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Stellaris Dev Diary #352 - Stellaris 3.13 'Vela' Improvements and Preliminary Release Notes

Hello everyone!

The Cosmic Storms Mechanical Expansion is nearly here, so today we’ve got preliminary release notes and some of the Custodian changes.

Cosmic Storms is going to be released next Tuesday, on September 10th.

Changes to Planetary Resource Deposits​

As part of the Custodian changes in 3.13 ‘Vela’, we’ve made some changes to how some planetary deposits for rare resources are handled.

The deposits that previously gave access to Crystal Mines, Gas Extraction Wells and Mote Harvesting Traps buildings, now instead increase the number of mining districts available on the planet and, after researching the technology to extract the relevant resource, add a small amount of resource production to miners on that planet.

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Additionally, we’ve buffed the Betharian Power Plant to increase the energy produced by Technician Jobs.

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Penal Colonies & Thrall Worlds​

Much like how Resort Worlds were updated earlier this year, we have taken the time to revisit both Penal Colonies and Thrall worlds.

Penal Colonies now both reduce crime across your empire while giving access to unique Prison Industrial Districts. These allow you to employ worker strata pops to produce alloys and consumer goods.


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Thrall Worlds on the other hand have taken inspiration from the countless examples across science fiction of elite battle thrall armies and give access to the Battle Thrall District. Armies trained on a Thrall World will start with additional XP and Battle Thrall jobs will increase the damage your armies do.

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Preliminary Release Notes​

And now, on to the release notes.

Cosmic Storms Expansion Features​

  • Eight dynamic new storm types:
    • Electric, Particle, Gravity, Magnetic, Radiant, Stardust, Shroud, and Nexus storms
  • New Origin: Storm Chasers
  • Three new Civics
    • Astrometeorology
    • Planetscapers
    • Storm Devotion
  • New Ascension Perk: Galactic Weather Control
  • Weather Forecast Map Mode
  • Two new Precursors
    • The adAkkaria Convention of Benevolence
    • The Inetian Traders
  • New Technologies and Buildings
  • New Planetary Deposits, Modifiers and Anomalies following Storm Aftermaths
  • New GalCom Resolutions and Edicts
  • New Events and Anomalies

3.13.0 Patch​

Improvements
  • Update to Thrall Worlds, adding two new slave-focused districts, Battle Thrall Jobs, and improvements to tooltips and theme
  • Update to Prison Worlds - adding two new penal-focused districts, five new jobs, and improvements to tooltips and theme
  • Xenophobe ethics now swaps to providing pop assembly when appropriate
  • The location of empire-scope special projects will move to the new capital if the empire’s capital changes
  • Gestalt Empires are now allowed to decide on their land appropriation policy, and are no longer forced to populate every planet
  • Corvee System now gives -15% resettlement cost for Individualist Machines
  • Standardized volume of all advisor VO lines
  • War allies will be able to use wormholes, hyper relays, and gateways in each other's territory even if their borders are closed
  • Removed the galaxy-wide Space Storm introduced in 2.7 “Wells”

UI
  • Updated the megastructure selection UI
    • Improved tooltips in the megastructure selection UI
    • When selecting a location for Arc Furnace stage 1, the tooltip shows the number of deposit sites in the system
    • When selecting a location for a Habitat Central Complex, the tooltip shows orbital capacities in the system
    • Fixed tooltip not showing when selecting a location to build a megastructure
  • Map icons in galaxy and system view no longer truncate the resource amount when between 0 and 1
  • The tooltip that mentions if a civic is locked is now red instead of orange
  • Enabled mouse scrolling in the research completed window
  • Extended the minimum width of the "Veteran Level Reached!" window in case too few options are available to choose from
  • Fixed some overlapping UI in the Empire Creation screens
  • Fixed position of "Cross-platform play" checkbox on MS Store
  • Updated the Map Modes UI
    • The Players map mode is no longer available when observing in singleplayer
    • The Players and Trade Routes map mode buttons are now disabled instead of hidden when they're unavailable
    • Fixed Players mapmode not graying out AI empires in some cases
    • The Unions map mode is now a regular map mode instead of a toggle

