Research Institute

Research building

Research Institute is a research building in Stellaris 4.5.2. It costs 600 Minerals, 50 Exotic Gases and takes 480 days to build, with an upkeep of 5 Energy Credits, 1 Exotic Gases a month. It adds Politicians jobs, depending on the empire. It needs Interplanetary Research Initiative.

Cost: 600Minerals50Exotic Gases
Upkeep: 5Energy Credits1Exotic Gases
Build time: 480 days
Housing: —
ID: building_institute

Jobs Research Institute 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 Politicians
Civic: Technocracy
- Owner
  - Civic: Technocracy

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: 600Minerals50Exotic Gases
60Exotic Gases — Nomadic empire
Nomadic empire
Upkeep a month: 5Energy Credits1Exotic Gases

What Research Institute does

On the planet

+0.5Physics Research Produced per 100 Physicists
+0.5Society Research Produced per 100 Biologists
+0.5Engineering Research Produced per 100 Engineers

Only in some cases

- +1Consumer Goods Upkeep per 100 Researchers
when…
- Owner
  - Not: Gestalt Consciousness
- +2Energy Credits Upkeep per 100 Researchers
when…
- Owner
  - Machine Intelligence
- +2Minerals Upkeep per 100 Researchers
when…
- Owner
  - Hive Mind

How to unlock Research Institute

Interplanetary Research InitiativeTechnology

Shown when (potential)

None of
- Modifier: Resort World
- Modifier: Thrall-World
- Modifier: Penal Colony
Owner
- Regular empire (not gestalt)
Any of
- Carrier flag: ignore_ai_building_limitations
- Owner
  - Not: Controlled by the AI
- Has any research zone
  - Any of
    - Has any unspecialized research zone
    - Has any specialized research zone
      - Any of
        Has any research physics zone
        Has any research society zone
        Has any research engineering zone

Destroyed or converted when (destroy_trigger)

Any of
- Modifier: Resort World
- Modifier: Thrall-World
- Modifier: Penal Colony
- Owner
  - Not: Regular empire (not gestalt)

In the game

The Research Institute is a massive complex, gathering the cutting edges of disparate fields together for unprecedented synergy, improving the research output of the whole planet.

ID

building_institute

Research Institute: questions

How much does Research Institute cost in Stellaris?

600 Minerals, 50 Exotic Gases, 480 days to build; upkeep 5 Energy Credits, 1 Exotic Gases a month (common/buildings, base values).

What jobs does Research Institute give?

Depending on the empire: Politicians.

What is the ID of Research Institute?

building_institute (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

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