written by Eladrin and Gruntsatwork

‘Sup, trash bangers?

Today we’ll be taking a look at some of the features coming in the Toxoids Species Pack. As we’re on an accelerated dev diary schedule, there’s no time to lose! Let’s jump straight into this and turn it over to Gruntsatwork.


One of our two new Origins for Toxoids, Overtuned is the grim but exalting reminder that a brief life burns the brightest. Through invasive surgery and by modifying biochemical pathways you can impart your pops with 13 new overtuned traits. Each of these traits is a mirror to an already existing, far more survivable trait.



As you can see, the overtuned traits can even be picked with their “natural” opposing traits, or stacked with their mirrors for all your double-dipping needs. There are next to no restrictions on mixing them with other traits, so feel free to create whatever biological monstrosities you can imagine.

In practice, the overtuned traits are all about as strong or slightly weaker than their mirror traits, usually cheaper in trait point cost and reduce your leader lifespan depending on their point cost.

In addition to their normal effects, the origin will also grant you access to a new edict called “Damn the Consequences”.

This edict doubles the positive effect of all overtuned traits, but also doubles the upkeep of those pops. Its unity cost is a percentage of your own unity income, so you will always be able to damn the consequences. Furthermore, the edict has a lock-in period of 5 years, which means you will not be able to cancel the edict until it has been active for those 5 years.


With Toxoids, we are adding 4 new traits to the game, available to all portraits and 3 of these traits will be available at gamestart.




Incubator pops will enjoy only a modest bonus on their capital worlds given their starting number of pops but fresh colonies will quickly reveal its full power.




A small but flavorful addition to our trait roster, to better support your exotic needs.




Noxious pops will decrease the happiness of all non-noxious pops on the same planet, while in turn receiving a happiness bonus for every non-noxious and therefore unhappy pop. Talk about toxic neighbors.


Exotic Metabolism however, is an advanced Trait and will thus require fully finished Genetic Ascension, as it requires a robust economy to support their exotic upkeep.



Its benefits are strong, its upkeep severe and it requires a deep investment into biological enhancements, we hope to see some interesting builds with this.


Toxoids will also bring 3 new civics with it, to give you more of that slimy but satisfying feeling.




Our first civic that does not start you out with its special building, Mutagenic Spas, and all of its alternate versions, give you the option of boosting your pop growth on highly industrialized worlds, as your pops enjoy the fruits of your pollution.




Relentless Industrialists will have to deal with an ongoing situation about the environmental effects of their increased efficiency in alloy and consumer goods production. Of course, should you be cold-hearted and profit-oriented enough, it becomes a self-solving problem, if you can afford to work in such a hostile environment.




Arriving hand in hand with one of our changes for the free patch, namely the ability to choose what you wish to gain from debris, alloys or research, the new Scavenger civic will allow an empire to gain both benefits as well as salvage some actual ships from the debris.

Megacorps have access to all three civics.




Even the toughest species can’t quite survive in a world that is entirely poisonous.

50% poisonous however is another beast altogether.

With the Detox ascension perk, empires will be able to turn those giant balls of death into giant balls of not-quite-death.

Given how perilous toxic worlds are, this act of terraforming will be a bit more involved than normal, since even after the initial phase makes them colonizable, there will be remnants of their toxic pasts interfering with their prosperity.




This Thursday we’ll have a dev diary from the Artists, including some interesting things about the character’s outfits and what we’ve done differently there.

See you then! Don't forget you can Pre-Order Toxoids Now!

Hello everyone!

Today we’re announcing our next Species Pack that will be released alongside the 3.5 “Fornax” update, the Toxoids!

Whether you burn the future for the benefit of today or scavenge the past, Toxoids are survivors. Toxoids gives you the chance to gamble the future of your planets for immediate gains, and make the tough sacrifices necessary to survive a hostile galaxy.

Pre-Order the Toxoids Species Pack today!



The Toxoids Species Pack will be bubbling over with things such as:

In the depths of your homeworld, rumors rumble of a true power buried under the toxic sludge. Do you dare to dredge up the secrets of your past - and potentially unleash them upon the galaxy?

