Stellaris Planet Type Tier List 

I disagree that motes are the most important rare resource. You only need a few motes to upgrade your few forge worlds. Where as gas, which is needed for each and every upgraded science building is far more “in demand”. A late game empire might be using 20 or so motes total, while using literally hundreds of gas across all their relic / science focus worlds.

No, don't warn them to not colonize Holy Worlds. Everyone should have the pleasure of experiencing that at least once.

I absolutely love Hive Worlds for the lore, the entire world being a part of the collective just seems so cool to me.

Wet world for 99% of species : meh Wet world for aquatic anglers : stonks

Montu: Gaia World - don't colonize it if it's a holy world. You've been warned! Zarqlan: Ummm... Actually...

A minor correction: normal pops don't just have 0% habitability on machine worlds, they can't inhabit them at all. You can't resettle them onto that world, you can't colonize it with organic pops, and I'm pretty sure they can't auto-resettle into it either

Step 1: Find the Omnicodex Step 2: Colonise all the tomb worlds around you Step 3: ???? Step 4: Profit from the tomb world habitability on the new pops

It makes me sad because aesthetically I like Wet worlds the most out of the base worlds.

Okay 8 seconds in, Titan AE reference? I love that movie and need to watch it again. Edit: when wet worlds were in C tier I called the s tier being the ecu, hive, and machine. Thought Montu would put dry worlds in A though.

Despite hive worlds being alive,and the tooltip literally mentioning they attack anything that touches the surface,invading armies have no problem just... Shooting the ground??

Instructions unclear! Turned all my worlds into ecumenopolises and now I’m making negative in all recourses

"The galaxy is a wide and wonderful place" LIKE MY EMPIRE!

"If you're going for food you're doing something wacky and crazy!" Am I the only one who likes to make specialized agi-worlds? Just having one or two early-game can feed my entire population while the rest of my planets are devoted to energy and mineral production.

6:50 Funny. I regard Motes as the least desirable of the 3, with Gases being most desirable. Sure, I need a few Motes, but Crystals and Gases are more important. Also, picking a Cold/Frozen home planet type makes a bunch of sense for Lithoids.

For the size 14 or below planets, I work towards converting them all to ecumenopoli. I fill them with the housing\clerk districts, and then maybe one of each of the others. This unlocks all building slots, and I usually throw research and strategic resource creation on these to fill them out. This way, I feel like I have enough reasons to settle these small planets and squeeze more use out of them. The changes to unity feel like I have more influence to work with, and it becomes trivial to create them when midgame hits.

IMO the wet/Ocean planet needs to go a few tiers higher when you're going the Aquatic trait + Hydrocentric perk route.

I’ve got an idea for the next tier list Galactic Community Resolution Tier List Edit: if that is a little too long you could do the resolution chains instead example:industrial commerce or the one that gives worker happiness

😆 I legit laughed at the intro calling the planet "Bob". I usually never laugh at intros

I have loved your tier list videos. They're clear, to the point, and entertaining. I'd love to see a pop job tier list personally

I'd put habitats up in the s tier for one reason. If built over a dark matter, zro, nanite, or living metal deposit, the colony itself prodices that resource, *regardless* of whether you have the tech to harvest that resource

Ringworlds were supposed to be the great final habitable world that you could make. So sad to see where they went. Regardless of how op they may have been in mp they are basically just not that good in sp anymore because of the nerfs.

I find one merit to wet worlds, but specifically because of how I play. I do Void Dwellers origin with Non-adaptive. Habitats do not have colony specialization for food production, so I get a migration treaty and colonize a wet world with a species that has habitability and make that an agricultural world.

I personally think wet worlds should go up one tier because of the absolutely busted aquatic trait but I see why they’d be c tier without it.

I had no idea there was a difference between the 9 base planet types. I thought it was just flavor.

If a fanatic empire bombs an ecumenopolis using armageddon stance, does it turn into a relic?

Great video Montu. Very informative. Time to start turning all my worlds into Hive Worlds

Am i crazy for thinking ocean worlds should move up to b tier over the other wet worlds. Having a specific trait that allows for significantly increased habitability on them and decreased housing and increased production makes them way better that the other wet worlds imo.

I like to use at least one tomb world as a penal colony for roleplay purposes. I can't imagine prisoners trying to escape into an irradiated hell scape without getting into all kinds of trouble. I also have a preference for wet worlds to start on, sure it's not as good for resources, but I like the idea of living on a green jewel teeming with life.

I like wet worlds for not only the aesthetics, but them having the most interesting rare events / planetary features, such as Sea of Consciousness.

