Best Space Stage Glitches in Spore

[@carpetbeetle8349]

Opposite of a useful Glitch: If you find one of the Save Systems without having a save in it yet (easiest way being to start the Space Stage and find the star's name and position, quit without saving) and upgrade the planets in the system with another save, you'll softlock the intro mission. In my case, it directed me to go to the moon instead of the planet with the crashed ship on it. On the other hand, assuming you don't upgrade the other planets, you _can_ sculpt the starting planet, and some of the changes will stick. While it respawned some water to break the Landmass back into two continents, all of the Spice Geysers I'd raised from the sea remained connected to one of the two landmasses. That said, I wasn't particularly thorough, it's possible if I made more land bridges that they would have remained connected and the one I made was just in a bad spot.

[@KinglyValence]

Yeah it's interesting we can't pre-terraform the other planets in our system. I've tried that for some interesting speedruns, but yeah it always breaks the tutorial mission. But we can use the sculpting tools on our home planet to make the speedrun even faster! By removing enough of the land, Tribal Stage can only spawn 1 other tribe and only requires interacting with that 1 tribe to pass the whole Stage!

[@parkerpeter8024]

One trick I mostly used until I saw this was I would start the terraforming mission, and then use the tools to terraform like a purple spice planet or something. I would then go back to the homeworld when I ran out, say that I lost the tools, and get them back for only 1k, and then terraform some other purple spice planet. Now that I see this though, I don't gotta do that no more. Thank you.

[@BabyGhast4]

That’s what I always did.

[@gaminflip]

I DIDNT KNOW YOU COULD TELL YOUR SPECIES YOU LOST YOUR TOOLS, I LITERALLY SPENT SO MUCH TIME DOING MISSIONS TO BUY TERRAFORMING TOOLS WHEN I COULD HAVE USED MY DROUGHT GENERATOR ON A RANDOM PLANET INSTEAD OF WASTING 200K+ SPOREBUCKS

[@jonpaulcer3128]

Could you do a Oh the humanity achievement Speedrun I wonder what's the fastest way to get the planet buster

[@KinglyValence]

That sounds interesting, I'll look into it!

[@BlakeAtStake]

he did did it

[@D3lta_.]

I want planet busters

[@plida27]

I love learning new things about a game I've been playing for 11 years. Awesome video, thank you!

[@oskarjanson4858]

there is a very good way to get spice without glitches. you need to terraform to T3, and then place a monolith, afterwards, conquer the space empire while constantly saving and reseting to make sure you don't destroy any colonies, you also should fix all the colonies after doing this and also add a spice storage, I am getting more and more colonies producing tons of purple spice cause of this. If you have staff of life you can go really fast. I recommend doing this only on purple spice planets

[@KinglyValence]

I like this strategy as well! In my games I will trade route and buy the planet. I find it easier to keep all the cities than conquering the planet.

[@SpaceKebab]

@@KinglyValence dang today i feel amazing that i was able to keep 8 cities when conquering!

[@deadeye8794]

Or use the zealot ability, as have done this to lol

[@brokenleftearbuglord9106]

You could also do the trade route and buy out the system too

[@ВладФишер-п6л]

Sometimes glitches happens when you don't want to happen... Impossible task...

[@shapleyattractor]

On a side note to the topic; I find your words poetic and in free choice! Quite fit for this generative system of a game...

[@duckheadbob]

Love your enthusiasm for Spore. You make some really Good videos on it and I was surprised how much I enjoy them

[@mr_skeleton3413]

Just wanted to say that I love your speed runs there so interesting

[@theenjoyer1445]

wow, thanks for showing us this. I love watching your speedruns, they're pretty entertaining. Do you think you could do a "speedrun" of eradicating the Grox? I dont think anyone has really tried this in the mainstream spore youtube, so it could also be good content. Genociding the Grox would be pretty fun to watch.

[@KinglyValence]

I could do that one day! Probably best strat I can think of currently is to ally the Grox then use Fanatic Frenzy (since this doesn't anger them) on all their systems along with trade routes. Perhaps this would be more suited for a live stream to show progress since this would be fairly repetitive for a standalone video. Quick math, probably about a minute per system, 2400 systems, 40 hours.

[@theenjoyer1445]

@@KinglyValence cool strategy. It would be faster to ally them and use fanatical frenzy, but i feel like it would also be fun to watch them get bombed to oblivion too. Thanks for replying! Keep it up with the great videos, just keep making the content that makes you happy.

