Chemistry guide: Dream Dust, purity grades and Lab Pure

Chemistry runs through four machines in order: Blender → Heating Plate → Evaporator → Chem Finisher. Lab Pure means 99% purity or more and adds 135% to the product’s value. You need a very clean, completely dry extract and at least three Chemical Equipment Modules in the Chem Finisher, because with fewer it adds too much contamination for a perfect extract to stay at 99%. A Lab Pure narcotic, such as Dream Dust, unlocks Say My Name.

Estimate a batch with the purity planner. Inputs and volumes per product are in the recipe table.

Getting the machines

The Chemist start includes all four machines. Otherwise buy Retired Chemist from Wild’s Network for 1,000 credits. Its starter kit has the four machines (worn), a Composition Spectrometer, droppers, graduated cylinders, Kotton Fabric and Chemical Supplies, and the Retired Chemist then visits weekly. Chemical Equipment Modules cost 250 each; once the upgrade is bought, Dr. Jackson stocks them too.

The four steps

Step	Machine	What you do	Upgrade effect
1	Blender	Blend Dream Caps, Nightmare Caps or Coffee Beans into a mush inside a liquid container.	Content lost: 35% with no modules, 20%, 10%, 5%, 0% with four.
2	Heating Plate	Add solvent and heat to extract the active ingredient.	Max 99 °C with no modules, 160 °C with one; 3 modules heat 4× faster, 4 modules 16×.
3	Evaporator	Overnight it removes up to 300 ml of water and alcohol.	Performance evaporates more; Quality captures vapour; the Solvent Recovery Module returns alcohol.
4	Chem Finisher	Select the recipe and press Output once per product.	Contamination added: 12%, 6%, 3%, 1%, 0% with 0–4 modules.

The Blender, Heating Plate and Chem Finisher take only Chemical Equipment Modules, up to four, and they get stuck once installed: removing one needs a Module Extractor. The Evaporator uses normal modules.

Strain the solution through Kotton Fabric between steps 2 and 3 to remove plant matter. The Chem Finisher refuses a wet container (Wet Ingredient Detected) and an under-filled one (Not Enough Reagent). Since hotfix 1.0.0.5 trace moisture no longer blocks dry recipes.

Purity grades

Grade	Purity	Value change
Lab Pure	99% and up	+135%
Pharma	90–99%	+85%
Near Pharma	80–90%	+40%
Street Standard	60–80%	Base value
Cut Product	45–60%	−45%
Junk	30–45%	−75%
Starch	Under 30%	−95%

Purity is the share of active ingredient in the product. Some customers carry a Chem Scanner and check the labelled purity. Selling chemistry products that do not do what they claim counts toward Fraudulent Misrepresentation once such sales pass 300 credits.

Module count decides your ceiling

Chem Finisher modules	Contamination added	Best grade from a 100% extract
0	12%	Near Pharma (88%)
1	6%	Pharma (94%)
2	3%	Pharma (97%)
3	1%	Lab Pure (99%)
4	0%	Lab Pure (100%)

With three modules the extract must itself be 100% to reach 99%, so four modules are the practical route to Say My Name.

Dream Dust

Each Vial of “Dream Dust” uses 2 ml of dry Dream Cap Extract; base value 18.

1. Blender: blend Dream Caps into Dream Cap Mush in a liquid container.
2. Heating Plate: add alcohol at 3–6 times the mush volume. Extraction starts at 40 °C. Hold the mixture at 40–50 °C: the mush breaks down above 50 °C and the extract above 60 °C, faster above 70 °C and very fast above 100 °C. The in-game manual’s 40–60 °C range is too wide.
3. Clean: strain with Kotton Fabric. Power Up Gaming neutralizes protein with Acidic or Basic Solution at 1:1, never both, then filters again.
4. Evaporator: evaporate overnight until no water or alcohol remains.
5. Chem Finisher: choose Dream Dust and press Output for each vial.

Mini Alcohol Bottles from Chemical Supplies (Common) contain water as well as alcohol, which leaves more for the Evaporator to remove.

Caffeine Pill

Each pill uses 5 ml of dry Caffeine; base value 10. Blend Coffee Beans, then extract with alcohol at 50 °C or more. Water alone needs 80 °C and is much slower. Caffeine does not break down from heat. Power Up Gaming adds Lipobond Agent before heating to bind the beans’ fat.

Other products

Product	Per item	Base value	Route
Vial of “Nightmare Dust”	4 ml Nightmare Extract	36	Grow Nightmare Caps with the Dream Cap Nightmare Hydroponic Module, then process like Dream Dust.
Phanta Pill	0.5 ml Phanta	12	N-Methylol Base plus Reducing Agent; see the Phanta guide.
Zyanide Pill	0.6 ml Zyanide	33	No recipe in the Chemistry Manual.
Birth Control Pill	0.1 ml Contraceptive Hormones	15	No recipe in the Chemistry Manual.
Nomore Injector	4 ml Nomore	Not listed	Listed in the Chem Finisher but not in the manual.

Chemical Supplies (Common) unpack into 2 Mini Alcohol Bottles, Acidic Solution, Basic Solution and Lipobond Agent. Chemical Supplies (Restricted) unpack into 2 Bottles of N-Methylol Base and 1 Bottle of Reducing Agent and are contraband. Both come from the Retired Chemist, Security Department Evidence Lockers and Medical Bay Supply Crates.

Legal risk

Dream Dust and Phanta are narcotics. Selling contraband adds its sale price to Trafficking (Narcotics) on your Security Record, and harmful products count as Consumer Endangerment. Keep stock in a Smuggler’s Bay; see inspections and investigations.