Probably Stolen - Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim: Chemistry and You

Steam Community guide by The Exceptional Fisherman.

Basic reactions

• 1ul **acid **reacts with 1ul of **base **- produces **nothing **(they effectively remove each other)
• 1ul acid/base reacts with 1ul of **protein **- produces 1ul of insoluble debris
• 1ul of acid/base reacts with 10ul of **microbes **- produces nothing
• 1ul of acid/base reacts with 40ul of organic matter - produces 8ul of minerals
• 1ul **lipobond **agent reacts with 8ul of fat/oil - produces 1,125ul insoluble debris
• 10ul of **chlorine **reacts with 51ul **microbes **and up to 51ul of chemical contaminant[prioritizes chemical contaminants first] (if they are above 0,7% concentration) - produces nothing NEEDS AT LEAST 1ul OF WATER FOR THE REACTION TO TAKE PLACE
• any volume of **microbes **degrades instantly the moment **alcohol **concentration of the container reaches 40% - produces nothing
• any volume of **chlorine **degrades instantly in a container that has at least 1ul of **water **- produces nothing

Chemical reactions that require heat

• 2ul organic matter degrades when above 80 degrees (above 100 the reaction is instantaneous) - produces 1ul of physical contaminant
• any volume of **microbes **starts degrading above 70 degrees (above 100 the reaction is instantaneous) - produces nothing
• any volume of **phanta **starts degrading above 130 degrees - produces nothing
• 0,75ul of reducing agent reacts with 1ul N-methylol base when between 110-130 degrees (between 120 - 130 degrees the reaction is faster) - produces 0,1ul **phanta **
• 1ul of dream/nightmare cap mush degrades above 50 degrees (above 70 degrees the reaction is much faster and above 100 the reaction is instantaneous) - produces 1ul of plant matter
• 1ul of** nightmare cap extract** degrades above 50 degrees (above 70 degrees the reaction is much faster and above 100 the reaction is instantaneous) - produces nothing
• 1ul of dream cap extract degrades above 60 degrees (above 70 degrees the reaction is much faster and above 100 the reaction is instantaneous) - produces nothing
• any amount of **alcohol **starts degrading above 78 degrees - produces nothing
• any amount of **water **starts degrading above 100 degrees - produces nothing
• any amount of lipobond agent starts degrading above 55 degrees - produces nothing

Chemical reactions that require heat and solvent

• coffee bean mush will turn into **caffeine **and plant matter when heated to a temperature above 50 degrees (when using alcohol). The ratio of mush : caffeine : plant matter depends on the ratio between mush : alcohol, reaching max value of 4ul mush : 3ul caffeine : 1ul plant matter when 1ul mush : 5ul alcohol (multiply the volume of mush by 5 and that's how much alcohol you need to add to reach max extraction)
• coffee bean mush will turn into caffeine and plant matter when heated to a temperature above 80 degrees (when using water). The ratio of mush : caffeine : plant matter depends on the ratio between mush : water, reaching max value of 8ul mush : 1ul caffeine : 7ul plant matter when 1ul mush : 5ul water (multiply the volume of mush by 5 and that's how much water you need to add to reach max extraction)
• dream/nightmare cap mush will turn into dream/nightmare cap extract and plant matter when heated to a temperature above 40 degrees (when using alcohol). The ratio of mush : extract : plant matter depends on the ratio between mush : alcohol, reaching max value of 2ul mush : 1ul extract : 1ul plant matter when 1ul mush : 5ul alcohol (multiply the volume of mush by 5 and that's how much alcohol you need to add to reach max extraction)

Heating plate

Heats the container loaded inside, up to the target temperature (if it has any liquid inside). Works in real time unlike other machines. Used to trigger chemical reactions that need heat.
Has 3 buttons in its UI:

• Off - sets heating speed to 0
• Low - sets heating speed to 1
• High - set heating speed to 3

Module impact (uses chem modules)

• 0 Chem modules - Target temperature is set at 99
• 1 Chem module - Target temperature is set at 160
• 2 Chem modules - Target temperature can be freely set in the UI in the increments of 5 degrees. (range of 26-160)
• 3 Chem modules - Heating speed values are multiplied by 4
• 4 Chem modules - Heating speed values are multiplied by 16

Blender

Upon clicking a "Start" button in the UI, converts items (with chemical composition) in the input inventory, into their chemical composition and puts it in the loaded container. Mainly used to get chemicals out of plants but can be used with pills as well. Works in real time unlike other machines. Will not work without a loaded container. Will not extract liquid from water containers.
Module impact (uses chem modules)

