Artifacts (CivBE)

Noose Vertebrae artifact (Rising Tide) — Noose Vertebrae, an Alien artifact

Artifacts have been added to Beyond Earth in the Rising Tide expansion. In this system, players collect and combine powerful relics for powerful bonuses.

Artifact types and acquisition[]

Old Earth Relics are the most common of the three artifact types. They are most easily acquired by recovering resource pods. One can also be recovered by having an Explorer perform an expedition on several different types of expedition sites: a Crashed Satellite, Derelict Settlement, Sunken Spacecraft, Sunken Vehicle, or Wrecked Colony Lander.
Alien Biology Artifacts are most readily found by pillaging Alien Nests. One can also by found by performing an expedition on an Alien Skeleton or a Kraken Nest.
Progenitor Artifacts are the rarest of the three types. One can only be found by performing an expedition on Progenitor Ruins or a Progenitor Device, both of which are relatively uncommon expedition sites.

In all cases, there is no guaranteed method of acquiring an artifact. Each applicable method only has a random chance of providing an artifact, in addition to normal rewards. For each artifact category, there is a base acquisition rate:

Old Earth: 20%
Alien: 38%
Progenitor: 55%

After each expedition or destroyed nest, if no artifact was acquired, the acquisition rate for the corresponding category is increased:

Old Earth: +10%
Alien: +7%
Progenitor: +3%

Although the artifact category is set, the quality and type of the artifact is randomly generated each time one is acquired. If a civilization is holding a certain type of artifact, chances are much lower a second duplicate of that type will be acquired, even if it is of a different quality level. Thus, if a civilization hoards artifacts, it should be able to gain a wider variety of artifacts and rewards from which to choose.

Artifact usage[]

Players have the choice of either immediately using one, two, or three artifacts to gain varying bonuses. Using one or two artifacts provides a small amount of Production, Culture, or Science. Waiting to combine a group of two or three will unlock a wonder, building, or other perk.

Artifacts can be found in three conditions:

Battered: low bonuses
Worn
Pristine: high bonuses

Artifact rewards[]

Each artifact combination is a part of a list of possible rewards.

For artifacts of a similar category, the possible reward list is formed from the preferred reward property of each artifact used.

For mixed category artifacts, the possible reward list is formed from the preferred reward property of each artifact used and its special (category-less) reward set.

No civilization can receive the same reward twice, so if one has received all of the rewards from the selected artifacts, other rewards from the same category of artifacts are added to the possible reward list.

If all of the rewards from this artifact category are received by a civilization, all remaining rewards are added to the possible reward list.

Conclusions:

All artifacts have a hidden preferred reward.
Mixing artifacts allows players to tap into special rewards.
With enough Explorers scouring the map, it may be possible to receive every reward in a single game. (AI factions may get to some first, and you have a random chance of finding something or finding nothing.)

Preferred Reward Settings
Category	Preferred Reward	Function	Artifact Combinations
Old Earth	Warp Spire	+50% yields from domestic Trade Routes	Suspended Animation Chamber • Near-Lightspeed Accelerator • Polypeptor Organic Antifreeze • High Mass Friction Welder
	Drone Command	Work 2 more tiles than a City has Citizens	Senor Caffeine • Drone Hive Mind • Clean Air Generator • Butuiller Family Drone
	Old Voice Archives	+10% yields while at war	Personal Meditation Helmet • MedalMark Media Cube• Isotopic Decay Three• Strings of Cremona
	Pan-Spectral Observatory	The city has +100% Production for Orbital Units, and it earns +2 city orbital coverage	Volumetric Component Printer • Plasma Turbine Engine• Impossible Drive• Silver-Pont Navigational Gyroscope
	Frontier Stadium	+10 City Defense, Military Units starts with a free promotion	Hull Repair Suit • Jowler Ball Field Set • Thoughtful Chess Set • Progeny 2 Interactive Family Tree
	Xenomass Bathhouse	+2 Culture, Units heal 100% after one turn in City	Collapsing Family Library • Speech-Compression Computer • Population Estimation Computer • Phantom Medical Remote Operating Theatre
Alien	Zygotic Engineering	+100% Outpost Growth Speed	Ross Weed • Noose Vertebrae • Giant Pheromone Sack
	Sky Chitin	+50% Combat Strength, +3 Range to Air units	Lattus Ore • Cloud Coral • Macroelectrons • Breeze Weed • Carbon Hail
	Counter Battery Fire	Siege Unit Ability: Lower an enemy unit's Defense by 20% for the remainder of your turn	Seismic Sounding Fork • Zero Point Soil • Pressurized Magma Sample • Mobius Horn
	Vapor Shield	All units gain +100% Defense when embarked	Jelly Stalk Ring • Soap Seed • Acidic Crystals • Flexible Keratin Tusk
	Projected Chassis Construction	+2 Worker Movement Speed	Cocoon Flies • Crystal Shrimp Pupa • Floating Canopy Worms • Electric Brain Moss
	Tidal Navigation	Naval Units Gain +100% Defense Against Ranged Attacks	Crystal Shrimp Adult • Carnivorous Hive Eels • Heterophobic Solution • Tungsten Bubbles
Progenitor	Tessellation Foundry	Military Units complete 30% faster	Geon Spores • Tessellation Vault • Single-Pass Geometry • Atomic Tesselator
	Dimension Folding Complex	-50% Unhealth from City Population	Jelly Space • Planes of Dimensional Influence • Dimension Oven • The Folder
	Machine-Assisted Free Will	Leaf Technology Costs 15% less Science	Void Spectre • M-Theory Capsule • Sporadic Listener • Confounding Object
	Temporal Calculus	All Units gain +100% Visibility	Auratic Magnet • Models of Entropy • Deviation Fork • Causal Looking Glass
	Quantum Politics	Increases Virtue acquisition by 20%	Superposition Containment Device • Decoherence Chamber • Superposition • Fundamental Object
	Relativistic Data Bank	-1 Intrigue per turn in all Cities	Temporal Injector • String Weaver • Fixed Position Locator • Bright Matter
Mixed	Tesseract Targeting	Cities can bombard through terrain obstacles	Cocoon Flies + Isotopic Decay Three + Near-Lightspeed Accelerator
	Soul Discerner Training	+25% Covert Operation Speed	Flexible Keratin Tusk + Butuiller Co. Family Drone + Jowler Ball Field Set
	Xenoanthropology	Artifacts are discovered 20% more often	Cocoon Flies + Isotopic Decay Three + Breeze Weed; MedalMark Media Cube + Polypeptor Organic Antifreeze + Auratic Magnet; Superposition + String Weaver + Carbon Hail
	Slumber-Slaughter Extract	+50% Worker Build Speed	Thoughtful Chess Set + Seismic Sounding Fork + M-Theory Capsule
	Ground-Penetrating LIDAR	+100% Expedition Speed	None
	Statecraft	+2 Diplomatic Capital from Agreements	Isotopic Decay Three + Near-Lightspeed Accelerator + Breeze Weed

Galleries[]

Old Earth[]

Main articles: Old Earth Relics (CivBE) and Old Earth Relics

Alien[]

Main articles: Biological Artifacts (CivBE) and Biological Artifacts

Progenitor[]

Main articles: Progenitor Artifacts (CivBE) and Progenitor Artifacts

Trivia[]

One of the Old Earth Artifacts that can be found is a video game named Isotopic Decay 3, in a reference to Half-Life 3.

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