Ephaptic Cluster

Unity building

Ephaptic Cluster is an unity building in Stellaris 4.5.2. It costs 1,500 Alloys, 300 Rare Crystals and takes 600 days to build, with an upkeep of 3 Alloys, 15 Energy Credits, 2 Rare Crystals a month. It adds Bureaucrats and Coordinators jobs, depending on the empire. Upgrades to Ephaptic Axon.

Cost: 1,500Alloys300Rare Crystals
Upkeep: 3Alloys15Energy Credits2Rare Crystals
Build time: 600 days
Housing: —
ID: building_fe_administration_hive_1

Jobs Ephaptic Cluster 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.

600 Bureaucrats
Regular empire (not gestalt)
- Owner
  - Regular empire (not gestalt)
600 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: 1,500Alloys300Rare Crystals
400Biomass — Wilderness empire
Owner
Wilderness empire
Upkeep a month: 3Alloys15Energy Credits2Rare Crystals

What Ephaptic Cluster does

Only in some cases

- +3%Infrastructure Build Speed
- +3%Decision Enactment Speed
when…
- Owner
  - Wilderness empire
  - Tradition: Purity Traditions Finished
- +25%Bureaucrats Automated Workforce
- +25%Coordinators Automated Workforce
when…
- Owner
  - Not: Wilderness empire
  - Not: Virtuality

Upgrade chain

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

How to unlock Ephaptic Cluster

No technology needed.

Shown when (potential)

Owner
- Hive Mind
- Any of
  - Fallen Empire
  - Technology: Fractal Administration Processes
  - Country flag: fe_administration_hive_1_can_build
None of
- Modifier: Resort World
- Modifier: Thrall-World
- Modifier: Penal Colony

Can be built when (allow)

Requires schematics acquired from Arcane Deciphering

Destroyed or converted when (destroy_trigger)

Owner
- Not: Hive Mind

In the game

Carefully tended by highly specialized drones, this network of ephaptic nodes fortifies the Hive's dominion over its expansive cognitive domain.

ID

building_fe_administration_hive_1

Ephaptic Cluster: questions

How much does Ephaptic Cluster cost in Stellaris?

1,500 Alloys, 300 Rare Crystals, 600 days to build; upkeep 3 Alloys, 15 Energy Credits, 2 Rare Crystals a month (common/buildings, base values).

What jobs does Ephaptic Cluster give?

Depending on the empire: Bureaucrats and Coordinators.

What does Ephaptic Cluster upgrade from and to?

It upgrades to Ephaptic Axon.

What is the ID of Ephaptic Cluster?

building_fe_administration_hive_1 (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

Source: common/buildings/13_fallen_empire_buildings.txt, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776). Base values before modifiers.