Alchemy

Alchemy
LP Cost	20000
Skill(s) Required	Hearth Magic, Plant Lore, Glass Blowing.
Skill(s) Enabled	None
Hearth Magic(s) Unlocked	None
Required By (7)	Alchemist's Table, Burette, Fine Scales, Mortar & Pestle, Retort, Testtube Rack, Tripod Burner
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Alchemy allows you to create Elixirs, consumable potions, that can heal wounds and buff stats and potentially add new wounds too. Elixirs are created by combining ingredients with alchemical properties. Presently, herbs (specifically, only Forageables) and minerals (both Stones and Ores) generally have alchemical properties. Each alchemy ingredient has four randomized potential effects.

Elixirs can currently only be stored in Clay Jars and you need to discover one to unlock elixir recipes.

In-Game Text

"Anthing, Deceit in heart,
mixed, by pale moonlight,
powder, blood, and secret herbs,
to right a wrong percieved."

Alchemy allows you to mix potions and elixirs with various effects, and can for example give temporary increases to Skills or Attributes, or heal wounds. Alchemical potions and processes often use a plethora of tools, form Mortal & Pestle to Burettes, as well as the Alchemist's Table workbench. If elixirs aren't showing up in your crafting menu, try discovering a Clay Jar first.

Base Alchemical ingredients, chiefly herbs and minerals, all have various base effects, and the key to a successful elixir is to combine several ingredients with the same effects. If two or more effects are matched in the ingredients, that effect will also be present in the final elixir.

Some alchemical processes can also create, rather than elixirs, new ingredients, by selectively combining effects from the ingredients used to make them.

Rules

• All potential effects present in at least two of the ingredients will be present in the final Elixir.
• If a potential effect is present in more than two of the ingredients, the effect will become increasingly more powerful.
• All unmatched potential effects, present in only one of the ingredients, will serve to increase the harmfulness of the elixir. Elixirs generally cause some type of wound in addition to their positive effect, unless all potential effects in the ingredients are perfectly matched.
• There are also Alchemical Processes, which consume alchemical ingredients to produce new, processed ingredients, combining, and often removing, the potential effects present in the materials used to produce them, to create cleaner ingredients, with fewer potential effects, and thus with less risk of harm.
• A raw material -- base ingredient acquired from nature -- can only be used once in an alchemical elixir or process, meaning that you can't, for example, use both Blueberries and an Herbal Grind made from two blueberries, to create a perfectly matched elixir.
• Most processes require the use of some combination of Alchemical tools, such as the Alchemist's Table, Retort, Burette, Testtube Rack, Fine Scales, Mortar & Pestle, or Tripod Burner.

Another discovery made by playerbase, is that each alchemical ingredient has it's own order of alchemical properties, which is meaningful during alchemical processes.

Alchemical Processes

Lye Ablution
Effect: Removes first alchemical property of an ingredient, as a result you will receive ingredient with only 3 alchemical properties.
Required tools: Retort

Fiery combustion
Effect: Removes second alchemical property of an ingredient, as a result you will receive ingredient with only 3 alchemical properties.
Required tools: Tripod Burner

Herbal Grind
Effect: Creates new unique alchemical ingredient from two herbs, which opens a large variety of new unique alchemical ingredients.
Required tools: Mortar & Pestle

Measured Distillate
Effect: Creates one ingredient from two, taking only two first properties from them, as a result you will receive ingredient with 2 alchemical properties
Required tools: Retort, Burette, Testtube Rack

Mineral Calcination
Effect: Not investigated
Required tools: Tripod Burner

Processes example:
Say, you are making a Mushroom Decoction elixir.
You have a Mushroom, and 4 different alchemical ingredients. You know all effects of the ingredients, and their order.
Let's assume, you have next ingredients with next alchemical properties:
Mushroom: (Intelligence, Agility, Nasty Wart, Concussion)
Rock1:(Unarmed Combat, Agility, Adder Bite, Starvation)
Herb1:(Intelligence, Cooking, Starvation, Nettle Burn)
Rock2:(Adder Bite, Will, Nasty Wart, Farming)
Herb2:(Concussion, Lore, Cooking, Nasty Laceration)

