Foundry (Long War)

Effect	Development of new combat items and improvements to current items
Adjacency Bonus	Workshop (+5% discount/refund)
Prerequisites	None
Other	None
Build costs	| | | |
Normal	§200 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18
Quick	§300 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 9
Maintenance	§25
Power	6

Overview

The Foundry is one the most important buildings in Long War; as with the default game, it is essential for upgrading existing equipment and unlocking new items for further development. The Foundry is unlocked very early during the campaign and it is highly advised to get one up and running as quickly as possible. Besides enhancing and creating new technologies, the Foundry also counts as a workshop for adjacency purposes.

Foundry projects are generally passive upgrades and whilst their effects may seem small, they can have a subtle but long-lasting impact on a campaign as they cover everything from boosting the chance of scoring critical hits with pistols, to enhancing the amount of materials recovered after combat. Unfortunately, these projects also require a significant investment of resources, especially meld. They also often require other rarer or more unusual materials such as corpses, wrecks, or UFO components.

Each project has an engineer requirement, while you can still start the project without meeting this requirement, the time to complete it will be significantly longer than usual.

One of the most important upgrade paths that the Foundry gives access to is interceptor upgrades, making them viable against the Alien UFOs. For a full list of some of the new items unlocked by Foundry projects, refer to the Equipment page.

Many Foundry projects bear the same name and effects as their original incarnation, though with differing costs, requirements, and time.

Foundry Projects

SHIV-Specific Upgrades

Name	Credit type	Effects	Prerequisites		Cost
											Other
Sentinel Drone	-	Grants SHIVs the Repair Servos and Close Combat Specialist perk.	50	Cyberdisc Autopsy	§150	40	0	20	0	21	10x Drone Wreck, 1x UFO Flight Computer
SHIV Suppression	Weapons	Grants SHIVs the Suppression perk, allowing them to use suppressing fire in combat. Also unlocks Advanced Suppression Module.	15	Alien Weaponry	§40	0	5	0	0	7	-

General Mechanical Unit Upgrades

Name	Credit type	Effects	Prerequisites		Cost
											Other
Advanced Repair	Cybernetics	Reduces interceptor, MEC, SHIV, and item repair time by about one-third.	45	Heavy Floater Autopsy	§500	100	0	0	80	21	4x Heavy Floater Corpse
Advanced Servomotors	Cybernetics	All SHIVs and MECs are granted the Sprinter perk upon completing the project. Unlocks Walker Servos for soldiers and Elerium Turbos for SHIVs.	45	Mechtoid Autopsy	§300	60	0	40	70	14	8x Mechtoid Core
Field Repairs	-	Allows Arc Throwers to be used to repair SHIVS and MECs.	15	Drone Autopsy	§100	10	10	10	10	14	10x Drone Wreck
Jellied Elerium	Cybernetics	Changes the Flamethrower to conduct panic rolls with a 80 will test, and unlocks the Incinerator Module.	45	Elerium	§100	40	50	80	40	10	-
MEC Close Combat	Cybernetics	Grants all MECs the MEC Close Combat perk, increasing Kinetic Strike damage by 4. In addition, using Kinetic Strike as the first action of a turn no longer ends the MEC's turn.	50	Berserker Autopsy	§300	60	30	30	40	7	8x Berserker Corpse
MEC Warfare Systems	Cybernetics	Vital for further MEC equipment development; prerequisite for the production of many advanced MEC weapons and items.	20	Alien Biocybernetics	§25	0	0	0	0	7	-
Mechanized Unit Defenses	Armor	Unlocks the Core Armoring and Alloy Carbide Plating items for MECs and SHIVs to increase their defensive capabilities.	30	Advanced Body Armor	§150	60	25	0	0	10	2x Cyberdisc Wreck
Shaped Armor	Armor	Increases health of mechanized units (SHIV, MEC) by 3.	35	Floater Autopsy	§300	80	0	40	40	21	25x Floater Corpse

