Making your mutagenic laboratory - Tachyonite/Pawnmorpher GitHub Wiki

Evil geniuses share three common points: they love themselves more than anything, they love to do nasty stuff, and they have impressive lairs. Your colony needs an impressive mutagenic laboratory to respect the tradition. Here, you will find the different elements for your laboratory.

Drug Lab

While a Drug Lab is not specific to Pawnmorpher, it can be used to make some mutagenic items: slurry and mutapills. Slurry is useful for many recipes, but it shouldn’t be consumed, as it leads to chaotic transformations. Mutapills are used to control transformation and production of pawns, being handy in many situations.

Mutagen Lab

The Mutagen Lab is the most important part of your evil laboratory, requiring pawns which are both skilled in crafting and in intellectual work. In addition of making slurry and mutapills, the Mutagen Lab is used to make serums, which are rather safe alternatives to transform pawns, while not letting you choose a specific animal, but only a category. It is also possible to craft experimental injectors which are used to track specific parts during a transformation, which are stored in Genebank. If you are brave enough (or desperate), you could craft mutagenic healers or resurrecters to save your pawns, as the cost of their humanity...

Injector Lab

Injector Lab is used only for one specific task: making injectors. Injectors function similarly to serums, but they let you choose the specific animal you want for a transformation.

Mutanite centrifuge

If you lack mutanite and don’t want to step outside of your base or wait for Randy to be nice with you, the centrifuge is your best friend! The centrifuge is an expensive and slow way to get mutanite, but it is constant as long as you provide it slurry (which may be stored in tanks nearby, as long as they are connected with pipes). If you are impatient, you can switch it to high yield mode, but in this mode it emits mutagenic mechanites nearby, which may transform your scientists or any passers-by.

Mutagenic chamber

The ultimate device to transform pawns. While it is expensive to build, you have a great control on the transformation of your pawns, letting you choose the animal you want, or even the specific parts you want, as long as they are stored in a Genebank. It can also be used to merge two pawns into a Chaomeld. If you have no genomes in Genebanks, you can still transform pawns into Chaomorphs. It requires slurry to work (you may want to build some tanks and some pipes to connect them).

Genebank

The Genebank is a genome database containing all the animals you have tagged with a tagging rifle, parts tracked with experimental injectors or a sequencer, and genomes bought from a morph trader. Stocking multiple genomes requires a lot of space, and you may want to build more and more units as your evil laboratory grows.

Mutation Sequencer

If you have an animal genome stored in your Genebank, you can use a Mutation Sequencer to get all the related parts after some work, which is handy if you want to optimise your morphs.