Chemistry

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This is where Scientists go to brew up chemicals. Gets set on fire ~~every other~~ twice a round.

Oh boy I can't wait to melt my eyebrows off!

Here's a quick look at the devices scattered across the room.

Chem Dispenser: Dispenses a whole slew of chemicals. Use a Beaker (or any liquid-bearing container) on it to insert it, then use the machine to pick chemicals. When you're done, eject the beaker from the menu.

Heating/Cooling Unit: Used to chill or heat containers. Use the menu to set a target temperature (PROTIP: click the number itself to punch in a number instead of mashing + and - like a nerd), and press Activate to start the heating/cooling process.

ChemMaster 3000: Used to turn chemicals into pills. After you insert a container, you can choose to remove unwanted chemicals (isolate removes all chemicals BUT the selected one). When creating pills, you'll be prompted to choose how many units are in each pill, as well as the label (which will show up as "<what you wrote> pill"). Pill bottles work differently from containers. To get a pill, click on the pill bottle with an empty hand while it is in your other hand. You can also dump the whole bottle out on the floor by clicking the bottle with the hand holding it. Another option is to fill medical patches with the chemical of your choice. If you need more information, the ChemMaster can analyze any reagent and display a short summary. This may or may not actually describe their functions in a way that makes sense.

ValuChimp: Dispenses monkeys, a valuable commodity for the modern scienist.

Ok so how do I make napalm?

A lot of recipes are very similar to their real-world counterparts. There are also many sci-fi concoctions to discover and experiment with. And, if all else fails, add plasma, since it'll usually make something happen.

What follows is adapted from a forum post by Dr Cogwerks.

Preliminary information that u need 2 know!!

Things that repeat in standard intervals are handled by loop controllers. The Mob Loop encapsulates most of the things that humans and cyborgs have for repeating code. One of the major things there is the Life process. Life process runs in 3 second intervals governed by the mob loop.

So if a chemical does 2 toxin damage each time Life is called, it'll do 2 damage every three seconds. With a depletion rate of 1, it'll deplete 1 unit every three seconds, and so on and so on. Chemicals will last longer if they have a lower depletion rate. Chems that reduce other chems will reduce the listed amount per cycle. If not explicitly stated, chems default to a depletion rate of 0.4 units per cycle.

Some chemicals have a special effect upon TOUCH exposure to a mob. Acids that burn your face off and topical meds are examples of this. Droppers, splashing, patches, chemical smokes and chemical foams apply touch reactions. INGEST reactions are things that happen immediately, usually from eating, drinking or injection. Hyposprays bypass these and go straight into the bloodstream.

Basic compounds

Recipe Name	Recipe	Effects
Salt	Water + Chlorine + Sodium	Ordinary table salt.
Phenol	Water + Chlorine + Oil	Used for certain medical recipes.
Diethalymine	Ammonia + Ethanol * Heat	Used for certain medical recipes and as fertilizer.
Space cleaner	Ammonia + Ethanol + Water	Cleans stuff.
Acetone	Oil + Welding Fuel + Oxygen	Common ingredient in other recipes.
Potash	Ash + Water * 310K / Potassium + Chlorine + Sulfuric acid	Fertilizer.
Ammonia	Hydrogen + Nitrogen	More fertilizer, and an ingredient in a lot of other chems.
Saltpetre	Potash + Urine + Compost	Fertilizer.
Pepperoni	Saltpetre + Beff + Synthflesh	What's beff? Find out!
Stabilizing agent	Iron + Oxygen + Hydrogen	Keeps unstable chemicals stable.
Cryostylane	Water + Plasma + Nitrogen	Forms a layer of slippery ice.

