Note that newer DLCs cannot be activated if you are playing on an older patch version.Hotfixes are commonly released shortly after major patches to fix any unforeseen bugs that came with the previous update, or independently to fix newly discovered bugs or exploits. Hotfixes are very small updates to the game that usually fix only a few bugs and may contain a few changes to the gameplay as well.Patches are named by Paradox after various sci-fi writers. When this occurs, a portion of the DLC's features are usually shipped as part of the coinciding free patch, thus made available to anyone who has the base game. They are sometimes released alongside a new, major DLC. Patches fix bugs and/or implement balance tweaks.Fixed exploit where AI acceptance from Eminent Diplomats tradition also applied to trade deals.Patches and hotfixes are free updates for Stellaris, though they are different in purpose:.Fixed players being able to move their Science Ship to blow up systems using the “Elder One” event.This penalty is in line with the penalty non-catalytic empires suffer from a mineral deficit Going into a food deficit when using the Catalytic Processing civic will now give a -50% production penalty to alloy production.Ancient Clone Vats can now only assemble Clone Soldier pops.Fixed habitability of planets that clone armies have abandoned through lack of clone vats being locked at 0% for them.The Genetic Crossroads special project will now abort if a species completes Synthetic Evolution before finishing it.

Also changed the bonus to scale in a cleaner way, the upkeep is now 5/10/20% based on the Army's decisions. Fixed the Clone Army origin tooltip not having a matching ship upkeep reduction with their admirals.Fixed a crash where releasing a vassal as a Clone Army could cause an invalid species.Patch 3.1.2 was released on with the checksum 6df7.

Stellaris patch 1.9