I loaded up Steam for the first time in a couple of weeks and had a prompt the mod wasn't present any more.

Ah. Do mods get disabled if the page is hidden?

I lost my species portraits because the Lithoid mod was axed :V

lol I haven't really touched the whole other headache of shipsets, will have to if I want to update my old old mod.
I can see why some modders wouldn't update, a lot changes under the hood and interest in a game waxes and wanes. Honestly I've gone off Stellaris, I tried to get back into it but wasn't having fun for reasons discussed to death, but I see some people do play so I'll keep my more popular uploads updated to any major or actually good updates.
Appreciated.

Good to hear you'll keep supporting them, wouldn't blame you if you didn't want to though considering Paradoxs tendency to break everything every DLC now.

My most annoying gripe was the shipset type break, why not have the Default setting be mechanical!? So many nice/old shipsets now broken for people too afraid to touch game files.

Also thanks for making and maintaining these mods, some species packs did not get any love.

Thanks for asking, I hope it's not too disruptive. I am in the process of fixing a bug, and since an issue cropped up slowing my fix I hid the mod so no new people will subscribe until it's done.
I decided not to abandon it, I will get that mod and this one to what I'm happy with then just support them.

Unrelated to Necroids, what happened to your Lithoid Mod? Was it requested to be taken down, or do you not want to upkeep it anymore? I was going through my mods and noticed it was no longer labeled which is why im asking.

Much appreciated!
And I have possibly just been convinced to finish the update to it, knowing someone's hype to try the mod, lol.

A based necroid mod to add to my horde of downloaded mods. Will work lovely with my necroid hive I have going! Thank you for this mod!

2/2
So in non-yapping terms, mod is mostly done and in long-term support mode. I'll do the content I'd feel bad if I didn't upload, then peace out aside functionality checks every major game version or so.

Two other things for the record.
First, I too enjoy modded Xcom. ;)
Second, programming is my weakest aspect of game design and I still figured out PDX mods, might be worth a look into if you think it'd be fulfilling. I'm one of those people who learns by reverse engineering, if that sounds like you then try it. I always give open permission to study my mods.

It's actually not a bother but heartwarming someone would suggest a suggestions thread. I've always thought modders should take ideas and be friendly, but I digress before I really start on that.

Now, if I was actively modding Stellaris then I would take suggestions because I believe in it, but realistically my priority list is like, add a cityset to Lithoids mod, add some variety to the cultist set in this mod, see if there's anything in a nearly-done state (I also kinda hate the Flood coral, would remove it if it wouldn't break people's saves), see about updating my super old "Trace Customisation" thingie, then cash out and not really touch Stellaris.
I bounced off the game in my latest attempt to get back into it, just couldn't have fun like I could in the moneymoon phase. It's also hard to tell how many people actively use the mod, or if 2300 of the 2309 subscribers stopped playing by 2022, y'know?

Phew I have to split my comment to fit, too.

I loved X-COM 2- the main reason I haven't wasted away because of my addiction for that game was the change to the base launcher messing up the AML. Might revisit one day, but would probably be healthier to just have ONE addicting game in rotation.

I also understand that this isn't a full time commitment for you or anything- but on the off chance you would be willing to take suggestions, I'd love a thread dedicated to that.

(Necroids and mods like this get my brain to do the funny chemicals, and I get ideas for what I would add if I were familiar with the programming language. I had to delete most of this message to get it to fit on steam lol)

Mods are unironically the lifeblood of games that run long enough, even with official DLC still happening. X-COM 2 for example was reinvented several times over and only a couple of those were due to official content, supplemented by the wider mod library, and Long War 2.

The various total conversions, purely aesthetic mods, tweaks, fixes, and everything else that Stellaris has had made for it are possibly the only reason at this point the game stills has so much interest seeing as how official updates continue to be plagued with problems and do more damage than good, driving away both players and modders alike who get fed up with all the changes and poorly handled updates.

So those who continue to maintain and innovate the mod workshop deserve the praise proffered to them.

I sort of feel the same way, stopped playing for a while due to lacklustre DLC, though it's a bit better nowadays imo. Thank you for the words of support, too.

Thank you for maintaining this mod. I feel like a drug addict with how few mods there are doing ANYTHING with jack variant of shit they gave us in this DLC. I wanna play my necromancer/undead fellas- but they gave us almost nothing to work with.

I'd even take side content as part of a shroud update/DLC, they've shown the ability to do that with biogenesis- I'm desperate enough at this point. Heck, just use a DLC for fixing armies at this rate- I'll take any excuse for these poor rotten souls to receive ANY attention at this point.

lmao
could say I reanimated the mod.