Medical Chems

Reagent	Recipe	Depletion Rate	Effect per life cycle	Immediate effect upon application	Notes	Overdose Treshold
Saline-Glucose Solution	Salt + Water + Sugar	0.4 (default rate)	33% chance per cycle of healing 1 point each of BRUTE and BURN damage.	none.	The Shock ailment checks to see if you have any saline in you. If you do, there is a fixed chance per cycle that it'll reduce or remove the disease. This means that there's no specific amount needed to cure, but the longer it's in you, the more chances it'll have to cure the ailment.
Styptic Powder	Aluminium + Hydrogen + Oxygen + Sulfuric Acid	2	55% chance per cycle of healing 2 points of BRUTE damage.	-TOUCH: Heal 1 point of brute per unit applied. Splash, dropper. -INGEST: Do 0.5 points of tox damage per unit ingested. Don't eat it, don't inject it.	It depletes rapidly in the blood, so most of your healing will come upfront from a topical application.
Silver Sulfadiazine	Silver + Sulfur + Oxygen + Chlorine + Ammonia + Oil	2	55% chance per cycle of healing 2 points of BURN damage.	-TOUCH: Heal 1 point of burn per unit applied. -INGEST: Do 0.5 points of tox damage per unit ingested.	It depletes rapidly in the blood, so most of your healing will come upfront from a topical application.
Synthflesh	Blood + Carbon + Styptic Powder (maybe too easy, idk)	0.4	Does nothing in the bloodstream currently.	-TOUCH: Heals 1.5 BRUTE and 1.5 BURN per unit applied.	Splashing a beaker of synthflesh on someone is very, very effective. The medics will love chemistry a whole lot if you provide them with synthflesh patches or beakers.
Omnizine	No recipe. Look for white weed or propuffs.	0.2	Heals one each of OXY, TOX, BRUTE and BURN.	NA	Slightly addictive. Medbay will love the botanists if they manage to provide it.	30
Activated Charcoal	Oil + Salt @ 310 temp	0.4	Increases the depletion rate of all other chems by 0.5, heals 1.5 TOX damage.	N/A	Good baseline thing for detoxifying someone, but won't always keep up with the hellpoisons.
Calomel	Mercury + Chlorine @ 320	2	Increases all depletion rates by 5. +5 TOX damage while health > 20.	NA	Aggressive purgative. It'll do a lot of tox damage itself but it cannot kill you, as the tox damage only applies while you are above 20 health. Use for emergencies to handle the really aggressive poisons that would definitely kill you if they remain active for long. -Blood tests without a chem PDA: draw blood and analyze in the pill/beaker machine in the pharmacy
Potassium Iodide	Potassium + Iodine, gosh.	0.4	80% chance of removing 1 RAD. Radiation is cumulative and causes tox+burn.	NA	Simple, kinda weak, but can help counter radiation events and radium somewhat.
Pentetic Acid	Fuel + Chlorine + Ammonia + Formaldehyde + Sodium + Cyanide	0.4	Reduces 7 RAD, heals 3 TOX damage, increases all depletion rates by 4. 33% chance of taking 1 unit brute damage	NA	Complicated recipe, apex antitox/antiradiation treatment.
Cryoxadone	Cryostylane + Plasma + Acetone + Unstable Mutagen	0.4	IF BODY TEMP IS BELOW 240, heals 10 OXY, 3 TOX, 3 BRUTE, 3 BURN	NA	Requires cooling the person before it kicks in, but heals incredibly well.
Epinephrine	Phenol + Hydrogen + Oxygen + Chlorine + Acetone + Diethylamine	0.2	Reduces most of the knockout/stun effects. Attempts to cap OXY damage at 35 and LOSEBREATH at 3. If health is between -10 to -65, heals 1 TOX, 1 BRUTE, 1 BURN. Rolls a chance to fix heart problems.	NA	Can make you pretty sick in overdoses. Rapidly counters histamine / allergy reactions. Very useful for stabilizing someone who is in mid-crit damage, standard emergency shot to buy yourself some time. If things are really bad, go for atropine instead. Ephedrine is similar to epinephrine but is a bit weaker.	20
Atropine	Ethanol + Acetone + Diethylamine + Phenol + Sulfuric Acid	0.2	1 TOX damage if used over -60 health. Causes dizziness and confusion. If under -25 health, heals 3 BRUTE + 3 BURN. Rolls a chance to fix heart problems. Attempts to cap OXY damage at 65 and LOSEBREATH at 5. Increases sarin depletion by 10.	NA	Fairly similar to epinephrine but will rapidly push deep-crit damage levels towards shallow crit levels. Use this if you find someone who is right at the edge of death. Flushes sarin extremely rapidly. Atropine alone won't outright kill people but it's a pretty decent debilitating poison if you wanna use it that way.	25