[@SockyNoob]

@@KinglyValence oh wow! I thought it'd take years to do

[@BobMcBobJr]

@@theenjoyer1445 is there a way get infinite planet busters?

[@xxGreenRoblox]

@@BobMcBobJr just be zealot and abuse save and quits to cancel the timer

[@Unstoppable_Ducky]

Holy moly I absolutely love not only the very useful facts In his video, but also how he literally get straight Into the point.

[@magnat6473]

i been playing spore for years and didnt know these saving glitching tricks O.o big thanks for showing us them

[@toimine8930]

Oh hey i remember doing that spice glitch as a kid, thought it was common knowledge

[@toimine8930]

That reminds me, are you going to make glitch showcases for different stages?

[@KinglyValence]

Yep! I might combine a couple Stages together. Space was pretty long so it got its own video.

[@surgey8919]

its so sad how spore is barely played but at least we got all of us

[@kimy770]

1 year later, still so useful! I hust tested duplicating the colony pack and it is so good, thank you for this video!

[@aph391]

Yay new upload

[@zelenpixel]

this is super interesting i didnt know about that stuff!!! love learning more things about my favorite game even if said things is just exploits to break the game in half

[@fern5778]

Amazing Guide! Thank you for sharing this!

[@Nikoban]

Thank you!! I just started playing again and trying out new stuff is a lot of fun

[@UniqueUkrainianLetters]

I just leave my comment here to support the Spore community. P.S.: Thanks for the video, it's really helpful and fun!

[@bluestar_kun]

That spice dupe is the goofiest thing I've seen from the game and I love it

[@Aaronmajowskavitz]

Getting better with those thumbnails lol, nice video

[@AspienPadda]

I love the way you talk

[@DQBlizzard_]

Thanks for these glitches

[@WoollyOni]

It’s a good day today

[@smellyfishstiks]

I had no idea about the ghost ship bug or really any of the save-de sync issues space stage had! Really cool finds! I’m not sure I have a space stage glitch but I was recently playing creature stage and apon exiting the creature creator after mating my parents that were teaching me how to strike.. even though I’m pretty sure I had already had it already were not my species and instead 2 wandering ... not sure but form the video I took with my phone they’re pink and their name starts with s and they have the teir 5 spit thing on their elbows.. anyways when I got out of the baby cutscene they instantly went back to normal and started growing since they were aggressive. Not sure if that’s a well-known glitch or how it occurred, maybe they existed before I went into creature creator and filled the slot my nest usually is somehow? ... not sure but hope that was interesting or whatever, though with spore bugs I know of lots but not there occurrence, thanks for explaining yours!

[@KinglyValence]

That's interesting, I'd love to see the video!

[@smellyfishstiks]

@@KinglyValence Here's the upload: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6qYmKB4fNdrndU sorry for the awful quality but ya... no idea why this happened just thought I would share.

[@KinglyValence]

@@smellyfishstiks That is very strange, thanks for sharing that! I also find it interesting those level 3 creatures only had 20 health too. Maybe they happened to wonder over to your nest, killed your creatures and the game just took those aggressive creatures in their place for the strike tutorial.

[@smellyfishstiks]

Ya very weird, I think they existed before I went into the creator I’m pretty sure but no idea how they over wrote the placement of my creatures

[@ajmanogac3646]

haha i litteraly forgot that you exist cool video btw this is fiend3ajman i changed my name

[@KinglyValence]

Haha, thanks! And thanks for the name update :)

[@ajmanogac3646]

@@KinglyValence No prob

[@SockyNoob]

God, I wish I knew of these glitches in my meme runs, especially the isolationist empire lol

[@deniellmccabe1440]

never thought I could do the infinite star jump

[@BlackMesaScientist]

Thank You for the Spore no mod

[@abolfazlbaligh8832]

Can you explain how you dont get crashes?

[@Geta92]

There is a Spore Patch available online that enables you to double the amount of RAM you can allocate to the game. It helps to keep the game stable a lot.

[@KinglyValence]

Here's a video demonstrating the patch as well :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/paTZoINri65npK8

[@superscrungus]

these look real fun. i didnt know there was actually a keybind shortcut to pull up empire comms, what key is it?

