Wildcat Mining Operations

Resource building

Wildcat Mining Operations is a resource building in Stellaris 4.5.2. It costs 500 Minerals, 20 Influence and takes 360 days to build, with an upkeep of 2 Energy Credits a month. It adds Miners, Criminals and capital_trader jobs, depending on the empire.

Cost: 500Minerals20Influence
Upkeep: 2Energy Credits
Build time: 360 days
Housing: —
ID: building_wildcat_miners

Jobs Wildcat Mining Operations 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 Miners
Always
- Always
100 Criminals
Always
- Always
200 capital_trader
Civic: Privatized Exploration
- branch office owner
  - Civic: Privatized Exploration
200 capital_trader
Civic: Private Prospectors
- branch office owner
  - Civic: Private Prospectors

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: 500Minerals20Influence
50Volatile Motes — Nomadic empire
Nomadic empire
20Influence — Megacorporation
Owner
Megacorporation
Upkeep a month: 2Energy Credits
Produces a month: +10Minerals

What Wildcat Mining Operations does

Only in some cases

- +25Crime
- +0.1Trade Produced per 100 Miners
when…
- Always
- +0.1Trade Produced per 100 Miners
when…
- branch office owner
  - Civic: Privatized Exploration
- +0.1Trade Produced per 100 Miners
when…
- branch office owner
  - Civic: Private Prospectors

How to unlock Wildcat Mining Operations

No technology needed.

Shown when (potential)

Has branch office
branch office owner
- Is illegal criminal
Not: Is artificial
None of
- Planet class: Hive World
- Planet class: Machine World
- Planet class: Ecumenopolis

Destroyed or converted when (destroy_trigger)

branch office owner
- Is legit or legal criminal

In the game

Illegal, highly unsafe mining operations operated by the destitute and the desperate, who toil away in the vain hopes of striking it rich.

ID

building_wildcat_miners

Wildcat Mining Operations: questions

How much does Wildcat Mining Operations cost in Stellaris?

500 Minerals, 20 Influence, 360 days to build; upkeep 2 Energy Credits a month (common/buildings, base values).

What jobs does Wildcat Mining Operations give?

Depending on the empire: Miners, Criminals and capital_trader.

What is the ID of Wildcat Mining Operations?

building_wildcat_miners (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

Source: common/buildings/14_branch_office_buildings.txt, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776). Base values before modifiers.