Crafting Guide

Custom Chems

In chapter 9 of the rulebook, you can find recipes for ready made, standardized chems that are easy to access for crafters who just want to make a few basic chems to provide themselves or their allies with some quick usable power-ups. With the Apothecary perk however, you can access much stronger, and much more complex chems with custom chem crafting.

Requirements

PERKS

Aside from the Apothecary perk, you will need at least one other perk that grants you access to recipes for base chems. This will allow you to add 2 ingredients to your recipe. If you have a 2nd one of these perks, you will unlock the ability to add a third ingredient, and if you have them all, you can use four ingredients. These perks are:

Alchemist

Hookup

Pharmacist

Your overall crafting score will also need to be increased to reach the synergy bonuses of the Apothecary perk. As you do so, you can add multiple effect lines to your recipes further creating more powerful chems.

SUPPLIES AND XP

The more complicated your recipe gets, the more supplies you will need to create custom chems. Some effects will cost more than others. Custom chems also grant more XP when crafted.

RECIPES

Before you attend an event, you can create and save custom chem crafting recipes. This will allow you to quickly access complex chems without having to spend time figuring them out on the fly. To view, edit or create saved recipes, go to your character page and if your character has all of the requirements listed above, you will see a "RECIPES" option under the actions available for your character.

The recipe grid

Base

Synthesis

Infusion

Enhancement

For each effect included in a custom recipe, you will be presented with a series of boxes like the ones above. You will always have access to the base box and the Synthesis box. If you have additional chem crafting perks, you will gain access to the Infusion box and then the Enhancement box. Each of these boxes represent ingredients being added to the recipe as you craft them chem.

BASE INGREDIENT

This is the most basic ingredient of the chem. By itself, it does nothing. However, this ingredient, when combined with the Synthesis ingredient will create the basic effect and basic drawbacks of the chem that you will create.

SYNTHESIS INGREDIENT

The Synthesis ingredient changes the base ingredient to produce an effect and drawback.

INFUSION INGREDIENT

Infusion ingredients change the chem in ways that do not alter the effect of the chem but change things like how easy the chem is to use, how long it lasts, or its encumbrance.

ENHANCEMENT INGREDIENT

Enhancement ingredients change the effects of the chems by boosting numbers, changing drawbacks or allowing special uses of the chem.

JUNK INGREDIENT

When you craft a custom chem, the first ingredient you have to choose is the junk token that you will use to start the process. If you have the synergy for 4 Crafting, you can choose an uncommon token, and add 2 effects to the chem. If you have the synergy for 8 Crafting, you can add a third effect.

Ingredients and thier effects

In the table below, you can find what effects are created from each ingredient.