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 have four randomized potential effects.

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 meaningfull 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: Not investigated
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.]

Game Development

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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).

As of world 13, alchemy reactions have been reset

Archived: W12 ingredient list

World 13 Ingredient Reactions

Name	Property1	Property2	Property3	Property4
Slag	Farming	Concussion	Unarmed Combat	Nasty Laceration
Lady's Mantle	Nasty Laceration	Agility	Lore	Cooking
Dandelion	Blistering Headache	Agility	Black-eyed	Perception
Glimmermoss	Charisma???	Adder Bite???
Blueberry	Sewing	Concussion	Constitution	Severe Mauling
Kvann	Nasty Laceration			Cooking
Bay Bolete			Unarmed Combat
Candleberry		Concussion	Will
Lamp Stalk	Nasty Laceration	Antcid Burns	Lore	Starvation
Coltsfoot	Intelligence ???
Dill	Intelligence ???
Frog's Crown	Blade Kiss	Charisma	Adder bite	Farming
Royal Toadstool	Cooking		Unarmed Combat
Dusk Fern	Concussion		Sewing	Farming
Uncommon Snapdragon	Nasty Wart	Carpentry	Perception	Farming
Perfect Autumn Leaf	Severe Mauling		Unarmed Combat
Clover	Quicksilver Poisoning	Smithing	Unarmed Combat	Shorter Duration
Yarrow	Shorter Duration	Concussion	Fell Slash	Intelligence
Ruby Bolete		Concussion
Cave Lantern	Dragon Bite	Blade Kiss	Chills & Nausea	Will
Rustroot	Masonry	Antcid Burns	Strength	Cooking
Thorny Thistle			Lore
Heartsease	Psyche	Crab Caressed	Lore
Soapstone		Charisma	Chills & Nausea	Starvation
Diorite			Lore
Zincspar	Masonry	Aching Joints	Lore	Strength
Malachite	Nasty Laceration	Charisma	Will	Intelligence
Pegmatite	Nasty Laceration		Adder bite	Starvation
Bloodstern	Strength	Shorter Duration		Intelligence
Waybroad	Severe Mauling		Pipe Wheeze	Intelligence
Cavebulb	Nettle Burn	Charisma	Severe Mauling	Dragon Bite
Stalagoom	Quill'd	Quicksilver Poisoning	Carpentry
Gneiss	Quicksilver Poisoning	Nettle Burn		Farming
Yellowfeet	carpentry	Longer Duration	Unarmed Combat
Rhyolite	Bruise	Smithing	Unarmed Combat	Cooking
Giant Puffball	Lore			Marksmanship
Feldspar	Sand Flea Bites	Agility	Allergic Reaction	Marksmanship
Chives	Nerve Damage	Agility	Sewing	Dexterity
Cattail Fibres	Bum Burn	Black-eyed	Intelligence	Constitution
Cattail Head	Lore	Swamp Fever	Blunt Trauma	Exploration
Cattail Roots	Maddening Rash	Punch Sore	Aching Joints	Severe Mauling
Chantrelles	Bruise	Will	Masonry	Crab Caressed
Lingonberries	Maddening Rash	Dexterity	Strength
Porphyry	Maddening Rash	Perception	Masonry
Kyanite	Exploration	Agility
Sandstone	Something Broken	Concussion	Smithing	Dexterity
Apatite		Dexterity	Will	Cooking
Green Kelp	Lore	Chills & Nausea	Punch Sore	Cooking
Mistletoe	Dexterity	Quicksilver Poisoning
Spindly Taproot	Sand Flea Bites	Dexterity	Strength	Sewing
Stinging Nettle	Strength	Leech Burns	Allergic Reaction	Pipe Wheeze
Strawberry				Masonry
Tangled Bramble	Survival	Wretched Gore
Wild Windsown Weed	Rot Gut	Stealth	Charisma	Severe Mauling
Alabaster	Exploration	Stealth
Arkose	Lore	Will	Allergic Reaction
Basalt	Shorter Duration	Bruises	Midge Bite
Breccia	Intelligence	Stealth
Cassiterite	Punch Sore	Aching Joints	Charisma
Chalcopyrite	Carpentry
Diabase	Exploration	Agility	Nettle Burn
Dolomite	Dexterity	Perception	Strength	Exploration
Flint	Pipe Wheeze		Will
Fluorospar	Dragon Bite	Antcid Burns
Granite	Aching Joints	Dragon Bite
Hornblende	Fell Slash	Bruises		Midge Bite
Iron Ochre	Intelligence	Concussion
Limestone	Unarmed Combat	Black-eyed
Marble	Strength
Mica	Sand Flea Bites
Microlite	Stealth
Olivine	Stealth	Intelligence	Strength
Orthoclase		Adder Bite	Agility
Quartz		Smithing	Nasty Wart	Intelligence
Schist		Blistering Headache	Bum Burn
Shard of Conch		Sewing
Slate	Smithing	Lore	Swamp Fever	Charisma
Sodalite		Exploration	Carpentry	Masonry
Greenschist		Sewing	Bum Burn	Crab Caressed
Gabbro			Blunt Trauma	Concussion
Eclogite			Constitution	QuickSilver Poisoning
Pumice	Quicksilver Poisoning	Rot Gut	Bum Burn	Nerve Damage
Lead Glance		QuickSilver Poisoning	Unarmed Combat	Leech Burns
Quarryartz		Concussion	Allergic Reaction
Jasper		Farming	Lore
Morels	Intelligence		Cooking	Masonry
Parasol Mushroom	Dexterity	Severe Mauling	Leech Burns
Oyster Mushroom	Smithing
Black Coal	Something Broken	Black-Eyed	Melee Combat	Beesting