Spawning Pools

Pop Assembly building

Spawning Pools is a pop assembly building in Stellaris 4.5.2. It costs 400 Minerals and takes 360 days to build, with an upkeep of 2 Energy Credits a month. It adds Spawning Drones and Augmentor Drones jobs, depending on the empire.

Cost: 400Minerals
Upkeep: 2Energy Credits
Build time: 360 days
Housing: —
ID: building_spawning_pool

Jobs Spawning Pools 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.

100 Spawning Drones
Hive Mind
- Owner
  - Hive Mind
200 Augmentor Drones
Tradition: Synaptic Sub-Processing
- Owner
  - Tradition: Synaptic Sub-Processing

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: 400Minerals
40Rare Crystals — Nomadic empire
Nomadic empire
Upkeep a month: 2Energy Credits

What Spawning Pools does

Only in some cases

- +200Pops with Auto-Modding Traits Optimized Per Month
when…
- Owner
  - Technology: Gene Tailoring
- any owned pop group
  - Has auto modding trait
    - Any of
      Trait: Vocational Genomics
      Trait: Universal Augmentations
      Trait: Adaptive Frames
      Trait: Fleeting Excellence
      Trait: Malleable Genes
      Trait: Adaptive Mutations
- +200Pops with Auto-Modding Traits Optimized Per Month
when…
- Owner
  - Game start auto mod empire
    - Any of
      Origin: Overtuned
      Origin: Evolutionary Predators
- any owned pop group
  - Has auto modding trait
    - Any of
      Trait: Vocational Genomics
      Trait: Universal Augmentations
      Trait: Adaptive Frames
      Trait: Fleeting Excellence
      Trait: Malleable Genes
      Trait: Adaptive Mutations

How to unlock Spawning Pools

No technology needed.

Shown when (potential)

Owner
- Hive Mind
- Not: Wilderness empire
- Not: Origin: Progenitor Hive

Destroyed or converted when (destroy_trigger)

Owner
- Any of
  - Not: Hive Mind
  - Origin: Progenitor Hive

In the game

Tended by the scientific and gentle care of specialists, these pools stimulate our spawn into faster growth.

ID

building_spawning_pool

Spawning Pools: questions

How much does Spawning Pools cost in Stellaris?

400 Minerals, 360 days to build; upkeep 2 Energy Credits a month (common/buildings, base values).

What jobs does Spawning Pools give?

Depending on the empire: Spawning Drones and Augmentor Drones.

What is the ID of Spawning Pools?

building_spawning_pool (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

Source: common/buildings/01_pop_assembly_buildings.txt, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776). Base values before modifiers.