The Best Origin - Stellaris Every Click Guide

[@leastfire05]

heyyy! super fun video😁thank youuu for mentioning me, it's niceee!♥galactic doorstep has been one of my favourites origins since a long time, I used it to establish early transport network in 1000 stars galaxy, when I played single player😉(multiplayer with 1000 stars would be crazy haha:P) it was super fun to play in yesterday's game using this ship! aaaaand I actually learned something new from this video.. combination with anglers could be more powerful than what I did myself! :)

[@starleine]

leastfire the meta setter ❤

[@ChillyWing]

Thank you for showing everyone something super cool and using your game knowledge to win another tournament o7

[@ObiwanNekody]

Catalytic Processing and Farmers, and now Galactic Doorstep. Are you doing ok? Do you need a brain slug wellness check?

[@MontuPlays]

Food and Galactic Doorstop! This is the only true power! You have to believe me! This message was brought to you by Big Farmers

[@jacobp.2024]

I think his brain slug's been hitting the zro too hard..

[@OGSaltBreaker]

Clearly he's gone mad from Shroud influence...

[@scottycheesecake]

​@@MontuPlays Don't you mean Big Farma?

[@pieterfaes6263]

@@MontuPlaysBig Farm is putting Micropearls into our Meta! ...someone tell the devs to put a sheep mammal portrait in Stellaris.

[@jamiegladwin]

Imagine if they could add an AI Chat and image generator so as you play the game you cut scenes custom made by the AI to fit your situation. Example, the first colonizing of a planet, first contact, first war, the galactic council, and because it would be AI generated it would be specific to your culture, species, and situation, with an infinite amount of different cut scenes. RPG immersion on steroids. love the video

[@xenoplayz4524]

Looks like an awesome build to try, it does highlight that the absurd 10 year truce in this game needs to change imo. Like what's stopping empires from ignoring a treaty dishonorably for a suprise attack? An invisible wall of 10 years apparently, they should replace the 10 year truce with an honor system instead so rather then waiting 10 years you just gain dishonor which makes getting new treaties very difficult.

[@chronorebel_greatgryffon1312]

I’d like an Every Click Guide to the UNE

[@gman7378]

This strategy was nerfed from 91% chance of getting Skrand to 33%.

[@omff6329]

Damn Im lucky then I got him 3 saves in a row lol

[@Chewie57wrarr]

Does not seem to work with Driven Assimilator. I tried a few times and saved scummed (unless the save points weren't early enough). Did anyone have any success with DA? Did have success with fleshy humanoids. Very cool playthrough. Must be Skrand is not open to being one of us.

[@maksymkuznetsov7071]

Inspired by the recent tournament. It was great, waited for the next one

[@Qwizzyx]

WARNING! 2:45 If you are doing any of the agressive civics, like driven assimilator, the event will fail! you are forced to go hostile on the ship.

[@espirin6829]

Ive got to know the dlc youre running with, I am seeing so much I havent before lol

[@l.a.3680]

Next guide: Unlimited power autocannon.

[@jamesbm7978]

Anyone going to tell Montu that he posted his April fools video 12 days early

[@wrydfell3932]

What are your thoughts on the Dark Consortium civic? I think it's become one of my favourites, i love actually having a use for dark matter

[@UnknownTuber450]

12:30 Since when were those combat animations in the game, was it a mod or just something special compared to the standard move in a circle animatuon?

[@brendastarr1062]

between this and farmer builds i think the end times are coming and reality is coming undone. give it another update and clerks will be meta also always enjoy to see another one of your videos

[@vicentescangarelli2361]

This probably doesnt work without galactic paragons right…? Asking for a friend.

[@MontuPlays]

Skrand comes from that DLC, so yeah, you need Paragon's

[@deaansugee]

"new best origin" Hmm I wonder if it's just gonna be another way to vassalize everyone early "just do this and vassalize everyone early" yep

[@DeWellstein]

Whaling....?whaling...?!! Well I guess its the British thing to do.

