Even Rarer Events in Stellaris

[@deimos5365]

Me: *is having a good day* Aspec: If you’ve had the towel event, you’ve peaked Me: *is no longer having a good day*

[@leomclaughlinfrancoeur7546]

I actually remember getting that event a *loooong* time ago, and being like huh, neat, a hitchhiker's guide reference, and then promptly moving on. I had no idea it was so rare until now.

[@JoseAlvarado-da-Amazing]

I always though it was a mod I loved the reference btw, about references about that book: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJDHhqB6d8ujbM0

[@periplanetamissionary]

I got the towel even 5 times. Never really cared for it since you lose it when the dude dies

[@iTzCharmander]

Was it less rare when the game first came out? i feel like ive gotten a couple times but its been so long i dont really remember

[@matthewnuss1551]

i get the towel event every 3 or 4 games. large galaxy with 5x habitable planets and very few AI empires

[@vergulyanets]

First play through had a huge event chain searching for a mystical planet. Ended up finding a gaia world in a new system that spawned with primitives. Some random aliens show up bomb The Primitives into extinction and then fly away leaving me with an empty Gaia world. 400 hours later and I’ve never seen this event again.

[@A_Spec]

Paridya, ye, it's a Distant Stars event

[@Lavaflume]

I have had that one once as well. I kept telling them not to kill them...

[@wfb.subtraktor311]

Yeah, if I ever get them again, I will invade them for their own good and resettle them if I can.

[@DoremiFasolatido1979]

I used to get that one almost every game when the DS expansion came out...haven't gotten it at all in a long, long time since.

[@NemisCassander]

@@wfb.subtraktor311 I might be wrong about this, but I seem to recall that I did this once, and the aliens that show up to kill them actually go around and kill them on all of your planets... along with everyone else on those planets.

[@valanaria7588]

It is interesting what you can find when strolling trough the games localisation files, I just opened a random file and instantly found localisation of a digsite which, despite my extensive playtime, had never seen, The lesser messenger, something about a race of tiny people whose ship you can get and eventually upscale. I also found a little below it an unused origin, which would let you spawn in a system with two primitives. To more interesting discoveries, Did you know that the federation arena combat has a large amount of possible descriptions, which take into account, what traits, ethics and civics you have: there is one where your ruler just runs around a bunch and somehow wins(pacifistic) wins fair and simple (default), wins due to superior skill(militarist), wins due to mechanical components(synthetic) due to psychic power(psychic) erases the opposition with a single look(chosen one) where they have a massive showdown between two demigods where all other rulers are simply incinerated as a mere formality (two chosen ones) and lastly where they actually destroy the entire arena in a massive psionic battle rarely seen outside the confines of the shroud.(more than two chosen ones) I doubt anyone has actually legitimately witnessed the last two legendary event descriptions. And keep in mind that each of these has multiple versions, mostly weather you win or lose in that situation but also in the last two, if your ruler happens to not be a chosen one, there is a description for that too. its pretty insane how there is so much detail in it, despite the whole arena mechanic being very rarely used... It seems i got a little carried away i was going to talk of other interesting tidbits like if the friendly ameboa manages to survive a century it evolves into GIGA-AMEBOA. but this is long enough as is

[@Salmon_Toastie]

Yeah the two primitive spawn origin I’ve managed to find a modded one, the idea behind it is you where once pets of an ancient civ.

[@All_Mighty672]

Hey I got the little ship! I was lmao when after all the build up of a grand ship of titanic scales turned out to be tiny by our species standards!

[@yurialexandre2037]

So we can have a 'Emperor vs Horus' kinda of battle in the federation?

[@metaouroboros690]

Few things hurt more than seeing the result of the lesser messenger for the first time.

[@Necromediancer]

I think the Amoeba one is pretty well known

[@blitzkrieg8776]

I've actually had that Towel event a few times. Though that was back when I played exclusively on large galaxies and it probably helps that I generally play with a mod that increases anomaly chances through a policy.

[@gorbsupreme7555]

I got it in base game on Xbox

[@gorbsupreme7555]

I have a picture too

[@csirke9822]

Is that policy called "Away Teams"?

