Solid-Light Smelter

Resource building

Not built directly

Solid-Light Smelter is a resource building in Stellaris 4.5.2. It costs 800 Minerals, 400 Biomass, 50 Volatile Motes and takes 360 days to build, with an upkeep of 8 Energy Credits, 1 Volatile Motes a month. It adds Metallurgists and Fabricators jobs, depending on the empire. It needs Holographic Casts. Upgrades to Nano-Smelter.

Cost: 800Minerals400Biomass50Volatile Motes
Upkeep: 8Energy Credits1Volatile Motes
Build time: 360 days
Housing: —
ID: building_natural_furnace_2

Jobs Solid-Light Smelter 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.

400 Metallurgists
Regular empire (not gestalt)
- Owner
  - Regular empire (not gestalt)
400 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: 800Minerals400Biomass50Volatile Motes
Upkeep a month: 8Energy Credits1Volatile Motes

What Solid-Light Smelter does

On the planet

+0.5Alloys Produced per 100 Metallurgists
+2Minerals Upkeep per 100 Metallurgists

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 Solid-Light Smelter

Holographic CastsTechnology

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

Sophisticated litho-organic kilns, aided by hologram technology, enable the production of highly versatile alloys.

ID

building_natural_furnace_2

Solid-Light Smelter: questions

How much does Solid-Light Smelter cost in Stellaris?

800 Minerals, 400 Biomass, 50 Volatile Motes, 360 days to build; upkeep 8 Energy Credits, 1 Volatile Motes a month (common/buildings, base values).

What jobs does Solid-Light Smelter give?

Depending on the empire: Metallurgists and Fabricators.

What does Solid-Light Smelter upgrade from and to?

It is upgraded from Smelting Kiln. It upgrades to Nano-Smelter.

What is the ID of Solid-Light Smelter?

building_natural_furnace_2 (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

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