stellaris [mod] Calcifire's Portrait Pack

[Xzander]

Just here to say I love the mod and your work makes Stellaris WAY better.

[Calcifire]

On 3/12/2026 at 12:09 AM, ApostlTea said:

I don't know if there's a wiki for the mod to help figure things out, so I came here. Am I the only one having some madness with the Molten? Like, I'm playing as custom elves, buying slaves, and a hybridisation event starts, but it just stops the slave race growth and wildly drains my elf population. I had to move the slaves to a separate planet, because losing 50 pops on my capital before reloading cost me nearly 5 thousand units.

Yeh, my hybridization system is by designs a "some species mix well other don't" so it requires player management to keep two pops segregated if need be manually, or whatever the desired result you want. Moltens are meanies, and they drain compatible pops while giving you an infertile hybrid back as an "oops, best I can do is give you half of them back on lease for 5 months" Now, some combos you can moderate with the event researches. You can also sometimes control species mixing with my citizenship rights mod. BUT idk when I can update that for 4.4 soz

 

On 4/4/2026 at 4:16 PM, Nonamestated said:

Is there any way to remove the un-addable traits? It's cluttering up the trait window, and if I'm being honest, what is exactly the point of having them in the game at all if you can't add them no matter what even with console commands? Is it for future systems? I just cannot grasp why there's like 30 traits that are basically just clutter right now? 

idk what you mean. If things are broken, I'll need names so I can know where to look.... Otherwise, during empire creation, hovering your mouse over them will tell you what prerequisites you need to use them. OR, you could go into the traits folder and delete the files you don't want. Wait, do you have Lustful Void installed? that is a dependancy.

 

On 6/15/2026 at 3:03 PM, bsdmm said:

any updates for 4.4? I'm not sure if it still works I am going through all the mods i have to see what is broken or not and its taking awhile so if anyone has playtested recently and has had any problems let me know

Got it uploading soon

 

On 3/24/2026 at 8:05 AM, NGN123 said:

Hey, found a bug. When mutaling (storm x goat) event fires text blocks in reverse (goat text for storm legion and storm version for goats). And there is no research project for both. Playing with a "harem" version of directors cut, so may be problem somwhere there. 

woops, ill take a look. won't have a fix until my next patch. soz

 

On 6/1/2026 at 1:30 PM, roundclown said:

great mod, tho i dont think any of the psionic portriats have the psionic tag so uncanny intuition is a trait thats impossible to get=

kk, I had done the tankbound stuff but forgor the psionic stuff. hopefully it works now

[Nonamestated]

17 hours ago, Calcifire said:

 

idk what you mean. If things are broken, I'll need names so I can know where to look.... Otherwise, during empire creation, hovering your mouse over them will tell you what prerequisites you need to use them. OR, you could go into the traits folder and delete the files you don't want. Wait, do you have Lustful Void installed? that is a dependancy.

There's at least 15-20 traits that you cannot put onto a species. They're like mutagenic so and so. They simply have "cannot be applied" in debug. I have all required mods yes. 

[WaveGerhart]

9 hours ago, Nonamestated said:

There's at least 15-20 traits that you cannot put onto a species. They're like mutagenic so and so. They simply have "cannot be applied" in debug. I have all required mods yes. 

If I'm understanding you correctly, those are added via the, and this may not be the exact wording but, "mutagenic breeders" origin, and they get added to species that live as slaves on worlds ruled by mutagenic breeders.

[Smilythenecron]

Most of the machine portraits seem to be missing. Except for the ones in the Synthetic category.

[Smilythenecron]

8 minutes ago, Smilythenecron said:

Most of the machine portraits seem to be missing. Except for the ones in the Synthetic category.

To clarify, the portraits are still in the mod folder itself, but they are not showing up in game at all.

[Smilythenecron]

19 hours ago, Smilythenecron said:

To clarify, the portraits are still in the mod folder itself, but they are not showing up in game at all.