It's alive \o/

Wait, that doesn't make sense with Necroids 🤔

Hi all. I was too busy to fix my game acting up (e.g. Stellaris launcher wouldn't connect to my account for a bit, or game crashing at menu), but glad to say it's all fixed, and I found the main issue taking features out my mods... Literally just that text files are now simply .txt, yep, that's the main reason after several fix attempts wondering what I did wrong lol.
Got one or two things to improve, I'll also see if it's possible to do things in a more compatible way, and I'll have to see if tomorrow's patch changes things *again* but there should be a 4.0 version of most my mods.

Poking in hopes this gets a look over at some point, probably later rather than sooner given the impending update, however.

Need update, portraits system updated.

Please update this!

waiting for update

I was able to fix the mod as far as I can tell by modifying the .txt file in species_classes. I just removed everything except for the custom_portraits section. Despite not having the rest of it, the modifications like the clothing and dimorphism still work and the custom portraits are added and function fine. I'm not really sure if there are any side effects from this.

Do you at least have any idea what could be causing this?

I sometimes hear about that, but I don't know why. I don't really touch Stellaris so I'm unsure what changed for some.

for some reason the portraits are duplicated

Hello, there will be a fix for the mod?

is this abandoned, or...?

Thanks for letting me know.

One of the vampiric subspecie got borked by the new update, have hairs hanging in the middle of the face for some reason.

I saw that mod actually, I've half a mind to use it myself. Anyway yep, you have permissions to use bits of it, even edit if you need to. Thanks for crediting me.

Wonderful work - I have included parts of your mod in mine but then got banned for not asking for permissions. Do you have any objections to your work being included in mine? I have already added you to the credits list.
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2796778215

Well, for my mods, I have a 'test' copy I use in my playthroughs, and then there's the 'upload' copy. When I want to upload an update, I copy the test copy into the upload copy, and check if it's correct before uploading. I also do not subscribe to my own mod because that will cause disrepancies. Hopefully this method helps with the missing stuff in the future.

See, this is why Stellaris modding is annoying AF.
Checked they show in my game before uploading. Then to check you're right I tested it, they show fine, so asked a Steam friend, they show. Then I thought maybe it's an issue in the 3.3 beta so I opted into the beta and they still show fine.

Genuinely, I'm not trying to imply you're lying, I think Paradox is just comedically jank and that's coming from a Bethesda fan.

This kind of thing where two users games work slightly differently happens a lot so I *guess* I can make a portrait group if this is like a thing that can happen, when I get time and energy... Probably happens when having some portraits have portrait groups, and some not.

checked the code and it seems there's no portrait_group for ghosts or necrocorals, and that's why both are blank.

the ghost doesn't show up in the selector, only a blank rectangle.

Yeah I've thought about it, not sure where I'll take the vampires, if I did more than a few I could put them in their own mod. For now I'll just put one or two more humanoids into the species included here though.

thought about giving your own take on vampire humanoid portraits?

I noticed just selecting no gender gives very limited portrait choice for modded portraits, no choice for some of them. Maybe that's what you mean, it's all I saw wrong on my end.

In lighter news the new system tempts me to bring dimorphism to more portraits, then if the player doesn't want gender they can turn it off.

The new Gender toggle gets fucky with most portrait mods right now. Not sure if it's directly the portrait issues or a UI mod needs fixing.

Actually been trying to upload an update now the version number is different and there's enough content to publish. Pretty much the exact hour I was gonna upload some of the portraits went invisible so I'm just figuring that out then we're good.

What's broken on your end? I didn't see anything but it might be something I missed or fixed on my local copy since April.

here's hoping you touch on this again. 3.2 kinda borked a few things.

@Froozi

Are you insane? I want it just for the ghost.

There was actually going to be even more added, I just kinda had enough of Paradox for a while and so I don't mod Stellaris much.
It's true I'm not entirely happy with the ghost portrait though, they'd fit a bit better if all the concepts made it in but Paradox played it safe (as usual.)

Here is a mod that only adds new Necroid colours that you may be interested in.

Honestly, this pack would be amazing if not for the ghost portrait, maybe a modfix that removes it please

Apologies for slight mod deadness, went off Stellaris a fair bit. It isn't the final update ever.

Steam key for Stellaris Humanoids:
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J73R9
Y5Y43

(it's only one key so prepare for it to be swooped)

It will work yep!
But don't worry I'm going to keep updating the mod, just the launcher gave me an error, so when that goes away I'll upload update.

Does this still work with 3.0?

yeah, base game, very disappointing that paradox havnt even fixed that, seems so simple an error

honestly im not sure if on my end its the mod or the base game, ill check that