traits will have to hold off till I can verify its fine.

I don't see the traits :( do they not work?

Not only do the "bioships issue" need updating, but the underwater vents and shoreside production buildings as well as buildings as a system changed drastically ingame. Starting an empire with Merfolk society will effectively nullify your starting pop.

This might need update for 4.0, the shipset is appearing in bio catagory.

yes

Does this still work with recent updates?

Great! Thanks, thinking of starting another playthrough soon ^^

i have not been able to test but im pretty sure as i dont think cosmic storms touched any files this modifies

Does everything still work with Cosmic Storms?

Thanks a lot! Wanted to play Stellaris today so this update feels like providence ^^

PD patch should no longer be needed once the new update comes out

had to fix alot of errors and issues, sorry about the long times between updates with the code, busy life

*praises modder for updating*

I'm so glad you updated this.

Clicked "add all" from the collection so didn't notice the DLC requirement

Found that even if you dont have the dlc, the "Merfolk Society" civic still shows up, but you can't use the associated species trait

Will we ever get "Anglers" and "Merfolk Society" civic Compatabiliity?

Now that the DLC is out I got the same question as Danny, will these have reactive portrait features added later? Cyborg, synth, and robot mermaids that actually look like those as you progress would be amazing.

Thank yooouuu! <3

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

update

Working on it, give it a day or 2. I got a bunch to fix lol

The update broke the portraits, the portraits are gone

Looking at the latest dev diary, there are some changes in species portraits I think.
So portrait mods will have to change a bit to accommodate?

Not sure will see how it works when it comes out.

Will you update this mod with the coming cybernetic and synthetics update?
Kinda need some cyborg and synth mermaid portraits for when going that route... XD

Hope ive got the right mod, i've so many that add flavour/RP stuff. how difficult was it to make the "move planet capital to sea" planet decision and would it be possible to do something similar and use the subterranean city background on planets of our choosing? (in another mod of course)

Thank you for maintaining the mod even though life got in the way. This is still one of my favourite mods in Stellaris ^^.

Updated with a fix

i fixed the bug and will have this re-uploaded

i apologize for the typo in the code, i am still learning. This was my first actual mod.

And sorry for the insanely long response time, Life got extremely busy

I really like the mod, the portraits look very beautiful and cute. I see some people complain of glitches and errors, so i will wait a bit before turning it on, but i look forward to try it out!

The problem with the destroying if ANY planet in the empire isn't wet is a mistake in the destroy trigger in mer_buildings.txt

destroy_trigger = {
exists = owner
owner = {
any_owned_planet = {
NOR = {
has_climate = wet
is_planet_class = pc_ocean
is_planet_class = pc_continental
}
}
}
}

needs to be changed to

destroy_trigger = {
exists = planet
planet = {
NOR = {
has_climate = wet
is_planet_class = pc_ocean
is_planet_class = pc_continental
}
}
}

and then it will work, destroying the appropriate buildings only if the planet they're on is the wrong class.

it changes my leader portrait whenever i select the psionics tree
only this mod enabled, so it seems to be a bug with this mod

Yeah, I'm thinking it somehow triggers the deletion if ANY planet in your empire is something other than a ocean(aquatic) or continental, rather than if THE PLANET ITS ON is, and then it just goes order 66 on every one of them.

they would delete themselves if its something other than a ocean or continental planet. We will probably change the code for some but it will instead give you 0 if its not in the right planet type.

during my tests I only built them on my homeworlds: An Aquatic homeworld (PD) and Oceanic. Though I carried out the same test on other worlds, and thermal vents would disappear there too.

The planet I invaded was NOT the homeworld.

@Rylasasin
well currently both buildings should exist for ocean and continental planets for this mod. what planet types are those where they disappear?

I will look into it for both of them.

Okay so upon further research, it seems the vent problem occurs if you invade a world. In my tests, the Thermal Vent Refs remained up untill I invaded a primitive planet. Then no matter what I did, it would just keep deleting the thermal vents on my homeworld.

Shoreline Land Harvesting Sites have the same problem.

Thermal Vent Refinery continually deletes itself for some strange reason.

Is the Merfolk Ruler trait not working?

Is Merfolk Society meant to not work with Anglers?

Thanks a lot for the update! I look forward to trying the mod out! ^^

updated

where working on a updated fix. New buildings, updated traits, and moving merfolk to the aquatic tab.

I seem to have a minor issue with the leaderpools now.
If I go and show all Leaders the frames drop dramatically.
It's a minor issue, cause I can simply look at leaders by section instead. Then it only drops 20 instead of 50 frames.

The aquatic trait has been changed to be 2 points leaving you currently one perk point short to have all the mermaid traits and get the perks to upgrade them.

this doesn't seem to work with "Stellar Legions" mod both use the merfolk species class

Hmm, land explorers doesn’t seem to be showing up for me. How odd.

well the only thing ya can do would be to terraform planets into ocean ones if your going without aquatic trait, merfolk and its accompanying traits are meant to be more RP

So far in my current non-aquatic trait merfolk run ive encountered merfolk that can't flood habitats making them completely pointless due to both the habitat debuffs and merfolk dry land debuffs stacking, they can't use the move city to ocean decision, they can't take hydrocentric by default like aquatic trait can, and considering my current run is a one system playthrough the lack of habitats is kind of killing me for obvious reasons oof

On the plus side forgoing the aquatic trait gave me two extra trait points but I might look into a mod to remove aqautic trait cost so I can use it with merfolk trait in the future without if getting in the way of other possible traits. I figure they're already aquatic, the trait would just be a formality to get aquatic species features to work at that point. An idea that others might like for their own merfolk if needed

maybe but that requires more diving into the code and editing stuff around so it was better to have merfolk balance to 0. we can chalk it up to being a difference between salt and fresh water merfolk lol