[@blitzkrieg8776]

@@csirke9822 yep :p

[@RisingFlag100]

@@blitzkrieg8776 i have that as well

[@aabouncer]

Aspec: "the other unbidden forms are pretty rare. As well as the factions that fight them." Me: gets them everytime because I suck at fighting the endgame crisis 😂

[@robertomorales4667]

Honestly, I was wondering the same thing!! Like sometimes I'm also too lazy to clean up the map in mid/late game so I like to let the crisis faction do its thing and mop up the rest for me and I'm like always try to trying to tell the helper faction shoo!

[@CommandoOps]

I had both the wanderlust and stay calm events happen to me before. The stay calm one I completely disregard as one of the random events. Never knew it was that rare. ....would explain my bad luck sometimes.

[@ttbrianm]

I have also gotten the stay calm "towel" event. I thought it was just strange that one of my science officers now has a towel trait that did absolutely nothing. I thought it was just weird.

[@piktasdede7436]

Same here, i got it once, then scientist died a few months later

[@EvulMonkai]

Same here. Though I am pretty sure I got Wanderlust at least a bunch of times. And I think I got Stay Calm on a really early version of the game, too. Had I known it was that rare, woulda screenshot it.

[@codybennett1009]

@@ttbrianm does nothing? It gave mine a 42% survey speed boost

[@PrepareToDie0]

Got the brain slugs once, but then they all died from starvation... :(

[@Alexencandar]

I get brain slugs pretty regularly. Not the majority of the time, but in dozens of games. Weird to hear that it's so rare.

[@GostlyToast]

I haven't seen the brain slugs in over 2 years at least. Last week went as a terravore and got them immediately. I was not happy.

[@Alexencandar]

@@GostlyToast Ha! I know the feeling. I don't play terravore, but I play lithoids a ton (syncretic evolution double-lithoid cross-breeding xeno-phile trade aquatic is very good) and I never am in a need of LOWER pop growth.

[@mortache]

I've only got it twice legitimately.

[@Ulriquinho]

Recently had it right before the video that told me about them. It was my first time. I had no idea it was a thing. I definitely took them up on the deal!

[@Calamitas9944]

When I was trying to get the Zroni to happen, I had to set the habitable worlds multiplier to 5x to finally find it, and after getting the achievement for completing it, I started a new playthrough with a normal world amount, only to immediately get the Zroni again. I grinded for 4 hours on normal worlds to get it before switching to cheesing, so I may or may not have thrown an empty waterbottle across the room

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

I think the game trolled you 😂

[@mauriciofreitas3384]

It's amazing that the game has this moments of straight up trolling you. One playthrough in the past, i had a really big amount of systems completely closed off from the rest of the galaxy and the only chokepoint was through fallen fanatic spiritualists. No one between me and the fallen empire, around 15 to 20% of the galaxy ... ... And then on the opposite side, 2 fanatic purifiers bullying me all the time and never between themselves xD

[@dejannincic9671]

@@mauriciofreitas3384 I once spawned right next to 2 fanatic purifiers as a rouge servitor, needles to say my empire grew 3 sizes that day

[@Khalkara]

I almost had forgotten the Grand Herald was a thing, after they nerfed it in to another galaxy. Its prolly for the better tho, it really made the game way too easy in singleplayer and I can only imagine the frustration it gave multiplayers.

[@Animalace3]

Ever since they nerved it, I haven't seen it. It went from spawning every playthrough to never spawning.

[@lamichka]

@@Animalace3 shame

[@ForsakenKrios]

It showed up in one of my recent games and I honestly thought they had taken it out of the game. It still gave me a huge boost though at year 40

[@SneklySnek]

I got the Towel event once, however at the time I didn't put any thought into it at all because I got it on a scientist who immediately died of old age a few days later not that it would have mattered since I was at the part of the game where its bonuses were useless, I haven't seen it since and likely won't think much of it if I ever see it again

[@rwp0079]

Pro tip, if you want the Zroni to spawn, just play a completely inappropriate empire, be robots, or be a hivemind of any sort. Anytime I play something where psionic is not an option I almost always get these bastards. I suppose the relic buff is ok and I guess being able to sell off all that zro is nice but come on game, come on lol. Edit: so going off what Aspec said... I had no idea the precursors operate that way. I thought the game selected one at random when the map is generated. So they are triggered based on where you survey?

