Mega Art Installation
Mega Art Installation is a megastructure in Stellaris 4.5.2 built in 5 stages. Each empire can only build one Megastructure. It needs the Mega Art Installation technology. All stages take 45 years and 12,500 Unity, 2,000 Minor Artifacts (the costs every empire pays). Mega Art Installation: Perfection produces 400 Unity a month.
Where to build a Mega Art Installation
The game's own requirement line, then the conditions of the first stage (possible) and of the planet or star it goes around (placement_rules).
Each empire can only build one Megastructure.
- Cannot build on an unsurveyed or habitable planet.
- Cannot build on planets that have unresearched anomalies discovered by us or any other Empire.
- Cannot build on a minor planetary body (asteroid or moon).
- Cannot build around a star.
- Cannot build around an astral scar.
- Cannot build on Ring Worlds.
- Cannot build due to existing Megastructure.
- The system has a starbase
- Cannot build outside Empire borders.
- Cannot build due to existing Megastructure.
- Cannot build in systems that have not been surveyed.
- Cannot build more than one Mega Art Installation.
- Cannot build more than two Mega Art Installations.
Mega Art Installation stages
Cost lines with a condition apply only to the empires it names (bio-ship empires pay food instead of part of the alloys).
How it's counted
Totals in the head count only the costs every empire pays: 12,500 Unity, 2,000 Minor Artifacts.
Mega Art Installation Site
The construction site station serves as the base for the future construction of a Mega Art Installation.
2,500Unity
5,000Alloys — if Not: Uses bio-ships2,500Alloys — if Uses bio-ships
8,750Food — if Uses bio-ships
5Energy CreditsArt Installation: Nascency
A bold statement of intent.
2,500Unity15,000Alloys — if Not: Uses bio-ships7,500Alloys — if Uses bio-ships26,250Food — if Uses bio-ships10Energy Credits100Unity- +5%Amenities
- -5%Colony Ascension Cost
Art Installation: Maturity
Incisive, yet unfinished.
2,500Unity15,000Alloys — if Not: Uses bio-ships7,500Alloys — if Uses bio-ships26,250Food — if Uses bio-ships20Energy Credits200Unity- +10%Amenities
- -10%Colony Ascension Cost
Mega Art Installation
Stellar.
2,500Unity15,000Alloys — if Not: Uses bio-ships7,500Alloys — if Uses bio-ships26,250Food — if Uses bio-ships30Energy Credits300Unity- +15%Amenities
- -15%Colony Ascension Cost
Mega Art Installation: Perfection
It brings the old and new together in a way no one thought possible. It is perfection.
2,000Minor Artifacts2,500Unity30Energy Credits400Unity- +20%Amenities
- -20%Colony Ascension Cost
More conditions for this stage
- from
- DLC: ancrel
- When Controlled by the AI
- resource stockpile compare
- Resource: Minor Artifacts
- Value at least 2000
- resource stockpile compare
How to unlock the Mega Art Installation
Other versions of the Mega Art Installation
Ruins the galaxy can start with or a war leaves behind (restoring one is its own chain of stages) and upgrades that branch off the main line.
Ruined Mega Art Installation (permanently ruined)
Ruined Mega Art Installation
It is unclear if this intrasolar art piece is broken or not. But it's probably broken. There is little hope of repairing it.
Ruined Mega Art Installation (ruined)
Ruined Mega Art Installation
It is unclear if this intrasolar art piece is broken or not. But it's probably broken.
Mega Art Installation
Stellar.
3,200Unity15,000Alloys — if Not: Uses bio-ships7,500Alloys — if Uses bio-ships26,250Food — if Uses bio-ships30Energy Credits300Unity- +15%Amenities
- -15%Colony Ascension Cost
Mega Art Installation: Perfection
It brings the old and new together in a way no one thought possible. It is perfection.
2,000Minor Artifacts3,200Unity30Energy Credits400Unity- +20%Amenities
- -20%Colony Ascension Cost
Mega Art Installation: questions
Where can I build a Mega Art Installation?
Each empire can only build one Megastructure. Cannot build on an unsurveyed or habitable planet. Cannot build on planets that have unresearched anomalies discovered by us or any other Empire. Cannot build on a minor planetary body (asteroid or moon). Cannot build around a star. Cannot build around an astral scar. Cannot build on Ring Worlds. Cannot build due to existing Megastructure.
How do I unlock the Mega Art Installation?
Research Mega Art Installation.
How long does a Mega Art Installation take to build?
45 years for all 5 stages (Mega Art Installation Site: 1800 days, Art Installation: Nascency: 3600 days, Art Installation: Maturity: 3600 days, Mega Art Installation: 3600 days, Mega Art Installation: Perfection: 3600 days), before build-speed modifiers.
Source: common/megastructures/08_mega_art_installation.txt and localisation/english, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776). Build times before build-speed modifiers.