BioShock Ultimate Rapture Edition for Xbox 360 - Tonic FAQ/guide by David Femperton Index 1.0 Intro & Notes 2.0 Rapture Tonics & Locations 2.1 Medical Pavilion 2.2 Neptunes Bounty 2.3 Arcadia 2.4 Farmer's Market 2.5 Fort Frolic 2.6 Hephaestus 2.7 Olympus Heights 2.8 Apollo Square 2.9 Point Prometheus 3.0 Earned Tonics 3.1 Research Related Tonics 3.2 U-Invent Tonics 3.3 Gifted Tonics 4.0 Purchase Only Tonics 5.0 Complete Tonic List 5.1 Tonic Achievement Tonics 5.1.1 Physical Tonics 5.1.2 Combat Tonics 5.1.3 Engineering Tonics 5.2 Plasmid Pack DLC Tonics 6.0 Writer's character build 7.0 Legal Stuff ==== 1.0 Intro & Notes This guide is designed to help the user locate and earn all known tonics in the Bioshock Ultimate Rapture Edition release. Although it is written to include information on the DLC tonics it is geared towards earning the "Tonic Collector" achievement as part of a single full-achievement (All 1100GS) Run. The information contained herein has been verified on the X360 Version of Bioshock Ultimate Rapture Edition and is deemed reliable, but may not be accurate for all versions. There are 58 known Gene tonics in Bioshock, 53 are necessary to complete the related achievement and an additional five may be purchased as part of the Plasmid Pack DLC (5.2). The most Adam-Conservative Breakdown of Tonics is as follows: -30 MAY be found in Rapture (2.0) - 9 MAY be earned through research (3.1) - 3 MUST be invented at U-Invent Machines (3.2) - 3 MAY be earned as gifts from the little sisters (3.3) - 8 MUST be purchased form Gatherer's Garden Machines (4.0) Since Adam is a precious resource around rapture, it is in your best interest to follow this breakdown. The more tonics you purchase from Gatherer's Garden, the less you have to spend on other upgrades. ==== ==== 2.0 Collectable Tonics & Locations: Searching Rapture thoroughly for these freebies will net you 30 tonics in total. Although these can be purchased from various Gatherer's Garden Locations, it is in your best interest to find them instead to maximize your Adam dollar. ==== 2.1 Medical Pavilion (5 tonics) ------------------------------- _-Hacker's Delight - Eternal Flame Crematorium - In the furnace after cremating a splicer _-Security Expert - Twilight Fields - On a shelf _-Wrench Jockey - Kure-All Store - Crawl through vent into secret room _-Speedy Hacker - Painless Dental - In room in the corner _-Static Discharge - Surgery Lobby - Near Steinman's laboratory 2.2 Neptune's Bounty (4 tonics) ------------------------------- _-Medical Expert - Lower Wharf - Can be seen on normal route _-Wrench Lurker - Lower Wharf - By Gene Bank _-Focused Hacker - Fontaine Fishery - Trapped in ice, retrieved with incinerate _-Shorten Alarms - Fighting McDonaugh's Tavern - Room 7 2.3 Arcadia (2 tonics) ---------------------- _-Security Evasion - Lower Concourse - Can be seen on normal route _-Hacking Expert - Research Lab - On desk 2.4 Farmer's Market (2 tonics) ------------------------------ _-EVE Link 2 - Farmer's Market Entrance - Around RPG Turret _-Photographer's Eye - Worley's Winery - In the small basement room 2.5 Fort Frolic (5 tonics) -------------------------- _-Alarm Expert - Fleet Hall - Balcony ledge on left _-Frozen Field - Frozen Tunnel - On Martin Finnegan's corpse (search) _-Extra Nutrition 2 - Poseidon Plaza - Flooded basement _-Medical Expert 2 - Atrium - Gift for completing Cohen's masterpiece _-Electric Flesh - Fleet Hall - In the projection room, unlocked with Med Ex 2 2.6 Hephaestus (4 tonics) ------------------------- _-Frozen Field 2 - Hephaestus - Bunk bed room adjacent to Ryan's Trophy Room _-Security Evasion 2 - Heat Loss