Its the Reason why I take the Relic World Start. Its so Powerful to get the Forgeworld early and just have this Giant Buffed Specialist World for Research, Alloys and Consumer Goods. ^^

Montu: Volatile Motes are more important than Exotic Gases ot Rare Crystals" Me: Laughs in around 800 Exotic Gases 500 Rare Crystals and 400 Volatile Motes upkeep in the lategame.

You forgot the worst planet type: broken worlds

I always go for ecumenopolis in mid-game, even if you're negative on minerals you can sell them on the galactic market for huge amounts of energy. They are the perfect prelude to a first megastructure. Matter decompressor + ecumenopolis = infinite alloys. You can have tech worlds that also have enough housing for alloys.

Love the titan a e segment. For years i thought i was the only one to see it.

Tomb worlds are great man, all that lovely radiation and no nasty atmosphere to get in between me and the worm's love GRAVITY IS DESIRE

Voletile motes are amazing.... But you really don't ever need masses of them, so I would rate them the worst, as gasses and crystals you usually need tons of.

Glad you opened with a cut from Titan AE, a weird sci-fi animated not-quite-kids movie I saw once in 2002 that is seared into my mind.

i love listening to montus voice its rly calming somehow skdhfkjdfh i also love your content so much montu!! thanks to you im not a noob in stellaris anymore, thanks man!

I did not realize they kept/changed back to the 3 world types having different amounts of resources.

Awesome into! I loved Titan AE as a child!

Servitor Ecu is the most insane alloy production world possible. A minor draw back for hive, machine and ecus would be the loss of their raw resource nodes, but normal production buildings can replace them easily.

YES I LOVE THE TITAN AE INTRO! SO UNDENIABLY BASED

Titan AE reference? dude need a RP play as this right here

colonizing tomb worlds is fun for roleplay purposes; turning it in a penal colony turns it into the worst possible prison in the galaxy

All hail the promise land "Bob"!

Hello there Montu! I have a question about the habitats. What are the requirements for the "geological servey" desicion? I played as a void dweller a couple of times and in the beginning there is no such desision, but later that decision appears. IDK what are prerequisits to issue such decision. does't that desision make habitats even better in the tier list? i mean i get it, 'A' is the highest it can go. there is no way habitats can compete with Ecumonopolises. but still mb place in the 'A' tier would ve been higher.

And they called me a mad man for turning all of my worlds into ecumenopolis

I love tomb worlds. They can have lots of mines and all I gotta do is freshen the world up a bit with some terraforming equipment, clean up the old rusted buildings with Mr. Clean, then have Mr. Clean advertisements everywhere on that world

To be honest, I play Stellaris since the Distant Stars dlc came out and i never knew that the basic three planet types have different chances for different deposits

Was not ready for that killer into haha

Ah, loved the Titan A.E. ref. Loved that movie in my childhood, lots of nostalgia

Ocean worlds are pretty good if you choose the Ocean Paradise origin and get the Hydrocentric Acention perk. Terraforming all the worlds you find into ocean worlds is very quick and cheap

I'm very nearly done in my determined exterminator campaign, and my main rival empire converted nearly all of their planets into ecumenopolis. I now am a nation that owns 18 of them, and since the only thing machines can build on them is foundry arcologies my alloy production is absurdly high.

Love the use of titan ae here montu

Small question. Is there a difference between planets of the same type? I believe that Alpine have more energy districts than other cold planets.

I love my ocean worlds and thanks too the combination of Angler and Catalytic processing I don’t need energy districts as my trade covers that and I don’t need mineral districts as my trade covers that as well with a minor supplement from the angler job. Unity goes through the roof from my trade as well. Practically owned half the galaxy in the first 50 to 100 years, never got that powerful so quickly before. Was fun

Awesome video! You should try to make one about planet diversity mod tier list. Would help a lot!

How cute a 16+ min vid on Planets. Is Montu up for the Pepsi challenge of doing Planetary Diversity in all it's glory😁?

Thank you for referencing Bob, my human hivemind inhabiting a shattered ringworld, Bob's Place, around Bob's Sun. As for the shattered ring: get a bunch of scientists (best with anomaly discovery bonus), survey a bunch of systems, build lots of bases. I never lacked minerals, it was always alloys that put a cap on me.

Would love to see you do a video on how to RP as a Borg, or Star Fleet, or the Galactic Republic etc.

Titan AE was such a hidden gem of a movie. Whenever I bring it up no one has ever heard of the movie.

