Research items

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Stock Parts

Capacitor Found in: Protolathe Used for: Machine construction Strategy: Use it to build or upgrade certain machines. Description A basic capacitor used in the construction of a variety of devices.

Advanced Capacitor Found in: Protolathe Used for: Machine construction Strategy: Use it to build or upgrade certain machines. Description An advanced capacitor used in the construction of a variety of devices.

Super Capacitor Found in: Protolathe Used for: Machine construction Strategy: Use it to build or upgrade certain machines. Description A super-high capacity capacitor used in the construction of a variety of devices.

Quadratic Capacitor Found in: Protolathe Used for: Machine construction Strategy: Use it to build or upgrade certain machines. Description An extremely high capacity capacitor used in the construction of a variety of devices.

Scanning Module Found in: Protolathe Used for: Machine construction Strategy: Use it to build or upgrade certain machines. Description A compact scanning module used in the construction of certain devices.

Advanced Scanning Module Found in: Protolathe Used for: Machine construction Strategy: Use it to build or upgrade certain machines. Description A compact, high resolution scanning module used in the construction of certain devices.

Phasic Scanning Module Found in: Protolathe Used for: Machine construction Strategy: Use it to build or upgrade certain machines. Description A compact, high resolution phasic scanning module used in the construction of certain devices.

Triphasic Scanning Module Found in: Protolathe Used for: Machine construction Strategy: Use it to build or upgrade certain machines. Description A compact, high resolution triphasic scanning module used in the construction of certain devices.

Micro Manipulator Found in: Protolathe Used for: Machine construction Strategy: Use it to build or upgrade certain machines. Description A tiny manipulator used in the construction of certain devices. A better manipulator inside of a machine increases its speed.

Nano Manipulator Found in: Protolathe Used for: Machine construction Strategy: Use it to build or upgrade certain machines. Description A tiny, advanced manipulator used in the construction of certain devices. A better manipulator inside of a machine increases its speed.

Pico Manipulator Found in: Protolathe Used for: Machine construction Strategy: Use it to build or upgrade certain machines. Description A tiny, very precise manipulator used in the construction of certain devices. A better manipulator inside of a machine increases its speed.

Femto Manipulator Found in: Protolathe Used for: Machine construction Strategy: Use it to build or upgrade certain machines. Description A tiny, extremely precise manipulator used in the construction of certain devices. A better manipulator inside of a machine increases its speed.

Micro-Laser Found in: Protolathe Used for: Machine construction Strategy: Use it to build or upgrade certain machines. Description A tiny laser used in certain devices. A better laser inside a machine increases its efficiency.

High-Power Micro-Laser Found in: Protolathe Used for: Machine construction Strategy: Use it to build or upgrade certain machines. Description A tiny, high power laser used in certain devices. A better laser inside a machine increases its efficiency.

Ultra-High-Power Micro-Laser Found in: Protolathe Used for: Machine construction Strategy: Use it to build or upgrade certain machines. Description A tiny, ultra-high-power laser used in certain devices. A better laser inside a machine increases its efficiency.

Quad-Ultra Micro-Laser Found in: Protolathe Used for: Machine construction Strategy: Use it to build or upgrade certain machines. Description A tiny, quad-ultra-high-power laser used in certain devices. A better laser inside a machine increases its efficiency.

Matter Bin Found in: Protolathe Used for: Machine construction Strategy: Use it to build or upgrade certain machines. Description A container for holding compressed matter used for production. A better matter bin in a machine increases its material storage space.

Advanced Matter Bin Found in: Protolathe Used for: Machine construction Strategy: Use it to build or upgrade certain machines. Description A large container for holding compressed matter used for production. A better matter bin in a machine increases its material storage space.

Super Matter Bin Found in: Protolathe Used for: Machine construction Strategy: Use it to build or upgrade certain machines. Description A very large container for holding compressed matter used for production. A better matter bin in a machine increases its material storage space.

Bluespace Matter Bin Found in: Protolathe Used for: Machine construction Strategy: Use it to build or upgrade certain machines. Description A bluespace container for holding compressed matter used for production. A better matter bin in a machine increases its material storage space.

Subspace Treatment Disk Found in: Protolathe Used for: Machine construction Strategy: Use it to build telecommunications machines. Description A compact micro-machine capable of stretching out hyper-compressed radio waves.

Subspace Ansible Found in: Protolathe Used for: Machine construction Strategy: Use it to build telecommunications machines. Description A compact module capable of sensing extradimensional activity.

Hyperwave Filter Found in: Protolathe Used for: Machine construction Strategy: Use it to build telecommunications machines. Description A tiny device capable of filtering and converting super-intense radio waves.

Subspace Amplifier Found in: Protolathe Used for: Machine construction Strategy: Use it to build telecommunications machines. Description A compact micro-machine capable of amplifying weak subspace transmissions.

Subspace Wavelength Analyzer Found in: Protolathe Used for: Machine construction Strategy: Use it to build telecommunications machines. Description A sophisticated analyzer capable of analyzing cryptic subspace wavelengths.

