Editing Guide to xenobiology (section)

=== Resource Management ===

==== Monkey Cubes ====

Monkey cubes are the basic material that you'll need to do xenobiology; without those all you can do is <s>sacrifice intruders</s> ask for another department's monkeys. How do you gain more monkey cubes?

* You start with two monkey cube boxes containing 5 each, for a total of 10.
* The first method you'll use to get more cubes, is the [[#Grey Slime|Grey Slime]] blood reaction. It will spawn three monkey cubes per extract.
** Grab a dead monkey from a pen, after a slime has finished eating it. 
** Draw blood from the dead monkey with a syringe. Inject it into a beaker. 
** Use a dropper set to 1u to inject the blood into the grey extracts. More than that is a waste. 
* After the first few splits, you should aim to create and use either a [[Guide_to_xenobiology#Grey_Crossbreeding|reproductive grey]] or an [[#Metal_Crossbreeding|industrial grey]] [[#Crossbreeding|crossbreed]]. 
* Upgrades are important, make sure to get them early.
** With an unupgraded slime grinder a baby [[#Grey Slime|grey slime]] will give 3 cubes. 
** Upgrading a slime grinder to T3 parts, which can be achieved after researching high-efficiency parts, will raise that amount to 9. 
* [[File:Bio_bag.png]] Bio bags can store monkey cubes and load the console with them in two simple clicks, so don't waste time putting them in one by one.
* Recycling a monkey with the console yields 0.2 monkey cubes without upgrades. 
** If you upgrade the Monkey Recycler, you will get up to 0.8 cubes per monkey with both the recycler and the consoles.

==== Plasma ====

Plasma is the most common chemical required to react with slime extracts. You start with 2-4 bars depending on the map, which you can grind for 20 liquid form plasma each (usually simply called "plasma").

* You require a dropper or syringe to inject chems into extracts. A dropper can be activated in hand to toggle it to '''1u'''. 
* Most reactions only require 1u of plasma for full effect. 
* You can produce new plasma yourself with either [[#Metal Slime|metal]] or [[#Dark Purple Slime|dark purple slimes]]. These will create metal respectively plasteel and plasma bars.
** Plasteel bars give 20 iron and 20 plasma each when ground. 
** Pure plasma gives 20 plasma per bar.
** Making these reactions requires some plasma to start with, so be careful not to run out before making more bars.
* In case you run out, you can either get more from mining, check if the extra plasma bar that is usually in the [[Testing Lab]], or the [[Experimental Lab]] is still there, or you can ask [[Chemistry]] or [[Engineering]] to give you theirs.