Monitoring - Across from electric water area _-Damage Research - Workshops - Secret area under the stairs _-Shorten Alarms 2 - Geothermal Core - lowest area 2.7 Olympus Heights (2 tonics): ------------------------------ _-Clever Inventor - Mercury Suites - Flooded area of Suchong's apartment _-Electric Flesh 2 - Mercury Suites - Fontaine's apartment near Lot 192 2.8 Apollo Square (2 tonics) ----------------------------- _-Medical Expert 3 - Artemis Suites - Operating room in free clinic _-Focused Hacker 2 - Hestia Suites - Atlas' headquarters downstairs area (on 4th floor) 2.9 Point Prometheus (4 tonics) ------------------------------- _-Safe Cracker 2 - Little Wonder Education Facility - Window in autopsy room _-Alarm Expert 2 - Live Subject Room - near the voice box machine _-Damage Research 2 - Mendel Library - Check out counter _-Hacker's Delight 3 - Suit Assembly - Room with Rosie helmets === 3.0 Earned Tonics These tonics are earned through quest rewards. They can either be earned by completing research (9), saving little sisters (3), or invented at the U-Invent machines (3). Again, although some of these can be purchased, it is in your best interest to earn them, as doing so conserves your precious Adam. If you are doing a playthrough where you are harvesting little sisters, know that you will miss out on the gifted tonics. === 3.3 Research Related Tonics (9 Tonics) -------------------------------------- _-Natural Camouflage - Houdini Splicer _-Sportboost - Thuggish Splicer _-Sportboost 2 - Thuggish Splicer _-Scrounger - Leadhed Splicer _-Static Discharge 2 - Leadhead Splicer _-Wrench Jockey 2 - Bouncer-type Big Daddy _-Photographer's Eye 2 - Rosie-type Big Daddy _-Security Expert 2 - Security Robots _-Extra Nutrition 3 - Spider Splicer 3.2 U-Invent Tonics (3 Tonics) ------------------------------ _-Booze Hound _-Bloodlust _-Hacker's Delight 2 3.3 Gifted Tonics (3 Tonics) ---------------------------- _-Safecracker - Found in 2nd little sister gift (6 little sisters rescued) _-Armored Shell 2 - Found in 5th little sister gift (15 little sisters rescued) _-Prolific Inventor - Found in 6th little sister gift (18 little sisters rescued) === 4.0 Purchase Only Tonics The remaining eight tonics MUST be purchased at gatherers garden. There is no other known way to earn them. The matrix below indicates the price as well as the availability of the tonic at each of the gather's gardens. If you are playing on hard and trying to conserve Adam, my advice would be to wait until point prometheus to purchase any tonic you do not intend to include in your character build. Once you complete Point Prometheus you should have collected/crafted/earned/been gifted all the remaining tonics for a running total of 45 tonics (more if you made any GG purchases). There are 3 little sisters in point prometheus, which will net you 440 Adam total if you rescue them. Save your game and purchase the 5 listed below at the Point Prometheus GG. You can then double back to Neptunes Bounty or Arcadia Via the bathysphere to collect the remaining two tonics, pop the achievement, reload your game and then spend the remaining Adam according to your preference. It won't hurt too much to take this route since the Adam you end up spending on the tonics cannot be earned until your arrival at Point Prometheus. Just be sure to be conscientious of the way you want to ultimately build your character until you arrive at Point Prometheus and be sure to do your tonic work up to that point! === Gatherer's Garden MP NB Ar FM FF He OH AS PP | _-Armored Shell - 20 Adam X X X X X X X X X | _-EVE Link - 20 Adam X X X | _-Extra Nutrition - 20 Adam