Machine Age DLC brought us species portraits with cybernetics upgrade to use So I got an idea of making a mod that makes cybernetics upgrades available for some vanilla species without it being a separate portrait.

Is this possible to do and is there any good mod that I can use as an example template?

I already know how to make patches on Irony mod manager, I was more like asking help with which large mods would go well togather, for example "ethics and civics classic" and "ethics bug branch" have conflicts that cant be solved as they essentially do the same thing in different ways, I need help with the large mods that might not work due to them doing the same thing. Would also like if someone suggested me on that mods I might need to remove to make the collection more stable.

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Xenology : Traits Expansion Unofficial - Biological Module (3.14.X)

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Worthy Ascension Perks for 3.14.*

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U.P.D. Universal Planetary Development

Trait Diversity - Trait Points Traits

Trait Diversity

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Theta Phanon Ships

The Supermassive Eternal Soulsphere

The Great Khan Expanded [3.14.☠]

Stellaris Traditions

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Sparble's Stellar Hyperconstructs

Some Overpowered Traits

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Hello, I am having some trouble making a species mod. I have set everything up similar to how another mod sets up its species. Its nothing complicated, just some still pictures but they and the species category don't show up in game.
I reversed engineered another mod when mine wouldn't work by just renaming my portraits to what the mod names it's. This worked but as soon as I change the names of the portraits, the species disappears.
What am I doing wrong? Can anyone even help me?

I’m playing as a custom Human empire.

I’m running the Real Space mod and using the large Sol Sector (132 stars) option for my starting system.

Weirdly, a new Gas Giant has appeared between Jupiter and Saturn. It has its own orbit (unlike Sol X which appears on Earth’s orbit trajectory) and has four moons orbiting it.

The Gas Giant is called Islena and the moons are called Haradas, Koras, Melidas and Theros.

Has anyone else come across this before or got any clue what is going on?

I imagine there are multiple ways to go about it. But the most obvious in my head is to consist of a new origin which adds a "Adam" modifier to the home planet, which guarantees a game long series of events, projects, archeologic sites, and so on, like the "Ancient Empire" mod.

Everything about it fits into Stellaris gameplay so easily.

- Most "angels" can be leviathans which spawn far away in the galaxy and kill everything slowly moving to the planet with the Adam modifier. Some other angels can be situations or event chains if they don't follow typical kaiju format.

- There can be archeological sites related to Dead Sea Scrolls, White and Black moons, the first Ancestor Race as a new precursor, and so on.

- A lot of research and ethical choice to develop S2 engines, which could give your ships a lot of bonuses ("AT Fields") against the leviathan style angels. Maybe connecting psionic tech to all of this.

- Depending on the choices of the empire which owns the target planet, there can be multiple ways to conduct "Instrumentality", which could work as a new type os ascension.

- The game could be set at start so that only the target planet is affected by instrumentality/third impact, or the entire galaxy is. In the second case, every single angel would be seen by the galaxy as an endgame crisis, and so would instrumentality let by the target planet owner.

Yeah, kinda what the title says. Not sure if this is the best place to ask...

Making a mod that has custom ship sizes and am trying to figure out how to get those custom sizes to pull names from a namelist. Can't seem to find anything in the sample files that come with the game.

As of right now, names for ships of a custom size just show as empty by default and will use the class name when built (as shown below). Otherwise, everything else works

SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME WITH SELECTION AND A LOAD ORDER,

Sorry, wasn't clear about my request

I already know how to make patches on Irony mod manager, sorry for not being clear on my request, I was more like asking help with which large mods would go well togather, I can figure out how to make patches after that, for example "ethics and civics classic" and "ethisc bug branch" have conflicts that cant be solved as they essentially do the same thing in different ways, I need help with the large mods that might not work due to them doing the same thing, havnt played modded Stellaris in a long time, and started playing ACOT and GIGAstructures few days ago, and I also looked at infinite stellaris and other Kasako infinites mods, now I can't get enough of them.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3371432223

Title. I just started with Stellaris and am loving it so far, but the one thing that irritates me to no end is that code exists to transfer systems between empires, and you can sell your own, but the AI are pathologically incapable of ever letting their systems go. I've seen lots of complaints about it, but after scouring steam workshop, nexus mods, paradox mods and skymods, I've come to the conclusion that nobody's actually fixed this issue - so as an intermediate modder for other games, I figured I'd give it a shot myself.

I read the modding guide on the Stellaris wiki and checked for similar mods in all of the places mentioned above, but nothing seems to hint towards me changing the AI decision-making for trade deals - I think the "country" scope is related, but that's the only headway I could make among all the modifiers, scopes, conditions, triggers, events, etc listed on the wiki. Feeling stuck, I figured I'd ask the masters here if they had any advice or guidance for me. Thank you so much in advance!

https://preview.redd.it/v3bi1sur672e1.png?width=1318&format=png&auto=webp&s=c091ba68263c575d56b0cddbba26bb24f692a8b7

So I've been trying to play the nomadic empire origin from DarkSpace, and I got hit with this as soon as I tried to work my capital ship. I can't build anything and had to spend 1000 influence on building a starbase. any solutions anyone has?

