[Mod] Guilli's Planet Modifiers (2024)

For version 2.2.2+ of the game.
Compatible with all DLC. DLCs not required.
Compatible with virtually all mods.
Special compatibility with Glavius AI (thanks to Glavius!)

What does this mod do?

• 300+ new Planet modifiers with unique icons and features.
  
• 100+ new planetary features with unique graphics.
  
• Rare precursor "Precursor Archeotech" strategic resource with a tech and unique and powerful edicts.
  
• 6 new armies based on modifiers. Can only be built on planets with those modifiers.
  
• Several new anomaly events.
  
• 30+ new "discovery!" events. Small event telling you discovered something interesting!
  
• 40+ new colony events. There's a chance of a special event when owning a planet with a new planet modifier.
  
• Unique capital event chains based on your ethics choice rewarding a capital planet modifier.
  
• Planet modifiers appear more frequently and in larger numbers with an options menu at game start to choose how many.
  
• A handy starting menu allowing you to pick just how many planet modifiers planets should have.
  
• Planet modifiers can be strong and provide a strategic choice when it comes to planets.
  
• Secret and rare precursor planet modifiers.
  
• Several New planet modifier border colours! (grey, blue, purple, pink,..)
  
• Planet modifiers also appear on Barren, Frozen, Toxic and Molten worlds and Gas Giants. As well as asteroids, suns, and other celestial bodies.
  
• Terraforming cleans up planet modifiers and has a chance to roll new good ones (see below for details)
  
• Ringworlds and Habitats have a chance to roll a 'construction' modifier to indicate how well construction has gone.
  
• Unique modifiers for Ringworlds, Habitats, Fallen Empire Worlds.
  
• Tomb worlds hold ancient secrets. Precursor modifiers can be found more frequently here.
  
• New planet interactions with the crisis events. Bombarding infested worlds or worlds bombarded by the unbidden can turn into molten/frozen/barren/nuked worlds. Each can then roll new planet modifiers fitting them.
  
• Habitats build over some worlds can gain some bonus based on the planet's modifiers.
  
• Unique planet graphics and objects around planets such as shields, planet rings, shipyards, etc.
  
• Unique leviathan "The living Planet" with a special reward. Leviathan DLC required for this to show up.
  
• 3 unique game start civics; death world, precursor world and fallen empire lost colony. Apocalypse DLC required for these to show up.
  
• NEW The AI can now find and complete precursor event chains. Go out and explore before they beat you to it!

Precursor Archeotech resource
How it works:
Precursor Archeotech will spawn as a resource on planets with a precursor modifier (either as a space deposit on uninhabitable worlds, or a planetary feature (precursor ruins) on a habitable planet. You can harvest this resource after researching a rare 'Arcane Deciphering' tech. After researching that tech you will gain access to harvesting this resource and the powerful Precursor Archeotech edicts. In the future there may be more exotic things added that require Precursor Archeotech.

Wondrous Planets
How it works:
At the start of the game, up to one planet of each planet type will be chosen as a wondrous planet. This planet will have unique planetary features on it that provide very large bonuses! Once you have surveyed and discovered a planet like this (or the AI has), the planet name will change to a different colour.

Discovery! Events
How it works:
When your science ships survey a planet and discover a special modifier on that planet an event will pop up telling you about it. This only happens the first time you discover this modifier. You will have the option to spend some influence to tell your scientist to take another look for extra rewards.

Colony Events
How it works:
Over 40 mini colony events have been added that can trigger after you have colonised a world with this mod'€™s modifiers. Several capital event chains to do with your ethic choices have also been added.

Valuable World Modifier
How it works:
Some dead worlds (barren, frozen, etc) that have specific modifiers will also have a 'valuable world' modifier. This modifier allows terraforming of this world with the right technologies.

Terraforming Interaction
How it works:
When you terraform a planet the following will happen:

• Most bad negative modifiers will be removed (where it makes sense)
  
• Precursor modifiers will NOT be removed
  
• Planet wonders will be removed.
  