[@grumpydinosaur2347]

Hmm galactic doorstep is playable with hives? This origin + zombie civic and you basicly dont need build fleet like till mid game

[@tathemrelag3123]

I'm honestly not sure whether Montu keeps saying "doorstop" instead of "doorstep" by accident, or as an intentional joke about the usefulness of the origin.

[@MontuPlays]

Both. It started as a joke, now I just can't help myself 😅

[@paulgenes4856]

Did this get nerfed yet? I want to try it out..

[@Vortoq]

Is Skrand bound to the Paragons DLC ?

[@MontuPlays]

Yes

[@Redemolf]

Be careful who you call ugly in high school.

[@jonathanwillis8419]

Does this work for console

[@LegionnaireScout]

Do you need paragons to have this thing spawn ??? I tested 7 damn games in a row and nothing ..

[@SalvLav]

yes

[@gordonfreeman1403]

I'm not sure if this is heresy or not..

[@DameonRaeth40]

It's Doorstep... not Doorstop.

[@МенМаатСет]

cheating!

[@brealisman]

Fun fact: Since the ship has a jump drive, you can use it to take over the Habinte unified worlds in the dacha system in that whole event chain and get like 300 pops on multiple gaia worlds for free. Usually they block the hyperlanes off as soon as you attack them but this and the scion ships can bypass that. Because this needed to be more OP

[@MontuPlays]

Oh my god.

[@roboticintelligenceunit1a652]

Huh? What is this guy blabbaling about?

[@stanislavyackon1887]

​@@roboticintelligenceunit1a652about unlimmited power. Power beyond any kind of ballance

[@Ravi9A]

Wtf

[@aecides3203]

Don't they also spawn quite a beefy midgame fleet in their home system that needs to be dealt with? Iirc they're hostile but not aggressive, so they just sit there daring you to FAFO.

[@henrywilson2136]

Just goes to show how powerful updates are.

[@adventure_skaut]

DLCs*

[@henrywilson2136]

@@adventure_skaut Base game actually. Also, DLCs are a part of updates.

[@adventure_skaut]

@@henrywilson2136 you cannot get the event and the ship without the paragons DLC

[@depot-lb8hl]

@@henrywilson2136 But the base game doesn't have titans or paragons. I highly doubt it would work out the same! But since I only have a few DLC, I might give it a shot.

[@henrywilson2136]

@@depot-lb8hl True

[@Blundabus1337]

Well well well, what do we have here? Didn't I bring up in your origins tier list video about how you underrated Doorstep? Hmmmm?

[@MontuPlays]

I was not aware, at that point, that this was possible. I thought the chance was still low, which it is for regular empires. 90% is almost guaranteed Other than the admiral, the rest of the origin is pretty crap though...

[@MontuPlays]

Also, I've checked all the comments on that video. No one (and I mean no one) even got close to mentioning Skrand as a viable strategy for Galactic Doorstep. That's probably partly due to the fact the chance was 20% not 90%, so it was much less viable. But still, without skrand it's solid C Tier (F tier in my estimation due to personal prejudice though, as mentioned in that video)

[@gentlemanhero1630]

@@MontuPlays when was there a change to his spawn rate? is it tied to the origin?

[@MontuPlays]

@@gentlemanhero1630 I think 3.11, it is tied to the origin! I show the code on screen about 15-20 mins into the video I think

[@ObiwanNekody]

Xeonion did say Time named Skrand Sharpbeak 'Xeno Of The Year'. He does a lot of work.

[@joshreuben3058]

I never thought I would ever see you do a video on Galactic Doorstep. Did Skrand bribe you to make this video?

[@MontuPlays]

Let's just say he made me an offer I couldn't refuse ...

[@aze94]

2:50 Xeno-Compatibility: On Montu NO!

[@vicentescangarelli2361]

Well he has clearly gone mad

[@ObiwanNekody]

Perhaps he just really likes Skrand Sharpbeak.

