Commensal Grove

Unity building

Not built directly

Commensal Grove is an unity building in Stellaris 4.5.2. It costs 400 Minerals, 200 Biomass and takes 360 days to build, with an upkeep of 2 Energy Credits a month. It adds Bureaucrats and Coordinators jobs, depending on the empire. It needs Centers of Being. Upgrades to Commensal Valley.

Cost: 400Minerals200Biomass
Upkeep: 2Energy Credits
Build time: 360 days
Housing: —
ID: building_commensal_clearing_2

Jobs Commensal Grove 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 Bureaucrats
Regular empire (not gestalt)
- Owner
  - Regular empire (not gestalt)
200 Coordinators
Not: Regular empire (not gestalt)
- Owner
  - Not: Regular empire (not gestalt)

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: 400Minerals200Biomass
Upkeep a month: 2Energy Credits

What Commensal Grove 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 Commensal Grove

Centers of BeingTechnology

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

Ideal, sheltered venues for mass gatherings of symbionts. Here, their interactions yield further understanding of the distributed self.

ID

building_commensal_clearing_2

Commensal Grove: questions

How much does Commensal Grove cost in Stellaris?

400 Minerals, 200 Biomass, 360 days to build; upkeep 2 Energy Credits a month (common/buildings, base values).

What jobs does Commensal Grove give?

Depending on the empire: Bureaucrats and Coordinators.

What does Commensal Grove upgrade from and to?

It is upgraded from Commensal Clearing. It upgrades to Commensal Valley.

What is the ID of Commensal Grove?

building_commensal_clearing_2 (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

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