[@A_Spec]

Kinda sorta. It's complicated

[@radaro.9682]

@@A_Spec you remember the detailed books that were published specific 4x games? Would go through all the math and foula the game used. Would love those to still be a thing so we knew this stuff.

[@arandomgamer6228]

Last year I got the Zroni while playing as a Technocratic Fanatic Materialist empire. Ended up roleplaying a Science Directorate trying to scientificaly explain psionic powers and the Shroud. It was a logistic nightmare but fun nonetheless Edit: typo

[@ethribin4188]

This is my dream situation. I love the psyonic ascention,both mechanically and thematically. And their bonuses work so well with materialists. But its so hard to get materialists to discover psionics...

[@dr.veronica6155]

I got Pantagruel and The Towel in the same game and didn't know either of them was this rare. I also reverse engineered an Afluence Center once, but I knew how rare that was when I did it

[@thorzap1374]

I just got the Zroni on a psionic empire run recently, didn't know it existed until then and it was super cool to get

[@NemisCassander]

Living the dream...

[@lamichka]

same here current playtrough

[@Gabriel902884]

i went fishin for them to get the achievement had to restart the game 10 times i think

[@spun1930]

had to restart 30 times for it on my void dwellers spiritualist run.

[@tripplebarrelfinn4380]

I only get the Zroni when I play materialist or a Gestalt empire. But getting them as spirtualist is pretty awesome I gues.

[@magnusthered4946]

I actually had the towel event once and I have proof of me taking a picture of it

[@SpaceTrump]

Pics or it didn'... oh wait nice!

[@PhthaloGreenskin]

Same I've had the towel event twice actually.

[@Rez944]

well i think that you did nothing wrong !

[@penguinsrockrgr8yt216]

@@SpaceTrump I snagged a screenshot

[@Ruosteinenknight]

Funny that you mention Wanderlust: my first playtrough as Swolephins and I got that one. Lucky me.... Other than Pantagurel, these elude me(then again pantagruel can be just save scummed). 06:07 Sentinels can also be overrun by the prethoryn, in which case they send final message telling galaxy to fight on.

[@ehyuhnwehghstehn8262]

i actually saw the final message by the sentinels on one of my play throughs and i honestly started to cry reading it since it was one of my first ever play throughs of the game and at the time i was very into reading every tidbit of text that popped up, now i just skim through everything and i don't really care if something happens during the game unless i know that it's a bad or good thing.

[@specknik356]

I have currently 600h but got the Towel event around 400h. I was so incredibly happy because i love the reference. Actually this was the best event ive ever gotten. The bonus is so nice.

[@TheLordmep]

I hope this encourages Paradox to make some of these more common, because I've never even heard of the Crystal Enclave before now.

[@potato88872]

My experience for this events so far Never got the grand harald, yet Got a few time the zroni Got wanderlust once a few days ago Never got the chance to see the crisis faction because I tend to drop evrything to tackle them before i get the war in heaven ptsd Also wanderlust increse the unbidden, just the event himself, spwam chance by 50%

[@bluestorm749]

I’m surprised you didn’t mention The End of the Cycle. It’s a really fun and challenging event for Stellaris veterans. In fact you should make a video on trying to beat the end game crisis and the event boss after the event is finished (all of your empire is gone), though you might have to extend the end date indefinitely in the settings beforehand. The easiest way I can think of to get the event to spawn is through save scumming, you could try that.

[@DarkJokingDragonSP]

Yeah, I suggested it to him last time and the reacted that he would make a followup. Apparently the end of the cycle is rare even for A-Spec videos lol.

[@lordvipul]

I had the tower event happen last year, but I didnt pay any attention to it since I was busy cleansing the xenos. Never knew it was such a rare event.

