Battery Complex

Unity building

Not built directly

Battery Complex 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 Battery Nexus.

Cost: 600Minerals50Rare Crystals
Upkeep: 5Energy Credits1Rare Crystals
Build time: 480 days
Housing: —
ID: building_lifecrypt_machine_2

Jobs Battery Complex 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 Battery Complex 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 Battery Complex

Heritage SitesTechnology

Shown when (potential)

Owner
- Civic: Energy Extractors

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: Energy Extractors

In the game

Calibrated specifically to harvest energies from drones via physical tether, these devices are capable of sapping immense amounts of excess processing without inflicting critical faults.

ID

building_lifecrypt_machine_2

Battery Complex: questions

How much does Battery Complex 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 Battery Complex give?

400 Energy Drones for every empire.

What does Battery Complex upgrade from and to?

It is upgraded from Siphon Battery. It upgrades to Battery Nexus.

What is the ID of Battery Complex?

building_lifecrypt_machine_2 (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

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