General items
A list of some of the most common items you will find during a shift on the station. All jobs will have access to these items in one way or another, either through finding them throughout the various departments or by creating them from an Autolathe.
Items
Paper
- Found in: Paper Trays and office desks throughout the station
- Used for: Request forms, Résumés
- Strategy: Make it look professional! A useful and very over looked feature of paperwork is the '%s' Signature command, as you can't fake someone else's signature
You write on it with a pen. Medical doctors want it for forms, quartermasters want it for paperwork, even the judges want it for forms. Curators just want it for erotic literature; cultists want it for sinister uses. If you make a mistake, drip some ethanol on it to clear the sheet. You can ask the Chemists for it.
See also: Guide to paperwork
Pen
You can write on paper with a pen, but also on robots and bookshelves. This is essential to the Curator but not anyone else -- since they take up a whole pocket or backpack slot, most people throw them out immediately or shove them in their PDAs.
(Can also be used to cut bedsheets and gauzes into cloth)
See also: Guide to paperwork
Crayon
- Found in: Art Storage, Crayonboxs
- Used for: Used for drawing cultist runes or coloring clothing items
- Strategy: Washing a pair of gloves with a crayon will change their color, allowing you to make fake Insulated Gloves
Comes in 8 colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, mime and rainbow.
They come in a 
Crayonbox.
Cigarettes
- Found in: Cigarette machines
- Used for: To look cool or have medication through it
- Strategy: Light it with a fire source and put it in your face
A roll of tobacco and nicotine. You can light and smoke these. Can also be filled with 15 units of any chemical. It's possible to find rare brands that contain special ingredients which have unique effects on the smoker.
A nicer, and much rarer, variation of these is the 
Cigar. It can hold up to 30 units of any chemical. There are several kinds of cigars, some even more sophisticated than others.
E-Cigarettes (vapes)
- Found in: Hacked Cigarette machines
- Used for: Vaping.
- Strategy: Screwdriver it, fill it, screwdriver again, wear it in mask slot.
A classy and highly sophisticated electronic cigarette, for classy and dignified gentlemen. A warning label reads "Warning: do not fill with flamable materials". Comes pre-loaded with some liquid nicotine. If worn in mask slot you will slowly ingest the reagents in it. Activate it in hand to instantly empty all its contents. Use a screwdriver 
on it to open it. Then you can fill it with any reagents by using a filled beaker on it. When open, you can either use a multitool 
on it to trim it, which makes it also produce a cloud of smoke, or you can emag it. Then close it with a screwdriver.
Zippo
- Found in: Matchbooks inside the Cigarette machines
- Used for: Lighting things up; cauterizing bleeding wound
- Strategy: Use it to make fire; cauterize your bleeding wound. (may require repeated use, deals burn damage)
The zippo. A cheaper version of this is the File:Cheap Lighter.png Cheap Lighter, which comes in four different colors.
A more primitive version of these is the File:Match.png Match, which can be found in File:Matchbook.png Matchbooks inside the Cigarette machines. Make fire with the match by using it on the matchbook.
Flashlight
- Found in: Emergency Toolbox, all over Maintenance
- Used for: Lighting up the darkness
- Strategy: If you're using one of these, someone probably fucked up the power system
It sheds light when you click on it, even if it's on your belt or in your pocket. The light sources stack to create brighter light sources, so if you have a flashlight in your belt, a flashlight in both pockets, and a flashlight in each hand, along with a safety helmet on your head, you will shine pretty bright. Also of note are File:Lantern.png Lanterns (found in Mining Dock), which are brighter than flashlights.
Hand Labeler
- Found in: Chemistry, Art Storage, Toxins Lab, Conference Room, Cargo Loading Area
- Used for: Used for labeling items for easier recognition
- Strategy: Useful for when making multiply kinds of grenades or bottles and wanting to keep track of which is which
Used to stick a label onto something's name. E.g., Cuban Pete (HONK). Can not be used on people.
- Can be turned on/off by clicking it in your hand.
- Remove a label by using it on an item while off.
Price Tagger
- Found in: Autolathe
- Used for: Used for pricing items before putting them into a custom vendor.
- Strategy: Sell items with custom vendor.
Use it to give an item a price. Then insert it into a custom vendor to make it buyable for that price.
