Guide to Ghetto Chemistry

Starting out

So, you are an average Greytide and you want to be a Walter White. How do you do it?

Knowledge

• You need a decent understanding of chemistry: You are going to be cooking without the luxury of a chem dispenser after all, so you will need many additional steps for your workarounds.
• Without a method of analysing / separating chemicals you will even need to mix blindly, so you better know the reactions by heart if you don't want to end up with unhealthy impurities in your product.
• Make a plan of what to get and where to get it. Don't be afraid to make a small shopping-list.
• Think of excuses valid reasons and explanations ahead of time. The Detective will try to do his best to prevent you from learning more about chemistry, so be sure to not get locked up due to some unfortunate missunderstanding.

Tools of the trade

	Equipment	Rating	Description	Where to get
	Containers	Mandatory	A few containers for mixing your substances like beakers, soda cans, bottles, etc	Glasses and bowls from bar / kitchen, cans from vending-machines. Large 100u beakers can be bought in the station-store and make mixing a lot easier. You could also grow your own wood in the garden and make some buckets.
	Grinding-equipment	Mandatory	Needed to extract your chemicals from all kind of things. You can either go the long route and craft a mortar and pestle, which can only grind one item at a time though. Or you go for it and steal an all in one grinder.	The Bartender, the Cook, the Botanist and the Chemist have an all in one grinder, but will probably notice eventually. Remember that they can be bolted down, so you better bring a wrench.
	Heating-equipment	Semi-Mandatory	You can use lighters and matches to heat containers for certain recipes, and use them to burn certain things to make ingredients, like burning paper for ash.	Smoking-vending-machines, sometimes there are lighters in arrivals, the dorms or the bar.
	Measuring-equipment	Optional	Being able to measure small quantities opposed to 5u-sips will save you from handling a lot of beakers. Use a dropper or repurpose any emptied condiment bottle. A salt-shaker is fine, too.	Ask the chef to grind and bottle some food or grab a saltshaker from the bar.
	Extraction-equipment	Optional	Some chemicals can only be extracted with the use of a syringe or a dropper.	Ask around for both, or repurpose one of the Perfluorodecalin-syringes found in the antisuffocation-emergency-kits of those O2-lockers.
	Tables	Optional	You are going to be handling quite a few containers, so having a table is nice, so you don't spill your shit on the floor. Just make sure to remember which container is which when you put them all on the table	Craft them or move and reassemble them, using the tools found in the tool-storage
	Separation-equipment	Optional	A ChemMaster 3000 / Condiment Dispenser so you don't have to mix blindly anymore. This is going to make ghetto-chemistry so much easier since you can use it to determine, separate and bottle chemicals.	The Cook, the Botanist and the Chemist have one. Bring a wrench to move it and try to be stealthy - you are going to serve some time in the brig if you get caught.
	Friends	Optional	A couple friends (that is, if you have any). Do not underestimate the time needed to get all the necessary equipment and ingredients without raising suspicion.	Talk to anyone lurking around toolstorage or the bar without having the Bartender or any other bystanders call security on you. If you are really desperate and feel a bit lucky, you can always ask the Clown for help.

TL;DR: Go to the holodeck and boot up the medical program!

Getting chemicals

Liquid extraction

Use a container like a glass and fill it with the liquid you need. Simple as that. Some liquids require a dropper / syringe to extract however.

Liquid-Source	Extraction	Notes
Tanks	Container	Can be found in the toolstorage and all around maintenance. Useful for getting welding fuel or water.
Sinks	Container	Check the bathrooms for unlimited water.
Animals/Humans	Syringe	Draw blood with a syringe, though not everyone will be pleased if you fail to ask for consent.
Fryer	Syringe	You can remove the cooking oil from the fryer in the kitchen. The cook might CQC-kick you in the throat if he catches you meddling with his precious oil-reserves.
Cleaning back pack/Spraybottles	Dropper	With a dropper you can extract liquids like space-cleaner from any container, that would otherwise not be extractable, provided you manage to get your hands on one.
Spills	Container	Using any container you can scoop up liquid gibs (5u), Motor Oil (30u) and Ash (30u). Nobody will bother you doing your part in cleaning up the station, right?

