Sadly, the foolish masses that form governments and corporations are too ignorant to appreciate my genius and fund my research. This means that I need to be very careful with my reagents. They're not easy to get. Every drop wasted on unnecessary experiments is a step away from my ultimate goal. In order to avoid this, I must spend adequate time...
Testing substances
The idea is brilliant in its simplicity. In order to avoid wasting precious reagents, I must analyze every reaction and write down the results. Then I can cross-reference them with other reactions and figure out how to brew efficient and powerful mutagens.
And how does one analyze their mixtures?
- Mix two different ones. It's best to start with something simple, like mixing two ingredients.
- Analyze the result under a microscope!
- Draw preliminary conclusions.
- Mix the result with some other ingredient and check what effect it had.
And so on, and so forth...
Pictured above is the analyzing screen. In its center, you can see the substance that's being analyzed. The bottom right corner displays the ingredients that were used to brew the mixture. The upper right corner is where I keep my notes, although my computer system also generates some for me.
As you can see, there isn't much useful information here... yet. But I can already draw some conclusions. For instance, my unparalleled intellect is telling me that the cells pictured in the middle are caused by an activator. Good, I need an activator to brew mutagens. However, this particular substance is not a mutagen - my computer system ascertained that it's not complex enough to be a mutagen. Must be an elixir then.
The next step is to add another ingredient or elixir to this one and see what happens.
A most satisfactory result, a mutagen! I must make note of the ingredients that I used so I can recreate this mutagen in the future. Now, there is no way of figuring out what effect it has exactly but it's certainly worth injecting it into a test subject to figure this out.
Another option is to add yet another ingredient and see what effect it might have.
Whatever it is I added, it seems to have downgraded my mutagen back into a regular elixir. All of the activator cells seem to be missing. An ignorant might consider this a failure. For me, this is a spectacular success!
It means that whatever substance I used was the opposite of the previous activator. Every substance has two states - positive and negative. Mix them together and they cancel each other out. What's important is that positive activators create far more powerful mutagens than negative activators.
My computer already made the assumption that Gaxili must be an activator and it must be opposite to Snow Anise. I do happen to have a bit more of Gaxili and if I add it to my current substance...
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I end up with a very, very powerful mutagen indeed. I can tell by just looking at it. From now on, I will always grab Gaxili whenever I can and create truly magnificent creatures!
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The above is our third "Scientist Log". Analyzing substances in Creature Lab will be its own little minigame and there will be a catalog of discovered and tested substances that players can use. Visuals are not yet set in stone as we're still experimenting with them (no pun intended). Oh and one last thing - the lab you see in the background of the video is an old design, as the new one is under construction ːhappyskullDPWː
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