After spending way too many hours throwing random materials into the Distillation Bench just to see what actually works, I finally decided to put together a full Chemistry Bench guide covering everything I found.
Some recipes are easy enough to figure out naturally, but others honestly feel impossible unless you start testing every possible combination yourself. A lot of materials also only become available much later depending on which sector you reached, so progression matters quite a bit here.
Abiotic Factor Chemistry Bench Recipes Guide – Coatings
This guide covers:
- All Distillations
- Flask recipes
- Tinctures
- Coatings
- Sector progression requirements
And yes, this definitely contains spoilers for later-game materials and crafting.
If you still want to discover everything naturally, I honestly recommend trying first because this system is one of the more fun mechanics in the game. But if you are tired of wasting resources experimenting blindly, this should help a lot.
Distillation Bench Basics
Before crafting anything at the Chemistry Bench, you first need to create Distillations using the Distillation Bench.
Some Distillations can be crafted almost immediately while others require progression into:
- Cascade Laboratories
- Manufacturing West
- Residence Sector
- Security Sector
- Reactors
Most of these were discovered by simply testing nearly every item possible.
Alien Distillations
These can technically be crafted very early, although some ingredients are harder to obtain immediately.
Materials:
- Anti-fungal gelatin (+32)
- Vibrant exor arm (+8)
- Raw exor heart (+5)
- Exor arm (+4)
- Exor skull (+3)
- Super tomato (+3)
- Xanterium rice (+3)
- Antejuice sac (+2)
- Green fish liver (+2)
- Peccary skull (+2)
- Raw antefish filet (+2)
- Raw alien drumstick (+2)
- Raw carbuncle (+2)
- Raw peccary chop (+2)
- Raw portal fish filet (+2)
- Raw radfish filet (+2)
- Raw stuffed roast peccary (+2)
- Sow skull (+2)
- Anteverse cheese (+1)
- Raw pest (+1)
- Raw pest rump (+1)
Boiling Distillations
Unlocked around Cascade Laboratories progression.
Materials:
- Anteverse gel (+3)
Brainy Distillations
Mostly available around Manufacturing West.
Materials:
- Yeti skull (+12)
- Human brain (+4)
- Sniper skull (+4)
Charged Distillations
Available starting around Cascade Laboratories.
Materials:
- Transcendium (+8)
- Capacitor (+6)
- Electric organ (+6)
- Black gunk (+4)
- Reservoir growth (+4)
- Kizz cola (+3)
- Liquid crystal (+3)
- Eel fat (+2)
- Raw frigid Queenfish filet (+2)
- Raw gutfish eel filet (+2)
Endothermic Distillations
Unlocked around Residence Sector.
Materials:
- Frozen essence (+12)
Expanding Distillations
Unlocked during Cascade Laboratories progression.
Materials:
- Behemoth skull (+24)
- Tarasque ichor (+12)
- Tarasque skull (+8)
- Glow eye (+2)
- Raw darkwater fish filet (+2)
Fizzy Distillations
These are available very early.
Materials:
- Gem sugar (+8)
- Gusto goo (+8)
- Sugar crystal (+8)
- Candy cane (+4)
- Doznuts (+3)
- Ice cream (+3)
- Jowlers (+3)
- Melted ice cream (+3)
- Skip (+3)
- Fizz bang (+2)
- Pop snarkle (+2)
- Rootbear (+2)
- Slam (+2)
- Slushie (+2)
- Vit (+2)
- Farm puffs (+1)
- Saltz (+1)
Fleshy Distillations
Available fairly early.
Materials:
- Lodestone fragment (+6)
- Greyeb (+2)
- Raw IS-0098 tentacles (+1)
Foggy Distillations
Unlocked relatively early.
Materials:
- Organ (+12)
- Symphonist head (+4)
- Partial organ (+3)
- Porcelain shards (+2)
- Raw chordfish filet (+2)
Mycological Distillations
Unlocked around Cascade Laboratories.
Materials:
- Mushroom peccary skull (+8)
- Carbuncle mushroom (+4)
Occult Distillations
Unlocked during Reactors progression.
Materials:
- Purported grimoire (+5)
- Chieftain skull (+3)
- Embellished cencer (+3)
- Flickering eye (+3)
- Head of a giant (+3)
- Mystagogue’s head (+3)
- Witch skull (+3)
- Arcane scrap (+2)
- Raw penumbra filet (+2)
- Shadowberries (+2)
Unnerving Distillations
Unlocked during Security Sector progression.
Materials:
- Night essence (+12)
- Black oil (+2)
- Corrupted corn (+2)
- Hexwood (+2)
- Raw inkfish filet (+2)
Unstable Distillations
Unlocked around Reactors.
Materials:
- Plutonic blood (+4)
- Plutonic carapace (+2)
Vigorous Distillations
One of the easiest categories to craft early game.
