Console:Achievements
Stellaris has 124 different Steam achievements. Achievements have no in-game effects, the achievement just pops up in-game and then added to the player's profile.
The difficulty of each achievement varies; some achievements are very easy (e.g. colonizing a planet), while some are extremely difficult (e.g. end-game crisis achievements). The below list groups the various achievements by a difficulty level as assessed by the wiki editors (uncategorized - UC - achievements haven't been assessed yet).
Achievements can only be gained in Ironman games. They can be earned while playing older versions of the game as long as said achievements were present in that version, as well as after any empire has attained victory.
General tips[edit source]
- Using Settings can make several achievements easier. In particular, setting the galaxy to have no other AI empires (besides Primitive Civilizations) prevents spaceborne aliens from being killed by AI empires; this is useful for getting the "Warrior of Light" achievement as wraiths tend to wander the galaxy.
List of achievements[edit source]
The "Ver" column indicates in which version a certain achievement was added. Achievements cannot be earned prior to the version they were added in.
The "DI" column is for difficulty as assessed by wiki editors. VE = Very Easy, E = Easy, M = Medium, H = Hard, VH = Very Hard, I = Insane, UC = Uncategorized.
Base game[edit source]
Achievement | Requirements | Hints | Ver | DI |
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Complete all levels of an archaeological site (without failing) | The ![]() |
2.3 | VE | |
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Starting the game with the Guaranteed Habitable Worlds setting to 1 or 2 creates very suitable planets nearby | 1.0 | VE | |
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Start the game with traits, ethics and civics that increase research speed or alternatives | 1.0 | VE | |
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1.0 | VE | |
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Start the game with the Wormhole Pairs setting to X5 | 2.0 | VE | |
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1.0 | VE | ||
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1.0 | VE | ||
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If no empire wants to trade gifts count too | 1.0 | VE | |
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Need to have >=1 income for all 11 tradable resources. Achievement tooltip is out of date. | 1.4 | VE | |
Has, as a ![]() |
The ![]() You will automatically obtain the achievement if you start a game with no other empires (set number of AI empires, fallen empires, primitive, and marauders to 0). |
1.4 | VE | |
Vivisect an alien in the first contact menu
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The option is not available to all ethics. You are not guaranteed to catch the alien ships, so this may require multiple attempts. | 3.0 | VE | |
Have no negative events happen to you or another empire during First Contact. | The player has to have the Proactive First Contact Protocol policy to get the achievement. | 3.0 | VE | |
Has conquered another species' homeworld | Custom empires with nothing but bad traits can be created. | 1.0 | E | |
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1.0 | E | ||
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1.0 | E | ||
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1.0 | E | ||
Choose to support the Galactic Community when it is first proposed | The Common Ground and Hegemon Origins guarantee this achievement unless another empire has the same origins | 2.6 | E | |
Has a planet with > 99 Pops. | 2.2 | E | ||
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1.0 | E | ||
Has accepted a gift from a patronising Enigmatic Observer or Keepers of Knowledge fallen empire | Accepting a request or completing a task will eventually lead to a gift being bestowed | 1.4 | E | |
The ruler of your empire is different from your founding species | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
1.4 | E | |
As a humanoid species, has completed Covert Infiltration of a primitive reptilian species and incorporated them into the empire | Setting Habitable Worlds to 0.25X and Primitive Civilizations to 5X[1] ensures a reptilian civilization is found more easily. | 1.4 | E | |
Don't go to war for 200 consecutive years as a ![]() ![]() |
Starting the game with no AI empires makes getting this achievement a matter of time | 1.4 | E | |
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1.0 | E | ||
