# BRAINSTORMING: Chemistry recipes

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/brainstorming-chemistry-recipes/14527>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [November 23, 2017, 10:29am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/brainstorming-chemistry-recipes/14527 "2017-11-23T10:29:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pakislav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@Pakislav](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Pakislav)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 10:29am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/brainstorming-chemistry-recipes/14527/1 "2017-11-23T10:29:47Z")

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Yes, yes. Cooking is like chemistry… except NOT. Sure, chemistry can help a bit with cooking, but you don’t need to pass high-school chemistry to be an amazing cook and likewise you can sustain yourself on a diet of burned frozen pizza as a world-class chemist.

The main reason chemistry is not it’s own skill is that there are no low-level recipes for it. It would be nice to change that, but for that we need ideas so to all of you who know a thing or two about chemistry; what are some things we can add into the game that would count as low-level chemistry experiments?

We need concrete examples with a list of ingredients and their possible sources.  
For starters we could add morphine and heroin from mutated poppy. Also arsenic from cherry or apple seeds. Also nitroglycerin. And caffeine + caffeine pills.

Below is the list of current cooking recipes that fall under chemistry;

acid water  
poppy sleep  
poppy painkiller  
fungicide  
poppy cough syrup  
lye powder?  
soap bar?  
heat pack  
zombie pheromone  
liquid fertilizer  
fertilizer bomb  
smoke bomb  
sprayable toxic gas  
hemostatic powder  
concentrated acid  
crack  
antifungal drug  
aspirin  
hydrogen peroxide  
ammonium nitrate  
acetic acid  
black gunpowder  
thermite  
rocket fuel  
disinfectant  
sprayable fungicide  
incendiary?  
nitric acid  
aluminum sulfate  
saltpeter  
low grade amphetamine  
plastic chunk  
neoprene sheet  
antiseptic powder  
antiparasitic drug  
syringe of adrenaline  
heroin  
diazepam  
pink tblet  
potassium iodide tablet  
water purification tablet  
bleach  
amonia  
diesel  
blob glob  
thorazine  
prussian blue tablet  
concentrated hydrogen peroxide  
sulfuric acid  
RDX  
HMTD  
dynamite  
ANFO charge  
napalm  
sugar? (maybe one recipe for cooking another for chemistry?)  
mutagen  
oxidizer powder  
mutagenic serum  
plant mutagen  
insect mutagen  
spider mutagen  
slime mutagen  
slime serum  
fish mutagen  
fish serum  
rat mutagen  
rat serum  
beast mutagen  
beast serum  
ursine mutagen  
ursine serum  
feline mutagen  
feline serum  
lupine mutagen  
lupine serum  
cattle mutagen  
cattle serum  
cephalopod mutagen  
cephalopod serum  
bird mutagen  
bird serum  
lizard mutagen  
lizard serum  
troglobite mutagen  
troglobite serum  
medical mutagen  
purifier  
plant serum  
insect serum  
spider serum  
medical serum  
purifier serum  
alpha mutagen  
alpha serum  
elfa mutagen  
elf-a serum  
chimera mutagen  
chimera serum  
raptor mutagen  
raptor serum

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**Author:** ![proxiehunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e68b1a/32.png) [@proxiehunter](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/proxiehunter)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 11:03am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/brainstorming-chemistry-recipes/14527/2 "2017-11-23T11:03:33Z")

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Smoke Bombs _should_ be low level chemistry. Crack and meth aren’t exactly rocket science either from what I understand. Napalm and Thermite should probably have a lesser version, it’s not going to be military grade but I’ve seen drunken rednecks on youtube playing around with homemade thermite and jellied gasoline is dead easy.

Does the game already cover the fact that if you mix bleach and ammonia you get toxic gas? You’d need higher levels of fabrication to make some sort of delivery mechanism but pour them in a bucket and run (or wear a gasmask) while it makes a cloud of gas probably shouldn’t even _need_ skill levels.

Edit: If we had an ingame use for [Sodium Acetate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_acetate) I’d think that making something that’s described as “a fun experiment to do at home” would be a low level chemistry recipie.

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**Author:** ![Pakislav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@Pakislav](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Pakislav)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 11:28am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/brainstorming-chemistry-recipes/14527/3 "2017-11-23T11:28:43Z")

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Chemistry experiments for joy increase, like a children’s chemistry set toy or something is actually a solid idea.

Edit; And now that I come to think about it… Shouldn’t we be forced to learn chemistry from books or start with the skill? Is there really a need for low-level recipes? It would quite realistic to make chemistry something you should study before practicing.