Smelting Pool

Resource building

Smelting Pool is a resource building in Stellaris 4.5.2. It costs 400 Minerals, 100 Biomass and takes 180 days to build, with an upkeep of 2 Energy Credits a month. It adds Metallurgists and Fabricators jobs, depending on the empire. Upgrades to Smelting Kiln.

Cost: 400Minerals100Biomass
Upkeep: 2Energy Credits
Build time: 180 days
Housing: —
ID: building_natural_furnace_0

Jobs Smelting Pool 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 Metallurgists
Regular empire (not gestalt)
- Owner
  - Regular empire (not gestalt)
100 Fabricators
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: 400Minerals100Biomass
Upkeep a month: 2Energy Credits

What Smelting Pool 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 Smelting Pool

No technology needed.

Shown when (potential)

Owner
- Wilderness empire

Destroyed or converted when (destroy_trigger)

Owner
- Not: Wilderness empire

In the game

Thermophilic symbionts work tirelessly to produce high-quality alloys in and around this natural heat source.

ID

building_natural_furnace_0

Smelting Pool: questions

How much does Smelting Pool cost in Stellaris?

400 Minerals, 100 Biomass, 180 days to build; upkeep 2 Energy Credits a month (common/buildings, base values).

What jobs does Smelting Pool give?

Depending on the empire: Metallurgists and Fabricators.

What does Smelting Pool upgrade from and to?

It upgrades to Smelting Kiln.

What is the ID of Smelting Pool?

building_natural_furnace_0 (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

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