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Staggered Habitats (2.2)

This mod allows habitats to be built much earlier in game, but much smaller. Instead of building a massive habitat in one go, habitats will start small, and you expand them over time as your civilisation grows. It is aiming to be roughly balanced with vanilla habitats.

Building habitats is unlocked by the first starbase engineering tech, but modular habitats start at size 1, and must be expanded using planetary decisions.

Without the Voidborn ascension perk the modular habitats all have a significant penalty to resource production and increase in maintenance costs. They can also only be expanded to a size of 3. Once you purchase voidborn the penalty is removed and habitats can be expanded up to size 6.
To reduce micromanagement later in the game, with Voidborn you can build a full habitat for the standard cost as well as the modular one. It also unlocks another decision that fully enlarges any habitats that are not already at size 6, again to cut down the micromanagement.

Overall the cost of modularly building the habitat is the same in terms of alloys and influence, but also modular habitats will also require energy to clear the blockers. So they end up costing 1500 energy more than a vanilla habitat.

Utopia DLC

This mod makes a minor change to the voidborn ascension perk, everything else is new features, so should be compatible with other mods.
If a mod conflicts with the Voidborn perk and stops the inefficient usage penalty being removed automatically when you buy Voidborn, a new planetary decision will be unlocked that lets you manually remove it.

It is heavily inspired by Habit Revamp mod by nodrogj that can be found on the steam workshop here

@oblevdorohmsic has provided a simplified Chinese language file. Many thanks.

If you would like to help translate into your language, the English language file is at
https://github.com/draconas1/staggered-hab/blob/master/localisation/english/staggered-habitats_l_english.yml if you are familiar with git then feel free to fork and create a pull request when you are done. If you have no idea how to use github the don't worry: download the file, and upload your localised version to pastebin or similar and let me know in the comments and I will handle the rest.

Habitats cost 5 alloys a tick upkeep when colonised (taken from habitat administration upkeep), if you spam them in the early game this can easily cripple your alloy production. Especially as while you lack Voidborn there is a 20% increase on all your habitat maintenance costs.

Habitats with enhanced features and the ability to mine for natural resources have been moved to my new mod Enhanced Habitats The 2 mods are completely compatible.

If you have not upgraded to Le Guin or would prefer to stick with the old (blocker based) functionality, you can download the previous releases from github, and add them to a mod manually.
See the excellent guide on : https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/Modding#Step_by_Step_Guide and simply copy the sourcecode you downloaded from github into the folder in the step where it states to copy the original game file.

Please note that these will not be maintained by me, but you are welcome to fork the git repository and release your own, just please give me credit.

For Stellaris 2.1x
https://github.com/draconas1/staggered-hab/releases/tag/v1.1.1

Using blockers
https://github.com/draconas1/staggered-hab/releases/tag/2.0.0

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