Painkiller / Salicyclic Acid	Sodium + Phenol + Carbon + Oxygen + Sulfuric Acid	0.1	If BRUTE damage is under 50, 50% chance to heal one unit. Tries to return high body temps towards normal. Fairly well counters walkspeed loss from being hurt.	NA	Got beat up a bit and don't want to crawl the whole way to medbay? Pop one of these. Won't help severe damage. Slow depletion rate will keep it in your blood for awhile.	25
Morphine	No recipe, but Botany and QM can both provide it. IRL synthesis is like thirty steps.	0.4	Dramatically counters movement reduction from severe injury. Reduces jitteriness if someone is shaking like crazy from whatever. Will knock you out within 36 cycles if any remains in you.	NA	Used to be Sleep Toxin. Low doses are useful for the painkiller, otherwise it's mostly a grief chem. Getting people addicted to morphine is kinda funny. Could probably use some more benefits.	20
Salbutamol	Salicylic + Lithium + Aluminium + Bromine + Ammonia	0.2	Heals 6 OXY damage, reduces LOSEBREATH by 4 (which some things apply)	NA	Speeds up recovery from suffocation damage, but more importantly, it'll help counter suffocating/losebreath poisons and the suffocation that ramps up in critical health. Really underused emergency med, makes dealing with critical-health people a lot easier.
Perfluorodecalin	Hydrogen + Fluorine + Oil @ 320 (possibly too easy compared to salbutamol)	0.4	Heals 25 OXY damage, causes LOSEBREATH - so you can't talk, but it prevents any suffocation damage from racking up despite that. 33% chance of healing 1 BRUTE and 1 BURN.	NA	Fantastic for crime because it silences people. Also fantastic for pretty much negating all the accumulative damage from being in critical, will give you a really wide window of time to deal with other health problems. In theory you could stay in flatline for quite awhile with this stuff handling tissue oxygenation, but you might need Mannitol too. Can make spacewalking without internals possible. Somewhat addictive.
Mannitol	Sugar + Hydrogen + Water (hydrogenated and then hydrolyzed)	0.4	Heals 3 BRAIN damage.	NA	Use for concussions, changeling stings, bible beatings, flatline brain damage, bath salts, whatever.
Mutadone	Unstable Mutagen + Acetone + Bromine	0.4	Removes all genetic bioeffects.	NA	Did someone turn you into a gibbering chavish deaf dwarven lunatic? Take this. Might retool this a bit so it has a chance of removing an effect per cycle rather than scrubbing all of them instantly.
Spaceacillin	Space Fungus + Ethanol	0.4	Rolls a chance to cure some specific diseases. More uses planned for the future.	NA	You probably won't use this much unless a random disease event hits. Medbay Phase 2 update will introduce some stuff like infections and sepsis.
Antihistamine / Diphenhydramine	Oil + Carbon + Bromine + Diethylamine + Ethanol	0.4	Causes a little bit of drowsiness, reduces jitteriness. Raises histamine and itching powder depletion rates by 3.	NA	Mostly used as a precursor to a couple of the illegal drugs. Might be needed for bee stings, histamine poisonings, itching powder (not enough people use itching powder!!!). More planned for it.
Haloperidol	Chlorine + Fluorine + Aluminium + Potassium Iodide + Oil	0.4	Increases depletion rates for most stimulating/hallucinogenic drugs by 5. Reduces druggy effects and jitteriness. Causes drowsiness, 20% chance to cause 1 BRAIN damage. Cures space madness and berserker.	NA	Treat it like a general antipsychotic, treat/neutralize drugged up maniacs. Used to be Impedrezine.
Antihol	Ethanol + Charcoal (magic silly recipe, might rework it later)	0.4	Raises ethanol depletion rates by 8. Can slowly heal a small bit of TOX damage.	NA	Sober someone up in a hurry. Nefarious people sometimes spike other poisons with ethanol or booze reagents to sabotage charcoal treatments.
Insulin	No recipe currently? I dunno if you can even find this stuff.	0.4	Raises sugar depletion rates by 5.	NA	Handles hyperglycemic coma, but how often is that ever needed? Needs work or removal.
Simethicone	SECRET		Makes the victim unable to fart. Fiendish.	NA	Truly fiendish.
Oculine	Atropine + Spaceacillin + Saline		30% chance to remove blindness, 80% chance to reduce eye damage by 1.	NA	Probably won't need this very often unless some jerk is using a lot of flashbangs.
Teporone	Silicon + Acetone + Plasma		Attempts to return body temp to normal in ten degree increments	NA	Not really ever used much, but spacewalking cocktails might need it.

