Here's how I play Stellaris. If you want support, your best best is going to be my discord channel in the Stellaris Modding Den discord. You can get to the discord using the link at the bottom of this post. The name of my channel is #mrfuneguys-mods.

I will update this collection as I see fit. I will try to change the version number whenever I change the Irony export in a significant way. When the version number is changed, you should download the new Irony export, and probably redownload the whole collection. If you don't want to redownload the whole collection, in most cases you can probably just redownload the Personal Collection Patch.

You need Irony to effectively use this collection.


Irony Mod Manager: Download[github.com]

My Irony Export: Download[drive.google.com]


- No other mods should be added to or removed from this collection. This collection cannot be merged with other collections. This is a curated collection. If you have issues after you've added/removed things to/from the collection, do not report them. I will not help solve them.

- Sometimes the Irony Export will have less mods than the collection. This is me working on things. This is fine and any questions about it will be ignored.


1. Subscribe to the entire collection. Wait for Steam to download it all. It sometimes downloads in multiple batches.
2. Open Irony, which you downloaded via the link above.
3. Hit Import, and import my Irony Export, the zip file you downloaded above.
4. Hit Merge at the top right of Irony, and merge using either Basic or Compress. I find similar load times using either method.
5. After Irony has merged the mods. You should be good to play. Just hit Launch Game in Irony.


This pack is optimized for multiplayer, in that only the host should receive any pop-ups at the beginning to configure the game. If you want to play Multiplayer with your friends, the steps change at step 4:

4: Hit merge, and merge using Basic.
5. Go to \Documents\Paradox Interactive\Stellaris\mod\
6. Copy the (Merged)_3.7 folder and (Merged)_3.7.mod file.
7. Go to your desktop and create a new folder
8. Paste those two items inside that folder
9. Go back to your desktop, right click the folder you pasted the other folder and file into, and compress it. You can do this by hitting "Send To" and then "Compressed Zip File."
10. Give that zip file to your friends.
11. Friends unzip the zip file.
12. Friends place the (Merged)_3.7 folder and (Merged)_3.7.mod file in their \Documents\Paradox Interactive\Stellaris\mod\ folder.
14. Friends will have to change path files inside the (Merged)_3.7.mod file to their path. This will likely just mean changing the username, as seen below.



You can find your username by opening an explorer window, and clicking on the file path:



13. That's it. You should all have the same mod and be able to play. You can launch through Irony, but your friend(s) will just activate the mod in the Paradox launcher. You can as well if you want, it really doesn't matter.


- You can use my Gigastructures preset by clicking the "User Preset" option.
- You can disable the Honor Leader popups with the Honor Leader options edict.
- When setting the galaxy settings, keep in mind that this collection includes a mod that makes habitable planets 0.25x as likely to spawn.
- Jump Drives will be disabled by default. You can reenable them with the "Host Menu" edict. I do this because I prefer like the tactical nature of not having jump drives. It makes the geography of the galaxy much more important. It also increases the value of Hyper Relays, as well as that of the Quantum Catapult.
- This modpack includes Stellaris Dashboard, an amazing utility for logging your games. 3.7 has broken some things, and you have to do things to get modded namelists to work with it, but it's still very useful to keep track of things like budgetary graphs and leaders. To use it, you need to download a program on your computer and run it as well. Check out the mod page for more information.


- Check out some gameplay pictures.[imgur.com].


- The total size of all these mods is around 25gb when uncompressed.

- Mod Load Order: Pastebin[pastebin.com]

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I do this for myself, but if you appreciate my effort enough, feel free to donate:

[www.patreon.com]

[paypal.me]

[ko-fi.com]

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For the best support, find me at #mrfuneguys-mods on the Stellaris Modding Den Discord:

[discord.gg]