Grinding

Not only can you steal things, you can shove them into a grinder / mortar and pestle to retrieve chemicals from them! If you're stealing from Botany, check out the Guide to plants. Don't forget, that some foods contain chemicals as well, most notably warm donk-pockets containing Omnizine. Good luck with getting even close to Xenobiology to ask them for something.

Item	Category	Reagents	Notes
Crushed Can		10u Aluminium	Drink a soda and crush (harm intent) it on your head first
Cigarettes	Smoking	15u Nicotine	Buy Space Cigarettes / DromedaryCo Cigarettes from vending machine
Robust Gold Cigarette	Smoking	15u Nicotine, 3u Gold	Buy from vending machine, expensive though
Premium Cigar	Smoking	25 Nicotine	Buy from vending machine, not cost-efficient though
Pen		2u Iron, 1u Iodine	Color does not matter
Cigarette Butt	Smoking	2u Carbon	Smoke a cigarette and put it out
Lighter	Smoking	1u Iron, 5u Welding Fuel, 5u Oil	There is no difference between cheap lighters and zippos reagent-wise
Powercells	Technology	15u Lithium, 5u Iron, 5u Silicon	Powercell-type does not matter
Metal Sheet	Material	20u Iron	Easiest to aquire by disassembling a table
Safety Flare	Lighting	15u Sulfur	Found in your shift-starter-box, often found as litter on the floor
Analyzer	Technology	5u Mercury, 5u Iron, 5u Silicon	Grab one from the toolstorage
Wood	Material	20 Carbon	Grow some towercap in the garden
Glass Sheet/Glassshard	Material/Trash	20u Silicon, 10u Iron	Just wait for someone to inevitably break some windows in the tool storage
Plasteel Sheet	Material	20u Iron, 20u Plasma	Good luck breaking into the EVA storage
Cable Coil	Material	2u Copper per piece (1 full coil = 60u Copper)	Check the tool storage
Glowstick	Lighting	15u Phenol, 10u Hydrogen, 5u Oxygen	Found in maintenance, also known as 'Meth-in-a-stick'
Firebrand	Lighting	2u Carbon	Craft a firebrand from wood
Light Tube	Lighting	25u Silicon, 10u Nitrogen	Ask the janitor for a spare box or steal some while wearing gloves.
Light Bulb	Lighting	5u Silicon, 10u Nitrogen	Ask the janitor for a spare box or steal some while wearing gloves.
Electronics	Technology	10u Iron, 10u Silicon	Quite a waste of ressources to be honest
Crayon		15u Colored Crayon Powder, 15u Nutriment	Boxes of Crayons can be found in the dorms.
Meat(Sheep)		3u Nutriment, 2u Cooking Oil	Well, ask the cook to butcher a sheep.
Dead Mouse	Trash	3u Nutriment, 2u Vitamin, 20u Blood, 5u Liquid gibs	You monster
Matches	Smoking	2u Phosphorus	Smoking-supplies from vending machine
Silver Coin	Coins	4u Silver	Check the dorms and try to get lucky
Gold Coin	Coins	4u Gold
Diamond Coin	Coins	4u Carbon
Iron Coin	Coins	4u Iron
Plasma Coin	Coins	4u Plasma
Uranium Coin	Coins	4u Uranium
Bananium Coin	Coins	4u Bananium
Photo Picture		4u Iodine	Grabe a camera from the artist supply and make some hardcore landscape photography.
Soap(Nanotransen)		10u Plasma, 10u Lye	Break into the brig and steal their soap. What could possibly go wrong?
Soap(Non-Nanotransen)		10u Lye
Bluespace Crystal	Technology	20u Bluespace
Bluespace Crystal (Artificial)	Technology	10u Bluespace, 20u Silicon
Bluespace Polycrystal	Technology	20u Bluespace
Lump of Coal		20 Carbon
Diamond	Material	30u Carbon	Good luck with your cargo-heist
Uranium Sheet	Material	20u Uranium	Good luck with your cargo-heist
Plasma Sheet	Material	20u Plasma	Good luck with your cargo-heist
Gold Bar	Material	20u Gold	Good luck with your cargo-heist
Silver Bar	Material	20u Silver	Good luck with your cargo-heist
Bananium Sheet	Material	20u Bananium	Good luck with your cargo-heist
Snow Block		20u Ice
Plasma Glass Sheet	Material	20 Silicon, 10 Plasma
Reinforced Plasma Glass Sheet	Material	20 Silicon, 10 Plasma, 10 Iron
Dilithium Crystal	Technology	20u Dilithium
Wired Glass Floor Tile	Material	20u Silicon, 5u Copper
Bamboo Cuttings	Material	5u Carbon
Runed Metal	Material	5u Iron, 15u Blood	If you have cultists to steal from, you might have other more serious problems
Brass Sheet	Material	5u Iron, 15u Teslium
Bronze Sheet	Material	5u Iron, 3u Copper
Bone		10u Carbon
Bruise Pack	Medicine	10u Styptic Powder	Check the medbay
Ointment	Medicine	10u Silver Sulfadiazine	Check the medbay
Slime Zippo	Smoking?	1u Iron, 5u Weldingfuel, 5u Pyroxadone
Circuit Board	Technology	20 Silicon
Toner Cartridge		40u Iodine, 10u Iron	Toner cartridges can be found in airlock painters.
Brute Patch	Medicine	20u Styptic Powder	Check the medbay
Burn Patch	Medicine	20u Silver Sulfadiazine	Check the medbay
Synthflesh Patch	Medicine	20u Synthflesh	Check the medbay
Urinal Cake		3u Chlorine, 1u Ammonia = 1	Extract from urinals (toggle intent)

