Followed your advice. Really fun build! Feels OP. Played as Plantoid. Such an addicting play style. Thanks for doing these guides. Gonna try your Rogue Servitor build next.
I'm still honing in on the right way to play it, but Lithoid Terravore Void Dweller is probably the most fun I've had playing a Hive Mind Swarm. You end up with a massive stockpile of minerals once you start eating the planets within your borders, which is absolutely crucial since you need *immense* amounts of them to both feed your populace and convert into alloys. Once the free pops generated from consuming a planet start rolling in, the mineral supply tends to run on a defecit supported by periodic bursts as the buffets disappear. I inevitably end up having trouble keeping pace with the rest of the galaxy (who rightfully hate my guts) when I end up with war on all fronts. Going to adjust some of my early game moves in accordance with the tips in the video to see if I can finally get my hungry rock people to a point where they can literally consume the galaxy and everything in it; would love to see your take on playing a Devouring Swarm!
At 3:33 you mention to build orbitals on every deposit except from minerals on our home system. I would like to know why is that the case ? Asking cause I am fairly new and just want to undersatnd the thought process
cause you need to focus on getting bigger. if you build orbitals on minerals early game, you dont have enough pops for research, alloys AND minerals. this will slow you significantly.
I actually disagree. don't bother building too many orbitals until you have enough pops to take care of them, I usually go void hive, and actually it builds mining stations already for you, so its a waste to spam orbitals. void hive also makes you build habitats faster
imo cybernetic is a much better ascension than genetics, especially if you play teravore which imo is the much more interesting build for this, since you cannot remove void dweller traits so you will always have a negative impact from planets even hive worlds or ecumenpolies, keep focusing on mega engineering for the ring worlds, and ring worlds actually get bonuses like habitats instead of ecumenpolis
I have actually thought about doing the different variants. Before it was just bio empires. But now there are 3 different styles to it that do not play the same. Thanks for the love my friend!
@@volairen def would love to see your version of Void Dwellers-Terravore-Void Hive genocidal. Maybe Void Hive not best 2nd civic. Curious what you would create
This is was so helpful. I am fairly new to Stellaris and was trying to figure out if it's worth building stations over resources (mining, research etc.) as a Void Dweller or if I should only build habitats. Couldn't find any clear info until I found this video. Thanks man!
@@BARBARBINKLE Yeah I know I can, the question was should I build mining/research stations or should I build only habitats over the planets with those resources. Or both?
@@Idolismo its definitely worth making a few extra construction ships to build both. As void dwellers you need the extra minerals and research early game as your capital is going to be mainly focused on producing alloys so you can expand.
@@BARBARBINKLE Sort of. Building habitats over top of existing resource deposits gives you districts of that resource type for your main habitat. Example: building an orbital over top of a star that has 5 physics research (or any amount of research points, doesn't have to be a star or specifically physics.) will delete the 5 physics research, but will allow your main habitat central building in that system to have 3 research districts.
standard empire would be fun! my favorite void dweller build are xenophobic-materialist-egalitarians. their backstory is that they're plantoids who inhabited the habitats, eons before their planets vanished, were just really scared of women. usually i later reform into fanatic egalitarian for the faction unity output and to get rid of xenophobe if i'm willing to make friends. the specialist output is nice too. in my head they must've decided that the femoids aren't so bad after all. the mechanical reason for picking xenophobe is flexibility of play and the ability to save influence on building starbases, which'll let me get my habitats running about six months earlier than normal. I can imagine that Authoritarian is probably a lot smarter, but I find the idea of xenophobic egalitarians incredibly funny
I just didn’t understand one thing: which planets should I orbit on? Why is it not necessary for mineral ones, but which ones are necessary? And what does the area I get depend on?
because you replace the minerals you would gain with the job districts on the habitat. If you don't have pops working those jobs, you don't get any minerals at all.
Followed your advice. Really fun build! Feels OP. Played as Plantoid. Such an addicting play style. Thanks for doing these guides. Gonna try your Rogue Servitor build next.
I'm still honing in on the right way to play it, but Lithoid Terravore Void Dweller is probably the most fun I've had playing a Hive Mind Swarm. You end up with a massive stockpile of minerals once you start eating the planets within your borders, which is absolutely crucial since you need *immense* amounts of them to both feed your populace and convert into alloys. Once the free pops generated from consuming a planet start rolling in, the mineral supply tends to run on a defecit supported by periodic bursts as the buffets disappear.
