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	Glass Blowing, Hearth Magic, Plant Lore.
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."

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"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."

How to

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.

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.

Elixirs

Herbal Swill

Input: Clay Jar, Water, Alchemical Ingredient, Herb
Required tools: Mortar & Pestle
Result: Elixir

Mercurial Elixir

Input: Clay Jar, Quicksilver, Alchemical Ingredient, Alchemical Ingredient, Mineral
Required tools: Alchemist's Table, Fine Scales, Testtube Rack
Result: Elixir

Mushroom Decoction

Input: Clay Jar, Salt Water, Alchemical Ingredient, Alchemical Ingredient, Mushroom
Required tools: Alchemist's Table, Retort, Tripod Burner
Result: Elixir

Alchemical Processes

Lye Ablution

Effect: Removes first alchemical property of an ingredient, as a result you will receive ingredient with only 3 alchemical properties.
Input: Alchemical Ingredient, Lye
Required tools: Alchemist's Table, Retort
Result: Alchemical Ingredient

Fiery combustion

Effect: Removes second alchemical property of an ingredient, as a result you will receive ingredient with only 3 alchemical properties.
Input: Alchemical Ingredient, Brimstone
Required tools: Alchemist's Table, Tripod Burner
Result: Alchemical Ingredient

Herbal Grind

Effect: Create a new ingredient with 4 new random effects from two herbs. (will have the same output given the same input, but result will be effectively random)
Input: Herb, Herb
Required tools: Mortar & Pestle
Result: Alchemical Ingredient

Measured Distillate

Effect: Removes properties 2, 3, and 4 from both ingredients resulting in an ingredient with only two properties (the first property for each).
Input: Alchemical Ingredient, Alchemical Ingredient, Vegetable Oil
Required tools: Alchemist's Table, Retort, Burette, Testtube Rack
Result: Alchemical Ingredient

Mineral Calcination

Effect: Create a new ingredient with 3 random effects from two minerals. (will have the same output given the same input, result takes 2 properties from one ingredient and 1 from other in most cases). Result is not affected by Lye Ablution process, no properties removed that way.
Input: Mineral, Mineral
Required tools: Alchemist's Table, Tripod Burner
Result: Alchemical Ingredient

Finding The Order of Alchemical Properties

1 - Apply Measured Distillate on the ingredient, since it removes all effects except the first available one, initially it will give us effect 1.

2 - Apply Lye Ablution to the same ingredient (since it removes effect A), now the ingredient only has BCD effects, then apply Measured Distillate, since it leaves only the first one available effect, we get effect 2.

3 - Apply Lye Ablution (removes A) and Fiery Combustion (removes B) to the same ingredient, now we have only effects C and D, then apply Measured Distillate, we get effect 3.

4 - The only remaining 1.