Sales Tagger
- Found in: Cargo techfab
- Used for: Use on a wrapped item to apply barcode. Have cargo export it to get half the credits.
- Strategy: Sell items to cargo.
Wrap an item or crate full of exportable goods with wrapping paper. Swipe your ID on the sales tagger. Then use this sales tagger on the wrapped item/crate to apply a barcode File:Barcode.png connected to your swiped ID's account. If that item/crate is exported by cargo (without ripping the barcode off) your account gets half the credits from that export. Does not give money from bounties.
Camera
- Found in: Art Storage, Library
- Used for: Taking pictures
- Strategy: Steal their souls with this! Everyone (that doesn't have a brain) know that cameras steal souls
Can take 10 pictures before having to get a new roll of File:Film.png film. Pictures can then be attached to news reports created on a newscaster console.
Universal Recorder
- Found in: Detective's Office, Library
- Used for: Recording and translating speech
- Strategy: Apply it to start recording, apply again to stop
A device that can record to cassette tapes, and play them. It automatically translates the content in playback.
Can be loaded with a new File:Tape.png tape after the previous one is full.
Station Bounced Radio
- Found in: Emergency Toolbox, Autolathe
- Used for: Used for emergency communication,
ifwhen telecomms goes down - Strategy: If the singularity is loose, it may very likely take out the telecommunications room. Other causes of telecommunications failures could be power loss or sabotage. So have one of these handy or find one quick
ifwhen shit goes down
The station bounced radio will function similarly to a standard radio headset if you put it in your pocket or in your hand; thus you can use the say ";radio message" function as normal without turning on the microphone to broadcast.
Using multiple radios can be done with say ":l message" for left hand and say ":r' message" for right hand depending on the hand used to hold each radio.
Turning on the microphone will pick up all sounds from the surrounding area and broadcast them.
Can be hacked.
Bedsheet
- Found in: Dorms, Medbay, Brig, Prison Wing
- Used for: Use it as a cape or in ghetto surgery
- Strategy: For cape, put it on your back, for ghetto surgery, see instruction
A surprisingly soft linen bedsheet. Comes in many different colors for different places and for each head of department!
Flare
Found in: Emergency toolboxes
Used for: Source of light
A red Nanotrasen issued flare. There are instructions on the side - "pull cord, make light".
A DIY-version of this a File:Torch.png Torch, you can make one by combining a log with a dried wheat or ambrosia.
Sticky Tape
- Found in: Autolathe
- Used for: Making stuff sticky.
- Strategy: Stick stuff on people.
Can be used on any item which allows that item to harmlessly "embed" when thrown on people. It can also be used to treat fractures.
Black Market Uplink
- Found in: Primary Tool Storage, Telecomms Storage, Auxiliary Tool Storage
- Used for: Purchasing 'illegal' goods
- Strategy: Can be used to acquire all sorts of difficult-to-obtain items.
Grants you a way to access the black market, a hidden shop which contains a wide variety of items of questionable usefulness. Obtaining what you purchase can be difficult, and usually involves getting in touch with a member of cargo, a space suit, hacking, or help from the AI.
Janitorial Supplies
While still accessible by most crew, these items are most easily obtainable by the Janitor.
Mop
- Found in: Custodial Closet
- Used for: Used to clean the floor, angering the entire crew when the halls are wet
- Strategy: Fits nicely in a backpack. Dip in the Janitorial Cart, Bucket or in a sink to make it wet. Try mixing ammonia with the water to make a nonslip cleaner.
The Janitor starts with one.
Broom
- Found in: JaniDrobe, Autolathe
- Used for: Used to sweep trash
- Strategy: Sweep trash into a single pile and push it into a disposal unit.
Fits in a janitor's belt and cart. Activate in hand to wield in both hands and start brooming. Then walk over trash to push it. You can also click directly on a tile to sweep it, even when wielded in one hand.
Space Cleaner
- Found in: Custodial Closet, Medbay
- Used for: A better cleaner than water. Doesn't cause people to slip. Spray to clean up to three tiles or to remove a cobweb. Can also be used to clean clothing
- Strategy: Use it in your hand to switch it to smaller pressure for conserving the Space Cleaner
Bucket
- Found in: Custodial Closet, Hydroponics, can be made in an Autolathe
- Used for: They can be used by several different jobs as part of their actual duties
- Strategy: Fill with water and splash on the floor and make everyone fall
A bucket holds liquid only, most commonly water. It holds up to 70 units.