[@KinglyValence]

It's the Y key :)

[@HameleoshaDeHoga]

while i was duplicating colony packs every time i rejoined the game during loading the small yellow text that appears under the stage name got higher every time i did that, by the time i duped my colony packs to 99 the yellow text was right on top of the stage name lol. idk if it'll work for everyone else too or just me considering how old and glitchy this game is i might as well believe some bugs are personalized

[@thealmanancy9020]

I wonder if anyone's ever use planet buster enough times to not have a galaxy, and what would that do to the game

[@FinnbarrGoesFast]

This is really interesting

[@SpaceKebab]

@@FinnbarrGoesFast damn fr

[@AtomicToucan]

The Quest duping even works with the tutorial for galactic adventures!

[@KinglyValence]

That's awesome, thanks for letting me know! I haven't tried it with Galactic Adventures yet!

[@jonalban4349]

I wish they were more glitches that weren’t related to saving the game and exiting

[@jade_capricorn]

I MISSED YOU

[@KinglyValence]

Glad to be back! :D

[@AmoryPlays]

I did this again on another save thing and I had to pay the space empire two times JUST to do a trade route because the one that seemed happy with us I could not find and two others were made at me also the one that makes your ship a ghost ship basically does not work for me

[@Amarito03]

Do you know how I can make a colony with a seaport?

[@JBooseNoya]

What’s the key bind to call the colony fast for the dupe glitch?

[@KinglyValence]

"Y" on the keyboard brings up the communication screen :)

[@lucasweimanguitar7008]

Ahh glitches. Fun to watch, but I never use them lol

[@portalguy1432]

how do you bring up the communication panel that quick?

[@KinglyValence]

Y on the keyboard is the shortcut :)

[@dylanlagae922]

TIME TO GET MONEY

[@rednoodleoffate]

I think (needs testing) the spice disappearing may occur when the planet produces a unit of spice.

[@KinglyValence]

That's an interesting idea, I'll try that out!

[@matatic]

Is there a keyboard shortcut you used to contact your empire when doing the spice duplication?

[@KevinDunbar]

Press Y to contact empires

[@FinnbarrGoesFast]

Hey KinglyValence my friend and I started a new game in creature stage once, and the starting nest was underwater. Going onto land caused instant death to the seamonster, have you come across this before?

[@KinglyValence]

I have not seen this occur naturally, however I know how to force this to happen. Using Space Stage terrain tools on a planet that will be used as a different saved game in the future, remove the land to where the nest will be and the new game's nest will be underwater. And for some reason this appears to invert the water/land to survive in water but get sea monstered on land as you described. Very interesting!

[@Gtvrurker]

is it normal that i've got moon of my home planet with puprle spice and also 2 stars in close proximity also with purple spice? It was so easy to make money because i've just bought one from ally that rised T-index for me even before i had cold and heat ray

[@KinglyValence]

A purple spice moon appearing in your home system has a 2% chance of occurring, so that's really lucky! Red and Yellow stars have 2% purple spice chances whereas blue stars have a 15% chance. This wiki page covers the percent chances more :) spore.fandom.com/wiki/Spice?so=search

[@formersamonellaclone]

i have a issue in spore where the second planet i visit for the tutorial mission (i.e., the planet where you go to actually scan the ruins of the dead aliens), doesn't render properly (the entire world is pitch black, and whenever i leave this planet, the galaxy also fails to render). do you know anything that allows me to just skip the tutorial missions entirely, or perhaps at least a fix to this rendering issue?

[@KinglyValence]

That's odd, I haven't seen that before. Are your graphics drivers up to date or using fairly old hardware?

[@formersamonellaclone]

@@KinglyValence they're all up to date. i already fixed this problem by just completely nuking the appdata file i had for the game and just letting the game create a new one (the old one was somehow corrupted, not sure how or why though). thanks for responding though! i remember asking this around and getting, like, no responses from anyone lol

[@KinglyValence]

@@formersamonellaclone No worries :) Glad it got solved!

[@ThymeHere]

2Y 1,8K L 1,9K L WHEN I CLICKED 28,9K S

[@Kristimilaa]

Yay!

[@naugam]

It's so interesing to learn about this kind of glitches in Spore! Do you know about an exploit which allows to have unlimited captain parts?

[@KinglyValence]

I don't, I'm not as familiar with Galactic Adventures as the base game. Did you have an exploit in mind?

[@naugam]

@@KinglyValence I found this exploit a while ago and thought it was common knowledge. But now I'm not sure because I can't find any information on it. So I recorded it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYvLeGxomLSJpMk. It's beneficial as it allows to complete all GA missions quickly. Interestingly, the needed space empire would very often spawn near the Homeworld. I played on clean installation with no custom creations except the captain. Maybe the game uses player-created content near the Homeworld with a higher probability than Maxis creations?

