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Advanced Engineering Complex

Research building
Not built directly

Advanced Engineering Complex is a research building in Stellaris 4.5.2. It costs 800 Minerals, 100 Rare Crystals and takes 600 days to build, with an upkeep of 8 Energy Credits, 2 Rare Crystals a month. It adds Engineers, Engineering Subroutines and Archivists jobs, depending on the empire. It needs Supersolid Materials.

Cost
800Minerals100Rare Crystals
Upkeep
8Energy Credits2Rare Crystals
Build time
600 days
Housing
—
ID
building_engineering_facility_3

Jobs Advanced Engineering Complex 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); Not: Country flag: fallen_empire_1
    • Owner
      • Regular empire (not gestalt)
      • Not: Country flag: fallen_empire_1
  • Gestalt Consciousness
    • Owner
      • Gestalt Consciousness
  • 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
800Minerals100Rare Crystals
80Exotic Gases — Nomadic empire
  • Nomadic empire
Upkeep a month
8Energy Credits2Rare Crystals

What Advanced Engineering Complex does

On the planet
  • +10%Engineer Workforce
  • +0.5Engineering Research Produced per 100 Engineers
  • +0.25Rare Crystals Upkeep per 100 Engineers

Upgrade chain

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

  1. Applied Mechanics Institute
  2. →Advanced Engineering Complex

How to unlock Advanced Engineering Complex

Shown when (potential)
  • None of
    • Modifier: Resort World
    • Modifier: Thrall-World
    • Modifier: Penal Colony
Destroyed or converted when (destroy_trigger)
  • Any of
    • Modifier: Resort World
    • Modifier: Thrall-World
    • Modifier: Penal Colony
    • Owner
      • Wilderness empire

In the game

The quantum mechanical properties of these materials hold the key to superposition states, a revolutionary development for both material and industrial science.

ID

building_engineering_facility_3

Advanced Engineering Complex: questions

How much does Advanced Engineering Complex cost in Stellaris?

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

What jobs does Advanced Engineering Complex give?

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

What does Advanced Engineering Complex upgrade from and to?

It is upgraded from Applied Mechanics Institute.

What is the ID of Advanced Engineering Complex?

building_engineering_facility_3 (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

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

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