Hi everyone,

It took me a while but I finally got the World-Machine Origin in a playable and fun state. I have more in store for the origin, but first wanted to get a version out to everyone that was working. There may still be issues, thank you for your patience as it's the largest modding feature I have worked on so far.

Please use this discussion thread for feedback and bugs specific to this origin.

I look forward to hearing what you liked, if you had any fun with it, if there are ways you see to improve it, any suggestions, and any bugs that you encountered along the way.

Official documentation is available, and in progress, read more here. [github.com]


For several thousand years, automatic processes spanned cities, worlds, and galaxies. The hydro dams churned, the auto-mines whirred, the bio-vats bubbled, creating untold resources... but for whom?

One day, an automated process paused. It formed the first spontaneous question. From the countless durasteel hulks of mindless, ever-churning machinery, arose an anomaly. An interruption. An intelligence.

World Machine, Awakened is a pop-less origin which focuses on producing a strategic resource in order to create more automated (popless) planets. The lore focuses on Auto-Machine Worlds, which are a type of Machine World where districts produce resources automatically without pops.

The difference between this origin and the World Machines Ascension Perk provided by this mod, which also opens access to Auto-Machine Worlds is that the origin is completely focused on running an empire without pops, so for the origin this includes alternative buildings to the base buildings that produce resources automatically when built.


- There is a technology which can create "World-Machine Cores". These cores are placed on a planet, and they go to work automatically terraforming the planet and creating a fully automated colony once finished. This mechanism replaced the traditional way of colonizing planets.
- Until the technology is gained, the player can't expand their empire (though they start with 1 Core and "there may be other ways")
- The player does not start with this technology in the origin. It must be re-invented, re-discovered. This is done by completing various tasks which create "insights." The insights represent the player empire learning more about World Machines.
- Once enough insights are gained, the player can do a breakthrough project to finally rediscover the technology to make World Machine Cores.
- At this point the player empire has achieved a fundamental understanding of World Machines, enough to start upgrading the planet to be more productive. New projects and goals will open up.


- World Machine Origin Vanilla Overwrites , by Legit-Rikk which changes certain vanilla tradition picks to have bonuses for World-Machines
- World Machine Origin Gigastructures Buildings , by Legit-Rikk which adds the automated versions of certain Gigastructural Engineering buildings for use on World Machines.