[@ethribin4188]

Honestly, I found that exploring, not surveying anything except planets, and then expanding, allows you to stockpile some influence and alloys, as well as give you info on which direction to expand to for your first planet. Also youll get 1-2 traditions at least, 3-4 if spiritualist, allowing you to get Expansion for lower influence cost on starbases, and once you settle, youll have +1 pop on colonized worlds. Both a good saving of early influence and a head start into the game. And/or get 1-2 into discovery for faster surveying, but mainly to activate "map the stars" for that bonus annomaly spawn chance. If spiritualist, you can do both discovery and expansion. And, as spiritualist, youre most interested in the Zroni anyway. So bonuses everywhere by just adapting a slightly weird surveying pattern.

[@Kilhunter13]

I've had the towel event a few times, and Zroni more times than I care for. At this point, if I get Zroni as my precursor event I will just start a new game because it's gotten sooooo dull. Edit: I also didn't know about the ability to obtain the Fallen Empire buildings until this video, so thanks for the new gambling addiction!

[@walter1383]

I just had the towel event in my last game. I figured it was rare since it's an easter egg, but I didn't know it was *THAT* rare, lol. This makes me a really hoopy frood.

[@SaturnsMysteriousEye]

Man no wonder you think Ancient Relics is fairly low tier in terms of content. You keep crediting everything added to Distant Stars.

[@A_Spec]

it's not that bad, they nerfed some of the rarest events, doesn't mean that there's still not a ton of new things and unique systems added.

[@SaturnsMysteriousEye]

@@A_Spec I mean absolutely correct and based, distant stars is godlike content, but the Grand Herald and the new Precursor's aren't part of said godlike content, they're part of Ancient Relics, but you credit distant stars for both in this video. Probably just a mistake in the script since so many of the events covered are actually from distant stars, but jokes are better so I made joke.

[@frazonedracaoo6981]

Oh the towel was a hitchhikers guide to the galaxy reference. I was very confused why having a towel was worthy of a trait. I'm surprised you haven't brought up the pet crawler yet. While i got the pet crawler fairly often in my play throughs some of the resolution events seem very rare.

[@scythos6540]

I've had wonderlust occur quite a few times, I didn't realize it was so rare.

[@erdega2964]

Same

[@martinkovar4323]

Same

[@The_Fallen_1]

I didn't know the towel event was that rare. I've gotten it twice in 1,250 hours of the game. I did have a phase where I played a lot of desert species though, so that's probably why.

[@x0Tassadar0x]

Not a rare event as a whole but more like a bunch of uncommon stuff all at once, but I've had a few games where EVERY SINGLE Leviathan in the game spawned in my galaxy, along with almost every single rare or uncommon world, like Sanctuary. It was a very odd round with having like 9 ring worlds under my control and all the Megastructures as well.

[@wesleykedrowski6692]

Literally just got the pentagruel yesterday for the second time. Idk if it matters but always use a scientist over lvl 5 ideally with an ascension perk trait (psychic, cybernetic, erudite) because I’ve had both happen when I did that

[@firewing0223]

Man, some people are lucky in not getting Zroni, I kept getting it nonstop every time I surveyed stuff especially as hivemind/machine intel

[@Star_Commander_Nip_Nup]

You can save scum to not get the Zroni

[@furonray]

@@Star_Commander_Nip_Nup I love getting the Zroni though, generally you get more terraformable worlds, it can do wonders for your economy to constantly be selling zro, or trade it to FE for alloys, and you don't have to scour the galaxy for it when you finally roll the psionic shields tech or kill the spiritualist FE.

[@homefront1999]

I would love, maybe as a special occasion or something. But have Aspec review and rank every single event int Stellaris. That just sounds fun to sit back in bed and watch before going to bed.

[@aleverettes2789]

Speaking of grand herald in 3.0+, just got one as determined exterminator and steam rolled through the entire galaxy within 100 years FeelsGenocidalMan Also in terms of end game crisis, since you can directly talk to the custodian team, maybe convince them to lower the weight of forbidden to spawn? Of 500 hours of stellaris, aka approximately 50 total playthroughs I have played, I think I rolled zerg for a grand total of 3 times and contingency/AI uprising(glorious 1.0 days) for less than 10 times, and all others are forbidden

[@smokinggnu6584]

Maybe ask them for an option in the game start settings where you can force all 3 crises to spawn in the game?

