Colony shipsĬolony ships are nothing you have to deal with. You should immediately send out these ships to explore the space around your system and build Starbases and mining and Research stations. Tip: When starting the game, you find one Science and one Construction ship in your fleet, ready to take orders. Whenever you build a new Starbase your borders expand and include this newly added star system.Ĭonstruction ships are pretty low maintenance, you do not need to recruit a new captain now and then. Again that’s a huge relief.Īfter you sent in the Science ships, you need to follow up with your Construction ships.Ĭonstruction ships built the Starbases, expanding your empire and also the resource mining stations, as well as research stations.

when your Technology department advances (left side under “Technology”) you can develop a technology that allows you to set your science ships on auto-exploration. Tip: When holding SHIFT while giving orders to your civilian ships, you can enter a list of orders, this helps a lot at the beginning of the game. While you have no or nearly no influence on the “performance” and design of the civilian ships, Stellaris gives you a lot of influence on the military ship’s design and performance. You can distinguish between civilian and military ships. So no matter if you choose to play a psychopathic zealot origin, the tips below still apply to your species. While the basic ship hierarchy (“Corvette – Destroyer – Cruiser – Battleship – Titan – Colossus) is the same for every species, the ship set’s designs will be different. There are many different ship sets (ship designs), and each origin has its design (the Aquatic DLC brings some beautiful new ship sets to the game). So the images you will see below are from the “ship set” of the Earth “origin (as the different species are also called). This guide is based on the plain vanilla Stellaris without any DLC.īut before we start I need to mention that I play mostly – us.

Stellaris beginners guide