Utopia

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 Utopia

**Type** Expansion

**Release date / Patch**2017-04-06 / 1.5

**Store: Expansion** Paradox / Steam

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****Utopia**** is the first major expansion for Stellaris. It was announced on 2017-02-02 and was released on 2017-04-06. The expansion was accompanied by the free 1.5 patch (aka *Banks*).

## Expansion features

These features are only available if the accompanying DLC is activated.

* Megastructures: Build wondrous structures in your systems including Dyson Spheres and ring worlds, bringing both prestige and major advantages to your species.
* Habitat Stations: Build “tall” and establish space stations that will house more population, serving the role of planets in a small and confined empire.
* Ascension Perks: Collect Unity points and adopt Traditions to unlock Ascension Perks that allow you to customize your empire in unique ways (many of which were moved to base game in Stellaris 2.0). Follow one of the four Ascension Paths and achieve Biological Mastery, Cybernetic (since Stellaris 3.6), give up your biological forms in a Synthetic Evolution, or unlock the full psionic potential of your species through Transcendence.
* Purge and Slavery Types: Further define the different treatment and purging options of species.
* Native Indoctrination: Help pre-FTL species think in the right way, your way!
* Advanced Civics: Go to the extreme with choosing either Syncretic Evolution, Mechanist or Fanatic Purifiers (the first 2 became Origins in Stellaris 2.6, Ascensionists was added in Stellaris 3.6).
* Hive Minds: Tired of ethics? Become one with yourself! (with their specific Civics, and since Stellaris 2.6 the Tree of Life Origin)

## Free features

The 1.5 patch (aka *Banks*) includes changes to:

* Ethics rework: Reworked empire and pop ethics, along with a better integration with a revamped faction system.
* Faction Interactions: Shift the empire ethics by supporting/oppressing the different factions.
* Unity and Traditions: Collect Unity points and adopt ideas and bonuses that will ease your species' expansion across the stars, unlocking special perks for completing a set.
* Rights and Privileges: Set specific policies for which of the many species under your thumb will have the rights and privileges of full citizenship.
* Refugees and Core Worlds: set policies regarding refugees and core planets.
* Government Rework: Authority determine how power is transferred while civics represent the political and social traditions of the government.
* And more: Unrest, Consumer Goods, Happiness etc.

## Dev diaries

*Main article: Developer diaries*

All developer diaries about the ***Utopia*** expansion, patch 1.5 (aka Banks) and patch 1.6 (aka Adams).

Patch 1.6 (Adams)

 18 | The Adams Update (part 2) | Devouring Swarm civic for Hive Minds, terraforming enhancements, and full patch notes. | 2017-05-04

Patch 1.5 (Banks)

## References

1. ↑ Forum, Perfect Your Galactic Empire in Stellaris: Utopia, 2017-02-02
2. ↑ Forum, Stellaris Allow You to Lead Your Species to Utopia on April 6, 2017-02-27