[@naugam]

@@KinglyValence Also, creating a Sporecast with the desired captain and setting it as a theme when starting a new game should boost chances of encountering needed empire near the Homeworld.

[@KinglyValence]

That is very interesting, I will definitely investigate this too! Maybe I can use this in a Galactic Adventures glitch compilation one day, I will 100% credit you for showing me this if I include it :) The game prioritizing player made custom creations over the Maxis ones appears to be true. This is usually the case as well for the extra creatures gained when using the Summon Flock ability in Creature Stage. I use this exploit on purpose sometimes, but interesting so see another application of this for GA too!

[@Bigzthegreat]

one time i was trying to get knight with perfect abilities so RRGB and while i was trying to become industrious i put mist over a country i was at war with and another one got mad at me for no reason.

[@KinglyValence]

I just tried it, using the "Black Cloud" ability on another Nation gives them at least a -30 "You attacked us" relationship penalty towards our Nation.

[@Bigzthegreat]

​@@KinglyValence I used the black cloud ability on Green while i was at war with them but lavender was sieging them down. Lavender got mad at me for attacking them despite me putting the mist on green's city. Did I give one of their tank operators depression or something?

[@KinglyValence]

@@Bigzthegreat Hmm, interesting. The Lavender tanks must have been in some AOE range. That's good to know if I were to be in that situation as well!

[@davidmarques483]

Can you do a video showing all keybinds you use? I realized you do a lot of things without using the mouse

[@KinglyValence]

That's a good idea, I'll look into that! Some of my most used keys are: Y = Comm panel in Space T = Timeline/History Ctrl + s = Saving Ctrl + 1 = Using Energy pack Backspace = Mating/Returning to previous city in Civ ~ = Pause Esc = Options menu I think that's it, let me know if there's something else that's done by keyboard :)

[@jeninimas]

No matter what I try, I can't get the ghost ship trick to work - It's either I blow up or I save, I must've tried atleast 30 times now. Could it be dependent on your computer? I have my spore files saved on an SSD, which may mean when the game tries to access the save data there's a much shorter window for the click to register than on a slower drive, maybe? EDIT: I finally made it work on a complete fluke. The timing is really specific but you can get it to work, evidently.

[@KinglyValence]

Glad you got it to work! Yeah, the timing is really tight but gets easier with practice :)

[@nilsthomann]

Will this ghost ship glicht be a new speedrun strat? Or is it just to hard to execute? When I tried this I always failed.

[@nilsthomann]

Oh it worked when I set the graphic settings lower. I guess on high graphic settings it doesn’t work.

[@KinglyValence]

The timing is pretty tight, but gets easier with practice :) I don't think the ghost ship would be faster than normal Space speed runs, I'll have to do more testing!

[@vyrxirian7139]

Gotta insta like for bein 1337 + Spore

[@magako_v.3]

brother, 31 seconds ago

[@table9818]

Bruh why w9nt the ghost ship work,its said it saved and my ship died,still wont work

[@KinglyValence]

Did you also quit and load back in the game? You will respawn at home as a regular ship, but will be a ghost after reloading back in.

[@Xzyum00]

two of my most important save files now crashes the game every time I load it. It's terribly depressing. You seem to know a lot about spore. Is there anything I can do? I fear that if I continue playing spore more of my save files will fall to the same fate.

[@KinglyValence]

Sorry for late reply, try using the Unofficial 4GB RAM patch, found here davoonline.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=125&t=9424 Spore is limited to only using 2GB of Ram as a 32-bit game but this raises it to 4GB which can help prevent it from running out of Ram and crashing in some cases. Also try deleting the GraphicCache.package files in the "Spore" folder from the Roaming files in Windows, found by seaching "%appdata%" into Windows. This can help clean up the game as these files get huge and might contribute to the Ram limits. Make sure to backup this whole Spore folder first :) In the menu raise the Graphics Cache limit to the maximum 4096MB as well. Make sure to Spore on the latest version, old versions are super crash heavy. Current patch is 1.5 on Disc but all digital distributions like Steam/Origin are always on the latest version. I've also found that switching between Galactic Adventures and the base game can cause issues, not use if this happening but thought I'd mention it. I hope that helps! :D