Materials:
- Pumpkin (+12)
- Apple (+4)
- “Egg” (+3)
- Honey (+3)
- Potato (+3)
- Purified corn (+3)
- Space lettuce (+3)
- Anomaly (+2)
- Anteverse wheat (+2)
- “Carrot” (+2)
- Human arm (+2)
- Raw larva meat (+2)
- Raw silken betta filet (+2)
- Tomato (+2)
- Beeswax (+1)
- Bio scrap (+1)
Void Distillations
Unlocked around Manufacturing West progression.
Materials:
- Powdered crystal (+4)
- Anteverse gem (+3)
- Gem crab (+3)
Vial of Milk
Unlocked around Cascade Laboratories.
Materials:
- Milk sac (+1)
This is not directly used in Chemistry Bench recipes, but still useful for cooking and some other systems.
Noxious Sludge
This is basically created by tossing random junk into the Distillation Bench.
As far as I can tell, it currently has no useful purpose.
Chemistry Bench Recipes
After collecting Distillations, you can combine them at the Chemistry Bench.
A few important things:
- Recipe order does not matter
- Exact doses do matter
- Recipe outputs are fixed
There are currently 24 known recipes.
Giganto Tincture
Recipe:
- Expanding x2
- Vigorous x2
- Alien x2
Result:
- Giganto Tincture x2
Megaton Flask
Recipe:
- Expanding x2
- Boiling x4
- Unstable x4
Result:
- Megaton Flask x2
Requires Reactors progression.
Blizzard Flask
Recipe:
- Occult x2
- Fizzy x4
- Endothermic x2
Result:
- Blizzard Flask x3
Berserker Tincture
Recipe:
- Occult x2
- Vigorous x4
- Alien x4
Result:
- Berserker Tincture x1
Somnivorous Coating
Recipe:
- Foggy x6
- Unnerving x6
- Brainy x6
Result:
- Somnivorous Coating x1
Updraft Flask
Recipe:
- Foggy x1
- Fizzy x2
- Void x1
Result:
- Updraft Flask x3
Phasing Tincture
Recipe:
- Foggy x2
- Vigorous x2
- Alien x2
Result:
- Phasing Tincture x2
“Holy” Coating
Recipe:
- Unnerving x4
- Charged x6
- Fleshy x6
Result:
- “Holy” Coating x1
“Holy” Flask
Recipe:
- Unnerving x1
- Boiling x2
- Fleshy x2
Result:
- “Holy” Flask x3
Speedy Tincture
Recipe:
- Fizzy x2
- Vigorous x2
- Void x1
Result:
- Speedy Tincture x3
Concussive Flask
Recipe:
- Fizzy x2
- Vigorous x1
- Alien x2
Result:
- Concussive Flask x3
Restorative Flask
Recipe:
- Fizzy x2
- Vigorous x4
- Mycological x2
Result:
- Restorative Flask x3
Electromagnetic Coating
Recipe:
- Fizzy x4
- Void x4
- Charged x8
Result:
- Electromagnetic Coating x1
Corrosive Flask
Recipe:
- Fizzy x4
- Boiling x2
- Unstable x2
Result:
- Corrosive Flask x3
Antiheat Tincture
Recipe:
- Endothermic x4
- Vigorous x4
- Boiling x4
Result:
- Antiheat Tincture x3
Restorative Tincture
Recipe:
- Vigorous x2
- Void x1
- Alien x2
Result:
- Restorative Tincture x1
Curative Tincture
Recipe:
- Vigorous x4
- Void x4
- Mycological x4
Result:
- Curative Tincture x1
Electrifying Tincture
Recipe:
- Vigorous x4
- Charged x4
- Boiling x2
Result:
- Electrifying Tincture x3
Thermal Coating
Recipe:
- Vigorous x4
- Alien x4
- Boiling x6
Result:
- Thermal Coating x1
Brainpower Tincture
Recipe:
- Vigorous x1
- Alien x2
- Brainy x2
Result:
- Brainpower Tincture x1
Reforge Coating
Recipe:
- Vigorous x6
- Mycological x6
- Fleshy x6
Result:
- Reforge Coating x1
Charging Flask
Recipe:
- Void x2
- Charged x4
- Alien x1
Result:
- Charging Flask x3
Acid Coating
Recipe:
- Alien x6
- Boiling x6
- Unstable x6
Result:
- Acid Coating x1
Requires Reactors progression.
Pheromone Flask
Recipe:
- Alien x6
- Mycological x4
- Brainy x4
Result:
- Pheromone Flask x2
Honestly, the Chemistry Bench system ended up being way deeper than I originally expected. Some recipes are straightforward, while others feel almost impossible to discover naturally without burning through mountains of materials.
If I find more hidden combinations or missing Distillation sources later on, I will definitely update the guide. For now though, these are all the currently known recipes and Distillations I managed to test successfully.
Good luck experimenting out there, scientists.