Required processes will be:
Herb2 + Herb1 = Measured distillate1(Concussion, Intelligence) // You took two first effects from both ingredients, to receive ingredient with 2 effects.
Rock1 = Lye Ablution1(Agility, Adder Bite, Starvation) // You have removed first effect, to receive ingredient with 3 effects. Note that second effect became first.
Rock2 = Fiery combustion(Adder Bite, Nasty Wart, Farming) = Lye Ablution2(Nasty Wart, Farming) // You have removed first and second effects with two processes and received ingredient with 2 effects.
Lye Ablution1 + Lye Ablution2 = Measured distillate2(Nasty Wart, Agility) // You have combined two Lye Ablution to take first effects from each, to receive ingredient with 2 effects.
Measured distillate2 + Measured distillate1 + Mushroom = Mushroom Decoction // All ingredient properties have matched, so you received an elixir that will have 4 positive effects(Intelligence, Agility, Nasty Wart, Concussion), with no negative effects.

Quality

• Elixir Quality = [Verify: elixir quality.] and is softcapped by [Verify: elixir softcap.]
  • Herbal Swill Quality = ${\frac {_{q}Water+_{q}AlchemicalIngridient+_{q}Herb+_{q}Mortar\&Pestle}{4}}$

• Elixir Buff = $2^{(n-2)}*10*{\sqrt {\frac {_{q}Elixir}{10}}}$
  • n - is number of matching effects of ingredients

• Elixir Damage = [Verify: elixir damage formula.]

Alchemy ingredients

Each listed base attribute or ability gives stat bonus, as well as every name of wound gives healing effect for such wound. Properties are not ordered (order is important for processing) (Bold = Ordered).

