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ABANDONED Smash or Pass: Species Phenotypes 3.8
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ABANDONED Smash or Pass: Species Phenotypes 3.8

Description
“I take no pride in this, but it had to be done.”

A lightweight min-mod that removes some of those less sensible vanilla species from random generating in game.
• Note: portraits are not removed from manual selection, only from AI random generation.
• Pre-scripted empire settings are partial affected.
• As a side effect, your favorite or customized species (if any) tend to be randomized more often.


The formal rule is this: anything that could not convince me it can be explained with convergent evolution had to go.
In practice this means the following:
  1. Clearly terrestrial is most likely kitsch.
    Mammalians and Avians are decimated here. But being a bug, sealife, flower or a mushroom is no excuse either.
  2. Inspired by human mythology/fantasy literature is automatically trashed.
    No space elves, space orks, space dwarfs or space cyclops (you can exclude them, see below).
  3. Feathers, leafs or octopus tentacles is most likely a red flag.
    Even if they survived point 1, these organs are only tolerated if the rest of the design has considerable merits.
  4. Inspired by pop culture is a red flag.
    If they just barely got away with previous points, they have to go now.


Compatibility
• The original file naming is kept, so compatibility with species mods is kept recessive directly on load order.
• The games checksum is changed, which means this mod is not in Ironman mode suitable.
• Save-games are also affected (new in 3.6).

Recomendations
If you like the human fantasy races, you can re-enable them with these special mods:
Space Fantasy Empires pack or Space Fantasy Empires Evolved.

Credits
This mod is inspired by ASpec’s Smash or Pass: All Phenotypes (no match) and ZT's True Aliens (take this mod if you want more restriction).

Full Change List
The pictures for the respective keys are here.[stellaris.paradoxwikis.com]
Removed species keys from random usage (all can still be selected manually):
# Humanoid "humanoid_02" # Klingons "humanoid_05" # Elves/Vulcans "humanoid_hp_01" # Demons (Humanoid DLC) "humanoid_hp_02" # Gnomes (Humanoid DLC) "humanoid_hp_11" # Dwarfes (Humanoid DLC) "humanoid_hp_12" # Orks (Humanoid DLC) "humanoid_hp_13" # Cyclops (Humanoid DLC) # Mammalian "mam1" # (for sure) "mam16" # (not sure) # Reptilian "rep16" # Cuties (already by events, Leviathan DLC) "rep17" # Dragons (Anniversary DLC) # Avian "avi1" "avi5" "avi6" "avi10" "avi17" (Anniversary DLC) "avi18" (Anniversary DLC) # Arthropoid "art18" # Earth Moth (Leviathan DLC) # Fungoid "fun1" "fun3" "fun10" "fun11" "fun13" "fun15" "fun16" (Leviathan DLC) "fun17" (Leviathan DLC) # Plantoid (Plantoids DLC) "pla1" "pla3" "pla4" "pla9" "pla13" # Lithoid (Lithoids DLC) "lith6" # (plant parasite?) "lith10" # (absurd animal) "lith14" # (absurd animal) "lith15" # (absurd animal) # Aquatic (Aquatics DLC) "aqu7"

Changes may be likely, if you have reasonable critical or a very contrary opinion, let me know.

See also my latest lightweight mod: Custom Empires – Grand AI Tournament (Finals – 2022)

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32 Comments
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FirePrince  [author] 3 Feb, 2024 @ 12:08am 
😏 I mean the mod could use an update
Jagick 4 Aug, 2023 @ 4:26am 
Used this mod to get rid of some of the more ridiculous creatures from the game. Despite the mod description however, said creatures have also been removed from creation for a custom empire. They are totally gone from the Species appearance tab altogether.
Rezdatt 24 Mar, 2023 @ 10:37am 
Srry but I have to ask, what files should I modify to add or remove species from spawning? I just want that molluscoid portrait that is a slug with a big nose to dissapear, everytime I see it i go on a genocide rampage
FirePrince  [author] 10 Mar, 2023 @ 5:58pm 
There are actually mods that remove double the amount. And not just soft but hard.
E.g. No Goofy Portraits
There are actually 208 playable vanilla species portraits, this mod excludes only 36 (= 17.3%).
Journeyman Prime 10 Mar, 2023 @ 5:19pm 
@Reianor Based. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
Journeyman Prime 10 Mar, 2023 @ 5:18pm 
What's left after all that?
LoiteringAround 28 Feb, 2023 @ 10:24pm 
@Reianor how high are u? pass it over bruv
Reianor 22 Feb, 2023 @ 2:18am 
P.S.
Want a funny perspective on creation?

Look at fictional characters in a fictional plot.
They'll have memories, "knowledge" of history and an entire civilization they share that "history" with, while in fact they are two pages old and started "existing" within their world on the same morning that their plot started, right alongside that said world.

For all we know that could easily be us.
But that's beyond the point and frankly a bit to much philosophy for a simple comment thread.
Reianor 22 Feb, 2023 @ 2:18am 
Who said anything about help?

It's the same base idea as in stellaris - not wanting something that's about to pop up in your backyard to go "die! vile xeno-scum!" on you. So you shape their ideas of what's vile and what isn't.

At least that's a possibility, which was the point.

Also "history" of millions of years is a joke. Even our actual "recorded" history is just that - a collection of records made by who-knows-who who-knows-when and who-knows-why. And all that we like to believe that we "know" about evolution and such are merely theories with zero actual proof behind them. 100% serious here, btw. Evolution theory is being put in the centre of nothing short of a pseudo-scientific sham. The theory itself is valid but purely as a theory. It's current "flagman position" in our culture is not due to it's brilliance or accuracy or any other kind of merit. It's due to the fact that the scientific community chose to promote it.
FirePrince  [author] 21 Feb, 2023 @ 9:02am 
@Molluscoids: are not in the list, which one do you mean exactly?