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

[@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.

[@AbsoluteGorbSupreme]

I got it in base game on Xbox

[@AbsoluteGorbSupreme]

I have a picture too

[@csirke9822]

Is that policy called "Away Teams"?

[@blitzkrieg8776]

@@csirke9822 yep :p

[@RisingFlag100]

@@blitzkrieg8776 i have that as well

[@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

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@scythos6540]

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

[@erdega2964]

Same

[@martinkovar4323]

Same

[@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!

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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?

[@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

[@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.

[@EyeOfMagnus4E201]

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.

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@wanda5899]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@seank2251]

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

[@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...

[@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

[@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.

[@altejoh]

Getting anything other than Unbidden to spawn as the crisis feels like a rare occurrence, honestly.

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@morbidgalaxy2569]

I got the towel in my 4th game ever. I didn’t think it was that rare but my brother was saying it was the hardest event to ever get.

[@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.

[@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.

[@qpfox]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@rickymcgowen6776]

I got the infinity sphere and got the Pentagruel outcome. It was beautiful.

[@darthdangermouse1453]

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

[@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

[@zeocamo]

i have had the stay calm event 2 times, i did not know i was so lucky with them

[@tothemaxgaming8240]

I got the towel bearer, I posted it on Reddit and today I got wonderlust

[@derithor4391]

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

[@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.

[@theholypeanut8193]

13:05 Literally the second game I've ever played, I got this event.

[@CorimKnight]

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

[@asterosarius1550]

Just as i was playing a bit of gigastructures i got the towel event out of nowhere Did not think much of it until i saw this video...

[@andrewashby70]

I've had the towel event, gave me a chuckle. Had no idea it was so rare.

[@bluyou69420]

I got the towel event once. Fronds of Burgundy lived two hundred + years with that towel. Didn't even know the reference.

[@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.

[@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.

[@MrFreakRite]

I cannot believe I got Wanderlust my first playthrough, and only won because i held off the unbidden at chokepoints long enough for all three factions to spawn, wake up a fallen empire that kinda liked me and was my neighbor who proceeded to clear half the galaxy of the unbidden as i cleaned up the mess. Im newly in love this game.

[@keinenbockmehr1749]

"Ignore the mod-stuff" Me seeing "Planetary Mass" as a Resource: >wiiiiidee Grin< "Of course, buddy! Have fun!"

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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...

[@mistythemischievous2013]

I've gotten the towel event once, and only once. I thought it was just kind of weird and kept going. Had no idea it was so rare.

[@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.

[@doctorritos2114]

Still haven’t included the Kha’lanka event, definitely the rarest in Stellaris

[@LordOceanus]

Way back in the early days of Stellaris I did actually get the Stay Calm event. And then the scientist died to a routine level anomaly around a year later...

[@semo9197]

i have peaked. kaleek the towelbearer was a prominent member in my empire and an idol after he so sadly passed away. i miss him still till this day :( didnt know he was so rare tho, lol

[@Zanzabarchocolate]

I actually got the towel event once and thought it was the funniest thing. I didn't realize it was that rare and now I miss that save file.

[@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

[@MrValidusLupus]

I was going to say... The very first time I played Stellaris, the very first game I created (a generic play through I intended to use to learn the systems), I did in fact get the Wonderlust event chain. I thought it was so cool. But I never once managed to play through it again in the years I have now spent with the game, and countless games I started up.

[@JeffCharleson]

As a void dweller, I got the class 4 singularity, I was battling low energy, I was ecstatic. Then, as a death cult I sacrificed some pops for extra happiness, I lost the building slot and the class 4 singularity was destroyed. Ironically, sacrificing pops for happiness, did not result in happiness for me.

[@themonia]

I have literally only played like 4 games total and gotten the towel in 3 of them. Never even knew it was uncommon, let alone the rarest event.

[@humanmale1042]

I had the sentinels spawn and ironically they were swallowed instantly after asking me for ships, being one of the only groups left, and fighting the scourge to a stalemate, it was funny

[@felixdauber8799]

I had the towel event once. Being confused i googled it and soon went "Cool, A hitchhiker reference" before moving on. All without realizing how rare it actually is XD

[@MadamLava094]

Stellaris event devs be like >barges into unrelated update >adds like 50 new, fleshed out complex events with only a 0.01% chance to even appear >leaves

[@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.

[@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

[@firewing3525]

I got the towel in my first 30 hours and was so utterly confused

[@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.

[@archapmangcmg]

"Unlikely to get it in a thousand hours!" Me: But I've had it in MOST of my runs. Me: Looks at hours played. Hmmm.

[@Kags]

I've had pantagruel and wanderlust before but never heard of the towel thing lol. That's great

[@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

[@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.

[@kotzpenner]

I got the towel twice in SP years ago, and thought, neat, a Hitchhiker reference. But then my scientist died a few years later lol.

[@Varichan]

The unbidden saw my scientist in the shroud? Little did they know, i was on my way to bring the rest of my psychic empire over aswell.

[@ScreaminCreamin]

I've had the towel! I wasn't aware it was even that rare... only got about 400 hours in Stellaris

[@astro_auto8270]

I’ve gotten Stay Calm once although I remember disregarding it not knowing how rare it is

[@PossibleBit1]

I just saw this video right after the first time I've seen Wanderlust. I was convinced that it was an event from a mod beforehand.

[@nobodyhome6870]

I've had the wanderlust event a few times maybe 3 total and the towel once. I'm glad I know the mechanics to get the zroni now! thanks ASpec

[@crazymammoth]

I've gotten Stay Calm before, but it was just after it was added to the game so the chance may have been higher back then, like this was in the pre-megacorp days

[@CoffeeConsumer6797]

I had the scientist wanderlust even happen to me pretty recently... Didn't even know it was a rare event! I never had it before, but I didn't pay it any thought.