Stellaris Dev Diary #311 - Chiseling Away

[Alfray Stryke]

Happy with the balance changes, thank you. I was wondering how the Surveyor relic interacts with habitats, asked it last week. Does it add new orbital slots or do the amount of districts increase/ change if a different deposit is added? Please let us know!

Good question,

Looking at it, the relic shouldn't add new deposits to planets that already have a deposit, so if an orbital provides research, energy or mining districts that won't change.

If the orbital provides building slots due to the planet lacking a research, energy or mining deposit when the orbital was first constructed and the relic adds a new deposit, you'll need to rebuild the orbital to get the district type unlocked.

I'll have a look at making this a bit smoother by swapping the orbital to collect resources if the relic spawns resources under it.

 

[Eladrin]

I am a Latin speaker, and confirm that "Caelum" means sky.

It's both.

Caelum is a faint constellation in the southern sky, introduced in the 1750s by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille and counted among the 88 modern constellations. Its name means "chisel" in Latin, and it was formerly known as Caelum Sculptorium ("Engraver's Chisel"); It is a rare word, unrelated to the far more common Latin caelum, meaning "sky", "heaven", or "atmosphere". It is the eighth-smallest constellation, and subtends a solid angle of around 0.038 steradians, just less than that of Corona Australis.

Thanks, I hate it.

Good, good! Let the hate flow through you!

 

[Eladrin]

Probably a silly question, but is the new update to the beta save compatible with saves on the beta before it was updated?

It is not completely save compatible. There was a fix made to orbitals that unfortunately removes the ones from the old saves. (There may also be some other things that break between versions.)