Engineering Tonics
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There are a total of 16 Engineering Tonics. Using these Tonics improves your ability to interact with machines. The player can change his currently equipped engineering tonics at a Gene Bank.
See individual articles for more detailed information about a given tonic.
[edit] Alarm Expert
Effect
2 Fewer alarm tiles when hacking.
Location
In Fort Frolic on the right hand balcony in Fleet Hall Theater. You have to jump to get it.
[edit] Alarm Expert 2
Effect
4 fewer alarm tiles when hacking.
Location
In the Live Subject Testing area of Point Prometheus. It's on a filing cabinet.
[edit] Clever Inventor
Effect
Inventing items requires 1 fewer of each component, to a minimum of 1.
Location
On the desk in Dr. Suchong's apartment in Olympus Heights.
[edit] Focused Hacker
Effect
2 Fewer overload tiles when hacking.
Location
In the entrance to Fontaine Fisheries in Neptune's Bounty. Frozen in ice near the Pneumo Tube.
[edit] Focused Hacker 2
Effect
4 Fewer overload tiles when hacking.
Location
In Apollo Square, the fourth floor of the Hestia. It is on a desk in the corner of the room near the safe.
[edit] Hacking Expert
Effect
1 fewer alarm tile and 1 fewer overload tile.
Location
On the desk inside the entrance to the Research Laboratories in the Medical Pavilion.
[edit] Hacking Expert 2
Effect
2 fewer alarm tiles and 2 fewer overload tiles.
Location
Available in a Gatherer's Garden vending machine machine in the Fort Frolic area.
[edit] Prolific Inventor
Effect
Doubles the number of items received from a U-Invent.
Location
Rewards for the rescue of 18 Little Sisters.
[edit] Safecracker
Effect
When hacking safes and combination locks, there are 2 fewer alarm overload tiles, 1 fewer accelerate tiles, and 3 added deceleration tiles. The flow speed is also reduced by 0.5 seconds per tile.
Location
In the second gift for rescuing 6 Little Sisters (Arcadia or later).
[edit] Safecracker 2
Effect
There are 4 fewer alarm or overload tiles, 2 fewer accelerate tiles, 6 deceleration tiles, & the flow speed is reduced.
Location
It can be found in the autopsy lab of Little Wonders in Point Prometheus, on one of the tables next to the 2nd pheromone sample
[edit] Security Expert
Effect
Gives the user a bonus to hacking turrets, cameras and security bots removing up to 2 alarm and overload tiles and 1 accelerate tile, while adding 1 resistor tile
Location
Found in Twilight Fields funeral home in the Medical Pavilion
[edit] Security Expert 2
Effect
Gives the user a bonus to hacking turrets, cameras and security bots removing up to 4 alarm and overload tiles and 2 accelerate tiles, while adding 3 resistor tiles. In addition the flow speed is reduced by 1.0 seconds per tile.
Location
Receive at research level 2 of Security Bot.
[edit] Shorten Alarms
Effect
Reduces the length of hostile security alarms by 20 seconds
Location
Found in room #7 in the Fighting McDonaghs in Neptune's Bounty
[edit] Shorten Alarms 2
Effect
Reduces the length of hostile security alarms by 40 seconds
Location
Found in the the Core of Hephaestus
[edit] Speedy Hacker
Effect
Reduces flow speed by 1.5 seconds per tile during hacks
Location
Found in Painless Dental in the Medical Pavilion. BE WARNED: A thuggish splicer will spawn literally within a foot of you from behind once this tonic is picked up, so have the shotgun ready.
[edit] Speedy Hacker 2
Effect
Reduces flow speed by 3 seconds per tile during hacks
Location
First available for purchase from Gatherer's Garden in Olympus Heights and all subsequent levels.
[edit] Strange Exception
Note: Although a Tonic called Vending Expert is mentioned on the Bioshock Official Page, vending expert is not actually available in the boxed version of the game, but is available once the Patch 1.1 has been installed.
