So at 47:00 ish the video has a big editing error where I start using clips from earlier in the same run, this is because I record this over several days then edit the 20+ hours of footage into one hopefully coherent video, and in this case I messed up when organising the files and put two sets in the wrong order which I missed when going through all the footage, It's easy to mix up past and future Lathrix when Lathrix is tired of hearing Lathrix. Sorry about that!

I like to imagine that when he devours a world the population just faceplant and begin eating the ground.

You were really having a Lath while making this empire

I created a Lithoid syncretic evolution empire with the "three orbs held by a plant" portrait as the main species and the plantoid trees as the "carrier" servile species. The stones do all the thinking, while the trees do all the work. Wouldn't mind seeing your take on that.

Korg : Hey, man. We're just about to jump on that ginormous spaceship. Wanna come?

Lathland "You moving or.....?" 25:43 Spectral Wraith "Just having a bath."

*reads description* Don't lie Lathrix you're not sorry about that, you're proud of it.

as a programmer i can tell you that it is incredibly easy to just put the wrong symbol into some code and never notice because it isn't causing a crash

I'd really like to see you tackle "the impossible run" that MaTN just recently finished. In it you ramp everything to max (every ai with advanced start, crisis as early as possible, max crisis strength, etc etc) and just try not to die horribly. I'd totally watch that if you were to do it.

Something id love to see you try is the "all crises happen simultaneously" mod. Basically you set the crises to occur whenever you think itd be reasonable to have all 3 spawn at max difficulty and then you try and win. Maybe you leave the end-game start at the default?? Idk but a "meta" playthrough with a super hard end-game could be fun to watch especially as it means its way harder to instantly outfit your fleets to hard counter the crisis since the all spawn together. Moar stellaris!

It is somewhat sad nobody has thought of doing a fanatic spiritualist lithoid race called "The Temple of the Porcaline God".

lithoid+tomb world prefrence from the worm =110% habitability on every planet

"Ah yes, we begin to sell our farts" - Lathland 2019

I think lithovore would be much more interesting if it devoured planet size and then converted it into either population or increasing the size of select planets that you plan to remain on up to a certain point. So it'd be useful at the beginning when trying to increase population but also end game when you can essentially be a super tall planet build, potentially becoming something akin to a planet-type ringworld in terms of districts and size. Could be the lithoid equivalent of a hive world that requires a certain planet size.

Hi Lathrix. I'm from Brazil and I really love watching you play. Thx for keeping me happy :)

Lathe would have been pretty appropriate. The galactic lathe, shaving off the excess of existence. Wait. . . Can the terravores have habitats around the worlds they have devoured?

New Stellaris species : *Comes out* Lathland : This looks like a job for me.

Species trait : farts

35:40 Oh look it's the galactic market *warring noises in the background*

"Amenities are the biggest thing i hate dealing with when i play hive minds" *proceeds to take Repugnant, hurting his amenities* Classic lathrix lol.... Ive done two play throughs as terravores and they are both ridiculous and weak at the same time. Often i would be conflicted to keep or eat the planets, and minerals being food sometimes i had my minerals dip pretty heavy in the negative because i both increased my population AND alloy/science, which cut into the minerals way way harder than im used to lol. Oddly enough i felt the negative to pop growth was completely negligible. You just get so many pops from consuming worlds....i commonly would colonize 3-4 worlds, only intend to keep 1, and in a manner of ~10 years that one i kept has tons of pops on it lol

Love watching your Stellaris vids. I personally enjoy the whole "love everybody" kind of empires, the ones that go to war to make friends. "Punch them in the face until they like us" Lathrax quote :D

Lathland, you know you can assign the oracle at 22:09 to help govern your entire empire, giving you a big increase to Admin cap, which is effectively extra Tech and Tradition growth?

A Long video after a Long day at Work ! You spoil me 😁 Much appriciated 👍

>Takes Ascetic because he hates dealing with Amenities >Takes repugnant, which reduces Amenity production xd

I had an idea for a future play though lithoid masters which have high intelligence and plant services which do the hard labour and fight and what not It would be an interesting dynamic Long lived intelligent master who are slow to reproduce and quick servants that spread like weeds by art too good for much except manual labour Sentient magic floating rocks with sentient moss as it’s slave

you figured out naming the throwaway planets soo fast i had such a hard time dealing with it in (one of) my determined extermiantor playthoughs

This was great! You inspired me to try my own Lithoid Terravore run, still in progress. I decided to go with the Calamitous Birth origin (which wasn't an option when this video was made). It just seemed perfect for beings with no regard for other life. So I get to go around the galaxy smashing meteorites into planets, digging up the extra pops while colonization is still in progress, and then... Well to be honest I usually only do that on worlds with high habitability so my pops can still live on them, but I think it will be more fun (and more profitable) to eat them. I liked your strategy of leaving a couple pops on the world you're consuming, so they can make more pops, which you then resettle to other colonies. Thanks also for taking the risks you did. It made for a very entertaining video! :-)

Honestly, Driven Assimilator with lithoid cyborgs seems really good lol

We need a collaboration lathland vs spiffco

1:06:40 "We don't have nanites and I don't know where to get them." They come from L-Gate space. Two systems in particular if I recall correctly. Great video. Thanks!