• 0 Chem modules - Voids 35% volume of the items extracted while keeping the concentration the same
• 1 Chem module - Voids 20% volume of the items extracted while keeping the concentration the same
• 2 Chem modules - Voids 10% volume of the items extracted while keeping the concentration the same
• 3 Chem modules - Voids 5% volume of the items extracted while keeping the concentration the same
• 4 Chem modules - Full volume extraction of items provided

Chem finisher

Turns a specific volume of chemicals inside the loaded container into a specific item.
Will not work if the loaded container has even a 1ul of: lipobond, alcohol, water
Specified volume and item produced depends on recipe chosen.
The purity of the item produced depends on the concentration of main ingredient in the item.
Works in real time unlike other machines
Recipes:

• Vial of "Dream dust" - Required volume 2000ul (2ml), main ingredient - Dream cap extract
• Vial of "Nightmare dust" - Required volume 4000ul (4ml), main ingredient - Nightmare cap extract
• Caffeine pill - Required volume 5000ul (5ml), main ingredient - caffeine
• Zyanide pill - Required volume 600ul (0,6ml), main ingredient - Zyanide
• Birth control pill - Required volume 100ul (0,1ml), main ingredient - contraceptive hormones
• Phanta pill - Required volume 500ul (0,5ml), main ingredient - Phanta
• Nomore injector - Required volume 4000ul (4ml), main ingredient - Nomore
  Module impact (uses chem modules)
• 0 Chem modules - Voids 12% volume of the liquid used and replaces it with physical contaminant
• 1 Chem module - Voids 6% volume of the liquid used and replaces it with physical contaminant
• 2 Chem modules - Voids 3% volume of the liquid used and replaces it with physical contaminant
• 3 Chem modules - Voids 1% volume of the liquid used and replaces it with physical contaminant
• 4 Chem modules - Converts the full amount of the liquid used into the item

Evaporator

Removes liquids that can evaporate from the provided container, without increasing the container's temperature. In it's base removes 300ml of liquid for 6 energy/day.
Liquids that can evaporate:
Water
alcohol
lipobond agent
If there is more than one evaporative liquid in the container, then the removed volume will be split across them all in accordance to the ratio between them (while ignoring all other non-evaporative chemicals). For example: container with 300ml of water, 200ml of alcohol and 100ml of lipobond - 150ml of water, 100ml of alcohol and 50ml of lipobond will be removed. This will stay the same even if we add 1000ml of other non-evaporative liquids into the container.
Module impact:

• Quality - Every 1% quality, will recover 1% of the volume removed. The recovered liquid will be inserted into container loaded into distillate inventory.
• Performance - every 1% performance increases/decreases volume removed by 3ml
• Efficiency - every 16,67% efficiency increases/decreases energy need by 1 energy. Only multiples of 16,67 rounded up matter, 16% performance still requires 6 energy/d.
• [Unique module: Evaporator solvent recovery module] - aside from stat changes, recovered water and lipobond agent will be voided (if applicable), only alcohol can be recovered.

Dream dust

1. Blend the amount of dream caps you have in a blender
2. Use a 5ml dropper to take a small sample of the resulting blended dream cap mixture and put it into a separate container and measure how much dream cap mush you have (should be around 3,4ml)
3. multiply that amount by 5 - that's how much alcohol should be added to reach the maximum amount of extraction (in this case its 3,39 * 5 = 16,95ml)
4. Put the container with the small sample of blended dream cap mixture and alcohol in the heating plate and press the "Low" button - when the container's temperature reaches above 44 degrees, press "Off" button, when it reaches below 40 degrees, press "low" button - again until it reaches 44 degrees and repeat.
5. Wait for the dream cap mush to process - when it does, take another 5ml of the blended dream cap mixture using the 5ml dropper and put it into the container
   **
   Repeat steps 4. and 5. until you process the entire volume of your blended dream caps**
6. take the container off the heating plate
7. Analyze with chem scanner the volume of protein in the mixture - add enough acid/base to be as close to the the volume of the protein as possible (you can use acid/basic solution bottles in a chem finisher with small volume requirements like birth control pills to measure out in smaller increments than the 5ml dropper allows - keep in mind you will lose a little of your acid/base with an unupgraded chem finisher, but it's worth it to reach higher purity) - in my example i blended one normal dream cap and had 1,3ml of protein, i used 2 zyanide pill recipes and 4 birth control recipes to reach 1,35ml of basic solution
8. (optional) If you have any - you can drop animal feces to add organic matter and microbes which will remove the remaining acid/base, if not - you will not be able to neutralize such a small volume of acid
9. (optional) Filter in a pitcher containing kotton fabric to filter out: Insoluble debris and plant matter
10. Filter in a pitcher containing water filter to filter out the rest (you won't be able to filter out chemical contaminants and heavy metals)
11. Put it into the evaporator to remove "wet" ingredients overnight (in it's base form it will remove 300ml of "wet" ingredients so if the combined volume of alcohol and water is below 300ml it will be done in a day)
12. Put the finished product into the chem finisher and choose the "dream dust vial" recipe
    Keep in mind you are hard-capped at the purity of your product by the amount of chem modules you have in the chem finisher:
    0 - near-pharma
    1 - pharma grade (if you had sufficiently clean chemicals)
    2 - pharma grade
    3 - lab pure (if you had sufficiently clean chemicals)
    4 - lab pure