I’d like to update your description of the ecumenopolis. Almost no gestalt conscious, including machines (barring rogue servitor or a civilization having the agrarian idyll) can’t build one. I found this out the hard way recently. I just completed the rubicator chain event and got a relic world, only to find out my exterminator robot empire couldn’t build an ecumenopolis. Also, the remnants origin gives you a relic world to start the game and gives you five blockers that give a random tech tree item to near completion. You can transform your relic world capital to a ecumenopolis, but I have heard that it is not ideal to do that as the bonus from a remnants relic world are not as good as a naturally spawned galaxy relic world.

I would bump up wet worlds. Exotic gases are important enough for tech that they outweigh the drawbacks of being food dominant

Montu: This is what I think of Tomb Worlds Necrons: "Angry mechanical noises"

Honestly, my empire usually start on Wet Worlds, but I do usually play more for RP than efficiency. So _[shrug]._

Thumbs up for the Titan AE reference

An important aspect to consider about trade is that there is direct trade deals besides the galactic market. And there the meta is completely different. For example food is worth a lot, while energy is very, very cheap. You can often get 3:1 energy to food deals, meaning your farmers are incredibly effective. And most empires produce enormous energy surplus.

Fun tidbit about machine worlds. If you terraform them with one organic non-cyborg pop, the organic pop dies, and you get a food feature that gives you +15 food a month.

Montu, thanks for the video. Why not to include barren / molten etc worlds and gas giants? And speculate about possible habitat types?

Titan A.E., nice clip source, amazing movie.

Call me crazy but I always go hard on wet worlds as agri production is so easy to convert into anything else you need when maxed out to insane levels.

More! We demand more!

Hey Montu, Habitats owned by Rogue Servitor have their leisure districts add bio trophy and an artisan, and in the 3.3 beta Ecumenopolis have administrative districts

I think you are underestimating the Ringworld or the Scrap Miner Job more specifically. Scrap Miners get buffed by Worker Output, Mining Subsidys and an upgraded Mineral Purification Plant and produce 15+ Minerals and 4+ Alloys with no upkeep then wich is pretty strong imo.

On my current game I've conquered about a third of the galaxy and I haven't built a single mining district and maybe one or two energy districts. I'm playing as an aquatic empire with Anglers, Catalytic Processing, and Hydrocentric, so I get consumer goods from agriculture districts, can use food instead of minerals to make alloys, and have uncapped agriculture districts. Being the only megacorp in the galaxy helps too, since I can pretty much just spam branch offices.

Tomb worlds are my favorite planet types when I’m playing as a robot, but any other type of civilization I usually just terraform them

Habitats also allow to build buildings that extract one of the 3 rare recources (1building by one unit of recources)

Another thing worth mentioning is that ECUs take 10 years to complete too and that the unity districts will be even more important considering marketplace of ideas getting halved

I'm more astonished someone actually has seen Titan AE. One of my favorite sci fi movies as a kid :D

Ecumenopolis always reminds me of Coruscant and Ratchet And Clank. Love it wish you could see the surface properly instead of a picture.

Do wet worlds have a higher chance of spawning with 20+ tiles? I rarely ever see dry, or cold worlds with 20+ tiles, even when I'm playing games for those planet types, and despite having over 1k hours in Stellaris, I think I've found more 20+ Tile Gaia worlds than I have dry worlds, hell, haven't even conquered one 20+ either. I've come to update this comment. I've finally found a few 20 tile desert worlds. Just needed to move the habitable worlds slider up to find them. No luck for cold worlds yet, then again I have been playing with Planetary Diversity as of late, dunno if that changes much or not.

What was that animated film at the start where they were discussing naming a planet Bob?

Thanks Montu!

I like colonizing tomb worlds. The special events are fun and some of them, like the particle accelerator, are useful

Mineral shortages on shattered ring world can be fairly easily offset by extra mining districts, mining stations and technologies, and if possible you'll want to be running mining subsidies to boost both minerals AND alloys from scrap miners. The fact you're getting extra alloys from scrap miner jobs more than offsets the fact you have less fewer minerals to start with.

Welcome to Planet Bob! One of our most luxurious Gaia Resort worlds! Anywho! In my opinion, I think the only way Wet Worlds could be useful is if you are daring enough to pick Angler Civic for the extra food, trade value, consumer goods, and the infinite farm districts on ocean worlds. Or if you have ocean paradise which gives you a better version of the ocean world at start. Mean while, I’ll just stay up here in space with my habitats where it’s nice and cozy.

Dry worlds come with the benefit of being the default for the Zroni Precursor Chain. No that picking it will give you that precursor, but the Archaeology Sites are on Dessert worlds (or os I've found in the past), and as inhabiting said worlds gives you the Zro deposit income, the spice becomes a highly lucrative business...