I get a sugestion, an Empire Im currently playing „Pet Rock Empire”: Syncretic Evolution wher main species is „Dwarfs” and lithoid „Pet Rock” as a serviles.

Your tech is impressive! You really got better at this

well that was one helluva run! i can only repeat myself in recommending a return of the children of the crisis: lithoid version since i really liked that run and it was a shame that you did not get to do the pact of the "end of the cycle" event. anyways really enjoyed the run and keep up the good work!

Hey, for the video edit part you’re fine, Don’t worry about it. You put in so much effort to these videos. Also, for another Lithoid Empire, I would go a warring mechanist empire that wants to ascend to becoming Synths. Or you could go an empire with Syncretic Evolution with organics as the serviles and make the lithoids all the leaders as they live longer but reproduce slower. For the latter build, I’d recommend either going slaver despots and try and enslave everyone, or go some type of research focused tall empire and form federations with other species. Those are just some of my rough ideas, I can go in more detail if you want but that’s what I have for now. Thanks for making the video, it is great to just watch when I’m bored for an hour, and hey have a nice day.

I would really love to see at some point you make a video on Stellaris strategy. I'm quite impressed at how you get your navies so strong when I always feel I'm barely scraping my fleet cap...

You are a legend lathland!!!

I laughed out loud at how fast this went up after the initial Lithoid review, Lath must have really enjoyed them.

28:58 We will eat them! Why? For science!

as soon as i saw the ghost signal the only thought I had was your screwed

Come and ascend with us to the immortal rock

lol. These captions are amazing

Hey lathland! Can you make a video about #TeamTree? It would be cool! :D If you do you could make a tree play through showing the trees taking over the galaxy! Or not. Do what you want to do. Your channel, I’ll still watch :)

1 year to this day.....and i gotta say....KEEP GOING

The end reminded me of Enders game with the swarm of strike craft

Here i am, once again, listening to lath as i attempt to get some sort of rest in vain. Gotta be the 8th or 9th time listening

Playing this game over a year now and knew nothing about the missing in action command. Good to know.

Lith Lath I was rocking and crass all on a thursday night.

After playing with them im sort of starting to suspect that a lithoid megacorp with private prospectors might be really good. Think it's my next game. Thinking pacifist for admin capacity, Materialist to supplement pop growth and Xenophobe for starbase and growth speed

This should be a barrel of laths

I'm glad I saw the "first look" video. It explains why your species are armed with farts.

1:30:16 Lathrix: face the wrath of the swarm, *previously redacted sentence*: youtube compression algorythm!

One thing I noticed while messing around with them, is that Lithoids can still be "Life-Seeded". In effect, they get that premium 25 gaia world to start and can still colonize nearly any other planet at a 50% habitability base. It lets you spread rapidly.

Saw all the names and Lathed out loud

Cybernetic lithiods with a leader focus in an driven assimilators run. Could be cool!

Rock on!

My experience showed the best world to eats are mostly early game world, especially the ones heavy in agriculture district. But most importantly, you NEVER eat a homeworld, they re usually big, and habitability will affect the purge process, and they make grear bio reactors dump

Lithoid with Xenocompatibility?, Is that even posible?, It would be hilarious.

This new hive mind addition is pretty cool but it would be cool to see new play styles and civics and etc. endless space 2 has that whole espionage and infiltration that would work really well. (i know megacorps have offshore offices or what there called ) and i think certain parts of stellaris need an update. like adding new end game scenarios. edit: or new ship types

*inhales* ROCKIN NEW TECH!

Really nice! Maybe you wanna play an Lithoid Megacorp ? :D Dont know if its great, but would like to see an Playthrough from this kind of Empire too.

Lathland From the Depths has a update with a new aps system and little jet engines and more

Dunno why, but felt like revisiting this video. Doing a run like this with the new habitat changes and a colossus is kinda tempting; eat planets, keep most pops on habitats, crack ruined worlds to get their insides when ruined.

The lithoids look sooo cool!! :O

Why was the first thought that I got when I first got to play as a lithoid was to play a golem Xenophobic purfication rock empire? (Thank you Lathland for giving me this way of thinking!) Also hail the United Mountain Purifiers!

Mechanist lithovores could be an interesting way around the growth issues...

