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Commensal Valley

Unity building
Not built directly

Commensal Valley is an unity building in Stellaris 4.5.2. It costs 600 Minerals, 400 Biomass, 50 Rare Crystals and takes 480 days to build, with an upkeep of 5 Energy Credits, 1 Rare Crystals a month. It adds Bureaucrats and Coordinators jobs, depending on the empire. It needs Clustered Synapses. Upgrades to Commensal Biome.

Cost
600Minerals400Biomass50Rare Crystals
Upkeep
5Energy Credits1Rare Crystals
Build time
480 days
Housing
—
ID
building_commensal_clearing_3

Jobs Commensal Valley 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.

  • Regular empire (not gestalt)
    • Owner
      • Regular empire (not gestalt)
  • 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
600Minerals400Biomass50Rare Crystals
Upkeep a month
5Energy Credits1Rare Crystals

What Commensal Valley does

On the planet
  • +0.25Unity Produced per 100 Bureaucrats
Only in some cases

Upgrade chain

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

  1. Commensal Grove
  2. →Commensal Valley
  3. →Commensal Biome

How to unlock Commensal Valley

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)
  • Owner
    • Not: Wilderness empire

In the game

Dense and highly varied communities of symbionts migrate through these pristine formations, strengthening the ties between each other.

ID

building_commensal_clearing_3

Commensal Valley: questions

How much does Commensal Valley cost in Stellaris?

600 Minerals, 400 Biomass, 50 Rare Crystals, 480 days to build; upkeep 5 Energy Credits, 1 Rare Crystals a month (common/buildings, base values).

What jobs does Commensal Valley give?

Depending on the empire: Bureaucrats and Coordinators.

What does Commensal Valley upgrade from and to?

It is upgraded from Commensal Grove. It upgrades to Commensal Biome.

What is the ID of Commensal Valley?

building_commensal_clearing_3 (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

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

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