Stones Eat Dead People!! | Lithoid Necrophage | FULL Run, 1 of 2 - MAX DIFFICULTY!

Because sometimes rocks just get a hankerin' for some good ol' Xeno flesh. It's a tale as old as time!
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Right now I don't have as much time as I would like to sit down and record, so sorry about video delays! Lots of real life stuff I'm sadly having to work through right now but I am trying my hardest to get some recording done and plan on getting back on schedule pretty soon! So expect FtD, Terratech & Stellaris to be back on track and normally uploaded somewhat soon along with a few random other games I want to start covering!! Thanks all for your patience! :D
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[@Lathland]

Because sometimes rocks just get a hankerin' for some good ol' Xeno flesh. It's a tale as old as time! Fan Run Lathrxian Discord - discord.com/invite/cUWSMdW Right now I don't have as much time as I would like to sit down and record, so sorry about video delays! Lots of real life stuff I'm sadly having to work through right now but I am trying my hardest to get some recording done and plan on getting back on schedule pretty soon! So expect FtD, Terratech & Stellaris to be back on track and normally uploaded somewhat soon along with a few random other games I want to start covering!! Thanks all for your patience! :D

[@brarrab4876]

Bet

[@godkiller98rc24]

i love watching your game play its very good and i love the long vids thxs lathrix

[@sigmarhimself226]

we love u!

[@oliverroberts3382]

It be ok, if u do not have time for youtube it fine. Any way u do not do quantity u do quality😃✔

[@oliverroberts3382]

Blood for the blood god

[@pandanomicon7789]

Bringers of stone sounds like a drug seller name

[@J0krswy1d]

They've got all the good stuff.. exotic gases, rare crystals and volatile motes! ;-)

[@J0krswy1d]

@Bookoo don't know about that stuff.. but give some of this Dark Matter a try!

[@WindrunnerB4]

@Bookoo zro is actually a drug.

[@combatarcher3101]

We birng the water pot and heater the stoners boil their rock in our special water..... wtf did i just type out

[@lyly_lei_lei]

He’s bringing the white crystals, the stones.

[@bergat0llet119]

Zombi-Rock-Spiders dat crawls into the ear and eat the brain... What the hell! NO Lathrix Nooo

[@avder42]

Actually that's the backstory for my own current necrophage playthrough. For the backstory I'm doing an earth-gone-wrong scenario where a slug that was present for the Trinity test during the Manhattan Project was granted strange abilities and so crawled into the scientists ear and ate their brain, taking over the body. This is actually the first time I've played the game using the Sol system as my starting point. Additionally, I got the Horizon Signal, so now it's a crapload of tomb worlds, and I just turned Venus into an Ecumenopolis. I went with the "Manhattan Hierarchy" for the name. Enjoy your slug based nightmare tonight. You're welcome.

[@De4thHunter117]

@@avder42 i hate you

[@TheArklyte]

@@avder42 so... you've just made illitid?

[@avder42]

@@TheArklyte I don't know what that is. If it has anything go do with looks, I just went with the necroid portrait that looks like a corpse stuffed into a space suit. I kicked the galaxies ass but when the Contingency showed up in 2377 I realized I made a fatal error... I'd left crisis strength at 1x instead of upping it to 10 like I usually do.

[@avder42]

@@TheArklyte Alright just looked it up and no, I did not do that. In my back story the worm crawls in the ear, eats the brain and takes its place while retaining all knowledge the brain had, while the body becomes a literally walking corpse that is then placed in an exoskeleton. Also I went biological ascension, from what I read psionic would be needed to reach mindflayer level stuff.

[@Ramschat]

You have a half-breed named half-greed. This makes me smile.

[@NumbingDisasterAnon]

"For as long as there have been civilizations, there was stone. The first friend of all civilized intelligences, the first and most important foundation of all things important and necessary. Pity, that the sapients never see that the very stones they rely on can betray them. Time, even when crystalized like the crystal dew of the dark metal webs of our home, always go forward. As time goes on, stone withers and erodes...as time goes on, the dust of withered stone turn into new stone. As time goes on, the new stone stirs...and as new stone stirs, so too, does time stir. But stone, old or new, never hates...only understands, and pities. All come from the dust of their world, and to dust all return. And from dust come new stone...forevermore."

[@notoriousgoblin83]

yes

[@Jukantos]

That does sound like a damn nice oath of allegiance to the stonefolk of greed :>

[@blademaster2390]

Jukantos I, for one, welcome our new stone overlords

[@drumrollplease4079]

Really nice

[@SephirothRyu]

I prefer "Your organs will be spiders!"