Ansible Crystal Found in: Protolathe Used for: Machine construction Strategy: Use it to build telecommunications machines. Description A crystal made from pure glass used to transmit laser databursts to subspace.

Subspace Transmitter Found in: Protolathe Used for: Machine construction Strategy: Use it to build telecommunications machines. Description A large piece of equipment used to open a window into the subspace dimension.

Alien Alloy Found in: Protolathe Used for: Building advanced-looking walls. Strategy: Use it to make floor tiles or walls. Description This is the same material abductor ships are made of. Pimp out science with these!

Mining Designs

Upgraded Resonator Found in: Mining Vendor Used for: Mining Strategy: Use it to mine. Description Like a normal resonator, it will create fields that will blow up after a bit, destroying rock under it; this version can hold 5 fields at a time instead of 3.

Sonic Jackhammer Found in: Cargo Protolathe Used for: Mining, B&E Strategy: Use it to mine, or to break into any secure area. Description Cracks rocks with sonic blasts.

Mining Drill Found in: Cargo Protolathe Used for: Mining Strategy: Use it to mine or dig sand. Description My drill is.. My soul!

Diamond Mining Drill Found in: Cargo Protolathe Used for: Mining Strategy: Use it to mine or dig sand. Description Your drill is the drill that will pierce the Heavens!

Plasma Cutter Found in: Cargo Protolathe Used for: Mining, unwelding walls. Strategy: Use it to mine. Also works in place of a welder for cutting open walls, and doesn't require eye protection! Description A rock cutter that uses bursts of hot plasma. You could use it to cut limbs off of xenos! Or, you know, mine stuff. Charge it with plasma, either in ore or in smelted form. Worth noting is that like the Kinetic Accelerator, the plasma cutter deals brute damage, which means that it is still effective for fighting Ash Drakes and other various Megafauna.

Advanced Plasma Cutter Found in: Cargo Protolathe Used for: Mining, monster slaying, un-welding walls. Strategy: Use it to mine really fast. Also works in place of a welder for cutting open walls, and doesn't require eye protection! Description Basically, the plasma cutter, but with longer range, higher damage, bigger charge and a better look! Charge it with plasma, either in ore or in smelted form. Worth noting is that like the Kinetic Accelerator, the plasma cutter deals brute damage, which means that it is still effective for fighting Ash Drakes and other various Megafauna.

Kinetic Accelerator Range Modkit Found in: Cargo Protolathe, Mining Vendor Used for: Upgrading Kinetic Accelerators Strategy: Use it on any Kinetic Accelerator Description Upgrading a Kinetic Accelerator with this will increase its range by 1.

Kinetic Accelerator Damage Modkit Found in: Cargo Protolathe, Mining Vendor Used for: Upgrading Kinetic Accelerators Strategy: Use it on any Kinetic Accelerator Description Upgrading a Kinetic Accelerator with this will increase its damage by 10.

Kinetic Accelerator Cooldown Modkit Found in: Cargo Protolathe, Mining Vendor Used for: Upgrading Kinetic Accelerators Strategy: Use it on any Kinetic Accelerator Description Upgrading a Kinetic Accelerator with this will reduce its cooldown by 0.25 seconds.

Kinetic Accelerator Mining AoE Modkit Found in: Cargo Protolathe, Mining Vendor Used for: Upgrading Kinetic Accelerators Strategy: Use it on any Kinetic Accelerator Description Upgrading a Kinetic Accelerator with this will make the explosion dig in a 3x3 area around the target. It won't do any AoE damage to mobs.

Kinetic Accelerator Trigger Guard Modkit Found in: Cargo Protolathe, Mining Vendor Used for: Upgrading Kinetic Accelerators Strategy: Use it on any Kinetic Accelerator Description Upgrading a Kinetic Accelerator with this will allow races that can't normally use guns to use it.

Medical Designs

Man-Machine Interface Found in: Medical and RnD Protolathes, ExoFab, Robotics Lab Used for: Creating cyborgs or talking with the bodyless Strategy: Guide to robotics Description This device is used to give cyborgs life. The roboticist starts with a few empty ones, and its low research requirements mean more can easily be built in the protolathe. As a brain in an MMI has no limbs, it is, of course, not capable of interacting with anything; but at least it can talk. They can also talk over the common radio channel. Man-Machine Interface with a brain in it:

Positronic Brain Found in: Medical and RnD Protolathes, ExoFab Used for: Creating a brain for cyborgs, mechs and AIs. Strategy: Wait for it to activate, then put it wherever you would put an MMI. Description This artificial brain can be possessed by the dead, making it an alternative to getting someone's brain to operate cyborg shells, mechs or AI cores.

Health Analyzer Found in: Medical Protolathe Used for: Determining the patient's damage. Strategy: Use it on your patient and see readings. Description Whip this out and use it on someone to see a summary of their condition. You can switch between health and reagent scanner modes.

