Your Mod make Autonomous Service Grid unplayable (they cant have miner and farmer works) Please upgrade.

Would love to see an update of the mod, because it seems its broken again in 2.3 with some mods.

Why update? Works fine in versions that need it, isn't needed in newer versions.

Um, please update?

Does not seem to be needed any more... My Meklars with custom portraits are assembling just fine in 2.2

Is this still relevant now that 2.2 is out, or did they fix this issue in 2.2??

How can I get a machine portrait to represent an organic species? I need my Meklar to be perfect!

Do you know how I could make a similiar event that only affects a secondary species?

I have a rather large number of mods installed, so something must be conflicting. At the start of the game all of my pops are in the process of being disassembled. I have two robot species I can build (one, I assume, is your mod's copy). One vanishes after a month and the other automatically gets set to disassemble as soon as I build it. Doesn't seem to actually matter which protrait I use, either -- I selected a few different ones, including from the base game, and it still did this.

I'm getting a similar problem to what CaptainBlueTech had, only at the start of the year 2306. For whatever reason, I have two versions of the same species, one with 200+ robots and one with 6. The bigger one's portrait disappears and all info about them except for their traits disappears as well. Then they all get purged.

I think it was a traits mod not a portrait mode that caused the issue because in my trouble shooting I removed that and it started working

@CaptainBlueTech, can you tell what portrait mod were you using? I'd like to test it

no matter what i try i still cant build robots

I only used the standart machine portrait, the second one, but I think it started happening around when my race became cyborgs through the ascencion perk "the flesh is weak" (even though they were already machines) so it might be a different mod interfering because of stats? or because the species changed to Ultra- ? BTW It's not a problem for me I just spend the resources and copy new pops via console, so don't stress.

@Agamidae [LGS] You might want to check on how it interacts with my newly uploaded portrait packs.

I let the game run until 2258, everything was in order. Bonuses to robot growth applied correctly, modding templates worked, no one disappeared.
If anyone is still experiencing issues, tell me what portrait mods you're using and send me a save file if you don't mind (it's in \Documents\Paradox Interactive\Stellaris\save games)

I fixed the missing "=" sign, thank you Thon, but even without it I couldn't replicate Beggar's problem. I'll try to run a game later today, see if something comes up.

Getting this error.
[08:43:45][trigger.cpp:247]: Expected "NOT = {", but got "NOT = auth_machine_intelligence" at file: events/lgs_machinepopfix_events.txt line: 10

I have a really weir problem with this, as well, was there a tiny update to the game?
So I STARTED a new game with this mod, and the pops built no problem, I'm now at year 2256 and suddenly the problem is back? they vanish after a month, could something ingame trigger this bug again? like increased build speed or anything like that? Like i said it DID work! but suddenly now it doesn't, no mods changed. very confuzzled.

Nope still doesn’t work, I’m gonba go through my modlist

@logan.greene84 just in case, check whether you actually activated the mod. Because I just tested it on both beta and stable versions of the game, with my own mods and others, it works.

Darn it’s not working for some reason

Thank you for letting me know, @TechSY730, but I'm not using a single if statement in the mod. So it's unaffected by the change.

Just to make sure you know about this when looking at 2.1 compatibility. There was a breaking scripting change in 2.1 the developers didn't do a good job letting modders about.
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/dev-team-2-1-0-documentation-if-else_if-else.1100202

Your scripts may be doing the wrong thing silently if you need to update them and don't.

Thanks for this

Wow. They STILL haven't? Jeez.

Thanks for keeping it up to date!

Nope, they still haven't fixed it.

Is this still necessary after 2.0 or did they finally fix it themselves?

they dont need to be animated but I love them

okay I want that robot model PLEASE

I've had to restart my current game 3 times due to unrelated bugs, and I finally started getting into it and realised that none of my pops would build because they're of type "AI" and not type "Machine". So, thank you.

That robot is adorable.

The thumbnail is golden, fav'd.

@Starlight I assume you mean in your mod? It's because of the last line, use this instead: "change_dominant_species = { species = last_created }"
The same goes for pop checks: "species = { has_trait = trait_machine_unit}"
That's from Silfae's code, he's two steps ahead of us as always. My saves work fine.

So apparently using the 'has_trait = trait_machine_unit' check somehow manages to corrupt the save, i don't know why or how but it does, man i wish archetypes would actually work like paradox said so we don't have to fiddle around with workarounds.

Ok, I caught this bug now, I used to always choose different species.
I also changed the limit for pool leaders, otherwise assimilators wouldn't get cyborgs.

Mhh then it must have been the fact that i used the same species portrait set for 2 different species_classes (machines and bio), apparently that confused the game by alot.

Huh? That never happens to me, @Starlight. "limit = { is_same_species = ROOT }" already takes care of that. Do you have other mods installed that try to do the same thing?

You should add "has_trait = trait_machine_unit" to the limit in every_owned_pop to stop rogue servitor sub races from being changed into machines.

Yes, @shoobers, in my tests AI properly builds new pops, everything seems to work fine.

Can the AI properly deal with this?

Well, you could always just kinda up and say 'you know what, fuck this, they should be the ones doing this, not me, I ain't gonna do this.' Of course, you'd probably get some let's just say interesting feedback from that.

Pretty much your choice what to do at this point.

Thank you, Princessity, I thought I'd removed it. Now, in 1.8.2 there's a new issue, an invisible synth you can build that will promptly disappear. I'm not sure what causes it.
I'll be honest, I'm a bit upset that Stellaris team hasn't done proper machine portrait integration. Do we have to wait until next expansion? Will it ever be in the game? I fully expected this mod to be a quick temporary solution.

Hai! Just reporting a little bug/redundancy. Like I pointed out to Silfae on the forums when we were discussing this solution, this line:

every_pool_leader = { add_trait = leader_trait_ruler_machine_intelligence }

Is unnecessary and, in fact, harmful ^^ Machines already inherit the trait from their species so they don't need it but what's worse, Driven Assimilators' starting cyborg leaders spawn with this trait too which makes them immortal. They're not supposed to have it.

It's totally safe to just remove this line. It should fix the issue and everything works fine without it n_n

I was thinking of doing the same thing a while ago, and although I have the art skill, stellaris modding isnt my thing. You should definitely work on the idea tho! ^^

If it specifically cartoonish avatars of current races i think it would be pretty dope. As for animation yes, i think from the very start paradox had setup a tutorial for modders on how to animate through photoshop/gimp/etc

I have been considering it. I already have like half a dozen animated characters. They would clash with the game art style, especially with room backgrounds, but maybe? Apparently, there's a way to use animated textures, that would be quite convinient for me.

Do you realise the potential of using cartoony pops like the one in your description image as a mod? Can you even imagine?