[@arirahikkala]

33:36 This is actually a feature that gets turned on with researching Glandular Acclimation. Before you have that tech, you just get your necrophage species' normal habitability, after it, each ascended pop has a habitability preference for the world they were ascended in.

[@vdKingpin]

FYI, dont synthetically ascend. It breaks the necrophage mechanic.

[@notaprinny]

Out of curiosity, how specifically? Because I can think of a few ways it *could* break it.

[@notaprinny]

@Internet Entity that would do it. Yikes.

[@vdKingpin]

@@notaprinny I see others answered and I dont know if the buildings become completely unusable but just thinking about it, you would no longer have a necrophage species after becoming synthetic, you lose the trait if I recall. And you no longer have the feeder species as they are synthetic as well. Even if you managed to get some pops through migration or some trick, the growth would be so slow at that point that after ten years all pops would go to your necrophage species, which would then assimilate. And I doubt that would be worth it. But it would be cool if only the main species assimilated and you kept all of the lesser races. Like it disabled building your main species from assembly plants and those kept only building robots. It would be unique and possibly a way t play synthetic that wasnt as op.

[@kermiekruiser40]

Me building mega fleets: *energy disappears* Lathland building mega fleets: *energy intensifies* No but seriously how does he get so much energy while having these giant super fleets!!!

[@dragonlord1935]

Most people tend to play the game in a bunch of phases. Phase 1, grab territory. Phase 2, Make an economy. Phase 3, make a fleet and go to war. That sort of approach is good but it's not ideal. It's much better if you manage everything side by side, so you're grabbing territory, building economy and fleet at the same time which means you can essentially play it by ear and build resources which you're lacking long before you're actually lacking them.

[@SaltyRocksPew]

could always build a dyson sphere and just let it power your fleets!

[@fare-5174]

He actually does not have many fleets, they are just upgraded out of the wazoo and that gives them more fleet power than they deserve. There's no way you could do anything with 1330 naval capacity in 2360 otherwise. But honestly, I'm amazed myself how with something like 15 alloys/month he can build 20k fleets in early game. Buying them from the market will drive the price bonkers.

[@Doctor-mv7yl]

Definitely the best choice of empire for the run. Also, youtube got comment counts wrong again. It says there are 3, but there are actually none. Algorithm, there is your +1 boost to the video!

[@angusnorth8578]

Gotta keep these 1 hour play through going, love ya lathrix

[@The_2nd_Traveler]

Rock spiders crawling up into noses and eyeballs ... It makes my skin c r a w l

[@malachiingram4427]

imagine your species being a play on words of a tombstone.

[@rogerreger9631]

One empire trait that I have found to go great with necrophage is being a barbaric despoiler. build up your empires pops by raiding so that you grow and everyone else is in a constant state stagnation.

[@wazzup7338]

Lathland: You silly people! Empire that was friendly: Alright now that hurt >:(

[@dajosh42069]

YAS!! Actually got real excited when I saw this in my subs feed. Your Stellaris vids are excellent, and always make my day. :)

[@Snoogen11]

Lathland = uses x1 primitives and gets several within the first 50 years. Me = Has it set to x3, finds 5 primitives in a 1000 star galaxy. Be cause... of course...

[@daniele8278]

The way Lath says 'click' 16:20, I'm imagining doing that and spawning potatoes. Gods but quarantine does weird things to the brain.

[@Closer2Zero]

An easy way to set things up with Nerve-Stapled Jeffs is to have Spiders as Leaders, Jeffs NerveStapled as Workers, and then DroidBots as Specialists. You can specialize each type and keep everything orderly and double-dip on growth with Jeffs and building Droids

[@williamerickson8935]

Really love these long format videos! Keep 'em coming

[@trollpatsch.]

It's always awesome to watch these videos! So many nice ways to play I didn't think were really possible and proven wrong each time... With necrophage I wasn't even able to get a satisfying build going for me, but the xenophobe ethic really makes so much sense

[@BirchMonkey857]

M. Night Shyamalan upon seeing the title: Write that down, WRITE THAT DOWN!

[@benjamminraps1030]

I love that you're doing these big playthroughs, it must take you ages and a lot of dedication to have learned the game to the extent you have. Here, have a comment and a like on your video to show that I would like to see more of these Stellaris videos from you, Lathrix.

[@Omega5729]

I fall asleep listening to your stellaris content. It's so chill while still being interesting enough to keep me listening. Thanks man!!!

[@skyemorningstar166]

More of the quality lathrix content I know and love! It's a good day.

[@Icebadger]

Lath, I love your videos, I love watching them while I play Stellaris! Thanks for making them!

