Battery Nexus

Unity building

Not built directly

Battery Nexus 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_machine_3

Jobs Battery Nexus 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 Battery Nexus 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 Battery Nexus

Local HypercommunicationTechnology

Shown when (potential)

Owner
- Civic: Energy Extractors

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: Energy Extractors

In the game

The boundaries of the Battery Nexus must be clearly marked, as entering within its area of influence can be fatal to units without the proper insulative equipment.

ID

building_lifecrypt_machine_3

Battery Nexus: questions

How much does Battery Nexus 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 Battery Nexus give?

600 Energy Drones for every empire.

What does Battery Nexus upgrade from and to?

It is upgraded from Battery Complex.

What is the ID of Battery Nexus?

building_lifecrypt_machine_3 (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

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