Key Features

• Strategic Resource Generation. Resources clump together during map generation creating more strategic specializations

• Upgraded AI behaviors. AI players are smarter at managing resources, upgrading starbases and selecting what to research

• Customizable Modding. Modding now has better hot loading, tech tree branch modifications and new planet improvement icons.

January 13th, 2026 Changelog

DLC

• Players cannot select tech trees from DLC they do not own when creating custom civilizations

Map Generation

• Improved the stability of map generation

Pathfinding

• Fixed pathfinding issues in gigantic sectors. Ships will now correctly follow their path without randomly teleporting

January 12th, 2026 Changelog

AI

• Added a global cooldown system to prevent multiple AI civilizations from sending trade requests on the same turn

Custom Civilizations

• Fixed criminal and ideology generation for custom civilizations

Gameplay

• Fixed a bug where the Colony Capital improvement was being automatically placed on core worlds for races that should not receive it (Ravenous, Spore-based, and Silicon-based races)

Ship Abilities

• Simplified Missile Volley and Beam Volley abilities to automatically work with any missile or beam weapon components

Tech Tree

• Fixed an issue where tech tree category icons would not reset properly when switching between civilizations with different tech trees

• Added support for technologies that require specific citizen races as prerequisites

January 6th, 2026 Hot Fix

Pathfinding

• Fixed issues where players were experiencing broken ship pathfinding, ships will now correctly draw and follow a path without randomly deviating

Change Log v3.1

Audio

• Added in new soundtracks

Gameplay

• General game pacing updated

• Colony Capitals are now placed by default but can be destroyed and moved somewhere else

• People that eat other people on planets do so less frequently

• Standalone galactic resources: Thulium, Anti-matter, Elerium no longer are dependent on dead planets, black holes, and nebula for their existence

• Hyperlanes confer 10% faster speed than before

• New Tech: Deepspace Exploration

• Can Detect Hyperlanes is now a separate underlying ability than seeing subspace streams

• Optimized hyperlane route calculation

• Colony Capital: Maintenance 3 BC per turn to 1 BC per turn

• Simplified the way awarded improvements get fixed so that they try to show up on a good tile rather than a random one

• Fixed bug where capstone techs only lasted 1 turn for the buff effects

• New type of Modifier Action: Create Hyperlane to Random Star

AI

• AI is much better at upgrading its starbases and selecting starbase modules

• AI now can have ships in a dual role; an example is a survey ship can be switched from exploring anomalies to acting as cruisers if they are at war

• AI is much better at managing what improvements to build and where

• AI is better at choosing what and when to research

• AI better at building relic based starbases

• AI is better at checking ship designs for system and ship upgrades

• AI has improved selection for considering existing colony buildings to avoid redundancy

• AI better at colony management

• AI will intelligently replace improvements with better ones on its worlds

• Fixed issue where the AI was too quick to use its survey shops for military use

Events

• Reduced the odds of the first contact event from coming up so that it's not every single game

• Reduced frequency of crisis events

• Made adjustments to event frequency making some events less frequent

Map Generation

• Resources tend to clump together during map generation and repel the others

• Stellar phenomenon still does randomly get placed and will still occasionally generate their associated resource but is much less common

• Resources are no longer randomly placed across the galaxy meaning that what weapons and defenses one specializes on is based on stellar geography

• Planets will frequently spawn more than before

• Precursor worlds are spawn more rarely

• Star Cluster Size Reductions:

  • Small clusters: 120 radius to 84 radius (30% smaller)

  • Medium clusters: 200 radius to 150 radius (25% smaller)

  • Large clusters: 320 radius to 240 radius (25% smaller)

  • Huge clusters: No change

• Star Density:

  • Map star density: 0.09 to 0.12 (33% more stars)

• Dynamic Sector Scaling:

  • Sectors now dynamically scale based on player density to prevent overcrowding

  • Smaller maps with many players get larger sectors automatically

Ships

• Ship Templates (like Transports, Freighters) will show their base component in the ship design screen

• Carrier Modules that provide bombers now changed to Bomber Bay Module

• List of ships in the shipyard now show the manufacturing cost of the ship

• Ship Range Buffs (+4 range added) to these techs:

  • Deep Space Exploration

  • Warp Theory

  • Deep Field Sensors

• Ship Range Buff to these techs:

  • Subspace Streaming - now grants +8 ship range

Starbase Modules

• Maintenance Cost Reductions:

  • Slipstream Generator Module (Military): 5 maintenance to 1 maintenance

  • Orbital Replicator Module (Economic): 3 BC maintenance to 1 BC maintenance

  • Advanced Orbital Replicator (Economic): 3 BC maintenance to 1 BC maintenance

• Maintenance Removed:

  • Sensor Network Module: Removed +1 BC/turn maintenance cost (now free to operate)

Modding

• Better hot loading for modders

• Tech trees no longer require 6 branches. Modders can make as few as 1 category and as much as 6

UI & Text

• Civilization Setup screen tweaked for better spacing control

• Stars stay as a model for longer when zooming out and turn into icons later

• Colonies (as opposed to core worlds) no longer show pollution in their tooltips

• Executive Order icon resolution increased to support higher resolutions

• Things that are missing a resource now have a hotspot that explains what the missing thing is and where it comes from

• Capstone techs are now clearly labeled

• Starting year for v3.1 moved up to 2329, it previously was 2307

• 180 new planet improvement icons

• Added scroll bars for the Bazaar list Artifacts list since they were cutting off visibility to abilities

Tech

• Tech Navigator modified to show more rows of techs

• Tech Tree categories can be organized by icon

• Tech in the Tech Navigator are closers together

Megastructures

Gameplay

• Nexi can be set to be 1 per civilization (which is now on by default but can be modded back)

• Subspace Lens Influence per turn reduced from 25 to 5 (upgrades follow suit)

• Galactic Resource tourism bonus reduced from 25% to 5% (upgrades follow similar path)

• Eclipse Engine Military production reduced from 50% to 20% (upgrades follow suit)

• Neoteric Spire random offer discount increased from 0.02 to 0.05

• Neoteric Spire Relic benefit increased from 2% to 10 (flat) (upgrades follow suit)