Comprehensive 99-page Modding Guide that outlines how to make Mods and explains all of the settings in detail.

Switch between different customization sets with a couple of mouse clicks from the main game menu.

Add your own custom help files to the in-game Galactopedia.

Can replace most of the user interface icons and sound effects.

Add story triggers on specific in-game objects or events, executing one or more actions on other in-game objects (either immediately or delayed).

Set up your own storyline in a custom map with triggered events and custom victory conditions

Powerful new event system accessible from a considerably-upgraded Game Editor.

Use a previously saved and editor-customized game as a map for a new game (instead of generating a new galaxy).

Can customize most of the images used in the game: ships and bases, fighters, alien races, planetary facilities and wonders, characters, troops, components, resources, ancient ruins, planets, stars, asteroids, animated in-game effects and more.

Comprehensive Modding and Customization Support: Allows adding/removing/changing most items: resources (including new colony-manufactured resources), ship components, planetary facilities and wonders, fighter designs, alien races and race families, diplomatic dialog, empire policy, custom characters, ship and base design templates, governments, plagues, research tech trees and more.

The entire Distant Worlds series in one package! Universe includes the Original Distant Worlds, Return of the Shakturi, Legends, Shadows and the new Universe expansion!.

What we didn’t know yet was the scope of said modding extensions, which is now revealed. We already knew that the focus of this 4th expansion was extending the game’s modding capabilities, the fact that it’s a standalone product (a “wrap up” release of the entire Distant Worlds series), and that it will offer a new storyline and new technologies to go along with it. Or at least that’s the official date for now. Slitherine and Matrix Games have just announced that Distant Worlds: Universe, the 4th and possibly last expansion pack to Distant Worlds, will be released not in March as previously assumed, but in May of this year.

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