Gigastructural Engineering & More Version 3.26.3, brought to you by TTFTCUTS and Bread:

Fixes and tweaks by @Bread™ - The Toasted;
• Added a tooltip letting you know what the Archaic Shield Projector is and what it does
• Optimized AI savings
• Updated the patreon preset for GIF_Bluehawk
• Irony should no longer complain about gigas dummy megastructures
• The Blokkats will now provide more than minimal reinforcements when you join them
• The Tyaur system should no longer get eaten by its star if you're using real space.
• Substellar Compressors can no longer make habitable planets terraforming candidates
• The Flusio-Arcology and Irradiated Deserts are now habitable enough to neutron swept
• The Silly kaiser now brings his fellow silly flusionians along instead of forcing them to be serious
• Blokkat-Dismantlers no longer shoot from a systems center
• Gigas galcom resolution AI weights will no longer be unlocalized
• Equatorial Shipyard origin should no longer break certain situations
• Fixed issue with Blokkat shipyard.

###AETERNUM UPDATES###
• Aeternum no longer randomly turns habitable megas into shrouded worlds
• Aeternum Armies no longer wait for the loving embrace of the nearest shroud demon
• Aeternum Citadels are no longer having an identity crisis
• Aeternum Citadels no occasionally use primitive equipment
- Aeternum Citadels no longer have the potential to use blokkat equipment
• The Anti-Aeternite League requires friends to be created
• Added an event for if the Anti-Aeternite league dissolves due to its members all leaving or being killed
• Added an event for if the galactic empire forms after the anti-aeternite league
• The imperium can launch its own pre-emptive strike against the aeternum
• Pops brought back to the birch world should no longer decide they don't want to be a birch world resident
• Aeternum will now die of cringe when Aiondia gets bombed to 0 pops
• Aeternum has decided that they will their reclaimation is only really worth declaring once
• Added Shrouded Ringworlds for the maniac users of the psionic beacon (and those dastardly Aeternum)
• Squareworld is not safe from the shroud
• Penrose Ringworld is not safe from the shroud

Tweaks by @TTFTCUTS - ORB Decorator;
• Added two new buildings for ring worlds and other large habitable megastructures, a jumbo housing building (with swaps for machine and hive empires), and an oft-requested giant storage silo. The cost, upkeep, and effect of these buildings vary with the structure they are built on, and scale with insula count when built on the Birch World.
• Added the Superscale Urban Development T5 society tech, which unlocks the aforementioned buildings. It requires Mega-Engineering, and will only roll if you have a colony capable of supporting the buildings.
• Fixed a typo in the Decaying Birch origin events
• Fixed a faulty condition which was preventing non-servitor machines from selecting the unity option during Decaying Birch expedition 7

Gigastructural Engineering & More Version 3.26.2, brought to you by TTFTCUTS and Bread:

• Added Patreon preset for Meolson.
• Added Patreon preset for Dusk.
• Added Contributor preset for Megumin
• Amoebae found by the Ehof are no longer above being called "space amoebae"
• Ruined gateways are now in too many pieces to hide from the megastructure outliner.
• The sentient metal forge has finally completed its long migration to the outside of The Ever-changing and should now be visible once more.
• Hazard matter and Quasi-negative mass reactors in starbases and juggernauts no longer think they're in titans.
• Blokk behemoth now always brings atleast some friends with him, even exceptionally small galaxies.
• Fixed several typos in the Decaying Birch quest chain
• Added a few missing bits of text associated with the Decaying Birch origin
• Prevented unscrupulous people from spamming the Edge of Eternity dig site rewards (I see you Theta)
• Fixed birch world housekeeping event which wasn't firing, fixing broken district counts when they happen
• Fixed jobs for hive empires on the void birch
• Updated Chinese localisation, courtesy of VittorioVeneto
• Katzen FE's have now been bound such weird concepts as logic and reason, and Meopa now respects the players right to not be surrounded.
• Fallen Empires Have decided to stop putting up with primitives shooting space lasers at their capitals
• B.I.G. changes for the B.I.G. Vat (including rebalancing, increased queue size, new growables, scaling with empire modifiers etc etc)
• Several bugfixes
• Added derega's blokk-b-gone icon to the "shield system from blokkats" decision.

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.