[@wedgeantilles8575]

I love this "click by click" guide. You are DEFINITLY playing a completly different Stellaris like I do. My gameplay and yours look in comparision like a toddler playing football and Messi playing football.

[@genericnameandgamertag7448]

“RN jesus on your side” 1 in a million odds I’m guessing

[@MontuPlays]

1 in 10 That it fails... So almost certain really!

[@genericnameandgamertag7448]

@@MontuPlaysthen i have 1 question, does it work on the most holy and perfect version of stellaris, 3.5 (Death stacks are fanatic pacifist propaganda)

[@MontuPlays]

Not at all. You need at least 3.8 (galactic paragons) and 3.11 is when they changed the weights of GD getting skrand to spawn

[@genericnameandgamertag7448]

@@MontuPlays :( guess i gotta get it on pc

[@arronax09]

Fair warning, it's not working anymore since 3.12, now you get 1/3 chance instead of 9/10 :(

[@Ep3o]

Curse you! My video on this was already recorded and being edited aaaa

[@MontuPlays]

Looks like I got the Last Talon first... And as you know, there can be only one galactic paragon! 👉👉

[@Jernsaxe]

How did you learn of the build? Tournament or have your community been theory crafting?

[@Ep3o]

@@Jernsaxe I accidentally stumbled on it as I was just checking out the new gateway changes lol

[@Jernsaxe]

@@Ep3oSo what you are saying is that Montu is cheating by having a tournament full of tryhards to do his testing for him? :)

[@Ep3o]

@@Jernsaxe yes

[@akselbentsen3683]

Loving these guides! Keep it up!

[@MontuPlays]

Glad you're enjoying them!

[@ethan5915]

Something I would like to attempt at some point in the future involves this origin and the Dark Matter Consortium civic. See, there's an agenda that unlocks for that civic as soon as you unlock your first T5 tech (the Gateway Construction being the main goal of the empire) which flat out GIVES you Dark Matter components for your ships. These are power source (whatever), shields (great until you get psi shields), and thrusters which are incredibly strong (at about 5x the speed of normal thrusters). I'd be interested in your thoughts on this idea.

[@zwinnytygrys9865]

WTF MAN?! HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW?!

[@Nooctae]

I'm 10min in the video and I'm still not sure if this is supposed to be serious or not.

[@bretthuff8971]

I think there is some really underrated potential with the under one rule origin. Under one Rule with distinguished admiralty and a commander as your starting leader means that your ruler will start at level 6 and can start with a trait that gives +30% mineral and +15% alloy/CG output. The problem I have is consumer goods. I can't seem to get a good enough stockpile in order to flip production by 2220. On a side note, I also seem to be struggling with unity with this build.

[@MontuPlays]

Add on vaults and you can start on level 7

[@MontuPlays]

Also, have you swapped to civilian focused economy for the first 15-20 years or so?

[@bretthuff8971]

@@MontuPlays Yes, I swap to civilian economy at the start and dedicate the larger of my 2 starting colonies to consumer goods, the other to tech/unity. By around 2220 I've only got around 3.5k CG stored, but if I swap production to alloys my CG drains too fast for me to build up a large stockpile of alloys. As for Vaults of knowledge, I've been running philosopher king for +5 effective ruler level.

[@id01_01]

​@@bretthuff8971I do a really stupid thing with Under One Rule new tech update. If you take xenophile, you can get Brain Poacher, which gives you +18 research of each kind with a migration treaty. I settle every planet I find, even the 0% ones, and make a vassal from each system. Then, I sign a migration treaty with each vassal and watch the science roll in. If you abuse immigration pull, you can get some pretty insane levels of pop growth on your core worlds. If you use this with trade, you can tax your own commercial pacts and get some wild energy credit income, all while having low sprawl.

[@sheeesh8166]

Can you galactic doorstop spreading Misinformation?

[@MontuPlays]

Misinformation? Where?

