Medic Archive

i sound like a complete fool when i ask this but... what is a chemical craft station, and how do i get one, and how do they benefit me if im making medicine?

If I remember correctly a Medic starts with a Generic Crafting Tool. (I started Artisan, that's why I don't rememebr what a Med starts with.) To craft higher level medicines you will needa Food & Chemical Crafting Tool, These can be obtained from artisans, or if you are an artisan oyourself you can make one with your Generic Crafting Tool. I reccomend getting one from an artisan that has been experimented up to a high effectiveness level as it will improve your success rates in experimenting.

There are also Pulblic Food & Chemical Crafting Stations (stations, not tools) in most towns and bases. These are used by standiing next to them and using your Food & Chem Crafting Tool as normal, but your crafting tool will provide you with options to Experiment (allowing you to increase the effectiveness and/or charges of what you are crafting), Ceate a Manufactoring Schematic (used in factories to make lots of something at once) and to Create a Prototype (or just one of the item you just made right then and there.) These staitons also allow you to make some of the higher level mes, such as Stim Cs which cannot be made without standing next to one of these stations.

You do not acquire these, they are just somting you stand next to in town.

Some artisans (Architects, actually)can create Personal Food & Chemical Crafting Stations that would be placed into a house that you own or have permissions to that work just like a Public station. However for the even more advanced meds you will need to have one of these available to you for you to make them, such as for Stim Ds.

Finally there are medical droids that can be bought from some artisans (droid engineers, actually) that act as a portable form or personal crafting station. At least I think it's Personal, it might only be as effective as a Public crafting station. (I have yet to get one of these to relate from personal experience.)

Droid crafting modules count as Personal ones, I had a Probot in Beta with a Food/Chem Crafting module, and I could make & experiment on my Stimpack-D's wherever I went.

It was pretty funny sitting around in a Med Center one time with my droid called from the Datapad, and a Wookie Medic was like, "Suddenly I can experiment in here?!", lol. Oh, that brings up a good point: you can utilize someone else's private crafting station, just be near it. Or if a friend has a house, ask them if you can drop a station in there (buying one of them will be a lot simpler)--you can always have them pick it up and give it back to you later if you want to move it.

Rufan Corridano -- Mos Espa, Tatooine