Light Replacer
- Found in: Custodial Closet, can be made in a Protolathe
- Used for: Replacing broken light bulbs or making evil traps for people that can't see in the dark
- Strategy: Fill with light bulbs or glass sheets and just start replacing those broken lights
An item which uses magnets to easily replace lights. Perfect for the lazy janitor!
File:Lightreplacer1.pngCan be emagged to unlock mischievous features.
Light Tube
- Found in: Custodial Closet, Emergency Storages, Maintenance, can be made in an Autolathe
- Used for: Replacing broken lights
- Strategy: Apply it to a new light fixture or an old one if its light is broken.
A replacement light tube. 
Bulbs are the lesser used light-source on the station.
Mousetrap
- Found in: Custodial Closet
- Used for: Used for pest control and Grenade construction
- Strategy: Place them everywhere in Maintenance, fill a backpack containing the nuke disk with them
Click it in your hand to activate it, then drop it on the floor.
Soap
- Found in: Custodial Closet, Theatre, Captain's Quarters
- Used for: Used to clean floors and objects
- Strategy: Place one on the floor to slip anyone who walks over it.
Wirebrush
- Found in: Service Protolathe
- Used for: Used to clean rust from walls, floor tiles and objects.
- Strategy: Click on a rusty wall.
Hold it in your hand and click on rusty walls, tiles and objects to remove the rust.
Basic Devices
These items are usually found strewn about Maintenance or from the Part-MartPart-Mart's in Primary Tool Storage and in Toxins. You can use a Screwdriver on all of these to make them attachable to other devices, these are mainly used in the creation of bombs or grenades.
Timer
Found in: Primary Tool Storage, Chemistry, Conference Room, Hacked Part-Mart
Used for: Used mostly for making bombs and Grenades
A timer... it counts down... 3... 2... 1... boom?
Use a 
Screwdriver to toggle it between normal and attachment mode.
Proximity Sensor
This is used to detect people getting close.
Use a Screwdriver to toggle it between normal and attachment mode.
Remote Signaling Device
- Found in: Primary Tool Storage, Research Division, Part-Mart, Autolathe
- Used for: Can be attached to Igniters for Grenade construction, bomb construction, and a lot less commonly, wires on doors
- Strategy: Can be attached to wires on anything with a panel and work like a remote Multitool. If used right, two of these can be used in place of an Multitool
Sends a pulse when it receives a signal with the right code and frequency.
Can be attached to a Proximity Sensor to make a simple alarm system.
Use a Screwdriver to toggle it between sending and receiving/attaching mode.
Hitting a Remote Signaling Device with another one will copy its frequency to it.
Igniter
Found in: Primary Tool Storage, Chemistry, Part-Mart, Autolathe
Used for: Used for starting fires making bombs, heating beakers or making stunprods.
Use a Screwdriver to toggle it between normal and attachment mode.
Voice Analyzer
A small electronic device able to record a voice sample, and send a signal when that sample is repeated.
Use a Screwdriver to toggle it between normal and attachment mode.
Use a 
Multitool to toggle between the four modes of use.
- Inclusive
- Exclusive
- Recognizer
- Voice Sensor
Infrared Emitter
Emits a visible or invisible beam and is triggered when the beam is interrupted.
Use a Screwdriver to toggle it between normal and attachment mode.
Health Sensor
- Found in: Hacked Part-Mart
- Used for: Sending a signal to assemblies when either you a.) die or b.) enter a critical state.
- Strategy: May be used in conjunction with bomb assemblies to trigger their activation upon your death.
Can be used in most assemblies to trigger something upon your death or critical injury.
Use a Screwdriver to toggle it between normal and attachment mode.
Activate it in hand to toggle it between on and off. Alt-click it to toggle between the two modes of use:
- Detect death
- Detect critical state
Blast Door Controller
Found in: Autolathe, Any button that controls shutters or blast doors.
Used for: Used for opening and closing shutters or blast doors.
Use a Multitool to change the controller ID you want the door to use, a number from 1 to 100. Sadly, since the map doors, by default, use strings as their names, you cannot jack them by entering the text string default doors use. Use a Screwdriver to toggle it between normal and attachment mode.
Containers
Mechanical Toolbox
- Found in: Engineering, Primary Tool Storage and many places around the station including tool storage and the locker room
- Used for: Contains that which are needed whenever you want to construct or deconstruct something.
- Strategy: It is very heavy, useful for the beating up of people. Contains the tools all engineers need to have
This toolbox contains many tools needed in the day-to-day lives of engineers and traitors alike. If you want a reliable way to break into an area, then this toolbox has just about all the tools you'll need. If your job is to repair damage, the tools will be needed when you'll have to fix the inevitable mistakes you'll make.
Electrical Toolbox
- Found in: Engineering, Primary Tool Storage, Tech storage
- Used for: Contains tools which you'll need when fixing or breaking electrical equipment
- Strategy: The electrical toolbox is good to have when traitoring. Although you'll likely also need a weldingtool and multitool to be an effective traitor
The electrical toolbox's contents are intended to help fix (and break) electrical equipment. Insulated gloves are a must when dealing with electricity though.
Yellow toolboxes have a small chance of containing a pair of insulated gloves.
Emergency Toolbox
- Found in: emergency lockers and storage areas
- Used for: Contains tools which are useful in emergencies
- Strategy: It is very heavy, useful for the beating up of people. Contains a flashlight which is very useful as well as a crowbar
The toolbox contains a flashlight (50% chance of a flashlight, or a flare), a crowbar, a station bounced radio, a fire extinguisher, and an emergency welding tool, all of which are useful tools to have when the situation inevitably spirals out of control.
Artistic Toolbox
- Found in: Maintenance
- Used for: Contains art supplies.
- Strategy: It is very heavy, useful for the beating up of people.
x8This toolbox provides you with art supplies similar to those you get in art storage. A crayon box, pipe cleaner for wire art, and a crowbar to remove the tiles so that you can lay pipe cleaner.
Box
- Found in: Cargo Loading Area, Atmospherics Office, Everyone starts out with a survival box.
- Used for: The box is a container that can hold seven items and be stored inside of a backpack
- Strategy: Improve your inventory space drastically at the expense of accessibility. Store junk in it.
Can be folded flat for cardboard by clicking it in your hand when it's empty. It can only hold tiny and small items. Everyone starts with a File:Internals box.png survival box that contains a breath mask, an emergency oxygen tank and a medipen. Some departments may have different gas masks, oxygen tanks, or extra tools inside.
Boxes can come in many forms, some can only have specific items in them. 
File:Handcuffsbox.pngFile:Flashbangbox.png
File:BeakerBox.pngFile:DiskBox.pngFile:GlassesBox.pngFile:BodybagBox.pngFile:SterileMaskBox.png
A Crayonbox holds Crayons.
Briefcase
- Found in: Law Office
- Used for: A briefcase is a bulky item that can hold up to seven tiny, small, or normal items.
- Strategy: Fill it with seven boxes and carry the entire station in one hand.
Equipment
- Found in: Most areas and departments where things are stored
- Used for: Storage for items. Especially large items -- such as
corpses,other lockers, crates, and certain robots or equipment -- cannot fit inside. - Strategy: Store away your wares within these, or send them out to Cargo so they can sell it and it's contents for money.
Lockers are among the most common and arguably the most useful of containers on the station. Nearly anything can fit inside, barring other lockers, crates, corpses, and certain especially large objects like racks and MULEbots. You can walk into them and close them to hide inside with reduced vision.
Use a Wrench to bolt them to the floor, or use a Welding Tool to seal them shut. They can be wrapped with packaging paper to be mailed to other departments in Delivery Office.
- Found in: Most areas and departments where things are stored
- Used for: Storage for items. Especially large items -- such as
corpses,lockers, other crates, and certain robots or equipment -- cannot fit inside. - Strategy: Store away your wares within these, or send them out to Cargo so they can sell it and it's contents for money.
Crates are the second most common storage container on the station. They can store an essentially unlimited amount of items and are worth quite a bit for Cargo. Expect the Cargo Technicians to come asking for your unused crates. You can click+drag your character's sprite over an adjacent crate to climb on to them, preventing anybody inside them from escaping if you are on top and the crate is closed. When open and on top, you can Rest and then close the crate to hide inside the crate with reduced vision.
