Materials Workshop

Research building

Materials Workshop is a research building in Stellaris 4.5.2. It costs 400 Minerals and takes 360 days to build, with an upkeep of 2 Energy Credits a month. It adds Engineers, Engineering Subroutines and Archivists jobs, depending on the empire. It needs Nanomechanics. Upgrades to Applied Mechanics Institute.

Cost: 400Minerals
Upkeep: 2Energy Credits
Build time: 360 days
Housing: —
ID: building_engineering_facility_1

Jobs Materials Workshop 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 Engineers
Regular empire (not gestalt); Not: Country flag: fallen_empire_1
- Owner
  - Regular empire (not gestalt)
  - Not: Country flag: fallen_empire_1
200 Engineering Subroutines
Gestalt Consciousness
- Owner
  - Gestalt Consciousness
200 Archivists
Country flag: fallen_empire_1
- Owner
  - Country flag: fallen_empire_1

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: 400Minerals
40Exotic Gases — Nomadic empire
Nomadic empire
Upkeep a month: 2Energy Credits

What Materials Workshop does

On the planet

+0.25Engineering Research Produced per 100 Engineers

Upgrade chain

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

How to unlock Materials Workshop

NanomechanicsTechnology

Shown when (potential)

None of
- Modifier: Resort World
- Modifier: Thrall-World
- Modifier: Penal Colony
Owner
- Not: Wilderness empire
Any of
- Carrier flag: ignore_ai_building_limitations
- Owner
  - Not: Controlled by the AI
- Has any research engineering zone
- Has any unspecialized research zone

Destroyed or converted when (destroy_trigger)

Any of
- Modifier: Resort World
- Modifier: Thrall-World
- Modifier: Penal Colony
- Owner
  - Wilderness empire

In the game

Further breakthroughs in mechanical engineering required us to descend to the nanometric scale. We are now able to manipulate physical systems in never-before-seen ways.

ID

building_engineering_facility_1

Materials Workshop: questions

How much does Materials Workshop cost in Stellaris?

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

What jobs does Materials Workshop give?

Depending on the empire: Engineers, Engineering Subroutines and Archivists.

What does Materials Workshop upgrade from and to?

It upgrades to Applied Mechanics Institute.

What is the ID of Materials Workshop?

building_engineering_facility_1 (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

Source: common/buildings/05_research_buildings.txt, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776). Base values before modifiers.