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 16 Ingredient Reactions

Name	Property1	Property2	Property3	Property4
Alabaster	Swamp Fever	Smithing	Marksmanship	Asphyxiation
Apatite	Quill'd	Strength	Tuskalooza!	Pipe Wheeze
Arkose	Charisma	Agility	Decrease elixir duration	Black-Eyed
Basalt	Nidburns	Will	Blade Kiss	Marksmanship
Bat Rock	Stealth	Marksmanship	Dexterity	Agility
Bay Bolete	Exploration	Crab Caressed	Marksmanship	Swamp Fever
Black Coal	Psyche	Lore	Blunt Trauma	Wretched Gore
Black Ore	Unarmed Combat	Tuskalooza!	Nasty Wart	Farming
Black Truffles	Increase elixir duration	Starvation	Intelligence	Beesting
Black Trumpets	Blade Kiss	Midge Bite	Marksmanship	Punch Sore
Bloated Bolete	Swollen Bump	Constitution	Pipe Wheeze	Deep Cut
Block of Trombone Chantrelle *	Scrapes & Cuts	Starvation	Hearth Burn	Increase elixir duration
Blood Stern	Lore	Cooking	Decrease elixir duration	Strength
Bloodstone	Beesting	Decrease elixir duration	Unfaced	Scrapes & Cuts
Blueberries	Perception	Bruises	Strength	Hearth Burn
Breccia	Perception	Lore	Agility	Aching Joints
Brown Kelp	Cooking	Swamp Fever	Dexterity	Unfaced
Button Mushroom	Charisma	Intelligence	Severe Mauling	Constitution
Camomile
Candleberry	Masonry	Constitution	Nicks & Knacks	Sand Flea Bites
Cassiterite	Increase elixir duration	Fell Slash	Psyche	Dexterity
Cat Gold	Beesting	Pipe Wheeze	Unfaced	Sore Snout
Cattail Fibres	Seal Finger	Pipe Wheeze	Leech Burns	Charisma
Cattail Head	Intelligence	Increase elixir duration	Crab Caressed	Hearth Burn
Cattail Roots	Maddening Rash	Severe Mauling	Psyche	Allergic Reaction
Cave Lantern	Carpentry	Masonry	Dexterity	Constitution
Cavebulb	Unarmed Combat	Nasty Laceration	Intelligence	Survival
Chalcopyrite	Rot Gut	Psyche	Constitution	Concussion
Chantrelles	Melee Combat	Unarmed Combat	Constitution	Nettle Burn
Chert	Nettle Burn	Hearth Burn	Stealth	Maddening Rash
Chiming Bluebell
Chives	Agility	Unarmed Combat	Sewing	Score Snout
Cinnabar	Decrease elixir duration	Psyche	Bruises	Nidburns
Clover	Nettle Burn	Nasty Laceration	Farming	Adder Bite
Coade Stone Brick	Intelligence	Beesting	Stealth	Masonry
Coltsfoot	Psyche	Agility	Unarmed Combat	Seal Finger
Cremini Mushroom	Rot Gut	Coaler's Cough	Perception	Farming
Dandelion	Psyche	Will	Maddening Rash	Unfaced
Dewy Lady's Mantle	Unarmed Combat	Lore	Carpentry
Diabase	Seal Finger	Antacid Burns	Cooking	Allergic Reaction
Dill	Decrease elixir duration	Blade Kiss	Seal Finger	Lore
Diorite	Asphyxiation	Exploration	Carpentry	Sand Flea Bites
Direvein	Decrease elixir duration	Exploration	Marksmanship	Tuskalooza!
Dolomite	Seal Finger	Carpentry	Lore	Cooking
Dove Droppings	Starvation	Charisma	Carpentry	Swollen Bump
Dried Morels	Unarmed Combat	Blade Kiss	Psyche	Agility
Dross	Masonry	Swamp Fever	Midge Bite	Asphyxiation
Dusk Fern	Masonry	Pipe Wheeze	Hearth Burn	Nasty Laceration
Eclogite	Masonry	Intelligence	Survival	Increase elixir duration
Edelweiß	Coaler's Cough	Farming	Nidburns	Dexterity
Fairy Mushroom	Intelligence	Seal Finger	Psyche	Leech Burns
Feldspar	Starvation	Chills & Nausea	Farming	Increase elixir duration
Field Blewits	Quicksilver Poisoning	Melee Combat	Will	Cruel Incision
Flint	Marksmanship	Charisma	Will	Punch Sore
Fluorospar	Farming	Black-Eyed	Intelligence	Something Broken
