Port over improvements to lab tools #1374
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Summary
SUMMARY: Balance "Microcentrifuges can also separate, port over recipe for separation funnel"
Purpose of change
So a while back Critsybear remarked in his recent BN playthrough that it's really weird that you can't use the microcentrifuge to do separation work, when that's part of what it's for. Turns out after a quick search I found a PR that agreed with this sentiment, but it got canned under the apparent belief that you can't separate a suspension using another tool that's literally designed to do that kinda thing. Also evidently a tool that analyzes a blood sample as a plot point during a mission can't do analysis, lel.
However, my initial plan to port over that PR has to be shelved because it turns out terrain can't yet make use of
crafting_pseudo_item
. I'll need to save that for a follow-up PR, in which I either convert centrifuges to furniture, or figure out how to rig support for terrain providing crafting stuff.Aside from realism, remaining changes make separator funnels less of a roadblock to mutagen production.
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Additional credit to Critsybear for his BN playthrough as Numerius, and for reminding me about this in DMs (after which I kinda forgot, whoops).
Not covered by the above: addition of separation quality to microcentrifuge.
To be done in a follow-up: Centrifuge update PR, by zachary-kaelan: CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA#34344
Source provided in in Zach's PR that covers a good bit of details on the use of funnels vs tubes: https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Organic_Chemistry/Organic_Chemistry_Lab_Techniques_(Nichols)/04%3A_Extraction/4.06%3A_Step-by-Step_Procedures_For_Extractions In particular, see the "Microscale Extractions" section, which covers the use of centrifuge tubes (either on their own or after running through a centrifuge).
Pinging @zachary-kaelan as they may enjoy seeing their work make it into BN.Leaving the mention here so they aren't potentially left wondering about a phantom ping, their idea will be ported to BN soon hopefully.