I inevitably end up having trouble keeping pace with the rest of the galaxy (who rightfully hate my guts) when I end up with war on all fronts. Going to adjust some of my early game moves in accordance with the tips in the video to see if I can finally get my hungry rock people to a point where they can literally consume the galaxy and everything in it; would love to see your take on playing a Devouring Swarm!
At 3:33 you mention to build orbitals on every deposit except from minerals on our home system. I would like to know why is that the case ? Asking cause I am fairly new and just want to undersatnd the thought process
cause you need to focus on getting bigger. if you build orbitals on minerals early game, you dont have enough pops for research, alloys AND minerals. this will slow you significantly.
I actually disagree. don't bother building too many orbitals until you have enough pops to take care of them, I usually go void hive, and actually it builds mining stations already for you, so its a waste to spam orbitals. void hive also makes you build habitats faster
imo cybernetic is a much better ascension than genetics, especially if you play teravore which imo is the much more interesting build for this, since you cannot remove void dweller traits so you will always have a negative impact from planets even hive worlds or ecumenpolies, keep focusing on mega engineering for the ring worlds, and ring worlds actually get bonuses like habitats instead of ecumenpolis
Looking back at this video, Devouring Swarm Void Dweller pleasssee. Loving your content :)
I have actually thought about doing the different variants. Before it was just bio empires. But now there are 3 different styles to it that do not play the same. Thanks for the love my friend!
@@volairen def would love to see your version of Void Dwellers-Terravore-Void Hive genocidal. Maybe Void Hive not best 2nd civic. Curious what you would create
This is was so helpful. I am fairly new to Stellaris and was trying to figure out if it's worth building stations over resources (mining, research etc.) as a Void Dweller or if I should only build habitats. Couldn't find any clear info until I found this video. Thanks man!
You can build both orbiting a planet
@@BARBARBINKLE Yeah I know I can, the question was should I build mining/research stations or should I build only habitats over the planets with those resources. Or both?
@@Idolismo its definitely worth making a few extra construction ships to build both. As void dwellers you need the extra minerals and research early game as your capital is going to be mainly focused on producing alloys so you can expand.
@@BARBARBINKLE Got it, thank you very much for clarifying this for me!
@@BARBARBINKLE Sort of. Building habitats over top of existing resource deposits gives you districts of that resource type for your main habitat. Example: building an orbital over top of a star that has 5 physics research (or any amount of research points, doesn't have to be a star or specifically physics.) will delete the 5 physics research, but will allow your main habitat central building in that system to have 3 research districts.
nice. looking forward for normal empire build.
It's funny, I started playing on empire with habitat literally 3 hours ago
this is the hardest origin to play imo
Why not pick the Nonadaptive trait since it doesn't affect Void Dwellers at all and gain 2 points that way instead of Sedentary and Slow Learners?
Hello! Thank you for gread guides and tons of useful information. Any hope there will be a devouring swarm void dwellers video? :D
Yes and thank you. i will definitely consider an update considering the machine age release and recent changes. Alot has happened here!
@@volairen Looking forward to watch it! Grand thanks once more!
Thank you for the tips!
standard empire would be fun! my favorite void dweller build are xenophobic-materialist-egalitarians. their backstory is that they're plantoids who inhabited the habitats, eons before their planets vanished, were just really scared of women.
usually i later reform into fanatic egalitarian for the faction unity output and to get rid of xenophobe if i'm willing to make friends. the specialist output is nice too. in my head they must've decided that the femoids aren't so bad after all. the mechanical reason for picking xenophobe is flexibility of play and the ability to save influence on building starbases, which'll let me get my habitats running about six months earlier than normal. I can imagine that Authoritarian is probably a lot smarter, but I find the idea of xenophobic egalitarians incredibly funny
You have to do a run through on this so I can see it in action my friend
Here come the Quarians.
I think you always pick void hive with this. Effectively thousands of free minerals just in the opening years is too good to pass up.
I just didn’t understand one thing: which planets should I orbit on? Why is it not necessary for mineral ones, but which ones are necessary? And what does the area I get depend on?
because you replace the minerals you would gain with the job districts on the habitat. If you don't have pops working those jobs, you don't get any minerals at all.
What if I go the Cyborg route? Can that potentially be even better?
I don't know i haven't thought of that.
When should I build second habitat? Using a lithoid hive mind build if that makes a difference
you can spam them if you are using lithoid, however if you play teravore thats better, and focus early game on spaming corvettes and eating planets
Thanks! I am trying less genocidal builds, I like my chill rock people.
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Thanks for the video, nice tips. But why no mention of Void Hive civic?
This AI voice creeps me out