Lithic Macerator

Resource building

Not built directly

Lithic Macerator is a resource building in Stellaris 4.5.2. It costs 800 Minerals, 50 Volatile Motes, 400 Biomass and takes 360 days to build, with an upkeep of 8 Minerals, 1 Volatile Motes a month. It adds Miners, Acolytes of the Hammer and Mining Drones jobs, depending on the empire. It needs Mineral Purification. Upgrades to Lithic Baths.

Cost: 800Minerals50Volatile Motes400Biomass
Upkeep: 8Minerals1Volatile Motes
Build time: 360 days
Housing: —
ID: building_churning_tunnels_3

Jobs Lithic Macerator 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.

400 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
400 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
400 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: 800Minerals50Volatile Motes400Biomass
Upkeep a month: 8Minerals1Volatile Motes

What Lithic Macerator does

On the planet

+0.5Minerals Produced per 100 Miners

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 Macerator

Mineral PurificationTechnology

Shown when (potential)

Owner
- Wilderness empire

Can be built when (allow)

Has major upgraded capital
- When Modifier: Resort World
  - Requires Resort Capital-Complex on colony.
- When Modifier: Thrall-World
  - Requires Governor's Estates on colony.
- When Planet class: Orbital Habitat
  - Requires Habitat Central Control on colony.
- When owner (Wilderness empire)
  - Requires Planetary Root Complex on planet.
- When owner (Hive Mind)
  - Requires Hive Nexus on colony.
- When owner (Machine Intelligence)
  - Requires Planetary Processor on colony.
- Otherwise
  - Requires Planetary Capital on colony.

Destroyed or converted when (destroy_trigger)

Any of
- Modifier: Resort World
- Owner
  - Controlled by the AI
- Not: Has any mining district or building
  - Any of
    - District: Mining District
    - District: Magma Conduit
    - District: Astro-Mining Bay
    - District: Hollow Mountain
    - Building: Surface Quarry Depot
    - Has any mining zone
- Owner
  - Not: Wilderness empire

In the game

Powerful grinding plates and pincers help reduce earthen matter to a chemical slurry for easier mineral extraction.

ID

building_churning_tunnels_3

Lithic Macerator: questions

How much does Lithic Macerator cost in Stellaris?

800 Minerals, 50 Volatile Motes, 400 Biomass, 360 days to build; upkeep 8 Minerals, 1 Volatile Motes a month (common/buildings, base values).

What jobs does Lithic Macerator give?

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

What does Lithic Macerator upgrade from and to?

It is upgraded from Lithic Filters. It upgrades to Lithic Baths.

What is the ID of Lithic Macerator?

building_churning_tunnels_3 (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

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