U-Invent

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U-Invent stations allow Jack to craft new items from the odds and ends he finds throughout Rapture. Despite the name, Jack doesn't "invent" anything. The machine presents a list of items which can be crafted and the components needed to craft each item. When highlighting an item, it also shows how many of the required components are left.

Contents 1 Availability 2 Invention Components 3 Component Management 4 Inventable Items 4.1 Ammunition 4.2 Gene Tonics 4.3 Single-Use Items 5 Recommended Tonics

[edit] Availability

Starting with Arcadia, the player begins finding various new items when looting and searching, as well as finding the first U-Invent machine for using these items. Popular items include Automatic Hack Tools and Exploding Buck. Some new tonics may also be crafted. As the game progresses, more items become available. Most of the items from a U-invent are either extraordinarily rare or not present anywhere else in the game world.

[edit] Invention Components

• Alcohol
• Brass Tube
• Battery
• Chlorophyll Solution
• Distilled Water
• Empty Hypo
• Enzyme Sample
• Glue
• Kerosene
• Rubber Hose
• Screw
• Shell Casing

[edit] Component Management

Some components are more easily found than others, and that may vary in each playing of the game. For example, Electric Gel is an extremely powerful chemical agent for taking down Big Daddies. There's just a little of it around, so the vast majority must be crafted. In this case, know what components it requires and make subsequent choices accordingly:

• If several items require the same components and the component is limited, the player must choose which item they need most and do without the others

• While searching for loot, when offered items the player already has a lot of or that they know they don't need (such as an Empty Hypo after creating all the inventable Gene tonics), use the Scrounger tonic to try for something else.

• Sometimes it is good to know how much of something the player has so one doesn't end up wasting components by making more ammunition than they can carry.

[edit] Inventable Items

[edit] Ammunition

• Antipersonnel Pistol Rounds x6
  • 2 Rubber Hose
  • 3 Shell Casing
  • 1 Screw
• Armor-Piercing Auto Rounds x20
  • 2 Kerosene
  • 1 Brass Tube
  • 3 Shell Casing
• Electric Gel x25
  • 1 Alcohol
  • 3 Distilled Water
  • 2 Battery
• Exploding Buck x3
  • 3 Kerosene
  • 2 Shell Casing
  • 1 Screw
• Heat-Seeking RPG x2
  • 3 Distilled Water
  • 2 Kerosene
  • 1 Brass Tube
• Trap Bolt x6
  • 1 Alcohol
  • 3 Distilled Water
  • 2 Battery

[edit] Gene Tonics

• Bloodlust
  • 3 Empty Hypo
  • 4 Enzyme Sample
  • 5 Glue
• Booze Hound
  • 3 Empty Hypo
  • 4 Enzyme Sample
  • 5 Glue
• Hacker's Delight 2
  • 3 Empty Hypo
  • 4 Enzyme Sample
  • 5 Alcohol

[edit] Single-Use Items

• Automatic Hack Tool x1
  • 1 Brass Tube
  • 4 Battery
  • 4 Rubber Hose
• Lazarus Vector x1
  • 7 Chlorophyll Solution
  • 7 Distilled Water
  • 7 Enzyme Sample

[edit] Recommended Tonics

• Scrounger will enable the player to search a corpse again for new loot. In addition to giving the player a chance to find more valuable loot, this also will help them find the right components when trying to invent a particular item.

• Clever Inventor will reduce the number of all components required to invent an item by 1, down to a minimum of 1.

• Prolific Inventor will double the quantity of an item produced using the same number of components. This is arguably the most valuable tonic for any inventor, as this will literally halve the number of components required to produce the same quantity of any item.