“Standing near this device will provide the survivor with new things they can craft.
Crafting something new for the first time gives a boost of 15 Sanity.
Once an item is crafted, the survivor will know how to craft that item even away from the machine.”
-
The Science Machine is the tier 1 Science station. It costs 1 Gold Nugget, 4 Logs, and 4 Rocks to craft, and it is available from the start of the game. Like other Prototyper, standing near the Science Machine allows prototyping new recipes. Prototyping items for the first time will grant the player 15 Sanity. Once prototyped, items can be crafted without being near a Science Machine.
The Loyal Terrible Ooze Machine skin was awarded for watching 6 hours of Don't Starve Together on Twitch from October 22, 2020 to November 26, 2020.
The Loyal Celebratory Science Machine was given out to everyone in honor of the decade of Don't Starve from April 27, 2023.
Woven - Elegant
Experimental Collection
Experimentation Apparatus
What will you do in the name of progress?
Woven - Elegant
Gothic Collection
Gothic Scientific Instrument
A little pipe organ music in the background really helps the science flow.
Loyal
Hallowed Nights Collection
Terrible Ooze Machine
It's positively oozing with scientific potential!
Loyal
Decennial Collection
Celebratory Science Machine
Celebrate a decade of survival... with some science!
Tips
When Wickerbottom is near a Science Machine, it acts as an Alchemy Engine, as she is already able to craft tier 1 science items, thus making the Science Machine serve as a tier 2 Science station.
Science machines may be hammered after an alchemy engine has been built to save resources.
Wickerbottom should skip the Science machine when playing in DST to let others also use tier 2 science recipes.
Trivia
In the early Beta version of Don't Starve, the game used a "Research Points" system, instead of prototyping. When Wilson examines the Science Machine, he states that "It breaks down items into their scientific components", which is a leftover dialogue script from when the game used Research Points.
Its old crafting description was "Probe the depths of the universe!".
The main section of this machine bears a resemblance to the weighted storage cubes in Valve's Portal series.
The Science Machine appears at the top of the screen when the game "Autosaves".
There appears to be rope turning the wheels on the machine, while no rope is needed to build it.
Attention: The following categories are only for the players look up the page based on their first impression, they have nothing to do with the actual categories/DLC/function/tags of these Things. Some of them are not even .
Attention: The following categories are only for the players look up the page based on their first impression, they have nothing to do with the actual categories/DLC/function/tags of these Things. Some of them are not even .
Attention: The following categories are only for the players look up the page based on their first impression, they have nothing to do with the actual categories/DLC/function/tags of these Things. Some of them are not even .
Attention: The following categories are only for the players look up the page based on their first impression, they have nothing to do with the actual categories/DLC/function/tags of these Things. Some of them are not even Structures.
Skins
![Dont Starve research machines gif by Kelly [1]](/wiki/File:Dont_Starve_research_machines_gif_by_Kelly.gif)
