Thanks for the heads up snacker. It's insane to me how little Paradox cares about their mod community. They put on a friendly face then insist on breaking countless mods every patch without fail.

@Etiluos Thanks so much for the quick fix, seems to have done it!

@eqN From what I understand it's because old mods with graphical cultures are missing ship defines, which for some reason defaults them to bio ships? Basically Paradox broke nearly every old city, shipset, and portrait mod with 4.0.

There's a fix if you look for a discussion thread in the "4.0 Stellaris Mod Collection w/Load Order: ((( NSC3 - Season 1 ))), Planetary Diversity" collection.

I spawn as a random empire often and even there it comes up that your unable to build military ships. The main thing I noticed as a player, appears to be that your randomized empire chooses a non-bioship set (visually) but somehow still has bioship (food) costs on the ships I can still build (civilian ships only) as if they were bioships...

It's a super weird bug and yours is not the only mods I have seen it with. It is a lot of custom portrait mods for some reason that can sometimes do this.

@snackerfork
I see what you mean it seems to be my mods with graphic culture folders, which are needed for the city sets. I have updated these portraits and it hasnt pop up in my end now after a couple tests on the large maps just using observe. looking for empires with 0 fire power except for chosen ones which is its own start, if no 0s then they have ship.

OK, testing with only portrait mods enabled this happens with other mods, all of them yours. The slime mod, the kiev'arian dragon mod, and the geometry mod all also exhibit this issue.

If I use the console to play as these empires, they can only create defense platform designs and have no default corvette designs. It's impossible for them to create ships.

Seems to cause issues on 4.0 where random empires are able to pick this as a graphical culture and won't be able to spawn any ships. I tested a game and only random empires with "graphical_culture="esgoo_01" were unable to spawn ships. I'm really confused as to why this is happening only with this portrait mod and not any others - I'll look into it more.

@Fetfrumos96
Depends does the DLC / update breaks the mod? if not the mod will work just fine, it wont fall apart if a text file doesn't say the latest version. I got to many mods to be updating just a text file, I will only update if something is broken that keeps this from being playable.

@LNSS
ah sorry was testing some stuff it should show up now.

Doesn't actually work, it seem they're not properly defined as machines.

All the species mods should be working for 3.12 version now.

neither patch leads to a page

Literal single celled organisms

If I lose the files I can literally just subscribe to my own mods to get a copy of them.
All my mods should be working fine without any issues, as long as I'm still doing commissions they will stay functional.

You've been modding for a while, do you know if any of your mods have become defunct since you started? Maybe you lost the files and they stopped working one update?

fart cloud species

For some reason, it's changing the check sum ;-;

update to 2.8?

Animated Parakeet Species Updated with more stuff

That's what I needed to do! Thanks @Etiluos

@princess69420 maybe resubscribe and unsubscribe? or go into the workshop folder and manually deleted. It shouldn't pop up if you don't have it any more, did you install it directly to your game folder?

its been updated, maybe you need to resubscribe for it to update?

can the mod still be used, the launcher says it's outdated, pretty new to modding so I'm not sure

i don't use this mod but i still get grey goo cities and a grey goo shipset

I don't have this mod yet i still have the grey goo

metroid?

I will, thank you.

@Koma
yeah that's fine, just leave a link here in the comment section when your done.

Hi, would it be possible to use your work on Animated portraits ? My purpose is to create a mod that combine all animated portraits that modders have done. Of course you will be credited. Have a great day.

Grey Goo? *TASTY PLANET NOISES*

@Doom Squid
Subscribe to the mods you want in the game, start up game and go to the mod tab and click the ones you want for the play sessions. They will be highlighted when click on to show there activated, the ones that are dull out aren't activated, and start the game when ready.

there a option on the launcher

umm...I hate to be the one to ask... but how do install the mod after subscribing?

There is a Gray Goo shipset in the workship now: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1634579501

You should add it as their shipset.

Huh. Flavor text sounds fun. I would be down to do some I think, but you should also try to find others too lol

for names angels, fallen angels, and andalites seem to need it more. grey goo, and slimes seem to have fitting name list allready ingame but more wont hurt. I'm looking into traits and civics for all of them and flavor text for all of them.

every species I made, I could do it myself but it would slow down other things I do. I would prefer a trade of sorts that involves me drawing instead of writing.

Are you just looking for civilian names for the Grey Goo or names for everything?

@Clogulf Clogfylahl Detemine exterminators starts them off in a tomb world allready.

@⟐ Algol ⟐ Making up names is easy, just making up specific ones that fit the theme are harder to come up with even with the help of google. Also to get it to work in game and so.

Can you make this mod have a custom planet type mybe the nanite worlds from distant stars

Well making up names isn't rocket science lol, you could probably just get a bunch of collective ideas by starting a dicussion for it

Ok

I dont know much about ships, nore have I seen any grey goo ships in the workshop.

Can you update this and add real grey goo ships from the L gate.

yeah something appropriate that fits there theme would be nice to intergrate to the mod, and my part would be I would draw something neat to add to it from your idea that you want to add.

So you're looking for someone to just make up names?

While waiting for the fix, I'll like to cooperate with someone to create a name list, and a solar system for them maybe even traits for some of my species to integrate. I'll create a clothing option for both genders of your choice for the species you help me out with for each item I needed for them.

i would say it s a dryad, since I mashed demon parts and elves together since I had space, but they are under demons over all. Which is the winners for the 4th poll and the ones Im currenlty working on.

Whats the green girl with the antler/horns at the bottom future project picture?

I'll put Lamias for the poll then, it might be a while before it shows up since poll limits are 30.

Just looked at the poll. Would Naga/lamia (Not sure which has the human upper half) portraits. would fit in nicely with the themes of the others