• The newly terraformed planet has a chance to roll new flavour or positive modifiers. Flavour modifiers have a grey border and are just there for story/lore or roleplay.
  
• Turning a planet into a Machine World will remove most modifiers and roll unique machine world modifiers.

Crisis Interaction
How it works:
Crisis that purge or change planets will have improved interactions with planet modifiers. They will remove and/or roll new modifiers as well.

Build-in compatibility
Compatible with Planetary Diversity
Compatible with More Star Classes
Compatible with Real Space
Compatible with Real Space - New Frontiers
Compatibility errors like Failed to find texture "gfx/portraits/environments/<planet name>.dds" for planet pc_<planet name> can be safely ignored.

I worked out how to apply resources to planets if they have a specific modifier. So for example, a sun that has a rare "super bright" modifier or something like that will have maybe 20 energy on it! Tons of possibilities opened up with this!

I also worked out you can spawn tile blockers based on planet modifiers. So I might make a few of those that go along with a few modifiers.

For now, early WIP:

Guilliman88 said:

I worked out how to apply resources to planets if they have a specific modifier. So for example, a sun that has a rare "super bright" modifier or something like that will have maybe 20 energy on it! Tons of possibilities opened up with this!

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That looks pretty cool, would really help with all those useless modifiers I see in vanilla like a mineral bonus on an asteroid or uninhabitable planet... that doesn't have any minerals to begin with.

Most will stay. I'm wondering how habitats will work with planet modifiers. So for now I don't plan to change much. Depending where it makes sense I might switch over some planet modifier bonuses to actual energy/mineral/science values. Stuff like Time Displaced Planet or Melted Ice Caps might see their bonus changed to pure +physics/soc/eng research.

I'm definitally keeping terraforming/colonization mods in mind.

Final Big update is out!
- 24 more modifiers added, most are flavor based.
- A few modifiers directly add resources to planets (orbit).
- 15 Tile blockers added based on planet modifiers. A few techs added so they can be removed.
- Added compatibility for the new planets in Planetary Diversity mod (todays update)
- Some more behind the screen script changes for easy addition of other planets from mods.
- Some more number balancing has been done.
- Tons of fixes to localisation (text).
- Added bunch of screenshots to modpage

This will be the last big update for a while, some more fixes to text or improvements to icons might happen but that doesn't require new games to show up.

Both precursor bunker grid and precursor mechs have their army bonuses removed duo to not working. I couldn't get the army bonuses to work, it seems to be an oversight or bug in the main game. The bonuses don't transfer from planet to army.

So instead I have fixed it by making these modifiers actual armies!
* Planets with " Precursor Bunker Grid " modifier will now allow you to construct ' Salvaged Precursor Bunker ' armies. These are defensive armies, expensive but very durable.
* Planets with " Precursor Mechs " modifier will now allow you to construct ' Salvaged Precursor Mech ' armies. These mechs are too large for orbital transport and thus are defensive only.

* Planets with the modifiers " Arachnophobia " will now allow you to construct ' Giant Arachnid Armies ' for you to drop on your enemies! Have fun with that thought!

-These fixes apply to your save game as well

Changelog:
NEW:

• Terraforming planets will remove bad modifiers and has a chance to give a good modifier or two!
• A couple of terraforming unique modifiers! Rare positive results from terraforming give a small bonus to happiness and migrant attraction.
• 25 new modifiers, mostly unique to specific types of planets to provide a little more unique feel.
• 5 Planet Modifiers moved from normal spawning to Anomaly Events! One for the sun, black hole, pulsar, asteroid and one for all other solid planets.

