Ancient Pseudoscience Station

An Ancient Pseudoscience Station is a Crafting Structure found only in the Ruins. It gives access to the Ancient Tab () or Ancient Pseudoscience Filter () and emits enough light to protect from Charlie when nearby.
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== Usage ==
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. In , 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.
=== Don't Starve Together===
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.
== Crafting Recipes ==
A Broken Ancient Pseudoscience Station offers 7 Ancient Crafting recipes in (half that of a fully repaired station), and 10 in .
A fully repaired Ancient Pseudoscience Station offers 14 Ancient Crafting recipes in (including the listed above), and 17 in .
== Item Drops ==
Possible result after a hammer strike:
Chance (Each)	Result
12.3% 	
11.2% 	, ×4, ×2-4, ×5, ×2, ×2
1.1% 	
0.56% 	
0.11% 	
0.056% 	
== 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.
== Gallery==
Altar Quote.png|Wilson examining a fully repaired Ancient Pseudoscience Station in the Sacred Biome.
Altar Summon.png|A broken Ancient Pseudoscience Station summoning lightning after being hit with a hammer.
Altar Broken Fully.png|Mayhem ensues after an Ancient Pseudoscience Station is hammered down.
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Category:Naturally Spawning Objects
Category:Structures
Category:Non-Renewable
Category:Crafting Stations
Category:Light Sources
Category:Mob Spawning Entities
Category:Fire Starter
Category:Non-Flammable
Category:Ancient Tab
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