Commensal Biome

Unity building

Not built directly

Commensal Biome is an unity building in Stellaris 4.5.2. It costs 800 Minerals, 800 Biomass, 100 Rare Crystals and takes 600 days to build, with an upkeep of 8 Energy Credits, 2 Rare Crystals a month. It adds Bureaucrats and Coordinators jobs, depending on the empire. It needs Confluence of Thought.

Cost: 800Minerals800Biomass100Rare Crystals
Upkeep: 8Energy Credits2Rare Crystals
Build time: 600 days
Housing: —
ID: building_commensal_clearing_4

Jobs Commensal Biome 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 Bureaucrats
Regular empire (not gestalt)
- Owner
  - Regular empire (not gestalt)
400 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: 800Minerals800Biomass100Rare Crystals
Upkeep a month: 8Energy Credits2Rare Crystals

What Commensal Biome does

On the planet

+0.25Unity Produced per 100 Bureaucrats
+5%Job Efficiency for Bureaucrats

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 Biome

Confluence of ThoughtTechnology

Shown when (potential)

Owner
- Wilderness empire

Can be built when (allow)

Has fully 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 System Control on colony.
- When owner (Wilderness empire)
  - Requires Planetary Root Nexus on planet.
- When owner (Hive Mind)
  - Requires Hive Nexus on colony.
- When owner (Machine Intelligence)
  - Requires Primary Nexus on colony.
- Otherwise
  - Requires System Capital-Complex on colony.

Destroyed or converted when (destroy_trigger)

Owner
- Not: Wilderness empire

In the game

Vast, interconnected habitats play host to myriad encounters, each one a vital spark of mutualistic unity.

ID

building_commensal_clearing_4

Commensal Biome: questions

How much does Commensal Biome cost in Stellaris?

800 Minerals, 800 Biomass, 100 Rare Crystals, 600 days to build; upkeep 8 Energy Credits, 2 Rare Crystals a month (common/buildings, base values).

What jobs does Commensal Biome give?

Depending on the empire: Bureaucrats and Coordinators.

What does Commensal Biome upgrade from and to?

It is upgraded from Commensal Valley.

What is the ID of Commensal Biome?

building_commensal_clearing_4 (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

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