Chemist
Superiors: CMO
Difficulty: Hard
Guides: Standard Operating Procedure,
Standard Operating Procedure (Medical),
Guide to Surgery,
Guide to Medical,
Guide to Cloning,
Guide to Surgery,
Heads Up Displays,
Station Goals,
Medical Items
Access: Medical, Maintenance
Duties: Make Medicine, Give CMO gibmixes, be the cause of havoc, blame science.
Departmental Head
Chief Medical Officer
| Medical SOP • | Guide to Medical • | Guide to Cloning • | Guide to Surgery • | Guide to Chemistry • | Medical HUD icons • | Medical Items • |
The Chemist is like logistics for the Medical department - they supply the grand majority of basic treatments that a Medical Doctor can apply, and even some more advanced ones like cryogenics, pain medication for surgery and advanced topicals. The problem is going to be getting you to focus on that when in actuality you're likely concocting poisons, explosives and ways to mess with the crew so hard they'll demote you to Clown. You're doing it right now, aren't you?
¶ Equipment
A Chemist's gear is simple, yet will see much use. Knowing how to use it quickly and effectively can be the difference in life and death.
| Chemical Goggles | Protective goggles that also happen to have a HUD for identifying chemicals. | |
| Beakers, bottles and vials | All of these can hold liquids, all of these can go in a ChemDispenser or ChemMaster. Some of these have uses outside of those machines or simple mixing though. | |
| Jugs | Hold larger quantities of chemicals. Good for distirbuting medicine. | |
| ChemDispenser | Dispenses chemicals. No, really. That's all they do. | |
| ChemMaster | Stores chemicals in an internal buffer preventing reactions. You can output this buffer in order to make pills and patches. | |
| Syringe | Used to draw samples from mobs, or to inject them with reagents. | |
| Medical Cartridge Autoinjector | Used for rapid administration of medicine. Uses cartridges printable at the medical techfab or NanoMed Plus. |
¶ Tips
- There's a lot of ways a Chemist can mix their chems. Some prefer to use jugs only, some prefer to dump everything into the ChemMaster, and some prefer to rely on their dispenser.
- You have a lot of chemicals you can mix and dispense to Medical. Read the Guidebook, do some research.
- Liase with the Bartender - they may need some chemicals for drinks - and the Botany department - they WILL need some for mutating plants, and will likely grow you plants to grind in return.
- Many Chemistry labs have lockdown doors activated internally. Consider finding the button that operates them sooner rather than in the middle of an attack.
- Even a Chemist can work out in the Medbay - a spray bottle filled with styptic powder and silver sulfaziade can quickly prepare bodies for revival while a water tank with a nozzle can hold all kinds of mixes from acids to flamethrower fuel for defense!
- CMO may make requests for more medicines - it's recommended to listen to them! If you don't want to, listen to comms and prepare accordingly! Nukies coming? Brute, blood and bleeding medicines will help a lot. Blob or slime attacks? Burn medicines could help there too. Spider attacks? Get something for poison! Is the Captain drunk? Find something that cures it!