Has won a war | Must be the empire that declared war or was declared war against; being brought into a war via Defensive Pact, Independence Guarantee or Federation doesn't count | 1.0 | E | |
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See Ship#Command_Limit for how to increase Command Limit | 1.0 | E | |
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1.0 | M | ||
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1.0 | M | ||
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Empires with the Fanatical Befrienders personality offer the highest acceptance rate
You can also create a custom empire with the Common Ground or Hegemon Origin |
1.0 | M | |
Gets ![]() |
Wealth Creation trade policy needs 1000 ![]() |
2.2 | M | |
Have a Citadel with > 40000 fleet power | 2.0 | M | ||
Has enlightened a primitive civilization from the Bronze or Stone Age | Setting Habitable Worlds to 0.25X and Primitive Civilizations to 5X[1] ensures a civilization with the correct era is found more easily. | 1.4 | M | |
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1.0 | M | ||
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1.0 | M | ||
Own 4 Gateways which have been activated | Setting the Abandoned Gateways setting to 5X increase the number of abandoned Gateways and thus the chance to research the technology to build Gateways. | 2.0 | M | |
Own at least 1 relics | DLCs make this achievement easier | 2.3 | M | |
Have empires representing every ethic (it can be fanatic or normal) in your Federation | It is easier for the player's empire to change their own ethics when already in a federation with five unique ethics from other empires. The ![]() |
2.6 | M | |
Has terraformed a planet into a Gaia world | Gaia Worlds created by events also count | 1.4 | M | |
Have total Pops > 500 and Enslaved Pops > 200 | The ![]() |
1.4 | M | |
Have 200 Starbases including Outposts | 2.0 | M | ||
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1.0 | M | ||
Unlock all 42 ![]() |
2.0 | M | ||
Use the active effect of a Relic by spending ![]() |
2.3 | M | ||
Finished the game via one of the victory conditions | Setting the End-Game Year and the Victory Year as early as possible and playing on low difficulties make this achievement easier to get | 1.4 | M | |
Has completed a precursor event chain and travelled to the subsequently revealed system | Starting the game with no AI empires makes getting this achievement a matter of time | 1.4 | M | |
Have 100 Intel on five different empires at the same time. | The Sentry Array (Megastructure) elevates your passive Intel level by 40. It is easiest performed by building the Megastructure and then releasing 5 vassals. | 3.0 | H | |
Has invaded Earth, found in the Sol system, while it is in the machine age. Earth must spawn already in the Machine Age, not reach it via event or progress over time. | Sol has a 50% chance to spawn regardless of galaxy size if no empires have it as its starting system, therefore it is recommended that a tiny galaxy be used to make it easier to find and claim the Sol system. If it spawns, it has a 25% chance of being at the correct era for this achievement, for a total chance of 12.5%. | 1.4 | H | |
Have total Pops > 200 and 75% of them as ![]() |
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1.4 | H | |
Either go the route of building one, repairing one or capturing one from a Fallen Empire. | This achievement is disabled by the ![]() |
1.4 | H | |
Has completed the In Limbo anomaly either after having researched synths, or prior to accepting an enigmatic observer fallen empire's relevant request following. | See Limbo for event chain details | 1.4 | H | |
Number of different species on a planet > 10 | Best done by resettling Pops obtained from Migration Treaties or conquests or by conquering The Preserve from an Enigmatic Observers Fallen Empire. Curiously, as ![]() |
1.4 | H | |
Has chosen and completed the project to lower the barrier on a shielded world | Shielded worlds appear inside the borders of the Militant Isolationists | 1.4 | H | |
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Easiest done by releasing as many 1-planet vassals as needed towards the end of the game | 1.4 | H | |
Colonize 4 worlds with the Holy World modifier | Best strategy is to have the Scion Origin story and be a fanatic spiritualist empire. You will start with a spiritualist Fallen Empire as overlord, with the required Holy Worlds within 10-20 jump of them. Since you are their vassal they will allow you and only you to colonize them. Turning off AI empires helps speed this up. This same effect can be achieved if the ![]() Alternatively, you can get the achievement as long as there is a Holy Guardians Fallen Empire and you take over and start to colonize the nearby Holy Worlds. |