Bugfix
  • Fixed the placeholder icon for the diplomatic message to request to join the galactic imperium
  • Made AI capable of building planetary shields
  • The Chthonian Planet, Extensive Moon System and Carbon World modifiers will now only add their mineral deposits to the planet the first time they are surveyed instead of every time they are surveyed
  • Corrected tooltip and loyalty effects for the Ministry of Acquisition
  • Individualistic Machine empires should no longer get an event intended for Organics
  • Fixed the Nanite Intercessor being present in ship previews in the empire creator
  • Fixed cyberpunk advisor lines for council agenda ready and council agenda available notifications
  • Fixed fleets' cloaking strength sometimes not updating when ships' cloaking strength changes due to modifiers
  • Fixed juggernauts not showing the fleet bombardment button
  • Election auto pausing and unpausing now functions like other event pop ups
  • Removed the double modifiers for Defense platforms from Ancient Shield Overcharger
  • Removed serviles from the can_think trigger due to unintended knock on effects
  • If an arc furnace is built around a potential Contingency Hub, when the planet becomes their hub, the arc furnace is correctly destroyed
  • Fixed uncovered deposits not being removed when an arc furnace is destroyed
  • Colossus special project will reward the original country that started the project instead of the current planet owner
  • Leaders who are researching an anomaly or project or on cooldown can be assigned to the council
  • Roccan Resistance and Free Peoples of the Fall genders changed from indeterminate to default
  • The species of planetary defense armies will get updated after species modification
  • AI empires will select ethics required by their origin
  • All starbase types now explode when destroyed instead of blinking out of existence
  • Fixed numerous instances, such as when establishing an embassy, where the game would load the countries home planet instead of their capital
  • Game should no longer crash when an empire you had a trade deal with is destroyed during a war
  • Various Out Of Sync fixes
  • War allies will be able to use each wormholes in each other's territory even if their borders are closed

Modding
  • Implemented "on_storm_encountered" on_action when a country is affected for the first time by a new storm
  • Added on_storm_entered_system on-action
  • Added on_storm_left_system on-action, for when a cosmic storm has left a solar system
  • Added support for generate_random_name = yes to the spawn_planet effect
  • Refactored Arcology industrial districts into Inline Scripts
  • Replaced all "has_authority" checks with scripted triggers making it easier to add new authorities
  • Added the awakening_not_allowed country flag that blocks fallen empires from awakening
  • Added the keep_deposit_on_terraform deposit flag to make sure deposits don't go missing when you terraform
  • Added "visible" trigger to map modes
  • Added "tutorial" member to map modes
  • Added is_infertile trigger
  • Added support for displaying comma and period as hotkeys in button tooltips
  • Added planet_crime_floor_add modifier that sets a minimum level of crime on a planet
  • Added fail trigger for special projects + documentation
  • Added 'mod_name_affix' to create_species effect
  • Added num_asteroid_belts trigger to check the number of asteroids in a system
  • Added game rules for founder_species_uses_growth_speed, founder_species_uses_organic_assembly and founder_species_uses_assembly
  • Added game rule to force visibility on fleets for a specific system

Next Week​

With the release planned for next Tuesday, our next expected dev diary will be on September 19th.

See you then!

 
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Wait, is that specifically regular assault armies or could I do biological ascension, turn some Lithoids into the ultimate warriors and then have the slave armies buff the damage potential of my gene warriors recruited from the lithoids?
 
A2ch0n said:
Can we have a sneak peak? :)
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Oops.

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Galactic Weather Control can theoretically be your second Ascension Perk, but requires the Advanced Storm Manipulation technology.

When you take it, you'll have a new action for your Science ships:
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Which will trigger an event and start a Situation.
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The deposits that previously gave access to Crystal Mines, Gas Extraction Wells and Mote Harvesting Traps buildings, now instead increase the number of mining districts available on the planet and, after researching the technology to extract the relevant resource, add a small amount of resource production to miners on that planet.
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This is a much needed buff to the Life Seeded origin. Thanks !
 
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I love the changes coming to penal and thrall worlds. I do find it a little strange though that the Battle Thrall jobs increase the damage of all assault armies regardless of type. Wouldn't it make more sense for Battle Thrall jobs to increase the army damage bonus given by the Battle Thralls slavery type?
 
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SilentReflection said:
I love the changes coming to penal and thrall worlds. I do find it a little strange though that the Battle Thrall jobs increase the damage of all assault armies regardless of type. Wouldn't it make more sense for Battle Thrall jobs to increase the army damage bonus given by the Battle Thralls slavery type?
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While it may make more sense, we figured it would feel too limited when you might want to use things like Xenomorph or other special armies (which we can assume undergo special training on your thrall worlds training alongside your Battle Thralls).

Edit: @Gruntsatwork points out this sounds like a movie plot.
 
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Eladrin said:

Changes to Planetary Resource Deposits​

As part of the Custodian changes in 3.13 ‘Vela’, we’ve made some changes to how some planetary deposits for rare resources are handled.

The deposits that previously gave access to Crystal Mines, Gas Extraction Wells and Mote Harvesting Traps buildings, now instead increase the number of mining districts available on the planet and, after researching the technology to extract the relevant resource, add a small amount of resource production to miners on that planet.


Additionally, we’ve buffed the Betharian Power Plant to increase the energy produced by Technician Jobs.

