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

* 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)◎ >"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."

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