Expanded Habitability For Stellaris

Expanded Habitability For Stellaris

This Expanded Habitability Mod enacts some very simple but very powerful changes to planet colonization!

It will conflict with any other mod which alters 00_habitability_traits.txt. It will break if Paradox release any updates which significantly changes the structure or contents thereof.

[UPDATE] June 27th, 2016
Updated the .mod file to 1.2.* compatibility.

In general, colonization has been greatly eased:

Habitability of Tertiary planet types raised from 20% to 40%

Continental planet preference now considers EVERY one of the standard five to be Secondary habitability.
All planets now consider Continental to be of Secondary habitability.

Desert and Arid now consider one another to be Primary habitability
Ocean and Tropical now consider one another to be Primary Habitability
Arctic and Tundra now consider one another to be Primary habitability

All other planets are now Tertiary, rather than some planets which were not considered to be cognizable at all.

[Note] This is not a “cheat” mod. Not that there is anything wrong with cheat mods, but the effects of this mod apply globally, so while things will be easier for the player, they will be easier for other players and AI empires as well!

Check out my other Stellaris mods as well:
Stellar Energy treats stars and gas giants as the huge sources of energy they are, making especially early-game energy expansion fairly simple; but beware, what is easy to gain is easy to lose…
Shadow’s Defines is a collection of changes I made for myself; among other things, it makes Sectors purely-optional, alleviates a lot of drain on Influence, and makes the game more like a typical 4x.
Free Starport Repairs is a standalone mod that does exactly what it says on the tin; makes ship repairs at starports as free as having an Engineer admiral or a defense platform with the repair nanobots upgrade.
Shadow’s Radical Space Foxes is a completely crap and depricated mod that nobody should be using because I am garbage with any kind of image editing software. Use Silfae’s Fox Portraits Dimorphism for all your sexy space vixen needs!
Belle and Bellicosity is a simple technology addon mod that adds technologies which allow you to increase your Embassy and Rivalry limits, so you can make a lot of friends and a lot of enemies! The standard version is tuned for use without escalating technology costs. If you’re using standard Stellaris escalting technology costs, use the Vanilla Tech Costs version.
Shadow’s Usable Planet Size Increase is yet another planet size increasing mod. Increase the size of any planet up to 25! The AI might actually use this one, too. And it has a nice logo!

[NOTICE:] No permissions, real or implied, exist for anybody to copy and paste my work and reupload it to the Workshop or to other modding sites under their name, without my explicit prior approval. If you want to modify my mod for your personal use alone, you are welcome to do so. If you wish to open up my mod to see how I made my mod to get an idea for how to make yours, you are welcome to do so.

Under no circumstances are you welcome to copy and paste the contents of my mods, change some variables, and reupload it to the Workshop. I have a specific vision for how my mods are to be, and I do not wish to see that vision subverted. If you dislike the way I make my mods, make an original mod that does what you want it to do.