Stellaris - Gigastructural Engineering Overview (Nicoll-Dyson Beams Ahead!)

today is the day the video that a lot of you have been waiting for is finally here we're gonna be talking about the big boys the largest structures that you can build currently within the game today we're gonna be talking about Giga structural engineering so back when utopia came out a group of modder saw that by themselves you know what these Dyson spheres and ring world's they're cool and all but we can do better we can do bigger we can do stronger and that's exactly what they did a series of increasingly large structures that are buildable in a mob that's currently still in development and more and more items are being added all the time however as of right now as on the dawn of the biggest overhaul in the game 2.2 alig when it's time to take a look at some of these structures that are currently a bit of a micromanaging nightmare when it comes some up to some of the habitable absolutely insane for some of the other ones let's dive right in we're gonna be strive we're gonna be structuring this video by following large structures void born mega structures and finally Giga structures plus a little special one at the end which has recently been added which is just absolutely delightful let's talk a little bit about large structures first and see where we get so first of all have you ever fought by yourself you know what that Mars planet that barren molten rock I would like to turn that into something a little bit more useful and you can with the dynamic core ignition system the terraforming a barren world technology allows for this and for an earth mere 30,000 minerals and energy you will find yourself a system or at least a planet that you can then try reform into something that you find useful it has three stages with the base platform and two more to basically set up the planet and there you go playing tall has never been this easy because you can effectively turn almost every single rocky planet in the game into something useful unless of course it is a toxic world which brings us to the atmospheric purifier site which has its own technology it's called fixed economics talks ik technology it's interestingly enough discuss a little bit more than the dynamic core ignition system clocking in at thirty two thousand five hundred minerals and seventy five hundred energy and of course seventy five influence in order to built this bad boy and what it does is over a three stages basically it will turn any sort of toxic world into something a little bit more useful again perfect for those empires that are playing very very tall did I mention that this mod is great for tall empires just saying moving on to some orbitals so if you feel that that habitat is not good enough and you've basically invested into that void borer and tacking you're just like well I would like to something bitter bigger enter the illuzzi Elysium advanced habitat no unity Elysium technology and avoid born a sentient perk for this and it generates a sixteen tile orbital which basically costs you fifteen thousand minerals and three hundred influence and you can basically spam these everywhere is it a better option than the dynamic core ignition system arguable arguable you can probably get a little bit earlier but still having these all spammed around is quite nice and they are a nice reference to the movie Elysium even though they look exactly like halos in their size because Elysium was not really all that large then we have the massive zoo the massive zoo is actually kind of good if you want to do all that terraforming that we talked about earlier because it improves terraforming time all you gotta do is spend three thirty thousand minerals as well as 75 influencing you will get yourself the zoo station it generates a seventy five society as well as a improvement to terraforming speed which is rather good or at least cost my apologies and that is of course a thing as well yeah 25% increase in terraforming speed which is rather useful especially if you want to get world's everywhere then there is the Military Academy not a Military Academy is a little bit special because you will need the lactic force projection in order to max this bad boy out because it has not just one not just to not just three but four tiers of setup and you also need to be a little bit more militaristic than usual usual to get an easier chance of getting a good tech at 42,500 minerals as well as a 100 influence this bad boy clocks in and gives you a rather large amount of additional fleet power which is rather nice also McJob is a little bit better then there is the engineering mega base engineering mega base as it already implies generates engineering for only 30,000 minerals and 75 influence this bad boy is yours there we go a little bit bigger introducing the stellar particle accelerator at the small slightly smaller brother of the Ringworld basically what it means is is that you build a ring around a star which is a particle accelerator just so you can smash atoms into each other at a slightly higher speed than usual think about the hearts Large Hadron Collider except then with a diameter of about 1 au and several million kilometers in length always nice that bad boy will clock in at a magnificent 30,000 minerals I think we're seeing a theme here and it improves technology speed as well as generating 75 physics at a cost of what the 30,000 mineral st. is for 75 influence so overall we're already looking at a bunch of rather interesting buildings but we can go bigger we can go larger but before we get there we're going to need to strip down some planets remember those barren planets from before sometimes you don't really have any use for them so what do we do well Louise put up a strip mine for 32,500 minerals five thousand energy and 150 of that a glorious influence you can build a planetary strip-mined that will generate up to 200 minerals and various strategic resources for your empire every single month it's not Dyson Sphere good but it's quite nice especially if you're starting to gear up for the mid-game before we get to the mid game we need to talk about the not the last habitat there is one that's a little bit bigger but that's later in the video however we're gonna be talking about the inter stellar habitat a crazy amount of 80,000 minerals 5,000 energy and a hundred and 