Chemistry station (Fallout 4)

The chemistry station is a constructible settlement object and crafting table in Fallout 4.

Characteristics[]

The chemistry station can be used to create items containing chemical compounds, including chems, grenades, mines, stimpaks and syringer ammo. When a chemistry station is in an owned settlement, its contents are shared with the location's workshop and crafting stations.

Crafting[]

There are two variants of the chemistry station; however, they both function identically. Constructing one yields 28 XP.

L-shape variant[]

Materials:		Requirements:		Produces:
Glass (6) Rubber (3) Screw (4) Steel (6) Wood (8)		Workshop Local Leader (rank 2)		Chemistry station (1)

Boiler variant[]

Materials:		Requirements:		Produces:
Copper (4) Glass (4) Rubber (3) Screw (3) Steel (6) Wood (3)		Workshop Local Leader (rank 2)		Chemistry station (1)

Crafting recipes[]

All XP amounts are shown for characters with 1 Intelligence.

Acid Soaker ammo[]

Ammunition for the Acid Soaker, available with the Nuka-World add-on.

Name	XP Gain	Perk Requirement	Items Needed
Acid concentrate	11 XP		Acid x20 Adhesive x2 Glass x8

Drugs[]

Although these recipes are found under the drugs subcategory in the chemistry station, these items are more commonly known as chems in the Commonwealth.

Name	XP Gain	Perk Requirement	Items Needed
Berry Mentats	10 XP		Anti freeze bottle Mentats Tarberry x2
Buffjet	10 XP		Buffout Jet
Bufftats	10 XP		Buffout Mentats
Fury	10 XP	Chemist: 1	Berserk syringe Buffout
Grape Mentats	10 XP		Hubflower x2 Mentats Whiskey
Jet	2 XP		Fertilizer x2 Plastic
Jet Fuel	9 XP	Chemist: 1	Flamer fuel x5 Jet
Mentats	4 XP		Abraxo cleaner Brain fungus x2 Lead
Orange Mentats	10 XP		Asbestos Carrot x3 Mentats
Overdrive	10 XP	Chemist: 1	Acid x2 Nuka-Cola Psycho
Psycho	10 XP		Acid Circuitry Hubflower x2 Stimpak
Psycho jet	10 XP		Jet Psycho
Psychobuff	10 XP		Buffout Psycho
Smooth Operator	9 XP		Fever blossom Mentats Whiskey
Ultra jet	10 XP	Chemist: 1	Bloodleaf Fertilizer Jet Plastic x2

Fireworks[]

With the Contraptions Workshop add-on, fireworks can be crafted and shot out of specific launchers.

Name	XP Gain	Items Needed
Emergency flare shell	8 XP	Adhesive Cloth Fertilizer
Firework shell (variants)	8 XP	Adhesive Cloth Fertilizer
Weather change shell - Clear	10 XP	Adhesive Cloth Fertilizer Gold
Weather change shell - Radstorm	10 XP	Adhesive Cloth Fertilizer Nuclear material
Weather change shell - Rain	10 XP	Adhesive Cloth Fertilizer \|Silver

Grenades[]

Name	XP Gain	Perk Requirement	Items Needed
Baseball grenade	10 XP	Demolition Expert: 1	Adhesive x2 Baseball Fertilizer x2 Oil Steel x2
Cryogenic grenade	10 XP	Demolition Expert: 2 Science!: 1	Acid x3 Adhesive x3 Aluminum x3 Nuclear material x2 Spring
Fragmentation grenade	10 XP	Demolition Expert: 2	Adhesive x3 Aluminum x2 Fertilizer x2 Oil x3 Spring
Fury grenade	10 XP		Adhesive x2 Aluminum x2 Anti-freeze bottle Dirty water Fever blossom x3 Spring
HalluciGen gas grenade¹	10 XP		Adhesive x3 Aluminum x2 HalluciGen gas canister Spring
Molotov cocktail	10 XP		Adhesive x2 Cloth Glass x2 Oil x4
Nuka Quantum grenade	10 XP	Demolition Expert: 4 Science!: 4	Acid Adhesive x4 Aluminum x4 Circuitry x2 Nuka-Cola Quantum Spring
Persuasion grenade	10 XP		Adhesive x4 Aluminum x2 Fever blossom x4 Spring
Plasma grenade	10 XP	Demolition Expert: 4 Science!: 3	Adhesive x4 Aluminum x4 Circuitry x2 Nuclear material x3 Spring
Predator grenade	10 XP		Adhesive x2 Aluminum Cave cricket gland Cloth x4 Fever blossom Rad-rat meat x2 Spring
Pulse grenade	10 XP	Demolition Expert: 3 Science!: 2	Adhesive x4 Aluminum x3 Circuitry Nuclear material x2 Spring