[@marcosmauricio7805]

Just noticed that the name of the event where you choose your first Colossus type has the same name as the first stage of Halo CE mission Two Betrayals =o gotta love this game

[@owenedmonds736]

Love your videos Lathland! Keep up the great work, and stay safe.

[@Lubetube111]

The jeff's dug too greedily and too deep.

[@SephirothRyu]

The Honeydew race.

[@FrozenFingers]

I don't even play Stellaris anymore but I enjoy your videos about it a lot.

[@davidmartin5483]

To be honest I didn't thought this would be so engaging till I was nearly at the end of the video and saw on the timer that this video was 1 hour long. This truly surprised me and I enjoyed it.

[@Santisima_Trinidad]

Floofy rocks. Awesome. And the eat your brains to convert you into themselves. Even better. And even better again, it's a lathrix full playthrough video, the best kind of video. I will watch all the ads all the way through, just in case it helps someone somewhere.

[@Devire666]

I love watching your Stellaris videos so much. And I really enjoyed this one. Thanks!

[@bengardner9104]

I'm churning through these videos.... i have no idea if they increase or decrease my productivity! ...... well its like listening to a background conversation at work.

[@anexplosion5436]

From the lore at 3:02 WHO DUG UP THE "Cotten Candy"?! Was it you Urist McGetstherefrence?

[@mortache]

Lets clear one thing up btw. The specialist slave Necrophages from Slaver Guilds do get the +5% specialist boost, but do not get any "slave" specific boost like +10% from the civic or from an Iron Fist governor

[@skeletalobserver406]

Your stellaris vids are the reason i subscribe to your channel. I always look forward to more of them.

[@sqocks8254]

Yeah the raiding bombardment not taking undesirables is a feature and intentional if I recall correctly. I guess it would be a nice adjustment to make the necroid transformation purge type an exception.

[@erwinzyx]

Random events in Stellaris must follow some sort of cycle. I have been getting the Grey Tempest on every play through for the past month. I have also been getting very aggressive Marauders and Fallen Empires. Yet in previous months, the Marauders and Fallen Empires have been relatively placid - unless provoked.

[@SephirothRyu]

Your organs will be spiders!

[@Stormbreaker189]

I've got a suggestion for another run. It could work in a full playthrough or episodic style. So basically you take your planet protectors idea from a while ago and create the antithesis. The empire would be void dwellers and they think the planets are demons or something like that (lore can be just about anything). They would only live in habitats, ring worlds, tomb worlds, or worlds that will undergo the arcology project very soon after colonization. Again all of those are just base ideas that can be heavily changed to fit the lore you create. The only other thing I would add is the main goal of the empire is to crack all gaia worlds with the colossus. They utterly despise those worlds. Im open to all criticism, but I think this idea has a lot of potential.

[@jessehendriks2877]

I really hope Lathland does some more Gigastructures, but I think you would also definitely like Zenith of the Fallen Empires. Just becoming an awakened empire, if you manage to survive that long :P

[@Jukantos]

DAMNIT ALGORITHM, why did it take two whole days for me to find this video??!! I've been waiting for this!

[@cleverername]

Thanks for that nightmare back story. I hate it. Won’t sleep now.

[@josephoconnor7148]

Lathrix - “I will send some Greeds to rule over them.” Here I thought Greed was ALWAYS in charge!

[@crazydaddy4934]

Hi Algorithm. Love you. Hi Lathrix. Love you more. Hi Patreon. Where are you?

[@alexandermich2871]

Thank you for all the work that you do for us

[@omniragnjc7917]

Loving the playthrough buddy

[@gabrielrouleau6080]

really entertaining video. keep up the good work !

[@pancake5926]

Just got notified! First time I used notifications

[@avmang2222]

You can now steal the last pops of a world. Doing it in an MP game is fun.

[@joeiznang]

I love what you do! Thank you for being you

[@iSqueam]

I love long play video formats. There’s enough short content.

[@Notsoshady4891]

I'm always happy to see these videos.

[@MrRoscario]

You did not show of all the traits of the Lithoid Species :O pls tell us oh great one

[@sandorgrau-fay7488]

I bestow the greatest honor to my favorite creator for the great sorting by the evil Algorithm!

[@zetarhythm3503]

KZbin's not showing me any video for some reason, which sucks. But I came here anyway to say that the title reads like a Reddit post from some kinda crazy person, and I love it.

[@DJqwerty69]

really love your video style. keep at it.