The candle that burns the brightest, burns itself into the galaxy’s memory! Play as a species that can gain more and more traits at the cost of its own lifespan, and live for today without worrying about sticking around for tomorrow!

Grow your population fast with a fresh infusion of mutagenic sludge - so long as you’re willing to tolerate the costs to your planet and your people!

One empire’s trash is your empire’s treasure! Don’t be too proud to harvest debris and destruction for quick construction projects of your own.

If you’re going to keep up with demand, you’re going to have to learn to ignore all of those petty regulations and negative opinions. The surviving population will thank you for all of the resources you gain!

Repopulate quickly when your planet is empty, but those growth facilities can fill up fast!

Your own people are a source of valuable exotic gasses! It’s a shame the respirators are so expensive.

Other species can’t stand being around you, and it seems like your mere existence is making your planets awful places to live. On the other hand, other empires have a very difficult time wanting to fight or subjugate you, and it’s hilarious to see the look on their faces when you’re in the room!

You’ve adapted to ask “are you going to eat that?” where other species would be calling the hazmat team. Eat faster, live longer, and enjoy a terrifying rainbow of flavors!

Species portraits, ship models, and cityscapes that only a mother could love.

Grow your empire alongside a relentless source of noxious sarcasm!

The Toxoids Species Pack and the Stellaris 3.5 “Fornax” update will be released on September 20, 2022, and will be playable at PDXCon this Friday and Saturday at Münchenbryggeriet here in Stockholm.

We’ll be moving to a rapid dev diary release schedule for the next few weeks as we attempt to cover everything that’s in the Toxoids Species Pack. We’ll see you next Tuesday with the next Stellaris Dev Diary.



Pre-Order the Toxoids Species Pack today!

written by Eladrin

Hello again!

This week we’re going to look at some more things that are going into the upcoming Stellaris 3.5 “Fornax” release.


One of the things going into Fornax is something we’ve wanted for a very long time on PC - a Megastructure section in the Outliner.



As shown here, the Megastructures section will list all megastructures within your territory, including ruined ones as well as Gateway Sites (but not completed gateways, as that would be too much clutter).

Never again will you lose track of where you left that Gateway Site or Ruined Sentry Array!


We talked about some accessibility improvement goals before the summer, and some of them are going into Fornax.



When enabled, Mouse Side Button Mode allows Mouse 4 and Mouse 5 to toggle pause state and galactic/system views.

Page Up and Page Down will also now adjust the camera zoom level.

Other accessibility improvement projects are ongoing for future updates. I hope to have text to speech available in an Open Beta later on in the year for the 3.6 “Orion” update.


The Caravansary Caravan Coalition will now reward their most loyal patrons with Golden Tiyanki status. Those who have purchased a sufficient number of Reliquaries will now be granted the honor of being able to purchase as many as they like, directly for credits, with no more cooldowns for their best customers.



Good luck, the Galatron is waiting!

(This should make a couple of related achievements significantly less painful to acquire. They do eventually get pretty expensive, however.)


Continuing from last week, here are the rest of the new Species Pack achievements we're planning for Fornax.

Aquatics:


Holy Water - Drench a Fallen Empire’s holy world.


There Be Dragons - Have at least 13 dragons you own in your capital system.

Necroids:


With Great Power - As a Necrophage, do not invade any pre-ftl civilisations until you defeat the crisis OR have at least 10 observation stations around pre-ftl worlds.


Recent History - As a Memorialist empire, have Galactic Memorials on five tomb worlds that did not start the game as tomb worlds.

Lithoids:


Room for Desert - Consume another empire’s desert homeworld.


Can You Smell What the Lithoids are Cooking? - As a Lithoid empire, keep another Lithoid pop as Livestock or Process them.

Plantoids:


Growing Like Weeds - As a budding species that does not have the Clone Army origin, achieve a base organic pop assembly of at least 10/month on your capital.


Tend the Garden - Become the custodian of Wenkwort Artem, designating it a resort world with a Ranger Lodge and all original blockers present.

