Tunguska: The Visitation – Guide to Serum Making, Ingredients & Recipes

This guide details all the Serum recipes, some tips about serum-crafting and also where to find Ingredients.

Serum Making Guide (Ingredients and Recipes)

Section I: The Basics

Serum-making 101

In order to craft any Serum, you’ll need to interact with a Serum-making Table.

These crafting stations have the shape of a table with many potion bottles and chemistry equipment on it. Their model is consistent throughout the game’s areas, so they’re easily recognizable. Hovering the mouse over one of them display an interaction icon (hand with pointed finger).

Interacting with a table will open a window, that is composed by four parts:

  • The container space at the bottom, where materials for the serum are placed.
  • The gauge in the middle that regulates the Heat Level.
  • The large top slot, that will contain the final product once the crafting is completed.
  • The right panel, which allows opening a Recipe File (if you have it in your Inventory) to be displayed.

To actually create the Serum, you’ll need to put the exact amount of ingredients in the material container section, then regulate the Heat at the correct temperature and lastly press “Prepare”. That concludes the process.

Useful Tips and Facts

You cannot make multiple units of a serum at the same time. This means, if you put double the ingredients ’cause you want to make 2 serums at once, this will not work and the recipe will fail. Always make ONE at the time!

Serum Recipes will not be saved in any Diary or Log. You will need to bring the actual piece of paper with the recipe with you in the Inventory, or write them down in a physical piece of paper. Or follow this guide, which includes all recipes! 🙂

Some recipes will say “Pure Alcohol” instead of simply “Alcohol”. This ingredient is still the same generic “Alcohol” (grey bottle without label).

A specific recipe will list as ingredient something like “C3HO3H3”: that means Alcohol.

Section II: Ingredients, Where and How to Find Them

Regular Ingredients

Organs & Body Parts

Ghoul Blood

  • Obtained from: looting Ghoul corpses, some Traders, some loot containers
  • Appearence: a grey flask.
  • Where to find it: all over the world.

Scythe Blood

  • Obtained from: looting Scythe corpses.
  • Appearence: a blue flask.
  • Where to find it: in locations with Scythe, look radio messages to know if Scythes spawned somewhere.

Mutated Heart (Also called “Mutated Chopped Heart”)

  • Obtained from: looting Ghoul and Scythe corpses, some Traders, some loot containers
  • Appearence: a pink / purple piece of meat.
  • Where to find it: all over the world.

Mutated Brain

  • Obtained from: looting Ghoul and Scythe corpses, some Traders, some loot containers
  • Appearence: looks like a pink human brain.
  • Where to find it: all over the world.

Wolf Gallstone (also called “Wolf Gem”)

  • Obtained from: looting Wolf corpses, rarely traders
  • Appearence: a yellow / orange hexagonal-shaped object
  • Where to find it: wolves often spawn at Gas Station after Army Roadblock or in late-game Ashinaka Forest – always check radio messages for eventual Wolf spawns.

Scythe Tendons

  • Obtained from: looting Scythe corpses
  • Appearence: looks like a metal blade without handle
  • Where to find it: in locations with Scythe, look radio messages to know if Scythes spawned somewhere.

Spitter Liver

  • Obtained from: looting Spitter corpses, rarely traders
  • Appearence: a dark chunk of meat
  • Where to find it: Spitters only spawn in two places: Lake Cheko and Ashinaka Forest. Best place until very late game is Lake. Go around and you will see them (they have yellow firefighter vest).

Baba’s Hand

  • Obtained from: Baba Yagas, rarely loot containers, rarely traders
  • Appearence: a blue hand
  • Where to find it: Baba Yaga is a rare monster. It spawns only in one place I know of: Cottage, which is in Lake Cheko. There will also be two Baba Yaga near the end of the game.

Plants & Herbs

Tip: The “High Intensity Headlamp” item makes herbs shine when flashlight is pointed towards them, making them much easier to spot.

Elfdock

  • Obtained from: looting it from the ground, loot containers, some traders.
  • Appearence: In the inventory: a cylindrical metal box with a plant icon. On the ground: looks like a sunflower.
  • Where to find it: all over the world

Skullcap

  • Obtained from: looting it from the ground, loot containers, some traders.
  • Appearence: In the inventory: a cylindrical metal box with a plant icon. On the ground: a dark green bush.
  • Where to find it: all over the world

Ginseng

  • Obtained from: looting it from the ground, loot containers, some traders.
  • Appearence: In the inventory: a cylindrical metal box with a plant icon. On the ground: an orange plant.
  • Where to find it: all over the world

Motherwort

  • Obtained from: looting it from the ground, loot containers, some traders.
  • Appearence: In the inventory: a cylindrical metal box with a plant icon. On the ground: a green plant.
  • Where to find it: all over the world

Solvents & Chemicals

Alcohol (Also called “Pure Alcohol” or “CH3OH3O3”)

  • Obtained from: loot containers, some human enemies, some traders.
  • Appearence: a grey bottle without label.
  • Where to find it: all over the world.

Gasoline

  • Obtained from: rarely human enemy corpses, gasoline tanks, traders, loot containers
  • Appearence: a dark blue, metallic container
  • Where to find it: generally most will be found as static loot in many places, it also can be looted by gasoline tanks which are large cylindrical structures with usually a pipe sticking out of them: interact with the pipe and see if it has gasoline.