¹ This crafting recipe will only appear with a HalluciGen gas canister in the inventory.

Healing[]

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Although listed under healing in the chemistry station, these items are listed under Aid in the Pip-Boy and containers.

Name	XP Gain	Perk Requirement	Items Needed
Antibiotics*		Chemist: 1	Acid x2 Glowing fungus x3 Purified water x2 Stimpak x3
Glowing blood pack	10 XP		Antiseptic Blood pack Irradiated blood
Herbal anodyne			Carrot flower x2 Glowing fungus Melon blossom Purified water x2 Thistle x2 Wild razorgrain
Herbal antimicrobial			Ash blossom x2 Carrot flower Glowing fungus Gourd blossom x2 Purified water x2 Thistle
Herbal stimulant			Ash blossom Glowing fungus Gourd blossom Melon blossom x2 Purified water x2 Wild razorgrain x2
RadAway	10 XP	Chemist: 1*	Antiseptic x2 Glowing fungus x3 Plastic Purified water
Refreshing beverage	10 XP	Chemist: 1*	Antiseptic x3 Blood pack Purified water x2 RadAway x2 Stimpak
Robot repair kit	10 XP		Circuitry x2 Fusion cell x4 Spring x2 Steel
Skeeto Spit	4 XP		Blood sac Bloodleaf Glass Steel
Stimpak	7 XP	Chemist: 1*	Antiseptic x2 Blood pack Steel

* Survival mode only

Mines[]

Name	XP Gain	Perk Requirement	Items Needed
Bottlecap mine	10 XP	Demolition Expert: 1	Adhesive x2 Fertilizer x2 Oil x2 Steel x2 Vault-Tec lunchbox
Cryo mine	10 XP	Demolition Expert: 2 Science!: 1	Acid x3 Adhesive x3 Aluminum x4 Circuitry x2 Nuclear material x2
Fragmentation mine	10 XP	Demolition Expert: 2	Adhesive x3 Aluminum x3 Fertilizer x3 Oil x3 Steel x2
Plasma mine	10 XP	Demolition Expert: 4 Science!: 3	Adhesive x4 Aluminum x5 Circuitry x3 Fiber optics x3 Nuclear material x3
Pulse mine	10 XP	Demolition Expert: 3 Science!: 2	Adhesive x4 Aluminum x4 Circuitry x3 Fiber optics x2 Nuclear material x3

Nuka-nuke[]

Ammunition for the Nuka-nuke launcher, available with the Nuka-World add-on.

Name	XP Gain	Perk Requirement	Items Needed
Nuka-nuke	10 XP		Mini nuke Nuka-Cola Quantum

Sludge[]

With the Far Harbor add-on, sludge recipes can be unlocked by reading a copy of the Islander's Almanac issue, Recipe Roundup.

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Name	XP Gain	Perk Requirement	Items Needed
Agile sludgepak			Condensed fog Dirty water Fertilizer x2 Stimpak
Durable sludgepak			Condensed fog Dirty water Fiberglass x2 Stimpak
Resilient sludge cocktail			Bloodbug meat Condensed fog Rad-X
Strong sludge cocktail			Blight x2 Condensed fog Dirty water

Syringer ammo[]

Name	XP Gain	Perk Requirement	Items Needed
Berserk syringe	3 XP	-	Anti freeze bottle Bourbon Dirty water Steel
Bleed out syringe	8 XP	-	Fiberglass Oil Steel
Bloatfly larva syringe	10 XP	-	Bloatfly gland Glass Psycho
Endangerol syringe	10 XP	-	Acid Glass Med-X Pencil
Lock Joint syringe	9 XP	-	Dirty water Lead x4 Steel Stingwing barb Tarberry x2
Mind Cloud syringe	10 XP	-	Abraxo Cleaner Asbestos x2 Glass Purified water
Pax syringe	6 XP	-	Mutfruit x2 Nuka-Cola Steel
Radscorpion venom syringe	7 XP	-	Glass Radscorpion stinger Steel
Yellow Belly syringe	10 XP	-	Anti freeze bottle Fertilizer Glass Silver x2

Thirst Zapper ammo[]

Stronger ammunition for the Thirst Zapper, available with the Nuka-World add-on.

