Hi - am I missing something? I cannot use any scrap to help build the 1000 required science so it takes forever to craft using found objects and I cannot protect a base.

Should scrapophilus be found in some resource? I get none from ferric or copper scrap nor from picking up spidertron and other scrap.

Chemical plants filter Scrapophilus from Bacterial Sludge.

This information is in the factoriopedia, and in the recipe information in the technology that you unlocked in the tech tree.

Ah - worked it out

I needed to build a chem plant :-)