Nutritious Undergrowth

Resource building

Not built directly

Nutritious Undergrowth is a resource building in Stellaris 4.5.2. It costs 600 Minerals, 200 Biomass and takes 240 days to build, with an upkeep of 5 Minerals a month. It adds Farmers, Acolytes of the Plow and Agri-Drones jobs, depending on the empire. Upgrades to Contour Megaplantation.

Cost: 600Minerals200Biomass
Upkeep: 5Minerals
Build time: 240 days
Housing: —
ID: building_massive_growth_2

Jobs Nutritious Undergrowth 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 Farmers
Regular empire (not gestalt); any of: Country type: Fallen Empire; any of: Coun…
- Owner
  - Regular empire (not gestalt)
  - Not: Is fallen empire spiritualist
    Any of
    Country type: Fallen Empire
    Country type: Awakened Empire
    Ethic: Fanatic Spiritualist
  - Not: Gestalt Consciousness
200 Acolytes of the Plow
any of: Country type: Fallen Empire; any of: Country type: Awakened Empire; Eth…
- Owner
  - Is fallen empire spiritualist
    Any of
    Country type: Fallen Empire
    Country type: Awakened Empire
    Ethic: Fanatic Spiritualist
200 Agri-Drones
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: 600Minerals200Biomass
Upkeep a month: 5Minerals

What Nutritious Undergrowth does

Only in some cases

- +3%Infrastructure Build Speed
- +3%Decision Enactment Speed
when…
- Owner
  - Wilderness empire
  - Tradition: Purity Traditions Finished

Upgrade chain

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

How to unlock Nutritious Undergrowth

No technology needed.

Shown when (potential)

Owner
- Wilderness empire

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: Wilderness empire

In the game

A vast, semi-permeable canopy endows this undergrowth with all the environmental protection it needs to consistently produce rich and succulent food.

ID

building_massive_growth_2

Nutritious Undergrowth: questions

How much does Nutritious Undergrowth cost in Stellaris?

600 Minerals, 200 Biomass, 240 days to build; upkeep 5 Minerals a month (common/buildings, base values).

What jobs does Nutritious Undergrowth give?

Depending on the empire: Farmers, Acolytes of the Plow and Agri-Drones.

What does Nutritious Undergrowth upgrade from and to?

It is upgraded from Nutritious Dell. It upgrades to Contour Megaplantation.

What is the ID of Nutritious Undergrowth?

building_massive_growth_2 (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

Source: common/buildings/21_wilderness_buildings.txt, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776). Base values before modifiers.