Name

XP Gain

Perk Requirement

Items Needed

Weaponized Nuka-Cherry ammo

10 XP

Weaponized Nuka-Cola ammo

10 XP

Weaponized Nuka-Cola Quantum ammo

10 XP

Acid x2

Traps[]

Traps can be crafted with the Far Harbor add-on.

Name	XP Gain	Perk Requirement	Items Needed
Caltrops	3 XP		Steel x5
Bear trap	10 XP	Blacksmith: 1	Gears x2 Spring x2 Steel x4
Poisoned caltrops	3 XP	Chemist: 1	Steel x5
Bleeding bear trap	10 XP	Blacksmith: 2	Gears x2 Spring x2 Steel x4

Utility[]

Name	XP Gain	Perk Requirement	Items Needed
Cutting fluid	10 XP	-	Acid x2 Bone x8 Purified water x2 Steel x3
Modified bowling ball¹		-	Acid x1 Bowling ball x1 Oil x1

¹ This crafting recipe will only appear after one has acquired The Striker.

Locations[]

Within settlements[]

With the second level of the Local Leader perk, the Sole Survivor can craft chemistry stations in other settlements. Although they can be constructed at any settlement the player character is allied with, the following locations come with a pre-existing chemistry station (all locations with an interior map have the station marked on the local map):

Abernathy farm, on the east side of the main building.
In the Castle, within the corridor behind the workshop.
Greentop Nursery, to the front of the main building.
Nordhagen Beach, in front of the brick building.
At the Red Rocket truck stop, to the south of the main building.
In Sanctuary Hills, behind the second house on the west side of the road from the bridge to the Red Rocket truck stop.
Sunshine Tidings co-op, inside the main central shed.

Other locations[]