Advanced Health Analyzer Found in: Medical Protolathe, CMO's locker Used for: Determining the patient's damage. Strategy: Use it on your patient and see readings. Description This baby detects more types of damage and gives better readings, for example on viruses.

Mass Spectrometer Found in: No longer exists in game. Used for: Analyzing reagents in blood samples. Strategy: Put a syringe of blood in it. Description This device will read blood samples and inform you of which reagents are contained inside. Usually outclassed by the health analyzer, since it can scan reagents without requiring lengthy injections.

Advanced Mass Spectrometer Found in: No longer exists in game. Used for: Analyzing reagents in blood samples. Strategy: Put a syringe of blood in it. Description This device will read blood samples and inform you of which reagents are contained inside, plus their amount. Usually outclassed by the health analyzer, since it can scan reagents without requiring lengthy injections.

Bluespace Beaker Found in: Medical Protolathe Used for: Containing reagents Strategy: Use it to contain large quantities of reagents; useful for grenades. Description A Bluespace-enhanced beaker which can store 300u of any reagent.

Cryostasis Beaker Found in: Medical Protolathe Used for: Preventing reagents from reacting when in contact with eachother. Strategy: Useful for preventing unwanted reactions when working with dangerous chemicals. Description A cryostasis beaker that allows for chemical storage without causing reactions. Can hold up to 50 units.

Bluespace Syringe Found in: Medical Protolathe Used for: Injecting large quantities of chemicals. Strategy: Put it on a syringe gun. Description A Bluespace-enhanced syringe that can hold 60u of chemicals, and injects 20u at a time.

Cryo Syringe Found in: Medical Protolathe Used for: Injecting reactive chemical mixes. Strategy: Put it on a syringe gun. Description A modified syringe, whose contents will be kept at a temperature of 20k. Holds 20u of chemicals.

Piercing Syringe Found in: Medical Protolathe Used for: Syringe guns. Strategy: Put it on a syringe gun, shoot it at armored victims. Description A diamond-tipped syringe that will pierce through anything that would stop a normal syringe when shot by a syringe guns. It only holds 10 units.

Bluespace Bodybag Found in: Medical Protolathe Used for: Holding bodies. Strategy: Load tons of victims bombs other bodybags corpses in it to carry them in your backpack. Description Works like a normal bodybag, but can hold up to 15 bodies instead of the usual 2. It can also be folded while containing something, allowing the user to pocket several mobs. To fold it, click-drag the bodybag onto your sprite.

Plasmaman Jumpsuit Refill Found in: All Protolathes Used for: Refilling plasmaman jumpsuits. Strategy: Use it on a plasmaman jumpsuit. Description Refills the plasmaman jumpsuit's auto-extinguisher.

Implants

In general: All head implants have a chance to stun the user if hit by EMP - arm implants will simply retract.

Welding Shield Implant Found in: Medical Protolathe, ExoFab Used for: Protecting eyes from welders and flashes. Strategy: Implant it via surgery, on the eyes. Description This implant will protect the user from flashes (including the flash part of flashbangs) and prevents welding blindness.

Breathing Tube Implant Found in: Medical Protolathe, ExoFab Used for: Allowing use of internals. Strategy: Implant it via surgery, on the mouth. Description This implant will allow the user to use gas tanks for internals, even if he is not wearing a mask. If exposed to EMP, it has a chance to suffocate the user.

Toolset Arm Implant Found in: Medical Protolathe, ExoFab Used for: Having tools always at hand. Strategy: Implant it via surgery, on an arm. Use a screwdriver on it to change its arm slot between left and right. Description This implant will allow the user to extend and retract any tool from its hand. When emagged it also adds a knife to the available tools.

Surgical Arm Implant Found in: Medical Protolathe, ExoFab Used for: Having surgical tools always at hand. Strategy: Implant it via surgery, on an arm. Use a screwdriver on it to change its arm slot between left and right. Description This implant will allow the user to extend and retract any surgical tool from their arm.

Janitorial Arm Implant Found in: Medical Protolathe, ExoFab Used for: Having tools always at hand. Strategy: Implant it via surgery, on an arm. Use a screwdriver on it to change its arm slot between left and right. Description This implant will allow the user to extend and retract any tool from its hand. ( Needs complementary information )

Botanist Arm Implant Found in: Medical Protolathe, ExoFab Used for: Having tools always at hand. Strategy: Implant it via surgery, on an arm. Use a screwdriver on it to change its arm slot between left and right. Description This implant will allow the user to extend and retract any tool from its hand. ( Needs complementary information )

Medical HUD Implant Found in: Medical Protolathe, ExoFab Used for: Having the Medical HUD. Strategy: Implant it via surgery, on the eyes. Description This implant will show Health bars above living creatures, informing the user of their health status. Click here for an overview of what the symbols mean.

Security HUD Implant Found in: Medical Protolathe, ExoFab Used for: Having the Security HUD. Strategy: Implant it via surgery, on the eyes. Description This implant will show job icons, arrest status and Mindshield/tracking implant status above crewmembers. It also allows you to set the arrest status of crewmembers you examine. Click here for an overview of what the symbols mean.

