Leeching Tower

Unity building

Leeching Tower is an unity 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 200 Energy Drones jobs. It needs Sociocultural History. Upgrades to Soul Siphon.

Cost: 400Minerals
Upkeep: 2Energy Credits
Build time: 360 days
Housing: —
ID: building_lifecrypt_hive_mind_1

Jobs Leeching Tower 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 Energy Drones
for every empire

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
Upkeep a month: 2Energy Credits
Produces a month: +1Unity

What Leeching Tower does

On the planet

+5%Unity Unity from Jobs
+0.5Unity Unity per 100 Maintenance Drones
+0.5Trade Trade per 100 Maintenance Drones

Only in some cases

- +0.25Minerals Minerals Upkeep per 100 Maintenance Drones
when…
- Owner
  - Not: Machine Intelligence
- +0.25Energy Credits Upkeep per 100 Maintenance Drones
when…
- Owner
  - Machine Intelligence

Upgrade chain

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

How to unlock Leeching Tower

Sociocultural HistoryTechnology

Shown when (potential)

Owner
- Civic: Parasitic Caste

Destroyed or converted when (destroy_trigger)

Owner
- Not: Civic: Parasitic Caste

In the game

These monumental devices are capable of draining excess energies from dedicated drones in close proximity. Assigned workers wear specialized equipment which funnel their life force into a central conduit where it can then be redistributed to those of higher caste.

ID

building_lifecrypt_hive_mind_1

Leeching Tower: questions

How much does Leeching Tower cost in Stellaris?

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

What jobs does Leeching Tower give?

200 Energy Drones for every empire.

What does Leeching Tower upgrade from and to?

It upgrades to Soul Siphon.

What is the ID of Leeching Tower?

building_lifecrypt_hive_mind_1 (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

Source: common/buildings/23_shroud_buildings.txt, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776). Base values before modifiers.