List of buildings in CivBE

Civilization: Beyond Earth
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Overview

Buildings are constructed in cities for various effects. As in all Civilization games, buildings are one of the major sources of city stats and bonuses, and each type may only be built once in each city. Not including Wonders, there are 72 unique buildings that can be constructed in each city as of the Rising Tide expansion.

Requirements

Most buildings require a certain technology to be researched before they can be built. In the Rising Tide expansion, some buildings can be unlocked combining artifacts. Other requirements might include Affinity level and/or a certain improved resource within the city's surrounding tiles. Aquatic cities and land-based cities have buildings that exclusive to aquatic cities, whereas there are also land only buildings.

Cost

All buildings cost to build. Alternatively, they may be purchased outright with at the following rate:

$\mathit{round}( \frac{(30 \times \mathit{Cost} \times \mathit{GameSpeedPercent})^{0.75}}{10} ) \times 10$

In this equation Cost stands for the Production cost at the normal game speed, and GameSpeedPercent is either 0.67 (Quick), 1 (Normal), 1.33 or 3, depending on the game speed.

Diplomatic Capital also can purchase buildings.

Maintenance

Buildings that do not produce cost at least 1 to maintain. Some quest options remove this maintenance for a building type. Some buildings also take up strategic resources. Note that this is distinct from requiring that strategic resource nearby. Selling a building will remove the maintenance associated with that building and return any strategic resources used by the building to the pool. In Rising Tide buildings unlocked using Artifacts also do not require maintenance.

Quest options

All buildings except the Mind Stem and buildings unlocked with artifacts have a quest associated with them. For every building of that type that you control, there is a 5% chance per turn of the quest activating. This will give you a choice between two bonuses. Most apply a local bonus to each instance of the building itself, while others apply a global bonus to your colony regardless of how many of that type of building you have. Unless specified otherwise, the bonuses are local and permanent.

List of buildings

There are several different overlapping ways to categorize the buildings in Civilization Beyond Earth. The buildings listed below are organized by yield.

Culture buildings

	Building	Requirements	cost	Maint	Effect	Quest options
	Old Earth Relic	Habitation	40	1	+2 +2	-1 maintenance +1
	Alien Preserve	Alien Lifeforms (Land Only)	125	1	+2 +2	Units heal +5 HP per turn (global) +1 , +1
	Feedsite Hub	Communications 2	225	1	+3 +1 from trade routes +3	+1 Covert Agent (global) +10% worker speed (global)
	Holosuite	Cognition	245	1	+2 +1 from 2 Artist slots +3	+2 Free virtue (global)
	CEL Cradle	Artificial Intelligence 4	310	1	4 Artist slots	10% of carried over after city growth +1 spy (global)
	Xeno Sanctuary	Alien Ethics 5	330	1 1	+4 +1 Transcendence Victory point per turn	+2 +2
	Terra Vault	Social Dynamics 7	390	1	+15%	+5% +5%

Energy buildings

	Building	Requirements	cost	Effect	Quest options
	Thorium Reactor	Engineering	105	+3 2 Trader slots	+2 +1
	Xenofuel Plant	Alien Sciences 2	190	+3 +1 from 2 Trader slots	One-time +1000 (global) +3 , +2 from (global)
	Biofuel Plant	Biology  Algae	220	+3 +2 from  Algae 2 Trader slots	+1 +1
	Gaian Well	Terraforming 4 Geothermal	265	+3	+2 +1
	Field Reactor	Field Theory	500	+2 +10% +2 Trader slots	+5% +2 orbital coverage
	Tidal Turbine	Geophysics	110	+4 Energy	+1 +2

Food buildings

	Building	Requirements	cost	Maint	Effect	Quest options
	Vivarium	Ecology (Land Only)	80	1	+2 +1 from Desert -1 from Flood Plains	+1 +1
	Cloning Plant	Genetic Design	210	1	+2 +1 from 1 Grower slots	+10% carried over on city growth +1
	Mass Digester	Organics	255	1	+1 from Tundra 4 Grower slots	+1 +1
	Growlab	Biology 4 Fungus	265	1	+3 +1 from Fungus	One-time +450 (global) One-time +1 population in all cities (global)
	Molecular Forge	Bioengineering 8	390	1	+5	+10% +10%
	Nanopasture	Nanotechnology	415	1	30% carried over after city growth 2 Scientist slots	+10% Growth +10%
	Civil Crèche	Social Dynamics	445	1	+2 3 Grower slots +3	+5% Growth +10% worker speed (global)

Health buildings

	Building	Requirements	cost	Maint	Effect	Quest options
	Clinic	Habitation	60	1	+1 +1	+1 +15 city HP
	Cytonursery	Genetics	90	1	+1 +1 +1 from Marsh	+1 +5% towards military units
	Pharmalab	Genetics	95	1	+2	+1 +1
	Gene Garden	Genetic Design 2	200	1	+2 +1 +3	+3 , -1 maintenance +1
	Bionics Lab	Bionics 4 Resilin	265	1	+20% +1 from Resilin	+1 +1
	Gene Smelter	Transgenics	350	1	+3 +2 Scientist slots	+2 +1
	Optical Surgery	Mechatronics 5	370	1 2	+4 +1 from Silica	+1 unit sight range (global) +2
	Soma Distillery	Social Dynamics	400	1	+4 +2 Artist slots	+5% +10%
	Progenitor Garden	Artificial Evolution 10 (Land Only)	430	1 4	+20%	+5% +10%