General Weapon Upgrades

Name	Credit type	Effects	Prerequisites		Cost
											Other
Alien Grenades	-	Allows the use of Alien Grenades over HE Grenades, increases the damage of AP Grenades by 2, and increases the AOE of HE grenades by 40%. Bonuses also apply to the MEC Grenade Launcher.	35	Muton Autopsy	§100	20	20	50	0	7	1x Alien Grenade (from live capture)
Ammo Conservation	Weapons	Increases the ammo capacity of weapons by 1 shot/burst.	60	Muton Autopsy	§500	80	100	0	50	14	20x Muton Corpses
Enhanced Ballistics	Weapons	Unlocks Alloy-Jacketed Rounds, which increases ballistic/gauss weapon damage by +1.	10	Alien Materials	§80	10	20	0	0	7	-
Enhanced Lasers	Laser Weapons Weapons	Unlocks Enhanced Beam Optics, which increases beam/pulse Laser weapons damage by +1.	30	Advanced Beam Lasers	§150	40	15	0	0	14	-
Enhanced Plasma	Plasma Weapons Weapons	All plasma-tier weapons receive +1 base damage. Also unlocks Plasma Stellerator, which increases plasma weapons damage by +1.	120	Precision Plasma Weapons	§500	100	100	100	0	21	1x Plasma Dragon
Quenchguns	Gauss Weapons Weapons	Doubles the DR reduction of gauss weapons to 0.67.	60	Advanced Gauss Weapons	§250	40	80	50	25	14	2x Alien Carbine

General Equipment Upgrades

Name	Credit type	Effects	Prerequisites		Cost
											Other
Advanced Flight	Aerospace	Increases fuel/flight time for flight-capable units (Archangel/Seraph armors, Hover SHIV) and unlocks the Fuel Cell item.	50	Antigrav Systems	§325	40	0	40	0	14	5x Drone Wreck, 5x Heavy Floater Corpse, 5x Cyberdisc Wreck
Drone Capture	Cybernetics	XCOM can now use the Arc Thrower to capture enemy Drones for the duration of the combat mission (100% chance to capture).	75	EMP Weapons	§100	0	50	10	0	14	30x Drone Wreck
Improved Arc Thrower	-	Increases the successful stun rate of the Arc Thrower in combat (57%/57%/57%/55%/48%/42%/29% on 1-7 HP).	30	Alien Power Systems	§100	40	30	40	0	14	10x Drone Wreck
Improved Medikit	Cybernetics	Increases Medikit healing by +3 HP per charge, and Restorative Mist healing by +2 HP per charge.	12	Thin Man Autopsy	§180	0	0	0	20	7	20x Thin Man Corpse
New Combat Systems	-	Unlocks an array of new gear options in combination with other technologies and projects.	30	Experimental Warfare	§100	30	50	20	0	14	-
Psi Warfare Systems	Psionics	Like New Combat Systems, unlocks an assortment of psionic special equipment.	40	Xenopsionics	§100	0	30	20	40	14	12x Sectoid Corpse
SCOPE Upgrade	Weapons	Increases the critical hit chance of the SCOPE by +8% and of the laser sight by +4%.	25	Experimental Warfare	§100	0	35	0	0	7	1x SCOPE
Tactical Rigging	Armor	Grants one extra item slot to soldiers.	80	Muton Elite Autopsy	§500	100	100	0	60	21	20x Muton Elite Corpse

Pistol Upgrades

Name	Credit type	Effects	Prerequisites		Cost
											Other
Mag Pistols	Weapons	Grants +8% critical hit chance to all pistols.	10	Alien Weaponry	§35	0	5	0	0	7	-
Rail Pistols	Gauss Weapons Weapons	Grants +8% aim to all pistols.	20	Gauss Weapons	§90	10	35	0	0	10	-
Reflex Pistols	Plasma Weapons Weapons	Grants +1 base damage to all pistols.	35	Compact Plasma Weapons	§145	30	60	30	0	14	1x Alien Pistol

Material Recovery

Name	Credit type	Effects	Prerequisites		Cost
											Other
Improved Salvage	-	Increases weapon fragment recovery by 20%.	20	Alien Materials	§200	40	0	20	40	14	-
Alien Metallurgy	-	Increases alien alloy recovery by 20%.	20	Alien Materials	§300	30	0	10	100	14	-
Alien Nucleonics	-	Increases elerium recovery by 20%.	45	Alien Power Systems	§500	120	0	40	150	14	-

