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Core Drilling Array

Resource building
Not built directly

Core Drilling Array is a resource building in Stellaris 4.5.2. It costs 600 Minerals, 50 Volatile Motes and takes 480 days to build, with an upkeep of 5 Energy Credits, 1 Volatile Motes a month. It needs Geothermal Fracking. Upgrades to Seismic Tunneling Yard.

Cost
600Minerals50Volatile Motes
Upkeep
5Energy Credits1Volatile Motes
Build time
480 days
Housing
—
ID
building_mining_districts_2

Jobs Core Drilling Array 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.

Adds no jobs.

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
600Minerals50Volatile Motes
60Volatile Motes — Nomadic empire
  • Nomadic empire
Upkeep a month
5Energy Credits1Volatile Motes

What Core Drilling Array does

On the planet
  • +4Max Mining Districts

Upgrade chain

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

  1. Industrial Mining Site
  2. →Core Drilling Array
  3. →Seismic Tunneling Yard

How to unlock Core Drilling Array

Shown when (potential)
Destroyed or converted when (destroy_trigger)

In the game

A facility that drives deeper mining operations through heavy bore drills and structural reinforcements, unlocking additional mineral sites.

ID

building_mining_districts_2

Core Drilling Array: questions

How much does Core Drilling Array cost in Stellaris?

600 Minerals, 50 Volatile Motes, 480 days to build; upkeep 5 Energy Credits, 1 Volatile Motes a month (common/buildings, base values).

What does Core Drilling Array upgrade from and to?

It is upgraded from Industrial Mining Site. It upgrades to Seismic Tunneling Yard.

What is the ID of Core Drilling Array?

building_mining_districts_2 (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

Source: common/buildings/03_resource_buildings.txt, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776). Base values before modifiers.

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