[2021] Stellaris Dev Diary #236 - Happy Holidays and thanks for all the fish

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

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written by grekulf

Hello everyone!

We aren’t quite ready to show the things we are working on currently, but from the beginning of January we’ll be back with more dev diaries to talk about things like the Unity rework or the new Situations system. For now, we’ll be taking a hiatus until January 13th.

We want to instead take this opportunity to celebrate the year that’s gone by and thank you all in the community for your continued support.

Looking back at the year:

• We released Nemesis and the 3.0 ‘Dick’ Update, after Philip K Dick, which added the Intel system and Espionage Operations, among other things
  
• We released a number of updates to 3.0 with bug fixes and improvements following your valuable feedback
  
• We onboarded many new members to our team, which let us provide you with even more Stellaris updates
  
• We announced the Custodian Initiative and released the first Custodian patch with the 3.1 ‘Lem’ Update (Stansilaw Lem) which features a lot of great improvements and new features
  
• We “buffed the backlog” for older DLC by adding new content to the Plantoids- and Humanoids Species Packs.
  
• We released 3.2 ‘Herbert’ Update (after Frank Herbert) and the Aquatics Species Pack, which is the best-selling and best-reviewed species pack of all time (by a great margin). Most importantly, we added swolephins.

I am incredibly happy about what we’ve achieved this year, and with our great team we should be able to keep making Stellaris better than ever before.

For next year I hope we can keep working together with you, the community, and release more great updates to Stellaris. I’m very excited, and I hope you are as well.

Here’s some pictures gathered during the development this year:


Hmm. What happens if you try to add weapons to a Tiyanki? Oh…


Assets wouldn’t randomize their appearance during early development. Clone spies?


Working on pathfinding can be… interesting at times.


QA testing bugs relating to Mechanist Origin + Agrarian Idyll Civic.


General pandemic mood.




Early Here Be Dragons work can lead to unexpected heroism.

And as a little bit of a gift, here’s some teaser images from things in development:




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Thanks for this year! We will be back with our next dev diary on January 13th, and until then we wish you Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!