Terravores can deathball almost as well as Determined Exterminators. I started going to war 10 years in, and selling food kept me going despite negative energy in the hundreds as long as I kept expanding. 100 years in on a 1250 (modded) stars galaxy I had over 500 systems and was finally stalling out against the many federations. If I'd built more alloys I might have done better, but it honestly took all 100 years for my first 20-30 planets to have enough pops to be producing positive energy from just basic resources and spawning pool/clone bank. I had about zero tech because you don't need it. tier V tech vs Tier I is actually only a 100% gain. If you have twice the ships, you're still going to win, not to mention stealing tech from all the debris. And I had over 600 fleet capacity from turning everyone's stations into anchorages as I went. And was big enough than none of the federations dared start a war while I was busy.

You should try out the "!MicroMod - Rare Planets 80%" Mod. Makes habitable planets MUCH more rare. Makes the micro-management less intense and makes planets way more valuable.

Lathland, when are you going to do a modded rimworld playthrough? It's got so much you love. You could go from 4X to world lich grand torturer with the mods.

you should try a terraore run with x5 habitable planets just to see how much minerals you can get early and late

I like the idea that they eat massive chambers underground that they use for breading and growing young

are you planning on doing a one planet challenge series with episodes?

There goes my evening again.

Rocks of slaanesh (fanatic xenophile lithoid). Or just a slaanesh themed playthrough

as someone who plays almost exclusively as machine empires i tend to have anywhere between 2-4 planets filled with sentinel posts/fortresses and allow them to keep making new drones. that way when i want to expand to a new world i have a good number of drones that i can transfer in an instant. not sure how viable this is for our stone hearted cousins however.

Yum tasty planet the game!

Nice walkthrough. Would you say devouring worlds is worth it or will it bite you in de ass midgame/lategame?

Driven Assimilators with lithoids are incredible. Your bio pops have at least 90% habitability on all normal planets (20+ base, 50 from being stone, 20 from being cyborg). You can also make your lithoids strong miners while the robots do the research stuff (or the other way around). However it's pretty similar to this Terravore playthrough since you have no diplomacy and people generally hate you. Life-Seeded lithoids are also fun. They have 50% habitability on all worlds which isn't great - but if you rush The Flesh is Weak and get the Cyborg trait for your pops that's suddenly 70% (plus any other bonuses you might have researched in the meantime) so the big penalty of Life-Seeded can be mostly ignored without going full Synth or getting World Shaper. One thing I am eager to try out (in one of my next runs) is Syncretic Evolution with servile Lithoids. Normal SE always gives you too many workers after a few years so the slow growing Lithoids hopefully prevent that. At least I believe lower growth species get new pops less often but I might be mistaken - the one-at-a-time pop growth mechanic is kinda strange in how it chooses what to grow.

you should go for void born and mega engeneering so you can consume all planets in the galaxy and your pops could live in ring worlds and habitats

Heh, now when lithoids are out in Stellaris...everyone should do Dwarf devouring swarm and kill...i mean mine them all...Or jewellery empire...selling expensive rocks...ehm ehm, no rock people died in slave camps during this...

Watching this video I'm wondering how interesting and or possible it would be to try to do a migration run. Where you are constantly eating worlds and then abandoning them and moving on. Scrapping outposts when done and leaving behind useless worlds for the AI to expand to.

I would love a Lithoid Megacorp run. I don't know if it would be difficult or easier but it could be interesting.

Tip for anyone else doing the feeder world strategy; disable all jobs on the planet accept the single job your standby pop is working. You'll easily be able to tell when a pop has grown this way, plus you'll improve performance slightly. Currently, empty jobs are the cause of late game lag.

I love the idea of overseer terravores cracking down on regular terravores for illegal eating on worlds not designated for consumption

I'd name your feeding worlds in order of when you colonized them; Breakfast, brunch, lunch, crumpet, diner, snack, midnight snack, breakfast again..

Iiiii wanna rock and roll all night, and party every-day!

Lathrix help TeamTrees! 500 Trees? I don't care if you just spread the word!

Huh looks like a fun build

Lathrix, could you do a Stellaris tutorial? I cant play on more than Ensign, without dying early on :P

You make this look easy while I'm over here struggling keeping my economy going 😂😂

I have a feeling that this particular race would benefit from habitats and ring worlds. you can just feed them populations from the wasted worlds

there is a lithoid ruler background too.

Lithoid megacorp exporting rock music.

If the robot fallen empire wakes up it is the gohst signal

make syncretic Evolution megacorp, where you have two species of lithoids and sell the strategic resources that they produce and then go for engineered Evolution so you can add the third strategic resource that they can produce to them as well.

Really wish lithoids could have the option to live on barren and molten worlds as their preferred habitat.

Please play the Zenith of Fallen empires mod pack, it’s honestly really fun and makes late game have a purpose past the weak crisis’s.

You promised more TerraTech!

at the start of the video i was slightly confused because i realised you are speking english and my brain stopped translating automaticly for a second and i got the feeling you changed language

can you show your ship builds every now and then? in different stages?

If some pure wee rock guy came up to my gaf and started chomping away I’d be pretty raging no gonna lie