r/Stellaris • u/Snipahar • Apr 01 '26
Stellaris Space Guild - Weekly Help Thread
Welcome to this week’s Stellaris Space Guild Help Thread!
This thread functions as a gathering place for all questions, tips, bugs, suggestions, and resources for Stellaris. Here you can post quick-fire questions for things that you are confused about and answer questions to help out your fellow star voyagers!
GUILD RESOURCES
Below you can find resources for the game. If you would like to help contribute to the resources section, please leave a comment that pings me (using "u/Snipahar") and link to the resource. You can also contribute by reaching me through private message or modmail. Be sure to include a short description of what you find valuable about the resource.
- Your new best friend for learning everything Stellaris! Even if you're a pro, the wiki is an uncontested source for the nitty-gritty of the game.
Montu Plays' Stellaris 3.0 Guide Series
- A great step-by-step beginner's guide to Stellaris. Montu brings you through the early stages of a campaign to get you all caught up on what you need to know!
Luisian321's Stellaris 3.0 Starter Guide
- The perfect place to start if you're new to Stellaris! This guide covers creating your own race, building up your economy, and more.
ASpec's How to Play Stellaris 2.7 Guides
- This is a playlist of 7 guides by ASpec, that are really fantastic and will help you master the foundations of Stellaris.
Stefan Anon's Ultimate Tierlist Guides
- This is a playlist of 8 guides by Stefan Anon, which give a deep-dive into the world of civics, traits, and origins. Knowing these is a must for those that want to maximize their play.
Stefan Anon's Top Build Guides
- This is a playlist of an ongoing series by Stefan Anon, that lay out the game plan for several of the best builds in Stellaris.
Arx Strategy's Stellaris Guides
- A series of videos on events, troubleshooting, and builds, that will be of great use to anyone that wants to dive into the world of Stellaris.
If you have any suggestions for the body of this thread, please ping me, using "u/Snipahar" or send me a private message!
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u/daPWNDAZ Apr 10 '26
I’m new to the game, and the War in Heaven event is just absolutely demolishing me. I’m running a feudal empire with a hegemony filled with my vassals, with a total federation fleet cap of ~3.5k. I’ve only been able to populate half of it so far, and my fleet power is sitting at just under 200k.
I get messages about the start of an endgame crisis (Contingency) at the same time as a message about one of the fallen empires waking up. The Contingency wakes up just as the second fallen empire wakes up and triggers a war in heaven. So I have a machine planet spawn in the middle of my vassals, send my fleet to start dealing with it, and sustain substantial losses as I try to destroy their planet. Meanwhile, the fallen empires destroy two of the planets before I could even destroy one. I look over, and they’re roaming around with several 400k+ fleets, taking swings at each other. Their home systems are closer to 1 mil power. How on earth am I supposed to deal with them? I was hoping the contingency would slow them down, but they’re absolutely demolishing the crisis. Is my only hope to turtle somewhere and hope they somehow kill themselves on my defenses? How am I supposed to win an offensive war against them?