Hive Nexus

Government building

CapitalNot built directly

Hive Nexus is a government building in Stellaris 4.5.2. It costs 600 Minerals and takes 480 days to build, with an upkeep of 5 Energy Credits a month. It adds 300 Coordinators, 500 Logistic Drones and 200 Hunter-Seeker Drones jobs. Housing +2,000. It needs Colonial Centralization. Upgrades to Imperial Complex.

Cost: 600Minerals
Upkeep: 5Energy Credits
Build time: 480 days
Housing: +2000
ID: building_hive_major_capital

Jobs Hive Nexus 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.

300 Coordinators
for every empire
500 Logistic Drones
for every empire
200 Hunter-Seeker Drones
for every empire
1 Soldiers
Not: Gestalt Consciousness; Not: Modifier: Thrall-World; Not: Has knights zone
- Owner
  - Not: Gestalt Consciousness
- Not: Modifier: Thrall-World
- Not: Has knights zone
0.5 Knights
Not: Gestalt Consciousness; Not: Modifier: Thrall-World; Has knights zone
- Owner
  - Not: Gestalt Consciousness
- Not: Modifier: Thrall-World
- Has knights zone
1 Battle Thralls
Not: Gestalt Consciousness; Modifier: Thrall-World
- Owner
  - Not: Gestalt Consciousness
- Modifier: Thrall-World
1 Warrior Drones
Gestalt Consciousness; Not: Wilderness empire
- Owner
  - Gestalt Consciousness
  - Not: Wilderness empire
200 Politicians
Authority: Imperial; any of: Country flag: cyber_individualist; any of: Country…
- Owner
  - Is cyber imperial
    Authority: Imperial
    Any of
    Country flag: cyber_individualist
    Country flag: cyber_collectivist
100 Replicators
Gestalt Consciousness; Tradition: Prefabricated Components
- Owner
  - Gestalt Consciousness
  - Tradition: Prefabricated Components
1 Traders
any of: Megacorporation; any of: Civic: Corporate Sovereign; Is capital
- Owner
  - Has corporate government
    Any of
    Megacorporation
    Civic: Corporate Sovereign
- Is capital
100 Politicians
Not: Gestalt Consciousness; none of: Civic: Worker Cooperative; Tradition: Impe…
- Owner
  - Not: Gestalt Consciousness
  - Not: Is worker coop empire
    Civic: Worker Cooperative
  - Tradition: Imperious Architecture
150 Bureaucrats
Not: Gestalt Consciousness; Civic: Worker Cooperative; Tradition: Imperious Arc…
- Owner
  - Not: Gestalt Consciousness
  - Civic: Worker Cooperative
  - Tradition: Imperious Architecture
150 Coordinators
Hive Mind; Not: Wilderness empire; Tradition: Imperious Architecture
- Owner
  - Hive Mind
  - Not: Wilderness empire
  - Tradition: Imperious Architecture
1 Lord Commanders
any of: Carrier flag: toxic_knights_arkship; any of: Planet flag: toxic_knights…
- Any of
  - Carrier flag: toxic_knights_arkship
  - Planet flag: toxic_knights_settled_world
  - Planet flag: toxic_knights_habitat
- Capital tier at least 2
- Owner
  - Origin: Knights of the Toxic God
100 Knights
any of: Carrier flag: toxic_knights_arkship; any of: Planet flag: toxic_knights…
- Any of
  - Carrier flag: toxic_knights_arkship
  - Planet flag: toxic_knights_settled_world
  - Planet flag: toxic_knights_habitat
- Capital tier at least 2
- Owner
  - Origin: Knights of the Toxic God
100 Knights
any of: Carrier flag: toxic_knights_arkship; any of: Planet flag: toxic_knights…
- Any of
  - Carrier flag: toxic_knights_arkship
  - Planet flag: toxic_knights_settled_world
  - Planet flag: toxic_knights_habitat
- Capital tier at least 4
- Owner
  - Origin: Knights of the Toxic God

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: 600Minerals
60Alloys — Nomadic empire
Nomadic empire
Upkeep a month: 5Energy Credits

