• Crafty, +5% metallurgist and artisan job efficiency, costs 1
  
• Natural Defenses, +25% army health, morale, and defensive army damage, costs 1
  
• Poisonous, +25% army damage, +5% metallurgist and engineer job efficiency, -95% livestock job efficiency, costs 2
  
• Hypo-Metabolism, -10% organic food upkeep, costs 1
  
• Hyper-Metabolism, +10% organic food upkeep, costs -1
  
• Carefree, +5% happiness, +20% army morale, costs 1
  
• Skittish, -5% happiness, -20% army morale, costs -1
  
• Uninventive, -5% researcher job efficiency, costs -1
  
• Lethargic, -15% miner job efficiency, costs -2
  
• Urban, -15% farmer job efficiency, costs -2
  
• Heavy-Handed, -15% technician job efficiency, costs -2
  
• Endemic, -20% habitability, costs -4

• Crystalline, +5% population growth and pop assembly speed, costs 1
  
• Eternal, +400 leader lifespan, spawns an additional petrified pop on homeworld, costs 4
  
• Gain their own version of Enduring and Venerable

• Titanic Strength, +60% army damage, +8% worker job production, costs 3
  
• Engineered Pheromones (improved charismatic), +10 opinion from other empires, +40% entertainer job efficiency, costs 3
  
• Obedient, +50% governing ethics attraction, -15% empire size from pops, -10% amenities usage, -0.2 crime per pop, costs 3
  
• Supersaturated Growth, replaces Rapid Breeder for Lithoids, also gives +10% pop assembly speed
  
• Solid Shape, Lithoid equivalent of Titanic Strength
  
• Shiny, Lithoid equivalent of Engineered Pheromones
  
• Compact, Lithoid only, gives -25% housing required, -50% resettlement cost, +5% Happiness (-5% amenities usage if Hive Mind), costs 3

The Genetic Mastery Tech is unlocked by Genetic or Purity Finisher. It gives +3 gene mod points, -20% modify species project cost, and unlocks the following traits:
- Ageless, +15% habitability, +5% happiness, immortal leaders, costs 4
- Imprinted Knowledge, +100% leader experience gain, -1 negative leader trait, -25% leader upkeep, costs 4
- Sleepless, +25% job efficiency, +25% organic food/mineral upkeep, costs 4
- Complex Genetic Code, -10% habitability, +10% organic food upkeep, costs -5
- Engineered Byproducts, Lithoid only, produces +0.02 monthly rare resources, costs 5

Sculpted Physique, +20 opinion from other empires, +40% entertainer job efficiency, -30 Leader Lifespan, costs 2
Neurochemical Modulation, +50% governing ethics attraction, -10% empire size from pops, -10% amenities usage, -0.2 crime per pop, -30 Leader Lifespan, costs 2
New Advanced Traits:
Circadian Stimulation, +20% job efficiency, +20% organic food/mineral upkeep, -30 Leader Lifespan, costs 2
Congenital Memory, +100% leader experience gain, -1 negative leader trait, -25% leader upkeep, -30 Leader Lifespan, costs 2

• Inorganic Breath also gives +5% metallurgist job efficiency
  
• Aquatic now also gives bonuses on gaia worlds, no penalties on ring worlds
  
• Noxious gives -1% amenities usage per non-noxious pops (up to -20%)
  
• Nomadic and double jointed gives up to +15% pop growth / assembly on worlds with less than 2500 pops
  
• Sedentary and bulky gives up to -15% pop growth / assembly on worlds with less than 2500 pops
  
• Communal gives +5% Happiness (-5% amenities usage if Hive Mind)
  
• Solitary gives -5% Happiness (+5% amenities usage if Hive Mind)
  
• Decadent gives +25% pop demotion time
  
• Enduring gives +30 leader lifespan
  
• Venerable gives +90 leader lifespan, costs 3
  
• Very Strong costs 2
  
• Repugnant gives -20% livestock Job Efficiency
  
• Resilient also gives +25% army morale
  
• Deviant gives +15% Ethics Shift Chance
  
• Docile and Conformist give -0.1 crime per pop
  
• Unruly and Deviant give +0.1 crime per pop
  
• Effects of Conservational, Wasteful, and Low Maintenance increased to 15%
  
• Auto-Modding can give a greater variety of traits
  
  
• Lithoids only get -20% pop growth and assembly speed (from -25%), get +1 minerals from miners, but -1 food from farmers
  
• Doubled resources gained from Lithoid traits, Drake Scale, and Inorganic Breath
  
• Flight / Spatial Mastery get +10% sublight speed from commanders
  
• Spatial Mastery get +10% strike craft fire rate from commanders
  
• Camouflage / Chromalogs get +1 disengagement chance and +25% army disengagement from commanders
  
  
• Dedicated Miner, Farm Appendages, Technical Talent, and Crafted Smiles gives +20% resources
  
• Gene Mentorship gives +50% leader xp
  
  
• Brain Slug gives +15% unity and research, can be gene modded onto pops
  
• Serviles cost 0 points
  
• Nerve Stapled gives +20% job efficiency and empire size
  
• Nerve Stapled and Zombie pops cannot be full citizens, can be enslaved and purged even if a subspecies of your dominant species
  
• Nerve Stapled and Zombie pops cannot be Indentured Servants
  
• Latent Psionic gives +5% happiness, Psionic gives +10%

• Unsynchronized, -10% unity from jobs, costs -1, machine empire only
  
• Obsolescent, -5% research, costs -1, machines and synths only
  
• Cloud Memory, +100% leader experience gain, -1 negative leader trait, cost 4, requires physical synth or virtuality tradition finisher
  
• Over-Engineered, -10% habitability, +10% energy upkeep, costs -5, requires physical synth or modularity tradition finisher

• Loyalty Circuits (cyborg) gives -0.2 crime from pops
  
• Robots have an inherent +2.5% bonus to worker and simple drone jobs
  
• Repurposed Hardware costs -2 and also gives +1 negative leader trait
  
• Bulky and Double-Jointed adjusts resettlement costs by 25%
  
• Harvester can be used by machines that use food
  
• Advanced traits now also available to physical synths

• Propaganda Feed, +15% unity, +25% governing ethics attraction, +0.3 energy upkeep, costs 1, requires not gestalt
  
• Eusocial Software, +15% unity, -0.2 crime from pops, +0.3 energy upkeep, costs 1, requires gestalt
  
• Synthetic Metabolism, -50% food and mineral upkeep, +0.3 energy upkeep, costs 1
  
• Reinforced Exoskeleton, +30% army damage, +3% worker output, +0.3 energy upkeep, costs 1
  
• Augmented Machinist, +10% alloys and consumer goods from jobs, +0.3 energy upkeep, costs 1

• Subdermal Musculature, +50% army damage, +5% worker job production, +0.3 energy upkeep, cost 2
  
• Overclocking Hardware, +20% resources from jobs, +0.6 energy upkeep, costs 3
  
• Modular Assembly, +30% Pop Growth, −10% Pop Housing Usage, cost 3
  
• Over-Engineered, -10% pop growth speed, +10% organic food upkeep, costs -5

• Private Investments, +1/+2 Trader on home planet, + trade when governing a sector
  
• Private Laboratories, +1/+2 Researchers on home planet, + research when governing a sector
  
• Eager III, -30% upkeep, +20% exp, does not use leader capacity until level 8

• Integrated kuyan-judith's Trait Upgrader and Better AI Trait-Modding
  
• Gene Modding base cost reduced to 2500 (down from 3000)
  
• If your chosen one dies, you can get another one from the shroud