Birch World & Machines - Purifying Speedrun! | Modded Stellaris | Gigastructures 

Imagine an inwards perfectionist build with this where you just never open the lanes and try to just defend against the crisis by defending the hyperline borders if they even ever open them as the ai

Sounds like the mods (and galactic genocide) bring you joy, may I recommend devising a community poll to determine if the audience love these modded playthroughs more than vanilla

@@melnewdemon4873 Its going to be pretty easy because the birch world is so op that you can have like tons of 1mil fleet power asteroid defense platforms before the endgame crisis even arrives

@Lathland the reason the birch world cannot build more of those districts, is that they give you more jobs per a certain number of population. meaning infinite jobs. this includes housing, enforcers, amenities and basic resources. this origin needs mandatory micro management to get the best out of it.

PLAY SECRETS OF THE THE FIRT EMPIRE, PLAY THE STELLAR BORN!!!

It does require understanding pop jobs and babying your world for a while or you can screw yourself with it. But yes, if you know what you're doing, it's amazing.

I played a machine Empire in it and energy and minerals was no problem for me

I played this when it was first out, and it was a challenging start when you can't just pump the place up with pops to start. It's the tallest way to play.

@@archapmangcmg bruh, you just have to choose the jobs that give you 1000 of everything, that's like super obvious and easy.

@@MouldMadeMind back when this origin first came out it was way harder to balance pop jobs at the start; some 3rd party (uh... fourth party I guess because it's already a mod, but I mean some other guy made a mod to the mod lol) mods were eventually incorporated into the main Gigastructures mod.

Release the Roombas with the Claymores!

Kitchen gun intensifies

haha i got “its like cleaning wit” -AD- “h explosives”

Sounds fun

Agree

Sadly you can’t. The description in red states that an AI can’t have the origin. The only way to get it would be to wipe out the (forgot how to spell it) faction that actually starts with it that can can become a mid/end game crisis

Unless thats what you mean

@@Decron-kb4zu the Aeternum start in the Galactic Core until you open the Core up.

Figured.

It's kinda thematic though that nobody would wanna venture off the Birch world, haha

how did the birch world live?

@@cewla3348 I did a terminator machine hive race

It seems like they themselves were defeated mostly by AI observation post shifting their ethics in the early game.

@@TheArklyte I tried to shift the ethics of the Katzens... and they still went full jihad mode...

@@TheArklyte I'm fairly sure shifting ethics doesn't accomplish anything (aside from making the republic xenophobic). They get that defeat event from turning off them as a midgame crisis like Lathrix did at the start.

It is iirc

I thought that too

Yeah, the bit in the description about a completely ocean world with huge waves made me think it was.

It’s my headcanon that the panthalassic world is frequented by extreme surfers

@@DragonWinter36 Which, in turn, lose years or decades of time for every moment spent on that ridiculous planet.

one day he will learn to read

@@johannesschubert7739 He's mentioned in the past he has dyslexia (or something similar). Leave him be.

Compared to fanatic purifiers they are pretty much xenophiles

Well hes got the spirit... wants to play inferior xenophiles, picks chad xenophobe, purging commences.

L system does that too. Is hilariously fun to take advantage of the instant transition for science vessels

the EHOF story is still relatively complete without the compound, probably missing enough Lore that a focused spotlight isn't worth it, but it doesn't impact actual play beyond no crisis that I can remember.

Hah. So what's the Compound? All i know is that they were like Hunters - intergalactic empire - from vanilla? And closest to them we get are Blokkats?

You can enable them manually by changing the flag associated with them in the game file

@@IExcelsior Wait...you CAN?

It's a really fun Barbaric Despoilers (or just nihilistic acquisition even though that doesn't get as many RP bonus points) run as well. Fortify the everliving hell out of the core chokepoints and make your primary objective the most diverse and at the same time gigantic population possible on your birch world.

@@foreskinfairy8975 this actually sounds like an amazing way to rp 40k dark eldar

I tried something similar but unfortunately, well, it's pretty boring honestly. There's just not enough going on.

Had a run with like 60+ mods, was all fun and games, until the Cold Gas Giant with super heated atmosphere spawned.

This is also my setup, giga + zenith and some qol stuff, like more unlockable building slots and ascension perks

@@MouldMadeMind how does that happen? doesn't seem stable to me

@@keenirr5332 just a few traits working together

​@@mathhews95 Yeah, I went with Thane's 8th Tradition + 8 Ascension Perks. Feels like a nice balance of giving a little bit more room for the added Tradition but still making choices meaningful, but also enough perk slots overall for all the extra gigastructural stuff.

You mean a crime sydicate?

Birch world goes brr

It ends up not being too great. Because budding only gives .02 pop assembly per budding pop, you need 50 pops just to get 1 pop assembly bonus. To get to the 25 assembly you see here with machines, you'd need 1250 pops.

@@araaraaura1887 500 year run here i come

@@Deide423 Think I'm gonna try a game as Rogue Servitors and use Nihilistic Acquisition to try and kidnap every pop in the galaxy, lol

@@araaraaura1887 Or Driven Assimilators, and never colonize or conquer a single planet (except temporarily before you move the last few pops you can't kidnap off of it), and just concentrate the entire galaxy onto the Birch World! I may have just found my next playthrough...

From my experience with Giga and Acot combination... Blokkats are insanely tough and i love it xD i activated the ACOT endgame crisis to beat them by just letzing those two fight each other while i was trying to get a resistance going^^"

Nope. He hasn’t the patiencez

Well, he did do the post End of the Cycle run, so, I suppose there may still be hope

Yeah I figured that out the moment I did the research! :P

Funnily enough that is literally a screenshot of the 25 world that orbits the birch world, the only editing is in the contrast, brightness and the text/linework. But by the numbers yeah It would be insanely bigger! But in-game that is exactly the right scale. :D

Endgame crisis at 25x strength would kill him if it was set up to the highest difficulty with the mod, btw. It spawns billions of fleet power.

@@FroggerbobT gigas does not actually effect the vanilla crises

Reply for the algorithm. I wonder if it matters?

Not balanced at all but so goddamned fun

I think it was a nice comment

@@matty1094 thank you, I disagree

Also the E.H.O.F tech is basically like the L gate, where using it makes adds new systems for you to colonize. Unlike the L gate, every time you use it, a new system can be generated. This thing will lead to tech and a resource that is absolutely busted AND there's a chance of getting a planet that is basically a relic world but it doesn't suffer the -6 building slot system. And it's a planet feature that adds plus 30% research production. Or you can give that up to make a weapon. Also, you can farm Ether Drakes this way. No, I am not joking, E.H.O.F can generate systems that will have an ether drake in it. And let us remember, necromancy can be used to revive them. And FINALLY, eventually, you will discover a civ that SELLS relics. Including precursor relics. Although there is a caviat that they are one use versions, but the passive still works I believe...Yeah, E.H.O.F is busted in its own way. And this thing can ALSO be used to find the OTHER center of the galaxy type. If you have the birch world, E.H.O.F can be used to get the galaxy killing weapon, and vice versa. It is...absolutely busted. Possibly more than the birch world itself.

There are so many references in the base game and mods. It's like an easter egg hunt for me spotting all of them.

Acot Zofe Nsc2 Gcse Aaaand see lath just implode

i think he had mentioned the save broke due to an update or something. might of been another playthrough he was talking about.

@@ganymedes8 damn that sucks

The Structure Operations district(you are limited to one of these) gives 100 Biotrophy jobs for Rogue Servitors.

i reply, For The Algorithm