Catalyze

Go to Gadgeteer Skills (level 12 skill, trained at the Training Room)

Catalyze

You built yourself a fancy catalyzer unit in your hideout that can be used to convert materials at the molecular level.

Upgrades materials with a catalyzer unit

Passive Skill

Notes

The items that can be catalyzed depend on S, where S is the number of skill points invested.

S required	Source item	Target item	Time
0	Titanium	Tritanium	60 minutes
1	Plasteel	Polysteel	90 minutes
2	Paper Mache	Cast	30 minutes
2	Ionic Tonic	Ionic Cloud	45 minutes
2	Bezoar	Bezoar Juice	45 minutes
2	Item	The Most Interesting Item in the World	45 minutes
2	Foul fowl	Fragrant fowl	45 minutes
2	Groundwater	Alien Mineral Water	45 minutes
2	Red Pill	Red Horse Pill	45 minutes
2	Athelas Leaf	Athelas Capsule	45 minutes
2	Advanced Medkit	Bleeding Edge Medkit	45 minutes
2	Blockee potion	Blue Blockee potion	45 minutes
2	It's Still Good! Draught	Regoodened Draught	60 minutes
2	Spinning Ingot	Heroic Visage	60 minutes
2	Bion	Byeon	120 minutes
3	Cybertronium	Byzantium	90 minutes
4	Caffeine Pill	Small Hyper-C	45 minutes
4	Pre-Coffee	Postprecoffee	45 minutes
4	X-Presso	Drop of Hyper-C	45 minutes
4	Powdered Mojo	Large Hyper-C	60 minutes
4	Ye Olde Toffee	Toffee Torus	120 minutes
5	Clockwork Core	Steamwork Core	60 minutes
6	Cryonite	Pentium	60 minutes
7	Asp Evader	Custom Evader	120 minutes
7	Old-style Ambulance	Waaambulance	120 minutes
7	Motorcycle	Lightningcycle	120 minutes
7	Well-worn Minivan	A Team Van	120 minutes
7	Moped	Motorpede	120 minutes
7	Unbranded Jalopy	Luxury Chameleon	120 minutes
7	Lexura Infinides D-8	Lexura Infinides D20	120 minutes
8	Cavorite	Paladinum	90 minutes
9	Tok'l Ore	Yuggothium	90 minutes
10	Illuminum	Malkamite	90 minutes

In practice used from the Workbench interface at your Hideout.
Catalysis functions like decryption on a computer; the conversion process works in the background as you patrol.
When skill points were first introduced, the items that could be catalyzed were to depend on S:

S required	Source item	Target item	Time
0	Titanium	Tritanium	60 minutes
0	Plasteel	Polysteel	90 minutes
3	Cybertronium	Byzantium	90 minutes
6	Cryonite	Pentium	60 minutes
8	Cavorite	Paladinum	90 minutes
10	Illuminum	Malkamite	90 minutes
?	Caffeine pill	small hyper-c	45 minutes
?	Powdered mojo	large hyper-c	60 minutes