Lithic Filters

Resource building

Not built directly

Lithic Filters is a resource building in Stellaris 4.5.2. It costs 600 Minerals, 200 Biomass and takes 240 days to build, with an upkeep of 5 Minerals a month. It adds Miners, Acolytes of the Hammer and Mining Drones jobs, depending on the empire. Upgrades to Lithic Macerator.

Cost: 600Minerals200Biomass
Upkeep: 5Minerals
Build time: 240 days
Housing: —
ID: building_churning_tunnels_2

Jobs Lithic Filters 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 Miners
Regular empire (not gestalt); any of: Country type: Fallen Empire; any of: Coun…
- Owner
  - Regular empire (not gestalt)
  - Not: Is fallen empire spiritualist
    Any of
    Country type: Fallen Empire
    Country type: Awakened Empire
    Ethic: Fanatic Spiritualist
200 Acolytes of the Hammer
Not: Planet class: Shattered Ring Segment; any of: Country type: Fallen Empire;…
- Not: Planet class: Shattered Ring Segment
- Owner
  - Is fallen empire spiritualist
    Any of
    Country type: Fallen Empire
    Country type: Awakened Empire
    Ethic: Fanatic Spiritualist
200 Mining Drones
Gestalt Consciousness
- Owner
  - Gestalt Consciousness

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: 600Minerals200Biomass
Upkeep a month: 5Minerals

What Lithic Filters does

Only in some cases

- +3%Infrastructure Build Speed
- +3%Decision Enactment Speed
when…
- Owner
  - Wilderness empire
  - Tradition: Purity Traditions Finished

Upgrade chain

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

How to unlock Lithic Filters

No technology needed.

Shown when (potential)

Owner
- Wilderness empire

Can be built when (allow)

Has upgraded capital
- When Modifier: Resort World
  - Requires Resort Administration on colony.
- When Modifier: Thrall-World
  - Requires Governor's Palace on colony.
- When Planet class: Orbital Habitat
  - Requires Habitat Administration on colony.
- When owner (Wilderness empire)
  - Requires Planetary Root Bundle on planet.
- When owner (Hive Mind)
  - Requires Hive Core on colony.
- When owner (Machine Intelligence)
  - Requires Administrative Array on colony.
- Otherwise
  - Requires Planetary Administration on planet.

Destroyed or converted when (destroy_trigger)

Owner
- Not: Wilderness empire

In the game

Colonies of semi-permeable biofilms collect valuable minerals that would otherwise be lost in run-off from liquid mining operations.

ID

building_churning_tunnels_2

Lithic Filters: questions

How much does Lithic Filters cost in Stellaris?

600 Minerals, 200 Biomass, 240 days to build; upkeep 5 Minerals a month (common/buildings, base values).

What jobs does Lithic Filters give?

Depending on the empire: Miners, Acolytes of the Hammer and Mining Drones.

What does Lithic Filters upgrade from and to?

It is upgraded from Lithic Bore. It upgrades to Lithic Macerator.

What is the ID of Lithic Filters?

building_churning_tunnels_2 (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

Source: common/buildings/21_wilderness_buildings.txt, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776). Base values before modifiers.