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Fundamental Research Nexus

Research building
Not built directly

Fundamental Research Nexus is a research building in Stellaris 4.5.2. It costs 800 Minerals, 100 Volatile Motes and takes 600 days to build, with an upkeep of 8 Energy Credits, 2 Volatile Motes a month. It adds Physicists, Physics Subroutines and Archivists jobs, depending on the empire. It needs Quantum Gravitational Waves.

Cost
800Minerals100Volatile Motes
Upkeep
8Energy Credits2Volatile Motes
Build time
600 days
Housing
—
ID
building_physics_lab_3

Jobs Fundamental Research Nexus 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); Not: Country flag: fallen_empire_1
    • Owner
      • Regular empire (not gestalt)
      • Not: Country flag: fallen_empire_1
  • Gestalt Consciousness
    • Owner
      • Gestalt Consciousness
  • Country flag: fallen_empire_1
    • Owner
      • Country flag: fallen_empire_1

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
800Minerals100Volatile Motes
80Exotic Gases — Nomadic empire
  • Nomadic empire
Upkeep a month
8Energy Credits2Volatile Motes

What Fundamental Research Nexus does

On the planet
  • +10%Physicist Workforce
  • +0.5Physics Research Produced per 100 Physicists
  • +0.25Volatile Motes Upkeep per 100 Physicists

Upgrade chain

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

  1. Quantum Relations Annex
  2. →Fundamental Research Nexus

How to unlock Fundamental Research Nexus

Shown when (potential)
  • None of
    • Modifier: Resort World
    • Modifier: Thrall-World
    • Modifier: Penal Colony
Destroyed or converted when (destroy_trigger)
  • Any of
    • Modifier: Resort World
    • Modifier: Thrall-World
    • Modifier: Penal Colony
    • Owner
      • Wilderness empire

In the game

We knew gravity and time were linked long before we reached the stars. Now, our understanding of this unique relationship has reached a tipping point, allowing us to manipulate forces on a previously unimaginable scale.

ID

building_physics_lab_3

Fundamental Research Nexus: questions

How much does Fundamental Research Nexus cost in Stellaris?

800 Minerals, 100 Volatile Motes, 600 days to build; upkeep 8 Energy Credits, 2 Volatile Motes a month (common/buildings, base values).

What jobs does Fundamental Research Nexus give?

Depending on the empire: Physicists, Physics Subroutines and Archivists.

What does Fundamental Research Nexus upgrade from and to?

It is upgraded from Quantum Relations Annex.

What is the ID of Fundamental Research Nexus?

building_physics_lab_3 (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

Source: common/buildings/05_research_buildings.txt, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776). Base values before modifiers.

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