Use a Wrench to bolt them to the floor. They can be wrapped with packaging paper to be mailed to other departments in Delivery Office.
Intercom
- Found in: One is found in almost every room
- Used for: The same as headsets and Station Bounced Radios, but mostly only
ifwhen you don't have access to either of those - Strategy: When a crewman's headset is lost or comms are down and a Station Bounced Radio is nowhere to be found, wall radios are essential to talking with the station at large
Intercom wall radios are an immobile version of headset radios with the same number of frequencies and functions. The AI can use them to publicly broadcast a clandestine conversation or use it to discreetly spy on the talk around the station themselves. Use say ":i message" to operate these hands-free.
Can be hacked.
Paper Tray
- Found in: Office desks
- Used for: Supplies you with all your paper needs.
- Strategy: Take Paper and set your paper-cutting master plans in motion.
Paper Paper Paper. Click it to take a piece of paper, or drag it to your sprite to pick the whole thing up.
Janitorial Cart
- Found in: Custodial Closet
- Used for: Wetting the Mop and transporting the Garbage Bag, Mop, Space Cleaner, Light Replacer and Signs around.
- Strategy: If you're the Janitor, fill this with your stuff and drag it around while feeling lightweight.
This is the alpha and omega of sanitation. The container inside can be filled with Space Cleaner instead of plain water.
Water Tank
- Found in: Primary Tool Storage, Auxiliary Tool Storage, Emergency Storage, Maintenance, Engineering, Atmospherics, Custodial Closet, Xenobiology, Hydroponics
- Used for: Used to fill something with water
- Strategy: Use a container (syringe, beaker, bottle, bucket) on it to get water.
Starts with 1000 units of water.
High-capacity water tanks (File:Watertank high.png) start with 10000 units of water. These are found in Hydroponics and Atmospherics. You can refill 
Fire Extinguishers with these. All tanks (not just water tanks) be made stationary and plumbing compatible by using metal 
on them.
Fuel Tank
- Found in: Primary Tool Storage, Auxiliary Tool Storage, Emergency Storage, Maintenance, Engineering, Atmospherics, Mining Station, Mining Dock
- Used for: Refill welding tools with this
- Strategy: DO NOT use a lit welder on this. Or do, if you want boom. Causes minor toxin damage when ingested.
Starts with 1000 units of welding fuel. Use an unlit Welding Tool on it to refill the Welding Tool. You can apply assemblies to these in order to make bombs out of them. Or you could turn the tap on by using it with an empty hand to make a fuel trail you can then ignite to detonate the tank from a distance.
Filing Cabinet
- Found in: Most areas with 'Office' in its name, Security Posts, Vault, Robotics, Testing Lab, Telecommunications
- Used for: Store papers, folders and photos in these
- Strategy: Store forms (requisition forms and others) and printed forensics scans in these.
The Law Office contains the crew's employment contracts. Drawers (File:ChestDrawer.png) are a cosmetic variation of the filing cabinet.
Condiment Dispenser
CondiMaster Neo
- Found in: Kitchen
- Used for: Dispensing condiments
- Strategy: Make a mix of condiments and dispense a packet or bottle of it.
Condiment packets and bottles are used in cooking. Very useful if you need to seperate ingredients or to extract potent chemicals.
Condiments produced: See here for a list of condiments.
Bathroom Equipment
Mirror
- Found in: Medbay, Dormitory, Locker Room
- Used for: Personal grooming
- Strategy: Click it to change your hairstyle.
Only male characters can change their facial hair but any spaceman can attempt to change the hair on their head.
If broken, you can repair it with a welding tool.
Toilet
- Found in: Restrooms and bathrooms: Locker Room, Dormitory, Captain's Quarters, Prison Wing
- Used for: Sanitation, secret storage
- Strategy: Use a container on a toilet to fill it with water. Use a crowbar on it to loudly pry off the cistern lid and store up to 2 items in the cistern.
The HT-451, a torque rotation-based, waste disposal unit for small matter.
Prying off the cistern lid with a Crowbar will allow you to store up to two small items inside. This will create a loud noise when doing so, so make sure nobody is around when stashing your contraband.
Additional toilets can be made using stacks of materials like plasma, glass, or iron.