[@katier9725]

I played with a mod once that added a new Ascension Perk that let you open a box or something that made you choose a certain themed bonus, but also locked the playthrough into spawning a specific crisis. I think that would be an interesting addition.

[@Grivehn]

Cant you set which crisis you want to spawn before start of the game now? Still not a perfect fix, but its something.

[@katier9725]

@@Grivehn Oh you can? I never noticed...

[@aleverettes2789]

@@Grivehn you can but for some strange reason I haven't seen the scourge in two consecutive saves with settings to scourge only, so maybe there's something wrong with my game?

[@justgoodvibes1500]

There was a period during my stellaris career where I was obsessed as playing machine gestalt consciousness and every three runs I got the Zroni. And I was always pissed because I wanted the Cybrex for the war forms and ringworld. After 2019, I have never seen the event ever again.

[@aleksandermate439]

I actually got the stay calm event, I took the picture of it but accidentaly wiped my desktop photos, I didnt knew it was so rare (i have only 100 hours)

[@TailAbNormal]

Aspec: "Zroni are a rare precursor" Me: Flashbacks to all the games where I got the Zroni chain after doing genetic or synthetic ascension.

[@Nick-jf7ku]

Look again! Auto forge is not free it uses 10 energy and 50 materials which is no different than how its converted any where else, double materials equals half alloys.. In this case 50 materials for 25 alloys NOT FREE

[@furonray]

"Free" pop-wise I believe is what he means, you can have those pops on other jobs, and pops make the game, and break it in the end game slowdown, lol. Definitely get what you mean though, as I said this same thing out loud to my computer as normal sane people do.

[@michaelludlow626]

Aspec there are a few other ways of getting precursor buildings, one of which basically guarantees you one and that's the find a female scientist stranded on a wrecked ship anomaly, when she joins your empire she will later give you a new technology you have not researched yet, so if you get her late in the game and have already researched most of the technology that gives you something new, there is a very high chance that she will give you a precursor building.

[@michaelludlow626]

also i got a precursor building by letting gray join my empire for some reason

[@CordovaMage]

The rarest event ever..... Me actually finishing a game.

[@TEM7007]

I actually got stay calm about 600 hours into playing. I had no idea it was that rare. I just laughed at my scientist loving a towel and didnt think much of it

[@katier9725]

Is Wanderlust that event chain where you get an Extradimensional Invaders-style Science Ship? If so, I got this one once, not long after I bought Stellaris (which was around the time Synthetic Dawn was aboug to be released), and I thought the ship was so pretty and unique I didn't want to risk losing it. So I made it do Assist Research in my capital system. :3

[@potato88872]

No, that's another anomalis

[@katier9725]

@@potato88872 I see. What is it then?

[@potato88872]

@@katier9725 Honestly, I got that event so many time that It just faze out of my mind but, to put simple Wanderlust event: you can only get it at very start of the game ( I got mine before I even finish to survey the first system )

[@bottledwater4377]

@@katier9725 The one with the fancy alien science ship happens when one of your science ships jumps to another system and ends up getting yoinked into another dimension for a while then they come back with half the crew missing, later the crew that was missing reappears with the fancy ship and you have the option to either keep the ship and the crew or destroy them.

[@joshuamartin1877]

15:58 I had it on my third game I think, didn't think it was that rare, but that does explain why I haven't seen it since

[@andreanecchi5930]

In my actual game I have zroni , I would like to ask two things: is it rare to find Earth? , is it rare to find so many mega-structures around your systems?

[@schwingedeshaehers]

i think 50 %, if not sparned by an empire. depends on the size, and what you define as near.

[@neillindgren8992]

I’ve found the Sol system will commonly appear with the humans as a primitive race (I’ve seen them appear anywhere from medieval technology levels to space age technology levels) even in the smallest galaxies (edit: if they aren’t already an empire) but I’ve found it rare for mega-structures to be near your systems. In most games you’ll get 1 mega-structure in a smaller galaxy (I usually play in smaller galaxies) though occasionally you might get 2 or even three, but also sometimes you’ll get a galaxy with none. The thing is, even when you have two or three, they’re placed randomly, so the chances one will spawn near you are low.

