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You can now customize spawn locations, including the player spawn! This should open up lots of custom scenarios, eg start the player in an isolated cluster, or you could make region where no one spawns, for a sort of "new world" scenario

@G4R5vb4r3H that's great! I hope to see more shared maps from you and others in the future! I'll create a steam collection to showcase them. And this new spawn customization feature should be useful for you ;)

Decided to touch-up and publish one of my custom maps with this.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3540984513

@FunnelVortex when you have the stars section open, click the map to add/remove a star. When you have the hyperlanes section open, click one star then another to add/remove hyperlane between them. Nothing too advanced, meant for small tweaks after randomly generating, not for a fully handmade map.

If that's not working, yeah try hard-refreshing. (I'm not sure how aggressively GitHub caches the pages.)

Yeah TBF I did point out the limitations with Nro's it's good if you wanna set up a consistent "board game" scenario though.

Oh you can tweak those now? Do I need to hard refresh the page or something? Because I still see the standard tools.

@FunnelVortex yeah, I called out AI-coded so folks can apply their own judgement there (I still write my code the old-fashioned way). However, Nro's Galaxy Editor doesn't do the same thing. You can use Nro's for editing the galaxy map of a save file (btw, you can now manually tweak stars and hyperlanes in Paint a Galaxy, before starting a game). The other tool I posted is for creating custom solar systems mods, eg the stars, planets, asteroids etc inside a system. I don't know of any other GUI tool for that

Actually download Nros's from here, the link I posted in my other comment is outdated
https://github.com/Nro001/Nro-Galaxy-Editor

Instead of supporting AI use Nro's Galaxy Editor (https://www.nexusmods.com/stellaris/mods/133) to make tweaks and adjustments to your galaxy instead. You can load it from a save and use it to set up custom scenarios as long as you're fine with everyone having fixed starting points (using this with that tool can be good for setting up RP and challenge maps).

@Zenthesize woohoo, more modders more mods! You can't directly specify the star, but you can specify the solar system initializer, by adding, for example, "initialzer = special_init_01" (this one is always a black hole) inside the "system = { ... }" lines. You can view the available solar system initializers in the common/solar_system_initializers folder of your Stellaris install (or any mods). You could also mod your own initializers and use those. See https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/System_modding if you want to dive into that, or you can try out this AI-coded graphical tool for it https://github.com/KillyBlame/Stellaris_Solarsystem_Editor (I don't know how well that works).

I'm happy to help and answer questions. Discord is probably better for that -- link to Modding Den at the bottom of the mod description; other folks there are generally helpful and friendly too

this mod is good. it helped me learn about modding the game, i love making my own maps in other games, and this is so easy. thank you, also how would you change star type from different types like black holes? it that random. can i do that in Notepad ++?

That would be fine - I'd probably have to turn off generated wormholes anyways if I wanted to make a 'fully custom' layout.