Guide to Ghetto Chemistry
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George Melons, the Assistant says: "Hey, kid. Wanna buy some Space Drugs? You askin' how I made it? Well, I threw a bunch of random trash an'a dead mouse in a blender and heated it up with a lighter, of course! Easy as that." |
Starting out
So, you are an average Greytide and you want to be a Walter White. How do you do it? First off, you're gonna wanna get these things to get started with ghetto chem.
A few beakers, soda cans, bottles, etc
A couple of tables to store your beakers, so you don't spill your shit on the floor
Most importantly, without this you dont have ghetto chem:
Optionally:
A ChemMaster 3000 to separate and bottle chemicals.
Remember that you can use matches, lighters, and igniters to heat containers as well.
Upgrading your tools
Once you have a decent set of beakers and the like, it can be worth upgrading the tools you'll be using to manage your reactions. There are a number of tools that'll help you that can be created in the crafting menu and otherwise.
Universal indicator / pH booklets
Reacting Universal indicator will allow you to create pH booklets - the main way to detect your pH during a reaction. Simply rip out a page and use it on a beaker or improvised chem heater to get the pH of the solution at that point in time. You can also grind these pages to get 1u back - grinding all 50 pages will give you enough to make another booklet.
Thermometer
This can be added to anything that holds chemicals, and will tell you the temperature. To remove, close the UI.
Cooling spray
This can be crafted to spray on your beakers to cool down the reagents within, alternatively fire extinquishers can be used instead. In a pinch, this can double as a weak extinguisher too.
Burners
These tabletop burners will allow you to heat up your beakers simply by waving your container over it. It'll burn the reagent inside, and the temperature increase will depend on the burning temperature of the reagent contained within. For a quick reference
- Ethanol - burns very hot and for a long time
- Welding fuel - burns hot and fast
- Oil - doesn't burn as hot as the others, but lasts a long time
- Plasma - Hottest burning temperature and will be used up the quickest
- Pyrosium - Hottest burning temperature and burns through slowly, but requires oxygen to be in the burner as well
- Cyrostylane - Burns at 0K, very cold, can be used to cool beakers instead, requires oxygen to be in the burner as well
- Cryoxadone - Burns cold, can be used to cool beakers instead
If you put a mix in the burner, the flame temperature will by the weighted sum of the reagents within. To add reagents to the burner, simply snuff out the flame and pour stuff in, to light it, use a lighter or a match!
Improvised chem heater
For the ghetto enthusiast, a space heater can be refactored into an impromptu chem heater- allowing you much finer control over the temperature specifics of your reactions. If you're planning on making anything difficult, or want to have better control over your temperatures, this is the best way to do it. Images to come soon
Barrels
When you got a chemical that requires a lot of acid, stable plasma or other base chems in order to stabilize so you don't get blown up, this is for you. All you have to do is pour the chemicals in, Barrels can hold 300 units of reagents.
Grindables
Not only can you steal things, but you can also 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 |
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| Ammonia | Urinal cakes (1u) | |
| Ash | Burning a paper and scooping up the ash with a beaker (30u) | |
| Aluminium | Crushed soda cans (crush on your head first) (10u), deconstruct smart metal foam grenades (75u), boritos bag leftovers (1u) | |
| Blood | Dead mouse (20u), or use a syringe to extract from a monkey or human | |
| Bluespace Dust | Bluespace crystals (20u, if artificial 10u) | |
| Carbon | coal (20u), cigarette butts (2u), firebrands (2u), heating Cellulose Fibers | Firebrands can be crafted from one stack of wood, but grinding up a wooden plank and then heating it is ten times as efficient. |
| Cellulose Fibers | Wooden planks (20u), cloth (20u), raw cotton (20u), cardboard (10u), paper frame (20u), bamboo shavings (10u), corn cob (10u), package wrapper (5u), paper (3u), medical gauze (2u), space cash (10u) | |