Base Elements

Reagent	Depletion Rate	Penetrates skin?	Per life cycle	Application effects	Notes
Chlorine	0.4	Yes	+1 BURN	NA	Base element
Fluorine	0.4	Yes	+1 BURN, +1 TOX	NA	Base element
Mercury	0.4	Yes	Causes drooling and weird movement	NA	Base element
Lithium	0.4	No	Drooling and weird movement	NA	Base element.
Sugar	0.4	No	50% chance of reducing an extra cycle's worth of stun, paralysis and weaken. 4% chance to produce a unit of epinephrine	NA	OVERDOSE: 200.Having a bit of sugar in you gives you a noticeable stun reduction and slight speed boost. Overdose effects can put someone into a coma. Corn syrup is more likely to accomplish this. Might lower the overdose threshold.
Radium	0.4	Yes	+4 RAD	NA	Radiation is cumulative and depletes one per cycle. As it ramps up, it starts doing BURN + TOX in increasing amounts related to the radiation total, causes random mutations (often disabilities) and triggers a bunch of other nasty radiation sickness effects. A sleepypen full of radium is pretty lethal over a few minutes.
Uranium	0.4	No	+2 RAD	NA	Some vending machine junk contains this. Has a ~SECRET~ use.
Polonium	0.1	Yes	+8 RAD	NA	Traitor poison bottles can have this. Lasts a long time and ramps your cumulative radiation way the hell up, very deadly.