[@bringbackdislikes3195]

Can you speak something else than broken english?

[@BlackElf94]

I restarted 4 times today and still haven't gotten Skrand, RNJesus must hate me 😭

[@MontuPlays]

It's been updated to a 30% chance in patch 3.12 (or something like that)

[@JohnyWashtube]

Well after ignoring this tactic since paragons released you managed to shine a light on it and murder it in next patch most likely :D. It is buffed now so it is way stronger. You were bad mouthing this origin for a while And because of this video the Last Talon shall fall into oblivion alongside Grand Herald or prob less likely will there ve nerf to the origin.

[@MontuPlays]

I think they mega buffed it in the latest patch, in 3.9/3.10 galactic doorstop only had a 20% chance of getting the ship, now it's 90% which is wild! The rest of the origin is still... Not great

[@mushyroom9569]

1:00 It may be the best origin now, but it still gets called the “galactic doorstop.”

[@enclave315]

First farming now this the universe has truly turned upside down

[@jaredpierce8477]

A solid design philosophy. Nerf everything until farming is good then nerf farming.

[@erikvale3194]

Yep. This probably beats Scion.

[@MontuPlays]

Well it's a much, much higher chance, and honestly more powerful than the equivalent fleet the fallen empire might gift to you!

[@obliviondoctor3857]

just a reminder if you go fanatic xenophobe you do not have the option of repairing the ship

[@deinos8739]

Can a Dragon in the home system defend that ship? If you take the dragon origin

[@MontuPlays]

A reanimated dragon with extra bonuses, probably. But the normal dragon, not really... You can also get skrand much earlier (5+ years) before someone can reanimate their dragon, so it does trump the reanimation strategy

[@PerfectAlibi1]

@@MontuPlays How is that ship only 20k fleet power?! XD

[@JanghanHong]

15:26 Biblically accurate Falco

[@danielehartmann2787]

And please, do EVERY click on that like button!

[@dumont7478]

Thank you, unfixably broken leaders and paragons!

[@SCI-FIWIZARDMAN]

I didn't know it was possible for Skrand to spawn with the Galactic Doorstep origin. That's... actually kind of hilarious. Considering that Galactic Doorstep is usually completely dogshit, it'd be an awesome buff if they made it a guaranteed spawn and tied Skrand's story to the Black Crown specifically.

[@MontuPlays]

at 90% it's almost a guarantee...

[@MiArDm]

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be... Paradox Int tries not to overpower something with new update: impossible

[@lavasurfer6548]

By the Shroud... there is no way this is possible, GALACTIC DOORSTEP IS GOOD???

[@AW-ux8sr]

Love these in depth guides!

[@ObiwanNekody]

Gateway construction is a t5 tech. This means that with the Dark Consortium civic you can go right into Dark Matter tech right after completing gateway research. I had dark matter thrusters by year 38 in my test play of this. Being able to sell your early dark matter also helps meet the gateway activation costs.

[@riflescientist1744]

I used to do galactic doorstep because I was a free player and now I bought everything just to hear it's op

[@woodsie8965]

I played my second game a few days ago. It was my first time creating a custom empire. Was looking through the origins and species, trying to come up with a theme/story. I settled on galactic doorstep with Avian species. The idea being that these creatures from their earliest beginnings have always soared through the skies, and now wanted to be the fastest travelers in the galaxy. So I geared the towards physics/propulsion specialties. With their dream being to reactivate the gate way and travel the cosmos. The shear shock when I saw the conclusion was a legendary Avian commander, I couldn’t believe just how perfect that worked out. Sadly a patch the next day corrupted my save, and I never got to use him :(

[@waterfeather1358]

I hope you know but started this origin on my console save. AND I GET THE EITHER DRAKE LESS THAN 5 JUMPS FROM MY HOME SYSTEM plus the ancient mining drone hq near as well. Like wtf?

[@DrWarbird]

How long till this gets nerfed?

