Hope I haven't mucked things up again. See, I visited the abandoned BOS bunker without entering Sierra Madre- I just wanted the Dean's Electronics stashed in there. Jammed my fingers everywhere, squeezed cloud residue out of Elijah's chem apparatus. Yay.

It's supposed to give more residue every 24 hours, but it's not putting out for me any more. That's fine, I figured i just needed to finish the DM questline before it would give me more gloop. But doubt lingered in my mind- after all, this game's scripts are notoriously crumbly. Maybe by touching it and not proceeding straight to the knock out gas chamber, I'd wrecked it.

So, downloaded a Skip Dead Money mod just to test this right quick. ("Earned" 2 steam achievements in 1 min, eeks! and quickly console'd myself a bottle cap to prevent any more cheevos from registering) Still can't twiddle with the chemistry apparatus, it won't let me. Course, the drop box isn't filling up every 3 days either. So in the end, that told me nothing. The cloud residue chem apparatus could still be broken, or it could well be the mod not triggering the chem set and dropbox scripts post completion.

Someone must know. Must DM be completed before the chem set can be reused daily? And more specifically, will it be reusable daily (post DM) even though i mucked around with it before entering Sierra Madre? (I'm planning to not return for Sierra Madre for quite a while. Maybe oh, 10 more levels...!) Has anyone here managed to break their chem sets, and if so, how did you manage it?

Yours in obsessive-compulsion,
Wussy

You have to complete DM by either trapping Elija in the vaiult or killing him outright and escaping before you collar goes boom. Once you do one of these the box will refill and you will continue to get residue.

I don't know how that mod works so I can't say what the problem is, but unless the final DM quest is completed the chemistry set will not refresh and the drop box will not function. I will take an educated guess and assume that the scripts for the chem set and the drop box have a routine that checks for the setting of the 'complete' flag for that quest, and if it is not set then the restock routines are not run.

Thanks for the replies. I'll just keep trucking on then.

Did you even read his post?