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An Ancient Pseudoscience Station is a Crafting Structure found only in the Ruins. It gives access to the Ancient Crafting Tab and emits enough light to protect from Charlie when nearby.

When struck with a Hammer, in either the full or broken state, lightning will strike the player and the station will either drop loot or spawn enemies (see the table below). Upon destruction it also drops 2 Thulecite, 1 Nightmare Fuel with a 50% chance, 1 Frazzled Wires with a 50% chance, and 1 Rocks with a 50% chance.

A fully repaired Ancient Pseudoscience Station will be completely destroyed after 10 hits from a Hammer, causing 11 lightning strikes (2 strikes following the 10th hammer hit) and drops.

Many broken stations are found naturally in the Ruins with only 1 hit left and have half the available recipes (7 instead of 14), but will still emit light. Thulecite can be used to repair a broken station, using 32-34 Thulecite Fragments (or for simplicity 6 Thulecite) to obtain a fully repaired Station. The last stage of repair causes a lightning strike. To obtain never ending loot drops and lightning strikes a player could hit the station with a hammer and then repair it with 3-4 Thulecite Fragments per hammer strike. However, this will generate many more monsters than valuable loot, so be prepared to fight.


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In Don't Starve Together, killing the Ancient Fuelweaver will cause all the Broken and Repaired Ancient Pseudoscience Stations to respawn. Damaging stations with a hammer will also not cause lightning strikes.

Walter can make Cursed Rounds from his Slingshot Ammo Tab when next to any Ancient Pseudoscience Station.

Ancient Pseudoscience Station Crafting Recipes[]

A Broken Ancient Pseudoscience Station offers 7 Ancient Crafting recipes in Don't Starve icon (half that of a fully repaired station), and 10 in Don't Starve Together icon.

A fully repaired Ancient Pseudoscience Station offers 14 Ancient Crafting recipes in Don't Starve icon (including the listed above), and 17 in Don't Starve Together icon.

Hammer Item Drops[]

Possible result after a hammer strike:

Chance (Each) Result
12.3% Crawling Horror Terrorbeak
11.2% Gears, Trinkets×4, Splumonkey×2-4, Batilisk×5, Cave Spider×2, Spitter×2
1.1% Dwarf Star Old
+25 Health Meter / -10 Health Meter (Don't Starve icon)
0.56% Red GemBlue GemOrange GemGreen GemPurple Gem
0.11% Meat EffigyIce StaffFire StaffTelelocator StaffThe Lazy ExplorerDeconstruction StaffStar Caller's StaffLife Giving AmuletChilled AmuletNightmare AmuletThe Lazy ForagerConstruction AmuletMagiluminescenceThulecite
0.056% Marble SuitNight ArmorSnurtle Shell Armor

Prototype Tips[]

  • Lightning Rods placed nearby will divert any lightning strikes.
  • A WX-78 player traveling to the ruins can benefit from hitting an Ancient Pseudoscience Station, as the lightning strikes will give them a System Overload.
  • It's possible to keep destroying/repairing a station for the purpose of farming items, but enemies have a much higher chance to spawn than any of the loot.
  • A naturally occurring fully operational Ancient Pseudoscience Station will typically have more Ancient Clockwork enemies guarding it, along with two Nightmare Lights beside it.

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