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Ascension Perks Broadened 4.0

Ascend even further beyond as your empire becomes the powerhouse of the galaxy with these powerful new ascension perks!


This mod adds over 70 new Ascension Perks to the game, 8+ of which are further extensions of vanilla perks, 10+ of which are entirely new creations with different effects, and 50+ of which are tiers 2, 3, 4, and 5 of the other perks. You can choose at the start of the game to enable or disable the tiered perks and if you change your mind you'll find a new edict that lets you make the choice again.

Currently this mod has up to date Japanese, Russian, and Chinese translations.
Here is the Italian translation mod updated by another user so it may be out of date.

The Chinese Translator can be found here if the translation has any issues or needs updates: https://steamproxy.com/profiles/76561198330568006/

If you want to provide a translation for this, please leave a comment on the mod comments, or leave a comment on my profile page with details.

I highly recommend you grab a mod to expand your ascension perk slots. If you want a mod that allows an amount of customisation in the difficulty of getting new perks, check out my mod: Repeatable Ascension Perks - Here, for a mod that provides a customisable experience for unlocking new ascension perks


Fountain Of Youth - Gain Immortality through the research of a mysterious substance found in space. Eternal Youth has its perks, and each leader type gains its own specific benefits, on top of a species wide increase of many aspects.

Colonising Efforts - When spreading your empire, the more the merrier. Pack your colony ships fuller and train those onboard to rapidly colonise the planet. You'll see an increase to pops on colonisation, and to colonisation speed.

Focused Placation - When your people aren't happy, or have anything fun to do, and your planets are unstable, grab this perk. You'll gain a boost to happiness, a flat boost to amenities on every planet, a flat boost to stability, a reduction to crime, and good times all around.

Influential Leaders - This perk will give you a flat boost to influence of extra influence, as well as a percentage increase of your influence gain.

Scientific Discovery - Why bother exploring the galaxy if you're not willing to open your eyes and discover its mysteries? With this perk you'll gain a good boost to your anomaly discovery chance, anomaly research speed, survey speed, archaeological dig speed, and an extra technology alternative slot.

Job Productivity - With this perk your worker, specialist, and ruler pops will be more productive, increasing their outputs.

Engineered Excellency - This perk will give you more species trait points and extra trait picks. Enjoy the benefit from whatever your heart wants as you no longer have to choose between being erudite or being fertile.

Optimised Refining - This perk grants you a significant increase of all production of Volatile Motes, Rare Exotic Gases, and Rare Crystals. Not to mention that it also increases your empire storage capacity significantly as existing refineries have redundant areas dismantled and repurposed for storage.

Planet Expansion - This perk grants you the ability to expand the size of your planets multiple time, giving you more district slots.

Engineering Paradigm Shift - This perk grants you an increase to your megastructure building capacity, a significant increase to megastructure build speed, a reduction in cost of building megastructures, a decrease to upkeep cost of megastructures (which is especially useful when using gigastructures which have some obscene upkeep costs) and an increase to the output of megastructures, that means more science, more energy, and more minerals!

Our True Vision - Make sure you're not left in the dust with this upgrade to your unity production.

Technological Revolution - This simple perk that increases your research speed, and adds more research slots, meaning you can find the tech you want much more consistently.

Fortify Our Grasp - With this perk you can enjoy additional starbases, along with a slight increase to your mining and research stations.

Galactic Control Force - Ships. You need more of them if you want to control the galaxy. This perk will increase your navy capacity and fleet command limit by a flat amount, slightly decrease your upkeep costs, and then additionally increase your navy capacity. Don't complain if you end up with too many ships.

Executive Overhaul - Edicts can be pretty expensive, with an overhaul to the way executive administration works, you can squeeze in one or two more edicts before your unity takes a hit. On top of that it turns out your districts weren't as efficient as they could be, and with this perk you'll see a reduction of your district upkeep cost.

Neural Design - With this perk you can enjoy an increase in your leader experience gain and scientist cap.

Prioritised Diplomacy - With this perk you'll gain extra envoys, and a boost to your subject trust cap.


Please direct balancing feedback and any issues with bugs or compatibility on their respective discussion thread

This should be compatible with most other mods as it shouldn't overwrite any other files from vanilla or other mods.

This mod hasn't been balanced very well, it's mostly designed to make your empire more fun to play. Some perks may be too strong, some too weak. If you wish to give input on balancing please do so on the discussion thread labelled "Balancing"

More Ascension Perks which provides some cool perks that do things I've not seen other ascension perk mods do.


Expand planet uses a vanilla icon. I couldn't come up with a nice looking icon so I just re-used the hydrocentric expansion icon. Might cause an issue if you don't have the DLC, but I think it should be fine.

Thanks to everyone over in the Stellaris modding discord for the help they gave in helping me figure out how to make a mod more complex than changing some vanilla files.