Achievements

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This article is for the PC version of Stellaris only.

Stellaris has 114 different Steam achievements. Achievements have no in-game effects, the achievement just pops up in-game and then added to the player's Steam profile. It is possible to see the achievements sorted by the percentage of users that managed to complete each achievement by going to the game's global stats at Steam.

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

• 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

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

Achievement	Requirements	Hints	Ver	DI
Brave New World Colonize a planet.	Number of owned planets >1	Starting the game with the Guaranteed Habitable Worlds setting to 1 or 2 creates very suitable planets nearby	1.0	VE
Break On Through... Research a Rare technology.	Number of acquired rare techs >0	Start the game with traits, ethics and civics that increase research speed or alternatives	1.0	VE
Domo Arigato Build a Robot Pop.	Has built a robot pop	The Mechanist origin starts with the technology to build robots	1.0	VE
Emissary Explore a Natural Wormhole.	Requires Wormhole Stabilization and traveling through any wormhole.	Start the game with the Wormhole Pairs setting to X5	2.0	VE
Energetic Store/have 1000 EC.	Has accumulated energy credits >999		1.0	VE
Explorer Survey one of each basic planet-class.	Has surveyed all 16 celestial body types		1.0	VE
Mutual Understanding Successfully negotiate a trade deal.	Has traded with another empire	If no empire wants to trade gifts count too	1.0	VE
Resourceful Have access to ten different strategic resources.	Number of strategic resources >9	Due to the 2.2 "Le Guin" update reworking strategic resources, the achievement is now granted automatically when starting a new game.	1.4	VE
Suffer not the Alien As a xenophobic empire, purge all other sentient species in the galaxy.	Has, as a xenophobe empire, destroyed and purged the sapient inhabitants of all other empires	The Fanatic Purifiers civic is perfect for the achievement 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
A Home Away From Home Conquer another species homeworld	Has conquered another species' homeworld	Custom empires with nothing but bad traits can be created.	1.0	E
Building Better Worlds Terraform a planet.	Has terraformed a planet		1.0	E
Clever Girl Uplift a species.	Has uplifted a species		1.0	E
Digging Deep Earn a total Mineral income each month above 250.	Monthly income of minerals >249		1.0	E
League of Nations Be a founding member of the Galactic Community		The Common Ground and Hegemon Origins guarantee this achievement unless another empire has the same origins	2.6	E
Megapolis Have a planet with at least 100 Pops	Has a planet with >99 Pops.		2.2	E
New Shining Star Upgrade your capital to an Imperial Complex.	Have an System-Capital Complex on your capital		1.0	E
Old Friends Receive a gift from a Fallen Empire.	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
Omnicultural Have your ruler be of a different species class than your founding species.		Oligarchic and Corporate authority changes rulers often and allows the manual selection of a ruler for 200 Influence	1.4	E
Payback As a humanoid species, infiltrate the homeworld of pre-FTL reptilians.	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 ensures a reptilian civilization is found more easily.	1.4	E
Peacekeeper As a pacifistic empire, be at peace for 200 consecutive years (crises do not count as wars.)		Starting the game with no AI empires makes getting this achievement a matter of time	1.4	E
Power Overwhelming Store/have 5000 EC.	Has accumulated energy credits >4999		1.0	E
Supremacy Win a War against another Empire.	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
The Grand Fleet Build a fleet with a total fleet-size above 120.	Has a fleet with size >119	See Ship#Command_Limit for how to increase Command Limit	1.0	E
... To The Other Side Research 15 Rare technologies in a single game.	Number of acquired rare techs >14		1.0	M
Battle Thralls Have 3 other Empires as vassals.	Number of vassals >2		1.0	M
Birth of a Federation Establish a Federation.	Is federation leader	Empires with the Fanatical Befrienders personality offer the highest acceptance rate	1.0	M
Center of Trade Earn at least 1000 Energy Credits per month from trade	Gets >999 energy credits from trade routes.	Wealth Creation trade policy needs 1000 Trade Value, all others require 2000	2.2	M
