Stellaris 1.6.1 Patch Download

Stellaris is seemingly one of the most well supported 4X Space Strategy titles on the market right now. Even with the Leviathan story pack add-on coming out toward the end of October, it only took a few short days for another patch to land fixing the few tiny issues which were left behind.

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Of course, with a game like this, you're constantly looking at balancing what's already there while bringing lots of new additions for those who feel they've achieved everything they've wanted in their space lives. With those additions come more improvements, refinements and balance tweaks; and so the cycle repeats. We're going to keep a log of all the changes from here on out, so check back regularly to see what's new.

Adams? Where'd Banks go? We can assume you're looking at this page as a somewhat active Stellaris player. If that's the case, you likely know exactly why we've jumped straight to a hotfix of another major patch - it's because those initial decimal place increases make for such long patch notes, they end up with their own post. Like this one.

All The Details on the Stellaris 1.6.1 Update. The developers are fully aware of these issues and have already addressed the nonsense with a steadfast hotfix patch, which repairs the unforeseen problems that the update caused. Stellaris 1.6.1 Update Fixes.

Fixed AI never declaring war
Fixed egalitarian faction unhappiness wrongly being generated by having robot 'slave' Pops (Issue with xenophiles is known, we will address it)
Fixed issue with AI empires switching ethics far too frequently
Fixed a bug allowing you to terraform planets you don't own in contested space
Fixed wrongly stacking 'was enslaved' happiness modifiers
Fixed graphical error with Ringworld skies
Fixed issue with War in Heaven where total occupation would not equal 100% warscore, leading to neverending war
Added back a couple of old diplomacy rooms and fixed black background on older ones
Fixed not being able to construct spaceports around Ringworld sections
Fixed wrong tooltip text on Armageddon bombardment stance
Hive Minds can now properly use Full bombardment stance
Fixed egalitarian faction issues appearing before you have any contact with alien empires and thus no ability to fulfill them
Fixed a rare crash when planetary Pops are destroyed
Devouring Swarms now properly get -1000 opinion penalty due to being, well, Devouring Swarms
Fixed crash when rebels take over a planet and defect to another empire
Fixed missing isolationist faction issue name
Fixed numerous missing loc strings in languages other than English and Russian
Can now properly rename civilian ships again
Fixed missing animation for Armageddon bombardment
Fixed event that was endlessly firing in the background
Fixed an issue where Xenophobe fallen empire opinion penalty for frontier outposts was calculated strangely, leading to incorrect war declarations
Fixed primitive enlightenment failing in the early game
Reduced AI nonsensically replacing buildings in a wasteful way, disregarding tile resources

You may have noticed a gap in the Patch Notes segments here and there, but there's a valid reason for that. We've moved from major releases too quickly to keep up with the game's astoundingly long patch notes. With 1.40 quickly making room for the 1.5.0 'Banks' update it was, again, too long for a single post. Yet the first minor patch of the major expansion is more than adequate.

To read the lengthy 1.5.0 patch notes, head on over here. If you're moving into 1.5.1, however, here's the lot;

Changelog:

Bug Fixes

Fixed a couple rare crashes
Fixed Server ID not being auto-filled when joining a multiplayer game
Ironman now saves properly when exiting to main menu
Ironman games now properly show an icon to mark them as ironman
Fixed a bug where a hotjoining player without the Utopia DLC could not pick countries that used Utopia features
Fixed a bug that was causing nerve stapled pops to never be enslaved
Fixed Philosopher King civic not applying to your starting ruler
Fixed AI weights for Megastructures
Fixed: Tooltips for sectors were in wrong order
Megastructures can no longer be built around planets/stars with Anomalies
Fixed improper reference to game mechanic (pops) in event texts
Fixed an issue with movement arrows acting strange when lots of orders had been queued
Hive Mind will now stop processing pops of other species when they're gene-modded to gain the Hive Mind trait
Fixed randomized species sometimes being generated with the Uplifted trait
Players can no longer reform governments to have invalid civics
Pop faction promotion/suppression modifiers are now removed when the faction is destroyed
Fixed out-of-sync where killed ships had their movement updated
Infested planets no longer destroyed
Fixed issue preventing multiple pops migrating to a planet at the same time
Fixed missing text for the news feed in the launcher
Fixed Chemical Bliss living standard accidentally requiring the Utopia expansion
Fixed bug where robotic species could not be picked to play when hotjoining a multiplayer game
Fixed a bug where timed modifiers on factions would never update
Fixed sector tooltip displaying 'Planning to construct none' for spaceport constructions.
Texture optimization for megastructures
Synthetic rebel leaders are now properly assigned names
Fixed game getting stuck after game over, continuing in observer mode

