Ghetto Chemistry ErisEn

Ghetto Chemistry

As a vagabond, your choices for medical care are fairly limited. Most of us will find ourselves in need of medical care down in the tunnels at some point; and sometimes the medbay is simply too far to be a viable option for survival. Experienced scavengers will often employ their own means of acquiring medicines and remedies, or useful(harmful) chemicals required for criminal activities. It is not a rare sight to see vagabonds picking through medical refuse piles, but only true veterans will realize the full potential of them.

Mortar & Pestle

Crafting

This item can be crafted using steel via the crafting menu. After you create the assembly, add the required parts and use the indicated tools to complete it. Attach 2 units of steel. Apply tool with wire cutting quality of 10. Apply tool with prying quality of 10 Attach metal rod

This tool is the makeshift version of the Grinder tool commonly found in Chemistry labs. It can grind up almost everything that its electric counterpart can, except for tough materials like uranium or plasma. Its main use in chemistry is to grind organic items that produce chemical reagents. As you can imagine, the tunnels of the Eris contain many of these sorts of items,plants, and fauna refuse.

Some of the things that can be ground up: floor pills for random reagent and amount, deteriorated medicine to recycle one specific reagent, old food for protein and random toxic reagents, roach and spider meats for venom and enzymes,as well as medical kits, gauze, and ointments for ethanol and common medicines. There are more things that aren't listed, so feel free to try different things!

Put the items inside of the Mortar and use it in your hand to grind them with the Pestle. This will fill up the Mortar with the solution from the material inside. The Mortar will hold up to 60 units of reagents. Once it contains a reagent or solution inside, click on a vessel such as a beaker or a cup to pour it out into said vessel. Take note that you can grind many things at once to create a solution inside the M&P, or one at a time to quickly isolate reagents. Some things such as roach meats will always contain several reagents inside, which will require a Centrifuge to separate and to isolate specific chemicals.

Manual Centrifuge

Crafting

Attach 4 units of steel. Apply tool with sawing quality of 10. Attach 2 metal rods. Apply tool with wire cutting quality of 10. Apply tool with welding quality of 10.

Moebius has had the solution for separating chemicals for a long time using things like fancy science and electricity. True undertunnel dwellers aboard know they don't require either. All you need is some DIY knowledge and the motivation to crank a handle so hard your hands get blisters. Introducing the Manual Centrifuge.

You can craft this item by using steel via the crafting menu. The way this works is you can put up to 3 vessels inside. A main source vessel will contain the solution that is to be separated. 2 empty vessels are added to contain the isolated reagents. Once you have the vessels in place, use the Centrifuge in your hand to start cranking the handle. Gravitational forces will force the reagents apart inside the centrifuge safely collecting them inside the beakers based on mole mass. Its random which reagents will get separated so keep using empty vessels until you have all of it organized.

Some reagents will react with each other to form a compound chemical. This is no longer a separated solution but a different chemical altogether. What if we want to isolate a specific reagent that is used in the creation of a compound such as dylovene? We cannot use the centrifuge because the reagents are no longer there. What we need is electrolysis to force the molecules inside the compound apart and regain reagents.

Makeshift Electrolyzer

Crafting

Attach 2 units of steel. Apply tool with wire cutting quality of 10. Attach 30 cable coil. Apply tool with wire cutting quality of 10. Attach 2 metal rods. Insert a Small cell to power the machine.

This item is the makeshift counterpart of the chemistry lab Electrolyzer. Pretty much a battery hooked up to a vessel designed to run electrical current through a compound solution to forcefully separate the reagents it was made from. The electrolyzer works by inputting a vessel with a compound solution inside of it and using it in your hand to start the process. The chemical will separate inside the vessel and create a regular solution; which can then be run through the centrifuge to separate compound from source reagent. Naturally you will lose some of the compound solution in the process.

Conclusion

Feel free to experiment with these items now that you know how they work. These 3 items allow you to be incredibly self sufficient in your journey on Eris. You can recycle old medicine to create new medicine, chemicals that can keep you alive in face of certain death, and useful compounds which can certainly come in handy or be sold at a profit. So next time you see an old timer picking up floor pills and old food and carefully placing it into a dedicated container, consider why you are not doing the same.

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