A collection that will drastically overhaul your game.

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Many collections currently on steam all suffer from similar problems. Incompatible mods, lack of coherence, poor late-game performance, extremely long loading times, and probably most prevalent large amounts of bloat. This is further exacerbated by the confusing load orders that Paradox so gracefully implemented in 2.5.

There was also a want to try something new in the modding community. It seems that almost every single collection has the same mods, whether it be Gigastructures, ACOT, NSC, ect. You'll find newer more obscure mods here that are not as popular but just as deserving of attention.

This collection aims to strike a balance between content addition and balance, extending vanilla game play without completely drowning it out. Everything is selected with as much compatibility in mind, and as such things such as wonky UI, ugly graphics, or broken game mechanics is kept down to a minimal.

Granted, the pack is no longer as lightweight as before (up to 200 mods now), but performance loss should still be kept to a minimal and loading times are kept to under 3 minutes.If that's too much for you, try merging for better results. I've tested up to 2600 with a 1000 star galaxy, and it was very much still playable.


The main content addition is broken down in the following

Ship Combat Overhaul (parts and game play)
This pack is mainly based around the ACG Pack . Complete change-logs can be found on the main mod page , but can be summarized as

- Complete overhaul of ship combat
- Expansion on vanilla tech tiers for ship components, along with new component types
- Overhaul of Fallen Empire ship components
- Introduction of three new ship classes, the carrier, dreadnought and super carrier
- New ships set in the form of vanilla friendly Machine Ships, Terrahumans and more!

AI Improvements

- ACG
- Brutal endgame fights courtesy of ACE
- Diverse and reasonable AI behaviors

Smart Sectors
Sectors are actually useful now, courtesy of Improved Sectors and Automation . I highly recommend you read through this mod, but a summary below is

- Highly improved sector AI
- Doubled sector Sizes
- Reduced micro in the late game
- Meaningful differences between frontier and core sectors

Government and Populace

- Overhauled Ethics and Civics System
- Dozens of new Civics
- New Origins
- New Independent Nation-States can form from larger empires
- New Traditions and Ascension Perks
- Automatic pop migration

Harsher Governing

- Civil Wars will happen from unsatisfied factions
- Espionage is easier and more crucial for both you and rival governments
- Galactic Community penalties will be harsher

New Frontiers to Explore

- Dozens of new planet types
- New star types
- Revamped hyperlane generation
- Unconquerable wildspace

New Species, Mechanics, and Traits

- Psionic Overhaul
- New Silicoids portraits and mechanics
- New Cryogenic portraits and mechanics
- New Necroid portraits and mechanics
- Dozens of new species traits

Extra Buildings and Tech

- Expanded late-game buildings
- Expanded late-game technologies
- Expanded planet view provide for up to 36 buildings per planet
- Increased diversity in late game repeatables

Graphical Overhaul

- Amazing combat graphics provided by ACG
- Heavily expanded and beautified UI


You probably need most of the big DLC's (think Utopia, Apocalypse, Federations, ect.)

LET ME ITERATE THAT YOU NEED TO INSTALL IRONY MOD MANAGER AND FOLLOW INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS EXACTLY. THIS PACK WILL NOT WORK AT ALL IF YOU DON'T.

Make sure to wipe all mods before installing this collection. This includes going into your mods folder under documents/paradox/stellaris and deleting everything inside. You may also need to clean out the steam workshops folder. If you still have issues, reinstall Stellaris.

After that, you can click subscribe to all and download all the mods, however, the load order will be incorrect and cause lots of compatibility issues. Downloading the Irony Mod Manager is required because of new custom patching for this pack. Just download Irony Mod Manager [bcssov.github.io], and then download and import in my patch and load list [drive.google.com] into the Irony Mod Manager.

There should be no need to conflict solve. There is already a patch included in the load order that does this.


Merging mods would reduce the loading times, improve stability, and most importantly make it infinitely easier to install a modpack.

But it also steps into the realm of taking credit for mods that I did not make, nor modified, nor did anything with besides throw into a collection. So therefore all credit goes to the hardworking modders of the Stellaris community, and unless I get permission from every single one of these authors for a merge, it will not happen.

If load times really are too much for you, utilize the merging tool in Irony Mod Manager. I usually set it to simple merge. You can expect load times to go down from 4 mins to less than 1.

It hasn't been tested extensively, but yes it does. Just make sure everyone is running the same exact versions of the same mods. This is made a lot easier by using the merge tool I described before and distributing the merged mods to everyone.


What are these start menus/galaxy gen options?
Once generated, a bunch of set-up menus will pop up from various mods at the start of a new game. Most of these are fairly self-explanatory, with options for changing planet modifiers, modifying nearby habitable planets, ect. I highly recommend turning off Project Olympus on the superstructures mod menu since it isn't balanced with ACG at all. I also highly recommend activating all of the Fatherland mod capabilities to introduce colony nation states.

My late game lags really bad, why?
Vanilla stellaris is bad with handling large amounts of population in a galaxy. The simple fact is is that more pops = more lag. To combat this, play on smaller galaxies with less habitable worlds if your PC cannot handle it. Also try playing on slower game speed settings like normal or slow.


3/20/22 - One Last Hurrah, this is it, last update for this pack (ACG is discontinued)
- Lots of changes, mods that can be are updated to 3.3
- Added in more Fallen empries
- Added in cheaty civics for RP
- Hopefully more bugs fixed

1/29/22 - Quick bug fix, removed ai-player exclusive archeology, should be save compat.
- Also fixed defense stations costing 0 alloys

1/28/22 - Hopefully last update for 3.2.X
- Additional Dynamic Difficulty customization added
- Removed Wildspace 3, not updated
- Added ASIO galaxy gen
- More Flags
- Replaced Civil War with Civil War fork
- Hopefully correctly patched AVB, should upgrade properly now