Humanoids:


Directive 67 - As a Clone Soldier empire, denounce a Spiritualist fallen empire as a crisis in the Galactic Community then destroy them, without blowing up their final planet.
(We're so mean to the Spiritualist Fallen Empire!)


Destroy the People of Earth! - As the Commonwealth of Man, destroy the United Nations of Earth with your ruler being a human with a symbiotic brainslug, without blowing up their final planet.

We also have one more being added to Synthetic Dawn:


Machine Supremacy - Win the game as a machine uprising.

Now I’ll turn it over to Iggy for an update on Relics.


Hello everyone! I am Iggy and I am back to show you the fruit of our collaboration from back earlier in the summer. Firstly we reviewed some of the feedback about the untouched relics so please enjoy even more relics with enhanced flavor and fewer pain points.



The Khan’s Throne now grants you access to the Satrapy Subject Preset letting you extort fleet capacity from your subject.

Also the Defragmentor will now have a usage for non-robot empires granting 10% energy upkeep reduction to all jobs buildings and districts.



And finally the Head of Zarqlan now has the spiritualist ethics attraction locked to the active, and the size of the fleet increases with activation, up to a max after 5 uses. Also due to popular demand the head will now spawn for the AI instead of the player 25% of the time and the AI will colonize holy worlds when they possess the relic.

Further Changes to Already Balanced Relics:

• The Psionic Archive now allows Gestalt Empires to find Psionic Theory which in turn will grant them access to Zro Mining.
  
• The Brood Queen will now grant a stacking empire modifier to swarm type weapons (Missiles and Strike Craft) for each use and will also spawn the Carrier variant on use.
  
• The Pox Sample will increase the likelihood that you find Biological Technologies
  
• The Omnicodex now gives +25 relation with non robot empires if you are a robot one.
  
• The Reality Perforator active modifiers now last 2-5 years instead of 1-5 years

For the rest of the changes please see Dev Diary #259.


Next week is PDXCon at Münchenbryggeriet here in Stockholm, but we’ll still have a dev diary taking a peek at some of the content coming out with Fornax. If you come visit us at the convention, we’ll have Fornax up and running, a Stellaris Q&A Panel where we'll be taking questions from the audience, and I’m planning on holding a small workshop where we’ll reveal how our summer experiments have gone.

There are still a few tickets left if you're in the area.

See you next week!

written by Eladrin

Hi everyone, I hope you’ve had a wonderful summer.

Today we’ll start going into some of the things planned for the upcoming Stellaris 3.5 “Fornax” update.


With the improvements that have been made to the AI over the past few updates, we’ve noticed that new players are finding things a bit more challenging and there have been some requests for an easier difficulty setting. As such, we’re adding a Civilian difficulty setting, and making Cadet the default difficulty.

Civilian difficulty further increases the bonuses players receive in Cadet difficulty, with an additional bonus towards completing First Contact.



Now, we’re aware that most of you that read these dev diaries are looking for a greater challenge rather than the opposite, but we have some things for you as well.

Two new settings are being added that allow you to better customize the difficulty of your game.

Rather than being a simple toggle, Scaling Difficulty can now be set to Off, Mid Game, or Late Game - if set to Mid Game, AI bonuses will scale from zero to the selected difficulty by the Mid-Game Start Year. Late Game will provide the current behavior of scaling to the selected difficulty by the End-Game Start Year.



Difficulty Adjusted AI Modifiers is a new toggle that can dramatically increase the strength of the AI on higher difficulty levels as the game progresses. If enabled, the AI bonuses apply to all other modifiers the AI accumulates.

As an example, the Geothermal Fracking technology grants +20% Minerals from Miners. On Grand Admiral difficulty with this setting enabled, this technology would instead grant AI empires a 40% bonus.



Fornax will also bring one other tiny little addition to the galaxy generation settings for players looking for an extra challenge.



The Crisis Type setting will now have an option for All, which will spawn every crisis sequentially, with each subsequent crisis being stronger than the previous. The galaxy is counting on you. No pressure.


Stellaris achievements have always been a bit tongue in cheek and enjoyable to make, if not always enjoyable to complete. (I’m looking at you, Galatron achievements!)