Four-Leaf Clover	Unarmed Combat				Does not have the following effects: Allegric reaction, Nose bleed, Exploration, Dragon Bite, Pysche, Will, Maddening Rash, Unfaced, Increase elixir duration, Nettle Burn, Farming, Dexterity, Starvation, Agility, Constitution.
Frog's Crown	Fell Slash	Survival	Marksmanship	Blade Kiss
Gabbro	Dragon Bite	Stealth	Perception	Punch Sore
Galena	Lore	Blunt Trauma	Beesting	Tick'd Off
Ghost Apple	Increase elixir duration	Stealth	Quicksilver Poisoning	Quill'd
Giant Puffball	Masonry	Will	Decrease elixir duration	Coaler's Cough
Glimmermoss	Coaler's Cough	Concussion	Sewing	Survival
Gneiss	Survival	Chills & Nausea	Punch Sore	Adder Bite
Granite	Lore	Stealth	Nicks & Knacks	Increase elixir duration
Graywacke	Seal Finger	Severe Mauling	Nasty Wart	Chills & Nausea
Green Kelp	Crab Caressed	Strength	Marksmanship	Blade Kiss
Greenschist	Agility	Will	Melee Combat	Masonry
Heartsease	Increase elixir duration	Intelligence	Perception	Seal Finger
Heavy Earth	Survival	Strength	Bird Lung	Scrapes & Cuts
Horn Silver	Coaler's Cough	Nasty Wart	Psyche	Stealth
Hornblende	Bird Lung	Blistering Headache	Marksmanship	Nerve Damage
Indigo Cap
Iron Ochre	Scrapes & Cuts	Increase elixir duration	Marksmanship	Masonry
Jasper	Stealth	Intelligence	Hearth Burn	Crab Caressed
Korund	Constitution	Sand Flea Bites	Severe Mauling	Nasty Laceration
Kvann	Severe Mauling	Deep Cut	Will	Hearth Burn
Kyanite	Constitution	Decrease elixir duration	Farming	Bum Burn
Lady's Mantle	Swollen Bump	Constitution	Bruises	Smithing
Lamp Stalk	Dexterity	Lore	Charisma	Bruises
Lava Rock	Blade Kiss	Marksmanship	Decrease elixir duration	Perception
Lead Glance	Sewing	Nerve Damage	Antcid Burns	Smithing
Leaf Ore	Swollen Bump	Nasty Laceration	Leech Burns	Severe Mauling
Liberty Caps	Punch Sore	Melee Combat	Scrapes & Cuts	Bird Lung
Limestone	Rot Gut	Nicks & Knacks	Nettle Burn	Decrease elixir duration
Lingonberries	Increase elixir duration	Constitution	Tuskalooza!	Scrapes & Cuts
Lupine	Bruises	Nerve Damage	Agility	Asphyxiation
Malachite	Marksmanship	Unarmed Combat	Exploration	Quicksilver Poisoning
Mandrake Root	Swollen Bump	Unarmed Combat	Lore	Adder Bite
Marble	Smithing	Starvation	Nasty Wart	Intelligence
Marsh-Mallow	Will	Leech Burns	Asphyxiation	Decrease elixir duration
Mica	Perception	Cooking	Black-Eyed	Leech Burns
Microlite	Charisma	Perception	Maddening Rash	Crab Caressed
Mistletoe	Swamp Fever	Bird Lung	Smithing	Severe Mauling
Morels	Smithing	Swamp Fever	Nose Bleed	Starvation
Obsidian	Intelligence	Charisma	Sewing	Nidburns
Olivine	Will	Bird Lung	Psyche	Increase elixir duration
Orthoclase	Midge Bite	Deep Cut	Crab Caressed	Unarmed Combat
Oyster Mushroom	Tick'd Off	Intelligence	Charisma	Nose Bleed
Parasol Mushroom	Masonry	Nasty Laceration	Chills & Nausea	Sand Flea Bites
Parboiled Morels	Increase elixir duration	Exploration	Lore	Swamp Fever
Peacock Ore	Unarmed Combat	Cooking	Blunt Trauma	Wretched Gore
Pegmatite	Tuskalooza!	Score Snout	Black-Eyed	Survival
Perfect Autumn Leaf	Melee Combat	Coaler's Cough	Farming	Lore
Porphyry	Jellyfish Sting	Farming	Perception	Unarmed Combat
Portobello Mushroom	Increase elixir duration	Nettle Burn	Dexterity	Farming
Pumice	Nettle Burn	Rot Gut	Nasty Wart	Melee Combat
Quarryartz	Dexterity	Psyche	Bum Burn	Maddening Rash
Quartz	Masonry	Constitution	Hearth Burn	Survival
Reeds	Tick'd Off	Adder Bite	Concussion	Will
