Patent

A patent is a technological advancement that, when researched in the Patent Lab, grants the player exclusive use of that technology. The costs listed below are for games with four players. For games with a different number of players, check the multipliers table.

List of patents

Patent	Cost	Time (s)	Description	Mars	Ceres	Io
Transparent Aluminum	Chemicals x40	40	Build with Aluminum instead of Glass	No	Yes	Yes
Superconductor	Chemicals x40	40	+100% power production when connected to HQ	Yes	No	Yes
Energy Vault	Chemicals x40	40	+100 Power stockpile (refills +1/s when making power)	Yes	Yes	No
Financial Instruments	Chemicals x40	40	Receive 25% cut from rivals' debt interest	Yes	Yes	Yes
Water Engine	Chemicals x40	40	Units and Offworld Markets are powered with Water	Yes	No	No
Nuclear Engine	Chemicals x40	40	Units and Offworld Markets are powered with Uranium	No	Yes	Yes
Perpetual Motion	Chemicals x60	60	-50% power consumption	No	Yes	Yes
Virtual Reality	Chemicals x60	60	+50% profit from Pleasure Dome	Yes	Yes	Yes
Nanotech	Chemicals x60	60	Recycles construction resources when scrapping buildings	Yes	Yes	Yes
Geothermal Borehole	Chemicals x60	60	Buildings on or adjacent to a Geothermal source produce +0.2 power.	Yes	No	Yes
Cold Fusion	Chemicals x60	60	Buildings are powered with Water	Yes	Yes	No
Liquid Batteries	Chemicals x80	80	Solar Condensers and Solar Panels are always on	No	Yes	Yes
Carbon Scrubbing	Chemicals x80	80	Buildings which need Carbon collect it from the atmosphere.	Yes	No	No
Slant Drilling	Chemicals x80	80	Can mine in adjacent tiles	Yes	Yes	Yes
Synthetic Meat	Chemicals x80	80	Greenhouse Farm is permanently boosted	No	No	Yes
Thinking Machines	Chemicals x80	80	-50% sabotage damage for buildings adjacent to HQ	Yes	Yes	Yes
Teleportation	Chemicals x80	80	Can teleport resources	Yes	Yes	No

Multipliers for game size

Number of players	Cost multiplier	Time multiplier
2	0.5	1
3	0.75	1
4	1	1
5	1	1.25
6	1	1.25
7	1	1.425
8	1	1.65