads when finishing species modifications.

Added a Consumer Good Upkeep to Civilians from the Strengthened Government modifiers from Under One Rule.

Biological Titans now count for your titan cap.

Removed build_pops console command and changed grow_pops to do growth, assembly and decline.

Machine Nexus Designation no longer mentions Amenities.

Species modification cost is no longer divided by 100 twice.

Assimilating species with traits that are incompatible with Wilderness now removes said traits.

Fixed invalid memory reads as a result from on_pop_growth on actions.

Improved performance when hovering over population number in planet view.

Fixed a circular dependency in the French localization that would cause a crash.

Planetary Administration and other buildings, and General Traits now correctly give Armies.

The Nanite Research Complex now grants improved modifiers compared to the base version.

Fix Automated Workforce not applying correctly district level.

local_pop_amount is now provided to on_pop_group_resettled on action with the amount of pops resettled.

FE buildings have been made available to Wilderness empires with an additional biomass cost.

Font of Knowledge now includes all of the 4.0 research buildings.

Fixes ethics divergence always switching the entire pop group instead of amount.

Fixed the Artifact Relay decision for hive minds.

Fixed the Galactic Market Nomination decision.

Improvements to the Build District tooltip to indicate affordability.

Converting a planet into a hive world or machine world now preserves the generator, mining and farming jobs.

Xenophobic Individualist Machines start with an Alloy Foundry instead of a Medical Center.

Habitats now have a Solar Farming Bay specialization for their Reactor districts, providing farmer jobs.

Colonization can not be started again if there's already a colony ship in progress.

The fallen materialist's Master Archive now grants additional research options.

Void Dwellers, Aquatics and Cave Dwellers now grant their robots the relevant trait when they invent robots.

The Automated Curation Algorithms technology will no longer be offered to Wilderness Empires.

Updated species_uses_bonus_growth game rule to match can_species_procreate.

Blocked Behemoths from laying eggs in combat.

Reduced the biomass cost for planetary expansion for wilderness by roughly 50%.

Fixed Fanatical Purifiers and Devouring Swarm getting the 'Declare a Rival' Empire Focus.

Changes to modifiers are now mirrored in the UI immediately, even when paused.

The spiritualist fallen empire's shrine now offers improved shroud communing.

Make creation of unnecessary jobs more sparse to reduce amount of objects.

Re-added pop decline alert.

Further tweaks to the ethics effects of civilians: Reduced happiness for xenophobes and pop upkeep for xenophiles by 50%, increased amenities for pacifists by 10x, doubled trade for egalitarians.

Fixed Pearl Divers not mentioning both a food and mineral upkeep in the tooltip.

Updated multiple Databank articles, such as Buildings, Jobs, Housing, and Resettlement.

Fixed some duplicated text on the strong and very strong traits.

Bio Titans built in GDF service should now be made of meat and not metal.

Void Dwellers now start with up to 3 hydroponics farms depending on food requirements.

Automation buildings upkeep now only scales with districts they automate.

Fixed the Logistics Hub going missing from the game.

Fixed a broken modifier on the Hive Confluence building.

Fixed some modifiers from jobs being unlocalized in tooltips.

Fixed missing information in tooltips for why you can't upgrade buildings.

Significantly improved how Biomass is calculated.

Fixed CTD happening when hovering over some leader traits in the selection UI.

The BioGenesis expansion has been released alongside the 4.0 update.

Scripted species can now inherit their parent species rights instead of getting default rights.

Leaders once again gain traits at every level, with trait picks per level set back to 2 by default.

Fixed CTD in colonization view due to invalid deposit entry.

The planetary supercomputer now has the same modifiers as the research institute.

The Logistics Ceiling setting has been reset to default for everyone since it changed in 4.0.

The Build District icon is now more clearly labelled.

Made some adjustments to the Planet UI to clarify when you can build District Specializations.

Fixed shattered rings not showing generator districts.

Logistic Drones now provide a small amount of amenities.

Fixed telepaths not gaining correct modifiers.

The Coral Portrait now has access to rooted instead of the platypus.

Neglected bio-trophies should now show on the planet UI and have a happiness penalty.

The opinion penalty for purging pops has been reduced by 100.

Commercial specializations now accept all urban buildings.

Fixed crash on startup when generating modifiers.

Fixed being able to disable event messages if their default settings haven't changed.

Fixed issue with script killing pops assigned to a job may CTD.

Debris is no longer incorrectly displayed as coming from our own empire.

Fixed crash by preventing the deletion of a ship design that was only present in a build queue.

Spawning and assembly specializations for hive and machine worlds have been nerfed.

Starting the game as a Nascent Stage Life Seeded empire will no longer leave you with only presapients and immediately game over.

Reduce calculations done for planet economy.

The default Eternal Vigilance policy will now only spawn defensive platforms in orbit of upgraded starbases.

Fixed the Splinter Hive Holding being 100 times more effective than it should have been.

Reduced memory footprint in growth calculations.

100 Entertainers now give 1250 Amenities instead of 1000.

AI Megacorps will no longer ignore the branch office building limit.

Fixed CTD related to districts getting deleted while a specialization was in the build queue.

Fixed planetary deposit researcher interactions with gestalt empires.

Devouring Wilderness now correctly generates biomass from eating pops.

Fixed the diplomatic window showing the city elements based on the ship set instead of the selected city set.

Fixed BioGenesis not unlocking the crisis tab if you do not own either The Machine Age or Nemesis.

Maintenance drones now count as better than slaves for assorted checks.

Various buildings now grant increased housing and amenities.

Timeline completion and progression popups no longer remain open when the timeline UI is reopened.

Added more safeguards around ship graphical culture to avoid a crash.

