Got tired of waiting for someone else to fix my crippling urge to play Stellaris post-4.0, so I made this collection myself. I've been tinkering with mods for a while now, nothing impressive just lots of trying stuff out to survive the Great Patchening and someone smarter comes around with a better collection.

ALL DLC Required! // Intended for SP Use so no idea if this is Stable in MP

Latest Version of the Collection: [V.0.5] // 08.06.2025 // Check Changelog
Tested on 4.0.15 // Merged: 08.06.2025 at 13:44

Published the Double Hotfix on the Workshop for Plentifull Traditions (my first Mod yay :x)
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3488531823 // Updated mod with more Bugfixes 29.05

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🧩UI Mods & Overhauls 🧩
- UI Overhaul Dynamic Suite: Includes all extensions (Ascension Slots, Tiny Outliner, SpeedDial, Gigastructures patch, etc.)
- Agress0r's UI and Intuitive Habitables Slider: UI quality improvements
- Ancient Empire UI Patch: UI compatibility layer

🛠️ Quality of Life Enhancements 🛠️
- Stability & Performance: Stellaris Fixes, AI Game Performance, No More Exclaves, No Default Empires
- Visual & Utility: Better Ship Behaviors, Flags & Emblems, Immersive Visuals, More District Slots

🌌 Gameplay Expansions 🌌
- Empires & Stories: Ancient Empire 2.0, Forgotten Empires, Empires Expanded, Vassals Expanded, Uncivic, Juggernaut Origin
- Events & Narrative: Extra Events, Archaeology Story Pack, More Astral Rifts, Hydra’s Astral Actions
- Species & Traits: Psionic Species, Trait Diversity, Xenology
- Tech & Progression: Technology Ascendant

🌍 Planet & Environment Overhauls 🌍
- Planetary Diversity Suite: Gaia, Ascension, Unique Worlds, City Sets, Vanilla Replacements
- World Flavor: City World Flavour, Relic World Flavour

🚀 Ships, Components & Starbases 🚀
- Gigastructures & Superconstructions
- Ship Customization: Extra Ship Components, ESC Overwrites
- Combat Enhancements: Amazing Space Battles + Addons
- Starbase Expansion: Starbase Extended 3.0

💾 Frameworks & Compatibility 💾
- Casako’s Framework & Modmenu
- Universal Patch Set: Game Rules Patch, Modifier Patch, Resource Patch
- Multi-Patcher Integration: Gigastructures, SpeedDial, PSE support

🤖 AI Enhancements 🤖
- Smarter Hyper Relays
- Better Ship Behaviors
- AI Game Performance Optimisation

🎨 Cosmetic & Flavor Mods 🎨
- Flags: Emblems & Backgrounds
- Cybrxkhan's Namelists
- Immersive Visual Tweaks
- (Portraits come Later when Paradox fixes the horrible FPS drop during Planet View)

🌠 Galaxy & Environment Enhancements 🌠
- Real Space Suite: Real Space 4.0 + New Frontiers
- Additional Variety: DarkSpace, Yet Another Galaxy Enhancement Mod

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Make a backup of your old mod setup in a new collection and unsubscribe from all your existing mods.
After that, go to your mod folder and delete everything in: ...\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\281990

Why?!
Because I've pulled my hair out more times than I’d like to admit due to Steam not properly updating mods and leaving behind a broken mess. To keep both of us sane, please make sure no remnants are left behind.

Subscribe to this collection or override your Collection (remember to backup your old one if you want), both methods work.

Download and install Irony Mod Manager:
Latest GitHub Version[github.com]

Download my exported mod profile:
14.05. V.01 Export[drive.google.com]
17.05. [V.02] Export [drive.google.com]
24.05. [V.0.3] Export[drive.google.com]
27.05. [V.0.4] Export[drive.google.com]
08.06. [V.0.5] Export[drive.google.com]

Open IMM, click Import, and select the zip file.

Use the Basic Merge Method (especially if your PC is a potato like mine), apply the collection,
then launch Stellaris through IMM and pray to the Shroud that everything works as intended.

It also helps to keep your mods on a certain version since Update for the game and Mods come out at a rapid pace.
technically if you have a beast of PC you dont need to merge, but for me with my RTX 3070 and Ryzen 2700X if i dont merge and open then Pop Panel on a Planet, FPS drop from 110 to 7. (after merge like 70ish)....Thanks Paradox

I'm currently testing a lot of Stuff, while playing and after that ill be working on a conflict patch to make sure everything plays nicely together, but that might take a little while, since this is my first time creating and maintaing a Collection rather than using someone elses. (for example MrFunEGUY's and Dukkos awesome Work).

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Other Mod Collection Recommendations:

• AETHER – is a carefully curated Stellaris mod collection focused on enriching the game's narrative, strategic depth, and visual fidelity. It offers a balanced blend of lore-friendly expansions, immersive UI enhancements, and performance-optimized fixes, Created by Lan.

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