Guide to Chemical Research

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The Chemical Research portion of research and development involves experimenting with chemicals and how they react with eachother. Equipped with chemical dispensers and the means to construct grenades, science should attempt to experiment with various grenades in their test chamber or patch/pill mixtures. This can not only be used to learn about beneficial chemicals but also as an opportunity to produce helpful chemical contraptions for the station.

Duties and Responsibilities

Your job is to experiment with chemicals. While many Scientists prefer to work with only Pyrotechnics, there is also the opportunity to create superior healing mixtures, fun concoctions, and better chemicals to improve Service or Security jobs.

The Lab

The NSS Cyberiad Chemical Research Lab

The chemical research lab consists of chem-dispensers, chem-masters, and chemical heaters. This is where you will mix, create, and analyze different chemicals and compounds. The lab is also equipped with a blast test chamber in order to test your grenades. It's very important you know exactly what you're mixing before you mix it because you only get one research lab. A designated test chamber is generally provided in the Research department for testing compounds.

Getting Started

See also Guide to Chemistry

Fire and foremost, scientists should grab a gas mask (for protection when mixing compounds) and set their Suit sensors to max for when they inevitably blow themselves up. Where to begin is up to the imagination and initiative of scientists, it may be beneficial to look through the Guide to Chemistry and see what each chemical does either when combined to make a visible effect or ingested by a monkey test subject to see the effects on it. Once a chemical is discovered that may be useful or interesting, scientists should see how these chemicals could be best utilized either through different types of grenade casings and Assemblies or in application through patches and pills.

Unless the compound requires approval from the Research Director, scientists should feel free to distribute these grenades where they may be most beneficial to the station. That being said, this role is about exploration and having fun, so players should not feel pressured to make compounds for the station. However, players should be cognizant of Research and Development and man it when necessary.

Chemical Manipulation

Since chemical researchers will be working with chemicals mostly, it's important for them to understand the machinery and tools available to them:

Chem-Dispenser - Allows user to dispense Base Chemicals and clear unwanted chemicals from containers, only one beaker at a time can be inserted.
Chem-Master - Allows user to insert a beaker, separate out chemicals, and then turn those chemicals into pills or patches.
Chemical Heater- Allows user to heat the reagents contained inside of an inserted beaker.
All-In-One Grinder - Allows user to grind/juice inserted items into reagents, useful for Botany plants or food items

Using a combination of these machines will allow any scientists to produce what they want. However, there are a few chemicals that are not obtainable through chemistry and must instead be gathered from Botany, the Gateway, or even Space Ruins.

Beakers and Chemical Transferring

Beakers are container which hold a certain amount of units of any reagents. For better tracking and organization, scientists can use pens on beakers to add a label to it. Unless a scientist is in possession of science goggles, they will not be able to see the contents of the beaker directly and instead will have to insert them into one of the chemistry machines. The contents of beakers can either be warmed/heated by the chemical heater or by using an active welder/lighter on the beaker.

Across all beakers, reagents can be transferred from one container to a second container by holding the first container in-hand and then click on the other container. The amount of units transferred can be specified by right-clicking the beaker and clicking set transfer amount. When transferring container-to-container, how much of each specific reagent that is transferred cannot be set and instead a proportional (percentage of reagent's units compared to total units of reagents in container) amount of every reagent will be transferred. Finally, the reagents of a container can be splashed on a surface/object/person by using it with harm intent on said object.

There are also tools to help with precise chemical transfers between container or mobs:
Syringe - Has two modes, can either inject or draw. Can move up to 15u of chemicals in increments of 5u at once, very useful for injecting mobs with chemicals or drawing blood.
Dropper - Precise reagent mover, can transfer 1u, 2u, 3u, 4u, or 5u of reagents. By targeting the eyes, the dropper can be used to drip chemicals into mobs eyes
Pipette - Extremely precise reagent mover, can transfer any amount between .1u and 1u (up to the 10th place).By targeting the eyes, the dropper can be used to drip chemicals into mobs eyes.

Beaker	Unit Capacity	Description
Beaker	50u	The most basic beaker, can be found around the station or created at an Autolathe
Beaker	100u	The most basic beaker except two times larger, can be found around the station or created at an Autolathe
Bucket	120u	Not technically a beaker but holds all the same properties as one with the added benefit of a large unit capacity, can be found around the station or created at an Autolathe
Bluespace Beaker	300u	The beaker with the most unit capacity, can be created at a Protolathe
Cryostasis Beaker	50u	A beaker that allows for chemical storage without reaction (mixing of chemicals), can be created at a Protolathe

While these are the only beakers available, any container such as water bottles, glasses, cans, bottles, etc can be used in the same interactions as beakers. Alternative containers generally come at the cost of having much lower unit capacities.

Grenades

Grenades are assemblies that upon activation, will count down from a timer of either 3 or 5 seconds and upon detonating will mix the contents of two beakers stored within them. All grenades have four components: the type of grenade casing, the trigger, beaker 1, and beaker 2. The amount of chemicals that can be mixed in the grenade is entirely reliant upon the unit capacity of the beakers contained inside. Generally, using a generic grenade casing will accomplish a scientists goal in mixing chems, however, specific grenade assemblies and casing types will allow scientists to perform much more controlled and specific reactions.

The limit of chemicals in a grenade is 600, since one can mix two bluespace beakers (300u each). Any beaker can be used for grenades, except for buckets. Grenade timers can be changed between between 3 and 5 seconds by using a screwdriver on it. All grenades will heat the mixture by a minor amount upon detonation.

Grenade Types

Grenade	Description	Crafting
Generic Grenade	General grenade, can hold two beakers. Upon detonation it will mix both mixtures and heat both by 10K.	Use metal to craft a Use wires on grenade casing Apply 1-2 beakers to wired grenade casing Apply screwdriver to finish File:Screwdriver
Cryo Grenade	A cryogenic grenade. It rapidly cools its contents upon detonation.	Use metal to craft a Use wires on grenade casing Apply 1-2 beakers to wired grenade casing Apply screwdriver to finish File:Screwdriver
Pyro Grenade	A cryogenic grenade. It rapidly cools its contents upon detonation.	Use metal to craft a File:Pryo Grenade Casing.png Use wires on grenade casing Apply 1-2 beakers to wired grenade casing Apply screwdriver to finish File:Screwdriver

Triggers

All of these can be printed via Autolathe. To create any grenade assembly (besides wires), screwdriver both the trigger and an igniter so they both say "can be attached." Then, combine the two, screwdriver the new assembly, and combine it with an empty grenade case. At that point you can add your beakers/bottles etc. and screwdriver to the finished assembly to lock it. The sensor/igniter assembly keeps all it's other settings, but if it will be disarmed, even if you armed it ahead of time. You must use the finished bomb in your hand and re-arm it, or it will not activate. When I say "use the assembly," that means either clicking on it in your hands or pressing Y. Using a bomb with a wire trigger starts the timer immediately with no confirmation, while all other assemblies will open a window with multiple controls, including the arming switch. All assemblies can be deconstructed (even while detonated) via wire cutters + wrench. For all other assemblies besides wires, screwdriver the trigger assembly and use it to detach the trigger and igniter.

For more information on triggers and assemblies see Assemblies.

For a guide on all possible chemical and compounds please see the Guide to Chemistry

Assisting the Station

The best way to help the station is to produce helpful grenades for them. For example you can construct:

• Firefighting grenades for Atmos
• Cleaning grenades for the Janitor
• Foam Metal Grenades for Atmos
• Small HE Grenades for Security
• Healing Grandes for Medbay
• The list goes on.