Citadel of Death Own a Citadel with 40k fleet power.			2.0	M
Enlightened Times Enlighten a Bronze or Stone age civilization.	Has enlightened a primitive civilization from the Bronze or Stone Age	Setting Habitable Worlds to 0.25X and Primitive Civilizations to 5X ensures a civilization with the correct era is found more easily.	1.4	M
Faster, Stronger, Better Genetically alter a species (not uplift).	Has genetically modified a species		1.0	M
Grand Admiral Empire total fleet military power equals 100000.	have fleet power >99999		1.0	M
Imperial Highway Own 4 active Gateways.		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
It belongs in a museum! Find a Relic	Own at least 1 relics	DLCs make this achievement easier	2.3	M
Paradise Found Terraform a planet into a gaia world.	Has terraformed a planet into a gaia world	Gaia Worlds created by events also count	1.4	M
Put a Ring On It Have a ring world section as your capital.	Either go the route of building one, repairing one or capturing one from a Fallen Empire.	This achievement is disabled by the Shattered Ring origin.	1.4	M
Slave to the Systems As an authoritarian Empire with at least 500 Pops, have at least 200 enslaved Pops		The Slaver Guilds civic ensures the correct ratio if you have 500 Pops	1.4	M
Star Struck Own 200 Starbases (Outposts are counted).			2.0	M
The Industrial Re-Revolution Earn a total Mineral income each month above 1000.	Monthly income of minerals >999		1.0	M
Tradition is Everything Unlock all 42 Traditions.			2.0	M
Unlimited Power! Use the active effect of a Relic			2.3	M
Victorious Win the game through any victory condition.	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
What Came Before Find the home system of a precursor empire.	Has completed a precursor event chain and traveled to the subsequently revealed system	Starting the game with no AI empires makes getting this achievement a matter of time	1.4	M
Outside Context Invade pre-FTL Earth while it is in the midst of a world war.	Has invaded Earth, found in the Sol system, while it is in the machine age	Sol has a 50% chance to spawn regardless of galaxy size if no empires has it as its starting system	1.4	H
Planned Obsolescence As a materialist empire, have at least 75% of the pops in your empire be robotic in an empire with at least 200 pops.		Best done by going for Synthetic Evolution Ascension Perk	1.4	H
Then Virgil, Now Beatrice Return a long-dead species to life.	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
Tourist Trap Own a planet with at least 10 different species on it		Best done by resettling Pops obtained from Migration Treaties or conquests or by conquering The Preserve from an Enigmatic Observers Fallen Empire. Curiously, as Driven Assimilator you can conquer a planet with at least five species, because organics and cybernetics are counted as separate species.	1.4	H
Unboxing Open up a shielded world.	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
Very Open Borders As a xenophilic empire, have migration treaties with at least 10 other empires.		Easiest done by releasing as many 1-planet vassals as needed towards the end of the game	1.4	H
Deus Vult As a spiritualistic empire, own 4 holy worlds.	Colonize 4 worlds with the Holy World modifier	A good strategy is to place 4 colony ships in orbit, then simultaneously order colonizations of all 4. You do not need to complete the colonization process, only begin it. This achievement becomes far easier if the Head of Zarqlan Relic is obtained.	1.4	VH
Does Not Compute Shut down the Contingency plan.	Destroy the Contingency Secret Lair	Like all crises lowering setting the Crisis Strength setting to to 0.25x makes this a lot easier to achieve.	1.8	VH
Queening Successfully capture an extragalactic matriarch.	Has captured the Prethoryn queen	Like all crises lowering setting the Crisis Strength setting to to 0.25x makes this a lot easier to achieve.	1.0	VH
Rift Sealed Destroy the portals employed by the invaders from another time and space.	Destroy the last Extradimensional Invader portal	Like all crises lowering setting the Crisis Strength setting to to 0.25x makes this a lot easier to achieve.	1.0	VH
Voight-Kampff Develop the means to prevent nefarious infiltration.	Has found a way to stop the synthetic infiltration	Complete the event chain to detect synthetic infiltrators during the Contingency crises.	1.0	VH
What Was Will Be Close the loop, or don't.	Has completed the Horizon Signal event chain and either outcome	Accepting the Worm's offer is the easier choice	1.4	VH

