Foundry (Long War)

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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

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

Name	Effects	Prerequisites		Cost
										Other
SHIV-Specific Upgrades
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
Mechanized Unit Defenses	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
Sentinel Drone	Grants SHIVs the Repair Servos and Close Combat Specialist perk.	50	Cyberdisc Autopsy	§150	40	0	20	0	21	1x Drone Wreck, 1x UFO Flight Computer
SHIV Suppression	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	Effects									Other
Advanced Repair	Increases interceptor, SHIV, and item repair speed.	45	Heavy Floater Autopsy	§500	100	0	0	80	21	4x Heavy Floater Corpse
Advanced Servomotors	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
Jellied Elerium	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	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.	50	Berserker Autopsy	§300	60	30	30	40	7	8x Berserker Corpse
MEC Warfare Systems	Vital for further MEC equipment development; prerequisite for the production of many advanced MEC weapons, suits, and items (railgun, stronger MEC suits, flamethrower, etc.).	20	Alien Biocybernetics	§25	0	0	0	0	7	-
Shaped 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	Effects									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	Increases the ammo capacity of weapons by 1 shot/burst.	60	Muton Autopsy	§500	80	100	0	50	14	20x Muton Corpses
Enhanced Ballistics	Unlocks Alloy-Jacketed Rounds, which increases ballistic/gauss weapon damage by +1.	10	Alien Materials	§80	10	20	0	0	7	-
Enhanced Lasers	Unlocks Enhanced Beam Optics, which increases beam/pulse laser weapon damage by +1.	30	Advanced Beam Lasers	§150	40	15	0	0	14	-
Enhanced Plasma	All plasma-tier weapons receive +1 base damage. Also unlocks Plasma Stellerator, which increases plasma weapon damage by +1.	120	Precision Plasma Weapons	§500	100	100	100	0	21	1x Plasma Dragon
Quenchguns	Doubles the DR reduction of gauss weapons to 0.67.	60	Advanced Gauss Weapons	§250	40	80	50	25	14	2x Alien Carbine
Pistol Upgrades
Name	Effects									Other
Mag Pistols	Grants +8% critical hit chance to all pistols.	10	Alien Weaponry	§35	0	5	0	0	7	-
Rail Pistols	Grants +8% aim to all pistols.	20	Gauss Weapons	§90	10	35	0	0	10	-
Reflex Pistols	Grants +1 base damage to all pistols.	35	Compact Plasma Weapons	§145	30	60	30	0	14	1x Alien Pistol
Material Recovery
Name	Effects									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	-
Aerospace Improvements
Name	Effects									Other
Aircraft Boosters	Allows production of one-time 'boosters' for interception.	10	Alien Materials	§50	0	10	0	10	7	-
Armored Fighters	Increases all interceptor HP by 1000.	30	Advanced Aerospace Concepts	§400	200	0	60	70	14	30x Floater Corpse
Elerium Afterburners	Increases interceptor combat time by 5 seconds.	45	Alien Propulsion	§200	30	0	30	0	14	2x UFO Power Source
Improved Avionics	Increases interceptor aim by 10.	40	Advanced Aerospace Concepts	§400	10	50	0	0	14	3x UFO Flight Computer
Penetrator Weapons	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	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	Upgrades laser cannon damage by 10, armor penetration by 6, and increases rate of fire to 0.75.	70	Advanced Pulse Lasers	§800	200	100	200	100	21	6x UFO Power Source
Super Skyranger	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	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	§200	10	0	10	0	14	4x UFO Flight Computer
UFO Tracking	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	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	-
Miscellaneous
Name	Effects									Other
Advanced Flight	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
Advanced Surgery	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	-
Drone Capture	XCOM can now use the arc thrower to capture enemy drones for the duration of the combat mission (100% chance to capture).	95	EMP Weapons	§350	0	100	10	0	21	50x 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	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	Like New Combat Systems, unlocks an assortment of psionic special equipment.	40	Xenopsionics	§100	0	30	20	40	14	12x Sectoid Corpse
SCOPE Upgrade	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	Grants one extra item slot to soldiers.	80	Muton Elite Autopsy	§500	100	100	0	60	21	20x Muton Elite Corpse

See also

Long War: XCOM Facilities
	Overview Mission Control Research Engineering Barracks Hangar Situation Room
	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