Alchemy

Alchemy
"Anthing, deceit in heart, mixed, by pale moonlight, powder, blood, and secret herbs, to right a wrong perceived."
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 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, from Mortar & Pestle to Burettes, as well as the Alchemist's Table workbench."

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

... 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	Asphyxiation	Dexterity	Farming
Black Truffles
Black Trumpets	Intelligence
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	Sewing
Camomile
Candleberry	Lore	Rot gut	Shorter Duration	Agility
Cassiterite	Survival	Marksmanship	Shorter Duration	Maddening Rash
Cat Gold	Shorter Duration	Quill'd	Wretched Gore	Bird Lung
Cattail Fibres	Shorter Duration	Perception	Adder Bite	Agility
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	Bum Burn	Nasty Wart
Chalcopyrite		Blunt Trauma	Constitution
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	Sewing	Cooking	Jellyfish Sting	Carpentry
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	Deep Cut	Psyche
Diabase	Pipewheeze	Exploration	Charisma
Dill	Shorter Duration	Strength	Blunt Trauma
Diorite	Longer Duration	Blade Kiss	Allergic Reaction
Direvein
Dolomite	Smithing	Dexterity	Jellyfish Sting	Longer Duration
Dove Droppings	Psyche	Shorter Duration ??	Leech Burns ??
Dried Morels	Psyche ??
Dross	Strength	Jellyfish Sting	Smithing
Dusk Fern	Beesting	Farming	Marksmanship	Charisma
Eclogite	Exploration	Shorter Duration	Longer Duration	Psyche
Edelweiß
Fairy Mushroom
Feldspar	Survival	Shorter Duration	Lore	Unfaced
Field Blewits	Carpentry	Psyche	Something Broken	Intelligence
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	Intelligence	Exploration
Galena
Ghost Apple	Shorter Duration	Strength	Longer Duration
Giant Puffball	Marksmanship	Sewing
Glimmermoss	Strength
Gneiss	Strength	Psyche	Punch Sore	Wretched Gore?
Granite	Cooking	Perception	Intelligence	Charisma
Graywacke	Wretched Gore	Longer Duration	Pipewheeze
Green Kelp	Carpentry	Antcid Burns	Sewing	Intelligence
Greenschist	Shorter Duration	Nidburns
Heartsease	Beesting	Charisma	Aching Joints
Heavy Earth
Hornblende	Constitution	Deep Cut	Exploration
Horn Silver
Indigo Cap
Iron Ochre	Starvation
Jasper	Bird Lung	Smithing	Agility	Nasty Wart
Korund
Kvann	Psyche	Marksmanship
Kyanite	Melee Combat	Aching Joints	Survival	Exploration
Lady's Mantle	Asphyxiation	Lore	Leech Burns	Longer Duration
Lamp Stalk	Nasty Laceration	Cooking	Dexterity
Lead Glance	Constitution	Carpentry	Severe Mauling
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	Smithing
Marsh-Mallow
Mica	Aching Joints	Nasty Laceration	Cooking	Jellyfish Sting
Microlite		Farming	Quicksilver Poisoning	Perception
Mistletoe	Intelligence	Severe Mauling	Carpentry
Morels	Adder Bite	Unarmed Combat	Carpentry	Survival
Olivine	Charisma	Starvation	Exploration	Unfaced
Orthoclase	Marksmanship	Rot gut
Oyster Mushroom	Smithing	Strength	Seal Finger	Nasty Laceration
Parasol Mushroom	Dragon's Bite	Farming
Parboiled Morels
Peacock Ore
Pegmatite	Unarmed Combat	Quicksilver Poisoning	Heath Burn	Allergic Reaction
Perfect Autumn Leaf	Perception	Stealth	Fell Slash	Sand Flea Bites
Porphyry	Severe Mauling	Exploration	Stealth
Pumice	Fell Slash	Swamp Fever	Pipewheeze?	Unarmed Combat
Quarryartz	Smithing	Jellyfish Sting	Leech Burns
Quartz	Sewing	Aching Joints	Lore
Reed	Survival	Quicksilver Poisoning	Farming	Lore
Rhyolite	Farming	Quicksilver Poisoning	Lore	Shorter Duration
Rock Crystal
Royal Toadstool	Fell Slash	Melee Combat	Chills & Nausea	Unarmed Combat
Ruby Bolete	Intelligence	Cooking	Beesting
Rustroot	Beesting	Fell Slash	Bruise
Sage
Sandstone	Farming	Antcid Burns	Psyche
Schist	Unfaced	Carpentry
Schrifterz
Serpentine	Blunt Trauma	Stealth	Nidburns
Shard of Conch
Silvershine
Slag	Blade Kiss	Dragon's Bite	Will	Crab Caressed
Slate	Swamp Fever	Allergic Reaction	Bruise	Blunt Trauma
Sleighbell
Snowtop	Cruel Incision	Melee Combat	Quicksilver Poisoning	Agility
Soapstone	Melee Combat	Asphyixiation	Carpentry	Stealth
Sunstone	Dragon's Bite	Starvation		Melee Combat
Sodalite	Cooking	Hearth Burn	Dragon Bite	Lore
Spindly Taproot	Perception	Agility	Farming	Adder Bite
Stalagoom	Shorter Duration	Dexterity	Cooking	Perception
Stinging Nettle	Farming	Pipewheeze	Charisma
Strawberry	Constitution
Tangled Bramble	Farming	Lore	Carpentry	Charisma
Thorny Thistle	Wretched Gore	Marksmanship
Thyme
Troll Mushrooms
Trombone Chantrelle
Uncommon Snapdragon	Jellyfish Sting	Charisma	Marksmanship
Washed-up Bladderwrack	Bruise
Waybroad	Beesting	Stealth	Longer Duration	Psyche
White Truffles
Wild Windsown Weed	Constitution	Survival	Quill'd  ??	Shorter Duration ??
Wine Glance	Seal Finger	Bruises	Beesting	Exploration
Wintergreen
Yarrow	Fell Slash	Jellyfish Sting	Charisma	Dexterity
Yellowfeet	Crab Caressed	Unarmed Combat	Nicks & Knacks	Carpentry
Zincspar	Stealth	Nicks and Knacks	Wretched Gore	Bum Burn

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."