Rhyolite	Psyche	Scrapes & Cuts	Perception	Marksmanship
Rock Crystal
Rock Salt	Lore	Farming	Wretched Gore	Nidburns
Royal Toadstool	Nose Bleed	Blunt Trauma	Nasty Laceration	Exploration
Ruby Bolete	Hearth Burn	Swamp Fever	Allergic Reaction	Decrease elixir duration
Rustroot	Lore	Masonry	Survival	Jellyfish Sting
Sage	Will	Exploration	Sand Flea Bites	Adder Bite
Sandstone	Dragon Bite	Adder Bite	Strength	Smithing
Schist	Blistering Headache	Masonry	Allergic Reaction	Sewing
Schrifterz	Agility	Dragon Bite	Sewing	Farming
Seasponge	Perception	Carpentry	Decrease elixir duration
Serpentine	Dexterity	Agility	Carpentry	Sore Snout
Shard of Conch	Quicksilver Poisoning
Silvershine	Quicksilver Poisoning	Smithing	Cooking	Charisma
Slag	Marksmanship	Will	Jellyfish Sting	Psyche
Slate	Agility	Bruises	Something Broken	Marksmanship
Sleighbell	Nettle Burn	Swollen Bump	Dragon's Bite	Smithing
Snowtop	Carpentry	Exploration	Tuskalooza!	Beesting
Soapstone	Bird Lung	Strength	Constitution	Decrease elixir duration
Sodalite	Exploration	Intelligence	Carpentry	Cruel Incision
Spindly Taproot	Starvation	Constitution	Unarmed Combat	Agility
Stalagoom	Nerve Damage	Deep Cut	Smithing	Nasty Laceration
Standing Grass	Swamp Fever	Stealth	Constitution	Increase elixir duration
Stinging Nettle	Intelligence	Antacid Burns	Melee Combat	Nose Bleed
Strawberry	Decrease elixir duration	Increase elixir duration	Agility	Beesting
Sunstone	Smithing	Melee Combat	Nose Bleed	Charisma
Tangled Bramble	Perception	Decrease elixir duration	Carpentry
Tansy	Carpentry	Constitution	Swamp Fever	Dragon Bite
Thorny Thistle	Blistering Headache	Psyche	Wretched Gore	Something Broken
Thyme	Bird Lung	Unfaced	Asphyxiation	Agility
Toadflax	Smithing	Increase elixir duration	Melee Combat	Fell Slash
Troll Mushrooms	Pipe Wheeze	Survival	Swollen Bump	Agility
Uncommon Snapdragon	Carpentry	Constitution	Psyche	Tuskalooza!
Washed-up Bladderwrack		Constitution
Waybroad	Chills & Nausea	Nasty Wart	Increase elixir duration	Quill'd
White Truffles
Wild Windsown Weed	Masonry	Bum Burn	Psyche	Scrapes & Cuts
Wine Glance	Aching Joints	Exploration	Nerve Damage	Tuskalooza!
Wintergreen
Yarrow	Melee Combat	Wretched Gore	Punch Sore	Beesting
Yellowfeet	Nose Bleed	Allergic Reaction	Dragon Bite	Exploration
Zincspar	Increase elixir duration	Charisma	Hearth Burn	Farming

* Only accepted as a mushroom for Mushroom Decoction

Previous world alchemy reactions (reset with new worlds).
Archived: W15 ingredient list
Archived: W14 ingredient list
Archived: W13 ingredient list
Archived: W12 ingredient list

Game Development

• Swinish Alchemy (2024-11-24)◎ >"Implemented Alchemy Discoveries
  :Whenever you craft an elixir with a benign effect, the ingredients which carried those effects will thereafter always display them in their tooltip. You will be awarded a normal discovery LP amount for the discovery.
  :Elixirs and alchemical process-materials (E.g. "Lye Ablution"s) will now always present, in their tooltips, the recipe which made them. The recipe is only visible to the creator of the material/elixir."

• 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)◎ >"You can now create Elixirs, consumable potions, using alchemy. Beneficial Elixirs can give stat buffs for a duration, or heal wounds."

• 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."