Adding some more info. Apparently this problem is happening with both the normal version of the mod and the Directors Cut version

[Dark Totenkopf]

does it make sense to download direct cat if Lustful Void has not been updated for a long time?

[Deathclaw Cock]

Hmmm. I've gotten some broken events while playing Nomads, playing Harem builders and assigning incestuous leaders to my council.

[aemou]

On 6/30/2026 at 8:00 AM, Smilythenecron said:

Adding some more info. Apparently this problem is happening with both the normal version of the mod and the Directors Cut version

I found the solution, it's pretty easy to fix.
When Synthetic Dawn was merged into the base game recently, the DLC was removed, but the mod's 00_portrait_sets file is still checking for it. Because it doesn't exist, and you no longer have it, the portraits are hidden.

You can fix it by changing 00_portrait_sets.txt. Remove the synthetic dawn conditional portraits block, and replace it so it looks like this:

machines = {
	species_class = MACHINE

	portraits = {
		"babe_custodes"
		"babe_cyborg"
		"babe_robot"
		"babe_warbot"
		"lv_sexbot_humanoid"
		"babe_incubator"
		"babe_sexbot"
		"babe_deathclaw"
	}

[Smilythenecron]

10 hours ago, aemou said:

I found the solution, it's pretty easy to fix.
When Synthetic Dawn was merged into the base game recently, the DLC was removed, but the mod's 00_portrait_sets file is still checking for it. Because it doesn't exist, and you no longer have it, the portraits are hidden.

You can fix it by changing 00_portrait_sets.txt. Remove the synthetic dawn conditional portraits block, and replace it so it looks like this:

machines = {
	species_class = MACHINE

	portraits = {
		"babe_custodes"
		"babe_cyborg"
		"babe_robot"
		"babe_warbot"
		"lv_sexbot_humanoid"
		"babe_incubator"
		"babe_sexbot"
		"babe_deathclaw"
	}

That seemed to work

[samhango55]

Anybody else getting blank event spam? Stuck on Stellaris 4.3 cause LV hasn't had its update yet (saying it gets released) and everyday in game I'm getting spam blasted. If there's a work around or a 4.3 legacy version of this mod somebody could point me towards I'd appreciate it.

[tk526]

howdy love the mod. im a reg user not directors cut user my self. is there a way for me to make reg a replacer like directors cut i would enjoy seeing your portarits over the base game portraits on the ai but reg doesnt do that sadly

[Calcifire]

On 6/28/2026 at 10:20 AM, Nonamestated said:

There's at least 15-20 traits that you cannot put onto a species. They're like mutagenic so and so. They simply have "cannot be applied" in debug. I have all required mods yes. 

I think I found a fix, idk. check latest download and lemme know

 

On 6/30/2026 at 3:00 AM, Dark Totenkopf said:

does it make sense to download direct cat if Lustful Void has not been updated for a long time?

Not really. but the version I just uploaded today is the most stable version we can get rn

 

On 7/2/2026 at 6:40 PM, Deathclaw Cock said:

Hmmm. I've gotten some broken events while playing Nomads, playing Harem builders and assigning incestuous leaders to my council.

yeh they changed some event syntax on me, I've got stuff updated now, hopefully it's ready now

 

On 7/6/2026 at 3:28 AM, tk526 said:

howdy love the mod. im a reg user not directors cut user my self. is there a way for me to make reg a replacer like directors cut i would enjoy seeing your portarits over the base game portraits on the ai but reg doesnt do that sadly

I could, I just have to put the work in. but it's been on my todo

 

BTW latest Directors Cut download should be mostly stable, but do keep the bug reports coming

[Nonamestated]

2 hours ago, Calcifire said:

I think I found a fix, idk. check latest download and lemme know

 

From a single very quick check yes, all of the mutagenic traits that you cannot ever add have been removed from the options.

[rayman5766]

Hey i am having a problem, (no doubt me doing something stupid or forgetting to download something) none of the starting factions are showing up when i start a new game. where they removed?