Stellaris is seemingly one of the most well supported 4X Space Strategy titles on the market right now. Even with the Leviathan story pack add-on coming out toward the end of October, it only took a few short days for another patch to land fixing the few tiny issues which were left behind.

Of course, with a game like this, you're constantly looking at balancing what's already there while bringing lots of new additions for those who feel they've achieved everything they've wanted in their space lives. With those additions come more improvements, refinements and balance tweaks; and so the cycle repeats. We're going to keep a log of all the changes from here on out, so check back regularly to see what's new.

Stellaris Adams Patch Notes - 1.6.1

Adams? Where'd Banks go? We can assume you're looking at this page as a somewhat active Stellaris player. If that's the case, you likely know exactly why we've jumped straight to a hotfix of another major patch - it's because those initial decimal place increases make for such long patch notes, they end up with their own post. Like this one.

Fixed AI never declaring war

Fixed egalitarian faction unhappiness wrongly being generated by having robot "slave" Pops (Issue with xenophiles is known, we will address it)

Fixed issue with AI empires switching ethics far too frequently

Fixed a bug allowing you to terraform planets you don't own in contested space

Fixed wrongly stacking "was enslaved" happiness modifiers

Fixed graphical error with Ringworld skies

Fixed issue with War in Heaven where total occupation would not equal 100% warscore, leading to neverending war

Added back a couple of old diplomacy rooms and fixed black background on older ones

Fixed not being able to construct spaceports around Ringworld sections

Fixed wrong tooltip text on Armageddon bombardment stance

Hive Minds can now properly use Full bombardment stance

Fixed egalitarian faction issues appearing before you have any contact with alien empires and thus no ability to fulfill them

Fixed a rare crash when planetary Pops are destroyed

Devouring Swarms now properly get -1000 opinion penalty due to being, well, Devouring Swarms

Fixed crash when rebels take over a planet and defect to another empire

Fixed missing isolationist faction issue name

Fixed numerous missing loc strings in languages other than English and Russian

Can now properly rename civilian ships again

Fixed missing animation for Armageddon bombardment

Fixed event that was endlessly firing in the background

Fixed an issue where Xenophobe fallen empire opinion penalty for frontier outposts was calculated strangely, leading to incorrect war declarations

Fixed primitive enlightenment failing in the early game

Reduced AI nonsensically replacing buildings in a wasteful way, disregarding tile resources

Stellaris Banks Patch Notes - 1.5.1

You may have noticed a gap in the Patch Notes segments here and there, but there's a valid reason for that. We've moved from major releases too quickly to keep up with the game's astoundingly long patch notes. With 1.40 quickly making room for the 1.5.0 'Banks' update it was, again, too long for a single post. Yet the first minor patch of the major expansion is more than adequate.

To read the lengthy 1.5.0 patch notes, head on over here. If you're moving into 1.5.1, however, here's the lot;

Changelog:

Bug Fixes

Fixed a couple rare crashes

Fixed Server ID not being auto-filled when joining a multiplayer game

Ironman now saves properly when exiting to main menu

Ironman games now properly show an icon to mark them as ironman

Fixed a bug where a hotjoining player without the Utopia DLC could not pick countries that used Utopia features

Fixed a bug that was causing nerve stapled pops to never be enslaved

Fixed Philosopher King civic not applying to your starting ruler

Fixed AI weights for Megastructures

Fixed: Tooltips for sectors were in wrong order

Megastructures can no longer be built around planets/stars with Anomalies

Fixed improper reference to game mechanic (pops) in event texts

Fixed an issue with movement arrows acting strange when lots of orders had been queued

Hive Mind will now stop processing pops of other species when they're gene-modded to gain the Hive Mind trait

Fixed randomized species sometimes being generated with the Uplifted trait

Players can no longer reform governments to have invalid civics

Pop faction promotion/suppression modifiers are now removed when the faction is destroyed

Fixed out-of-sync where killed ships had their movement updated

Infested planets no longer destroyed

Fixed issue preventing multiple pops migrating to a planet at the same time

Fixed missing text for the news feed in the launcher

Fixed Chemical Bliss living standard accidentally requiring the Utopia expansion

Fixed bug where robotic species could not be picked to play when hotjoining a multiplayer game

Fixed a bug where timed modifiers on factions would never update

Fixed sector tooltip displaying "Planning to construct none" for spaceport constructions.

Texture optimization for megastructures

Synthetic rebel leaders are now properly assigned names

Fixed game getting stuck after game over, continuing in observer mode

Interface

Fixed overflow bug causing ethic attraction to show wrong values

Fixed faction demand displaying wrong tooltip

Fixed missing species class-related descriptors for Robots

Adjusted AI Citizen Rights tooltip

Added some missing/broken texts

Added missing modifier and tech icons

Fixed bug where AI cancelled fleet order to attack hostiles within borders

Modding

on_modification_complete is executed after changing the species of all affected pops and after updating the empire's founder species (if applicable). Fix FROM (species) scope of that event not working.

Fixed an issue where a set_citizenship_type effect missing the country reference

Fixed an issue where you were not able to override specific defines in the common/defines files

Performance

Fixed a memory leak with potential pop factions

Stellaris Kennedy Patch Notes - 1.4.0

We're not sure whether to class it as a highlight of the patch, but the addition of 33 new achievements means there's plenty the developers still want you to do. Overall, 1.4.0 is being considered as a smaller bug squashing patch, but that doesn't mean it's completely void of interesting notes. Read on below, or in more depth on the Paradox site;

Changelog: