DNA Manipulator in The Planet Crafter: How to Unlock

Four steps.

The files give the DNA Manipulator an unlock of 80,000 Biomass, and they tie it to a stage called "TerraformStage7-Herbs" (the part after the dash is its name: Herbs). Biomass is one of the planet meters; the planets page has the Terraformation stage table, but the files give no Biomass-to-stage map, so I cannot say when on a given planet you hit 80,000 Biomass. Watch the Biomass meter.

If you want to see one before you build: the map has 1 placed DNA Manipulator (Toxicity 1) : open it.

The recipe is 1 Super Alloy, 1 Bioplastic nugget, 1 Explosive powder, 1 Zeolite, 1 Osmium. Counted to raw materials: 2 Silicon, 2 Sulfur, 2 Mushroom, 1 Aluminum, 1 Cobalt, 1 Ice, 1 Iridium, 1 Iron, 1 Magnesium, 1 Osmium, 1 Titanium, 1 Zeolite. It draws −117.5 Energy per second while it stands. The rare ones are Osmium and Zeolite; the Super Alloy is both an ore and a craft. Open the whole list in the calculator.

Explosive powder is 2 Sulfur, 1 Iridium at the Bio lab. Bioplastic nugget is 2 Mushroom, 1 Silicon, 1 Water bottle at the Bio lab; its Mushroom ingredient is a plant item with no recipe, so you find it, and the map has mushroom pins. Both crafts happen at the Biolab, which unlocks at 865 Biomass.

Build the DNA Manipulator. The Mutagen says "Mutagenic agent. Use it in the DNA Manipulator.". It is 1 Bacteria Sample, 1 Methane cartridge, 1 Sulfur at the Bio lab, and the Bacteria Sample inside it is 3 Algae, 3 Water bottle. The files do not list what a mutagen changes in the manipulator's output; that part of the machine is not described in them.

The rest of the chain is further up the unlock ladder: the Genetic extractor ("Allows the extraction of genes from a multitude of living beings") is stored at 350,000,000 Insects, and the Genetic synthesizer at 52,000,000,000 Biomass. Their products are Genetic trait ("Insert it in a genetic synthesizer to create a new creature") and Creature DNA ("Insert it into an animal shelter to spawn an animal").