We’ve submitted to the demands of our artists, and will be adding three achievements to each species pack that has previously been released.

While Stellaris achievements have traditionally always been careful to not require “cross-dlc”, we didn’t enforce that restriction to some of these since we felt that if you have all of the Species Packs you probably have everything else already.

Here’s one example from each.

Aquatics:

Fishing for Trouble - As an angler empire, provoke a Fallen Empire into declaring war on you and win.

Necroids:


There’s a Zombie on my Lawn - As a Necroid empire, eradicate a Plantoid empire, or vice-versa, without blowing up their final planet.

Lithoids:


Rock Beats Paper - As a Lithoid empire, show the Galactic Community exactly what you think of that strongly worded letter.

Humanoids:


Strange Mood - As a Master Crafter empire, fully construct a megastructure while you have a Covenant with a Shroud entity.

Plantoids:


DIY - As an Idyllic Bloom empire, convert the junk worlds of the Ketling Star Pack into Gaia Worlds.


Next week I'll spoil more of the achievements, and go into some quality of life changes. Iggy will also give a compiled update on relic changes based on your feedback.



We'll be a bit slow with replies to this dev diary as we're currently at a staff conference. We'll catch up as we can.

See you next week!

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written by Alfray_Stryke

Hey folks, and I hope everyone is having a fantastic summer/winter break (depending on your hemisphere). I’ve found some time between my other summer experiments and the work we’re doing for 3.5 “Fornax” to dive into the feedback/suggestions lists. Since Eladrin is still away, you’re getting another sneak preview of what I’ve been working on.

One of the frequent requests from the Unity rework that was part of the 3.3 “Libra” patch earlier this year was for us to return Culture Workers to the game. Currently, they exist only as jobs provided by some event buildings, but many in the Community felt we removed some flavor/roleplay aspect when we removed them.

Over summer, I’ve been experimenting with potentially adding them back in. For context, in the current version of the game Culture Workers are a Specialist job that belongs to their own economic category, produce 3 Unity and 3 Society Research with an upkeep of 2 Consumer Goods.

Let’s have a look at an Autochthon Monument constructed by the UNE shortly after the start of the game.


Showing the Culture Workers with some unusual modifiers

To start with, the monument is retaining the Unity from Jobs modifier and the passive Unity production per Ascension Perk, but additionally provides 2/4/6 Culture Worker jobs per tier of the monument. The same applies to the Corporate version of the monument.

The sharp-eyed might notice that there’s some odd modifiers being given: Worker Happiness? Pop Upkeep Reduction? What, might you ask, has happened?

In this experiment, we’re looking at Culture Workers having an output that depends on the Ethics of your empire. After all, what influences your culture the most if not your ethics?

These are the ethics-based modifiers we’re currently testing and whether their effects are Empire-wide or only affecting the planet that the building has been constructed on:

• Materialist: +2 Amenities (Planet)
  
• Spiritualist: -2.5% Amenity Usage (Planet)
  
• Militarist: +1 Naval Capacity (Empire)
  
• Pacifist: -2.5% Crime (Planet)
  
• Egalitarian: +2.5% Worker Happiness (Planet)
  
• Authoritarian: +5 Ruler Political Power (Planet)
  
• Xenophobe: +3 Edict Fund (Empire)
  
• Xenophile: -2.5% Pop Upkeep (Planet)

These modifiers are provided by both Culture Workers and Death Chroniclers (as their job-swap with the Memorialist civic) and are doubled in the case of Fanatic ethics. They are intended to be a small buff/addition to the job, with the Unity production from both the jobs and the building being the primary draw.

Additionally, Culture Workers/Death Chroniclers now belong in the Administrator category, in the Culture Worker sub-category meaning they’ll benefit from multiplicative bonuses to Administrator output (such as those provided by the Unification or Ecclesiastical planetary designations). They produce a base of 4 Unity and +10% Government Ethics Attraction (+2.5% Stability for Death Chroniclers) with 3 Consumer Goods upkeep.

There’s also been some discussion around having Resort Worlds add Culture Workers, and if I find time I’ll be looking into that as well.

