@NHunter yes you are 100% right, I managed to pin point another mod responsible for the lag and completely forgot to get back here to clarify it. Sorry bout that.

@alankraskow, error log thing is a side-effect of built-in compatibility with a number of mods that add ship sizes (and some that add planets). basically, it's the game saying that it doesn't know some of those ship_sizes or planet_classes. These errors are harmless beyond inflating the log file.

@Specimen 7 , that's interesting because all weapons in the mod are coded with "target_type = target_enemies". Unless there is some weird issue going on that flips allies and enemies around somewhere, bioweapons should be targeting enemies.

Can you, at least, confirm that it happens only with bio weapons? or all special weapon types are affected?

For some reason, this mod prevents me from selecting shipsets in the Empire Edit menu. The game just freezes.

so i was using the bioweapons like the acid spitters and other related gene weapons. the weapons seem to target ally ships. so im doing more damage to myself than i am to the enemy or they to me. idk if that is meant to happen or not

I was having serious issues with slow loading into the game and slow galaxy creation. Looked into the log, and there are tens of thousands of lines related to ESC. Thought I let you know, as it might be something you would like to look into. I had to unfortunately unsubscribe, because it was causing me too many issues. Love the mod tho.

@Zzasicker, it should be. Do note that the prerequisite tech isn't available until end-game year (or 2450, whichever comes first)

@jht_89, not per se. You will need to execute "effect = { set_country_flag = ESC_COUNTRY_FLAG_killed_ether_drake }" to make the mod aware that you did kill the dragon (for the cloning building. upgraded dragonscale armor depends on the vanilla one and doesn't need any additional flags)

Simply amazing. You're a legend.

In a situation where the mod is added in midway through the game (after I've already killed a leviathan - in this case Shard) is there a command that can be used to unlock access to techs that would normally be granted by killing that leviathan?

weaponised reality warping isnt researchable by organic ship set?

@极品少萝
这个mod有内置汉化啊

求一个简体中文汉化补丁

Hello NHunter, thanks for your great mod.
I noticed that with Archaeotech, the bonus is never added, making it uncompetitive with the others. I noticed this regardless of whether I'm playing with Vanilla or NPC3.
It's interesting to note that if I activate the BetterArcheotech mod after your mod, I get the bonus.
But I'd like to play with just your mod. :-)

thank you for your hard work updating this to 4.x and bringing meat into the fold

MOD UPDATE:

- Add gravitic weapons for domesticated space fauna and bioships.
- Buff gravitic torpeodoes slightly as they were a little weaker than other special-weapon-type torpedoes.
- Adjust technology prerequisites for gravitic torpedoes to allow bioship empires access to them.


With this, I should be done updating components for bioships. I plan to update technologies to use alternative icons and text for bioship empires, but I feel like I need a break first before attempting something like that.

Hello, NHunter — I created a mod that translates and revises the localization of various Workshop mods. I use your mod in my playthroughs and have translated/revised it here:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3498553777

yeah i was shocked how fast you were putting these updates out feel free to take a week or two off none of us want you to burn out

On the component side, I believe only gravitic weapons left.

I also plan to update technologies to use alternative art and text for bioship empires, but that will probably be something I'll attempt after some break - pushing an content update every 3-4 days for a month has been rather exhausting, to be honest.

How far along like % wise, are you with adapting everything for bioships? :o
Also love the work

MOD UPDATE:

- Add advanced mandibles.
- Add nanite weapons for domesticated space fauna and bioships.
- Adjust technology prerequisites for nanite torpedoes to allow bioship empires access to them.

MOD UPDATE:

- Add bioship versions of tier 3 afterburners, repair drones, advanced auxiliary fire control and standardtized warheads.
- Adjust technology prerequisites to allow empires using bioships access to repair drones technology.
- Add bioship versions for vanilla tier 1 and tier 2 afterburners and auxiliary fire control.
- Allow ESC titan auras for bioships.
- Fix missing weapon tags.

@Rodя, disappeared from where? Probably a translation issue, but I can't figure out what cobbles are.

@FiauraTheTankGirl, Aux components have only just being updated. Have no idea about the latter, even do-nothing techs should be able to be researched. If you're truly stuck, does manually switching techs not let you "unstuck" research? Either way, that sounds more like a bug with the game itself.

The nanite matrix of thinking has disappeared from the cobbles.

Got a few errors:
Auxiliary Thursters, Structural Reinforcement
Have NO tech for biological ships and you can't seem to finish research for them at all.

crystal weapon mutations have no space fauna tag

@HAN
Just check tech tree images on this page.

