September 25, 2025 - Season 1 - Update 21 (Mod Version 1.0.21)
New Save Game is Recommended But Not Required
- Mod code updated for Stellaris 4.1.
- Added NSC support for the Psionic and Mindwarden shipsets.
- All Mature Bioship classes now have two sections available, and all Elders now have three sections available. The Juvenile ships still have only 1 section. These changes were implemented for the Offspring versions as well. (At this time, the options for each section have not changed from what they were, as it will take time to design new section options and balance them properly. However, the Mature ships now have double the slots and the Elder ships now have triple the slots that they had before 4.1.)
- Upgraded Space Citadels - Stage One will remain 1 section but has increased utility slots, Stage Two now has 3 sections, and Stage Three now has 5 sections. The section options are the same as vanilla for the time being until new ones can be designed.
- The Eternal Vigilance policy, unlocked by the perk of the same name, will now allow the player to choose what type of defense will be randomly built at their starbases - vanilla Platforms, NSC Stations, or NSC Fortresses.
- The Eternal Vigilance policy will now automatically build paltforms up to the starbase's full defense capacity, rather than only 50% (this basically reverts a change vanilla recently made, as this feature originally did build up to 100%)
- Since the vanilla game now has the Solar Panel Network available to everyone, the NSC Solar Panels were redundant. We have removed the NSC version completely and have modified the vanilla version to allow them to be boosted by the Solar Capacitor building instead. (If you have built any of the NSC Solar Panels in your current save game, they will disappear and you'll need to replace them with the Solar Panel Network instead.)
- Due to popular request, the Battleship can now equip XL weapons again. It now has a single bow option that can equip 2 XL weapons, but the section has an extremely high cost, and it loses a lot of utility slots due to the XL weapons taking up so much space, so use it wisely!
- Increased the Planetary Housing of the Real Estate Developer building from 5 to 500 (Since 4.0 changed how housing is measured & scaled)
- Fixed a bug where the Advanced Combat Interdiction System II (The tier 2 Strike Cruiser aura) was not available to fit on the ship.
- Fixed a localisation bug where the name for one of the Explorer sections did not appear properly.

If you don't wish to use the Steam workshop for NSC3, you can download it directly from the NSC3 Github here: https://github.com/CaptainX3/NSC3-Mod/releases
Manual installation instructions are on the download page. You can also find all previous releases of the mod there (Starting from the first release of NSC2 Season 8).

We have uploaded the previous version of NSC to the workshop for those who wish to continue their save games before upgrading to this new version. Please note that this is only updated when a major update is released for NSC (that requires a new save game). To subscribe to the Previous Version, click here: mod_detail.php?publishedfileid=2386308448
- Mass Effect Shipsets Addon
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- Extra Shipsets Addon
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Join the Official NSC Discord: https://discord.gg/8yTv5MR9H3
If the above steps don't work to solve your issue, the best way to get assistance is to open a Support Ticket on the NSC Discord: https://discord.gg/8yTv5MR9H3
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