
Volcanic Foundry
Volcanic Foundry is a government building in Stellaris 4.5.2. It costs 600 Minerals, 50 Exotic Gases and takes 480 days to build, with an upkeep of 8 Energy Credits, 1 Exotic Gases a month. It adds Thermotechnic Mentors and Pyroclastic Drones jobs, depending on the empire. It needs Volcanic Forge.
Jobs Volcanic Foundry 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.

Not: Gestalt Consciousness
- Owner
- Not: Gestalt Consciousness
- Owner

Gestalt Consciousness
- Owner
- Gestalt Consciousness
- 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
600Minerals
50Exotic Gases- Upkeep a month
8Energy Credits
1Exotic Gases
Upgrade chain
upgrades = { } in the files: each building upgrades to the next.
How to unlock Volcanic Foundry
- Owner
- Is world forger empire
- None of
- Planet class: Ecumenopolis
- Is terraforming
- Not: Is scripted terraforming
- Has upgraded capital
- When Modifier: Resort World
- Requires Resort Administration on colony.
- When Modifier: Thrall-World
- Requires Governor's Palace on colony.
- When Planet class: Orbital Habitat
- Requires Habitat Administration on colony.
- When owner (Wilderness empire)
- Requires Planetary Root Bundle on planet.
- When owner (Hive Mind)
- Requires Hive Core on colony.
- When owner (Machine Intelligence)
- Requires Administrative Array on colony.
- Otherwise
- Requires Planetary Administration on planet.
- When Modifier: Resort World
Destroyed or converted when (destroy_trigger)
- Any of
- Planet class: Ecumenopolis
- Planet class: Machine World
- Planet class: Hive World
- Owner
- Not: Is world forger empire
In the game
This industrial complex, designed to drill deep into the planet's crust, will induce volcanic activity across the entire world, thus terraforming every biome into a blazing landscape.
ID
building_volcanic_forge_2Volcanic Foundry: questions
How much does Volcanic Foundry cost in Stellaris?
600 Minerals, 50 Exotic Gases, 480 days to build; upkeep 8 Energy Credits, 1 Exotic Gases a month (common/buildings, base values).
What jobs does Volcanic Foundry give?
Depending on the empire: Thermotechnic Mentors and Pyroclastic Drones.
What does Volcanic Foundry upgrade from and to?
It is upgraded from Volcanic Forge.
What is the ID of Volcanic Foundry?
building_volcanic_forge_2 (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).
Source: common/buildings/02_government_buildings.txt, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776). Base values before modifiers.
