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Evaporator chemistry: drying, distillate and trace water
Use the Evaporator to remove Water, Alcohol and Lipobond Agent from a mixture. Collecting that vapor is a separate requirement: according to Wikily, without Quality nothing reaches the distillate container.
Decide whether to dry or recover
Wikily describes a nightly machine, not a selective water-only purifier. It removes up to 300 mL, shared between Water, Alcohol and Lipobond Agent in proportion to their amounts; other contents stay behind. If the goal is a drier input, inspect what remains. If the goal is distillate, provide the second container and check Quality rather than assuming all removed liquid is recovered.
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Quality and Performance solve different problems
Quality is the share of evaporated material that reaches the distillate container. Performance changes throughput instead: Wikily lists 300 mL at +0%, 450 mL at +50%, and 600 mL at +100%. Its baseline power figure is 6 kJ per night. Choose the module for your actual bottleneck; more throughput does not replace the recovery requirement.
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Check the batch before finishing
Wikily places the Blender, Heating Plate, Evaporator and Chem Finisher in the chemistry chain; the Chem Finisher packs a dry container into a product. Temperature also matters: Dream Cap Extract breaks down at 60 °C. Do not treat extra heating as a universal drying fix for valuable mixtures. The Composition Spectrometer is documented as showing every liquid in a container.
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The trace-water fault was fixed
Official patch 1.0.0.5 fixes an evaporator fault that sometimes left 1 µl of water in a mixed alcohol batch, requiring another night and causing Chem Finisher refusal. Dry-input recipes now ignore trace moisture too. If an updated game still refuses a batch, check its actual contents before assuming the old bug has returned. The machine figures above come from Wikily, not our own playtesting.
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Check ratios before setting the heat
For the recipes actually listed by Wikily, Caffeine uses 3 parts Alcohol to 4 parts Coffee Bean Mush at 50 °C or above, reaching up to 75%. Dream Cap Extract and Nightmare Extract use 5 parts Alcohol to 1 part of their respective mushroom mush at 40 °C or above, reaching up to 50%. These are ingredient ratios and documented concentration limits, not a promise that every mixed batch reaches that purity.
Keep the temperature window separate from a complete recipe. Wikily places Nomore formation at 45--55 °C with no more than 10% Alcohol, and Phanta at 110--130 °C, with breakdown starting at 130 °C. Dream Cap Extract breaks down at 60 °C. Wikily’s chemistry overview does not give every precursor quantity for Nomore or Phanta; do not improvise a full recipe from these temperature limits.
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