Ready to go

Some reagents are hidden in plain sight and just need to be used without further grinding / extractions. There is often treasure to be found in the chemistry-fridges.

Item	Reagents	Notes
Salt Shaker	20u Sodium Chloride	Check the bar or ask the chef to get one from his vending machine. Pretty unsuspicious.
Hot Sauce	10u Capsaicin	Ask the chef to get one from his vending machine. There is nothing wrong with you wanting to spice up your food.
Sugar	Sugar	Once again ask the chef for some for your sweetheart
Ethanol	30u Ethanol	Pay the bartender to buy some from his vending machine. You don't really have a legitimate reason, but he should not care how you prefer to get drunk.

Sources listed by Chemical

Overview of sources ordered by chemicals, default extraction-method is grinding.

Chemical	Sources	Notes
Aluminum	Soda cans (crush on your head first), tin cans, deconstruct smart metal foam grenades
Blood	Dead mouse (rude!), or use a syringe to extract from a monkey or human
Carbon	Cigarette butts, coal, wood
Copper	Cable coils
Cryoxadone	Steal one of the spare cryoxadone beakers from medical
Ethanol	Spraycans
Fluorine	A very small amount in water bottles
Fluorosulfuric acid	Deconstruct smart metal foam grenades
Fluorosurfacant	Deconstruct cleaner grenades
Gibs	Dead mouse
Hydrogen	Glowsticks
Iodine	Toner cartridge, photographs, pens	Toner cartridges can be found in airlock painters.
Iron	Electronics, lighters, tin cans, toner cartridge, pens, plasteel, power cells, reinforced glass
Lithium	Power cells, potato batteries
Lye	Soap
Mercury	Analyzer
Nicotine	Cigarettes, cigars
Nitrogen	Lightbulbs
Nutriment	Food
Oil	Lighters, using a beaker on oil spills
Omnizine	Heated donk pockets
Oxygen	Glowsticks and canned air
Phenol	Glowstick
Phosphorus	Matches, deconstruct a teargas grenade
Plasma	Plasteel, Solid plasma, Plasma glass, Soap
Potassium	Deconstruct a tear gas grenade
Silicon	Analyzer, circuit board, electronics, glass, light bulbs, power cells, reinforced glass
Sodium Chloride	Salt shakers	A reagent analyzer says a salt shaker contains table salt, but this functions the same as sodium chloride.
Silver sulfadiazine	Ointment
Smart foaming agent	Deconstruct a smart metal foam grenade
Space cleaner	Deconstruct cleaner grenades
Styptic powder	Bruise packs
Sugar	Donuts, everything except ramen from Getmore Chocolate Corp vending machines, Dutch hot coco, deconstruct a tear gas grenade
Sulfur	Flare
Sulphuric Acid	Circuit board (tiny amounts)
Water	Sinks, or Water tanks
Welding Fuel	Lighters, or Welding fuel tanks