Toxic Shit

Reagent	Recipe	Depletion rate	Penetrates skin	Per life cycle	Application effects	Notes
Itching Powder	Ammonia + Fuel + Fungus. (Hobo chemistry: urine + water * heat yields ammonia)	0.3	Yes	Lots of annoying random effects, chances to do brute damage from scratching. 6% chance to decay into 1-3 units of Histamine.	NA	Prank chem but can be debilitating as hell in large doses. A source of histamine.
Embalming Fluid / Formaldehyde	Ethanol + Oxygen + Silver @ 320	0.4	Yes	+1 TOX, 10% chance to decay into 5-15 units of Histamine	NA	Inject into a corpse to prevent rotting. Decay into histamine makes it a really mean poison.
Histamine	NO RECIPE (currently)	0.2	No	Dose-dependent, ranges from annoying to incredibly lethal.	NA	OVERDOSE: 20. Below the overdose threshold, it'll mess your vision up and make you cough and sneeze a lot and take occasional BRUTE damage. Overdose+ will cause increasingly worse and rapidly fatal effects simulating anaphylactic shock. Having 40+ units in your bloodstream can trigger +5 brute / +5 tox / +5 ox damage or more per cycle, so if you manage to hit someone with a large dose, it's very deadly. Epinephrine, Methamphetamine and especially Diphenhydamine will counteract it as targeted meds.
Venom	NA	0.2	No	Scales with dose, up to +2 TOX, +2 BRUTE. 25% chance to decay into 5-10 Histamine.	NA	Double-whammy poison from all the histamine it builds up inside you. 40+ units have a 4% chance per cycle to gib you outright.
Toxin	NA	0.4	No	+2 TOX		The old boring generic toxin, still kicking around in a few places.
Neurotoxin	Heat space drugs up. Also: changeling stings, some poison/drug decays, a couple of medical interactions.	1	No	+1 TOX, +1 BRAIN up to 60, then it slows down, confusion, knockout after 17 elapsed cycles	NA	Very debilitating, it's what changelings hit you with.
Atrazine / Weedkiller	Chlorine + Hydrogen + Nitrogen	1	No	+2 TOX	NA	Botany has a bunch of it right away.
Amanitin	NA - Syndicate Sauce, Poison Bottles, Mutant Mushrooms	0.4	No	DELAYED, DOSE SPECIFIC	NA	This is a stealth poison. On the last cycle that it's in you, it hits you with a stack of tox damage based on elapsed cycles * rand(2,4). The more you use, the longer it takes before anything happens, but the harder it hits when it does. With large doses your target can consume something poisoned, walk around for a few minutes minding their own business, and then abruptly die with no real warning. Very devious to use.
Aconitum	Part of a quest thing.	0.4	No	+2 TOX, 8% chance to cause LOSEBREATH, 10% chance to stun and do +2 extra TOX.		Toxic + suffocation, behaves like a weaker coniine.
Curare	NA - traitor poison bottles, might add a botany mutation to yield it	0.1	Yes	+1 TOX, +1 OXY, paralyzes after 11 cycles	NA	It won't knock them out but it will make them unable to move. Could be used to kidnap people or just disable them and scare the hell out of them.
Coniine	NA - traitor poison bottles	0.05	No	+2 TOX, +5 LOSEBREATH (cumulative, causes suffocation)	NA	A small dose can kill in under a minute. Losebreath makes the victim unable to talk - they'll take suffocation rapid damage and be unable to say anything over the radio. Tied with Initro for deadliest poison.
Lipolicide	Weight Loss Shakes, or Mercury + Ephedrine + Diethylamine	0.4	No	+1 TOX unless they keep eating food.	NA	Mostly just annoying, but easy to get. Might expand it.
Cyanide	Oil + Ammonia + Oxygen @ 320, or deathweed	0.1	Yes	+1.5 TOX, 10% chance of +1 LOSEBREATH, 8% chance of stun and extra +2 TOX		A couple of common chem recipes can produce this if poorly mixed, and production of cyanide will dose nearby people if they aren't wearing gas masks. Also a fairly easy poison. Balanced to be mostly a slow and scary killer, but if they get to medbay, it's not that hard to deal with. Suffocation damage can rack up faster than tox depending on how the RNG rolls.
Sarin	Hint: it has Weedkiller in it.	0.1	Yes	Ramps up to +3 TOX, +3 BRAIN, +1 BURN and +5 LOSEBREATH after thirty cycles. Causes paralysis and shaking and vomiting.		Takes thirty cycles to reach full effect, bombards the victim with a lot of scary messages. Can be neutralized with atropine, or handled with wide-spectrum meds. Where a bomb will wreck a lot of people all at once, sarin is meant more to make a big terrifying (but potentially survivable) mess.

Acids

Reagent	Recipe	Depletion rate	Penetrates skin	Per life cycle	Application effects	Notes
Sulfuric Acid	Sulfur + Hydrogen + Oxygen	0.4	No (maybe should?)	+1 TOX, +1 BURN	TOUCH: Splash over 25 units for a 75% chance to melt a face or headgear. +15 BRUTE to the face	Can melt items, 40% chance.
Fluorosulfuric Acid	Sulfuric Acid + Fluorine + Hydrogen + Potassium @ 320	0.4	No (maybe should?)	+1 TOX, +1 BURN	TOUCH: Splash over 10 units for to melt a face or headgear. +75 BRUTE to the face	Can melt items, 100% chance.

