Abiotic Factor Chemistry: Coatings, Tinctures and Flasks

Choose an effect before spending materials

Table tip: On narrow screens, swipe sideways within the table to see all columns.

Your problem	Family and example	What to do with the result	Important limit
You want additional weapon damage	Acid Coating — coating	Apply it to a weapon through the item’s context menu	It modifies the weapon; it is not a healing drink or thrown acid flask
You need to recover health	Restorative Tincture — tincture	Consume the tincture for its healing effect	The effect ends on reaching full health; save it until healing is useful
You want to tame a suitable creature	Pheromone Flask — flask	Throw it to temporarily pacify the target, then feed it	Pacification is not completed taming; prepare the required food first

Choose the product by what you need to do: apply a weapon effect, drink a tincture, or throw a flask.

Which workstation do you need?

Raw materials → Distillation Bench → reagents → Chemistry Bench → usable concoction.

The Distillation Bench processes eligible raw items. Its output is a reagent, not automatically a usable potion. The Chemistry Bench combines named reagents in measured doses.

What you currently have	Your next action
Only a desired effect	Choose an example below and write down its reagent requirements
Raw materials but no reagents	Find accepted inputs and yields in the distillation lookup table
The correct reagents	Follow the mixing procedure and failure checks
A finished Pheromone Flask	Follow Pest taming and feeding instead of throwing it without food ready

Check a recipe against your supplies

Target	Named reagent doses	Output	Next step
Acid Coating	6 Unstable + 6 Boiling + 6 Alien Distillation	1 coating	Apply to a compatible weapon
Restorative Tincture	2 Vigorous + 1 Void + 2 Alien Distillation	1 tincture	Drink to recover health
Pheromone Flask	Use the complete reagent shopping list and mixing walkthrough	2 flasks per batch	Chemistry Bench worked batch

Acid Coating and Restorative Tincture each take 15 seconds to mix. Quantities are reagent doses, not counts of raw animals, mushrooms or scrap. Do not substitute six raw items for six doses without checking their yield.

For example, Alien Distillation can come from Raw Pest, but that same item can also be food. A Mushroom Peccary Skull can be distilled or saved for a Mushroom Farm. Reserve construction and meal supplies before processing the rest.

Use the Chemistry Bench guide to build the station, measure reagents and start your batch.

If you produce an Unstable Flask

An unintended Unstable Flask is not the desired concoction under a different name. Stop and check the reagent identities, individual doses and recipe before spending another batch; a failed combination can cause a small explosion.

Keep the recipe arrangement unchanged while checking reagent names and doses. Use the Chemistry Bench troubleshooting section to work through an unexpected result.

Switching to a different concoction

When changing products, use the new product’s recipe. Different concoctions require their own reagent types and doses.