Essence Conduit

Unity building

Not built directly

Essence Conduit is an unity building in Stellaris 4.5.2. It costs 800 Minerals, 100 Rare Crystals and takes 600 days to build, with an upkeep of 8 Energy Credits, 2 Rare Crystals a month. It adds 600 Energy Drones jobs. It needs Local Hypercommunication.

Cost: 800Minerals100Rare Crystals
Upkeep: 8Energy Credits2Rare Crystals
Build time: 600 days
Housing: —
ID: building_lifecrypt_hive_mind_3

Jobs Essence Conduit 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.

600 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: 800Minerals100Rare Crystals
Upkeep a month: 8Energy Credits2Rare Crystals
Produces a month: +3Unity

What Essence Conduit does

On the planet

+15%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 Essence Conduit

Local HypercommunicationTechnology

Shown when (potential)

Owner
- Civic: Parasitic Caste

Can be built when (allow)

Has major upgraded capital
- When Modifier: Resort World
  - Requires Resort Capital-Complex on colony.
- When Modifier: Thrall-World
  - Requires Governor's Estates on colony.
- When Planet class: Orbital Habitat
  - Requires Habitat Central Control on colony.
- When owner (Wilderness empire)
  - Requires Planetary Root Complex on planet.
- When owner (Hive Mind)
  - Requires Hive Nexus on colony.
- When owner (Machine Intelligence)
  - Requires Planetary Processor on colony.
- Otherwise
  - Requires Planetary Capital on colony.

Destroyed or converted when (destroy_trigger)

Owner
- Not: Civic: Parasitic Caste

In the game

The boundaries of Essence Conduits must be clearly marked, as entering within its area of influence can be fatal to drones without the proper equipment. Assigned workers are trained to regulate their metabolisms so as not to donate too much of their energy at once.

ID

building_lifecrypt_hive_mind_3

Essence Conduit: questions

How much does Essence Conduit cost in Stellaris?

800 Minerals, 100 Rare Crystals, 600 days to build; upkeep 8 Energy Credits, 2 Rare Crystals a month (common/buildings, base values).

What jobs does Essence Conduit give?

600 Energy Drones for every empire.

What does Essence Conduit upgrade from and to?

It is upgraded from Soul Siphon.

What is the ID of Essence Conduit?

building_lifecrypt_hive_mind_3 (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

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