Interface

Fixed overflow bug causing ethic attraction to show wrong values
Fixed faction demand displaying wrong tooltip
Fixed missing species class-related descriptors for Robots
Adjusted AI Citizen Rights tooltip
Added some missing/broken texts
Added missing modifier and tech icons

Fixed bug where AI cancelled fleet order to attack hostiles within borders

Modding

on_modification_complete is executed after changing the species of all affected pops and after updating the empire's founder species (if applicable). Fix FROM (species) scope of that event not working.
Fixed an issue where a set_citizenship_type effect missing the country reference
Fixed an issue where you were not able to override specific defines in the common/defines files

Performance

Fixed a memory leak with potential pop factions

We're not sure whether to class it as a highlight of the patch, but the addition of 33 new achievements means there's plenty the developers still want you to do. Overall, 1.4.0 is being considered as a smaller bug squashing patch, but that doesn't mean it's completely void of interesting notes. Read on below, or in more depth on the Paradox site;

Changelog:

Added 33 new achievements
No longer possible to build robots on planets belonging to sectors
Added victory event after defeating the Prethoryn Scourge
Added new events for discovering additional Precursor anomalies, so that the quest chains can always be completed
Changed the way the Extradimensionals work
Evasion is now capped at 90%
Regular empires now start with 8 pops
Afterburners now use the auxiliary slot
Stone age primitives now generate fewer tile blockers
Increased max minerals from Mineral Silos from +1000/+1500/+2000 to +2000/+3000/+4000
Venerable trait cost reduced from 5 to 4
Slave Processing Plant now gives +10% slave food/mineral production instead of +5%
Doubled Pre-Sentient Anomaly spawn chances
Space Torpedo mineral and power cost reduced from 20 to 10
Space Torpedo armor penetration set to 50%
Space Torpedo maximum damage reduced from 260 to 215
Major work done to sector AI to make it better at budgeting and utilizing resources

The big 1.1 patch for Stellaris can now be downloaded as in opt-in beta on Steam.

The patch notes are pretty extensive as you can see below so pay attention when reading through these. Everything from the balance to the interface has been tweaked or changed.

To opt-in and start testing this Stellaris update do the following in Steam. We’re not sure if mods will break but it’s quite likely.

Right-click on Stellaris and choose “Properties”
Click on “Betas” tab
Select “1.1.0_beta” (if you can’t see it, restart Steam)
Download update
Version should be 1.1.0

Stellaris 1.1 Clarke beta patch notes

Features

Strike Craft attack behavior was changed
It is no longer necessary to control planets to demand them in war, but controlling planets that are set as wargoals now generates more warscore
It is now possible to set a custom ruler/heir title for your custom empires
It is now possible to write a biography for your custom empire
Added an Influence reward for establishing communications, or conversely being contacted
Collection of strategic resources on planet tiles is no longer suppressed by buildings
Added settings for AI aggressiveness in the galaxy setup screen
“Shipwright” mandate for democractic empires has been reworked
Added resource reward to Raid on Smugglers event
Individualist empires will no longer generate election candidates with slaver mandates, and Individualist Pops are less likely to vote for candidates with slaver mandates
Slaver mandate no longer possible if slavery is outlawed
It is now possible to set difficulty in multiplayer
Symbols of Domination is now available for everyone

