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Shroud Observation Complex

Research building
Not built directly

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.

Cost
800Minerals
Upkeep
8Energy Credits
Build time
600 days
Housing
—
ID
building_shroud_observatory_3

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.

  • 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
800Minerals
80Exotic Gases — Nomadic empire
  • Nomadic empire
Upkeep a month
8Energy Credits

What Shroud Observation Complex does

On the planet
  • +0.5Physics Research Produced per 100 Biologists
  • +0.5Society Research Produced per 100 Biologists
  • +0.5Zro Upkeep per 100 Biologists

Upgrade chain

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

  1. Shroud Observatory
  2. →Shroud Observation Complex

How to unlock Shroud Observation Complex

Shown when (potential)
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)

In the game

A grand observation complex built to research the Shroud, Zro, and their effects on our world.

ID

building_shroud_observatory_3

Shroud 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.

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