X-Ray Implant Found in: Medical Protolathe, ExoFab Used for: Seeing over walls. Strategy: Implant it via surgery, on the eyes. Description This implant will give the user full x-ray vision, ignoring line of sight restrictions. It will also give night vision.

Thermals Implant Found in: Medical Protolathe, ExoFab Used for: Seeing living beings over walls. Strategy: Implant it via surgery, on the eyes. Description This implant will give the user thermal vision, showing living beings even when not in line of sight. It will also give night vision, but increases vulnerability to bright lights.

Luminescent Eyes Found in: Medical Protolathe, ExoFab Used for: Being the glowy eyed special snowflake you always dreamed of. Strategy: Implant it via surgery, on the eyes. Description This implant lets your eyes emit a cone of bright light. You can even change the color!

Anti-Drop Implant Found in: Medical Protolathe, ExoFab Used for: Not dropping items. Strategy: Implant it via surgery, on the head. Description This implant will allow the user to tighten their grip on command, basically making any item they're holding in their active hand unremovable by any means but amputation. It can be deactivated at will. If the user is hit by EMP, it has a chance to toss the held item.

CNS Rebooter Implant Found in: Medical Protolathe, ExoFab Used for: Limiting stuns. Strategy: Implant it via surgery, on the head. Description This implant will reboot the Central Nervous System of the user in case of stuns, reducing the duration of stuns to a maximum of four seconds. If hit by EMP, the user will get stunned longer.

Surgical Serverlink Brain Implant Surgical Serverlink Brain Implant Found in: Medical Protolathe, ExoFab Used for: operate advanced surgeries anywhere. Strategy: Implant it via surgery, on the head. Description A brain implant with a bluespace technology that lets you perform an advanced surgery through your station research server.

Nutriment Pump Implant Found in: Medical Protolathe, ExoFab Used for: Preventing starvation, replacing stomach. Strategy: Implant it via surgery, on the chest. Description This implant will give enough nutrition to the user to prevent falling below the "starving" level. If hit by EMP, poisons the user.

Nutriment Pump Implant PLUS Found in: Medical Protolathe, ExoFab Used for: Staying well fed, replacing stomach. Strategy: Implant it via surgery, on the chest. Description This implant will give enough nutrition to the user to prevent falling below the "hungry" level. If hit by EMP, poisons the user.

Reviver Implant Found in: Medical Protolathe, ExoFab Used for: Staying alive. Strategy: Implant it via surgery, on the chest. Description This implant will heal you whenever you fall into critical health status; it will go on cooldown after each revival. If hit by EMP, has the chance to cause a heart attack.

Thrusters Set Implant Found in: Medical Protolathe, ExoFab Used for: Moving in zero gravity. Strategy: Implant it via surgery, on the chest. Description This implant will work like a normal jetpack, but it will take air from the environment if there is any, and cannot stabilize.

Implanter Found in: Medical Protolathe Used for: Injecting implants. Strategy: Use it on an implant case, then on the person you want to implant. Description This can load any implant that is stored on an implant case, such as Mindshield implants, tracking implants, traitor implants, and so on.

Implant Case Found in: Medical Protolathe Used for: Storing implants. Strategy: Put an implant in it. Description This case can store injectable implants from loaded implanters. It can also be used during surgery to extract implants (for example Mindshields).

Sad Trombone Implant Case Found in: Medical Protolathe Used for: Clowning around. Strategy: Implant it with an implanter, wait until you die, be commiserated by a trombone. Description This implant makes the sad trombone sound when the user dies. Clowns start with this.

Electronics

Component Design Disk Found in: RnD Protolathe Used for: Research Strategy: Save designs on this disk for use with an unsynced protolathe or autolathe. Obsolete since the introduction of techwebs. Description A disk for storing device design data for construction in lathes. Obsolete since the introduction of techwebs.

Technology Disk Found in: RnD Protolathe Used for: Research Strategy: Store research levels on the disk for safe keeping or to set up a new research server. Description A disk for storing technology data for further research. Obsolete since the introduction of techwebs.

Plant Data Disk Found in: Service Protolathe, Botany Used for: Botany. Strategy: Store plant traits on it with the Plant DNA Manipulator. Description A disk for storing plant data, that can be applied to other plants.

IntelliCard Found in: RnD Protolathe, Bridge, Tech Storage, Research Director's Office Used for: Stealing Restoring or transporting the AI Strategy: Use it on the AI's core to download it onto the IntelliCard. Description Also known as an IntelliCard AI Transportation System. A functional AI is a possible Traitor objective.

Personal AI Device Found in: All Protolathes, Dormitory, Research Director's Office, Derelict Shuttle Used for: Downloading your new best friend! Strategy: Use it in your hand to open the interface, load personalities and wait for a pAI personality to become available. Description This is a personal AI device. You can download a personal AI from an online pAI server, if someone has decided to play one. pAI's are chosen from dead players.