50 influence basically means that you can build yourself a interstellar habitat which is a building in the middle of space which is effectively a ringed world that you can put more people on you'll need to survey the system but it's kind of nice because well it gives you yet another place to build your Empire's capital let's move on to some of the more interesting stuff let's talk about the mega structure so at least from my perspective would be 2 mega structures let's leave the planetary and kind of stellar stuff behind us and let's move on towards the eco Dressel orchid complex have you ever thought found yourself in a situation where you're thought by yourself you know what I could use more food how does 300 food purse per month yeah suits your needs I would guess so that's in addition you'll get 250 society research and 150 physics at a mere cost of 50000 minerals 500 energy and 75 influence and also you need to seed a gas giant because that's what this complex is build around with 1,000 units of food because you're gonna be using the entire upper atmosphere as a gigantic Jovian farm oh boy speaking of gas giants let's talk about the gas giant igniter you know those in space there's these things called brown dwarves they are very large about a couple sizes the size of you but to Pater's but they're not big enough to get their fusion cores running into an actual star let's change that shall we let's pump about 60,000 minerals into this thing with about 30,000 energy as well 475 influence and we can generate ourselves a new star blow life into a system and maybe even any sort of orbital bodies of that former a brown dwarf will turn into planets that may be useful it's just maybe something that you're looking for maybe could be interesting but why not why not just do it for the hell of it let's talk a little bit then about star lifters star lifters are out of cool because well at some point you're strip mines are gonna run out of resources and 200 minerals a month per strip mine is not really gonna rocket how about a thousand minerals a month that sounds nice for two hundred and sixty thousand minerals as well as three hundred influence you can be the proud owner of a stellar lifter device that will slowly strip down a star generating up to one thousand minerals when it's completed and of course any interim stages you will be able to get minerals as well it has one two three four five six different stages of development and they generally cost about 550 thousand minerals per stage except the first one which only costs 10,000 so that's not too bad is it you're like black holes black holes are cool right how about an artificial black hole called a kugelblitz a cool blitz storage facility is going to increase your energy and mineral storage too well by about 15,000 extra which is something you're going to need to get all these minerals to build the structures that are going to be following this and for a mere 30 2,500 minerals as well as 5,000 energy and 50 influence you can be basically the owner of one of these structures and build it to your content you're gonna need a couple of these in order to get some of the a Giga structure as a resource as a rolling that are acute up for later on sometimes you're thinking about yourself you know what that star over there that's pretty cool and all but what if we crunch it down what do we turn it into something smaller a basically a stellar crusher now a stellar crusher is a rather interesting device that basically takes every single star that it's build around and turns and into a smaller item which is rather cool because it does produce a ridiculous amount of research with six different stages all the way from a standard star crushing it down into a smaller star neutron star and all the way to a black hole and then you can even choose to blow it up fusion destruction - disrupting technology is also necessary for this but it will generate 750 physics research as well as 500 energy maintenance cost is 300 Doh so that's something you need to watch out for for only a hundred thousand minerals and 75 57,000 energy you can also have a stellar crusher those were the mega structures let's move on to the king of space let's become a cartouche of size three Empire introducing the matroyshka brain the matroyshka brain is a virtual habitat basically what it does is it generates a location for your population over 700 pups can live in this thing and let's put it this way at two hundred and thirty thirty five thousand minerals and ten thousand energy as well as three hundred influence you can also generate 1500 signs of every single type a month and you also get a bunch of special resources for it that basically mean that your command limit increases but also your ship tower building time and your robot resource production goes up by 25% oh boy that matroyshka brain is amazing the virtual reality complex is a thing now we're gonna go off the road here a little bit and talk about the shroud if you want to build the following building you will need to have access to the shroud as well as the transcendence ascension perk you will need to be able to use mind a bullets so the psychic hyper siphon clocking at a ninety thousand an at minerals and twenty thousand energy and one hundred and fifty influence generates five hundred society and physics research as well as two thousand energy which is far more than a Dyson Sphere does and yeah that's rather useful especially considering how expensive a Dyson Sphere is with all of its solar panels rather cool if I like to say so myself but just be aware that something else may be inside of the shroud that you may want to you know watch out for the Penrose sphere so a Penrose sphere imagine you build a Dyson esque item around a black hole but the inside is made of a reflective material and the particles inside the black hole will start to balance between every single item almost instance iStent li it will go faster and faster generating more and more energy if you don't remove the energy what will happen well you can build yourself a black hole bomb is what you can do basically blow up almost everything within in a range of several systems but this bad boy does come in at a cost of thirty two thousand five hundred minerals it's not too bad but the cost of energy twenty five thousand is a little bit prohibitive a two hundred and fifty