Guide to Ghetto Chemistry
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Starting out
So, you are an average Spacer and either you want to be a Walter White, or your friend is dying, and you need to make medicine to save them. 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 don't have ghetto chem:
- A mortar and pestle, which can be made from most materials. Grinders are a rare luxury in space, so if you happen to have one, make use of it!
Optionally:
- A separatory funnel (craftable from 3 beakers and some cable coil). These are useful to separate your target chemical from all the other, possibly poisonous, junk. If you have a ChemMaster or CondiMaster, use it!
Remember that you can use matches, lighters, and igniters to heat containers as well.
Conversions
Some chemicals can be converted to other chemicals by dipping stock parts into them. These reactions can supplement scavenging for Grindables, allowing for more flexibility.
| Chemical | Sources | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrogen | Electrolyze Water using a Capacitor. (Results in .6 units of Hydrogen and .3 units of Oxygen) | |
| Oxygen | Electrolyze Water using a Capacitor. (Results in .6 units of Hydrogen and .3 units of Oxygen) | |
| Phosphorus | Fuse Silicon and Hydrogen using a Micro-manipulator. (results in 1u Phosphorus for each 1u Silicon and 1u Hydrogen used) | |
| Sulfur | Fuse Phosphorus and Hydrogen using a Micro-manipulator. (results in 1u Sulfur for each 1u Phosphorus and 1u Hydrogen used) | |
| Carbon | Extract Carbon from Ash using a Scanning Module. (results in 1 unit per 3 units of Ash) | |
| Sodium | Refine Lithium into Sodium using a Micro-laser. (Results in 1 unit per 2 units of Lithium) | Overlaps with Potassium, remember to seperate out the sodium between each reaction, or it will be converted to Potassium. |
| Potassium | Refine Sodium into Potassium using a Micro-laser. (Results in 1 unit per 2 units of Sodium) | |
| Bromine | Reduce Iodine into Bromine using a Scanning Module. | Overlaps with Chlorine and Fluorine, remember to separate out the target reagent. |
| Chlorine | Reduce Bromine into Chlorine using a Scanning Module. | Overlaps with Bromine and Fluorine, remember to separate out the target reagent. |
| Fluorine | Reduce Chlorine into Fluorine using a Scanning Module. | |
| Radium | Refine Uranium into Radium using a Micro-laser. (results in 1 unit per 2 units of Uranium. | |
| Stable Plasma | Stabilize Plasma using a Micro-manipulator |
Grindables
Not only can you steal things, but you can also shove them into a grinder to retrieve chemicals from them!
| Chemical | Sources | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 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) | |
| Blood | Dead mouse (20u), or use a syringe to extract from a monkey or human | |
| Carbon | Wooden planks (20u), coal (20u), cigarette butts (2u) | |
| 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 sheets (20u), gold coin (4u), robust Gold cigarettes (premium cigarette vendor item) (3u) | |
| Hydrogen | Glowsticks (10u) | |
| 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) | |
| Lithium | Any power cell, including potato batteries (15u) | |
| Liquid Electricity | High-power energy bars (3u) | |
| Liquid Gibs | Dead mouse(5u), use a beaker on gibs on the floor (5u) | |
| Lye | Soap (10u) | |
| Mercury | Analyzer (5u) | |
| 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) | |
| Omnizine | Heated donk pockets (3u) | |
| Oxandrolone | Gumballs (2u) | |
| Oxygen | Canned air (6u) and glowsticks (5u) | |
| 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) | |
| Potassium | Deconstruct a tear gas grenade (40u) | |
| 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 sheets. (20u) | |
| 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. |
| Silver sulfadiazine | Ointment (10u) | |
| Smart foaming agent | Deconstruct a smart metal foam grenade (25u) | |
| Space cleaner | Deconstruct cleaner grenades (10u) | |
| Styptic powder | Bruise pack (10u) | |
| 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) | |
| Uranium | Grind Uranium sheets. (20u) | |
| Water | Sinks, or Water tanks | |
| Welding Fuel | Lighters (5u), or Welding fuel tanks |