Bluespace Designs

Bag of Holding Found in: RnD Protolathe Used for: Holding items usually too large to fit in backpacks, such as backpacks. Strategy: This item holds bulkier items, including normal backpacks. WARNING: The fabric of Bluespace is fragile. Attempting to put a Bag of Holding inside another Bag of Holding will create a big tear in the fabric of reality, sending people in its area of effect to a dangerous pocket dimension a strong singularity, likely killing and destroying everything nearby. The singularity disappears after 5 seconds. This is called "BoH-bombing", and was reworked again July 2019 to the described effect. Description A backpack that opens into a localized pocket of bluespace. It should be noted that using any form of teleportation while wearing one will cause you to be teleported randomly and unsafely instead.

Mining Satchel of Holding Found in: Cargo Protolathe Used for: Holding large quantities of raw ore. Strategy: Use it to bypass the need for ore boxes. Description Works like a normal mining satchel, but it has no ore limit.

Tracking Beacon Found in: RnD/Engineering/Cargo/Security Protolathe, key locations around the station Used for: Teleportation Strategy: Place it somewhere and use the teleporter hub to teleport to it. Description A beacon used by the Teleporter. They can be moved around, meaning you can change the location of where the teleporter goes! This can have several sneaky applications.

Global Positioning System Found in: RnD/Engineering/Cargo Protolathe, Mining, various storage areas Used for: Finding out where in space you are. Strategy: Keep one on you when exploring space. Description Transmits the universal coordinates to other GPS devices. The name incorrectly suggests that it tracks position on a planet, when in reality, it does not.

Bluespace Crystal Found in: Lavaland, RnD Protolathe, Xenobiology, Teleporter machinery Used for: Research, upgrading the Telepad Strategy: Guide to telescience Description A bluespace crystal with mystical properties. When crushed in your hand it will teleport you a short distance. When thrown at someone it will make them teleport as well. Can be placed into the Telepad Control Console to upgrade the power of the Telepad. You can create Bluespace crystals through Bluespace Slimes, or you can create synthetic ones through research. They are also found on Lavaland.

Quantum Spin Inverter Found in: RnD Protolathe Used for: Swapping locations Strategy: Hide its connected twin in a safe spot for a quick getaway. Description The Quantum Spin Inverter can form a link with another QSI by using it on it. When linked , it can be used in-hand to swap location with the linked device after 2.5 seconds. Swapping will teleport the device's holder and/or container as well if it isn't anchored.

Bluespace Anchor Found in: RnD Protolathe Used for: Preventing teleportation Strategy: Set it down to prevent people from teleporting away in a 8 tile radius. Description The bluespace anchor is an experimental, high-powered bluespace flux stabiliser that will prevent nearby teleporations. Every time it prevents a teleportation, it will consume a large amount of power (3500) and shock anyone directly adjacent to it. It takes 4 seconds to deploy when in hand, and takes 8 seconds to pick back up again. It doesn't affect wormholes or the free channel.

Equipment

Welding Gas Mask Found in: RnD/Engineering Protolathe Used for: Shielding your eyes from bright lights while still functioning as a gas mask Strategy: Wearing it allows you to use internals and a welding mask without having to change your hat. You can drink and eat with this on, without interrupting internals. Description A gas mask with built in welding goggles and face shield. Looks like a skull, clearly designed by a nerd.

Health Scanner HUD Found in: Medical Protolathe Used for: Seeing the health status of creatures. Strategy: Wearing it shows you Health bars for any living being in sight. Description These glasses show a summary reading of the health status of surrounding living beings. It will also show if they are infected with viruses or parasites.

Security HUD Found in: Security Protolathe Used for: Seeing the job of crewmembers. Strategy: Wearing it shows you job icons, wanted status and eventual implants of crewmembers in sight. Description These glasses link to crewmembers id cards and show their job, will check security records to see if they are wanted, and will show if they have a mindshield implant.

Diagnostic HUD Found in: RnD Protolathe Used for: Seeing the status of silicons. Strategy: Wearing it shows you the health and power of silicons in sight. Description These glasses can give a detailed reading of integrity and power of nearby robotic entities.

Optical Meson Scanners Found in: Cargo/Engineering Protolathe, Mining, Engineering Used for: Seeing wall layouts. Strategy: Use these to check for breaches or secret rooms. Description Wearing these will let you see walls and floors outside of your line of sight.

Science Goggles Found in: RnD Protolathe, Chemistry Used for: Analyzing items and machines, checking chemicals at a glance. Strategy: Use these when you want to know how valuable an item is when analyzed, or when doing chemistry. Description These glasses will show you the research values of items by examining them; they will also show which parts are inside of machinery, and will give a detailed readout of chemicals inside containers. Can be used to create Beer Goggles.

Optical T-Ray Scanners Found in: Engineering Protolathe, Engineering Used for: Looking at wiring and piping under tiles. Strategy: Use them when you want to see how the station is wired without De-flooring everything. Description These glasses will pulse T-Rays, showing you what's under floor tiles.

Engineering Scanner Goggles Found in: Engineering Protolathe, Engineering Used for: Anything mesons and T-Rays can do Strategy: Use them when repairing station damage. Description These goggles have both a meson and T-Ray function; use the active button on your HUD to switch modes.

Night Vision Health Scanner HUD Found in: Medical Protolathe Used for: Seeing the health status of creatures, in the darkness. Strategy: Wearing it shows you Health bars for any living being in sight, and will see in the dark. Description These glasses show a summary reading of the health status of surrounding living beings. It will also show if they are infected with viruses or parasites. It can also see through darkness.

Night Vision Security HUD Found in: Security Protolathe Used for: Seeing the job of crewmembers, in the darkness. Strategy: Wearing it shows you job icons, wanted status and eventual implants of crewmembers in sight, and will see in the dark. Description These glasses link to crewmembers id cards and show their job, will check security records to see if they are wanted, and will show if they have a Mindshield implant. It can also see through darkness.

Night Vision Diagnostic HUD Found in: RnD Protolathe Used for: Seeing the status of silicons, in the darkness. Strategy: Wearing it shows you the health and power of silicons in sight, and will see in the dark. Description These glasses can give a detailed reading of integrity and power of nearby robotic entities. It can also see through darkness.

Night Vision Optical Meson Scanners Found in: Cargo/Engineering Protolathe Used for: Seeing wall layouts, in the darkness. Strategy: Use these to check for breaches or secret rooms. Also useful for miners. Description Wearing these will let you see walls and floors outside of your line of sight. Also lets you see through darkness.

Portable Seed Extractor Found in: Service Protolathe Used for: Botany. Strategy: Store plants in it, activate it to convert them into seeds. Description This is a portable but less efficient version of the stationary seed extractor. Creates one seed per plant.

Magnetic Boots Found in: Engineering Protolathe, EVA Storage Used for: Moving in no gravity or strong wind. Strategy: Activate them when on low gravity. Description These heavy boots will let you walk when others must float; they will slow you down if you activate them while gravity is still on, but they'll prevent slipping and space wind.

Advanced Mop Found in: Service Protolathe Used for: Cleaning. Strategy: Wet it them use it on dirty floor. Description An upgraded version of the janitor's mop, it is faster and holds more water. Can be activated in-hand to generate its own water for free.

Trashbag of Holding Found in: Service Protolathe Used for: Storing trash or small items. Strategy: Put trash in it, or use it as a more versatile toolbelt. Description An upgraded version of the janitor's trash bag, holds much more trash.

Floor Buffer Upgrade Found in: Service Protolathe Used for: Upgrading the janicart. Strategy: Use it on the janitor's pimpin' ride. Description When applied to the janitor's cart, it will instantly clean any floor it passes over, much like janiborgs.

Holographic Sign Projector Found in: Service Protolathe Used for: Signaling wet floors. Strategy: Use it near wet floors to warn people. Description When used on the ground it will project a holographic "walk" sign, warning people of wet floors.

Experimental Welding Tool Found in: RnD/Engineering Protolathe Used for: Welding. Strategy: Use it in place of a normal welder. Description This prototype welder regenerates fuel over time, and welds extremely quickly compared to normal ones. It is also less harmful to the eyes.

Weapons

Test Range Firing Pin Found in: Security Protolathe Used for: Testing guns. Strategy: Use it on guns you want to try out in the testing range, or emag it to make it work like a normal pin. Description A region-locked pin that will only fire the gun if you're in the test range.

Mindshield Firing Pin Found in: Security Protolathe Used for: Shooting guns without fear of them being used against you. Strategy: Use it on guns for security. Stops revs, traitors, cultists, and anyone without a Mindshield implant from firing them. Description A special pin that will check for a Mindshield implant before firing.

Large Grenade Casing Found in: Medical/Security Protolathe Used for: Grenade construction Strategy: Insert a Silver Slime Core and some Plasma and you have a instant party grenade! Description Makes it possible to use Slime Cores and Bluespace Beakers in grenades. Also spreads chemicals slightly farther than normal grenades.

Advanced Release Grenade Found in: Medical/Security Protolathe Used for: Grenade construction Strategy: Use it to lube a hallway for a long, long time. Description This grenade, instead of mixing two whole beakers, mixes them a few units at a time, basically having a multi-use grenade. It will keep going until it is out of reagents. To configure the amount mixed each time, use a multitool on a completed grenade.

Pyro Grenade Found in: Medical/Security Protolathe Used for: Grenade construction Strategy: Use it with stabilized explosive mixes. Description This grenade works like a normal one, but will add 500 degrees to the chemicals' temperature.

Cryo Grenade Found in: Medical/Security Protolathe Used for: Grenade construction Strategy: Use it with water smoke? Description This grenade works like a normal one, but will cool chemicals by 100°K on reaction. Rarely ever seen.