[@yurialexandre2037]

The next empire should be named Riders on the Storm, just to somewhat combine with Bringers of Stone xD

[@nickolasrealmjumper5172]

now I'm just imagining that when a leader is chosen they get to gorge out on a pre selected group of the secondary species so they can grow to a more tyrannical size and it doesn't look like the secondary species has a tiny pebble crab as a leader.

[@paulharris4524]

loves your stellaris series bud

[@igornikolic82]

glad to see that you keep pushing stallaris :)

[@kingclimby772]

Comments for the algorithm god, likes for the youtube throne, milk for the khornflakes.

[@riccardobasile2779]

Comment to boost this biologist's channel by spreading the video to the galaxy

[@minions5798]

Yay long playthrough video! :D

[@Lazarus100025]

"then we'll go to war withthe consumer goods" i love lathrix!

[@austinkehoe6624]

love you lathland keep em comin

[@caphalor7252]

Your vids are a great inspiration for my own playthroughs

[@SaltyRocksPew]

lmao you named the subjegated species failures that's so funny. "Let's send over a failure!" just tickles me

[@MarcBentEnt]

Love the videos, love the content! Keep up the great work.

[@bornstellar9429]

Should have named them Mar-gite from first contact!

[@leons.5643]

Amazing job Lathrix

[@UnusualDeathCause]

I have actually no idea how do you manage to not die IRL while having so many planets to manage xD My head starts prinning once im past 20 worlds.

[@meeperdudeify]

Pausing is key

[@UnusualDeathCause]

@@meeperdudeify Well yah, but what I meant was thatvit feels like a job. You are no longer playing the game, just solvong problems it constantly throws at you

[@meeperdudeify]

@@UnusualDeathCause some people enjoy that

[@AmonadaLP]

Yes! Finally some good stuff to watch for today!

[@archapmangcmg]

Well, watched this twice. Now back to watching the Impossible Run!

[@tomisabum]

Oh yeah, Aspec broke down this combo pretty well, but you amped it up with the civic choices, to say nothing of the purges. Dat stability and mineral income. I hope you take a shot at a Corporate Death Cult, it's just too darkly hilarious, and lotta options to synch with other corp civics really well. Good excuse to try a origin you haven't before, if you haven't tried Shoulders or Gateway just for fun, even if Remnant or Post-Apoc does scream Death Cult more though you're QUITE familiar with those two.

[@jiggermole]

Your playthroughs sound like they're narrated by a psychopath. Highly entertaining

[@nonchip]

20:30 "steering clear of belligerents" wait did your science vessel get attacked and you completely ignored it? those heathen xenos need to feel the spidery wrath! :'D

[@aGrimTurtle]

Rock spiders was a phrase I never needed to hear

[@sabrinastark4886]

I love the long format videos so (insert engagement here)

[@grizlito97]

Barbaric despolers are awesome with the necrophage

[@thijs3666]

finally have the time to watch this video, already love it!

[@emersonrp272]

the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

[@hughiebenham1746]

I know this took you forever, but I love it.

[@alienbattle5654]

great video magic wizard

[@varthalgamekiin4931]

More please. :) I like these.

[@draxionow3271]

Lathland has a Fiance? Congrats!

[@LowbrowDeluxe]

Oh so looking forward to this. This gonna be gud.

[@grimloncz3853]

You know, maybe the colony ship make-new-pops-from-thin-air trick has a lore reason. Like landing on a new planet makes you REALLY want to...breed. Either way, do they make memorials out of rock? If so, is it rock gathered from the remains of their fallen brethren?

[@directrulefromgamerchair3947]

Over 2k likes and only four dislikes. This shows you make great content bruv

[@luketdmjetstar6966]

Has anyone notice that he still needs the humanoids species dlc

[@DavidWesterink]

The automatic pop migration mod would help you out so so much....

[@silverbird425]

Greed says - Size 20 Gaia world! nomonom

[@davidthomas2870]

This empire sounds so evil! I love it!

[@Sccaldwe]

I would like to see a super tall build at this difficulty

[@RVGmetallicasaw]

Eh, I’m probably gonna go Necrophage Plantoid. Because Budding. So I can eventually get around the slow breeding times on necrophage pops. Granted, Lithophage is a fantastic combo. I wonder how Aquaphage might work…

[@ishanparasher7779]

“Greed is eternal” ~ all Ferengi everywhere

[@Smillingdragon1]

i love your stuff man

[@dylanlafountain7773]

Normally setting the necrophyte jobs to one on every planet balances pop economy well.

[@approximateCognition]

Soooo, stone spiders forcefully converting everyone to their species? Horrifying and awesome!

[@Apollysis]

Commenting for the algorithm. Keep up the good work.