Trace’s Better Necroids (on pause)
A primarily graphical mod to give the Necroid DLC much more variety and diversity without changing the game’s feel or balance.
Current Feature List
– GENDER DIMORPHISM
I was surprised to see Necroids have gender enabled, so I gave some of the portraits gender dimorphism. only for distinctly male or female species.
– MORE COLOURS
At least one new appearance per portrait. I consider palettes and style – If a portrait has a cold-warm dynamic going on, don’t just colourise the whole thing to neon pink.
– NEW PORTRAITS
This mod adds in several spooky vanilla remixes and now several more original species made by myself, more to come.
I also want to integrate several abandoned mods such as White Walkers but it’s a moral grey area to me.
– DEV DIARY/CONCEPT ART RECREATION
For now just some skins, but I am working on remaking concept art that didn’t get chosen as playable species.
– MULTI-SPECIES PORTRAITS
Currently only vampires, several species unified as phenotypes of one species. Demons, parasites, and zombies might come in future.
– NEW CLOTHING TYPE
The clothing has been split into two themes, ‘death worshipper’ voodoo/tribal set with bone jewelry, while other necroids wear purple tones and more armour.
– NEW CLOTHING
Aiming for quality over sheer quantity, there are several new outfits and there’ll be unique Necroid slave clothing soon (in vanilla they use the general’s outfit).
Potential Feature List
– More multi-phenotype/species portraits! I will add my demon-possessed if I get it looking right.
– Something based on the Flood from Halo.
– After that will come zombies.
– More custom species portraits (also considering integrating abandoned mod)
– At least one more ghost.
– Restore concept art ideas as playable portraits.
– Even more colours and variety.
– Cordyceps portrait (Great idea by a friend)
Possible but less likely updates:
– Necroid-only traits, such as rotting flesh or vampirism.
– Visible psionic and cyborg feature.
– Look into Origins and story aspects.
– Zombie themed advisor voice.
– Experiment with a ‘Lich Ascension’ where your species becomes expert necromancers and lives for a very long time.
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More spooky Necroid mods:
Extended Necroids
Space Egyptians
Extremely cool looking, and will show up in species generation. Was supposed to get expanded at some stage.
Nozeminer‘s feral vampire species.
I won’t be making a lite version of this mod as it’s a pain to keep multiple mods updated, and I haven’t done anything ‘heavy’. If you want new colours only here is a mod by Nozeminer:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2272145051
Required DLC:
These DLC should be installed in order to use this item.
Stellaris: Necroids Species Pack
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