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Oh hey! I remember asking for update to the Betharian Power Plants! It's great to see it! Also the changes to mining are also very neat, now you will have a few building slots for something else. Also any chance for some other "localized special resources that cannot be sold/bought on marketplace" that buff local products like Betharian Stone or nah? ;P

Also I really dig the updated planet designations. Might want to look for the mod for the less... strict prisons, where you have to pay bigger upkeep for the pops, but you get reduced crime empire wise. Rehabilitation, not punishment etc ;P

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War allies will be able to use wormholes, hyper relays, and gateways in each other's territory even if their borders are closed
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So that's why the wars have been in stalemates despite both forces having flotillas? Damn.
 
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Eladrin said:
Oops.

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Galactic Weather Control can theoretically be your second Ascension Perk, but requires the Advanced Storm Manipulation technology.

When you take it, you'll have a new action for your Science ships:
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Which will trigger an event and start a Situation.
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Do I spy lack of requirement "must be in your borders"? :cool::cool::cool:

Can I use many cloaked Science Ships to start multiple storms in the empire I plan to attack? Will it be possible for the enemy to stop the situation just like it is done with Devourer Egg or nah?
 
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Eladrin said:
While it may make more sense, we figured it would feel too limited when you might want to use things like Xenomorph or other special armies (which we can assume undergo special training on your thrall worlds training alongside your Battle Thralls).

Edit: @Gruntsatwork points out this sounds like a movie plot.
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My headcanon now is that if the battle thralls are not being used as soldiers, they are being used as sparring/target practice for the other troops
 
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As far as I can see, the approach to creating DLC has changed in the last year (the result of the studio's centralization). I may be wrong.
Tell me, are there any plans to change or add to DLC, to which the studio has an ambiguous attitude?

(For example, a precursor related to Astal Rift suggests itself, but it is not there. As if it should be there, but something happened and it disappeared)

And not only with this example. Are there any plans not within the framework of free patches, but specifically "refining" the DLC
 
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Mech_infect said:
Tell me, are there any plans to change or add to DLC, to which the studio has an ambiguous attitude?
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That's what the Custodian Team occasionally does, like when they updated all the old Species Portrait DLCs so they are on the same level as the modern Species DLCs (which, alongside portraits, also add Origins, Civics, xenotype traits, Traditions, and so on). So yes, it's possible that it'll happen.
 
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Anonim97 said:
Do I spy lack of requirement "must be in your borders"? :cool::cool::cool:
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That is correct.

Mech_infect said:
Tell me, are there any plans to change or add to DLC, to which the studio has an ambiguous attitude?
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As noted by @Nyrael , the Custodian team does add to existing DLCs fairly frequently. Though I would not expect something that is the size of a new precursor to be likely to be added to older DLCs.

Right now I have most of the Custodian team working on some bigger things that I'll go into after Grand Archive releases.

Harkinian's Dinner said:
No balance changes to the overpowered features from the previous DLC is disappointing. I guess Genetic and Psionic ascensions will be unusable for at least one more DLC interval.
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We do not have plans to decrease the general power level of the features of The Machine Age.
 
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So no more Mote harvesting traps on the planet?
Yes thank you. I really never liked that they blocked precious building slots.

And I do appreciate the changes to the Thrall and Prison worlds.
 
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Are the values for the penal metallurgist final? They seem like a massive improvement over the regular metallurgist. For comparrison the regular one has 6 minerals upkeep and 3 alloys output (a 2:1 conversion rate), so the penal metallurgist is more than twice as efficient (1:1.2 conversion). Even if there are some modifiers improving the penal job it seems a bit over the top. The penal artisan is also more upkeep efficient it seems (1:1.36 conversion rate compared to the regular 1:1), but at least the regular artisan has a higher output (6 cg for 6 minerals instead of 4.5 cg for 3.3 minerals).

Do penal metallurgists change with the catalytic processing civic?
Do penal artisans change with the master crafter civic and is there a pearl diver equivalent?
Do battle thralls count as soldier jobs for the citizen service and sovereign guardianship civics?
 
Peaceful Snail said:
Are the values for the penal metallurgist final? They seem like a massive improvement over the regular metallurgist. For comparrison the regular one has 6 minerals upkeep and 3 alloys output (a 2:1 conversion rate), so the penal metallurgist is more than twice as efficient (1:1.2 conversion). Even if there are some modifiers improving the penal job it seems a bit over the top. The penal artisan is also more upkeep efficient it seems (1:1.36 conversion rate compared to the regular 1:1), but at least the regular artisan has a higher output (6 cg for 6 minerals instead of 4.5 cg for 3.3 minerals).

Do penal metallurgists change with the catalytic processing civic?
Do penal artisans change with the master crafter civic and is there a pearl diver equivalent?
Do battle thralls count as soldier jobs for the citizen service and sovereign guardianship civics?
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  • The penal metallurgist has a base consumption of 3 minerals and a base output of 1.5 alloys.
  • Yes, they should swap for penal catalytic technicians with the correct civics
  • Yes, there are penal artificers for the correct civics
  • There are not penal pearl divers.
  • Battle Thralls should inherit most of the modifiers for Soldier jobs.
 
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