Yes

Some interesting minor changes here:

Death-on-downed chance now applies to several non damage health state changes. (Heatstroke, hypothermia, tox gas, lung rot) - can’t use hotbox to guarantee loads of prisoners anymore.

Things to load into transport pods can now be changed at any time. - modify pod contents mid-load!

Loudspeakers and lightballs can now be switched on and off. - no more uninstalling to save power.

Getting mad Tenochtitlan vibes

The point of this spell is a first level “hide body”, which can arguably make it more useful than jump.

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I recommend you try going for the charlon whitestone existing ship ending, you should get the quest for it pretty early game. It involves a pretty lengthy trek across the planet then defending a ship as it powers up, which should give you a chance to mess with a nomadic base style that requires you to make progress travelling while harvesting and transporting enough resources to build defenses.

FTL has held up surprisingly well

Might be worth repositioning some of the landmines or finding some way to funnel raiders into them, not sure it is worth the cost to only catch a couple raiders at most. What win are you going for?

Cool to see the creature wealth still increasing as the remaining pawns only get stronger after each reset

There are still an ungodly amount of mods for literally anything. All of the Vanilla Expanded mods are very high quality, plenty of older mods are still either updated or have been remade, and there are plenty that integrate with the new systems added by the DLC.

It’s similar to dwarf fortress, though with less depth in the system, less literal depth with no y-levels, and an infinitely better UI and visuals. The DLC are optional, comparable to large very well-polished mods so if you are hesitant no need to grab the full bundle.

Second this, FTL also has a pretty decent modding scene too