Life Systems Complex

Research building

Not built directly

Life Systems Complex is a research building in Stellaris 4.5.2. It costs 800 Minerals, 100 Exotic Gases and takes 480 days to build, with an upkeep of 8 Energy Credits, 2 Exotic Gases a month. It adds Biologists, Biology Subroutines and Archivists jobs, depending on the empire. It needs Biostructural Synthesis.

Cost: 800Minerals100Exotic Gases
Upkeep: 8Energy Credits2Exotic Gases
Build time: 480 days
Housing: —
ID: building_biolab_3

Jobs Life Systems Complex adds

Jobs come from the building's job modifiers; 4.x counts jobs in hundreds (a district adds 100). Variants for other kinds of empires are listed with their condition.

200 Biologists
Regular empire (not gestalt); Not: Country flag: fallen_empire_1
- Owner
  - Regular empire (not gestalt)
  - Not: Country flag: fallen_empire_1
200 Biology Subroutines
Gestalt Consciousness
- Owner
  - Gestalt Consciousness
200 Archivists
Country flag: fallen_empire_1
- Owner
  - Country flag: fallen_empire_1

Cost, upkeep and output

Base values from the building's resources block; conditional variants (nomadic empires pay other resources, for example) open with their condition.

Cost: 800Minerals100Exotic Gases
80Exotic Gases — Nomadic empire
Nomadic empire
Upkeep a month: 8Energy Credits2Exotic Gases

What Life Systems Complex does

On the planet

+10%Biologist Workforce
+0.5Society Research Produced per 100 Biologists
+0.25Exotic Gases Upkeep per 100 Biologists

Upgrade chain

upgrades = { } in the files: each building upgrades to the next.

How to unlock Life Systems Complex

Biostructural SynthesisTechnology

Shown when (potential)

None of
- Modifier: Resort World
- Modifier: Thrall-World
- Modifier: Penal Colony

Destroyed or converted when (destroy_trigger)

Any of
- Modifier: Resort World
- Modifier: Thrall-World
- Modifier: Penal Colony
- Owner
  - Wilderness empire

In the game

Life, in all its staggering variety, is composed of repeating patterns and modular structures. By decoding and replicating these at every scale, we now wield a holistic blueprint of biology. There is little left in nature we do not understand, and less still we cannot recreate.

ID

building_biolab_3

Life Systems Complex: questions

How much does Life Systems Complex cost in Stellaris?

800 Minerals, 100 Exotic Gases, 480 days to build; upkeep 8 Energy Credits, 2 Exotic Gases a month (common/buildings, base values).

What jobs does Life Systems Complex give?

Depending on the empire: Biologists, Biology Subroutines and Archivists.

What does Life Systems Complex upgrade from and to?

It is upgraded from Neurogenetics Institute.

What is the ID of Life Systems Complex?

building_biolab_3 (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

Source: common/buildings/05_research_buildings.txt, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776). Base values before modifiers.