You may no longer use Fallen empire technology to mine for minerals in the mantle of ringworlds.

Improved loading time of late game saves.

Clearing a blocker will open the Build Queue if it is closed.

The pop totals in the job strata tooltip are now consistent with the strata UI.

The Build District icon is now more clearly labelled.

Made adjustments to the Planet UI to clarify when you can build District Specializations.

The Clone Army starting event no longer fires twice.

Threaded and cached procreate calculation on pop groups to improve performance.

The amount of Menace gained from purging pops has been reduced by a factor of 100.

Multiple AI performance optimizations.

Various checks for Offspring Drones that were broken have been fixed.

The Build Queue will now automatically start opened in the Surface or Management tabs of the Planet View if there is something in the Queue.

Fixed some building upgrades being unconstructable or appearing with Planet Cap: 0.

Fixed CTD in planets and sector view due to species.

Gestalt Machine Empires can now turn off Migration Controls.

Fixed CTD related to districts getting deleted while a specialization was in the build queue.

The Entertainment Forum is again an upgrade to the Holo-Theaters, granting 400 Entertainer jobs.

Fixed crash on startup when generating modifiers.

Prosperity traditions have been buffed.

Logistics drones now produce additional amenities if Instinctive Synchronization is taken.

Fixed some unity buildings being broken.

Three new Genetic Ascension paths: Purity, Cloning, and Mutation, each with advanced government authorities.

Three new Origins: Evolutionary Predators, Wilderness, and Starlit Citadel.

Introduction of a new Fallen Empire.

A new crisis path that challenges players with moral dilemmas regarding life creation.

New music tracks added to enhance the gaming experience.

Deep Space Citadel Megastructure introduced.

The first episode of Stellaris: Season 09 allows players to explore genetic engineering and new gameplay mechanics.

Two new Bioship shipsets with distinct mechanics and three growth stages.

Includes Genetic Identification, Crowdsourcing, Familiar Face, Aerospace Adaptation, Shared Genetics, Civil Education, and Bodysnatchers.

Enhancements to diplomatic interactions and visual aesthetics.

Includes phenotype-based traits that enhance gameplay.

Timeline forward and back buttons can now be clicked if you have a very lengthy timeline.

Concepts that referred to Industrial Districts have been updated.

Civilians will still automigrate.

All planets should now have the correct number of zones (2) in their primary district.

You now have to own a planet to modify job sliders.

There still aren’t defenders, so ground combat is very easy.

Civilians now appear in the jobs list correctly when it is collapsed.

Zones conversions (such as when a hive takes over a standard planet) should now function and retain buildings that fit in both zone types.

The ANGRY RED BRIEFCASE of unemployment will now only appear if there are 100 or more unemployed pops on a planet.

Enforcers and Entertainers should no longer bounce around.

Hive and Machine Worlds have had an initial pass.

Hives do not get Mining Drones from Mining Districts.

Planet UI now shows last month's growth for each pop group.

Introduced a mixed Research and Unity 'Archives' Zone.

Build Queue side panel now automatically starts open when looking at planets.

Planetary Ascension area in the Management Tab now functions.

Some Hive and Machine setup has been completed, they should be slightly functional now.

Implemented measures to prevent AI from cheating in zone building.

Industrial Zones now use the correct icon.

Planets now start with six building slots in their Urban District and two Zones for customization.

Strata now show their population when collapsed.

Timeline origin images are now properly masked.

Added text with breakdown of the modifiers provided by planetary ascension.

Machine Starting Conditions have had an initial pass.

Added icon and style label for ascension tier in management tab.

Most empires no longer start with the early space age industry buildings or jobs.

Added urban zones to mining districts for Subterranean empires.

The chance to encounter the Cultist event chain now depends on your ethics.

Urban Zones now show their titles.

Displaying the District type names in the Planet Summary screen.

The Build Queue tooltip no longer says 'Previous'.

Rescaled focus reward requirements to be easier to reach the final tier.

The Colony View tabs now have ordered ZXCVB keyboard shortcuts.

Pops now have appropriate Diplomatic Weight.

Tabs in the Planet view now have correct hotkeys.

Fixed the completion check in the Conquest focus task 'Have 3 Subjects'.

Cultists are now neutral until you choose to attack them.

Fixed the requirements tooltip for the Beastmasters focus task 'Have 10 Space Amoeba Mothers'.

Fixed traders not being created from trade zones.

Fallen Empires are blocked from using the Existential Expulsion casus belli.

Adjusted amenities and housing from luxury housing.

The Cultist event chain now fires after a year instead of after a month.

Drawing leader level focus tasks now require the previous task to be completed.

Fixed the DLC requirements for focus tasks 'Observe a Pre-FTL' and 'Build a Mega Shipyard'.

Negative effects added to the Magnetic Disruption planet modifier.

The trigger num_pops is replaced by pop_amount since there are now 100 times more pops.

Moved the build district level button from District Details view into the Planet Summary screen.

You can now forgive the Cultists and have them join you.

Moved job production changes to buildings for better tooltips.

Changed auto pick leader traits setting to default to off.

Made Species Rights button different for pre-sapients.

Civilians now grant the benefits associated with culture workers.

Assembling robots will no longer cause the slow and inevitable decline of your growing pops.

Introduction of new script entries for species traits to enhance job workforce mechanics.

Production modifiers on species traits replaced with bonus workforce, enhancing job output mechanics.

New mechanics reduce performance-intensive actions by allowing operations on pop groups instead of individual pops.

Streamlined economic category inheritance to improve gameplay mechanics.

New scripting changes allow grouping of pops by species, traits, ethics, and factions, improving modding capabilities.