More Breakthrough Options

More Breakthrough Options

More Breakthrough Options expands the breakthrough selection popup, giving you more control over what appears when a breakthrough anomaly is completed.

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I focus on enhancing gameplay by increasing player agency and choice.
This mod is part of my Surviving Mars: Relaunched collection:
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Updated Features – Version 1.1 (26/01/2026)

Configurable breakthrough choices (via Mod Options):
• 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 choices

Optional “5 choices + Maybe something else…” mode (Default):
• Keeps the popup at 5 breakthrough options
• Adds a cycle button (replacing reshuffle)
• Cycles through all available breakthroughs and loops back to the start
• Uses an alphabetical list, making breakthroughs easier to browse

Updated Features – Version 1.2 (10/05/2026)

• Updated forSurviving Mars: Relaunched patch 1.07.
• Fixed breakthrough popup error and alphabetical cycling persistence.

Updated Features – Version 1.3 (June 2026)

• Wonder breakthrough rewards are now supported (enabled by default)

Breakthrough rewards granted by the Omega Telescope and Bottomless Pit Research Center can now use the same configurable selection system as breakthrough anomalies.

• A new Mod Option has been added:

Wonder breakthrough rewards
Off (vanilla random breakthroughs)
Omega Telescope only
Omega Telescope and Bottomless Pit (default)
Omega Telescope

Instead of receiving random breakthrough technologies, you can now choose your rewards from a configurable list of breakthrough options.

• Bottomless Pit Research Center

Breakthrough rewards granted by the Bottomless Pit can also use the configurable selection system.

• Existing breakthrough choice modes fully supported

Wonder rewards now work with all existing breakthrough selection modes:

• User Interface Improvements
Added custom breakthrough selection popups for wonder rewards.
Wonder rewards now display contextual messages based on their source.
Multi-breakthrough rewards display progress information (for example, Choose breakthrough 2 of 3).
Vanilla behaviour remains available

Players who prefer the original game behaviour can disable wonder breakthrough selection via Mod Options and continue receiving random breakthrough rewards from wonders.
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Why use this mod?

Sometimes you may want a run that tightly limits breakthrough choices.
Other times, you just want a better chance of seeing a breakthrough you actually care about.

This mod lets you tune the experience to your playstyle, while still preserving randomness and replayability.