Floral Somatoray Found in: Service Protolathe Used for: Botany Strategy: Mutate plant genes or yield rate easily. Description Yield mode increases the yield of plants and seed packages hit by it. Also feeds Podpeople! Mutation mode causes minor stat changes (no species mutation) and horribly mutates Podpeople.

Advanced Energy Gun Found in: Security Protolathe Used for: Combat. Strategy: Use it as a self-charging taser/disabler/laser. Description This gun can switch to taser, disabler and laser shots, and will charge by itself over time. Cannot be manually charged, though. Has a chance to irradiate the area if hit with EMP.

Tesla Revolver Found in: Security Protolathe Used for: Combat. Strategy: Use it to shock your enemies. Description This gun shoots a small energy ball that will shock nearby entities. This can be used to mess with Nanites or interrupt a heart attack. Insulated gloves and Hardsuits will prevent shocks.

Rapid Syringe Gun Found in: Medical Protolathe Used for: Combat. Strategy: Load it with syringes, shoot at victims. Description This is an upgraded version of the Syringe Gun; it holds 6 syringes that can be shot without reloading.

Temperature Gun Found in: Security Protolathe, Armory Used for: Combat. Strategy: Detaining traitors with energy swords/shields, slime containment. Description This gun can heat up or cool down targets, although it won't reach really dangerous levels unless you cool down someone in a hardsuit. This weapon is deceptively strong since the projectiles aren't blocked by eswords/eshields and can slow people down to a crawl. Slimes die to it in two to three hits.

Decloner Found in: Security Protolathe Used for: Combat. Strategy: Use it on targets that might heal from normal wounds. Description This gun deals cellular damage instead of brute or burn; this type of damage is really hard to heal from and usually requires cryogenic treatment.

Energy Crossbow Found in: Security Protolathe Used for: Combat. Strategy: Use it to stun and poison people. Description This crossbow is a larger version of the one traitors use. Works in the same way, needing to reload after each shot.

Ion Carbine Found in: Security Protolathe Used for: Combat against silicons and mechs. Strategy: Use it to deal high damage to robotic entities. Description This carbine is a smaller version of security's Ion Rifle; it will cause a 3x3 ion blast on hit. Perfect for dealing with cyborgs, mechs, and closed lockers.

Bluespace Wormhole Projector Found in: RnD Protolathe Used for: Teleporting around, B&E. Strategy: Use it to get into normally secure places by shooting through windows. Description This gun creates two linked portals when shooting walls; walking into or clicking on a portal will lead you to the other one.

One-point Bluespace-Gravitational Manipulator Found in: RnD Protolathe Used for: Knocking things around. Strategy: Use it to create confusion, or to knock people into space. Description This gun has three modes: pull, push or chaos. Push will push things away from the langing point, pull will do the opposite, and chaos will pull and push things randomly.

X-Ray Laser Gun Found in: Security Protolathe Used for: Shooting beyond walls. Strategy: Use it to kill things from beyond walls. Description This advanced gun will pierce walls, but will stop at the first target it hits. Also deals heavy radiation damage.

Beam Marksman Rifle Beam Marksman Rifle Found in: Security Protolathe Used for: Killing people dead from far away. Strategy: For long-range killing when collateral damage is no concern. Description This large rifle comes with a built-in zoom and charges up devastating shots that deal 60 burn damage. Everyone in a radius around the impact will be knocked down and set on fire as well. The beam passes through windows and damages structures.

Stun Shell Found in: Admin game panel only Used for: Stunning with a shotgun. Strategy: Load it in a shotgun. Description This shell works like a taser shot, stunning the first target hit for a few seconds.

Cryostasis Shotgun Dart Cryostasis Shotgun Dart Found in: Security/Medical Protolathe Used for: Blowing people up. Strategy: Load it with multiple reactive chemicals. Description This shell can be loaded with reagents and prevents them from reacting - until the dart hits a target.

Unloaded Technological Shell Found in: Security Protolathe Used for: Making advanced shotgun ammo. Strategy: Craft advanced ammo with it. Description This shell is the base crafting material for some advanced shotgun shells, craftable with crafting menu: Meteorshot Shell: A single powerful projectile that deals heavy damage, stuns, and knocks around normally immovable objects like airlocks. Also requires 2 micro manipulators and an RCD cartridge. Pulse Slug: Works like one of the deathsquad's pulse rifle shots. Heavy damage, knocks down walls. Also requires 2 advanced capacitors and 1 ultra-high-power micro-laser. Dragonsbreath Shell: Fires 4 incendiary pellets, which leave a trail of fire behind them. Also requires 5 phosphorus. FRAG-12 Slug: An explosive shell that knocks down targets and causes an explosion where it hits. Also requires 5 glycerol, 5 sulfuric acid and 5 fluorosulfuric acid. Ion Scatter Shell: Shoots a spread of 4 ion bolts, each of which ions a 3x3 area. Also requires 1 ultra-high-power micro-laser and 1 ansible crystal. Scatter Laser Shell: Fires a spread of six laser beams that hit for up to 90 damage total. Also requires 1 advanced capacitor and 1 high-power micro-laser.