Science buildings

	Building	Requirements	cost	Maint	Effect	Quest options
	Laboratory	Chemistry	80	1	+2	+1 +1 Expedition Module for explorers (global)
	Observatory	Physics	100	1	+2 +1 from	+2 orbital coverage +5 city
	Xenonursery	Alien Sciences 2	180	1	+10% +1 from 1 Scientist slot	One-time +450 (global) +5 (global)
	Network	Computing	185	1	+3 +1 from Copper +2	+1 -1 maintenance
	Neurolab	Cognition 4	255	1	+10% +1 from	+1 +10% towards military units
	Institute	Bionics	310	1	3 Scientist slots	+5% One free tech (global)
	Organ Printer	Synergetics 8	390	1	+15%	+10% Units heal +10 HP per turn (global)
	Mantle	Field Theory 8	470	1 4	+10% +3	+1 +1
	Hypercore	Hypercomputing 10	470	1 4	+15% +2	+1 per level +1 per level

Production/Trade buildings

	Building	Requirements	cost	Maint	Effect	Quest options
	Trade Depot	Pioneering	60	1	+1 Allows trade routes to be built +2	+1 +2
	Recycler	Chemistry	75	1	+2 +1 from internal or Station trade routes	+1 +10% worker speed (global)
	Autoplant	Robotics	210	1	+2 +1 from trade routes (international) 2 Engineer slots	+1 , -1 maintenance +1
	Biofactory	Organics 4	290	1	+3 +1 from Chitin	+1 +1
	Alloy Foundry	Fabrication Titanium	310	1	+2 +2 from Titanium	+2 from Titanium (global) +4 Titanium (global)
	Drydock	Physics (Aquatic only)	130	1	+2 Production, +20% Naval Unit Production	+1 +10% Production for Naval Units
	Repair Facility	Engineering (Land Only)	90	1	+10% for land units	+1 orbital coverage +5% for military units
	LEV Plant	Mechatronics 5	390	1 2	+4	+2 +2 , -1 maintenance
	Microbial Mine	Synergetics 7	430	1 2	+3 +10%	+1 per rank +1 per rank
	Borehole	Planetary Engineering 8 (Land Only)	500	1	+5	+5% , -1 maintenance +5%
	Bioglass Furnace	Bioengineering 8	470	1 2	+2 +15%	+2 from (global) +4 (global)
	Skycrane	Astrodynamics 10	470	1 4	+15%	+2 from (global) +4 (global)
	Warp Spire	Unlocked with Artifacts	200	None	+50% yields from domestic Trade Routes

Defensive buildings

	Building	Requirements	cost	Maint	Effect	Quest options
	Ultrasonic Fence	Ecology	120	1	Prevents aliens from approaching within 2 tiles of the city Only discourages alien movement in Rising Tide	+1 repel range Trade units cannot be attacked by Aliens (global)
	Rocket Battery	Ballistics	125	1	+18 city +15 city HP +3 orbital strike range	+5 city +1 orbital strike range
	Defense Perimeter	Defense Grid	150	1	+10 city +40 city HP	+10 city HP -1 maintenance
	Surveillance Web	Artificial Intelligence	235	1	+5 city HP -2 maximum Intrigue for this city -1 maximum Intrigue for this city in Rising Tide	Spies rank up ? faster (global) +10 city HP
	Command Center	Communications	310	1	+20 city +20 city HP	+15 city +1 spy (global)
	Node Bank	Cybernetics	375	1	+24 city +10 city HP 2 Engineer slots	+10 city HP +10% city strength
	Mosaic Hull	Cybernetics (Aquatic only)	415	1	+2 Culture +50 City HP	+5% +20 City Hit Points
	Sonar Net	Communications (Aquatic only)	255	2	25 City Defense Reveals invisible units with 2 tiles	+1 +5 City Strength
	Torpedo Battery	Fabrication (Aquatic only)	150	1	+20% City Strike Damage	+10% City Strike Damage +5 City Strength
	Frontier Stadium	Unlocked with Artifacts	50	None	+10 City Defense Military Units begin with a free promotion

Other buildings

	Building	Requirements	cost	Maint	Effect	Quest options
	Augmentery	Augmentation 7	500	0	+1 +1 +1 +1 +1	+10% +5% Growth, +5% , +5% , +5% , +5%
	Drone Command	Unlocked with Artifacts	200	None	Work 2 more tiles than a city has Citizens
	Launch Complex	Physics	130	1	+3 orbital coverage	+1 orbital coverage +10% towards orbital units
	Mind Stem	Alien Ethics	600	1	+1 Transcendence Victory point per turn	None
	Neoplanetarium	Astrodynamics	500	1	+40% for orbital units +3 orbital coverage	+2 orbital coverage +10% for orbital units
	Old Voice Archives	Unlocked with Artifacts	100	None	+10% yields while at war
	Pan-Spectral Observatory	Unlocked with Artifacts	50	None	+100% Production for Orbital Units +2 city orbital coverage
	Petrochemical Plant	Biochemistry Petroleum	160	1	+1 from Petroleum +1 from Petroleum 1 Trader slot	+2 from Petroleum (global) +2 from Petroleum (global)
	Thermohaline Rudder	Planetary Survey (Aquatic only)	210	1	+2 Science -30% Production cost to Move City	-10% to move cities +1
	Water Refinery	Biochemistry (Coast and Aquatic only)	150	1	+1 from water tiles in the base game +1 from water tiles in Rising Tide	-1 maintenance +1
	Xenomass Bath House	Unlocked with Artifacts	200	None	+2 Culture units heal after 1 turn

Alternative Categories for Buildings

• Artifacts (CivBE)
• Aquatic gameplay (CivBE)

By Affinity

• Harmony Buildings
• Purity Buildings
• Supremacy Buildings

References

Introduced in the Rising Tide expansion pack.