I literally did though. When I got the home away from home modifier

Honestly, I think Shattered Rings are F tier, it can only run off trade (minus Ape Lord Landmine builds), its industrial, mineral and Agri districts are just significantly worse from an opportunity cost standpoint. This is combined with only two ways to get one, start with one, or conquer one, starting with one is bad, getting one is only good if you have the mercantile tradition locked in, otherwise it's just, ok, the only exception being machine intelligence Shattered Ring (Energy Districts for Days and you can colonize everything). Ecumenopolis planets I also believe are solidly A tier, I hate saying it because they are my favorite planet type and they are so powerful (easily one of the biggest reasons bio empires and rogue servitors are so strong), but they require considerable support to fully utilize, otherwise you have this big planet with like 20 open districts taking up 40% of you whole empire's resources to maintain, let alone grow. They are very similar to ring worlds in that regard, I love em both, they both can guarantee end game victory if you get them fully set up and running. Relic Worlds, they should be definitively S Tier (the found ones, not the Remnants one), they give +2 Strategic Resource Jobs per resource, massive Researcher Bonuses (to include a free +8), they tend to be large (only the rubricator and remnants ones are smaller than 25), have a large amount of Mining and Generator Jobs (usually 9 districts each), and they give big habitability bonuses (+80% is great) to almost everyone (poor Aquatic pops). As a fourth planet they basically guarantee your early to mid game, even as a Hive Mind, you never say no to one, then if you are bio or rogue servitor, when you have enough resources to support an Ecumenpolis, you get to turn it into one late mid to early late game, WITHOUT an ascension perk. It's the only planet type in the game to let you do something without taking an ascension perk, is achievable relatively early and you don't need to do some weird game manipulation (like having Psychic Cyborg Erudite Aquatic Necrophage Pops). I have never had a game where a Relic World was not a big game changer, but I've had plenty of games where an Ecumenopolis was a dud (not ring worlds because if you manage to make or repair one, you are definitely winning). I just wish there was a bigger distinction between Hive and Machine Worlds (like Machine Worlds give more replicator Jobs and Hive Worlds giving you money defensive armies or something, they are just reskins of each other really)

I was playing a Tree of Life Hive Mind build in an older version of the game last year, and building Hive Worlds across my empire eventually - since I discovered the Gold Disc early in my campaign, I decided as a novelty that I’d even turn nuked Earth into a Hive World as well! But a planet which I conquered in a neighbouring system DID eventually rebel somehow, and joined a rival empire, whilst in the middle of me terraforming it into a Hive World. The terraforming still completed, and…. nothing changed. I had expected all the pops on the planet would die, or something similarly hilarious. But nothing! Has this been patched, in later versions?

I didn't think I'd see a Titan AE reference

Damn, that was one nice film.

Habitat are amazing honestly. Logistically, allows you to super-develop a small handful of systems (probably ones with inhabitable planets already and lots of research and mineral planets and moons). Means one starbase or fleet can defend many planets, provide modules for secret police and for easier miragtion, etc. One gateway can allow access. Etc. My latest playthrough, I ended up going heavy on habitats out of neccessity due to the small number of habitable planets in my empire. I have three systems crammed full of habitats, and a couple habitat outside those "hub" systems where resources were too good to pass up.

The only specific thing I'd note is among Frozen Planets, Alpine Worlds would technically the most optimal starting as they have the least amount of chance to spawn Active Volcanoes which are both the most expensive and longest to clear Tile Blocker. I'd otherwise say this Tier List is pretty accurate.

I love Tomb Worlds with post-apo start. There is also an evnt which will spawn cca 6 tomb words in a cluster.

12:57 Robot Empirers: I smell free real estate in here

On my last playthrough as a Clone Army, I lucked out to get the Kettlings directly below me: six free populated planets- like they do suck, compared to Gaia worlds, but I really love genetic ascencion, so I was able to turn them into basically tier 1 specie, and with the Baol precursor chain, didnt even have to terraform Grungur. Just turned them all into support worlds for the core system Ascended Clone worlds, swarming with psionic (they start with this trait), erudite, ingenious, natural engineers and fertile kettlings that love basking in radiation. Its cool how everything in stellaris is situational, and while its true 9/10 times things are bad, but every so often we get a play through where a shit situation becomes weirdly awesome! Love this game so much. Ps. The fact that Relic worlds can become ecumenopoli with out the perk I think is also a good reason for why Relic worlds are A tier. If they kept the rare resource plants they would easily be S tier IMO.

Nice list, may I make the suggestion of a list regarding the different ship subtypes, what is the best of each situation, positives and negatives of each component and different fleet layouts.

"Don"t settle a Holy World" Late Game Empires that can slap around the Fallen Empires: "I have no such weaknesses"

Wet worlds are S tier becasue they're nice to look at