1.4 | VH | |
Destroy the Contingency Secret Lair | Like all crises lowering setting the Crisis Strength setting to 0.25x makes this a lot easier to achieve. | 1.8 | VH | |
Has captured the Prethoryn queen | Like all crises lowering setting the Crisis Strength setting to 0.25x makes this a lot easier to achieve. | 1.0 | VH | |
Destroy the last Extradimensional Invader portal | Like all crises lowering setting the Crisis Strength setting to 0.25x makes this a lot easier to achieve. | 1.0 | VH | |
Has found a way to stop the synthetic infiltration | Complete the event chain to detect synthetic infiltrators during the Contingency crises. | 1.0 | VH | |
Has completed the Horizon Signal event chain and either outcome | Accepting the Worm's offer is the easier choice | 1.4 | VH |
Leviathans[edit source]
Achievement | Requirements | Hints | Ver | DI |
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Has purchased a scientist from a curator enclave after having developed sufficient opinion with them to do so | Even though the Curator Enclave appears with Distant Stars as well, this achievement requires the player to have Leviathans | 1.4 | E | |
Has chosen to become a patron of an artisan troup enclave and waited 10 years for the initial ![]() |
This achievement appears to be bugged and will not always unlock properly. | 1.4 | E | |
Has purchased a strategic resource from a trader enclave | 1.4 | E | ||
Has destroyed an enclave station | It is recommended to destroy an artisan enclave if going for this achievement, as it will not incur a negative opinion penalty with other empires, unlike the other types of enclave, and to also keep in mind that such stations generally possess ~8k fleet power. | 1.4 | M | |
Has defeated the Automated Dreadnought and chosen to repair it | See the Dreadnought main article for information in how to defeat it. | 1.4 | H | |
Has defeated the Ether Drake, placed a mining station on Dragon Hoard and chosen to incubate the dragon egg once the event fires | The MTTH for this event is 600 months after the mining station is placed. See the Ether Drake main article for information in how to defeat it. | 1.4 | H | |
Has peacefully completed the Infinity Machine event and, by luck, resulted in the black hole gaining The Mirror Of Knowledge modifier, among other things | Agree to assist the Infinity Machine (must not be ![]() |
1.4 | H | |
Has defeated the Stellarite devourer and chosen to make it a trophy (requires xenophobe or militarist ethics) | See the Stellarite Devourer main article for information in how to defeat it. | 1.4 | H | |
Has successfully defeated and completed the event chain of the Enigmatic Fortress | The Enigmatic Fortress article contains a guide to complete the event chain | 1.4 | H | |
Has defeated the Spectral Wraith | See the Spectral Wraith main article for information in how to defeat it. | 1.4 | H | |
Has taken up the position of the Leader of the League of Non-Aligned Empires during a War in Heaven which has then defeated both awakened empires. | Best time to go for this is when a crisis is happening at the same time near an awakened Fallen Empires. Requires you to be the leader when the war is over, and since the League starts with rotation, you may need to wait to finish the war or change the League's laws. | 1.4 | VH | |
Has defeated the Dimensional Horror | See the Dimensional Horror main article for information in how to defeat it. | 1.4 | VH |
Utopia[edit source]
Achievement | Requirements | Hints | Ver | DI |
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Has >499 pops under Utopian living standards | Even though Utopian Living Standards are available in the game without the Utopia dlc, this achievement requires the player to have it | 1.5 | M | |
Any owned Habitat in a system with a Black Hole | Achievement does not trigger on stars that were turned into black holes by events | 1.5 | M | |
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Only the overall amount of pops in the empire is checked for this achievement, so conquering pops of any species with or without the ![]() |
2.2 | M | |
Has > 4 species enslaved as Livestock. | The ![]() |
1.5 | M | |
Has unlocked the ![]() |
1.5 | H | ||
Has constructed a complete Dyson sphere | A repaired destroyed Dyson Sphere does not count | 1.5 | H | |
A species has > 7 trait points | Requires the ![]() |
1.5 | H | |
