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!Space Industry (Habitat Overhaul) for 2.5.1

SIHO; Space Industry and Habitat Overhaul, updated to 2.3! Compared to vanilla habitats in 2.3, SIHO allows you to gain useful resources from almost any habitat's placement, allow habitats to scale deeper into the late game, while also allowing your empire to decide to shift towards orbital arcologies in the early to mid game.

Habitat construction is now a tier two technology. Constructing a habitat now only requires 1,000 alloys and 100 influence, but only starts with two districts. Researching star fortress or citadel technologies unlocks a decision that increases the habitats number of districts by 2 for a further cost of 1,000 alloys and 50 influence - to the vanilla limit of six.

Rather than just checking for resource deposits, habitats will also check for the type of planetary body they're built upon. Asteroids and most rocky planets allow for the astro mining districts. Ice asteroids, gas giants, toxic worlds, and luminous stars allow the generator district. And collapsars, shrouded worlds, and shielded worlds can support science districts.

Habitats can still not be built over moons, however any unlocked districts or deposits the moon would have given the habitat are added to any habitats built over the primary planetoid. In addition, habitats built over planets that possess moons or are gas giants get a free +2 district limit.

Also spiritualist empires do not produce leisure districts. Instead they can construct temple districts, which give a +5% spiritualist ethic attraction and three priest jobs.

The goal of SIHO was for habitats to feel like a continuation of, and increasing scale, of space mining and research. To account for this, you no longer have to destroy your mining or research station to begin habitat construction. Instead, the mining and research stations in orbit of the planet (or its moons) will be removed when the habitat has finished completion. In addition, your brand new habitat will already be colonized with a member of your empire's primary species, reflecting the growing population of space miners (and administrators) that will surely welcome new fresh faced immigrants who didn't realize the toil it took to turn a dead space rock into a home for the family.

Don't mind the events detailing how you need a colony ship to move your pops over for now. Apparently your capital didn't get the memo. :)

If you build a habitat over a planetary body with mineral, energy, or science deposits, the habitat will inherit the resource production of the deposit. In addition, for every 1 mineral, energy, or science deposit, the habitat will have a 5% bonus to job yields of that deposit type!

Habitats in 2.3 suffer in the late game compared to planets because of how lackluster their city district is compared to their planetary cousins. From technologies and traditions, planetary city districts gain the same housing as habitat cities, in addition to two clerks. Combined with the inability to build housing buildings as a non-gestalt, this leads to a residency crunch as the late game approaches.

SIHO addresses this by making sure that the habitat city district will always be 50% better than their planetary counterpart. The housing of your habitat city district will increase by two with each city technology (to a maximum of 12), and also produces two clerks (with a third unlocked by the relevant prosperity tradition). In addition, housing districts can be built by all empires on habitats, so late game habitats can further increase their population yield like planets can.


Planet View 2 The mod functions without this, but certain habitats (looking at you, Gas Giants) can have more than four districts, requiring this mod to properly function.

Bigger Planet View Can be used as an alternative to Planet View 2, if you want to not use the bigger building slots, or use a different max building mod of your choice.

The following vanilla files were overwritten with this mod;
03_habitat_districts
habitats

In addition, the habitat technology was also overwritten.

District Overhaul Compatability Mod Made by Arigas to address compatability issues between SIHO and DO.

Special thanks to the Stellaris Modding Den discord channel for helping me through with any questions I've had since starting to try my hand at modding.

Rebalanced Worker Jobs Changes all worker jobs to produce 5 of their respective resource, instead of 4/4/6 (or 6/4/5 for robots), to address balance and economic concerns.