Spitter Vomit

  • Obtained from: looting spitters, rarely traders, rarely loot containers
  • Appearence: a bright green flask
  • Where to find it: mainly by looting spitters in Lake Cheko or Ashinaka Forest, but sometimes also traders or random loot.

Special or Quest-related Ingredients

Special Organs

Pyro’s Lung

  • Obtained from: looting Pyros mutant
  • Appearence: A green-blue-greyish chunk of meat
  • Where to find it: Pyros, to my knowledge, spawns only in the Ashinaka Secret Laboratory. Part of an important quest.

Special Chemicals

Incomplete Serum, Iteration 288

  • Obtained from: looted in Ashinaka Secret Laboratory
  • Appearence: A serum injection, but red instead of blue
  • Where to find it: as loot in the Ashinaka Secret Lab. Part of an important quest.

Section III: Regular Serum Recipes List & Effects

HR Serums (Health Recovery)

HR-1 Serum

  • Ghoul Blood x2
  • Mutant Heart x2
  • Alcohol x3

  • Heat Level: Med-High
  • Bonus Effect: Restore 30 Health instantly

HR-2 Serum

  • HR-1 Serum x1
  • Mutant Brain x1
  • Skullcap x3
  • Gasoline x2

  • Heat Level: Medium
  • Bonus Effect: Restore 70 Health instantly

SR Serums (Stamina Recovery)

SR-1 Serum

  • Motherworth x2
  • Elfdock x2
  • Alcohol x2

  • Heat Level: Medium
  • Bonus Effect: Restore 100 Stamina instantly

RR Serums (Radiation Reduction)

RR-1 Serum

  • Elfdock x3
  • Scythe Blood x2
  • Mutated Brain x2
  • Alcohol x2

  • Heat Level: Med-High
  • Bonus Effect: Remove 50 Radiation instantly

CW Serums (Carry Weight Bonus)

CW-1 Serum

  • Scythe Tendons x1
  • Scythe Blood x2
  • Motherwort x2
  • Elfdock x1
  • Alcohol x1

  • Heat Level: Low
  • Bonus Effect: +15 Max Carry Weight for 12 in-game hours

CW-2 Serum

  • CW-1 Serum x1
  • Ginseng x2
  • Wolf Gallstone x2
  • Gasoline x1

  • Heat Level: High
  • Bonus Effect: +30 Max Carry Weight for 12 in-game hours

CW-3 Serum

  • CW2 Serum x1
  • Baba’s Hand x1
  • Alcohol x3
  • Skullcap x3

  • Heat Level: High
  • Bonus Effect: Permanently increases maximum carry weight

VP Serums (Visitation Event Protection)

VP-1 Serum

  • Wolf Gallstone x2
  • Ginseng x1
  • Motherwort x2
  • Scythe Blood x1
  • Gasoline x1

  • Heat Level: Low
  • Bonus Effect: Allows surviving a Visitation Event while in the open, if taken while the event is happening.

RP Serums (“Tunguska Syndrome” Poisoning Reduction)

RP-1 Serum

  • Spitter Vomit x2
  • Wolf Gallstone x1
  • Skullcap x3
  • Alcohol x2

  • Heat Level: Med-High
  • Bonus Effect: Removes 20 “T-Syndrome” amount (Poisoning) instantly

AS Serums (Arm Strength Bonus)

AS-1 Serum

  • Scythe Tendon x1
  • Mutated Brain x3
  • Elfdock x2
  • Spitter Liver x1
  • Gasoline x2

  • Heat Level: High
  • Bonus Effect: Temporarily improves “Arm Strength”, making melee attacks stronger and reducing weapon recoil.

RD Serums (Damage Reduction Bonus)

RD-1 Serum

  • Ghoul Blood x4
  • Scythe Blood x2
  • Spitter Vomit x2
  • Ginseng x2
  • Skullcap x3
  • Alcohol x1

  • Heat Level: Medium
  • Bonus Effect: +10 Damage Reduction for 3 in-game hours.

REG Serums (Passive Health Regen Bonus)

REG-1 Serum

  • Spitter Liver x3
  • Ginseng x2
  • Baba’s Hand x1
  • Gasoline x2

  • Heat Level: Medium
  • Bonus Effect: Greatly improves passive health regeneration for some time.

Section IV: Special Serum Recipes List

Special Serums

Important note: These serums are part of some quests. Making them before acquiring the recipe in the way intended by the Developer may cause anomalous consequences like breaking the game’s story or bugs. Make them before acquiring their recipe at your own risk!

Boris’ Special Serum

  • Incomplete Serum, Iteration 288 x1
  • Pyro’s Lung x1

  • Heat Level: Low
  • Bonus Effect: None: it’s a quest item.

Life Extension Serum (LE-1 Serum)

  • Ginseng x6
  • Motherwort x4
  • Baba’s Hand x2
  • Pyro’s Lung x1
  • Scythe Tendon x2
  • Gasoline x3

  • Heat Level: Low
  • Bonus Effect: None: it’s a quest item.
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