Andrew station, ground floor near some raiders. Also one inside the station.
In a cabin on the overpass south of Andrew station.
Inside ArcJet Systems, near the lab terminal in a room in the west.
One in the building opposite the BADTFL regional office.
One in Beantown Brewery, in the east of the map.
One in Boston Public Library, in a room with filing cabinets in the east.
One in Cabot House, upstairs.
Cambridge Polymer Labs, near Tom Franklin's skeleton.
One in the Castle tunnels, near the power generator.
Inside the Combat Zone, north wall.
One in the Compound, near Roslyn Chambers.
One in Copley station, in the north.
One at the Crater house.
D.B. Technical High School, in a science room on the second floor.
Back alley camp, east of D.B. Technical High School, in Slim's shop.
Two can be found in the Diamond City market:
- Mega surgery center, on the right of the entrance.
- Inside the Science! Center near the Dugout Inn.
One in the Dig, near a terminal in a south area.
One in the East Boston Preparatory School.
Two in the office building on both sides of its skyway, one inside and the other outside (the outside one is normally only accessible by first going inside).
One in the Electrical Hobbyist's Club.
One at Easy City Downs, in an open shack near a campfire.
One at Fairline Hill Estates, in a house with blue walls.
One in Fallon's department store, in the southeast.
One in Faneuil Hall.
Near Red Tourette's room in the federal ration stockpile.
One at Fiddler's Green Trailer Estates, in a cabin.
One inside Fort Hagen, in the east.
One outside Fort Hagen, in the parking garage.
In a shack with a red roof at Gibson Point Pier.
In the Gorski cabin.
One inside Graygarden homestead.
In the Greater Mass blood clinic, in the analysis lab.
One west of Greenetech Genetics, upstairs in a building.
One inside Greenetech Genetics, south, in a room near the top floor.
One in Gunners plaza, in the west near Captain Wes' terminal.
One in the Gwinnett Restaurant, in the east near some boilers.
Four inside HalluciGen, Inc., in the southeast.
One outside HalluciGen, Inc., in a gun shop.
One on Hardware Town's roof.
Inside the basement of the Hotel Rexford.
At Hugo's Hole.
In the Layton Towers, halfway up the stairs in a room.
Lexington, on the elevated catwalk with the Fat Man-wielding raider.
One at Libertalia, in a raider shack on the ship's stern.
One in Longneck Lukowski's Cannery, in the south.
In Malden, on the ground floor of the building adjacent to and east of the Delicatessen, facing Dark Hollow Pond.
One in Malden drainage, in the north near a fusion generator.
One west of Malden Middle School, in an open garage beneath a house.
Four in Marowski's chem lab.
Two in the Mass Bay Medical Center, one in the east and one in the west, in a room near the stairs.
One in Mass Chemical, up the stairs.
One in the Mass Fusion building, in the north.
One in the Mass Pike Tunnel, room in the south, opened with an Advanced locked terminal.
In Med-Tek Research, in the area enclosed by security doors right after crossing the airlock.
Two in adjacent labs inside Medford Memorial Hospital; the second one must be entered through a hole in the wall by the ledge of a large floor hole on the highest floor of the entrance.
One in the Milton General Hospital, to the west.
After crossing the tunnel just north of Monsignor Plaza, on the sidewalk that goes above its mouth.
Inside Monsignor Plaza, near its Slocum's Joe kiosk.
One in a moonshiner's shack south of Shaw High School.
In Nahant Oceanological Society, near the Commonwealth exit in the northwest.
One in Parsons State Insane Asylum's basement.
One in Pickman Gallery, in the west area.
One in Poseidon Energy, in the north.
One in the Poseidon reservoir, in the southeast.
Two in the Prydwen.
Two in the public works maintenence area.
Three in the Quincy ruins:
- One in the pharmacy.
- One in the building next to the pharmacy.
- One in the Hole in the Wall.
One in the Railroad HQ.
Behind the ranger cabin.
One in Revere Beach station's kitchen in the north.
One in front of the Roadside Pines Motel.
One in Sandy Coves Convalescent Home, against the west wall.
One in the Sentinel site, in the pyramid structure.
One in the Science Center gift shop.
One in the north of the Shamrock Taphouse.
East of the Shamrock Taphouse, in a warehouse on a pier.
One inside Shaw High School, in the east.
In a cloth-covered shed in Shenley's Oyster Bar courtyard.
One at Slocum's Joe Corporate HQ, upstairs in a ruined apartment.
One in the South Boston High School.
One in a barn on the northwest side of Spectacle Island.
One in the Super Duper Mart, in the southeast.
One at Thicket Excavations, underwater, south side.
One in the Ticker Tape Lounge, in the southeast.
In Ticonderoga, highest level.
In a trader shack along the road north of Vault 81, in the Novice-locked back room.
Inside the USS Constitution near the deck trapdoor.
In the locked section of what seems to be a former grocery store between Chestnut Hillock Reservoir and the UFO crash site.
University Point, upstairs in the liquor store.
One in the USS Constitution, in the north.
One in a room in Vault 75, in the north.
One in Virgil's laboratory, at the far end.
In a raider sniper shack northeast of Walden Pond.
One in the Water Street apartments, upstairs.
One in the Weston water treatment plant, in the west, near the elevator.
At the Wicked Shipping Fleet Lockup, in the barn.
Wreck of the FMS Northern Star, on the ship near Rags' position.
One in the Yangtze, near the center of the map.
One in Acadia.
One in the basement armory.
One in Beaver Creek Lanes, next to a weapons workbench.
Two in Brooke's Head Lighthouse, one in the house leading to the stairs.
One west of Cranberry Island Bog, in a workstation shed.
One in Echo Lake Lumber's bunker.
In Far Harbor, Teddy Wright's position.
On the MS Azalea, on a container.
One in Northwood Ridge Quarry, in a trappers shack.
One in the Nucleus.
One in a shed near a house between Old Pond House and Harbor Grand Hotel.
One in a trappers shack at Pine Crest Cavern.
One in a barn northeast of Rayburn Point.
One in front of the building with the red canopy northwest of Southwest Harbor.
One in a bus stop northwest of Bradberton.
Two at the Bradberton Amphitheater, in a closed-off area to the northeast.
One in the Fizztop Grille, entrance area, kitchen.
One at Fizztop Grille patio.
One in Grandchester Mystery Mansion's storage room.
One in King Cola's Castle Tower.
One well south of the Morton residence, at a ruined house with a silver-lined trailer.
South of Nuka-station, and northeast of Caleb's home, at a book store.
One in Nuka-Town backstage, in the north.
One in Nuka-Town market, Maddox's stand.
One in The Parlor, in the northeast.
Two in the secure beverageer lab, center of the map, another in the east near a Nuka-mixer station.
One at the Starport Nuka, near a forklift.
Two in Vault-Tec: Among the Stars, in the southwest.
One in the World of Refreshment, near the John-Caleb Bradberton animatronic.

