Widget Inc. – Quick Guide to Placement Bonus

Placement Bonus

By TKailan.

How Buildings Work

Most buildings can get bonus production when they’re placed ON certain terrain or NEXT TO other buildings. You can usually get these bonuses 1-2 tiers after you first get the building. Buildings can connect to others in all 8 directions around them.

Tier 1

• Iron Mine: Gets 40% more when built on Rocks

• Iron Smelter: Gets 25% more for each Iron Smelter next to it

• Widget Factory: Gets 40% more when next to exactly one other Widget Factory

Tier 2

• Sand Pit: Gets 25% more when built on Sand

• Glass Kiln: Gets 50% more when next to exactly two other Glass Kilns

• Gyroscope Fabricator: Gets 25% more when next to at least one Glass Kiln

• Widget Spinner: Gets 60% more when next to Rocks (but not on top)

Tier 3

• Oil Field: Gets 25% more when built on Swamp

• Oil Power Plant: Gets 100% more when next to an Oil Field and one other Oil Power Plant

• Battery Assembler: Gets 25% more when not touching Water or Swamp

• Capacitor Bank: Gets 15% more when next to at least two Battery Assemblers, but no other Capacitor Banks

Tier 4

• Copper Mine: Gets 25% more when built on Rocks

• Copper Forge: Gets 100% more when built on Forest

• Plastic Extractor: Gets 25% more when next to Oil Field

• Circuit Fab: Gets 100% more when completely surrounded by buildings or blocked terrain (Water and Mountain)

• Computational Engine: Gets 15% more when not next to another Computational Engine

Tier 5

• Tesla Coil: Gets 25% more when next to exactly two other Tesla Coils, but no other buildings

• Core Foundry: Gets 100% more when not next to any building, or 50% more when next to at least one Core Foundry

Tier 6

• Silicon Extruder: Gets 20% more when next to Sand Pit

• Processor Lab: Gets 50% more when next to a City (but not on top)

• Mainframe Assembler: Gets 15% more when next to exactly one other building

Tier 7

• Uranium Mine: Gets 25% more when built on Sand

• Fuel Rod Assembler: Gets 50% more when built on Forest

Tier 8

• Widget Minitizers: Get 10% more for each Widget Factory next to it

• Nanoscale Lab: Gets 15% more when built on Ruins

• Reactor Foundry: Gets 50% more when built near a Nuclear Power Plant

• Quantum Tunnler: Gets 50% more when built on Prairie

Tier 9

• Helium Extractor: Gets 30% more when built on rocks

• Conductor Factory: Gets 15% more when next to both a Helium Extractor and Iron Mine

• AI Laboratory: Gets 15% more when built on grass

• AI Delimiter: Gets 10% more when next to exactly two AI Labs and nothing else

Tier 10

• Training Center: Gets 10% more on Ruins

• Data Transformer: Gets 10% more when next to 3 different buildings (not counting other Data Transformers)

• Ascension Facility: Gets 10% more on city tiles if nothing is next to it (only worth using on small cities)

Tier 11

• Perpetual Motion Engine: Gets 25% more for each different building next to it (not counting other Perpetual Motion Engines)

• Sentience Facility: Gets 5% more for each different type of terrain next to it

• Picoscale Lab: Gets 5% more for each Circuit Fab, Processor Lab, or Nanoscale Lab next to it

• Sentience Aggregator: Gets 10% more if next to an Omega Project Assembler

Tier 12

Note: Tier 12 has 10 buildings, but 9 of them don’t give bonuses. You can use these to boost other buildings that need different buildings next to them.