Has 4 completed Megastructures. | Repaired destroyed Megastructures also count, which can be useful if you lack enough DLC to get 4 normally. | 2.2 | H | |
Has constructed a complete Sentry array | A repaired destroyed Sentry Array does not count | 1.5 | H | |
Has unlocked the ![]() |
1.5 | H | ||
Has constructed a complete Ring World | A repaired destroyed Ringworld does not count | 1.5 | H | |
Has constructed a complete Science nexus | A repaired destroyed Science Nexus does not count | 1.5 | H |
Synthetic Dawn[edit source]
Achievement | Requirements | Hints | Ver | DI |
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As a ![]() |
Curiously, the ![]() You will automatically obtain the achievement if you start a game with no organic empires (set number of AI empires, fallen empires, and marauders to 0). One can also get this achievement after getting the "suffer not the aliens" achievement by switching to a synthetic species through the synthetic ascension path. |
1.8 | VE | |
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Easily accomplished by conquering primitives. Setting Habitable Worlds to 0.25X and Primitive Civilizations to 5X[1] ensures many systems will have primitive civilizations. | 1.8 | M | |
Has terraformed a planet into a Machine World | Two ascension perks are required to be chosen before the option to unlock machine worlds is made available. | 1.8 | M | |
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Refugee pops do not count | 1.8 | VH |
Apocalypse[edit source]
Achievement | Requirements | Hints | Ver | DI |
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Has destroyed another Empire's capital planet with a World Cracker Colossus | Custom empires with nothing but bad traits can be created. Can be achieved by destroying a Contingency planet. Using one on a Fallen/Awakened Empire planet will also not give the usual diplomatic penalties with other empires. |
2.0 | M | |
Destroy the Great Khan and his/her fleet in battle | The Great Khan is killed in battle when his fleet is destroyed or defeated in a battle twice. | 2.0 | H | |
Use a Global Pacifier Colossus to shield a planet belonging to a ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2.0 | H | ||
![]() Stay on Target Destroy another Empire's Colossus while it is in the process of firing on a planet. |
Destroy an enemy Colossus while it is firing on a planet | The process of "firing on a planet" includes both the preliminary three-month "charging" phase as well as the one-month "firing" phase. Fallen Empires can spawn with one Colossus, and may build one after awakening (the Spiritualist FE will immediately awaken if you crack a holy world). The AI will have its Colossus try to run away when you enter the system with your fleet(s). It is therefore advisable that you extend your weapons range as much as possible, and/or enter as close as possible to the Colossus so that you may engage it before it leaves orbit (as you will not get the achievement if the firing process is interrupted by leaving orbit before your attack). | 2.0 | H |
Defeat a Fallen Empire Titan fleet with your own Titan. | Not all FE spawn with a Titan. It is recommended to increase number of FE in the galaxy to increase the chance of one of them posessing a Titan. A lone Titan won't move to systems where there are superior enemy fleets. | 2.0 | VH |
Distant Stars[edit source]
Achievement | Requirements | Hints | Ver | DI |
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Has been the first to open a L-Gate | Starting a game with no AI empires make getting this achievement a matter of time | 2.1 | M | |
Make friends with a Space Amoeba | See Lost Amoeba for event chain details | 2.1 | M | |
Has defeated the Voidspawn | See the Voidspawn main article for information in how to defeat it. | 2.1 | H | |
Has defeated the Tiyanki Matriarch | See the Tiyanki Matriarch main article for information in how to defeat it. | 2.1 | H | |
Has defeated the Scavenger Bot | See the Scavenger Bot main article for information in how to defeat it. | 2.1 | H |
MegaCorp[edit source]
Achievement | Requirements | Hints | Ver | DI |
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Have the Corporate government type and have branch offices on other empires' capitals > 5 | The capital of a subject empire counts for this achievement, this could help in case the galaxy is full of unfriendly empires that won't accept a commercial pact by making them your subsidiaries. Note that opening branch offices as Criminal Syndicate does not award this achievement. | 2.2 | M | |
Has constructed a complete Matter Decompressor | A repaired destroyed Matter Decompressor does not count | 2.2 | H | |
