Alloy Foundries

Manufacturing building

Alloy Foundries is a manufacturing 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 Metallurgists and Fabricators jobs, depending on the empire. It needs Industrial Base. Upgrades to Alloy Mega-Forges.

Cost: 400Minerals
Upkeep: 2Energy Credits
Build time: 360 days
Housing: —
ID: building_foundry_1

Jobs Alloy Foundries 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 Metallurgists
Regular empire (not gestalt)
- Owner
  - Regular empire (not gestalt)
200 Fabricators
Gestalt Consciousness
- Owner
  - Gestalt Consciousness

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
40Volatile Motes — Nomadic empire
Nomadic empire
Upkeep a month: 2Energy Credits

Upgrade chain

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

How to unlock Alloy Foundries

Industrial BaseTechnology

Shown when (potential)

None of
- Modifier: Resort World
- Modifier: Thrall-World
Owner
- Not: Wilderness empire
Any of
- Carrier flag: ignore_ai_building_limitations
- Owner
  - Not: Controlled by the AI
- Has any industrial zone
  - Any of
    - Has mixed industrial zone
    - Has any foundry zone
    - Has any factory zone
- None of
- Owner
  - Nomadic empire
- tiered building below cap
  - Building: foundry

Destroyed or converted when (destroy_trigger)

Any of
- Modifier: Resort World
- Modifier: Thrall-World

In the game

The … working in these foundries produce high-quality alloys.

ID

building_foundry_1

Alloy Foundries: questions

How much does Alloy Foundries cost in Stellaris?

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

What jobs does Alloy Foundries give?

Depending on the empire: Metallurgists and Fabricators.

What does Alloy Foundries upgrade from and to?

It upgrades to Alloy Mega-Forges.

What is the ID of Alloy Foundries?

building_foundry_1 (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

Source: common/buildings/04_manufacturing_buildings.txt, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776). Base values before modifiers.