Zerg Basic Buildings
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Hatchery    Stats Upgrades/Special Abilites   Building Type: Town Hall Cost: 300 Build Time: 100 Requires: none Hit Points: 1250 Control Provided: 1 Allows You to Make: Drone Overlord Spawning Pool Creep Colony Extractor You can use the Hatchery to easily easily select your Larvae so you can tell them to produce more advanced units. When you set a rally point, all units that are built at the building will automatically move to the location you chose when they are built. You can research the Burrow technology at the Hatchery 100 100 After you get a Spawning Pool, you can morph your Hatchery into a Lair. 150 100

The Hatchery is your central building for the Zerg. It is where you produce all your units except for the Infested Terran. All your Drones bring back their minerals and gas to the Hatchery

Spawning Pool    Stats Upgrades/Special Abilites   Building Type: Basic Structure Buildng Cost: 150 Build Time: 80 Requires: Hatchery Hit Points: 750 Allows You to Make: Zergling Evolution Chamber Hydralisk Den Sunken Colony Lair Metabolic Boost allows your Zerglings to move at a much faster Rate 100 100 Adrenal Glands greatly increase the attack rate of the Zergling 150 150

The Spawning Pool is your Basic tech tree building. It will be the first building you have other than Hatcheries, Extractors, and maybe Creep Colonies.

Extractor    Stats Upgrades/Special Abilites   Building Type: Gas Mining Building Cost: 100 Build Time: 40 Requires: none Hit Points: 750

Before you can mine any gas, you must build an Extractor on top of it. They build very fast, so you should have an easy time getting your gas mining process going.

Hydralisk Den    Stats Upgrades/Special Abilites   Building Type: Secondary Support          Building Cost: 100 50 Build Time: 40 Requires: Hatchery Hit Points: 750 Allows You to Make: Hydralisk Muscular Augments allows your Hydralisks to move at a much faster rate. 100 100 Grooved Spines increases the range of your Hydralisks. 150 150 After researching Lurker Morph, you will be able to morph your Hydralisks into Lurkers 150 150

Your Hydralisk Den allows you to make Hydralisks and Lurkers, which in turn can turn into Lurkers. It is not required for any other building in the tech tree, so it is skippable, although it is not recommended that you do this.

Evolution Chamber    Stats Upgrades/Special Abilites   Building Type: Basic Upgrade Building Cost: 75 Build Time: 40 Requires: Hatchery Hit Points: 750 Allows You to Make: Spore Colony This upgrades the attack power of the Zergling, Broodling,and Ultralisk. Level 1 100 100 Level 2 150 150 Level 3 200 200 This upgrades the attack power of the Hydralisk and Lurker Level 1 100 100 Level 2 150 150 Level 3 200 200 This upgrades the Armor of all your Zerg groung units. Level 1 150 150 Level 2 225 225 Level 3 300 300

The Evolution Chamber is where you upgrade all your Zerg ground units. It also allows you to upgrade your Creep Colonies into Spore Colonies. It is suggested you build 2 or 3 of these suggesting on how you play.

Creep Colony    Stats Upgrades/Special Abilites   Building Type: Creep Producing Structure Cost: 75 Build Time: 20 Requires: none Hit Points: 400 After you build an Evolution Chamber, you can morph your Creep Colonies into a Spore Colony 50 After you build a Spawning Pool, you can morph your Creep Colonies into a Sunken Colony 50

Your Creep Colony produces Creep that provides you with more space to construct your building. You can also morph them into defensive structures.

Sunken Colony    Stats Upgrades/Special Abilites   Building Type: Ground Defense Structure Cost: 50 Build Time: 40 Requires: Spawning Pool Hit Points: 400 Attack Type: Ground Only Attack Power: 30 Range: 7 Rate of Fire: 20 attacks per minute Damage Type: Normal

Sunken Colonies provide your base with excellent ground support. They are the most powerful ground defense buildings in the game, and last much longer than Photon Canons and Bunkers. Watch out for Tanks and Reavers though ,as they outrange your Sunken Colonies.

Spore Colony    Stats Upgrades/Special Abilites   Building Type: Ground Defense Structure Cost: 50 Build Time: 40 Requires: Evolution Chamber Hit Points: 400 Attack Type: Air Only Attack Power: 15 Range: 7 Rate of Fire: 70 attacks per minute Damage Type: Normal

Spore Colonies provide your Air Defense. They have a great attack, and attack fast. And to add, they have more hit points then Missle Turrets and Photon Canons. They also serve as Detectors.