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[BlackPhoenix]

Can you provide some general hints for experimenting? I know there are some on the changleog but what's the general process players use to figure out, say, which medicines or hydroponic reagents to use to make a reaction (since I expect both of those departments to be less than cooperative-all hydro usually wants to grow are melons)

Experimentation, if done very well and tactfully, will require you to write down or somehow record discovered combinations, it will require liberal use of the lab, and it will require time. You need to remember that there are more chems than those you can find straight from the tap. You need to remember the result you are looking for, and think about what could possibly make that. An idea of the chemicals in real life substances that do what you want will help. Don't expect spoilers.