Foundry (Long War)

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Effect	-
Adjacency Bonus	Workshop: 5% refunds
Prerequisites	-
Other	-
Build costs	| | | |
Normal	§- | - | - | - | 10 days
Quick	§- | - | - | - | -
Maintenance	§§25/mo
Power	5

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.

Projects
Name	Requirements	Cost	Effects	Engineers
SHIV-Specific Upgrades
SHIV Repair	Drone Autopsy	§60, 3x Elerium, 3x Alloys, 10x Drone Wreck	Reduces SHIV repair time
SHIV Defenses	Mobile Power Armor	§150, 30x Alloys, 2x Cyberdisk Wreck	Unlocks two new utility items for SHIVs to increase their defensive capabilities
General Mechanical Unit Upgrades
Advanced Servomotors	Mechtoid Autopsy	§300, 20x Elerium, 30x Alloys, 8x Meld, 8x Mechtoid Core	All SHIVs(?) and MECs are granted the Sprinter perk upon completing the project. Unlocks Walker Servos for infantry and Elerium Turbos for MECs/SHIVs
Advanced Repair	Heavy Floater Autopsy	§250, 40x Alloys, 4x Heavy Floater Corpse, 4x Meld	Increases Interceptor and SHIV repair speed
Shaped Armor	Floater Autopsy	§300, 20x Elerium, 40x Alloys, 3x Meld, 3x Floater Corpses	Increases health of mechanised units (SHIV, MEC)
MEC Close Combat	Berserker Autopsy	§300, 15x Elerium, 30x Alloys, 5x Meld, 5x Berserker Corpse	Grants all MECs the MEC Close Combat perk, increasing Kinetic Strike damage by 50% In addition, using Kinetic Strike as the first action of a turn no longer ends the MEC's turn
SHIV Suppression	Alien Weaponry	§40	Grants SHIVs the Suppression perk, allowing them to use suppressing fire in combat	15
Jellied Elerium	Elerium	§300, 30x Elerium	Increases Flamethrower damage by ~50%.	25
General Weapon Upgrades
Enhanced Ballistics	Alien Materials	§80, 5x Alloys	Unlocks Alloy-Jacketed Rounds for Infantry and Depleted Elerium Rounds for SHIVs/MECs.	10
Enhanced Lasers	Advanced Beam Lasers	§150, 20x Alloys, 15x Weapon Fragments	Unlocks Enhanced Beam Optics for Infantry and Laser Pumper for SHIVs/MECs.	55
Enhanced Plasma	Precision Plasma Weapons	§?, ?	Unlocks Plasma Stellerator for Infantry and Zevatron Booster for SHIVs/MECs.
Ammo Conservation	Muton Autopsy	§600, 65x Alloys, 20x Muton Corpses, 100x Weapon Fragments	Increases the ammo capacity of weapons by a varying amount (usually 1 attack/burst).	55
Pistol Upgrades
Mag Pistols	Alien Weaponry	§35, 5x Weapon Fragments	Increases chance of scoring a critical hit with pistols	10
Rail Pistols	Gauss Weapons	§90, 5x Alloys, 25x Weapon Fragments	+10% Aim for pistols?
Reflex Pistols	Compact Plasma Weapons	§?, ?
Aerospace Improvements
Aircraft Boosters	Alien Materials	§50, 10x Weapon Fragments, 10x Meld	Allows production of usable 'booster' items for interception	10
Elerium Afterburners	Alien Propulsion	§300, 15x Elerium, 15x Alloys, 2x Alien Power Source	Increases Interceptor combat time.
Armored Fighters	Advanced Aerospace Concepts	§400, 30x Elerium, 95x Alloys, 20x Floater Corpses, 20x Meld	Increases Interceptor HP.
Wingtip Sparrowhawks	Advanced Aerospace Concepts	§500, 10x Elerium, 50x Alloys, 50x Weapon Fragments, 50x Meld	Grants Interceptors secondary armor-piercing missiles.	55
Penetrator Weapons	Advanced Aerospace Concepts	§200, 2x Cyberdisc Wreck, 2x UFO Flight Computers	Increases armor penetration of air-to-air weapons.