Medical Poisons

Reagent	Recipe	Depletion rate	Penetrates skin	Per life cycle	Notes
Ketamine	NA, sleepypens and traitor poison bottles	0.8	Yes	KO in ten cycles	Readjusted recently so a sleepypen dose should only last about 6-8 minutes.
Morphine					Covered in medical guide, KOs in thirty cycles.
Sulfonal	Acetone + Diethylamine + Sulfur	0.1	No	+1 TOX, KO in 22 cycles	A somewhat toxic sedative, slower than ketamine but lasts a long time and can kill.
Sodium Thiopental	NA, traitor bottles, derelict medbot injections	0.7	No	KOs in ten cycles	Rapid sedative, a bit too similar to ketamine currently but part of a duo with Pancuronium.
Pancuronium	NA, traitor bottles, derelict medbot injections	0.2	No	10 cycles to paralysis, 7% chance to cause 3-5 LOSEBREATH	Similar to Curare but can kill you via suffocation.
Initropidril	haha nope, not gonna share this one but it still can be made. Requires Triplepiss.	0.4	No	33% chance to hit with 5-25 TOX. 5-10% chances to cause suffocation or immediate heart failure.	All that tox damage can kill you really fast, and if that doesn't get you, heart failure or suffocation will. Tied with Coniine for fastest killer.

Miscellanea

Reagent	Recipe	Depletion rate	Penetrates skin	Per life cycle	Notes
Unstable Mutagen	Radium + Plasma + Chlorine	0.3	No	+2 RAD, 4% chance to trigger a bad mutation.	Another solid easy-level poison.
Toxic Slurry	Slurrypods	0.4	No	10% chance to do 2-4 TOX. 7% chance to cause a stunning migraine or vomiting.	Mostly just annoying, but it can be deadly over time if the RNG cooperates.
Glowing Slurry	Omega Slurrypods	0.4	No	+2 RAD. 15% chance of bad mutation, 5% chance of good mutation.	Scrambles your genes to hell and back.
Fluorosurfactant	Fluorine + Carbon + Sulphuric Acid	0.4	No		Turns into foam when combined with water, carrying all other reagents in the container with it and creating a slippery mess for anyone who tries to walk around in it. Being on the same tile as chemical foam is equivalent to TOUCH reactions in most cases, so only reagents that penetrate skin or do external damage (like some Pyrotechnic chems) will have an affect.
Silicate	Silicon + Oxygen + Aluminium				Reinforces windows and grilles. It may be applied to windows up to four times, with each application making the window stronger than the last.

Drugs

Reagent	Recipe	Depletion rate	Penetrates skin	Per life cycle	Overdose treshold	Notes
Nicotine	Cigs, nicotine patches	0.4	No	Stun reduction per cycle. Overdoses become rapidly deadly.	35	Slapping a whole bunch of nicotine patches on someone can paralyze them and give them heart failure or a bunch of escalating tox and suffocation damage.
Cat drugs	Catonium (catnip) + Psilocybin + Ammonia + Fuel @ 320	0.4	No			Gimmick drugs, good for laughs or confusing the hell out of people.
Space Drugs	Mercury + Sugar + Lithium	0.2	No	Pretty lights!		Heat it to create neurotoxin. Otherwise it just does some weird things to your movement and makes everything flash colors like the bar's Party Button.
Psilocybin	Mushroom mutation	0.4	No	Colors + text hallucinations		Can make you hallucinate stuff like gunshots and attack messages, might freak someone out if they don't know what's going on, could probably use a revamp.
LSD	Diethylamine + Space Fungus	0.4	No	Colors + visual hallucinations		Imaginary monsters start chasing you around. Changeling's hallucinogen sting injects this.
THC	Weed!	0.4	No	Giggling, stuttering, occasional drowsiness and movement confusion.		Doesn't really do a whole lot, but people are usually pretty happy to smoke any joints you leave laying around.
Ephedrine	Sugar + Oil + Hydrogen + Diethylamine	0.3	No	Stun reduction per cycle, increases run speed slightly, stabilizes crit.	35	Probably gonna add this to some more sodas or something. It's pretty much just a weaker analogue of medbay's Epinephrine, but it's addictive and has a few more side effects.
Crank	Antihistamine + Ammonia + Lithium + Fuel + Sulfuric Acid @ 320	0.4	No	2x stun reduction per cycle. Warms you up, makes you jittery as hell.	20	Overdose can cause random amounts of TOX damage, BRUTE damage, BRAIN damage, or give you a case of non-contagious Berserker. Very addictive, but the stun reduction effect is pretty nice for fighting.
Krokodil	Antihistamine + Morphine + Cleaner + Potassium + Phosphorous + Fuel @ 320	0.4	No	Cools you down, calms you down, occasional BRAIN and TOX damage.	20	Overdose can cause random amounts of TOX damage, BRUTE damage, BRAIN damage, make you pass out, or most fun of all, make all your skin rot off. If this happens, you'll look like a half-rotten corpse but can potentially heal back from that and just wander around being terrifying.
Methamphetamine	Ephedrine + Iodine + Phosphorous + Hydrogen @ 325 (modeled after the Russian method)	0.4	No	3x stun reduction per cycle, makes you really jittery, dramatically increases movement speed.	20	Extremely addictive and overdose can make you flail around uncontrollably and drop your stuff, but it's the best thing short of stimulants or bath salts for shrugging off stuns, KOs and paralysis. People will have a hard time containing you.
Bath Salts	Dump all the flavors of Discount Dans soup into a bathtub and heat it with a welder, you'll probably find it.	0.6	No	Makes you nearly impervious to stuns, but you'll be a nearly uncontrollable tramp-bearded raving lunatic.	20	Overdose will likely kill you from a half dozen different types of escalating damage. Even taking too many occasional doses can kill you from brain damage. Can give you Berserker. Makes you hallucinate all sorts of horrible shit and you'll barely be able to control your movement as you go flying into everything around you fists-first. Decays into a bunch of other drugs and poisons. Bath salts boxing is hilarious.
Stimulants	Traitor injector.			-5 damage to OXY, TOX, BRUTE, BURN, sets all stun-related vars to zero.		Only works while volume is greater than five units. As it wears off to under five units, it hits you with a stun and some tox + brute damage.

