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 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 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.
  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!

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