[@MontuPlays]

afaik, from what the Stellaris team have said when asked, it's intended and thus not a problem!

[@DrWarbird]

@@MontuPlays Nice. Can't wait to try it. Solid content.

[@WavyCats]

Galactic doorstop being the strongest origin is something that I would have never expected

[@nicholaswallace2575]

They should add a new legendary paragon from Skrand’s species who will only come out if Skrand gets out. maybe a rival, maybe a respected colleague but that should act as a potential counter to this early game power spike. Maybe instead of it just being an admiral for final flight 2 electric boogaloo, it could be a scientist who can allow you to add those powerful strike craft to to your own hangar bays. Or maybe because it’s a member of skrand’s species, there could be a storyline which causes skrand to not participate in a war with the empire who found them. If galactic doorstep is now amongst the broken origins, it just goes to show how many interesting options there are out there to make the galaxy feel alive.

[@RandomName2.0]

Checks if it was april fools...slow realization: NOOOOOOOOO IT CAN'T BE

[@deuxexkane2659]

First farmers are good. Next Doorstop is OP. What will be next, transport ship rush new meta?

[@lordcraven1397]

Something about that just sounds wrong

[@MontuPlays]

I know.

[@Awesomewithaz]

RP starts deserve love too. Make them strpng enough im not embarrassed to use in multiplayer

[@Nooctae]

Okay, I see the idea. I expect next patch to make it impossible for Skrand Sharpbeak to spawn until a certain date in the game. Easy fix.

[@Jernsaxe]

The fix is just to not have two multiplicative stacking modifiers effect the spawn rate, a 4x or a 10x wouldn't be a problem, but a 40x is :)

[@dale117]

>Xenocompatibility on When did you sell out your channel to Ep3o?

[@Herbertti3]

I only pray RNGJesus and Lord Gaben.

[@koshi6505]

Galactic Doorstep good? April Fools is still two weeks away...

[@stevhao8420]

can you use dark consortium/shadow corp with this build? I thought dark consortium/shadow corp gave you dark matter techs with an agenda at level 5 technologies. If gateway activation is level 5 can you also get dark matter techs with dark consortium/shadow corp?

[@SolazLive]

activation is level 4, construction is level 5

[@alexrogers7077]

my vassals keep having internal rebellions when I control them and I don't know how to get involved or stop it from happening but it costs me some of their taxes and makes awful border gore.

[@evgzarproductions2752]

My prospectorium recently had such rebellion when I tried to play tall, needless to say my ecomony kinda collapsed after that

[@sejaljagdish]

I saw neutrons on L slots💀

[@sejaljagdish]

Uhmmm to who is going to respond?

[@communistvenom9284]

Holy shit this is the first time ive actually considered trying this otherwise shitty origin

[@magicka789]

Few technic things, the update is 3.11? Are you able to get the tech from that ship somehow? really interested in that more than anything. thanks for the idea! never thought of this.

[@Jernsaxe]

You can learn them, wiki explains how: stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/Paragons#Skrand_Sharpbeak

[@Teyloune]

Oh man, this is awesome! Praise Skrand Sharpbeak!

[@citizenzero5437]

So to understand this if you don't get the legendary leader you cant get the ship? I have tried this as a xenophobe materialist in the year 2247 and the only option I get is to ignore the crew and take the ship which ends up ion a fleet battle. What went wrong?

[@phoenixdelta346]

If you were fanatic xenophobe or used inward perfection civic, then you have less diplomatic opportunities.

[@josiahvv]

So I tried this with a Gestalt Empire and didn't get the option to help repair the ship. Which left me with an enemy ship 100x more powerful than my navy in my home system.

[@WoolTexas]

You cannot recruit Skrand if you are a Gestalt or Fanatic Xenophobic empire

[@arrBuh]

So game is just spread sheets no ship battles like eve.

[@ianlilienthal531]

I tried this build in 3.10, but with Skrand Sharpbeak only having a 20% chance to spawn if you're the first person to activate a gateway, it didn't pan out. I'm glad it worked out for you though!