Gallery[]

Crafting in Fallout 4

Crafting components	Aid	Angler meat · Ant meat · Ash blossom · Aster · Black bloodleaf · Blight · Bloatfly meat · Blood pack · Bloodbug meat · Bloodleaf · Bloodworm meat · Bourbon · Brahmin meat · Brain fungus · Bubblegum · Buffout · Carrot · Carrot flower · Cave cricket gland · Cave cricket meat · Chicken thigh · Corn · Dandy Boy Apples · Deathclaw egg · Deathclaw meat · Dirty water · Fever blossom · Gatorclaw meat · Gazelle meat · Glowing fungus · Gourd · Gourd blossom · Gulper innards · Hermit crab meat · Hubflower · Iguana bits · Irradiated blood · Jet · Lure weed · Med-X · Melon blossom · Mentats · Mirelurk egg · Mirelurk meat · Mole rat meat · Mongrel dog meat · Mutant hound meat · Mutfruit · Nuka-Cherry · Nuka-Cola · Nuka-Cola Quantum · Nukalurk meat · Pristine deathclaw egg · Psycho · Purified water · Queen mirelurk meat · Queen Nukalurk meat · Rabbit leg · Radaway · Rad-rat meat · Rad-X · Radroach meat · Radscorpion egg · Radscorpion meat · Radstag meat · Raw fog crawler meat · Raw sap · Razorgrain · Silt bean · Softshell mirelurk meat · Squirrel bits · Stimpak · Stingwing meat · Tarberry · Tato · Thistle · Vim · Vodka · Whiskey · Wild razorgrain · Wolf meat · Yao guai meat

	Ammo	Berserk syringe · Flamer fuel · Fusion cell · Mini nuke

	Junk components	Acid · Adhesive · Aluminum · Antiseptic · Asbestos · Ballistic fiber · Bone · Ceramic · Circuitry · Cloth · Concrete · Copper · Cork · Crystal · Fertilizer · Fiber optics · Fiberglass · Gears · Glass · Gold · Lead · Leather · Nuclear material · Oil · Plastic · Rubber · Screw · Silver · Spring · Steel · Wood

	Junk	Abraxo cleaner · Anti freeze bottle · Baseball · Bloatfly gland · Blood sac · Bowling ball · Coffee tin · Condensed fog · Pencil · Radscorpion stinger · Stingwing barb

	Misc	Vault-Tec lunchbox

Crafting tables	Fallout 4	Armor workbench · Chemistry station · Cooking station · Power armor station · Weapons workbench · Workshop

	Automatron	Robot workbench

	Contraptions Workshop	Ammunition plant · Armor forge · Auto-loom · Builder · Energy weapon forge · Explosives mill · Food processor · Heavy weapon forge · Pyrotechnics mill · Weapon forge

	Nuka-World	Nuka-mixer station

Chemistry station (Fallout 4)

Contents

Characteristics[]

Crafting[]

L-shape variant[]

Boiler variant[]

Crafting recipes[]

Acid Soaker ammo[]

Drugs[]

Fireworks[]

Grenades[]

Healing[]

Mines[]

Nuka-nuke[]

Sludge[]

Syringer ammo[]

Thirst Zapper ammo[]

Traps[]

Utility[]

Locations[]

Within settlements[]

Other locations[]

Gallery[]

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