thanks to you for using my mod :)

Yep, it works. Thank you!

updated the mod (but not tested it)

Should now also deactivate all new prescripted species from the Shroud DLC

will upddate during the next few day :)
thanks!

The new update and DLC is out

Hey there.
I dont play Stellaris for a while now, but I will update this mod with the next release; it's a rather small amount of wotk it needs :)
Thanks for pointing out the new release!

Don't know if you still play this game but will you keep updating this? New DLC comes out next week and with it new Paradox-made empires/species

your welcome!

Thanks !

haha, glad to hear that :)

I suggest to place it at the very bottom of your mod list. But it shouldn't matter in most cases :).

This might just be the holy grail I was looking for.
Where do you advise to put it in the mod list order ?

"still spawn the vanilla Species" how do you mean this?
This mod removes all prescripted species - so these you normally see on the left when you click on New Game.
This works for me, just tested it.

Which prescripted empire had spawned? Do the empires still appear in the new Game manue? Do you use any other mods which modify prescripted species?

dosent seem to work.. still spawn the vanilla Species

updated for Biogenesis species

you can use this mod without any problems, but any species added since december 2024 will not be affected as long I don't update.

(...and if you run in any issue, please call me. But I can't think of anythning that could happen since this mod juste removes the script for the Pdox species whoich are not used by anything else relevant for the game)

Hey, how is the 4.0 Compatability? Thank you!

oh my, thanks a lot :)
I wish you an very nice and beautiful christmas (if you dont celebrate it, I wish you still a great day and a lot of good cool december days!)!

You get Super Star Reward!

your welcome

Thanks my dude

updated for season 8

If you have the normal human empires still in game, it cannot be this mod (since I tested it just now in this moment and works totally fine).

I suggest that theres another mod which re-adds these empires. Try to disable all mods (but this). Then add mod-for-mod until these empires re-appaer.

updated the mod; all Empire from the Machine Age DLCs now removed too.

So after a long while, I figured I try this once more.

Still the problem of human empires persists. Every other empire is gone, but these two just won't go away.

Tried messing around with the files in prescripted_countries folder and that did absolutely nothing.

I'm giving up. Stellaris is dead for me :'(

hey Adrian

Hm, to be honest, this mod should work correctly. Maybe the last patch created some issues?
I'm currently short in time, but I may can check it the coming weekend.

You can help me finding an solution if you send a screenshot of your "Steam\steamapps\common\Stellaris\prescripted_countries" folder.

If you like to, use contact(a t)vmods.org

cheers!

hello, great mod! i am sad to say that the "humans1" and "humans2" empires still persist and it is incredibly frustrating, because I tried absolutely everything I can to get rid of them. i tried deleting the content of the .txt files myself, overwriting them with blank ones, combining different mods and so on, but still they are still there.

what I did notice although is that these 2 empires only show up after i got the Humanoid Species Pack, so it definitely has to do something with that DLC, i am 100% sure of it (i tested it myself). maybe something can be done to fix this? thank you in advance, cheers!

okay, I just tested it again with my mod: It works 100% - there are no prescripted empires. As well no human ones.

Just in case that there was something going wrong at Steam wprkshop I reuploaded the mod.

Please try again; if you still have the human empires, the problem has to be on your side (most probably another mod adding prescripted empires while not using original files).

About the files, yeah, sorry, I remebered it wrong. The game can't load an empty 00_top_countries.txt, thats why it crashed. To get it working, this file have to be overwritten with an blank one (which is how my mod work).

It was different some years ago, but now I remember, they changed that long ago.

strange. Let me check, will post answer soon.

Thanks for the speedy reply! QwQ

I tried your suggestion, but deleting the files themselves just caused the game to crash on loading screen for me.

I then verified the cache integrity and instead of deleting the files, I tried manually deleting the text inside the files... Same thing.

...I haven't played Stellaris in ages just because of human empires not going away. ;_;

hm thats strange. This should work afaik. Or was there an update I missed?

Sad it doesn't work. As an quick fix you can go to your game directory:

...\Steam\steamapps\common\Stellaris\prescripted_countries

and delete all the files inside. You will not change anything but get rid of all prescripted empires.
Just remember thats "direct" modding of the vanilla files, so every update or reinstall will restore these files.

Tried this and another mod to get rid of the premade empires.

Neither worked for me, as human empires still persist.

Doesn't seem to matter which disabler I pick as the default human empires are there, even after multiple re-installs of the game.

I'm clueless as to what's going on or how to fix it Q_Q

updated, deactivates now all prescripted species.

Hi the mod doesn't seem to be working, The default species still show up.

your welcome!

Oh sweet, thanks!

and this one is updated!

Understandable. I took a month hiatus from Stellaris myself and came back yesterday, was just going through my modlist and saw this one wasn't updated for a while. If you don't feel like doing it then don't let me force you, wouldn't want someone to walk an extra mile to a destination they have no point going to.

Hey, I still do not play Stellaris for the moment.
But do you mean update of specificly this mod? That would be easy to do (this weeked).
My other mods... sadly to much work to get them running for the current build, at least for now.

Don't know if you still play Stellaris, but update for 3.9.2? Came back after a hiatus myself and had to reorganize my modlist, including removing some.

@UncleYar This is months late but IDC. The point is that the content included in First Contact was not enough to justify making it a DLC, it could have easily been made as part of base game. This could be said for the other DLCs, but I have never seen a Stellaris DLC seem so... little? Underwhelming? I can't think of the word but you know what I mean.

updated, should now disable all prescripted species :)

thank you.

yarrr!
It should work with the latest version partially, but I think it do not dsiables the prescripted empire from the latest DLCs. iirc Oceanic and Toxic ones will still appear since I didn't updated since then.

Does this work for the latest version? I also find the DLC policy somewhat critical, with Stellaries it is less... but what they are doing with Victoria 3 and crusader kings 3 borders on insolence. That's why I became a pirate.

@EJR "it doesn't even reach 1GB" lol, WTF kind of metric is that? Reminds me of the story of the russian officer asking for "one meter" of documentation" for some software, as in one meter thick of printed paper.
A DLC could be jam-packed with tons of code for new features and a lot of event text, which take serious effort to implement, yet take only a few MB on disk.

for me (as a modder) they could stop creating new content and just update bugs/improve the code. For the new content, the modding community is the way to go :D
Makes fun to create, is free and you don't have to redo/rebalance the mods every month ;)

I wouldn't mind if the DLCs were costly, they just need to equal the new content. It baffles me that First Contact is $15 and it doesn't even reach 1GB!

yeah, lets hope :)
Shame that their stuff is so costy :(

Understandable, Paradox games and their DLCs often have 50%+ discounts during the Summer so fingers crossed

heyya, I will update my mods one time for sure... But not sure when. Currently I'm sadly totally turned my back on Stellaris because there are to many DLCs/too expensive ones.

I don't like to do mods without all content available since it hinders my creativity. And I dont like to play with paywalls.
Since a year or so, I do not have enought cash to "get everything" and thus focused on more important things. Maybe if this changes or Pdox do a super sale with >75% on all DLCs, I'm back, but for now I have to use my ressources otherwise.

If you're still updating this, I assume you're waiting for Galactic Paragons?