Gigastructural Engineering & More Version 3.26.1 Hotfix 1:

• Added Patreon Blokkats for @Lantas, @James, @The_GamingRaven and @Destro.
• Set up code framework for all other pending Patreon Blokkats. They work but don't have textures yet so are prevented from spawning.
• Added buttons on the Gigamenu that lead to the Discord, Mod Documentation, and Lore Wiki.

Gigastructural Engineering & More Version 3.26.1:

• Completed the reworked Birch World origin, now Decaying Birch World:
• Start on a decaying birch world with special planetary features and (mostly) normal planetary districts.
• Explore the birch world throughout the game with the "Exploring our Ancient Home" situation. This is a long narrative situation, similar to the Knights of the Toxic God origin, with many choices of rewards as you progress.
• Finish exploration to unlock restoring the Birch to its former glory.
• The nearby planet Edge of Eternity has also received a makeover when using the origin, and has an important part to play in your expansion.
• The galactic core starts open, but is guarded by a few ancient space critters to prevent immediate contact.
Between the birch rework itself and this origin, I've been working on this for several months now. I hope you all enjoy it, and don't hate me too much for stealing away the old overpowered birch origin. -TTFTCUTS

• Updated elysium host planet buildings for 3.6, including all the changes to ascendancies, with an additional effect for crucible worlds.
• Districts added by gigas now properly swap from bureaucrats to priests when using the spiritualist federation type.
• In addition to ring worlds, the alderson disk and birch world also benefit from more powerful booster buildings.
• Updated job scaling internals to support the above change to booster buildings.
• The living metal infusion plant now also gets the effect of the supertensiles orbital ring building when on planets using the improved booster buildings.
• Fixed several instances of previously harmless animation definition bugs, which due to a 3.6 vanilla bug were crashing mac and linux users.

• Menu back-end changes and bugfixes. You can now feel safe to change the difficulty settings on the first page before editing megastructure settings if you feel so inclined.
• Fixed The Psychic Hypersiphon and The B.I.G. Vat being unobtainable because of the removed 2nd tier ascension perks.
• Fixed B.I.G. Vat not recognizing that you killed the Tiyanki Matriarch.
• Fixed Ehof not being able to spawn the ether drake if Hrozgar from the here be dragons origin was killed.
• Fixed missing Bulwark tradition tree descriptions
• Fixed Mental bugs
• Katzens can no longer nuke flusion all the way from Gatzo.
• The flex tape holding together Nidavellir is no longer sturdy enough to not care about incorporating multiple stars.
• Orbital elysium is no longer jealous of being able to have multiple rings from orbital arcologies and will allow you to have a second level orbital arcology.

Due to the menu changes if you have a preset and its broken reach out to @Bread™ - B.I.G. Vat enthusiast and I shall attempt to fix it for you (This also stands if you should have a patreon preset and don't)

• Tweaked Blokkat dialogue when another crisis is present to be more in-line with their current lore. They also say the Kaiser is vaguely familiar to them but they're not sure how or why.

Gigastructural Engineering & More Version 3.26.0 Hotfix 3:

• Fixed random empires sometimes spawning with a habitable Panthalassic home world. This planet class is part of an event chain and not meant to spawn randomly.

Gigastructural Engineering & More Version 3.26.0 Hotfix 2:

• Frame World Planetary Outposts shouldn't be broken any more. Seems a change to vanilla kinda broke them, so they have pops now! Specifically one pop, so that the colony doesn't get destroyed. They still work exactly the same as before, though. Still no planet interactions, or anything like that.

Gigastructural Engineering & More Version 3.26.0 Hotfix 1:

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Gigastructural Engineering & More Version 3.26.0:

• Updates and bug fixes to move Gigas to 3.6!
• More bug fixes
• Even more bug fixes
• Sentient metal component stats tweaked to be in line with vanilla, one tier up from best vanilla components (1.3x stats)
• Different sizes have different fire rates, all that stuff
• Attack Mons and Pl*netcraft now have less aux slots, and only on the last section. However, sections with smaller weapons get more aux, like vanilla changed for some sections.
• Mons get as many PD as they do S slots now. Still pending a proper rework.
• Fixed some typos and added a line about how nobody knows why the Kaiser insists on calling a part of Flusion "Lyuinstaat"

Birch Rework by TTFTCUTS:
• Reworked the Birch World. This is a full overhaul which has radically changed how the birch works, turning it from a muddy soup of jobs into a far more flexible and customisable late game option. It's also more potent than it used to be, and with enough pops can be more potent than the Alderson.
• Uses a new job size mechanic, so most jobs on the birch are three times as effective as normal.
• Birch districts are now separated into insulae and sectors, with the existing Ktisma and Physma insulae joined by the Orykta insula, which replaces Extraction Operations. You get 1 insula slot per 100 pops.
• Insulae provide a chunk of basic jobs and 10 slots for corresponding sectors which each replace some of those jobs.
• For example, the Ktisma Foundry Sector uses the slots provided by the Ktisma insula and replaces some basic jobs with Metallurgists.
• Orykta sectors deal with energy, minerals, dark matter and negative mass.
• Ktisma sectors deal with alloys, consumer goods, strategic resources, sentient metal, and supertensile materials.
• Physma sectors deal with food, research, unity, and trade.
• Each insula also provides a special manager job which buffs several jobs provided by that insula.
• Updated the Great Migration edict to use more modern mechanics. It now increases auto-resettlement chance by 1000%, but increases the destination chance of the birch by 10000%, so the pops are extremely unlikely to go anywhere else.

• Reworked the Birch World origin to be Decaying Birch World. This origin might best be considered a mix of Shattered Ring and Knights of the Toxic God. It is a narrative origin with a situation much like the knights, about exploring and reclaiming the ancient Birch World. It's not quite ready to use yet as some parts are unfinished, so it will be disabled for a few days while it's finished up.

• Reworked the Supermassive Birch Void Sphere (available when playing with Ancient Cache of Technologies) to bring it in line with the changes to the base Birch World... but honestly folks this thing is just silly, it has less detail than the normal birch because it's so powerful that it just doesn't need it. Who needs customisable sectors when Void Smiths make everything anyway?

• Added an easter egg when playing with ThaumStellaris, to be elaborated upon a little later.

Gigastructural Engineering & More Version 3.25.6 Hotfix 1:

• Fixed galactic core hyperlanes not spawning.