[@johnprice6271]

I don't remember what it's called, but my faction all had an event where a beam of energy spawned over our capital planets. So far, I've only had the option to keep it or remove it. I kept it, and I don't know what's going to happen. Nothing has popped up yet, but I wait with anticipation.

[@FiftyStates5]

Commenting waiting for an update on this because after 1000 hours I've never seen this happen

[@camg6400]

I did not know wanderlust was rare. I feel like I have had that many times. That's crazy.

[@antlan-87]

I once got the Grand Herald in a Devouring Swarm game right before the nerf, and steam-rolled 3 empires that were Superior to me prior to getting it, then never saw it for about 300 hours of playtime before the next time I saw it, in a hostile empire. I got the towel once but did not know it was so rare. I have never gotten Zroni when playing as a Spiritualist, but I often get it playing Materialist for some reason.

[@Alex-ko9wv]

Is the towel event really that rare? I feel like I've run across it a few times in my 1200 hours.

[@cortster12]

I have 2400 hours, never seen it. You might be lucky, or I might be unlucky.

[@a-o2063]

Idk, but lately I haven't been seeing the Rubricator event spawning. It's a amazing event that after finishing the excavation site you have to fight a dragon for the Rubricator item which just creates free artifacts which can be used for the reverse engineering minor artifacts skill.

[@Samuel034]

I’ve gotten this twice this week. :/ once with a technocrat materialist (more Ecu!) and the other time with my ComStar role play megacorp.

[@conorkerr1673]

I thought this event happened every game

[@tigartar]

3049 hours of play time and i have had the stay calm event once before it made me laugh when i got it and showed a bunch of friends it was one of those moments of "they did this did they really add this to the game?" mostly as we hunt for references and were not expecting our Friday night stellaris game to become such a session but we didn't think much of how rare it was but you explaining how rare it actually is makes it make a lot of sense why my luck sucks so much otherwise in stellaris

[@elvimartinez5629]

i got the towel like 3 times , and as well as the brain slug and the waiting of worn as always thanks for the content aspec you are great

[@icyknightmare4592]

0:52 I honestly thought The Grand Herald was a prank on Reddit for a while. Played over 2300 hours of Stellaris, and I've seen this dig site exactly ONE time, over a year after it was added, and an enemy purifier got it.

[@SoCalStyles]

OMFG you spoke it to existence... 'Reverse-Engineer Arcane Tech..." -oh I can do that right now- "Specifically" -click- "the Class-4 Singularity" - BOOOM! Deciphered myself a class 4 KICKASS singularity!!! TY!

[@SoCalStyles]

Just got a second class-4 today...

[@deathmachine7777]

Now knowing that stay calm is insanely rare and the fact that I encountered it under 200 hours of stellaris makes me very proud of myself

[@aabry7108]

I have gotten the cybrex as normal precursors. Get an event, get a bunch of artifacts and their system with their (edit: abandoned) ringworld will spawn.

[@franconator3938]

ASpec. Since you asked nicely. I did only once got the one and only Towel event. I was playing a custom Human UNE game on Earth. Took a screenshot too. Thanks for telling me about this. I was wondering where all my luck went after all this time.

[@jfrv93]

I have almost 3000 played hours of stellaris and all the events have happened to me (the one with the towel on several occasions) but from everything you mentioned, I had never, never found out about the technology of the fallen empires. You have opened a new universe of possibilities for me aspec

[@spooks1840]

i had no idea wanderlust was even rare because i swear to god like 50% of my games i get it, and ive had the towel maybe 3 times in 760 hours

[@RukhWhitefang]

So literally right after your first rare events video I started a new campaign and got the blue lotus event. Over 1400 hours in the game and I had never seen it before. I don't know what magic you have but here is hoping to other rare events firing after watching this video.

[@thekillerpill23]

I feel like It's Very Rare to get the Secret dialog of the Loop & The Infinity Machine Lore in game.