What Hive Nexus does

On the planet

+2,000Amenities
+8Planetary Defense Armies

Only in some cases

- +10%Resources from Jobs
when…
- Owner
  - Authority: Imperial
  - Not: Is cyber imperial
    - Authority: Imperial
    - Any of
      Country flag: cyber_individualist
      Country flag: cyber_collectivist
  - Not: Is synth imperial
    - Authority: Imperial
    - Any of
      Country flag: synth_physical
      Country flag: synth_virtual
  - Not: Is purity authority
    - Country flag: bio_purity
  - Not: Is cloning authority
    - Country flag: bio_cloning
  - Not: Is mutation authority
    - Country flag: bio_mutation
  - Not: Is transcendent authority
    - Country flag: transcendent_government
  - Not: Is corporeal authority
    - Country flag: corporeal_government
  - capital scope.solar system?
    - Is the same as: the system of this
- +5%Job Efficiency
when…
- Capital tier at least 2
- Owner
  - Technology: Improved Production
  - Not all of
    - Technology: Efficiencies of Scale
    - The scope before
      Capital tier at least 3
- +10%Job Efficiency
when…
- Capital tier at least 3
- Owner
  - Technology: Efficiencies of Scale
  - Not all of
    - Technology: Maximized Productivity
    - The scope before
      Capital tier at least 4
- +15%Job Efficiency
when…
- Capital tier at least 4
- Owner
  - Technology: Maximized Productivity
- +10%Pop Growth Speed
when…
- Owner
  - Tradition: Organ Harvesting
- Carrier type: planet
- Has current purge
- +10%Pop Growth Speed
when…
- Owner
  - Tradition: Organ Harvesting
- Carrier type: ship
- ship.orbit?
  - Has orbital bombardment
  - Controller (if any)
    - Is hostile: the controller of this
- +10%Upkeep for Augmentors
when…
- Owner
  - Modifier: Implant Taxes
- growing species
  - Species
    - Trait: Cybernetic
- +1%Elite Pop Resource Output
when…
- Owner
  - Authority: Oligarchic
  - Country flag: cyber_individualist
- -10%Happiness
when…
- Owner
  - Is cyber imperial
    - Authority: Imperial
    - Any of
      Country flag: cyber_individualist
      Country flag: cyber_collectivist
  - Not: Edict: neurocasted_spectacles
- Any of
  - None of
  - Not: sector
    - Has sector type: Core Sector
- +10%Happiness
when…
- Owner
  - Is cyber imperial
    - Authority: Imperial
    - Any of
      Country flag: cyber_individualist
      Country flag: cyber_collectivist
  - Edict: neurocasted_spectacles
  - Capital
    - Not: Is the same as: this
- +10%Upkeep for Roboticists
when…
- Owner
  - Policy: Identity Fusion
- +20%Upkeep for Roboticists
when…
- Owner
  - Policy: Identity Initialization
- +1%District Upkeep
when…
- Owner
  - Authority: Democratic
  - Country flag: synth_physical
- +1%Job Efficiency for Specialists
when…
- Owner
  - Authority: Democratic
  - Country flag: synth_physical
- +1Max Districts
when…
- Owner
  - Tradition: Advanced Server Maintenance
- Has planetary ascension tier at least 1
- +1Max Districts
when…
- Owner
  - Tradition: Advanced Server Maintenance
- Has planetary ascension tier at least 5
- +1Max Districts
when…
- Owner
  - Tradition: Advanced Server Maintenance
- Has planetary ascension tier at least 10
- +1Minerals Produced per 100 Miners
- +1Food Produced per 100 Farmers
- +1Energy Credits Produced per 100 Technicians
when…
- Owner
  - Origin: Storm Chasers
  - Technology: Planetary Storm Negation
- System
  - Star flag: storm_system
- +1Minerals Produced per 100 Miners
- +1Food Produced per 100 Farmers
- +1Energy Credits Produced per 100 Technicians
when…
- Owner
  - Origin: Storm Chasers
  - Technology: Planetary Storm Nullification
- System
  - Star flag: storm_system
- +100%Resources Produced from Miners
- +100%Resources Produced from Farmers
- +100%Resources Produced from Technicians
when…
- Owner
  - Member of the Galactic Community
  - Origin: Storm Chasers
  - Technology: Planetary Storm Negation
- +5%Unity Unity from Jobs
when…
- DLC: cosmic storms
- Owner
  - Origin: Storm Chasers
- +100Housing
when…
- Owner
  - Not: Gestalt Consciousness
  - Not: Is worker coop empire
    - Civic: Worker Cooperative
  - Tradition: Imperious Architecture
- +100Housing
when…
- Owner
  - Not: Gestalt Consciousness
  - Civic: Worker Cooperative
  - Tradition: Imperious Architecture
- +150Housing
when…
- Owner
  - Hive Mind
  - Not: Wilderness empire
  - Tradition: Imperious Architecture
- +2%Job Efficiency for Specialists
when…
- Owner
  - Not: Gestalt Consciousness
  - Tradition: Specialist Training
- +2%Job Efficiency for Complex Drones
when…
- Owner
  - Hive Mind
  - Tradition: Specialist Training
- +2%Job Efficiency for Complex Drones
when…
- Owner
  - Machine Intelligence
  - Tradition: Specialist Training
- +1%Commercial Pact Effectiveness
when…
- Is capital
- Owner
  - Has corporate government
    - Any of
      Megacorporation
      Civic: Corporate Sovereign
  - Origin: Evolutionary Predators
  - Country flag: bio_mutation
- +25%Research Speed (Archaeostudies)
when…
- Deposit: Akashic Whisperings
- DLC: ancrel
- +1Monthly Organic Pop Growth
when…
- Planet
  - Modifier: Matriarch's Flagella
- Not: Is robotic species
  - Species
    - Is robotic

Upgrade chain

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

How to unlock Hive Nexus

Colonial CentralizationTechnology

Shown when (potential)

Owner
- Any of
  - Hive Mind
  - Country type: swarm
- Not: Fallen Empire
- Not: Wilderness empire

Can be built when (allow)

Sapient pop amount at least 2500

In the game

A sprawling capital complex from which the Hive Mind focuses colony organization, coordination, and planning.

ID

building_hive_major_capital

Hive Nexus: questions

How much does Hive Nexus cost in Stellaris?

600 Minerals, 480 days to build; upkeep 5 Energy Credits a month (common/buildings, base values).

What jobs does Hive Nexus give?

300 Coordinators, 500 Logistic Drones and 200 Hunter-Seeker Drones for every empire. Depending on the empire: Soldiers, Knights, Battle Thralls, Warrior Drones, Politicians, Replicators and 4 more.

What does Hive Nexus upgrade from and to?

It is upgraded from Hive Core. It upgrades to Imperial Complex.

What is the ID of Hive Nexus?

building_hive_major_capital (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

Source: common/buildings/00_capital_buildings.txt, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776). Base values before modifiers.