Guide to Ghetto Chemistry
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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
excusesvalid 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 | |
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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. |
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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. |
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Heating-equipment | 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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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!
Grindables
Not only can you steal things, you can shove them into a grinder to retrieve chemicals from them!
If you're stealing from Botany, check out the Guide to hydroponics.
| 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 | |
| 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 |