| Chlorine | Urinal cakes (3u) | |
| Copper | Cable coils (2u per wire) | |
| Cryoxadone | Steal one of the spare cryoxadone beakers from medical. On Metastation, maintenance bar also has one. | |
| Ethanol | Spraycans (15u) | |
| Fluorosulfuric acid | Deconstruct smart metal foam grenades (25u) | |
| Fluorosurfacant | Deconstruct cleaner grenades (40u) | |
| Gold | Gold coin (4u), robust Gold cigarettes (premium cigarette vendor item) (3u) | |
| Hydrogen | Glowsticks (10u) | 1u Liquid Electricity can be used with 5u Water to obtain 3u Hydrogen through Electrolysis. |
| Iodine | Toner cartridge (40u), photographs (4u), pens (1u) | Toner cartridges can be found in airlock painters. |
| Iron | Metal (20u), plasteel (20u), lollipops (10u), electronics (10u), reinforced glass (10u), reinforced plasma glass (10u), toner cartridge (10u), pens (2u), power cells (5u), lighters (1u) | |
| Lead | Lead Pipe (20u), lead-acid batteries (15u), premium combat medical kits (10u) | Lead is currently only used in the recipe for SaturnX. These are the only ways to obtain lead. Unrelated to Lead Acetate. |
| Lenturi | Ointment (10u) | |
| Libital | Bruise pack (10u) | |
| Lithium | Any power cell, including potato batteries (15u) | |
| Liquid Gibs | Dead mouse(5u), use a beaker on gibs on the floor (5u), organic bodyparts (5u), homemade soap (9u) | |
| Lye | Soap (10u) | |
| Mercury | Analyzer (5u) | |
| Monkey Powder | Monkey cube (30u) | |
| Nicotine | Cigarettes (around 15u), cigars (up to 40u) | |
| Nitrogen | Lightbulbs (10u) and canned air (24u) | |
| Nutriment | Food | |
| Oil | Lighters (5u), using a beaker on oil spills (30u) | |
| Organic Slurry | Dip a dead rat into at least 3u (but most optimally 45u) of welding fuel. | Grinding up the resulting rat will deposit a lot of unwanted byproducts into the container. Essential for creating maintenance chemicals. |
| Omnizine | Heated donk pockets (3u) | |
| Oxandrolone | Gumballs (2u) | |
| Oxygen | Canned air (6u), glowsticks (5u), and space cigarette-brand cigs (9u) | 1u Liquid Electricity can be used with 5u Water to obtain 1.5u Oxygen through Electrolysis. |
| Phenol | Glowstick (15u) | |
| Phosphorus | Matches (2u), deconstruct a teargas grenade (40u) | |
| Plasma | Solid plasma (20u), plasteel (20u), plasma glass (10u), reinforced plasma glass (10u), Nanotrasen brand soap (10u) | |
| Polypyrylium Oligomers | Medicated suture (2u) | |
| Potassium | Deconstruct a tear gas grenade (40u), Bananas (varies with potency and traits) | |
| Nutriment Peptides | any liver (5u), moldy/bacteria-rich pizza slice(3u, found in maintenance) | Peptides heal 3 brute and 1 burn per tick, and are nutritious! The liver CANNOT be eaten by itself to digest the peptides - it must be ground up, either in a grinder or with a mortar and pestle, which aren't too hard to procure, usually. |
| Radium | Small amounts are obtainable from ground-up glowshroom. | |
| Salicyclic Acid | Gumballs (2u) | |
| Silicon | Glass (20u), reinforced glass (20u), reinforced plasma glass (20u), circuit boards (20u), electronics (10u), light bulbs (5u), power cell (5u), analyzer (5u) | |
| Silver | Silver coin (4u) | |
| Sodium Chloride | Salt shakers (20u), cup ramen (3u), beef jerky (2u), chips (1u) | A reagent analyzer says a salt shaker contains table salt, but this is the same as sodium chloride. |
| Smart foaming agent | Deconstruct a smart metal foam grenade (25u) | |
| Space cleaner | Deconstruct cleaner grenades (10u) | |
| Spaceacillin | Sutures  (2u), regenerative mesh  (2u)
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| Strange Reagent | Grind a gorilla cube (5u) | |
| Sugar | Dutch hot coco (5u), gumballs (5u), space twinkie (4u), 4no raisins (4u), candy (3u), cheesie honkers (3u), chips (3u), beef jerky (3u), donuts (2u), deconstruct a tear gas grenade (40u) | |
| Sulfur | Flare (15u) | |
| Sulphuric Acid | Lead-acid batteries (15u) | |
| Uranium | Uranium sheets (20u), gibbed flyperson meat slabs (3u) | Glowing goo doesn't give uranium anymore, at least not the kind seen in any station. These are the only practical* ways to obtain the reagent. |
| Water | Sinks, or Water tanks | |
| Welding Fuel | Lighters (5u), or Welding fuel tanks |