
Shroud Observation Complex
Shroud Observation Complex is a research building in Stellaris 4.5.2. It costs 800 Minerals and takes 600 days to build, with an upkeep of 8 Energy Credits a month. It adds Biologists, Biology Subroutines and Archivists jobs, depending on the empire. It needs Zro Distillation.
Jobs Shroud Observation Complex 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 BiologistsRegular empire (not gestalt); Not: Country flag: fallen_empire_1
- Owner
- Regular empire (not gestalt)
- Not: Country flag: fallen_empire_1
- Owner

Gestalt Consciousness
- Owner
- Gestalt Consciousness
- Owner
200 ArchivistsCountry flag: fallen_empire_1
- Owner
- Country flag: fallen_empire_1
- Owner
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
800Minerals
80Exotic Gases — Nomadic empire- Nomadic empire
- Upkeep a month
8Energy Credits
What Shroud Observation Complex does
- +0.5
Physics Research Produced per 100 Biologists - +0.5
Society Research Produced per 100 Biologists - +0.5
Zro Upkeep per 100 Biologists
Upgrade chain
upgrades = { } in the files: each building upgrades to the next.
How to unlock Shroud Observation Complex
- 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.
- When Modifier: Resort World
Destroyed or converted when (destroy_trigger)
- Any of
- None of
- Owner
- Not: Deposit: Shroud-Touched Region
In the game
A grand observation complex built to research the Shroud, Zro, and their effects on our world.
ID
building_shroud_observatory_3Shroud Observation Complex: questions
How much does Shroud Observation Complex cost in Stellaris?
800 Minerals, 600 days to build; upkeep 8 Energy Credits a month (common/buildings, base values).
What jobs does Shroud Observation Complex give?
Depending on the empire: Biologists, Biology Subroutines and Archivists.
What does Shroud Observation Complex upgrade from and to?
It is upgraded from Shroud Observatory.
What is the ID of Shroud Observation Complex?
building_shroud_observatory_3 (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).
Source: common/buildings/05_research_buildings.txt, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776). Base values before modifiers.