influence are you ever gonna really build a black hole bomb that's a bit of a redundant question but you could also turn it into a Penrose sphere generator which basically is a huge version of the kugelblitz that we talked about earlier and basically it increases your mineral by fifteen K and also it generates 150 additional energy plus it increases your unity by 25% for some reason and on top of that all your research will increase by 25% in terms of speed bomb generator you make the pick moving on to the neutronium Giga forge there's that school name so what are you gonna need well you're going to need to find yourself a neutron star a neutron star that is sitting by and you don't ever leave really have a lot of use for it let's build a natrone ium Giga Forge at a cost of about well let's make a quick assessment here of the costs well let's take a look sixty thousand minerals will give you five hundred minerals particular from earlier it will give you two hundred fifty engineering two units of neutronium that you can trade with whomever and on top of that they will get a new item a new strategic resource called treated neutronium which gives your ships plus sixty percent armor that is huge that is positively insane I kind of like this one especially considering it only cost fifty influence to build which is oh no that's the black hole generator I want the neutronium Forge obviously said in the TRO neom Giga for it's got seventy five influence a month to build which is not bad at all then we get to the so aptly named Hawking radiation and accretion emission macro collector but are known as the HR EA e - MC so what does this thing do well it builds a giant structure once again around a black hole and it costs two hundred thousand minerals but it does generate seventeen hundred and fifty energy five hundred physics two units of dark matter and on top of that it reduces consumer goods costs by thirty five percent but a cost of about a hundred and fifty we influence pretty damn doable but still of course that in consumer goods thing is gonna obviously go to way the dodo with League win so we'll see how that one is going to pan out now finally let's talk about the thing that you really came for let me call Dyson beam the bacon daddy of space the thing that basically means the giant middle finger that it is to any other empire are you ready to spend three hundred and fifty thousand minerals and five hundred influence because that's how much it costs but what do you get in return the ability to destroy a planet which is of course nothing comparatively Ward's the power of the force but how about you blow up an entire system all you got to do with the planetary one now ever it's just uh you know put a marker around the planet press the button and you can decide whether or not you just want to fry it destroy it or you know casually take a little bit know uh the more intense the attack the longer to cool down but still and you are under the well assumption that the system that you have seen and think well that can go all you got to do is is uh control the system build a wormhole generator inside set system and blow up of the planet as well as the other planets as well as the main star in that system now what does it do well it basically clears out the entire system no objects will be there you can still travel to it but there is nothing to be seen not even rubble finally yes I did say finally before but we're gonna go and add one more introducing the war moon so ever had an idea of you know militarizing one of your moons looked out the window and saw Luna and was like you know what make that would make that better giant thrusters and a huge cannon that is basically a giant middle finger to who whatever it finds well introducing the war moon for a hundred influence in seventy thousand minerals you too can be the proud or or owner of the ISS barren attacked moon that does well sixty five thousand damage per shot every thirty days when its own mega annihilation Lance oh by the way it's got FTL drive so you can just move it wherever it's not a defensive platform like the ion cannon it is literally something you can fly around and blow up whatever you want average damage per day four thousand one hundred and fifty seven point five one oh by the way it's got more armor than basically anything in the game so is that now Giga structural engineering is not finished the developers are still actively building new stuff and adding new things remember that thing that I said about the attack moon there are some rumors that attack planets are going to be a thing oh boy even larger habitats even more amazing things to be built the science Nexus Nexus it's nothing the app an optic um gimme a Hawking radiation accretion emission macro collector instead please now obviously all these buildings in structure they do cost a certain amount of up geek so please keep an eye on that but in addition you can also lower the cost of a lot of these by just getting master builders which well it doesn't really crease the cost but it does increase the build speed which is rather nice speaking of which a lot of them basically all the ones that I've mentioned right now is you can build them in parallel so any sort of bigger structural engineering items in the game you can build as many as you want as many in at the same time unlike the bog-standard mega structures that can only build one by one for some reason but yeah you can totally build an atonium Giga force in a nichael Dyson a beam at the same time without any issues of course if you have the minerals and energy for it thank you so much for watching and of course a big thanks to the deaf team behind Giga structural engineering you guys are awesome I'm really looking forward to of what you our guys are going to be bringing in the very near future or hopefully but also yeah we're gonna go and wrap it up here the link to the mod is as always in the description below where you can basically go completely Han and build Giga Omega and normal structures in space wherever you want and blow up the enemy while rolling in insane amounts of resources thank you so much for watching until next time take good care of yourselves and there's a waise eat shudder

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Length: 22min 10sec (1330 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 13 2018