Super Skyranger	Advanced Aerospace Concepts	§200, 20x Alloys	Adds 2 spaces to the roster on Alien Base and EXALT HQ raids, and 4 on the Temple Ship Assault	35
Improved Avionics	Advanced Aerospace Concepts	§400, 35x Weapon Fragments, 3x UFO Flight Computers	Increases Interceptor hit chance.
Stealth Satellites	Stealth Systems	§?, ?	Decreases chance of satellites being detected by alien patrols
Supercapacitors	Advanced Pulse Lasers	§250, 30x Elerium, 10x Alloys, 2x UFO Power Source, 15x Weapon Fragment	Upgrades fire rate and armor penetration of aerial Laser Cannons.
UFO Countermeasures	Seeker Autopsy	§300, 20x Elerium, 5x Alloys, 35x Weapon Fragments, 3x Seeker Wrecks, 3x UFO Flight Computers	Increases Interceptor dodge chance.	30
UFO Tracking	Alien Power Systems	§400, 20x Elerium, 20x Alloys, 2x UFO Power Source, 2x UFO Flight Computer	Increases the chance of interceptors detecting UFOs without satellites present (mimicing patrol behaviour), and always know when UFOs are on satellite-hunting missions
Material Recovery
Alien Nucleonics	Alien Power Systems	§500, 20x Elerium, 60x Alloys, 80x Meld	Increases Elerium recovery from combat.
Alien Metallurgy	Alien Materials	§300, 5x Elerium, 15x Alloys, 60x Meld	Increases alloy salvage from crash sites by between 15 and 20 percent	20
Improved Salvage	Alien Materials	§200, x10 Elerium, x20 Alloys, x30 Meld	Increases weapon fragment recovery from combat by 25%	20
Miscellaneous
Drone Capture	EMP Weapons	§?, ?	Agents can now use the Arc Thrower to capture Drones for the duration of combat. See the Drone page for more details.
Improved Arc Thrower	Alien Power Systems	§100, 20x Elerium, 20x Alloys, 4x Drone Wreck, 30x Weapon Fragments	Increases stunning ability of the Arc Thrower
Tactical Rigging	Muton Elite Autopsy	§500, 50x Weapon Fragment, 20x Muton Elite Corpse	Grants one extra item slot to soldiers.
Alien Grenades	Muton Autopsy	§100, 15x Elerium, 1x Alien Grenade, 20x Weapon Fragment	Allows the use of Alien Grenades in place of regular HE Grenades, and increases the lethality of Frag Grenades Also increases the firepower of the MEC Grenade Launcher	35
Advanced Surgery	Alien Biocybernetics	§600, 12x Alien Surgery, 12x Alien Stasis Tank	Increases soldier healing rate by using alien technology	45
Improved Medikit	Thin Man Autopsy	§180, 10x Thin Man Corpses, 10x Meld	Increases Medikit healing by +3 HP per charge, and Restorative Mist +2 HP per charge
Advanced Flight	Antigrav Systems	§335, 20x Elerium, 20x Alloys, 2x Drone Wreck, 2x Heavy Floater Corpse, 2x Cyberdisc Wreck	Increases fuel/flight time for flight-capable units (Archangel/Seraphim Armors, Hover-SHIV)
New Combat Systems	Experimental Warfare	§100, 10 Elerium, 15 Alloys	Unlocks an array of new gear options in combination with other technologies and projects
SCOPE Upgrade	Experimental Warfare	§50, 15x Weapon Fragment	SCOPE increases user's chance of scoring a critical hit by 10% May also increase crit chance when using Laser Sight by 5%
MEC Warfare Systems	Alien Biocybernetics	§?, ?	Vital for further MEC equipment development; prerequisite for the production of many MEC items (e.g. Kinetic Strike, Flamethrower, etc.)	20