Pyrotechnic Chems

Reagent	Recipe	Depletion rate	Penetrates skin	Ignition temp	Per life cycle	Application effects	Notes
Plasma	NA	0.4	No	Ignition temp: 310	+1 TOX. Makes being on fire much worse, and can burst into flame if heated.	NA	Splash a burning person with plasma and the cumulative BURNING var goes up +30. Burning decreases once per life cycle and causes steady burn damage while active. Fireball if ignited.
Fuel	NA	0.4	No	Ignition temp: 325	Fireball if ignited. If inside a burning person, extends burning duration by +2.	TOUCH: If target is already burning, extend burning duration by +30.	Used as a stand-in for lighter hydrocarbons in a lot of the organic chem recipes.
Oil	Carbon + Hydrogen + Fuel	0.4	No	Ignition temp: 340	NA.	TOUCH: Can lubricate cyborg joints and make them move faster.	Burns with a small smoky fire, yielding Ash reagent. Can make floors slippery if splashed around. Used as a stand-in for Benzene, Toulene, Napthalene and a bunch of other heavier hydrocarbons for a ton of the organic chem recipes.
Napalm	Sugar + Fuel + Ethanol	0.4	No - probably should though	Ignition temp: 320	Fireball if ignited. If inside a burning person, extends burning duration by +10.	TOUCH: If target is already burning, extend burning duration by +70.	This is the jellied-gas sort of napalm.
Phlogiston	Phosphorous + Acid + Plasma (+ Stabilizer)	0.4	No	Ignition temp: NA	+1 BURN damage. Probably ought to add BURNING as well.	TOUCH: Self-burning, ignites other stuff.	This is what old-napalm is now.
Chlorine Trifluoride	Chlorine (1) + Fluorine (3) @ 350	0.4	No	Ignition temp: NA	+3 BURNING. Sets people on fire from the inside out.	TOUCH: BURNING + 50.	Comes into existence at 1000 degrees. Burns things that wouldn't otherwise burn. Makes an enormous mess. Reacts violently with carbon tetrachloride (firefoam)
Smoke Powder	Potassium + Phosphorous + Sugar (+ Stabilizer)	0.4	No	Ignition temp: 300	NA	NA	When mixed without stabilizer, or heated to 300 with stabilizer, it'll make a big butt of smoke. Unlike foam it can only carry three reagents from its container, in exchange for making the carried chems breathable through the air the smoke occupies, giving them all "Penetrates Skin = Yes" functionality unless the victim is using his internals.
Flash Powder	Aluminium + Potassium + Chlorine + Sulfur (+ Stabilizer)	0.4	1 // imagine it's covering their clothes or whatever	Ignition temp: 300	NA	NA	Stuns anyone within five tiles of the source, stun amount relative to distance. Blocked by sunglasses. Causes eye damage, can lead to blindness.
Sonic Powder	Oxygen + Ethanol + Phosphorous (+ Stabilizer)	0.4	1 // imagine it's covering their clothes or whatever	Ignition temp: 300	NA	NA	Deafens and stuns within five tiles, blocked by earmuffs, can cause ear damage and deafness. Occasionally plays HOOT! instead of BANG!
Black Powder	Saltpetre + Charcoal + Sulfur	0.05	1 // imagine it's covering their clothes or whatever	Ignition temp: 325	NA	NA	Sparks, then blows the fuck up a second or two later. Damage scales up with reagent volume. Slow depletion means you can poison someone with it and then wait for then to encounter a heat source awhile later. KABOOM!