Basically the title, an In-Game way to customize Fallen Empires that is compatible with current expansions and updates

Basically the title, an In-Game way to customize Fallen Empires that is compatible with current expansions and updates

i have tried it alone with ui overhaul dynamic 1 and 2 and still craches.

As said in Title i am looking for a mod that will help reduce ship cost because i want to use one with ZOFE 4 as the OE tech ships are Uber Expensive and i want to turn up the mod difficulty and use the OE tech

Hello. My adventure with modyfing stellaris had began quite early so I apologies for my lack of knowledge.

I had been trying to add two mods to my game, Ancient cashe of technologies and Stellaris Evolved. The issue is, despite it loading properly, there seemes to be a glitch with the text shown in this mod.

https://preview.redd.it/n8gvrhueqn1e1.png?width=1363&format=png&auto=webp&s=2c7d0e8e3773d78da3e81725d36e4311e87ffc38

Similar thing happened with Stellaris evolved, where the many traits were also described the same way.

Am I doing something wrong? do I need to install something else? Some different version? Do I need to buy a DLC? Or do I need to change the language of my game?

I like playing large maps and often the world goes crazy fighting each other. I love watching them fight while I pick up stragglers and catch up technologically and what not.

In my latest play through, the war in heaven started with a nice 3 way - two awaken empires with a few vassals fighting each other and both at the same time fighting a large coalition of regular vassals.

Its difficult to follow who is who and where because I never joined any coalitions nor am I a vassal - I'm a lone neutral in the universe. Because of that, everyone is a yellow to me on the map. Is there a mod that once I select someone, it will paint their territory and fleet in green, their allies/vassals in blue and their enemies in red? Kinda like diplomatic map mode, which does half the things I want (it paints SOME territory red when at war, but not even all of it and it never paints ships and it paints vassals AND neutrals in grey)? I like seeing AI fighting each other but its hard to follow ships or find AI battles when everyone is yellow.

Thank you

I’m about to open a hole in my wall it’s been 5 hours please somebody free me from this insanity.

I've been working on a mod that brings 3d characters as portraits. Heavily inspired by project angel (PrjA). Thing is from what I gather. PrjA uses only a diffuse pass (PixelPdxMeshSimple) in the pdxmesh.shader. That meaning that you only get detail from a diffuse map with baked lighting and nothing else. I want my model to use the same concept but with normals, metalness, etc.... I figured I could just use the PixelPdxMeshStandard, And I can to an extent. Thing is it has no light to base all these factors on. So I get left with a silhouette and a bit of what resembles a metal map. Any help would be appreciated!

Edit: Got my answer on the discord. Not possible. I need to write my own pixelshader

I've always hated that Machine empires function so similarly to regular empires. It particularly irks me because Stellaris really struggles with asymmetrical gameplay. Reskinning a regular empire as "the same but robots" is lame. Like, wouldn't a machine intelligence function fundamentally differently?? Why would it produce worker drones like a biological empire? Never made sense to me. So, I've been toying with ideas on how to change machine empire's to more closely align with that idea.

Which brings me to this post. How do YOU think a Machine Intelligence would expand and grow itself across the galaxy? I have my own ideas but I'm looking for some fresh perspective.

This penalty is coming from neither a modifier, nor the galcom.

No idea where this penalty is coming from. Any idea which mod/vanilla mechanic may be causing this?

Seems that this penalty is going directly to the production, rather than at the end.

EDIT: It's a level 3 bulwark penalty😅. Always read the fine print guys.

I want to convert every star into cold stars and every habitable planet into frozen cavern worlds (both are from the mod I'm working on). I made these events to do it, but it only seems to work on about half of the habitable planets on the map. These planets remain unaffected even if I run either event in the console.

edit: solved. the problem was a different file altogether.

event = {
id = eitd.1
is_triggered_only = yes
hide_window = yes
immediate = {
every_galaxy_planet = {
planet_event = { id = eitd.2 }
}
}
}
planet_event = {
id = eitd.2
is_triggered_only = yes
hide_window = yes
immediate = {
if = {
limit = {
OR = {
is_planet_class = pc_b_star
is_planet_class = pc_a_star
is_planet_class = pc_f_star
is_planet_class = pc_g_star
is_planet_class = pc_k_star
is_planet_class = pc_m_star
is_planet_class = pc_m_giant_star
is_planet_class = pc_t_star
}
}
change_pc = pc_cold_star
}
if = {
limit = {
OR = {
is_planet_class = pc_desert
is_planet_class = pc_arid
is_planet_class = pc_savannah
is_planet_class = pc_tropical
is_planet_class = pc_continental
is_planet_class = pc_ocean
is_planet_class = pc_tundra
is_planet_class = pc_arctic
is_planet_class = pc_alpine
is_planet_class = pc_nuked
is_planet_class = pc_gaia
}
}
change_pc = pc_frozen_cavern
}
}
}

First Problem and that i try simply mod but i can't...

