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Space Habitats - Please Let me know what you would like to see!

It's always bugged me that Space Habitats don't have the city/style of your species so I will be adding this new background, mostly like in a new sub-mod, to replace the current art.

Which do you like better? The full level 6 city, or a more forested regular planet style.  Let me know what you think in the comments as I finish up this mod.

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Tree of Life Level 2 / Plans for the next while

Here is the art for the Tree of Life level 2! This will be what happens to your tree of life planet over the course of decades.  It'll be a special Mega-Flora world with some unique bonuses/deposits.  Going to start working on the coding of this one soon!

As always feel free to drop me ideas you have thanks to your generous donations I am able to do 2 planets a month!


Here are is my current road map for upcoming planets, but none of this is set in stone I'm al...

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A Different Take on the Tree of Life!

Been a bit quiet, but have been working hard.  We've finished stage 1 of a different idea for the tree of life.  Basically it's going to be a separate Origin that locks your planet class to this, a mega faun

Been a bit quiet, but have been working hard.  We've finished stage 1 of a different idea for the tree of life.  Basically it's going to be a separate Origin that locks your planet class to this, a mega flora/tree of life world.  The tree will grow naturally...

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Level 1 Domes + Hothouse/Toxic Dome!

Just finished up the artwork for level 1 domes, and a custom hothouse dome.  I'll be working on that new dome, plus replacing the force field dome for the early level domes.  

This will all be part of the May update which will focus on the Planetary Habitats Sub Mod.  I'll be adding in levels to match the Vanilla updates, plus reworking the districts a bit to make them more unique and adaptive to the resources on the planet.

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2.6.3 Big Update!

I don't announce all of my updates, but this one was a big one!  Here's a list of all the new stuff/fixes

 Features
- Updated German Translation
- Vanilla Replacer for Hive Worlds
- Added Hive World Origin
- 3 New Worlds! Swamp (Wet), Outback (Dry) and Highland (Cold)  
- New Techs - 3 for Crystal, Floating, Techno-Organic and Graveyard
- New Origins, 3 generics (Crystal, Floating & Graveyard) and 2 special ones (Techno-Organic and Archive).
- N...

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Swamp is done!

Gonna try to get the Swamp, Highland and Outback done before 2.6.3 officially drops! 

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Swamp Thing!

An early draft of the Swamp World.  As I mentioned before Mangrove is getting its name back and the swamp world is going to be a new Wet Type.  As always let me know what you think and stay tuned for more updates.

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Archive World!

Keeping on the work train here is the Archive Origin! Feel free to let me know what you think so far, aiming for the Floating, Crystal and Graveyard to be less restrictive than this and the Techno-Organic.

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The first Origin!

I'll post them as I finish, let me know what you think and what else you would like to see!  The artist has also started on the next Wet planet, Swamp World!  Also Mangrove is getting it's name back.  I'll post drafts of that next week.

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Your Opinion Pleas!

Looking for direction from you guys.

So with the addition of Origins, I have a few choices with the Unique Worlds.  They are all getting some extra love with this next big update.  All Unique Worlds will be getting 3 unique Techs/Weapons/Decisions/etc, that's easy.  What I need help with are the Origins.  I can either leave them open with some light start text to allow the most roleplay for everyone OR I can make a unique scenario for each but it will somewhat pigeon...

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Federation Builders: Ship Set + City is Released!

Hope you enjoy it! I'll get back to making planets after this, promise.

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Last Tease for the Federation Builders!

So alongside the Federation Builders Ships + Cities, there is going to be a sub-mod that adds the ability for all of your leaders to wear the same uniforms.  If chosen, when you start or join a federation, then every member race's leaders will wear these uniforms.  

Red - Generals, Brown - Admirals, Blue - Scientists, Green - Governors.

We're getting real close to releasing, I really hope you all enjoy it.

Afterwards, it back to making planets!

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Highland Planet Art Done!

We're almost done with the ship set and the highland planet art is complete!  I'll be releasing it with the Outback and the next Wet planet hopefully in April.

I really hope everyone is staying safe out there right now.  Take care of yourself and each other.

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Secret Project Time!

