The amount of acid needed to make a chemistry station should be reduced.

ElCabong

ElCabong

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I believe the chemistry station takes four or five and the fuel saver mod takes four. An atomic smoothie takes one and I need to make at least five of them. I've managed to come across three acid. I know I'll get a chemistry station as an option for moving on from our favorite philosopher Bob to our favorite serial killer. But I can make one now and I'd like to make some plaster casts. I haven't looted the wasteland treasures book that lets you get more acid.

Every damn time I walk into the wasteland to farm mushrooms I run into a direwolf. Must have killed four of them damn things and every time I come away with a broken limb except for the last time I was just fatigued.
 
Used one to make a tyre:
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5 in the bags and 3 more in the desert edge trunk ./shrug just saying how it is.... Horde night so last thing on my mind atm, just sayin..
 
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I've played about 3 days and I already pulled a couple from medical containers; I was thinking I might be lucky, but wouldn't be surprised if it were buffed.
 
I had two by the end of day 1 (2 hour days) with default loot abundance without looking for it and without the book.
 
It's just RNG. I'm on day 17 and I've got 25 (after making a chem station.) Had 2 beakers on Day 2 (both from the same POI, it was either 2 consecutive containers, or 2 out of 3, can't recall exactly.)

Yes, I have the book, but it was the last Wasteland Treasures book I found.
 
Elwynne said:
Hmm what day you at had 9 acids at day 10 without actively looking...
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How? We are 3 people with 2 going out looting and we don´t have 9 acids on day 10. We have 4 right now on day 12.

I mean if you get the book for harvesting acid from medical cabinets and cars then maybe, but that´s lucky to get it that early.
 
pApA^LeGBa said:
How? We are 3 people with 2 going out looting and we don´t have 9 acids on day 10. We have 4 right now on day 12.

I mean if you get the book for harvesting acid from medical cabinets and cars then maybe, but that´s lucky to get it that early.
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If it makes you feel any better day 16 and not found any since Ah the fringes of an RNG binomial curve are a strange place
 
It is all just up to RNG.

Sometimes I find plenty of acid, sometimes I don't.

Sometimes I find multiple beakers, sometimes I can't find any.

Sometimes I can build a chem station the moment I unlock it with resources left over, sometimes I spend multiple trader cycles running all over the map trying to find a beaker or more acid for sale.

It is fairly annoying that a crafting station is reliant on multiple uncraftable components.

I wish acid was craftable, though I am not sure it would make sense with any of the resources the game currently has available, and might need a new raw material like sulfur (campfire or chem station: water + nitrate powder + sulfur = acid). Though the addition of sulfur might not be such a bad idea since the current recipe for making gunpowder is also missing sulfur.

(Dynamite should also be made with acid and animal fat, not gunpowder, but that is another topic.)
 
Yes, but it is clear from the coal and nitrate powder that what we are making is not smokeless powder, but black powder, minus the sulfur.

Smokeless powder would need to be made with cotton and acid.


...Actually, that'd be interesting if you needed to make improved gunpowder as a prerequisite to make rockets and Hi-Power ammunition. Though acid would definitely need to become a craftable resource if such a change were made.
 
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Tephra said:
Smokeless powder would need to be made with cotton and acid.
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Smokeless powder consists of nitrocellulose (single-base), usually with up to fifty percent nitroglycerin (double-base), and sometimes nitroglycerin combined with nitroguanidine (tri-base). The final product is granulated into spherical particles or pressed into cylinders or flakes using solvents such as ether. Stabilizers and ballistic modifiers may also be additional components of smokeless powder.
Double-base powders are commonly used in the manufacture of cartridges for small arms and hunting weapons, while triple-base powders are more widely used in artillery and small-caliber rocket engines.
 
Tephra said:
Yes... and nitrocellulose is made by nitrating (with acid) cellulose (cotton fibers).
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Well, if it comes down to it, then not just acid, but nitric acid. You can also add a little sulfuric acid to bind excess water. And cotton fibers (or rather the dust remaining during cotton processing) are used only because they are easily accessible. They can easily be replaced with sawdust or paper. You can remember school chemistry lessons, when paper was soaked in nitric acid, then dried on a radiator and it became explosive.
 
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