Map resource·Salvage piles·Tier 2

Chemical Waste Stockpile

Drums and containers of pre-war industrial chemistry: formaldehyde, carbon compounds, rare-earth precipitates. Decades of seal degradation make extraction hazardous, but the recoverable reagents are otherwise impossible to synthesize in the field.

Yields 1

Chemical WastePre-war salvage · T2

Where to find it 35

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Desert: -20% movement speed · Miniguns +15% · Launchers +15%
Hills: -20% movement speed · Bolt Action Rifles +25% · Semi Auto Rifles +25% · Assault Rifles +25% · Sniper Rifles +25%
Marsh: -50% movement speed · SMGs +25% · Semi Auto Rifles +25% · Assault Rifles +25%
Mountains: -40% movement speed · Bolt Action Rifles +15% · Sniper Rifles +15%
River: -30% movement speed

From the game files (version 2.4.261112-4cec7dd).

Tasks

Gather Salvage Chemical

Codex entry

Entry 1
High-hazard byproduct containment from regional chemical processing facilities. Drum coding indicates compliance with pre-war federal disposal protocols. Institute analysts have documented over two hundred distinct compounds across recovered samples, ranging from inert to acutely toxic under standard atmospheric conditions.
Entry 2
Old chemists in Prosperity buy drum samples by the milliliter and never by the brand. Two drums with the same factory label can hold two different mixtures, depending on which shift filled them and what they were trying to hide from the inspectors. The labels are starting points, not answers.
Entry 3
A drum recovered west of Bluff was sealed under standard pre-war protocol and stamped with a routine waste-classification code. The compound inside reacts to ambient light by darkening, then clearing, on a cycle of roughly four hours. No chemist at the Institute has proposed a mechanism, and the cycle has not varied in nine months of observation.

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