Uplifting primative species?

[Kynnetic]

Alright, I've been playing Stellaris for the past three days and I recently restarted my game and turned on the tutorial thing. After a few years, my tutorial bot mentioned uplifting a primitive species that is close to sentience after researching the Epigenetic Triggers tech. I've researched the tech and the tutorial only tells me to go to the people menu, then the species menu. How do I determine which species are primitive and close to sentience from the species list and how then do I proceed to 'uplift' them? I wish the tutorial was just wee bit clearer on how this is done...

Thanks in advance,
Kynn

 

[Raylof]

Hmmm interesting, it doesn't seem to be working correctly. It should tell you if the species are sapient or not in the species tab, but it doesn't seem to be doing that. To uplift a species you need to build an observation post above the species home planet and than select technological enlightenment to uplift them though.

 

[Kynnetic]

Alright! I was wondering about this for a while as I played my game earlier. It was beginning to drive me to distraction.. Thanks for the info!

 

[CodingFox]

What are the benefits of doing so? I guess it will form a new full ai player but what what else?

 

[Raylof]

What are the benefits of doing so? I guess it will form a new full ai player but what what else?

You can make them your vassal since you have much better tech and strength than them. They help you with research, I think they pay 25 percent of all their research.

 

[CodingFox]

But it doesn’t do that automatically? So I uplift them, then they are friendly to me due to me ? Do i then have to declare war to them ?

 

[Raylof]

But it doesn’t do that automatically? So I uplift them, then they are friendly to me due to me ? Do i then have to declare war to them ?

I don't believe it does it automatically. It might but I cannot remember, normally they will just let you vassalize them if you ask them. Or if you ask them to be a protectorate.

 

[Peskie]

To uplift a species you need to build an observation post above the species home planet and than select technological enlightenment to uplift them though.

Note that there is "Uplifting" and there is "Enlightenment". The tutorial the Kynnetic mentioned is about uplifting but the observation posts you mention are used to enlighten.

Uplifting species is done to pre-sapient species (there is grey text bellow the species name in the list of species that tells you it is pre-sapient). This requires the "Epigenetic Triggers" technology and is done via the species detail screen (the one where you can also set species rights). The star system where their home planet is located must be within your empire's borders. If the planet was colonised, then the tiles that were previous blocked by the native species become regular working tiles. If the planet was not colonised then it becomes a newly colonised planet that you can fully control. In either case the species becomes a regular member of your empire.

Enlightening primitives is where an already sapient species is found that does not yet have FTL. They may be stone age, industrial, atomic, etc. These require an observation post to be built and you can passively research them (for 3 social), more actively research them (if you policies allow). You can choose to spend some amount of energy+social research per month (it was 5 each for me) for some number of months (based on their current technology). When complete a new empire is created as a "protectorate" that gets a 90% research discount on all tech you have, and once they have researched 50% of what you have they turn into a "vassal" empire.

 

[superdeluxe]

Yup this. Pre-sentients are species that you can ‘uplift’ by research tech to become new species in YOUR empire, you can also modify them to colonize what you want ‘you have lots of arid planet and can only live on ice planets? Make the new species a arid climate’

I have one currently. I also have a primitive nation who have their own planet/government, which I’m
Using technology to make them
Space fairing. They become your protectorate and you can guide their ethics etc. then you can add them
To your empire if you choose (especially
If they can colonize different planets)

I dislike passive study etc, because they always end up killing themselves.