Grand Archive is stubbornly empty

[PGadow]

I started a fresh game with the Galactic Curators civic. I have accumulated several displayable artifacts: I made a list of them as they popped up. I built the Grand Archive around my home system, and started on the Archivism tradition. And yet... my display cases are still empty. This has happened in several games now, and I am extremely frustrated that no one else seems to be having this issue (at least, I cannot find anything about it in forums or chat boards.) What am I missing?

[Grayhorse]

Not sure why, as I complete quests and events within my current game, im getting displays. I think I have 9 now in my current game.

[PGadow]

With the Curators civic, you start with displays. Finishing quests and getting new items after building the Archive show nothing. I have six mods and I've been disabling them one by one to see if they are the issue, but so far nothing.

[PGadow]

Found the issue, commenting here as it will likely crop up for others.

The problem was with a mod a friend of mine had made, specifically common > defines > 00_defines.txt. The mod has nothing to do with visual interface, but Grand Archive added some definitions to how the archive and beast collections were managed. Since they were not in the modded version, they simply were not being rendered or managed. Updating the mod's version of the file fixed the display issues and everything is now working as expected.

[Nolo Contendere]

Originally posted by PGadow:

Found the issue, commenting here as it will likely crop up for others.

The problem was with a mod a friend of mine had made, specifically common > defines > 00_defines.txt. The mod has nothing to do with visual interface, but Grand Archive added some definitions to how the archive and beast collections were managed. Since they were not in the modded version, they simply were not being rendered or managed. Updating the mod's version of the file fixed the display issues and everything is now working as expected.

I have not run into this issue, but wanted to take time to say thank you for posting your resolution

[MarsJenkar]

I had this problem as well. In my case the culprit was the mod ! Better Performance & Utilities by Kasako, though it seems they're working on it.

EDIT: The issue got fixed this morning, and once I refreshed that mod the specimens showed up at the beginning of the game as I expected them to. But yeah, if the Grand Archive is empty when it shouldn't be, look to your mods; one of them may be breaking that function.