Has 4 completed Megastructures. | Repaired destroyed Megastructures also count, which can be useful if you lack enough DLC to get 4 normally. | 2.2 | H | |
Has constructed a complete Mega-Art Installation (including the Perfection stage) in a system within a nebula | A repaired destroyed Mega-Art Installation does not count | 2.2 | H | |
Has constructed a complete Strategic Coordination Center | A repaired destroyed Strategic Coordination Center does not count | 2.2 | H | |
Has constructed a complete Interstellar Assembly | A repaired destroyed Interstellar Assembly does not count | 2.2 | H | |
Win the Galatron in the Reliquary or take it from another empire | The Galatron is a very rare reward from the Caravaneers reliquaries. Each reliquary has a 0.5% chance of containing the Galatron, and only 6 reliquaries can be bought during a game, requiring an average of 34 games to obtain it. This may also be obtained along with "Raiders of the Lost Galatron" by taking the Galatron from an AI empire that has it. | 2.2 | VH | |
Capture the Galatron from an empire with it in war | Getting the Galatron gives all empires a CB for taking it from its current owner, because of that there are two ways of going about with this. Either wait and hope an empire gets it from the reliquaries and then declare war on them, or get the Galatron yourself, lose it in a war and reconquer it after the truce. | 2.3 | I |
Ancient Relics[edit source]
Achievement | Requirements | Hints | Ver | DI |
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Use the Reverse-Engineer Arcane Technology relic option | Requires the Arcane Deciphering technology which unlocks Reverse-Engineer Arcane Technology option, which for 5 ![]() |
2.3 | E | |
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Getting the Rubricator relic may help in cases where no other way to obtain minor artifacts is available. | 2.3 | E | |
Finish the Zroni Precursor chain | As the archaeological site to start the Zroni chain is only found on habitable planets it may help to only survey those to prevent another precursor chain from being triggered. | 2.3 | M | |
Finish the Baol Precursor chain | 2.3 | M | ||
Own at least 5 relics | Starting a game with no AI empires and on a Huge galaxy makes getting this achievement a matter of time. | 2.3 | M |
Federations[edit source]
Achievement | Requirements | Hints | Ver | DI |
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Level up a Federation you are in | The Common Ground and Hegemon Origins make this achievement much easier | 2.6 | VE | |
Have your Diplomatic Weight > 9000 | Achievement is easily achieved by the endgame of a typical playthrough. | 2.6 | E | |
Be the leader of a Level 5 Federation | The Common Ground and Hegemon Origins make this achievement faster to get | 2.6 | E | |
Reject the creation of the galactic community and have at least once left a Federation | Achievement will only be awarded after the galactic community is created, not when you refuse to join. | 2.6 | E | |
Defeat an empire that uses the ![]() |
Create a new custom empire that is ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Save this empire then go back to the empire selection screen and change its spawning mode to Forced. Make sure no other empires are set to the forced spawning mode and then start a new game using an empire of your choice on a small galaxy with:
This sets up a game with you vs. the AI empire defined earlier. When the AI completes the Supremacy tradition tree it should immediately switch to the When the AI finishes the Supremacy tradition tree it will prefer to switch to or stay in the Supremacist Diplomatic Stance if:
Play normally, find the AI, send envoys to improve relations (to discourage it from declaring war on you) and monitor the AI's diplomatic stance. When it changes to Supremacy build up your fleet to equivalent power and when ready, verify that the AI's diplomatic stance still shows Supremacy and then send envoys to harm relations, rival the AI, and declare a humiliation war. When you win the AI is forced out of the Supremacist Diplomatic Stance and the achievement is obtained. |
2.6 | H | |
Has constructed a complete Mega-Shipyard | A repaired destroyed Mega-Shipyard does not count. Can be gotten without the DLC if a completed Mega-Shipyard is acquired from an Awakened Empire. | 2.6 | H | |
Build a Juggernaut ship type | 2.6 | H | ||
Pass any Denounce resolution on an Empire that isn't in breach of Galactic Law | Curiously, you don't have to be the denouncer or even part of the Galactic Community. | 2.6 | H |