X X X X | _-Human Inferno - 20 Adam X X X X X X X | _-Hacking Expert 2 - 50 Adam X X X X X | _-Wrench Lurker 2 - 50 Adam X X X X | _-Speedy Hacker 2 - 50 Adam X X X | _-Human Inferno 2 - 50 Adam X | Total Adam cost - 280 Adam ==== 5.0 Complete Tonic Checklist There are 58 tonics in total with only 53 counting towards the Tonic Collector achievement. The additional five tonics are found in the Plasmid Pack DLC and are not required to earn the achievement and do not count towards the 53 tonic requirement. Of the base 53 tonics, there are 19 Physical, 16 Engineering and 18 Combat. The list below is sorted by the tonic class and location codes have been added to cross reference against the previous sections. Legend: F-Found in Rapture C-Created at a U-Invent G-Gifted by little sister R-Found In the course of research P-Purchase Only ==== ==== 5.1 Tonic Achievement Tonics All 53 tonics required to earn the "Tonic Collector" achievement ==== 5.1.1 Physical Tonics -19 Total ------------------------------- _-P-EVE Link _-F-EVE Link 2 _-F-Medical Expert 1 _-F-Medical Expert 2 _-F-Medical Expert 3 _-P-Extra Nutrition _-F-Extra Nutrition 2 _-R-Extra Nutrition 3 _-C-Bloodlust _-R-Sportboost _-R-Sportboost 2 _-R-Natural Camouflage _-F-Security Evasion _-F-Security Evasion 2 _-C-Booze Hound _-F-Hacker's Delight _-C-Hacker's Delight 2 _-F-Hacker's Delight 3 _-R-Scrounger 5.1.2 Engineering Tonics - 16 tonics ------------------------------------ _-F-Shorten Alarms _-F-Shorten Alarms 2 _-F-Security Expert 1 _-R-Security Expert 2 _-F-Alarm Expert _-F-Alarm Expert 2 _-F-Focused Hacker _-F-Focused Hacker 2 _-F-Hacking Expert _-P-Hacking Expert 2 _-G-Prolific Inventor _-F-Clever Inventor _-F-Speedy Hacker _-P-Speedy Hacker 2 _-G-Safecracker _-F-Safecracker 2 5.1.3 Combat Tonics - 18 tonics ------------------------------- _-F-Photographer's Eye _-R-Photographer's Eye 2 _-F-Damage Research _-F-Damage Research 2 _-F-Wrench Jockey _-R-Wrench Jockey 2 _-F-Frozen Field _-F-Frozen Field 2 _-F-Electric Flesh _-F-Electric Flesh 2 _-F-Static Discharge _-R-Static Discharge 2 _-P-Armored Shell _-G-Armored Shell 2 _-F-Wrench Lurker _-P-Wrench Lurker 2 _-P-Human Inferno _-P-Human Inferno 2 ==== 5.2 DLC Tonics - Found in Gatherers Garden after v1.1 patch and DLC, v2 tonics are bugged in Ultimate Rapture Edition and won't appear in gatherers garden. The Ultimate Rapture Edition also lists these for 20 Adam each instead of just 1 Adam as they have been in previous versions. Note that these are NOT required as part of the "Tonic Collector" achievement, and their collection does NOT count towards the 53 tonic requirement. ==== _-Eve Saver _-Machine Buster _-Machine Buster 2 _-Vending Expert _-Vending Expert 2 ==== 6.0 Writer's Character Build Thought I would add the build that I used when I did my 100% Achievement run. I rescued all little sisters, giving me a 3080 Adam Budget. ==== General: 4x Plasmid Slot 400 4x Physical Tonic Slot 320 4x Engineering Tonic Slot 320 4x Combat Tonic Slot 320 8x Health Upgrade 640 7x Eve Upgrade 560 ------------------------------- Net 2560 Plasmids: Electro Bolt 3 120 Target Dummy 30 Incinerate 3 120 Winter Blast 3 120 ------------------------------- Net 390 Tonics: Wrench Lurker 2 50 Armored Shell 20 Eve Link 20 Human Inferno 20 Eve Saver * 20 ------------------------------- Net 130 General 2560 Plasmids 390 Tonics 130 ------------------------------- Grand Total 3080 When I reached Point prometheus I had everything except for a couple of health and eve upgrades and Winter Blast 3 and Incinerate 3. 7.0 Legal stuff Copyright 2013 David Femperton. Not to be reproduced or re-hosted without permission. ====