Machine Assembly Plants

Pop Assembly building

Machine Assembly Plants is a pop assembly 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 Roboticists and Replicators jobs, depending on the empire. Upgrades to Machine Assembly Complex.

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

Jobs Machine Assembly Plants 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.

100 Roboticists
Not: Gestalt Consciousness
- Owner
  - Not: Gestalt Consciousness
100 Replicators
Gestalt Consciousness
- Owner
  - Gestalt Consciousness

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
40Rare Crystals — Nomadic empire
Nomadic empire
Upkeep a month: 2Energy Credits

What Machine Assembly Plants does

Only in some cases

- +200Pops with Auto-Modding Traits Optimized Per Month
when…
- Owner
  - Any of
    - Machine Intelligence
    - Is individual machine
- any owned pop group
  - Has auto modding trait
    - Any of
      Trait: Vocational Genomics
      Trait: Universal Augmentations
      Trait: Adaptive Frames
      Trait: Fleeting Excellence
      Trait: Malleable Genes
      Trait: Adaptive Mutations

Upgrade chain

upgrades = { } in the files: each building upgrades to the next.

How to unlock Machine Assembly Plants

No technology needed.

Shown when (potential)

Owner
- Any of
  - Machine Intelligence
  - Is individual machine
  - Is hive empire with machines
    - Hive Mind
    - Country flag: machine_subspecies
Not: Modifier: Resort World

Can be built when (allow)

Any of
- Owner
  - Not: Controlled by the AI
- Not all of
  - Free district slots: 0
  - Free building slots at most 1
  - Free housing at most 0
  - Free jobs at most 0

Destroyed or converted when (destroy_trigger)

Any of
- Owner
  - Not: Is robot empire
    - Any of
      - owner species
        Trait: Mechanical
      - owner species
        Trait: Machine
      - Country flag: Synthetic Empire
      - Machine Intelligence
  - Not: Is hive empire with machines
    - Hive Mind
    - Country flag: machine_subspecies
- Owner
  - Controlled by the AI
- Free district slots: 0
- Free building slots: 0
- Free housing at most 0
- Free jobs at most 0

In the game

A production line assembly plant where new units are constructed.

ID

building_machine_assembly_plant

Machine Assembly Plants: questions

How much does Machine Assembly Plants cost in Stellaris?

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

What jobs does Machine Assembly Plants give?

Depending on the empire: Roboticists and Replicators.

What does Machine Assembly Plants upgrade from and to?

It upgrades to Machine Assembly Complex.

What is the ID of Machine Assembly Plants?

building_machine_assembly_plant (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

Source: common/buildings/01_pop_assembly_buildings.txt, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776). Base values before modifiers.