Terran Technology Tree
Terran Beginner Basics, Builds, and Tips & Tricks for StarCraft: Remastered
Rather than regurgitate “text book” information that you could find anywhere at this point considering StarCraft released almost 20 years ago, here’s just quick layman’s rundown of what each building does. If you want that text book tech tree, check out Liquidpedia’s here.
Command Center: Builds your worker units SCVs, necessary for gathering the game’s two resources: Minerals and Vespene Gas. Protect this building and your workers at all costs. Can eventually add-on the Comsat Station for scouting your opponent and Nuclear Silo for creating nuclear missiles.
Refinery: Built over Vespene Geysers to harvest Vespene Gas, a crucial resource needed for many units.
Supply Depot: Must be created periodically to increase your supply so you can build more units, up to a total of 200 total supply. Units cost varying amounts of supply. Try to stay on top of this and avoid being supply blocked as much as possible.
Barracks: Builds your infantry units such as Marines and Medics. Some strategies make heavy use of these units, while others abandon it for Factory units. In cases where you’ll be making heavy use, you’ll want to eventually build many of these buildings so you can produce more than one unit at a time. Also allows you to create the useful defensive structure, the Bunker.
Engineering Bay: Provides researchable upgrades for your infantry’s weapon and armor upgrades, in addition to letting you build the helpful defensive structure, the Missile Turret.
Academy: Tech structure needed to unlock more infantry units and their upgrades.
Factory: Produces powerful “mech” units such as the Siege Tank, Vulture, and Goliath. Like Barracks-based “bio” strategies, you’ll eventually want more than one Factory to mass produce mech units at a quicker pace once your economy can afford it. Can be added-on with a Machine Shop which provides new units and upgrades.
Starport: Is where your air units come from. Initially only providing the Wraith, it can eventually be beefed up with the Control Tower add-on and other structures to provide powerful support and attacking units such as the Science Vessel, Valkyrie, Dropship, and Battlecruiser.
Armory: Is where you research your Factory and Starport weapon and armor upgrades.
Science Facility: Allows you to build the Science Vessel at the Starport and can optionally add-on the Physics Lab or the Covert Ops, to allow you to build Battlecruisers and Ghosts respectively (along with their related upgrades).