Leviathans

Achievement	Requirements	Hints	Ver	DI
Mad Genius Recruit a scientist from the Curators.	Has purchased a scientist from a curator enclave after having developed sufficient opinion with them to do so		1.4	E
Patron Support the Artisan Troupe for 10 years.	Has chosen to become a patron of an artisan troup enclave and waited 10 years for the initial energy credits payment to expire	This achievement appears to be bugged and will not always unlock properly.	1.4	E
The Good Stuff Purchase a rare resource from the Traders.	Has purchased a strategic resource from a trader enclave		1.4	E
Return to Dust Destroy an enclave.	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
Dreadnought Restore an ancient warship.	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
Hear me Roar Hatch the egg.	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
Infinite Creation Birth a new universe.	Has peacefully completed the Infinity Machine event and, by luck, resulted in the black hole gaining The Mirror Of Knowledge modifier, among other things	Requires the hidden technosphere_secret country flag to be present which happens in 30% of the cases when a player chooses to help the Infinity Machine.	1.4	H
Stellar Performance Take a trophy from a stellar being.	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
Unravelling Enigma Uncover the secrets of an ancient fortress.	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
Warrior of Light Destroy a wraith.	Has defeated the Spectral Wraith	See the Spectral Wraith main article for information in how to defeat it.	1.4	H
Last, Best Hope Lead the non-aligned powers to victory against an awakened empire.	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.	1.4	VH
Whence It Came Defeat a horrifying invader.	Has defeated the Dimensional Horror	See the Dimensional Horror main article for information in how to defeat it.	1.4	VH

Utopia

Achievement	Requirements	Hints	Ver	DI
Towards Utopia As an Egalitarian empire, have at least 500 pops living under Utopian living conditions in your empire	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
View from the End of the World Build a Habitat station in a Black Hole system	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
We Are Legion Be a biological Hive Mind with at least 1000 drone Pops.	Is a hive mind and has >999 Pops.	Only the overall amount of pops in the empire is checked for this achievement, so conquering pops of any species with or without the hive mind trait, will help in getting this faster	2.2	M
Xenophage Keep at least 5 different species as livestock in your Empire	Has >4 species enslaved as Livestock.	The Syncretic Evolution provides one species	1.5	M
Beyond the Veil Breach the Shroud	Has unlocked the Transcendence Ascension Perk and entered the shroud		1.5	H
Captive Star Construct a complete Dyson Sphere	Has constructed a complete Dyson sphere (this does not include restoring destroyed Dyson Spheres)	Due to the bug it is enough to construct Dyson Sphere Site	1.5	H
Controlled Evolution Genetically modify a species to possess traits worth 7 points		Requires the Evolutionary Mastery Ascension Perk	1.5	H
Giga-Engineering Have at least 4 fully operational Megastructures within your borders(Habitats, Ring Worlds and Gateways do not count)	Has 4 completed Megastructures.	Repaired destroyed Megastructures also counts	2.2	H
I Can See Forever Construct a complete Sentry Array	Has constructed a complete Sentry array	A repaired destroyed Sentry Array does not count	1.5	H
Like Tears in Rain Evolve into perfect, immortal machines	Has unlocked the Synthetic Evolution Ascension Perk, completed the project, and converted all eligible empire citizens to synths		1.5	H
Ringworld Engineers Construct a complete Ring World	Has constructed a complete Ring World	A repaired destroyed Ringworld does not count	1.5	H
Think Tank Construct a complete Science Nexus	Has constructed a complete Science nexus	A repaired destroyed Science Nexus does not count	1.5	H

Synthetic Dawn

Achievement	Requirements	Hints	Ver	DI
Rise of the Machines As a Determined Exterminator, conquer or eliminate all biological Empires in the galaxy.		Curiously, the Determined Exterminator civic is not required to complete this achievement. 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
Distinctiveness Added As a Driven Assimilator, own cyborg Pops of at least 5 different species.		Easily accomplished by conquering primitives. Setting Habitable Worlds to 0.25X and Primitive Civilizations to 5X ensures many systems will have primitive civilizations.	1.8	M
Planet of the Mechs Terraform a planet into a Machine World.		Two ascension perks are required to be chosen before the option to unlock machine worlds is made avaiable.	1.8	M
Retirement Home As a Rogue Servitor, own at least 10 Pops from Fallen Empires.	Have the Rogue Servitor civic and >9 pops which started the game in a Fallen Empire	Refugee pops do not count	1.8	VH

Apocalypse

Achievement	Requirements	Hints	Ver	DI
Exterminatus Use a World Cracker to destroy another Empire's capital planet.		Custom empires with nothing but bad traits can be created. Can be achieved by destroying a Contingency planet.	2.0	M
No Khan Do Kill the Great Khan in battle.			2.0	H
Pandora's World Use a Global Pacifier to shield a planet belonging to Fanatic Purifiers, Ravenous Swarms, or Determined Exterminators.			2.0	H
Stay on Target Destroy another Empire's Colossus while it is in the process of 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. If no regular empire has a Colossus Fallen Empires will.	2.0	H
Clash of the Titans Defeat a Fallen Empire's Titan fleet with a Titan of your own.			2.0	VH