CHANGES:

• Modifier spawn chances improved based on feedback and different testing methods on my end.
• A few modifiers bonuses were changed to be a bit more consistent and less annoying when you have multiple modifiers on a planet.
• Improved Giant Arachnid Tile blocker flavor text.
• Some flavor text updated to be a bit more sci-fi or explanetory.
• Gaia worlds have a higher chance to have good modifiers.
• Cities in the sky has a new icon.
• Giant Worm has a new icon
• Perfect seasons has a new icon
• Unusual seasons has a new icon
• Living world has a new icon
• Hostile flora has a new icon
• Empathic life has a new icon
• Friendly wildlife has a new icon
• Windy has a new icon
• Endless Forests has a new tile blocker and modifier icon
• Locus plague tile blocker icon improved a little
• High Mettalicity icon improved a bit
• Some localisation changes: most referenced to 'planets' has been replaced by 'worlds' to better accomadate other modifier targets such as ringworlds, habitats, asteroids, etc.

FIXES:

• Fixed Artifical Water modifier, should now spawn correctly.
• Hot Core and Solidified Core terraforming bonuses temporarely removed as they don't work.. Modifiers are not classes as "yellow (flavor)".
• Localisation fixes (typos/grammar).

Please let me know if there's any bugs or weird behaviour when terraforming. The event script is fairly complex. I have tested a lot and so far it's been working flawlessly.

The terraforming modifier mechanic will also happen in your savegame on previously terraformed planets.

Let me know what you think!

Next update will have see some of the anomaly events spawn chance lowered (Diamonds in the Sky especially).

Also colonies on planets with ship graveyards have a chance to trigger a special event chain..

(Just one of the possibilities..) tihihi

Guilliman88 said:

Sadly not. I'm a terrible artist so I'm using pictures that I modify or other art that I find via google.

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aw.

Updated to banks/utopia versions.

Changelog:
Updated and compatibility for 1.5 Banks update and Unity DLC

NEW:

• New planet modifier border icons!
• - 3 new border icons added
• --- Green border = Only positive modifiers
• --- Yellow border = Both positive and negative modifiers.
• --- Red border = Only negative modifiers
• --- Grey border = No modifiers, only flavor/story text
• --- Unique blue border = precursor modifiers, super good modifiers
• --- Purple border = indicates special modifiers from events, or modifiers that add something special like armies.

CHANGES:

• Giant Arachnid armies now have a limt: you can only build 5 of them.
• Planet modifiers that add unique "interesting" tile blockers now do so via a hidden event. This ensures that 1) It always has a this special tileblocker. 2) It always only has 1.
• The above special unique tile blockers will also no longer be able to be removed. This stops the AI from removing them as well. As a bonus, they now provide much stronger adjacency effects.
• Improved terraforming event so that it makes more sense which modifiers get to stay or which are removed. Almost all negative modifiers get removed (unchanged), neutral modifiers get removed where it makes sense (eg; ocean world won't have dunes), and some positive modifiers get removed (eg; endless fish modifier gets removed if you terraform the ocean world into a desert world).
• Strong Volcanism now has a unique icon.
• Ethic drift modifier changed to government ethic attraction (I believe this is somewhat same thing, it required changing)
• Some internal code reference changes (building buildspeed -> planet building buildspeed, etc)

FIXES:

• Fixed wrong localisation number from an anomaly/modifier bonus, (displayed wrong +soc bonus)
• Fixed edge cases where the same kind of modifiers could spawn on a single planet (eg; high gravity and very high gravity)

For now no special modifiers for ringworlds/habitats, that will come soon.

Huge update!

Changelog:

NEW:

• 16 new planet modifiers added
• 3 Fallen Empire planet modifiers added
• 7 new Ringworld planet modifiers added. They have a chance to show up when you build a Ringworlds.
• 1 new tileblocker added. (Mushroom forests)
• 2 new Habitat planet modifiers added. They have a chance to show up when you build a Habitat
• 4 new precursor modifiers added.
• 1 new colony event added. Careful when you colonize a world that has alien eggs..