[@trax_gamer11]

I've found a pretty weird and strange glitch in space stage. Literally typing this comment after I found it. In order for this glitch to work, you would need to play civ stage completly until you can advance to space stage. This is not possebile when starting direclty from space, because the city needs to be either military, religious or economic. The "Colony" city style does not work. So, after completing civ stage, you should have several small cities. If you then advance to space stage, and leave your planet, then go back in, all small cities will suddenly be converted into big citys. This is noticable by looking at the building placement of each city. Every big city, has the exact same pattern as the small city, just wth more paths. So the buildings that were originally in a small city, will still be in the big city, because the same pattern also exists in a big city. This doesn't give too much of an advantage tho, all it does is generate more spice if you were to place more factories, but that's basically it. Still is sort of helps you if you just completed civ stage and need some more money at the start of space.

[@KinglyValence]

That is interesting! I just tried it and it totally works! That's also helpful for putting in more turrets for when our Homeworld gets attacked in Space :D

[@trax_gamer11]

@@KinglyValence True, didn't think about the turrets.

[@Baggerz182]

pls make a tip on how to beat civilisation stage on religous hard mode i cannot at all pls

[@KinglyValence]

I can make an in depth video on Civ on Hard for all specialties, sounds fun! I also have a couple speed runs of Civ on Hard as Religious too :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/monPdHx9aMyfgbs

[@silem265]

didnt see anyone this so here 0:20 part 1 8:16 part 2 10:33 part 3

[@flask223]

I just use cheats but this is useful

[@gonzalomaldonado7740]

Regarding the ghost ship to remove the invisibility I did another method and it was not necessary to use RefillMotives Method 1: Reach the center of the galaxy with the invisibility glitch, before entering the core use the Repair Pack or use the Mega Repair Pack, they should not restore the energy of the ship, only the health. When repairing your ship, flying over a grox system, you will see that they shoot at you but they do not lower your life, it lowers your life when you fly over the solar systems due to lack of energy, after that enter the core to obtain the Staff of life. You will see that health and energy have been restored, but your ship is still invisible. After that, fly over grox solar systems to waste energy and life decreases until the ship is destroyed. You will respawn on your main planet or colony and the invisibility has been removed. Method 2 (Play as Shaman): Reach the center of the galaxy with the invisibility glitch, before entering the core use the Repair Pack or use the Mega Repair Pack, they should not restore the energy of the ship, only the health. When repairing your ship, flying over a grox system, you will see that they shoot at you but they do not lower your life, it lowers your life when you fly over the solar systems due to lack of energy, after that you enter the core to obtain the Staff of life. You will see that health and energy have been restored, but your ship is still invisible. After that, fly over a Grox solar system, enter a planet and use the return ticket. You will appear in your main solar system and the invisibility has been removed.

[@KinglyValence]

That worked! Thank you so much! I didn't know using a Repair Pack before going into the Galactic Core would keep our ship destroyable after the cutscene! I also didn't know Return Ticket would work to restore our ship while being a ghost ship as well. Those are very good to know! Something else I found very interesting, I used the Return Ticket after the cutscene but without using a Repair Pack first, and it did restore the ship but it also kept certain qualities from the ghost ship. Return Ticket without pre-repairing no longer soft locks the game when entering planets, and plays basically normal, except we stay invincible! This is might legitimately be an invincibility glitch for Space! Some strange effects of still retaining some ghost ship mechanics are present like Saving in the menu doesn't work but Control+S does, other ships don't interact with us so they never attack us when attacking their planets, and we can not lose health ever, at least I haven't found any way yet. I think at this point Refillmotives is the only way out but might not need to anymore! I'll add this explanation to the description of the video and credit you for it as well :D

[@jimman-beard2167]

How do you destroy your ship or get out of Ghost ship mode with Refill Motives thing? lol your a ghost ship and destroying it without the ability to enter a planet is impossible...lol thanks for the tip only way Ive ever been able to hit the core in Military mode ever...lmao

[@swapertxking]

so there's a slower way to get infinite animal/terraforming tools from that mission... well... you can terraform the galaxy as long as you don't terraform the one planet they ask of you. easy t3 planets across your empire early on.

[@FrigidDude]

Weed.

[@Mabra51]

*bugs

[@ВладФишер-п6л]

The worst glitch: impossible task.

[@Jooob929]

Bruh I do moreMoney XD

[@shozlochshadr1536]

video is 13:37 long :)