To ensure that hive-minds and machine intelligences don’t feel left out, Sensorium/Simulation Sites now provide 2/4/6 Evaluator jobs per tier of the building. These now provide 4 Unity and 3 Amenities in exchange for an upkeep of 2 Energy.


A hive-mind sensorium site providing 2 evaluator jobs.

Chronicle Drones provide the same Unity and Amenities output but give an additional +2.5% Stability in exchange for slightly higher upkeep (and that upkeep being based off of the upkeep cost of the pop working the job). Like their individualist equivalents, these jobs both now belong to the Evaluator sub-category of the Administrators jobs.

I’m not sure if we’ll have another surprise dev diary over summer, but our normal schedule should resume once Eladrin’s back and we’ll start delving into 3.5. Regardless I’ll be keeping a close eye on this thread for your thoughts, suggestions and any feedback.

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written by Iggy

Hello everyone, Iggy here with a surprise dev diary! I am a Content Designer who has worked as a Custodian for the past year or so, bringing you content like Permanent Employment and the Leviathan Parades.

I know Eladrin said no more diaries until after summer… But he is not around to stop me!

I couldn’t wait to present the initial relic balance changes and to give all of you lovely folks a chance to voice your feedback. Summer is historically a time of experimentation when it comes to Paradox, and why not experiment with how we gather feedback?

So let’s get started with some of my biggest bugbears regarding how the relics currently work, what I have done to address the issues, and why.


The relics you get from defeating the various crises in the game are pretty tame - compared to all other relics, they are actually quite balanced. That is not good enough. These are your final reward for defeating the most powerful foe in the galaxy! Let’s give you a bit of a victory lap and have some fun with this.


As you can see, you no longer will gain a measly 30 Society Research. Instead, a massive 50% modifier to all society techs is in your future.


Another issue that has plagued Stellaris for quite some time is the viability of your starting precursor. While we are not giving you the ability to choose which precursor you spawn with, I wanted to make each relic at least somewhat useful for most empires. Here, I also felt the need for some slight adjustments to the Cybrex and the Baol, as both are a bit too powerful in the early game, without removing their usefulness in the late game.


The Baol Decision now has an activation time, but you also gain hive Nu-Baol pops if you are a hivemind. If the 10% resource output wasn’t enough there is also a reason to keep using the relic on existing Gaia worlds to get a special form of Gaia Habitability on your organic pops.


The Cybrex War Forge might start out slower, but as the game progresses you’lll notice that it becomes more powerful than ever before, capable of processing additional minerals after each use.

What this rebalance also allows us to do is to make some relics slightly less annoying to use. At the top of my list, we have the Javorian Pox Sample — memed about being the worst relic in the game. Having to activate a relic and then go in and micro every fleet only for the bombardment stance to fall off a few years later made it a real frustrating relic to use as well.


Now we will always be ready to spread some plague.


Finally, we got some event relics that vary from powerful to forgettable. Here the main goal was to spice up the use of relics that might not have benefits for every playstyles. Blade of the Huntress is gaining diplomatic weight as your envoy swings it around the galactic community floor; the Omnicodex can now produce hivemind pops if you are one yourself.

You can find all currently planned changes below, these are of course subject to change:


Javorian Pox:
Current:

• Passive: +20 Leader Lifespan
  
• Active: Javorian Pox Orbital Bombardment stance

Changed:

• Passive: Bombardment Stance and +20 Leader Lifespan
  
• Active: 50% increased biology research

The Last Baol:
Current:

• Active instantly creates a Gaia world

Changed:

• The active decision takes 5 years to create a Gaia world
  
• If the decision is activated on a Gaia World, all organic pops on the world get an empowered Gaia World Habitability preference granting them +5% resource output on Gaia Worlds.
  
• The Nu-Baol will be hivemind if you are a hivemind

Yuht Cryo Core:
Current:

• Passive: +1 pop on every new colony

Changed:

• Passive: +1 pop on every new colony, +20% energy weapon fire rate

Psionic Archive:
Current:

• Passive:
  
• -50% Shroud Cooldown
  
• Better Shroud odds
  
• Active:
  
• Event granting numerous boons, including a 500 experience boost which becomes quite lacking in the late game.