CHANGES:

• Capital World modifier now has a purple border colour to make it stand out and feel important.
• Holy World modifier now has a purple border colour to make it stand out and feel important.
• Terraforming Candidate modifier now has a purple border colour to make it stand out and make it a little easier to find.
• Vanilla (base game) modifiers now have matching border colours; good bonuses = green, bad bonuses = red and both good and bad = yellow.
• Precursor modifiers will no longer show up in starting solar systems.
• Sol solar system planets will now only have modifiers that make some sense. No more alien life on the moon etc.
• Precursor modifiers will no longer show up on Fallen Empire worlds, instead fallen empire worlds have their own modifiers.
• Precursor modifiers now show up on ringworlds that are not owned by an empire at game start. It made very little sense that precursor modifiers showed up on ringworlds owned by fallen empires or player owned starting ringworld empires.
• Extensive cavern system has a new icon
• Precursor Satellite grid has a new icon
• Great Temperature Variation has a new icon
• High Metalicity icon improved
• Sand Tornadoes icon improved

FIXES:

• Fixed giant arachnids armies so they can be rebuild. The game will now check every "month" if your giant spider armies are alive. If one or more are dead you now will be able to build replacements. This applies to savegames too
• Fixed Mastery of Nature; now gives you the tileblocker clear techs of my mod as well. Overwrites the vanilla Mastery Of Nature perk code! Does not overwrite any other perk or code.

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Also check out my habitat specialisation mod too!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=904340430
Allows you to specialise habitats with a modifier to either outpost, food, minerals, science or military(army)

New update!

Changelog:

NEW:

• 33 new mini-discovery events: you'll get a small event window when your science ship discovers a world with a special modifier for the first time. They give a small reward of resources depending what you discover.
• "Hot Core" 3 stage discovery event. Everytime you discover a world with a "very hot core" modifier you discover a small terraforming speed bonus. This stacks 3 times. The bonus can be found in your empire modifier list and will show at what stage you are of the discovery. ("Terraform discovery bonus 2/3" for example)

CHANGES:

• Very hot core modifier spawn chance has been reduced a little bit.
• Precursor modifiers spawn chance reduced by 66% for all uninhabitable worlds(frozen, toxic, etc).
• Precursor modifiers spawn chance increased by 50% for habitable worlds. (seems like a lot but it isnt duo to above global reduction)

FIXES:

• terraforming and ringworld repair should no longer replace pops and buildings when they roll a forest modifier (spawns some forest blockers).
• Fixed unique tile blockers re-spawning after terraforming. They'll spawn on a random tile though. Can't be helped for now. Will improve before patch 1.6 when terraforming of already colonized worlds is possible.
• Few grammar/spelling localisation fixes
• Fixed ringworld xeno zoo description

Guilliman88 said:

Fixed unique tile blockers re-spawning after terraforming. They'll spawn on a random tile though. Can't be helped for now.

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What is the difficulty here? Unable to set tile flag on a specific tile?
Well, while there is no such trigger as has_tile_flag = <flag_name> and no such effect as set_tile_flag = <flag_name>, there is workaround to achieve exact the same thing now in 1.5. Use these (when in tile scope)

planet = { has_planet_flag = <flag_name>@prev }planet = { set_planet_flag = <flag_name>@prev }

Risa said:

What is the difficulty here? Unable to set tile flag on a specific tile?
Well, while there is no such trigger as has_tile_flag = <flag_name> and no such effect as set_tile_flag = <flag_name>, there is workaround to achieve exact the same thing now in 1.5. Use these (when in tile scope)

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Interesting! I'll experiment with it for the next update. Honestly I hadn't looked into it that much just yet (wanted to get this update out the door so I can relax a bit).
I have a bad habit of never stopping something I like doing so at some point I have to stop myself for a few days. hehe

Updated!