[@humungasore]

I remember for the zroni I got it on my first distant stars play through and neglected the site until late game when I went psionic and was confused for the whole game wondering why I didn’t get a precursor

[@fallensky7]

Hey Aspec! I wasn't sure where to put this request so I just stuck it here. I was wondering if you could make a video breaking down sectors, how they work, if/when to use them, how you manage them, and how to maximize their utility. I know this has been an opaque and poorly understood/supported feature in the game forever. And I've messed with them a few times, but I wont lie, I couldn't really tell if I needed to use them or not. Id love a pros take on them. Hopefully you could cover this topic at some point.

[@KAKADOUJACK]

Not kidding, a friend of mine just recently got Stellaris, and we were doing a co-op playthrough together, and in the same game my empire got the Wanderlust event, and he got the hoopy frood event. I have nearly a thousand hours in Stellaris, and I had never seen that event, so I just assumed it was a new one that rode in on a recent update. Literally his first game ever, and he spins apparently the rarest event. Weird.

[@oimate4248]

I got wanderlust a while ago didn't realize it was so rare got really excited because I didn't recognize the even snd then it all just screwed with me

[@derithor4391]

The end of cycle patron is pretty rare, on my experience. Especially since you have to get to the shroud to start it

[@aggresivelycalm5484]

You’ve dredged up memories I didn’t know I had. I remember the towel event, because I didn’t know it was a hitchhiker referenemce, so I was just like “what- what the fuck is going on. A towel? I thought this was the semi serious space genocide game.”

[@iang257]

I got the technosphere once, I loved his story and I got the ending where he threw himself into the black hole and created a mini universe.

[@qpfox]

Weirdly enough I've gotten the towel and wanderlust ones but I've never even heard of the grand herald

[@wackyfantastic8857]

Surprisingly. The two rarest events I've gotten several times each. However his more common events I've never seen or have gotten so very rarely I personally consider it damn near impossible.

[@HammerspaceCreature]

I swear every time I get the Zroni I'm playing an empire that isn't even allowed to go psionic.

[@alexdavidson239]

Same with Baol: I only ever get either of those Precursors when I am a Machine.

[@wanda5899]

got wanderlust and towel event in the same game. didnt realize how rare it is, wow

[@snarst]

I got wanderlust for the second time when playing psychic squid a few weeks ago. It had been so long since I had seen it that I had forgotten it existed and didn't recognize the event name.

[@ryeo9907]

I somewhere wanted to do a casual stellaris run to tr and get back into it. I got the towel, and then just stopped playing. I wouldn't survive if my guy died of old age while he had THE TOWEL. So gotta back it up as well soon.

[@bautibunge737]

This videos make me think I'm really lucky. I started playing like a month ago, got the brain slugs on my first playthrough and on my game of this week I got the herald titan and zroni playing as a teacher of the shroud, which was kind of OP, since I was entering the shroud twice as fast from very early on. Both things were decisive for me to win as the galactic emperor

[@hyperion4318]

On game start, galaxy divided into precursor zones, and precursor can't be spawned outside itself zone, so to get zroni you just need to start in zroni area of galaxy. It usualy reveal itself on first 1-2 planet surveys. If not - it seems like you started in wrong area, and zroni is far away from you. In non-ironman you can see it by going to observe mode and enabling debugtooltip

[@ZylTec]

I got the stay calm event! I'm so happy I had the forethought to make a screenshot of it, didn't know it was this rare.

[@yousaidthusly461]

Thanks for telling me Wanderlust results in the unbidden coming; I had it happen and knew something was amiss when I got a light science bonus for it. I also got the one with the note from the future, and the voidwyrm one where I blew up a star system and got a dimensional horror defending a key gateway to my empire as well as void beams

[@megatoke]

I got a towel on my latest playthrough. I immediately got the reference from the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. I had no idea it was so rare.

[@TheWalkingEyebrows]

I’ve had stay calm at least once and I thought “oh that’s cool I get that reference” and then wondered why I never saw it again. Makes sense now.

[@daftedd8179]

I have under 200 hours on Stellaris and I got the Towel event when I played a tall empire :D Can't even remember how the game went onwards, but I am 100% sure I got it. IIRC I had the desert planet type as preferred habitat. Never really thought about it before this video, just smirked at the Hitchhiker's reference and continued playing.