Nightmare dust

See: dream dust recipe - its the exact same except with nightmare caps

Caffeine pills

1. Blend the amount of coffee beans you have in a blender
2. Analyze with chem scanner the volume of fat/oil in the mixture - divide that volume by 8 - that's how much lipobond agent you will need to add (you don't need to be that exact, as it will boil off in the next steps) - in my case it was 5,2ml of fat/oil so 0,65ml of lipobond, but since the smallest increment i could do is 5ml with a 5ml dropper - that's how much i added
3. Use a 5ml dropper to take a small sample of the resulting blended coffee bean mixture and put it into a separate container and measure how much coffee bean mush you have (should be around 2,5-3ml)
4. multiply that amount by 5 - that's how much alcohol should be added to reach the maximum amount of extraction (in my case its 2,55 * 5 = 12,75ml), [Side note: you can twice the amount, and use 2 doses of blended mixture at a time to make the process go by faster]
5. Put the container with the small sample of blended coffee bean mixture and alcohol in the heating plate and press the "Low" button - when the container's temperature reaches above 75 degrees, press "Off" button, when it reaches below 50 degrees, press "low" button - again until it reaches 75 degrees and repeat.
6. Wait for the coffee bean mush to process - when it does, take another 5ml of the blended coffee bean mixture using the 5ml dropper and put it into the container
   Repeat steps 5. and 6. until you process the entire volume of your blended coffee beans
   7a. Alternative to 7b. take the container off the heating plate. If you have a chem module in the heating plate and don't want to use evaporator/want to use it for something else you might consider doing step 7b. instead.
   7b. Alternative to 7a. (you need at least 1 chem module in the heating plate) Press the "high" button and don't take the container off the heating plate until alcohol, lipobond agent and water boils off. If you want to recover the alcohol used you might consider doing step 7a instead.
7. Analyze with chem scanner the volume of protein in the mixture - add enough acid/base to be as close to the the volume of the protein as possible (you can use acid/basic solution bottles in a chem finisher with small volume requirements like birth control pills to measure out in smaller increments than the 5ml dropper allows - keep in mind you will lose a little of your acid/base with an unupgraded chem finisher, but it's worth it to reach higher purity) - in my example i blended one coffee bean and had 5,2ml of protein, i used 1 phanta pill recipe and 1 serving of 5ml dropper to reach 5,24ml of basic solution
8. (optional) If you have any - you can drop animal feces to add organic matter and microbes which will remove the remaining acid/base, if not - you will not be able to neutralize such a small volume of acid
9. (optional) Filter in a pitcher containing kotton fabric to filter out: Insoluble debris and plant matter
10. Filter in a pitcher containing water filter to filter out the rest (you won't be able to filter out chemical contaminants and heavy metals)
11. SKIP THIS STEP IF YOU DID STEP 6B. Put it into the evaporator to remove "wet" ingredients overnight (in it's base form it will remove 300ml of "wet" ingredients so if the combined volume of alcohol and water is below 300ml it will be done in a day)
12. Put the finished product into the chem finisher and choose the "caffeine pill" recipe
    Keep in mind you are hard-capped at the purity of your product by the amount of chem modules you have in the chem finisher:
    0 - near-pharma
    1 - pharma grade (if you had sufficiently clean chemicals)
    2 - pharma grade
    3 - lab pure (if you had sufficiently clean chemicals)
    4 - lab pure

Phanta pills

(you will need at least 1 chem module in the heating plate, to complete this recipe)

