Mod mechanics

Kanga chemicals

Kanga Medical adds 4 mysterious chemicals to your game. These appear as engrams in your engram list, but they cannot be unlocked in the traditional way. The engram will not show which ingredients you need to craft it. You need to discover those first.

To ensure the ingredients cannot be passed on by players and ruin the fun of discovering them for other players, the ingredients are randomly selected deep within de dev kits code at the start of a playthrough. This means that even an admin won’t know what the ingredients are, and on top of that, the recipe will be different for each server and each playthrough.

Once you have discovered all the ingredients, the engram will automatically unlock.

How do you discover the ingredients? The recipe consists of up to 16 ingredients and they vary in quantities. The possibilities are endless. You can choose to experiment, but beware… alchemy going wrong possibly causes things to go BOOM. The blast will hurt you and any nearby tribemates, but won’t damage any structures. You can reduce the amount of times you’ll blow yourself up, by doing research.

Research

To help you in your search for the correct ingredients, you can craft blank research notes. After you do an experiment in your alembic table, a blank research note will be filled with some information on what you did right. All research notes can be neatly combined in an alchemy research book. This will help you determine the ingredients by trial and error through elimination.

The chance that a failed research blows up in your face becomes less with the more filled in research notes you have. Having a higher fortitude skill also helps reducing the chances of a blow up.

A third option is to go out adventuring. You might find other alchemist notes on the corpses of fallen adventurers (Kanga loot drops). They will also provide you some information on the mystery ingredients. 

Once you have discovered all the ingredients, the corresponding engram will unlock and you are free to craft it without blowing yourself up.

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