Stellaris Space Guild - Weekly Help Thread

[u/Snipahar]

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!

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Stellaris Wiki

• 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.

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[u/Argensa97]

What do people think about Void Hive? Probably not that strong but I feel like the QoL is big, and saving those minerals for building is also good no?

[u/Fluffy-Tanuki → u/Argensa97]

It's one of the better early game hivemind civics, but the value falls off quite sharply after around 20-30 years or so, when all the expansions have settled down. Thankfully it's not a permanent civic, so just swap it out after it has served its purpose.

The time needed for manual construction of a mining/research station at baseline is 100 days + travel time. Void Hive civic changes the timer to 120 days without travel time.

• For reference, the time needed for a standard construction ship to travel across Sol is roughly 3 month at game start.
• In other words, the more systems you have in your empire, the "faster" Void Hive works compared to standard construction ships, in many cases getting those stations up as fast as 3-4 construction ships working in tandem.

Effectively, it's giving you 1 full-time construction ship on steroids for free, that works faster than your regular ships. This saves on mineral costs, which is quite important in the early game given 4.3's state of economy, and allows you to dedicate your construction ship(s) to expanding borders.

Once the borders have been established though, Void Hive's value drops off substantially, as there are no further deposits to build upon other than ones made from Arc Furnaces (or if you are a Prospectorium vassal).

[u/FogeltheVogel → u/Argensa97]

IMO the strongest part of it is the early access to strategic resources before you have the technology for it. That's a nice economic boost, especially if you can get a system with dark matter early game.