This guide extensively explains, rates, and ranks all ethics, traits, origins, civics, traditions, and ascension perks to consider when creating a custom empire, using the Stellaris Tier Lists created by Montu Plays on YouTube. A complete, searchable list of all Stellaris species trait IDs for the add_trait_species console command. Traits represents a species' innate functions, abilities, and personality. A species's traits are selected at the start of a new game, but a species or certain pops of a species can adapt new traits through genetic engineering or rare events. These traits define basic characteristics of a species. They can be added to the starting founder species under certain conditions, and require special conditions to add or remove. You are best off going with a species that has no traits, if you're going to min-max optimally at least. Haven't tested on 3.9 beta to see if they ever fixed that. Traits represents a species' innate functions, abilities, and personality. A species's traits are selected at the start of a new game, but a species or certain pops of a species can adapt new traits through genetic engineering or rare events. Can you explain to me how species traits and species work? I'm playing as a tech-oriented meritocracy with synthetic ascension. I struggle to understand species traits. Just after ascension, I could implement Adaptive Frames - and so I did. Species traits represent a species' innate functions, abilities, and personality. Though traits are initially decided at a species level, individual pops of the same species can end up with different traits with genetic modification, producing new subspecies. There are tons of traits to choose in Stellaris, so which ones should you select? In this guide, we list the best traits overall in the game. With all the downloadable contents obtained, players can choose a combination from more than 80 traits for their species, with many species having their own specified traits to choose from.