World 14 Ingredient Reactions

Name	Property1	Property2	Property3	Property4
Alabaster	Punch Sore	Melee Combat	Crab Caressed	Sewing
Apatite	Quicksilver Poisoning	Beesting	Shorter Duration	Melee Combat
Arkose	Unarmed Combat	Psyche	Intelligence	Adder Bite
Basalt	Quicksilver Poisoning	Survival	UA \ Stealth ???	Carpentry
Bat Rock
Bay Bolete	Strength	Lore	Jellyfish Sting	Punch Sore
Black Coal	Quill'd	Shorter Duration	Quicksilver Poisoning
Black Ore
Black Truffles
Black Trumpets
Bloated Bolete	Lore	Fell Slash	Perception
Bloodstern	Perception	Constitution	Fell Slash	Longer Duration
Bloodstone
Blueberry	Exploration	Seal Finger	Severe Mauling	Jellyfish Sting
Breccia	Strength	Stealth	Rot Gut
Camomile
Candleberry
Cassiterite	Survival	Marksmanship	Shorter Duration
Cat Gold	Shorter Duration	Quill'd	Wretched Gore	Bird Lung
Cattail Fibres	Shorter Duration	Perception	Adder Bite
Cattail Head	Intelligence	Carpentry	Dexterity	Cooking
Cattail Roots	Psyche	Severe Mauling	Will	Smithing
Cavebulb	Adder Bite	Psyche	Asphyxiation	Hearth Burn
Cave Lantern	Dexterity	Cruel Incision
Chalcopyrite	Constitution	Blunt Trauma
Chantrelles	Dragon Bite	Blade Kiss	Psyche	Fell Slash
Chert	Deep Cut	Melee Combat	Jellyfish	Swamp Fever
Chiming Bluebell
Chives	Sewing	Marksmanship	Aching Joints	Unarmed Combat
Cinnabar	Carpentry	Sewing
Clover	Intelligence	Psyche	Perception	Punch Sore
Coltsfoot	Unarmed Combat	Perception	Bruise
Dandelion	Beesting	Cruel Incision	Allergic Reaction	Severe Mauling
Dewy Lady's Mantle	Agility	Perception		Psyche
Diabase	Pipewheeze	Exploration	Charisma
Dill	Shorter Duration	Strength
Diorite	Longer Duration
Direvein
Dolomite	Smithing	Dexterity	Jellyfish Sting
Dove Droppings	Psyche	Shorter Duration ??	Leech Burns ??
Dried Morels
Dross
Dusk Fern	Beesting	Farming	Marksmanship	Charisma
Eclogite
Edelweiß
Fairy Mushroom
Feldspar	Survival	Shorter Duration	Lore	Unfaced
Field Blewits
Flint	Agility	Sand Flea Bites	Perception	Melee Combat
Fluorospar	Lore	Smithing	Psyche	Cruel Incision
Frog's Crown	Nasty Wart	Rot Gut	Jellyfish Sting
Gabbro	Agility	Melee Combat
Galena
Ghost Apple	Shorter Duration	Strength	Longer Duration
Giant Puffball
Glimmermoss	Strength
Gneiss	Strength
Granite
Graywacke	Wretched Gore
Green Kelp
Greenschist
Heartsease	Beesting	Charisma	Aching Joints
Heavy Earth
Hornblende	Deep Cut
Horn Silver
Indigo Cap
Iron Ochre	Starvation
Jasper	Smithing
Korund
Kvann	Psyche	Marksmanship
Kyanite	Exploration	Aching Joints	Melee Combat
Lady's Mantle	Asphyxiation	Lore	Leech Burns	Longer Duration
Lamp Stalk	Nasty Laceration	Cooking	Dexterity
Lead Glance	Constitution	Carpentry
Leaf Ore
Liberty Caps	Cruel Incision	Unfaced	Will	Perception
Limestone	Charisma	Swamp Fever	Chills & Nausea	Beesting
Lingonberries	Starvation	Seal Finger	Sewing
Malachite	Dexterity	Constitution
Mandrake Root	Carpentry	Farming
Marble
Marsh-Mallow
Mica	Jellyfish Sting
Microlite	Quicksilver Poisoning	Farming
Mistletoe	Intelligence
Morels	Adder Bite	Unarmed Combat	Carpentry	Survival
Olivine
Orthoclase	Marksmanship
Oyster Mushroom	Smithing	Strength	Seal Finger	Nasty Laceration
Parasol Mushroom
Parboiled Morels
Peacock Ore
Pegmatite	Unarmed Combat	Quicksilver Poisoning
Perfect Autumn Leaf	Perception	Stealth	Fell Slash	Sand Flea Bites
Porphyry	Severe Mauling	Exploration	Stealth
Pumice
Quarryartz	Smithing	Jellyfish Sting
Quartz	Sewing	Aching Joints
Reed	Survival	Quicksilver Poisoning	Farming
Rhyolite
Rock Crystal
Royal Toadstool	Unarmed Combat	Fell Slash
Ruby Bolete
Rustroot
Sage
Sandstone
Schist
Schrifterz
Shard of Conch
Silvershine
Slag	Will	Dragon Bite	Blade Kiss	Crab Caressed
Slate
Sleighbell
Snowtop	Agility	Melee Combat
Soapstone	Melee Combat
Sunstone	Melee Combat	Starvation
Sodalite	Cooking	Hearth Burn	Dragon Bite
Spindly Taproot	Adder Bite
Stalagoom	Perception	Dexterity	Cooking	Shorter Duration
Stinging Nettle
Strawberry	Constitution
Tangled Bramble
Thorny Thistle
Thyme
Troll Mushrooms
Trombone Chantrelle
Uncommon Snapdragon
Washed-up Bladderwrack
Waybroad	Psyche
White Truffles
Wild Windsown Weed
Wine Glance	Seal Finger	Bruises	Beesting	Exploration
Wintergreen
Yarrow
Yellowfeet	Crab Caressed	Unarmed Combat	Nicks & Knacks
Zincspar	Wretched Gore

As of world 14, alchemy reactions ware reset
Archived: W12 ingredient list
Archived: W13 ingredient list

Game Development

• Strange Crown (2022-10-23)◎ >""Fairy Mushrooms" now have alchemical properties."

• Liberty Shrimp (2022-09-11)◎ >""Reeds" are now an alchemical ingredient."

• Possessed Purse (2021-06-13)◎ >"Cat Gold is now an alchemical ingredient."

• Through a Glass Darkly (2020-08-16)◎ >"If you manage to impart the same potential effect more than once on an alchemical ingredient, it will only count once for the purposes of positive Elixir effects, but still count as a matched effect, and reduce the potion's negative side effect."

• Alchemical Adventures (2020-07-31)◎ >"Alchemy is unlocked using the Alchemy Skill, unlocked with Hearth Magic and Plant Lore."

• Alchemical Adventures (2020-07-31)◎ >"EDIT: Elixirs cannot be consumed while in combat, or when you have another Elixir already active."

• Alchemical Adventures (2020-07-31)◎ >"Added Alchemy."

• Alchemical Adventures (2020-07-31)◎ >"You can now create Elixirs, consumable potions, using alchemy. Beneficial Elixirs can give stat buffs for a duration, or heal wounds."