Research Table: the tools, notes and materials every project needs
The Research Table turns salvage into new blueprints. Each project asks for a few things: devices that you install on the table, materials that the project uses up, blueprints and a workbench blueprint that you must already have. This guide lists all 26 projects with what each one needs.
The short version
- Devices are installed once. Tools (such as 多功能工具钳) and research notes are installed from the table's device list. Installing uses up one copy of the item and the device then stays on the table for every project that lists it. Nothing in the game removes an installed device.
- Materials are used up by each project. Only the materials are spent when a project finishes. Devices, blueprints and workbenches are not spent.
- Blueprints and the workbench only need to be known. A project can list blueprints you must already have and the workbench whose blueprint must be unlocked. Neither is used up.
- Some projects appear on their own, others need a discovery item. Projects with no discovery item are listed from the start. The others appear the first time you move their discovery item in your inventory. A copy you installed or used up earlier does not count (see If a project is missing).
Devices to install on the table
Install each device once. The table shows an unknown tool or unknown material in place of a device you have not found yet.
| Device | Type | Projects that need it |
|---|---|---|
| 光学显微镜 | Tool | 活化提取物注射剂 肾上腺素针剂 |
| 多功能工具钳 | Tool | 《维修手册》 《野外生存手册2》 《野外生存手册》 散热片 生物基质防毒面具 高频电台 |
| 螺丝刀套装 | Tool | 带刃废料手枪 废料冲锋枪 废料手枪 废料步枪 废料霰弹枪 |
| 《维修手册》 | Note or material | 《维修手册》 |
| 《野外生存手册2》 | Note or material | 《野外生存手册2》 |
| 《野外生存手册》 | Note or material | 《野外生存手册》 |
| 写满难懂晦涩的符号的纸条 | Note or material | "黑手" 亡神手谕 |
| 字迹混乱的神秘食谱 | Note or material | 字迹混乱的神秘食谱 |
| 锡纸帽折叠指南 | Note or material | 锡纸帽折叠法 |
The mission 研发台：多功能工具钳 asks you to install the 多功能工具钳 on the table.
Every research project
Read across a row from left to right: what makes the project appear, what to install, what it uses up, what you must already have, and what it gives you. On a narrow screen each project is shown as its own card.
If a project is missing
A project that needs a discovery item appears only when you move a copy of that item. Moving includes picking it up from the ground or taking it from a defeated enemy. A copy that is already installed on the table, or that a project already used up, does not make it appear. This catches players who installed or used a copy before the project was added to their game.
- Example: 亡神手谕. In the demo, the 写满难懂晦涩的符号的纸条 was needed only for the “黑手” project. If you installed your note there and carried your save over, the 亡神手谕 project never appeared, and no note is left in your inventory to move.
- What to do: get another copy of the discovery item and move it. The 亡神手谕 project then appears, and the note you installed earlier still counts, so you do not need to install a second one.
- Where to find another note: 写满难懂晦涩的符号的纸条 drops from 零号病人, Crow Believers and Crow Shamans.
Getting a project done
- Open the Research Table and pick a project. Move its discovery item first if the project is not listed.
- Install any device the project lists that is not on the table yet.
- Bring the materials, and make sure you have the listed blueprints and the workbench blueprint.
- Press Research. The materials are used up and the new blueprints are unlocked.
See Safe House progression for the workbenches and for how research fits with the rest of your base.