Changelog:

NEW:

• Updated to 1.8 version of the game.
• 40 new mini colony events for a lot of planet modifiers.
• 5 new Fallen Empire planet modifiers to be found on their worlds.
• 11 new Machine Wold modifiers with an orange border colour. These can show up on computer/machine worlds.
• Wondrous worlds: 18 new Planet Wonders and Natural Wonders. Rare planet unique tile blockers with powerful adjacency bonuses.
• New ways of noticing planets: After surveying a wondrous world or a world with precursor modifiers they'll get a coloured name and a unique planet icon.
• Valuable world modifier; this modifier shows up next to precursor modifiers or special/cool modifiers.
• Planets with the precursor shipyards modifier now have shipyards orbiting the planet as a visual effect.
• Planets with the precursor shield modifier now have a planetary shield graphic as a visual effect after colonizing.
• Precursor Energy Grid and Precursor Remnants worlds have custom vanilla planet graphics.
• The homeworlds that spawn as a result of the precursor event chains now can have several precursor modifiers!
• Crisis interactions!
• --> Swarm: planets that get infested will lose most modifiers and roll new fitting ones.
• --> Unbidden + swarm: when they/you cleanse a world the planet now has a chance to become a frozen, molten or nuked planet as well as the default barren ones. These planets will get a special modifier allowing you to still terraform them back!
• Added build-in compatibility for the mod: Star Trek New Horizons.
• Added build-in compatibility for the mod: Star Trek New Worlds
• Added build-in compatibility for the mod: Real Space.
  

CHANGES:

• 3 or more modifiers will be a bit rarer now.
• Large modifier bonus balance pass; most happiness and research values have been lowered a lot.
• Greatly expanded the available modifiers for terraforming and building ringworlds. Both have a bigger list of modifiers to choose from so the worlds/ringworlds end up more varied.
• Precursor modifiers now show up on barren, cold, frozen, toxic and molten worlds again.
• Discovering precursor modifiers now have extra rewards associated with the discovery.
• Overall precursor modifiers are a little rarer now
• The above worlds with precursor modifiers also get a "valuable world" modifier; this allows these worlds to be terraformed!
• Rewrote most of the planet modifier spawn code so it is easier to add new planets from other mods.
• Massive update of the localisation (text) to be more grammatically correct. Also expanded a lot of the localisation to be much more flavourful. Special thanks to Heather H. for proofreading all the English localisation and providing corrections and improvements!
• Discovery event buttons localisation rewritten a bit to be more varied.
• Fallen Empire modifiers should be more common on their worlds. Those worlds are truly utopian!
• Fallen Empire modifiers icons now have a pink/purple border colour to separate them from the rest of the galaxy.
• Fallen Empire Shield modifier has different coloured shield graphics now.
• Ringworlds engineers no longer throw around seeds randomly causing forest tile blockers to appear.
• Precursor Energy Grid has a new more fitting icon.
• Precursor Planetary Shields has a new more fitting icon.
• Precursor Planetary Defence Grid has a new more fitting icon.
• Precursor Shipyards has a new more fitting icon and event picture.
• Tile blockers that come with modifiers (temple, precursor shield, etc) will now always have 4 tiles next to them so you can make full use of the adjacency effects.
• Following tile blockers have had their cost and/or clearing time reduced: ship graveyard, planetwide forest, dense forests, mushroom forests
• Mastery of Nature overwrite adjusted to follow the new base game cost reduction value (-50% instead of -100%)
• Precursor Singularity drive now provides a 25% robot resource bonus and a 100% robot build speed bonus.

FIXES:

• Fixed some inconsistency when spawning opposite modifiers on the same planet.
• Fixed issue with Fallen Empire Planet Modifier Script, now colonies in other solar systems under Fallen Empire control will get unique modifiers.
• Added debugging event scripts to play around with on user request. Check the debug discussion on the mod page on steam how to use.
• Overwriting some specific vanilla events to interact with the mod. Specifically events that change planets or interact with tile blockers.