Hey patrons, here's what I've been working on this last month.  It's always been a dream of time to do a whole ship set with city portraits and here we are! I've teamed up with the very amazing Cheek to create a set inspired by Star Trek but very much keeping in many of the design concepts of Stellaris.  Our goal was to blend the two in an enjoyable way.  We're busy put...

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Highlands World Early Draft

We've started working on the next cold world which we are calling highlands at this point.  As always stay tuned for updates and let me know what you think!

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Secret Project Incoming!

I'm not going to say too much other than this will be shipping a short time after Federations drops, and there is a whole set of things to tease before then!


While this has taken up my time this month I also want to make clear that patron money was not used in this project; everything donated is and has gone towards more planets.  

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Outback Art is done!

This one will take a little while to be released as I wanna release all three of the new base planets at the same time.  I'll keep posting as art gets finished though.

March's Update will be something special and I'll be posting teasers for that soon, it's not planet stuff but it's something that will tie in with the upcoming Federations update.

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Outback World Early Draft!

Hey guys, this is a special month for several reason!  First off thanks to a kind donation I am able to do an extra planet!  This one I'm calling "Outback World" for now, it will be part of a set of 3 basic worlds. Outback (Dry), Highlands (Cold), and Swamp (Wet).  Mangrove will be getting it's title back as I regret changing it's name.

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Salt World Done!

The Salt World, a rare planet, artwork is done and I'll be working on the code/buildings over the weekend, hoping it have it out in a week or two for this month update.  Aiming to have some minor code tweaks to rare + unique worlds as well as some new buildings for eco-arcologies and arcologies.

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Salt World Draft

Early draft of the upcoming Rare Planet: Salt World! Obviously very influenced by a certain planet from episode 8 of a popular series.  Stay tuned for more info as I finish the rest of the plan for the planet!

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Vote for the next Planet!

I have so many ideas I wanna do so please help me choose!  Also if you have any other ideas please post them in the comments and I'll add them to the big list, or if I really like them I'll add them to this poll.

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Cascadian Done

The Cascadian redo is done! I'm aiming to update over the weekend with a bit of new content and some bug fixes.  Also after that update I'll be posting a poll for the February planet so stay tuned, and feel free to post any ideas you have for new planets in the comments!

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Cascadian Work Draft

This is the last of the redos for a while as I really want to focus on new stuff.  Tepui, Atoll, Cascadian, Mesa, and Mangrove/Swamp were some of the first ones we did.  The artist has come so far and it felt like those planets could use a bit more love considering the high level the artist is producing at!   I'm really happy with the detail that is now on those 5 planets.

I also wanna take the month to work on bugs/flesh out some special deposits and work as best I ...

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Shroud Worlds is out!

Still recovering from being sick but I was able to finish this all up and put out the first version of this mod! It adds 4 mini stories and the ability to turn planets into these worlds, as a spiritual alternative to Gaia worlds.  Head over to the steam workshop to check it out!

As always would love to hear peoples thoughts once they've tried it out!

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Shroud World Complete

Here is the completed art for the Shroud World!  Aiming to have this out in a week or two!

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Early Concept for the Shroud World

We really wanted it to fit in with the existing shroud world and the lore.  But the artist is hard at work with the art and I'm busy writing the stories for the 4 worlds.  My early though about this is that they will be a separate stand alone mod.  I won't be adding it as a starting option until after Origins come out.

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Tepui and Update!

Tepui is now done and I have updated the mod.  Head over to the mods to check all the patch notes.

The planet I'm working on in December will be a Shrouded World.  Right now I'm thinking something along the lines of Choas worlds from 40k.

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Mangrove/Swamp is done!

All the art + coding is done and the mangrove world is now the Swamp world.  This month's update is almost done.   We're working on the Tepui next.

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Early Draft on the Mangrove/Swamp Rework

I think I'm going to rename the Mangrove into a Swamp world, but here is the early draft, next we will be going on details.  We're also going to be doing the Tepui so this month's update will come with two new pieces of art!

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Survey for this Month's Artwork

This Month is a Touch Up Month, which older planet art would you like to see redone or add detail to?

If there is another planet you'd like to see considered please comment with it!

December is going to be a collection of Shroud Touched worlds,  each with it's own little story.  Think like chaos worlds from 40k.

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