Distant Stars

Achievement	Requirements	Hints	Ver	DI
Mad Genius Recruit a scientist from the Curators.	Has purchased a scientist from a curator enclave after having developed sufficient opinion with them to do so		1.4	E
...and Hope? Unseal the path to the L-Cluster.	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
It Followed Me Home Befriend a Space Amoeba.		See Lost Amoeba for event chain details	2.1	M
1999 A.D. Slaughter the Voidspawn.	Has defeated the Voidspawn	See the Voidspawn main article for information in how to defeat it.	2.1	H
A Hump Like a Snow-Hill Hunt the Tiyanki Matriarch.	Has defeated the Tiyanki Matriarch	See the Tiyanki Matriarch main article for information in how to defeat it.	2.1	H
Who Scraps the Scrapper Destroy the Scrapper Bot.	Has defeated the Scavenger Bot	See the Scavenger Bot main article for information in how to defeat it.	2.1	H

MegaCorp

Achievement	Requirements	Hints	Ver	DI
Franchising As a Corporate empire, have a branch office on 5 different empires' capitals.		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.	2.2	M
Black Hole Mining Build a Matter Decompressor	Has constructed a complete Matter Decompressor	A repaired destroyed Matter Decompressor does not count	2.2	H
Giga-Engineering Have at least 4 fully operational Megastructures within your borders(Habitats, Ring Worlds and Gateways do not count)	Has 4 completed Megastructures.	Repaired destroyed Megastructures also counts	2.2	H
Obscure Tastes Build a Mega-Art Installation in a nebula system	Has constructed a complete Mega-Art Installation in a system within nebula	A repaired destroyed Mega-Art Installation does not count	2.2	H
Strategic Initiative Build a Strategic Coordination Center	Has constructed a complete Strategic Coordination Center	A repaired destroyed Strategic Coordination Center does not count	2.2	H
United Space Build an Interstellar Assembly	Has constructed a complete Interstellar Assembly	A repaired destroyed Interstellar Assembly does not count	2.2	H
Inscrutable Power I won the Galatron and all I got was this lousy achievement.		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.	2.2	VH
Raiders of the Lost Galatron Capture the Galatron from another empire		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

Achievement	Requirements	Hints	Ver	DI
Archaeologist Successfully investigate an archaeological site	Complete all levels of an archaeological site (without failing)		2.3	VE
Arcana Study Minor Artifacts and discover a random technology		Requires the Arcane Deciphering technology which unlocks Reverse-Engineer Arcane Technology option, which for 5 Minor Artifacts can be activated and will give 1 of 4 possible outcomes at random, getting either a random technology or a bonus to tech speed will give the achievement.	2.3	E
Artificer Have 100 Minor Artifacts	Has >99 Minor Artifacts	Getting the Rubricator relic may help in cases where no other way to obtain minor artifacts is available.	2.3	E
Dust Off Complete 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
Green Thumb Complete the Baol Precursor chain			2.3	M
Relic Hunter In one game, find 5 Relics from Ancient Relics Story Pack	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

Achievement	Requirements	Hints	Ver	DI
Let Us Go Forward Together Level up your Federation		The Common Ground and Hegemon Origins make this achievement much easier	2.6	VE
Throw Your Weight Around Have a Diplomatic Weight of over 9000		Achievement is easily achieved by the endgame of a typical playthrough.	2.6	E
We're Number One Be the leader of a max level Federation		The Common Ground and Hegemon Origins make this achievement faster to get	2.6	E
Whatever it is, I'm against it Refuse to belong to any club that would have you as a member	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. This achievement will also not be awarded if you only leave an origin federation opposed to one you joined/created.	2.6	E
Opposites Attract Have all eight ethics represented within your Federation		Overcoming the federational invitation process by vasalizing empires with the subject joining law on yes is the easiest approach to this achievement	2.6	M
Humble Pie Humiliate an Empire that is in the Supremacy Diplomatic Stance, forcing them out of it	Defeat an empire that uses the Supremacist Diplomatic Stance with the Humiliate Wargoal		2.6	H
Our Fleets will Blot Out the Stars Construct a complete Mega-Shipyard	Has constructed a complete Mega-Shipyard	A repaired destroyed Mega-Shipyard does not count	2.6	H
Unstoppable Force Build a Juggernaut			2.6	H
You've Been Served Denounce an Empire that is not actually in breach of galactic law while all major sanctions have been passed		Curiously, to obtain this achievement, you don't have to be the denouncer or the denounced. You don't even have to be a member of the galactic community.	2.6	H