[@MontuPlays]

I think they change the weightings in the latest update! It's now 90% with doorstop

[@ianlilienthal531]

That's fantastic! Thanks!@@MontuPlays

[@nothuman3319]

Its gotta be because skrand right, like that to be it

[@Handlesareastupidsystem]

Food Meta... Catalytic Processing... Parliamentary System... Galactic Doorstep... Spiritualism... What have they done? To the meta? To Montu? >Homelander Hallway Gif

[@panmopsel]

So it kinda has similar gimmick to payback, but without drawbacks like being behind everyone in terms of development, Just gives you powerful ship early Kinda like i always get shard by 2250, making game just easy

[@Teyloune]

Oh no, if you end up acquiring Frigates, for example, you can take out the Leviathans like 30-40 years into the game, and potentially even reform your government into Reanimators, using those Leviathans for some supreme shenanigans.😱

[@ianmaher3869]

@MontuPlays Is this possible on the PS5 Console Edition? Do I need any particular DLC's installed? 🤔 I've followed this video twice but have been unsuccessful, maybe it's just not possible for me to achieve on a PS5 yet.

[@nokkactual]

Word of Warning: You cannot be a Gestalt Consciousness or Fanatic Xenophobe and obtain Skrand. Just found out the hard way, so RIP to my Machine Mind save.

[@G-Fiti]

Would be cool if you had some kind of website for your tier lists that you update each patch. So people always can go look at what's best/worst in the current patch. Would be more feasible than making new tier list videos on everything each patch. On mayor changes you can still make new tier list videos as you do currently. :)

[@mathieucaron4990]

Hi I've been trying this build twice so far I can't seem to get gateway activation tech fully. I only get like 40% of it need to research it for 15+ years wich is way longer than your tries. Is this part of the RNG?

[@TheRealEtaoinShrdlu]

More like galactic doorstOp.

[@ValiduzZ]

Just me that think its stupid af that every single "most powerful XYZ" in stellaris always have Anglers? If something is such a must-take-op-op trait. Surely a rebalance is in order?

[@SalvLav]

Eventually it will happen, but for now it will have it's time in the sun.

[@MontuPlays]

As mentioned, you don't need to take Anglers! Any civic/ethic choice is valid here. I used that because I'm used to the setup at the moment (and I think it's good)

[@ValiduzZ]

Aye. But you don't /need/ to play ubermeta either way. But if you *want* to do the higher-optimised runs. It's always anglers it seems.@@MontuPlays

[@bryantgodin]

Is it april fools already

[@OccasusRaven]

I play this on console (playstation) and 1 game i had to surrender to AI and eventually become their bulwark vassal and i actually managed to make an vassal agreement deal to complete drain (they allowed me to ask to them to give me max amount %) my overlord basic materials, this ofc lead me to become so powerful compared to them but they still did not want me to request my intepentendy so i had to ofc just do it via War what i ofc won even they had in federation with 2 other empires but they was war in Fallen Empire and some other empires.

[@KarmaEpsilon]

Does Skrand not have a higher chance of proccing for Militarists with a Gateway? I think he did at least in previous builds of the game?

[@owliciousmuffin2906]

If one wants to play less meta civics the Dark Consortium civic can be used. The Gateway construction tech is a tier 5 tech and unlocks the dark matter breakthrough agenda. It allows unlocking dark matter components early in the game without fighting a fallen empire.

[@ericwallace1484]

This build crossed my mind when I saw the Skrand spawn condition, but I figured it would be far too unlikely to be any good. Never would have thought that there would be a random massive odds multiplier for having the origin. I'll definitely try this out sometime soon!

[@JobberV]

I've been saying this for ages, and they thought me a madman. NERF Galactic Doorstep!

[@detroitdave9512]

I literally got this exact event as a Prosperous Unification build when I unlocked gateways. Already had a titan lol.