Changed:

• Passive:
  
• -50% Shroud Cooldown
  
• Better Shroud odds
  
• Unlocks an edict granting leader XP, longevity, and accident prevention for a zro upkeep.
  
• +5 Ruler Max Level
  
• Active: The knowledge option now always levels your ruler up a level instead of granting a flat xp bonus.

Cybrex Warforge:
Current:

• Passive: 5% More alloys, and allowing the building of the most powerful buildable army in the game.
  
• Active: Spend 10000 minerals and gain 5000 alloys.

Changed:

• Passive: Allows the building of the most powerful buildable army in the game.
  
• Active: Spend 2000 minerals and gain 1000 alloys. Effect Increases by 2000 minerals and 1000 alloys each time it’s activated up to a cap of 20,000 alloys.

Vultaum Reality Perforator:
Current:

• Active: Grants one of 4 random buffs lasting for 1 year.

Changed:

• Active: Grants one of 4 random buffs lasting for 1 - 5 years.

Blade of the Huntress:
Current:

• Passive: +25% Army Morale +2 Planet Sensor Range
  
• Active: +25% Sublight Speed for 10 years

Changed:

• Passive: +25% Army Morale 20% more diplo weight
  
• Active: +25% Sublight Speed for 10 years

Omnicodex:
Current:

• Active: Adds 3 pops of a random species

Changed:

• Active: Adds 3 pops of a random species, if you are a hivemind they are also hive-minded.

Ether Drake Trophy:
Current:

• Active: 10% more happiness

Changed:

• Active: 10% more happiness and 10 stability to every planet.

The Surveyor:
Current:

• Active: Can grant 3-5 rare resources among other deposits.

Changed:

• Active: Can grant 1-3 rare resource deposits. Nothing else changed.

Note: The Surveyor has half the cooldown and only costs energy to activate. It’s still an excellent peacetime relic.


Extradimensional Warlock:
Current:

• Passive: +15% Sublight Speed
  
• Active: +100% more jumpdrive range

Changed:

• Passive: +30% Sublight speed, +20% weapon range
  
• Active:
  
• +100% more jumpdrive range
  
• -50% jump cooldown reduction
  
• +75% more accuracy and range on your Quantum Catapult

Prethoryn Brood-Queen:
Current:

• Passive: +30 society research
  
• Active: Spawns a small fleet

Changed:

• Passive: +50% society research
  
• Active: Spawns a sizeable fleet

Isolated Contingency Core:
Current:

• Passive: +100% Pop Assembly Speed

Changed:

• Passive:
  
• +100% Pop Assembly Speed
  
• Allows the construction of 2 of each megastructure instead of 1.

Khan's Throne

• Felt like it had a solid theme already with a solid bonus.

Head of Zarqlan

• Has both an early game and a late-game bonus as well as superb flavor.

Miniature Galaxy

• Research is always top tier and random should stay random.

The Defragmentor

• Allows you to convert unity into energy. The passive not having any benefit to a spiritualist empire does feel kinda bad. Might look into it.

Scales of the Worm

• There is no way we can ever make this relic comparable to the bonus you get for embracing the Worm. It would have to be the strongest relic on this list.

The Rubricator

• One of two ways to get a repeatable source of Minor Artifacts, very powerful.

The Galatron

• Is the Galatron

Now I want to hear from you! Are you terrified of what I did to the Yuht Cryo Core? Annoyed that I skipped the Miniature galaxy? Still not feeling like activating the Pox Sample? Please feel free to analyze and make tier lists. Hopefully, after this next patch, every relic will be a bit more attractive!

Hi all,

Another hotfix has arrived, containing a select few fixes primarily for improving multiplayer stability.

Please find the patch notes below.

STELLARIS 3.4.5 "CEPHEUS" PATCH NOTES
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Megacorps should no longer create rival Megacorps after winning an Impose Ideology war.
Fixed War Names sometimes being empty on the war pin tooltip.
Fixed Out of Sync upon hotjoining as an Overlord.
Fixed Out of Sync after triggering a revolt.
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Please note that save file compatibility between versions is not guaranteed.

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