Soul Siphon

Unity building

Not built directly

Soul Siphon is an unity building in Stellaris 4.5.2. It costs 600 Minerals, 50 Rare Crystals and takes 480 days to build, with an upkeep of 5 Energy Credits, 1 Rare Crystals a month. It adds 400 Energy Drones jobs. It needs Heritage Sites. Upgrades to Essence Conduit.

Cost: 600Minerals50Rare Crystals
Upkeep: 5Energy Credits1Rare Crystals
Build time: 480 days
Housing: —
ID: building_lifecrypt_hive_mind_2

Jobs Soul Siphon 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.

400 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: 600Minerals50Rare Crystals
Upkeep a month: 5Energy Credits1Rare Crystals
Produces a month: +2Unity

What Soul Siphon does

On the planet

+10%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 Soul Siphon

Heritage SitesTechnology

Shown when (potential)

Owner
- Civic: Parasitic Caste

Can be built when (allow)

Has upgraded capital
- When Modifier: Resort World
  - Requires Resort Administration on colony.
- When Modifier: Thrall-World
  - Requires Governor's Palace on colony.
- When Planet class: Orbital Habitat
  - Requires Habitat Administration on colony.
- When owner (Wilderness empire)
  - Requires Planetary Root Bundle on planet.
- When owner (Hive Mind)
  - Requires Hive Core on colony.
- When owner (Machine Intelligence)
  - Requires Administrative Array on colony.
- Otherwise
  - Requires Planetary Administration on planet.

Destroyed or converted when (destroy_trigger)

Owner
- Not: Civic: Parasitic Caste

In the game

While their name may imply otherwise, Soul Siphons are based in practical science. Calibrated specifically to harvest energies from drones via physical tether, they are capable of sapping immense amounts of metabolism from organisms without endangering their lives.

ID

building_lifecrypt_hive_mind_2

Soul Siphon: questions

How much does Soul Siphon cost in Stellaris?

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

What jobs does Soul Siphon give?

400 Energy Drones for every empire.

What does Soul Siphon upgrade from and to?

It is upgraded from Leeching Tower. It upgrades to Essence Conduit.

What is the ID of Soul Siphon?

building_lifecrypt_hive_mind_2 (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

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