@法格恩·方庚
So what's next?

MOD UPDATE:

- Add Tesla weapons for domesticated space fauna and bioships.
- Add Nanite Thought Matrix computers for bioships.
- Add Gigapredator Instincts Neural Implant 'computer' for bioships (Automated Dreadnought Protocols computer equivalent).
- Fix AI having a wrong conditions on Reprocessing Plant technology weights.
- Update resource costs for gravitic weapons.
- Update resource costs for nanite weapons.
- Fix some errors in localisation.

@HAN
Arc-en-ciel Cannon.

Which weapon is the strongest? There are so many weapon types that it's confusing.

Is it compatible with base Ancient cache of technologies?

Is there any way to allow bioship-using empires in Stellaris also unlock standard strike-crafts like Assault Strikecraft or Mercenary Squadrons? I mean, in the game’s lore, those factions’ strike crafts are just as man-made and piloted as their squishy ships. Honestly, bioships are still tech—they’re not actual living creatures, so they shouldn’t be blocked from using stuff just because they’re “biological.” Just sayin’. The vanilla tech tree works the same—you can get standard strike crafts (the biological version).

You can check out the concept arts and the official trailer:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/1NOAkG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pID5tLk1r70&ab_channel=Stellaris

DisasterAhead The SCD dev states in the desc that its compatible with ESC. You just won't have tier 4 and 5 versions unless the two devs made a compatibility mod. Which would be really cool

My guess is that they would end up being working in parallel:

- SCD will still add vanilla-tier extra-types of strikecraft
- ESC will still add its types of extra-tier strikecrafts

OK so I'm leaning towards no just cause the mod in question also messes with ship components, but do you think your mod is compatible with this one?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2945629971

or is it not even worth asking, and I should instead just go see what happens

Keep going holy cow this is amazing :)

MOD UPDATE:

- Add tier 2 and 3 Extradimensional weapons for domesticated space fauna.
- Add leviathan components for domesticated space fauna and bioships.
- Add advanced Energy Syphons.
- Allow construction of Stellar Energy Towers in generator zones.
- Fix a bug with nanite weapon on-hit effects.
- Update resource costs for missile weapons.
- Update resource costs for strikecrafts.

Maybe make it { farming generator } instead? It does provide an awful lot of technician jobs, and most worlds can support at least one of those two zone sets.

interesting. will take another look at that.

I figured it out - the govt. and urban zones specifically exclude farming buildings, while the subterranean does not.

that is interesting since the code for zoning for the building is literally

building_sets = { farming urban }

It won't go in the normal urban zones, though - only the underground urban zones (which feels weird because they're underground).
Well, it will go in ringworld urban zones too. Just not the ones on normal worlds.

@cyno up, what exactly do you mean? you bioships no longer have access to weapons at all?


@Exasperation , the main purpose of the stellar energy tower is a food production booster. as such, it's primary build area is *farming*. Allowance for urban was made in case of planets that do not have farming zones.

I killed the stellar devourer, and the stellar energy tower feels odd in its placement; it provides researchers and technicians, but it can't be built in energy zones or research zones. It also can't be built in the government zone in the primary district or in urban expansion zones, but it can be built in the subterranean urbanization zones that subterranean empires get.

After you updated the new version, all the weapons of the biological ships in my old archive were lost and cannot be reassembled. Do you have any clues?

OK! I'll poke around later and see if the projectiles are weirdly large. Thanks!

MOD UPDATE:

- Add Wave-Motion Guns, Chrono-Vortex Cannons and Arc-en-Ciel Cannon for domesticated space fauna and bioship.
- Add kinetic weapons for domesticated space fauna and bioship.
- Add psionic torpedoes and strikecraft for domesticated space fauna, update resource costs for psionic components.
- Update resource costs for sensors, thrusters, ftl dirves and combat computers.
- Update resource costs for crystalline components.
- Update resource costs for energy weapons.
- Fix Stinger tier 4 swarmer missiles being assigned to wrong component set.

@TowardTheStars they have wrong component_set icon (fixed) but they are totally useful. By all of the one bioship ship_sizes that allows M-sized missiles.

@DisasterAhead , maybe.... ESC only adds projectile GFX as far as visuals go. Those might not scale properly in all cases by themselves.

MEDIUM_ESC_BIO_SWARMER_MISSILES_4 cannot be used by bio-ships in game 4.0.14.

Does this mod natively work with ship scaling mods like Downscaled ships? Or would I have to make a patch for it?

I was probably using the wrong load order, sorry!