The Blocker Mod

For version 4. 0+ of Stellaris. The Blocker Mod aims to deepen and expand the game's planetary colonization and development loop. Colonizing planets will be slower but also more rewarding. Your Colonists will take on the role of heroic explorers and bring knowledge, bounty, and renown to your empire. They will also face significant challenges as you settle new worlds. In The Blocker Mod, many Planetary Features take up additional district space and most can be cleared. A Searing Desert will remain a good source of solar power, but no one wants to live there. And you don't mess with Toxic Kelp. It's up to you to explore and shape your planet's geography. Will you nurture an idyllic farming world of Nutritious Mudlands and rolling Green Hills where xeno-melons grow as beig as your head? Or will you pave paradise with Industrial Wasteland in the name of progress? New Planetary Features The Blocker Mod adds approximately 100 new features and heavily reworks most existing features. It does not alter event-specific features or features added by other mods. Feature placement has been reworked so that Tropical Islands can only appear where there's likely to be water and Desert worlds will be harder to farm. Planets can have distinct biomes. Almost all features now behave as "blockers" and can be cleared. The cost in time and resources varies considerably, and once they're gone, they're gone - along with any resource districts and bonuses provided. When you first arrive on a new world, it will have very little if any space for development. You will need to make use of new buildings, decisions, and the features themselves to get your colony up and running. In general, the mod reduces the volume of resource districts in favour of increasing their efficiency, particularly when paired with other features. Larger worlds will struggle to be self-sufficient while carefully-planned rural colonies can form the backbone of an empire. Dynamic Planets & Events As you explore the final fr