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: 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.]

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
Bay Bolete		Unarmed Combat		Shorter Duration
Black Truffles
Bloated Bolete		Unarmed Combat	Sewing
Bloodstern	Intelligence	Shorter Duration	Lore	Strength
Blueberry	Severe Mauling	Concussion	Constitution	Sewing
Camomile
Candleberry	Carpentry		Will	Concussion
Cattail Fibres	Black-eyed	Bum Burn	Intelligence	Constitution
Cattail Head	Lore	Swamp Fever	Blunt Trauma	Exploration
Cattail Roots	Maddening Rash	Punch Sore	Aching Joints	Severe Mauling
Cavebulb	Charisma	Nettle Burn	Severe Mauling	Dragon Bite
Cave Lantern	Dragon Bite	Blade Kiss	Chills & Nausea	Will
Chantrelles	Crab Caressed	Will	Masonry	Bruises
Chives	Sewing	Agility	Nerve Damage	Dexterity
Clover	Shorter Duration	Smithing	Unarmed Combat	Quicksilver Poisoning
Coltsfoot		Cruel Incision	Intelligence
Dandelion	Perception	Agility	Black-Eyed	Blistering Headache
Dill	Crab Caressed	Rot Gut	Masonry	Intelligence
Dusk Fern	Concussion		Sewing	Farming
Edelweiß
Field Blewits
Frog's Crown	Blade Kiss	Charisma	Adder Bite	Farming
Giant Puffball	Lore	Intelligence		Marksmanship
Glimmermoss	Charisma	Adder Bite	Lore	Fell Slash
Green Kelp	Punch Sore	Chills & Nausea		Lore
Heartsease	Psyche	Crab Caressed	Lore
Indigo Cap
Kvann	Cooking	Nasty Laceration
Lady's Mantle	Cooking	Agility	Lore	Nasty Laceration
Lamp Stalk	Lore	Antcid Burns	Nasty Laceration	Starvation
Lingonberries	Strength	Dexterity	Maddening Rash
Mandrake Root		Psyche??
Mistletoe	Dexterity	Quicksilver Poisoning	Exploration	Psyche??
Morels		Masonry	Cooking	Intelligence
Oyster Mushroom	Survival	Smithing	Wretched Gore	Blunt Trauma
Parasol Mushroom	Dexterity	Severe Mauling	Leech Burns	Nettle Burn
Perfect Autumn Leaf		Severe Mauling	Unarmed Combat
Royal Toadstool	Cooking		Unarmed Combat
Ruby Bolete		Concussion
Rustroot	Masonry	Antcid Burns		Cooking
Sage		Longer Duration??
Sleighbell
Spindly Taproot	Sand Flea Bites	Dexterity	Strength	Sewing
Stalagoom	Quicksilver Poisoning	Quill'd	Carpentry
Stinging Nettle	Strength	Leech Burns	Allergic Reaction	Pipe Wheeze
Strawberry				Masonry
Tangled Bramble	Survival	Wretched Gore
Thorny Thistle			Lore
Thyme	Constitution
Uncommon Snapdragon	Nasty Wart	Carpentry	Perception	Farming
Washed-up Bladderwrack		Longer Duration??
Waybroad	Severe Mauling		Pipe Wheeze	Intelligence
White Truffles
Wild Windsown Weed	Severe Mauling	Stealth	Charisma	Rot Gut
Wintergreen
Yarrow	Fell Slash	Concussion	Shorter Duration	Intelligence
Yellowfeet	Longer Duration	Carpentry	Unarmed Combat	Psyche
Apatite	Dexterity	Cooking	Will	Fell Slash
Alabaster	Exploration	Stealth
Arkose	Lore	Will	Allergic Reaction
Basalt	Shorter Duration	Bruises	Midge Bite
Black Ore
Bloodstone
Breccia	Intelligence		Cooking	Stealth
Cassiterite	Punch Sore	Aching Joints	Charisma	Shorter Duration
Cat Gold	Exploration??	Longer Duration??	Rot Gut??	Something Broken??
Chalcopyrite		Carpentry
Cinnabar		Will	Fell Slash
Diabase	Exploration	Agility	Nettle Burn
Diorite			Lore
Direvein
Dolomite	Dexterity	Perception	Strength	Exploration
Dove Droppings	Longer Duration	Shorter Duration??
Dross			Blistering Headache
Flint	Pipe Wheeze		Will
Eclogite	(1st?)Quicksilver Poisoning	Psyche	Constitution
Feldspar	Sand Flea Bites	Agility	Allergic Reaction	Marksmanship
Fluorospar	Dragon Bite	Antcid Burns
Gabbro			Blunt Trauma	Concussion
Galena
Gneiss	Quicksilver Poisoning	Nettle Burn		Farming
Granite	Aching Joints	Dragon Bite
Greenschist	Sewing	Bum Burn	Strength	Crab Caressed
Heavy Earth
Hornblende	Longer Duration	Bruises	Fell Slash	Midge Bite
Horn Silver
Iron Ochre	Intelligence	Concussion
Jasper	Lore	Farming		Marksmanship
Korund
Kyanite	Exploration	Agility
Lead Glance	Unarmed Combat	Quicksilver Poisoning		Leech Burns
Leaf Ore
Limestone		Black-eyed	Unarmed Combat
Malachite	Nasty Laceration	Charisma	Will	Intelligence
Marble	Strength
Mica	Sand Flea Bites
Microlite	Stealth
Olivine	Stealth	Intelligence	Strength
Orthoclase		Adder Bite	Agility
Peacock Ore	Masonry	Cruel Incision	Nettle Burn	Something Broken
Pegmatite	Nasty Laceration		Adder Bite	Starvation
Porphyry	Maddening Rash	Perception	Masonry
Pumice	Quicksilver Poisoning	Rot Gut	Bum Burn	Nerve Damage
Quarryartz		Concussion	Allergic Reaction
Quartz		Smithing	Nasty Wart	Intelligence
Rhyolite	Bruises	Smithing	Unarmed Combat	Cooking
Rock Crystal
Sandstone	Something Broken	Concussion	Smithing	Dexterity
Schist		Blistering Headache	Bum Burn
Schrifterz
Shard of Conch		Sewing
Silvershine
Slag	Farming	Concussion	Unarmed Combat	Nasty Laceration
Slate	Smithing	Lore	Swamp Fever	Charisma
Soapstone		Charisma	Chills & Nausea	Starvation
Sodalite	Longer Duration??	Exploration	Carpentry	Masonry
Zincspar	Masonry	Aching Joints	Lore	Strength
Black Coal	Something Broken	Black-Eyed	Melee Combat	Beesting
Dried Morels
Fairy Mushroom
Parboiled Morels
Troll Mushrooms	Agility??	Carpentry [Verify]	Sewing [Verify]	Masonry [Verify]

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."