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Nano-Smelter

Resource building
Not built directly

Nano-Smelter is a resource building in Stellaris 4.5.2. It costs 2,000 Minerals, 800 Biomass, 100 Volatile Motes and takes 480 days to build, with an upkeep of 10 Energy Credits, 2 Volatile Motes a month. It adds Metallurgists and Fabricators jobs, depending on the empire. It needs Nano-Separators.

Cost
2,000Minerals800Biomass100Volatile Motes
Upkeep
10Energy Credits2Volatile Motes
Build time
480 days
Housing
—
ID
building_natural_furnace_3

Jobs Nano-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.

  • Regular empire (not gestalt)
    • Owner
      • Regular empire (not gestalt)
  • 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
2,000Minerals800Biomass100Volatile Motes
Upkeep a month
10Energy Credits2Volatile Motes

What Nano-Smelter does

On the planet
  • +5%Job Efficiency for Metallurgists
  • +0.5Alloys Produced per 100 Metallurgists
  • +2Minerals Upkeep per 100 Metallurgists
Only in some cases

Upgrade chain

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

  1. Solid-Light Smelter
  2. →Nano-Smelter

How to unlock Nano-Smelter

Shown when (potential)
  • Owner
    • Wilderness empire
Can be built when (allow)
  • Has fully 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 System Control on colony.
    • When owner (Wilderness empire)
      • Requires Planetary Root Nexus on planet.
    • When owner (Hive Mind)
      • Requires Hive Nexus on colony.
    • When owner (Machine Intelligence)
      • Requires Primary Nexus on colony.
    • Otherwise
      • Requires System Capital-Complex on colony.
Destroyed or converted when (destroy_trigger)
  • Any of
    • Modifier: Resort World
    • Modifier: Thrall-World
    • Owner
      • Not: Wilderness empire

In the game

Thermophilic nano-organisms inhabit these sweltering pools and kilns, ridding our alloys of unwanted impurities.

ID

building_natural_furnace_3

Nano-Smelter: questions

How much does Nano-Smelter cost in Stellaris?

2,000 Minerals, 800 Biomass, 100 Volatile Motes, 480 days to build; upkeep 10 Energy Credits, 2 Volatile Motes a month (common/buildings, base values).

What jobs does Nano-Smelter give?

Depending on the empire: Metallurgists and Fabricators.

What does Nano-Smelter upgrade from and to?

It is upgraded from Solid-Light Smelter.

What is the ID of Nano-Smelter?

building_natural_furnace_3 (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

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

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