Chemical Plant

Chemical Plant is a map featured in SFD, added in Pre-Alpha 1.7.0.

Visual Characteristics
Chemical Plant features a green background, with lots of pipes. The background also contains many other factory-like equipment, including machines with gauges and containers. The entire background is coloured green, with the exception of a small room in the top left, which has an orange background.

Perhaps the most immediately eye-catching feature of the map is the two large acid vats positioned at the bottom of the map; Chemical Plant is the only map to feature these acid vats. The map contains a lot of ladders and platforms, with only a few elevated parts of the map featuring solid tiles. Chemical Plant also features a long conveyor belt that leads into the acid vats, with weak wooden crates spawning periodically on the conveyor belt. A moving and swinging hook can also be seen in the centre of the map.

The map also features two lifts and one set of portals.

Gameplay
Chemical Plant is extremely open, and as such, obtaining a firearm and getting cover should be your first priorities, similarly to Alley. Even with a piece of cover, it is difficult to avoid being exposed from multiple angles anywhere on the map. Any automatic weapon can be useful on this map, as it can be used to set off the multiple explosive barrels on the right-hand side of the map, or used to spray across the map to hit people through the thin metal platforms that are spread out across most of the map.

The section below the thick red metal platform is usually the safest place of the map, as it is one of the only places throughout the map that provides reliable and durable cover (the acid vats, the red platform itself and any other cover that may spawn down there). If you struggle to find weapons at the start, retreating down to this area and waiting until the early chaos dies down is usually a good idea. The room with the orange background in the top-left is another good safe haven and can be an excellent vantage point to fire onto other places, especially if durable cover (like the metal desk) spawns near the edge of the room; this will give you the opportunity to open fire on an extremely large portion of the map.

The acid vats have unique properties, if you are launched into the acid inside the vat, you will instantly die. However, in some lucky cases, a player may land in-between the acid vats, which will leave you exposed to bullet from all directions, but will save you from the lethal acid below.

The conveyor belt constantly moves towards the acid vats, and cannot be stopped, or its direction changed (like on Pistons). The weak crates that spawn on the belt can give you temporary cover, but are risky to rely on. It is best to avoid the conveyor belt section altogether as it is usually risky and unsafe to stay in.

Tips

 * The ledge grab on the wall in the bottom-right can be exploited; if you jump off the lift and hug the wall while holding right, you will ledge grab onto it and it will remove all fall damage.
 * There is a small area of the acid vat underneath where the conveyor belt ends that the player can stand on.

Lore & Trivia

 * Chemical Plant is one of the many industrial/factory-themed maps, and contributes to the assumption that Sunny City is extremely industrialised.