Chlorine Azide	????	NA	NA	Ignition temp: NA	NA	NA	Dumping too many basic chems into a container might accidentally cause this unstable and highly explosive reaction. Very fun to weaponize if you can figure out indirect means of mixing its ingredients. Also a handy hazing tool for newbies who don't stop asking for handouts of top-secret chem recipes... just make sure you're not in the mixing room with them when they try it.
Thermite	Iron + Oxygen + Aluminium	0.4	No	Ignition temp: 280	NA	TOUCH: If already burning, set BURNING to 100.	Burns through metal walls after splashing it on and heating it up. If someone is on fire, dumping thermite on them is very mean.
Pyrosium	Plasma + Radium + Phosphorous	0.4	No	Ignition temp: NA	NA	NA	Comes into existence at 0 degrees, but slowly heats all other reagents and objects on its tile up towards 1000, regardless of current surface or container. Can make non-flammable things scaldingly hot, but so can a welder or lighter. Fun for delayed self-heating reactions. (IMPORTANT: To all you pyromaniacs thinking Pyrosium + <insert heat reactant chemical here> + Foam/Smoke is a good idea, DON'T DO IT. The multitude of heat interval checks from Pyrosium foam/smoke lags the server to hell. It's BYOND, deal with it.)

SECRET CHEMS

Let's get one last thing out of the way. There are some recipes that are still more secret than secret. If you find out one of the recipes, you shouldn't even say the recipe in-game lest the ghosts hear you. Admins will get mad at you if you spread them. Keep this shit to yourselves.

Grog
Booster enzymes
Werewolf serum
Initrodipil

These chemical words are big and hurt my brain.

Welcome to chemistry 101, numbnuts. Here you'll learn how to decipher these magic chemical moon runes so that you too can turn the chemistry department into a flaming inferno because someone stole your seat.

Textbooks and References

Discount Dan's Quik-Tips

Don't fucking expect anything. Just because the Pharmacopia or an external article on a chemical says to wait for reaction, the game doesn't owe you shit. Continue along as if the chemical did react and if that doesn't work, you're doing it wrong.
Don't fucking over-think. Gunpowder isn't a hard recipe. What makes it hard for people is that they read that they need saltpeter (potassium nitrate) and consequently go on an epic quest to find the root of the gunpowder god's power.
Don't fucking start with deadly recipes. One of the primary benefits of learning the recipes for healing chemicals first is that when you DO start to learn harmful recipes, you'll be able to heal yourself when you fuck up.
Don't fucking randomly insert chemicals. This is the #1 cause of chemistry fires. You know what one of the easiest reactions to create is? The flash. You know what one of the most annoying reactions to create is? The flash. Your best bet to being a successful chemical ~~griefer~~ genius is to learn the NAME of a chemical first and THEN try to reverse engineer its synthesis.

Supplementary Video