1. Pour both bottles of N-methylol base you got from the restricted chemical supplies into one container
2. Pour acid/base into the the container - increments of 1ml are best although 5ml will also work, simply before the acid reaches 900ul add another 1ml of acid. Do so until stabilizing agent is gone
3. Pour enough reducing agent so that it's as close to the 75% volume of N-methylol base as possible (for example if you have 1000ul of N-methylol base, you will want 750ul of reducing agent)
4. set it on the heating plate and keep it between 110-130 temperature (keeping it below 130 and above 120 will significantly increase the speed of the reaction)
5. (optional) filter it through water pitcher loaded with kotton fabric
6. filter it through water pitcher loaded with water filter
7. Set it off the heating plate and add 1ml of water (preferably 100% purity you can get from evaprator)
8. Put it back on the heating plate and boil off as much of the water as you can without fully boiling it off
9. Add a small amount of chlorine (put a purification tablet into a container and then load that container into a chem finisher and make a birth control pill using the chlorine, then put that birth control pill as you would've the chlorine tablet)
10. boil off the remaining water on the heating plate
11. Put the finished product into the chem finisher and choose the "phanta pill" recipe
    Keep in mind you are hard-capped at the purity of your product by the amount of chem modules you have in the chem finisher, as well as the purity of your precursor chemicals:
    0 - near-pharma
    1 - pharma grade (if you had sufficiently clean chemicals)
    2 - pharma grade
    3 - lab pure (if you had sufficiently clean chemicals)
    4 - lab pure

Nomore

You may have noticed i didn't put the nomore reaction in its respective section that is because i will not be posting it
this is a story related recipe, and the recipe note you get leads to the best extraction results anyway so w/e

Cleaning chemicals

You may have already noticed that your precursor chemicals(acid/base, n-methylol, reducing agent, lipobond) which you use to extract your drugs from plants are actually polluted
using them in this state will introduce some nasty hard to remove contaminants like heavy metals and chemical contaminants which will lower the purity of the drugs you could reach
What should you do in this situation?
You have two options:

• minimize the amount of precursors you use by precisely measuring everything (might still not be enough for some recipes)
• Clean you precursors **BEFORE **they make it into the batch of drugs
  (as a rule of thumb its easier to clean your precursors than to clean your batch of drugs)

Lipobond agent

2 ways to do this:

• Evaporator with decent amount of quality - each 1% of quality equals 1% of lipobond recovered. Simply put the container with lipobond agent in the input and put some other empty container in output and wait for it to process at night. WARNING! DO NOT USE SOLVENT RECOVERY MODULE WHEN USING THIS METHOD AS IT WILL VOID LIPOBOND
• UV light the microbes present in lipobond or add 1ml of as pure of a water as you can get and then add an extremely small volume of chlorine (put a purification tablet into a container and then load it into a chem finisher and make a birth control pill using the chlorine, then put that birth control pill as you would've the chlorine tablet). Then filter the rest of lipobond mixture in a pitcher equipped with water filter.
  the first method requires the use of evaporator but results in 100% pure lipobond, the second method can be done much earlier in the game but results in not as pure lipobond

Base/acid, reducing agent

2 ways to do this:

The full cleaning

• You will need a RAS (from aquaculture) and gutter tilapia.
• Simply put the chemical (one type of chemical at a time) you want to clean into the RAS water tank
• pour 25ml of water into it (can even be water from gutterflow tap) (the equation is 0,5ml/100g of total gutter tilapia weight)
• introduce a gutter tilapia into the RAS, and equip the RAS with a water filter (you will probably only be able to support one adolescent gutter tilapia with the amount of liquid you provide but that's fine).
• Let the fish clean all the chemical and heavy metals it can
• Add a small amount of chlorine into the RAS tank (put a purification tablet into a container and then load that container into a chem finisher and make a birth control pill using the chlorine, then put that birth control pill as you would've the chlorine tablet)
• To get the chemical out of the RAS tank, simply right click and use to be able to pour liquid out of it
• filter with a pitcher loaded with a filter to get the rest out

Partial cleaning

• Filter the chemical in a pitcher loaded with a water filter
• 2.Add 1ml of water (the purer the better, you can get small amount of 100% pure water by using an evaporator)
• Add a small amount of chlorine into the chemical (put a purification tablet into a container and then load that container into a chem finisher and make a birth control pill using the chlorine, then put that birth control pill as you would've the chlorine tablet)
• filter again in a pitcher loaded with a water filter if you didn't use 100% pure w