READY THE PLANET CRACKER.

YOU MAY FIRE WHEN READY.

Awesome! You just made Stellaris Great Again!

Update, good sir?

Huzzah! The conquest of the universe can be delayed no longer!

@Fritzomatic @Tadpoleon @SamuraiProgrammer

The mod has now been fixed thanks to @jordarkelf on the Paradox forums. Enjoy!

Looks like I got some issues when creating or chaning the Tentacle species. Game is crashing on some Settings during species-creation. Would be cool if you can take a look.

Hey SaintDave, do you think you can bring this to a recent version, just to avoid any issues with the game? ;) I refuse to play with any other specie =)

Any news on when this'll get updated? Really want to see this back in action

@SamuraiProgrammer
Thanks for letting me know. Looks like I didn't update the mod properly!

Thanks! However, there is a small problem. When I load this mod, all of the other molluscoid empires go away. It is possible I broke it trying to update this for my own use before you released it. I did remove ALL the mod files from the steam cache and redownload them. If anyone is having this problem or can confirm that it is not a problem with the mod, please post here.

Thanks. My xenophobic empire will gladly feast upon this new cullinary delight!

Should be working again! Enjoy

I've restarted playing Stellaris recently because of Utopia, so hopefully I will get the chance to revisit this.

I would love to play these again as well

Still waiting for an update. Sure would like to play as these again.

Please update this to Heinlein 1.3.x as the update seems to have broken this along with many other custom portrait mods like Peglaci. The issue makes it so the game CTD's when trying to create any new empire with any of the affected mods enabled. Specifically when clicking the city and ship appearance buttons.

made my day :) haha...great!

@SaintDaveUK want me to update and fix it for 1.3?

@folk thanks for that, I'll sort that out if I ever get round to updating this mod :)

Oh my god this mod is fantastic :-)

Just a few errors from the Stellaris error log, nothing that really affects gameplay, but you can easily remove them if you want:

[code]
[22:30:05][lexer.cpp:69]: File 'common/name_lists/DOTT.txt' should be in utf8-bom encoding (will try to use it anyways)
[22:30:05][persistent.cpp:34]: Error: "Unexpected token: full_names_male, near line: 148
" in file: "common/name_lists/DOTT.txt" near line: 149
[22:30:05][persistent.cpp:34]: Error: "Unexpected token: full_names_female, near line: 152
" in file: "common/name_lists/DOTT.txt" near line: 152
[22:30:05][persistent.cpp:34]: Error: "Unexpected token: full_names_male, near line: 178
" in file: "common/name_lists/DOTT.txt" near line: 179
[22:30:05][persistent.cpp:34]: Error: "Unexpected token: full_names_female, near line: 182
" in file: "common/name_lists/DOTT.txt" near line: 182
[/code]

this is awesome!!!!! I remeber playing the crap out of that game when I was a kid. IM so happy :D

@Fritzomatic: the planet naming thing where the same name comes up each time is a bug in 1.2/1.2.1. The AI can use the namelists but for players it always picks the same name.

Aweome mod! I have the tentacle empire as a neighbour now.
In another game the portrait popped up for a random race, really fits in well.

Just checked with another Species, but it's the same... looks like the problem is on my side, or general coming with the latest patch

I can look into it. I might have inadvertently broken something

Looks like they changed the naming behaviour? When I am colonizing a new planet they always propose the name of the system + prime. When I click on randomize only Awesome will be filled and futher klicks on randomize don't have any effect. Is this just for me, or is it a general issue?

Glad you like it :)

Way more names added than I've expected. Big thanks for that!

Added some names to the name list and expanded it to planets too.

Hm, I am probably not very creative, but you may pick some good one if you like:
Delicious Marvelous Fantastic Spooky Infidel Fancy Weird Strange Slippy Slimy Suction Sandy Purple Green Blue Brown Domination Diabolic Toxic Waste Basement Conquer Sludge .
A few more would be cool, because I am reaching the "limit" quite fast and then some sectors might have an equal name, etc.
Would be cool if anyone else adds some more (maybe someone more creative than me ;))

Thanks again for this cool species SaintDave, I love it!

@Fritzomatic if you post suggestions I can add them :)

A few more planet names would be cool. Don't know the modding yet, can I manually add them?

@Narrelama
The launcher automatically adds the outdated mark to mods that were built with an older Stellaris patch. It should still run fine :)

Endorsed :D
Btw; Why would this mod still be marked as outdated? Don't get me wrong, I ignore that message, and it doesn't cause me no harm, but I know it deterrs some from using this FABULOUS graphical candy.
Isn't it a rather small thing to merely add that asterix, 'cause I can't imagine any development that would make this actually outdated.

Found it, thank you!

I don't host manual downloads, but you can just open up the .zip file located somewhere in 'steamapps\workshop\content' and browse the file structure in there.

Is there a place where we can download this manually? I'd like to take a look at the file structure, if that's okay.

Awesome -- My favorite mod! Thank you thank you thank you

I had no idea I needed this but the moment I saw it I knew I did :D Thanks for making this!

lolol, this is perfect. now purple tenticle will rule the galaxy

@dogkisser
I don't really have any specific tips, there's a lot of steps and any one of them can go wrong. If I get time I will see if I can clean up that wiki page so it is more helpful.

I'm incredibly impressed with both the fidelity of the art and the fact you -actually got animation working-!

Do you have any tips on how to create animated portraits through Maya? The Portrait Tutorial is shockingly unhelpful in that regard!

This sure takes me back.. The memories..