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Star Wars: The Old Republic has 6 different crafting skills you can choose from: Armormech, Artifice, Armstech, Synthweaving, Cybertech and Biochem. In this video, we’ll be going over how to start Biochem crafting, how to level up your Biochem crew skill and unlock more crafting schematics, and lastly, we’ll be going over some of the cool things you can craft with Biochem at higher levels including medpacs, adrenals and stims.<\/p>\n

Updated for 7.2 in 2023.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Basics of Biochem Crafting<\/h2>\n

You can start crafting after you’ve completed your first planet, at around level 10 or higher. There’s no penalty to starting late though, so if you want to save crafting for later, carry on following your purple quests and enjoying your class story.<\/p>\n

How to Start Biochem<\/h3>\n
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To choose a crafting skill, you’ll want to go to the Strongholds & Crew Skills section of the Fleet. If you’ve forgotten how to get to the Fleet, press P on your keyboard. In the General tab of your abilities there’s a useful ability called Emergency Fleet Pass. Once you are on the Fleet, open the map with the M key and look for the Strongholds & Crew Skills section. To pick up Biochem as your crafting skill, speak to the Biochem trainer in the rooms on the outer edge of the station. The room with crafting trainers in it is marked with a holographic sign with the shape of a gear or cog hanging over the room.<\/p>\n

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Matching Crew Skills<\/h3>\n

The two gathering crew skills that go with Biochem crafting are Diplomacy<\/strong> and Bioanalysis,<\/strong> which allow you to gather the materials to craft Biochem items, so go speak to the Diplomacy and Bioanalysis trainers in the next room, which is marked by the symbol of a hologram star.<\/p>\n

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Free-to-play and Preferred Accounts:<\/strong> If you are on a free-to-play account, you can only choose one crew skill per character, so you might instead take Biochem on one character, and Bioanalysis on another and have them work together, for a total of four character per server. If you’re a former subscriber, you’ll have two crew skill slots available, and if you’re a subscriber you naturally have 3 crew skill slots unlocked per character, so you can take all three complementary crew skills, Bioanalysis, Diplomacy and Biochem all on one character. The other major difference if you are not a subscriber\u00a0 you will only be able to queue one crafted item up at a time – as a subscriber, you can set your companion to craft five items in a row.<\/p>\n

How to Start Crafting with Biochem<\/h3>\n

Once you’ve picked your crafting and gathering skills, press the B key on your keyboard to open the crew skills window. You can also find crafting in the main menu labelled as Crew Skills, under a symbol of a triangle.<\/p>\n

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You start out at crafting level 0, and you’ll unlock more crafting recipes, known as schematics, from the Biochem trainer as you level up your crafting level.<\/p>\n

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You can click the Biochem icon from the crafting panel to open the crafting schematics window which shows everything you have available to craft – when you chose Biochem as a crew skill, you also received some basic schematics to help get you started, including some earpieces, and most importantly, something called an Cell Graft.<\/p>\n

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Your goal as an Biochemist will be to craft basic items to level up your Biochem skill level, which will then unlock more schematics including earpieces, mods, enhancements, grenades and ship parts. Earpieces are a type of equipment, mods and enhancements are modifications which you can place into moddable equipment, grenades are a combat item you can use to stun enemies, and ship parts help upgrade your ship in the solo space missions.<\/p>\n

The most basic part of Biochem crafting will be crafting different types of Cell Grafts.<\/p>\n\n