Stellaris - v3.4.2 [7836] Habitat and Orbital Ring cannot be rebuilt over inhabited world after destroying existing habitat (2024)

Description
v3.4.2 [7836] Habitat and Orbital Ring cannot be rebuilt over inhabited world after destroying existing habitat

Game Version
v3.4.2 {7836}

What version do you use?
Steam

What expansions do you have installed?
Synthetic Dawn, Utopia, Leviathans Story Pack, Apocalypse, Megacorp, Distant Stars, Ancient Relics, Lithoids, Federations, Nemesis, Aquatics

Do you have mods enabled?
Yes

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
I built a habitat over an inhabited world, but then realized I could not also build an orbital ring, so I evacuated the habitat, then cracked it with a colossus with the world cracker weapon. Now I cannot rebuild either a habitat or an orbital ring on that planet because the game still thinks there is a megastructure there. The system has a habitat on every other major body and it also has a hyper relay. In save game file the destroyed habitat was over the planet in the attached screen shots. I have a single UI mod enabled called "Quadrant Fixed" which I don't think has any impact on gameplay.

Steps to reproduce the issue.
1) Build Habitat over inhabited world
2) Destroy habitat with world cracker colossus
3) Attempt to build habitat or Orbital ring on same planet
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Well, I believe you've never been able to rebuild a habitat after one was destroyed with a colossus, so this is consistent with this, but whether it SHOULD be this way is a different matter.

I'm not PDX, but my impression is that is working as designed, but its perfectly fair to suggest that maybe the design should change.

So it seems like two flags are set when a habitat is built (in habitats.txt)
set_planet_flag = megastructure
set_planet_flag = habitat
on destruction the habitat is removed but these flags are not removed.
(in planet_destruction_events.txt)
destroy habitats and ringworlds
if = {
limit = {
is_planet_class = pc_habitat
}
spawn_habitat_cracker_effect = yes
remove_planet = yes
}

I'm not experienced enough with Stellaris scripting to figure out how to remove those flags from the parent planet, but seems like there should be some way of doing it.

Modulus said:

So it seems like two flags are set when a habitat is built (in habitats.txt)
set_planet_flag = megastructure
set_planet_flag = habitat
on destruction the habitat is removed but these flags are not removed.
(in planet_destruction_events.txt)
destroy habitats and ringworlds
if = {
limit = {
is_planet_class = pc_habitat
}
spawn_habitat_cracker_effect = yes
remove_planet = yes
}

I'm not experienced enough with Stellaris scripting to figure out how to remove those flags from the parent planet, but seems like there should be some way of doing it.

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If there is flag reset method in the code, then if should be inserted after the planet cracker effect on the main stellar body.
But it's only possible if there is actual code for it to happen, otherwise you also have to define that in the code somewhere, but that's probably outside of the fields of simple modding and you'd need to use the source code probably, but I might be wrong.

Created a mod to fix this.
It took me forever to figure out because of some oddness with the way Habitats work (spent a lot of time going down the wrong path), but in the end it was two lines of code

If you don't want to use this mod, you can fix it by using the console (after you cracked the habitat, you can remove the flag preventing you from building a new megastructure on that planet).
Click on the planet, execute the following line in the console:
effect remove_planet_flag=has_megastructure