Siphon Battery

Unity building

Siphon Battery 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 Battery Complex.

Cost: 400Minerals
Upkeep: 2Energy Credits
Build time: 360 days
Housing: —
ID: building_lifecrypt_machine_1

Jobs Siphon Battery 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 Siphon Battery 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 Siphon Battery

Sociocultural HistoryTechnology

Shown when (potential)

Owner
- Civic: Energy Extractors

Destroyed or converted when (destroy_trigger)

Owner
- Not: Civic: Energy Extractors

In the game

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

ID

building_lifecrypt_machine_1

Siphon Battery: questions

How much does Siphon Battery cost in Stellaris?

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

What jobs does Siphon Battery give?

200 Energy Drones for every empire.

What does Siphon Battery upgrade from and to?

It upgrades to Battery Complex.

What is the ID of Siphon Battery?

building_lifecrypt_machine_1 (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

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