This mod best AI.

Early,mid and late game have specials modifiers
Map galaxy size have special modifiers
Number country give you more envoy
Very hard have much planets and pops because over empire size is malus research and stability.

Exist attrition in war when arrive in new enemy system and more...
Little best Role play, example can't declare war to friend empire.
However on mod description write more.
This version is stable but not is last.

Actually ai not know play in ring world, habitat and new origins.

The mod is this https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3192141367

I search people that want try and tip on how best AI or improve eventually worst trait/tradition ecc...

I saw some chatter about this, was wondering if anyone found the culprit. My game crashes when I hover over any of the collections from Grand Archive DLC. I have quite a few mods, wondering if anyone else had this issue/a fix?

Hello, I wanted to ask if anyone has any idea why my game with mods crashes. When I reach a certain date (2225 - 05 -02) the game crashes and the screen freezes, although the music continues playing. 

The dlcs I have are:
- stellaris: utopia
- stellaris: galaxy edition update
- stellaris: synthetic dawn

I will put the mods as photos

https://preview.redd.it/301t314l160e1.png?width=1626&format=png&auto=webp&s=93043ee85de288f563808fccd07c37cccbf4977f

https://preview.redd.it/q400nlbl160e1.png?width=1624&format=png&auto=webp&s=2e2cb4b71febd3d518ccfdd73545aee3879ad565

https://preview.redd.it/v2jey4il160e1.png?width=1606&format=png&auto=webp&s=62b80f66389638cd85884f0ae8bb978c6995b255

https://preview.redd.it/s8s39ppl160e1.png?width=1613&format=png&auto=webp&s=62e14237aac4a864e95322534910eb0b830d1aa4

My theory is that a mod must produce an error when using it or maybe it is an error due to the loading order, but the truth is I have no idea, this is the first time this has happened to me.

 If you could help me I would appreciate it

I'm trying to make a starting technology mod that does the following:

1. Autopopulates free jobs similar to virtuality, available to all empires from the star

2. disables pop growth completely if there are no free jobs available

3. Makes districts give 75% LESS jobs but also makes them give +1% job output per district on the planet.

I couldn't find any modifiers, triggers, or variables for the above. How do you make a mod like this? Thanks.

Hey,

I am trying to mod a custom starting system for Stellaris and so far I've gotten the system pretty much working, however, I am finding that none of the minerals or alloys or energy I am adding is sticking with init_effect. It will either spawn with no added minerals/energy/etc or it will put it's own onto the planet.

Here is a snippet of a few planets & asteroid belt:

planet = {
	name = "NAME_Alarias_Heart"
    class = pc_gas_giant
	size = 50
	orbit_distance = 40
	orbit_angle = { min = 35 max = 290 }
	has_ring = yes

    init_effect = {
		clear_deposits = yes
		prevent_anomaly = yes
		add_deposit = d_engineering_5
		add_deposit = d_physics_5
		add_deposit = d_society_5
	}
	
    moon = {
        class = "pc_frozen"
		size = 5
		orbit_distance = 20
		orbit_angle = { min = 35 max = 290 }
		has_ring = no
		
		init_effect = {
			clear_deposits = yes
			prevent_anomaly = yes
			add_deposit = d_energy_5
		}
    }
    moon = {
        class = "pc_barren"
		size = 5
		orbit_distance = 8
		orbit_angle = { min = 35 max = 290 }
		has_ring = no
		
		init_effect = {
			clear_deposits = yes
			prevent_anomaly = yes
			add_deposit = d_minerals_5
			add_deposit = d_alloys_3
		}
    }
    moon = {
        class = "pc_frozen"
		size = 5
		orbit_distance = 9
		orbit_angle = { min = 35 max = 290 }
		has_ring = no
		
		init_effect = {
			clear_deposits = yes
			prevent_anomaly = yes
			add_deposit = d_energy_5
		}
    }
}

change_orbit = 40

planet = {
	count = { min = 4 max = 6 }
	class = pc_asteroid
    orbit_distance = 0
	orbit_angle = { min = 35 max = 290 }
	
	init_effect = {
		add_deposit = d_minerals_8
	}
}

asteroid_belt = {
	type = rocky_asteroid_belt
	radius = 165
}

}

I want to remove human from my game because I'm RPing as playing in a different galaxy. No Sol Primitive or not, No UNE, No COM.

If not, how do I make one?

Hey, I had mods to add more empires into my games but due to the update my Stellaris crashes after adding too many.

I believe it is because it shows how many empires will spawn in the galaxy customization screen, and when you go past how many can fit in the box the game doesn’t know what to do and crashes.

Is there any mod to change the galaxy settings screen or revert them back pre-update? Maybe something as simple as adding a scrolling feature?

If there is not a mod does anyone know how to implement such things in the code?

How would I create/add a horizontal scroll bar to the Exhibits/displays tab for the grand archive?