Stellaris 2024 Beginner's Guide - Ultimate Edition

Stellaris Beginner's Guide 2024. In this video we will cover everything you need to know to play the first 50 years of Stellaris.

Lets dive in to Stellaris!

Chapters:
0:00 What Does This Guide Cover?
1:12 Empire Creation
7:41 Galaxy Settings
8:28 Time - Your Greatest Resource
9:57 Your Resources (Top Bar)
16:23 Notifications
16:48 Research
20:45 What Is The Outliner?
21:10 System View
22:25 Galaxy Map
25:26 Planetary Management
46:11 Hotkeys & Bindings
46:48 Mapmodes
48:18 Your First Years
49:14 The Market
51:50 Starbases
56:00 Traditions
57:03 Events & Anomalies
58:32 Expanding Your Borders
1:00:05 Council & Agendas
1:02:30 Edicts
1:03:14 First Contact Projects
1:04:15 Colonising Planets
1:04:55 Policies - Your Laws
1:06:40 Species Rights
1:11:21 Archaeology Sites
1:11:57 Diplomacy
1:16:03 Factions
1:20:29 Leaders
1:24:26 Ascension Perks
1:25:12 Federations
1:30:04 Elections & Rulers
1:30:51 Renowned Leaders
1:31:20 Fleet Management & Ship Design
1:35:11 Veteran Leader Classes
1:36:59 Claims & War Declarations
1:38:15 War - How To Fight
1:51:03 Forming The Galactic Community
1:51:38 Discovery Tab
1:52:13 Agreements Tab (Vassal Relationships)
1:52:39 Expansion Planner
1:53:23 Automatic Migration & Resettlement
1:54:44 The Galactic Community
1:56:22 Economic Deficits
1:57:30 Your Next Steps

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[Blackreaper]

Me: over 1200 hrs in stellaris.
Montu: puts out beginners guide every year.
Me: ah just what I needed. 😅

[lyras.]

"You need to click on new game to start a new game" GEEZE, dude, slow down! I'm here for a BEGINNERS guide, not your crazy pro-gamer tips.

[summers]

just got back into the game a few weeks ago after not playing for three years and have been waiting for someone to make a 2024 guide, thank u so much!!

[michaelalexander]

You know Stellaris is complicated when you have 800 hours of playtime and you watch a 2 hour long 'How to Play' guide, just to be sure you do in fact know how to play...

[caspernijland]

I started playing again 2 days ago and have really been trying to find a whole bunch of guides and now this came out, that's crazy

[trainheartnet]

I got the game over the holidays, and there have been so many points where I've been like, "Where are my energy credits going?" "What is trade value?" "What's the point of federations?" This is exactly what I needed.

[deanwilliams]

I love you Montu! Thank you for caring about the people that take Stellaris breaks, come back and get manhandled by all the changes.

[CaptainFordo]

Not gonna lie, I've been playing for so long that in late game I build only battleships and then send endless waves of them against the endgame crises, put it on slowest, and sit back and watch the carnage.

Such a cinematic game.

[jeffgoldman]

Montu you mad man! I’ve been getting into stellaris these past few months and you make it so much more enjoyable thank you

[OishiiDesun]

1:52:06 "It becomes available in the mid game" Me was like this is just the beginning??? @@

[akselbentsen]

Just what I needed. The constant changes have been daunting, it’s great to have a guide even as an intermediate player!

[Master_of_Antares]

I used to be really good at this game, knew everything and i mean EVERYTHING about it. I even managed to keep up to date for years through all the whacky updates.

Then I had a baby, and couldn't play anything or even remain up to date. I tried to get back into the game a few times with the little time I had, but omg, leaders then came and changed the game even more.

Dont get me wrong im not complaining, i love the PDX model. I just had IRL stuff lol and the game does feel way way better now, so much more polished.

But boy oh boy, do I need a new master series tutorial lol great timing, thank you Montu.

[ElMarcoh]

I took a pause from playing stellaris for a year and a bit more, and the game now is completely different, lol

[egorkhizhnyakov]

Thank you for this guide! I've been watching your videos for quite sometime and that encouraged me to try Stellaris. I'm in love with this game! I'm somewhere in the mid-end of my first campaign and the start was very rough because I had no guides that were up to date. Thak you very much!

[peterknutsen]

23:00 That tickbox in the lower right corner has been un-ticked by Montu. It is ticked by default, when you buy the game, and this causes the game to always display a lot of not-very-useful information, cluttering the screen.

For instance it’ll show all the green number resources in solar systems that you are already exploiting, it’ll show Anomalies, and it’ll show those orange project boxes that Science Ships, Construction Ships or Army Transport Ships can interact with. When the box is un-ticked then only context-relevant information is shown, for instance if you have selected a Science Ship then Anomalies will be visible, and those projects that are for Science Ships. You can hold down the Left Alt key to temporarily show everything, or re-tick the box if you want that, but I really think it’s better for both new and experienced players to play with the box un-ticked, because the more cluttered UI does nothing good.

[TheRorsach]

Awesome Montu! Thanks alot for making this

[SourBNU]

Man what a fucking legend! Watched the whole thing. I’m newer to the game and this helped put the basics into perspective. Thanks for taking the time in making this video!

[ScooterBean]

It’s crazy to “begin” this game. I need to watch a 2hr video… that’s wild and I don’t know if I can as much as I want to try to get into this title.

[Exakan]

Great video as always!
(Can't wait to see this video being redundant once 3.12 / Machine Age drops.)

[ReeceyBoy]

Not much beats an up to date Montu beginner video, brilliant work 😊