Base Security Upgrades

Name	Credit type	Effects	Prerequisites		Cost
											Other
Advanced Surgery	Cybernetics	Decreases soldier wound times by 30%.	45	Alien Biocybernetics	§600	0	0	0	0	21	12x Alien Stasis Tank, 12x Alien Surgery
Base Security: Armor	-	Any spare Phalanx Armor will be equipped by base security personnel during a HQ defense mission.	25	Improved Body Armor	§20	0	0	0	0	3	-
Base Security: Weapons	-	Any spare Laser Rifles will be equipped by base security personnel during a HQ Defense Mission.	25	Beam Lasers	§40	0	0	0	0	3	-

Aerospace Improvements

Name	Credit type	Effects	Prerequisites		Cost
											Other
Aircraft Boosters	Aerospace Laser Weapons	Allows production of one-time 'boosters' for interception.	10	Alien Materials	§50	0	10	0	10	7	-
Armored Fighters	Aerospace Armor	Increases all interceptor HP by 1000.	30	Advanced Aerospace Concepts	§400	200	0	60	70	14	30x Floater Corpse
Elerium Afterburners	Aerospace	Increases interceptor combat time by 5 seconds.	45	Alien Propulsion	§200	30	0	30	0	14	2x UFO Power Source
Improved Avionics	Aerospace	Increases interceptor aim by 10.	40	Advanced Aerospace Concepts	§400	10	50	0	0	14	3x UFO Flight Computer
Penetrator Weapons	Aerospace	Increases armor penetration of air weapons by 5.	35	Advanced Aerospace Concepts	§300	80	45	0	0	14	3x Cyberdisc Wreck, 3x UFO Flight Computer
Phoenix Coilguns	Gauss Weapons	Increases the Phoenix Cannon's damage by 90 and armor penetration by 13.	50	Gauss Weapons	§300	120	100	60	40	14	2x UFO Power Source
Stealth Satellites	-	Decreases chance of satellites being detected by alien patrols (30% on first pass, 60% on second).	115	Stealth Systems	§1200	200	0	200	0	28	10x UFO Flight Computer
Supercapacitors	Laser Weapons	Upgrades Laser Cannon damage by 10, armor penetration by 6, and increases rate of fire to 0.75.	70	Advanced Pulse Lasers	§800	150	100	200	80	21	6x UFO Power Source
Super Skyranger	Aerospace	Adds 2 more spaces to the roster on Alien Base and EXALT HQ raids, and 4 more on the Temple Ship Assault.	35	Advanced Aerospace Concepts	§200	60	0	0	0	14	-
UFO Countermeasures	Aerospace	Increases interceptor dodge chance by +15%.	50	Seeker Autopsy	§350	10	40	60	0	14	4x Seeker Wrecks, 4x UFO Flight Computer
UFO Scanners	-	Add UFO HP display to the interception screen for UFO classes that have their analyses complete.	40	Advanced Aerospace Concepts	§65	10	0	10	0	14	2x UFO Flight Computer
UFO Tracking	Aerospace	Increases the chance of interceptors detecting UFOs without satellites present (mimicking patrol behavior) and always when UFOs are on satellite-hunting missions.	40	Alien Power Systems	§300	20	0	40	0	28	2x UFO Flight Computer
Wingtip Sparrowhawks	Aerospace Gauss Weapons	Grants interceptors secondary armor-piercing missiles (1/2 Stringray Missile damage) in addition to their primary weapons.	50	Advanced Aerospace Concepts	§400	80	40	20	40	21	-

See also

Long War: XCOM Facilities
Static Facilities	Overview Mission Control Research Engineering Barracks Hangar Situation Room
Constructible Facilities	Access Lift Alien Containment Elerium Generator Foundry Fission Generator Genetics Lab Gollop Chamber Hyperwave Relay Laboratory Officer Training School Psionic Lab Repair Bay Satellite Nexus Satellite Uplink Thermo Generator Workshop