[@temperedseal4788]

I started playing Stellaris for the first time today and I got the wanderlust event immediately. The whole chain is pretty neat and kinda creepy. I didn't know it was that rare, so I guess I've used up all my luck for at least the next month of my life.

[@CorimKnight]

I've been playing Stellaris since 2016. I have started an innumerable number of games. I have gotten Wanderlust twice.

[@cstains5543]

I've had the towel event twice. Each time the scientist either immediately got named leader of the empire one time and got picked for the Archive the other time. Seeing as I wanted to explore the worlds beyond the Fallen Materialists since I could see that they had a relic world there, it was a decent swap. The President never lost an election until the day she died some seventy plus years later. As in I've gotten this effect for about ten years total in game time. The 40% bonus to survey speed is incredible for as long as it lasts. So it's been both incredible and annoying as something always happens to them every time I find the towel before I get full use out of it.

[@SnowOfAllTrades]

I got the towel event like 3 times during my 100% grind, resetting galaxies and exploring them for the Zroni and Outside Context achievements. I was not aware this was supposed to be rare...

[@GraniteGhost778]

The first rare events video I was like: "okay, I've seen a couple of these in my various games." This one though? Yeah I ain't seen squat.

[@tallperson117]

Wow, I got the Towel event in a multiplayer game with my buddy, and it was literally my second playthrough of the game. I had no idea it was so rare.

[@andrewproctor3922]

I got the towel event a couple of months ago. I was so surprised I just sat there laughing my head off for nearly an hour!

[@glennboyce7753]

The first 2 games I played I actually got the towel event thinking "wow a Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy reference" not realizing how rare it actually was. I also got my butt handed to me by the game both times.

[@spaceman5719]

Funny... I remember just one game ago not only was I able to acquire a fallen empire building BUT TWO!! Not only that it was two Nourishment centers WITHIN 20 YEARS OF EACH OTHER!!

[@LordDynal]

I got the towel event twice in a thousand+ hours, and one of them was a game where I restarted moments later… I thought it was really funny but had no idea it was rare. I think I even had a scientist steal the towel from the other one? Or perhaps he lost it and got a big Debuff? I can’t quite remember, it was a WHILE ago.

[@seank2251]

aspec: "reverse engineer tech is good" me: *too preoccupied selling minor artifacts to of heard anything*

[@christophergaunt7944]

Pentagruel literally happened for me the other day and something I didn't realise before was that you actually get a unique dialogue with the curator enclave afterwards. Never saw that before.

[@Tronerfull]

I had the towel event once. As a result a got a supercientist that not only had a towel, but also a pet and a slug living inside his brain. I was sad when he died at age 168.

[@wighar]

only just saw this video and tbh, I have had the Stay Calm event like 3 times that I can remember, I had no idea it was that rare, I have had the zroni like twice so they were a rarer event.

[@darthdangermouse1453]

I've gotten the Towel Event a few times, actually, strangely once as a Genocidal Machine Empire.

[@kotamowdy9922]

3100 hours and I’ve seen the towel event 3 time and the wanderlust event 5. Something I should note is that I play exclusively on huge galaxy size.

[@sgtjaney8592]

one of my first stellaris runs my scientist got the towel event and I kind of just shrugged it off. I was rather confused as to how a towel gave +40% survey speed, and was called the 'towel bearer' trait, but now I see that its simply because he was lucky

[@bizmasterTheSlav]

What a wonderful thing to find on an empty, uninhabited world - a towel. I've always dreamed of a towel.

[@Khanscott]

I have seen the towel event, but I had no idea what it was. It reminded me of the rubix cube event driving one of my synthetic scientists nuts and subsequently gave it the maniacal trait, because it couldn't understand what it was and why the former captain of the derelict ship had it.

[@sethierot7067]

Once, i had a pretty Meta One. Some other timeline or Dimension thing sent me ressources because i had played as them at one time. So basically one of the Empires from another Run. I dont recall if this was the Base Game or perhabs the more event mod or even sth by Guillieman. But it kinda felt nice :) Was very Wholesome.

[@fighter81t96]

I got wanderlust and the towel one in the same playthrough before. It was my first game in a long time and I just got them out of no where.