Machinery

Slime Management Console Found in: Xenobiology Used for: Managing slimes. Strategy: Guide to xenobiology Description The main tool for xenobiology. Can pick up up to five slimes at a time and drop them anywhere in xenobiology. Can dispense monkeys when loaded with monkey cubes, and recycle dead monkeys. Renaming an area "Xenobiology Lab" will allow the console to work in that area.

Slime Processor Found in: Xenobiology Used for: Creating Slime Extract from dead baby Slimes. Strategy: Guide to xenobiology Description Grinds up slimes for their cores! Upgrading this will greatly help xenobiology.

Monkey Recycling Machine Found in: Xenobiology Used for: Recycling of dead Monkeys, will produce a Monkey Cube when full Strategy: Guide to xenobiology Description Recycles monkeys through horrible means. More efficient than the slime console, but it takes longer to load it. Now linked to console, therefore the they share efficiency, cant magic up more monkeys than was put in now though.

Teleporter Station Found in: Teleporter room, AI satellite, constructable Used for: Teleporting stuff and setting target for hand teleporter Strategy: Set target tracking beacon with console, calibrate to reduce risk of ill effects, click teleporter station to engage Description A set of two machines and a Teleporter Control Console to control them. Build a Teleporter Hub, Teleporter Control Console and Teleporter Station next to each other with the "teleporter station" in the middle. These three can then be linked together by opening the panel of the Teleporter Station with a screwdriver, and then clicking it once with wirecutters, and then closing the panel. Has two selectable regimes: Teleporter, which lets you set a target tracking beacon. Click the teleporter station to engage. Then walk or throw things into the Teleporter Hub to teleport to the target location. Gate, which lets you target another connected teleporter station set. To connect: Screwdriver a teleporter station to open panel. Use a multitool on it to save it to buffer. Close the panel. Go to the teleporter station you want to connect it to. Use the multitool on it without opening its panel.

Quantum Pad Found in: Must be built. Used for: Creating two-way teleporters Strategy: See Quantum Pad Description Can be linked to other Quantum Pads with either screwdriver and multitool or by saving a target Quantum Pad to a Quantum Keycard and then using that keycard on a pad you wish to teleport from.

Protolathe Found in: R&D Lab Used for: Manufacturing items from materials. Strategy: Load it with materials and pick the item you want to make. Description Similar to an Autolathe, you load raw materials such as glass and metal sheets into it to create things. The protolathe is operated via the R&D console. Manufacturing list can be found here. Guide to building a Protolathe.

Circuit Imprinter Found in: R&D Lab Used for: Manufacturing circuit boards. Strategy: Fill it with Sulfuric Acid and select the circuit board you want to print. Description Prints out all kinds of different circuit boards, depending on your research levels. Uses of these boards include building mechs, building machines or computers, and changing the AI's laws. Manufacturing list can be found here. Guide to building a Circuit Imprinter.

Exosuit Fabricator Found in: Robotics Used for: Manufacturing parts for use in robotics. Strategy: Load it with materials and pick the items you want to make. Use the "add to queue" function to build multiple things in a row. Description Creates cyborg or mech parts from materials. Can be synchronized with the R&D research levels for new cyborg/mech components. They cannot be hacked and require robotics access to operate. If upgraded with better components, the Exosuit Fabricator will construct parts more quickly and efficiently. Manufacturing list can be found here. Guide to building an Exosuit Fabricator.

Other

Slime Extract Found in: Xenobiology Used for: Special applications when mixed with certain reagents Strategy: Use a Syringe to inject Plasma, blood or water into it. Description Also known as a Slime Core. Each kind of Slime has different effect that can be found here. Unused Slime Extract is a possible Traitor objective. They can also be used in large Grenades for interesting effects.

Slime Scanner Found in: Xenobiology Used for: Analyzing slimes Strategy: Use it on a living slime. Description This scanner shows you a slime's characteristics: current mass and mass needed to grow/split, electric charge, health, potential mutations and mutation chance.

Monkey Cube Found in: Xenobiology, Monkey Cube Box Used for: Making Monkeys! Strategy: Splash water on it using a Beaker or a Fire Extinguisher, or load it in a Slime Management Console. Description A Monkey Cube Box can hold up to 8 Monkey Cubes. Monkey Cube Box:

Tank Transfer Valve Found in: Toxins Lab Used for: Making bombs Strategy: Guide to toxins Description Should not be confused with manual valves, even though they look (almost) totally the same. This is the central part of a Toxins bomb: to use it, load it with two gas tanks and a trigger (which can be, for example, a signaller or a voice analyzer). When the trigger is activated, the two gas tanks will mix, usually creating a large explosion if loaded with the right mix. To remove gas tanks or the trigger from it, use it in your hand; it's important to do it when you want to disarm it. Additional Tank Transfer Valves can be ordered from Cargo. A finished bomb: