Smelting Kiln

Resource building

Not built directly

Smelting Kiln 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 Energy Credits a month. It adds Metallurgists and Fabricators jobs, depending on the empire. It needs Industrial Base. Upgrades to Solid-Light Smelter.

Cost: 600Minerals200Biomass
Upkeep: 5Energy Credits
Build time: 240 days
Housing: —
ID: building_natural_furnace_1

Jobs Smelting Kiln 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 Metallurgists
Regular empire (not gestalt)
- Owner
  - Regular empire (not gestalt)
200 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: 600Minerals200Biomass
Upkeep a month: 5Energy Credits

What Smelting Kiln 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 Kiln

Industrial BaseTechnology

Shown when (potential)

Owner
- Wilderness empire

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: Wilderness empire

In the game

Heat-resistant growths enable more efficient use of heat, and thus the production of superior alloys.

ID

building_natural_furnace_1

Smelting Kiln: questions

How much does Smelting Kiln cost in Stellaris?

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

What jobs does Smelting Kiln give?

Depending on the empire: Metallurgists and Fabricators.

What does Smelting Kiln upgrade from and to?

It is upgraded from Smelting Pool. It upgrades to Solid-Light Smelter.

What is the ID of Smelting Kiln?

building_natural_furnace_1 (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

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