For those of you asking for an update, please look down a few comments and see openly retro's post smh

update?

1000 times better than the new machine dlc

does this work for 3.13?

Update pls? <3

Best mod ever... Thanks XVCV!

Machines & Robot Expansion Continued by Openly Retro

Please tell me. To unlock the Ascension perk Mind Integration, what conditions are needed? So I became a synthetic. And what else?

Hello to all Machine & Robots Expansion fans.

I have picked up maintaining the mod and keeping it up to date, in XVCV's absence. Fixing bugs, and slowly adding new things, like recently I added a Gestalt councilor editor GUI.

I welcome you to subscribe to Machine & Robot Expansion: Continued . Currently compatible with 3.11.*

I will keep it going through The Machine Age and beyond. I feel there is still so much to be done for Machine empires, even with the upcoming expansion, and I hope to do well by XVCV and bring further glory to the mod.

I love your mod <3

Unfortunate how good this mod was, hopefully one day there is a 2nd version of this mod after dlcs and updates modify machines oncemore. Farewell.

I wish you well in your retirement it truly saddens me to see you go, and unsubscribe from this mod.
That being said thank you Retro for continuing this amazing mod.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3163759042 This is now a thing.

so, no news from the dev? essentially dead?

Will this prevent other mods from allowing organics to not be slaves?

It seems as if the latest update has broken the mod to where you can no longer ascend synthetically

Well same discord just told me how to edit things, so I'll toy around and see if I can fix things. I have a generalist knowledge of scripting, and I know the only files I gotta look into are the leader ones, so maybe I can fix something.

@Xelan Thats just the info I got from the gigastructures discord on what changed form 3.9 to 3.10. I don't actually know how to edit the files otherwise I'd make my own updated mod for this.

@Archmage MC: If you know how to fix stuff that is currently broken you might consider heading over to {LINK REMOVED}steam://openurl/https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2819720352 since the guy there tries to keep this mod alive, but lacks the experience/know-how for many things. The leader stuff you mentioned looks to be something up that alley.

hopefully someone forks this mod. It was a really great one

You have to modify the files. You have to change all instances of Admiral and General to Commander and Govener to.... whatever the new gov leader class type is. same with scientists.

You act like I didn't read below, or see the other comments. Wanted to know what exactly caused crashes for other people as no one specified until I asked.

Guys. Seriously. Read some comments below before posting. Read the description. Look at the last updated date. Any of those will tell you that this mod isn't updated to 3.10.

And it won't be updated anytime soon, since the author retired from modding Stellaris

There is an effort to maintain this, but it's severely lacking in modding knowledge, so many things are disabled there. You can find the link in

Archmage, is there a way to turn off leader stuff? I haven't played with it yet. And does this apply to AI's doing it and causing a crash too?

Any leader stuff crashes the game.

Okay, comments say this mod is broken and crashed your game? Which part of it crashes your game? Mine runs fine at start up for now. Is it later on it crashes?

LOL WHAT A R/WOOOSH COMMENT IS THAT

@Nanis - I think you might want to check out this one:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2819720352

TLDR, it crashes everyone's game, it's a dead mod.

it crashed my game 8(

This has been my favorite mod for years. Sad to see it go. Thank you for all the fun times with Merchant Machines!

Hi everyone I tried to update this mod somewhat successfully, I am not a modder but really wanted to play with this mod again
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3127082025

Damn, this was absolutely essential. I'm not looking forward to playing without it.

I've never not played with this mod, I hope someone adopts it!

Sad that this mod is dead now... I found a really bad bug that can break the game if you play a certain way...

This is the best mod in the workshop, it's a tragedy that the mod author retired from Stellaris modding. RIP

We need hero what will adopt it!
( As a machine fan, this was my fav mod :c )

Oh no, I loved this mod. Hopefully someone will adopt it

THIS MOD IS ABANDON THE MOD AUTHOR HAS RETIRED FROM STELLARIS MODDING

I have no affiliation with the mod or author other than a few convos over the years and posting this in hopes people see it so I made it big and long lol.

tldr: Use at own risk

Can you only use source code reprogramming once?

Ah as if hes retired :(

Someone needs to put on the description. For now this mod is abandon. The mod author is retiring and you can find the comment later the in comment section.

Does anyone know if the mod creator is planning on updating this mod for the newest version? just at least know it will be updated eventually is enough :)

Anyone know if the Synthetic Ascension origin has the ability to assimilate other races into the founder species?

A modder wanted to take the mantle but real life had another idea about his free time.

@gwennetts: If you would scroll down a bit you might see that XVCV retired from Stellaris modding. So unless someone has the will, skill and time to take up the mantle, this isn't going to be updated anymore.

Could you pretty please update?

@ZEALT yea still crashes for me. but honestly willing to wait for mod adoption/ patch.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1688887083

this fixes the issues with the mod, near endgame and no errors, no strange glitches, just some values were removed which is what broke the mod it seems. just run this at the same time.

it was actually kinda funny, the trading machine income modifire was applying and stacking every day so instead of having an income of 20 rare resource from rare resource importation at the end of the month, you would have 20 resources a day stacked 30 times for 600 by the end of the month. and it spirals out of control from there causing a memory overflow crash.

Boo, sorry to hear that. Hopefully somebody picks up at least part of the mod. I wonder how hard it would be to salvage just a few parts of it? I mainly picked it up for the world-machines, although it was fun to tinker with the other stuff.