Platypus species portrait and Paradox empire flag is now available for everyone

Balance

Technology

Technology costs now increase by +10% per owned planet (up from +0%) and by +1% per Pop (down from +2%)
Unlocking Spaceport technologies now makes you more likely to get research options for new reactor techs

Spiritualists and Materialists now get tech progress towards Frequency Tuning for researching Space Whales

Ethics

Fanatic Individualist
Pops are now more unhappy in collectivist empires
No longer have increased ethics divergence

Individualist

Pops are now more unhappy in collectivist empires

No longer have increased ethics divergence

Fanatic Xenophobe

Rivalries now provide 50% more Influence

Xenophobe

Rivalries now provide 25% more Influence

Fanatic Xenophile

Alliance Influence cost reduced by 100%
Maximum number of embassies increased by 2

Xenophile

Alliance Influence cost reduced by 50%
Maximum number of embassies increased by 1

Fanatic Militarist

No longer gains additional Influence from rivalries
No longer have an increased Influence cost for being in an Alliance

Militarist

No longer gains additional Influence from rivalries
No longer have an increased Influence cost for being in an Alliance

Fanatic Pacifist

Pops are now more unhappy in militarist empires
No longer increases Food output, but rather reduces growth needed for a new Pop by 30%

Pacifist

Pops are now more unhappy in militarist empires
No longer increases Food output, but rather reduces growth needed for a new Pop by 15%

Components

Strike Craft engagement range was significantly increased
Strike Craft launch time reduced from 5 to 3 days
Fighter movement speed increased from ~2 to 3.5
Bomber movement speed increased from 1.5 to 3
Chemical Thrusters Chance to Evade reduced from +10 to +5
Ion Thrusters Chance to Evade reduced from +20 to +10
Plasma Thrusters Chance to Evade reduced from +30 to +15
Impulse Thrusters Chance to Evade reduced from +40 to +20

Buildings

Research Institute modifier to research speed reduced from +10% to +5%
Colony Shelter modifier to ethics divergence reduced from +20% to +10%
Government forms
Theocratic Republic
- Additional Core Planets reduced from +2 to +1

Transcendent Republic
- Additional Core Planets reduced from +4 to +2

Traits

Aggressive – fire rate bonus reduced from +20% to +10%
Butcher – army damage bonus reduced from +20% to +10%

Glory Seeker – army morale damage bonus reduced from +10% to +5%

Modifiers

Youthful Elite modifier effect on leader lifespan reduced from +50 to +25 years

AI

Misc.

Computer-controlled Empires will start outlawing AI over time during a certain Crisis
Increased negative opinion scaling for relative power of subjects
AI will now colonize far away systems if COLONIZE_NON_ADJACENT define is enabled
Fixed a bug where the AI would not use planetary edicts due to too small stockpile cap
Empires that were previously controlled by a player (for example if said player drops in multiplayer) will now refrain from making any major changes to the country for a period of 10 years
Fixed a bug where AI was modifying their species with bad traits, effectively giving them lots of traits
Fixed a bug where military focused sectors would not build military stations
Fixed an issue where the AI would not enslave any Pops

Diplomacy

AI will no longer accept a white peace when they are winning in warscore
AI is now more open to trading access, migration rights and (for some personalities) research treaties
Fixed a bug where AI would offer peace deals that gave allies’ war goals to the player
Fixed AI spamming the player with military access offers
AI is now more aggressive against easily defeated targets

Economy

Fixed an issue where the AI would not disband ships even when running a heavy energy credit deficit

Sector

Respect Tile Resources setting will now prevent sector from building the wrong type of building for a tile regardless of special circumstances
Improved the way sectors determine which resources the country needs when constructing buildings
Fixed a bug where sector AI would move Pops back and forth
Fixed budget issues that were preventing sectors from properly managing spaceports and construction ships

Warfare