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Alchemy is a crafting mechanic that allows you to turn your collection of herbs, wild mushrooms, crystals, and monster components into potions, elixirs, grenades, and coatings.

Basic process

Alchemy can be divided into two different crafting processes: creating consumables (potions, elixirs, grenades and coatings), and creating Alchemical Extracts (sublimates, salts, essences, ashes, vitriols and suspensions).

Crafting

Extracts can be crafted by combining three of the same ingredient (e.g. combining three Mugwort to create Salt of Mugwort). Consumables can be crafted by unlocking a recipe and combining the two specified extracts - one that is made from a specific ingredient, and one that can be any of a type of extract (e.g. combine Salts of Rogue's Morsel and any suspension to create a Potion of Healing). You should choose which Extract you use in the generic slot carefully as you may need it as a specific component in a different recipe.

Recipes

Using the "Extract All Ingredients" button will convert all your raw ingredients into extracts (each ingredient converts into only one type of extract, so do not worry about wasting ingredients). Doing so will unlock the related extracts and consumable recipes, allowing you to then craft your discovered consumables (and manually craft discovered extracts). Recipes can also sometimes be unlocked when collecting new ingredients, or when reading certain books or notes.

Finding ingredients

Ingredients can be found out in the wild while exploring, or bought from some traders. Once an ingredient is harvested from the overworld, it will not regenerate. Some good places to search for ingredients in Act One include the Apothecary and Apothecary's Cellar in the Blighted Village, the Waning Moon in Act Two, and Bonecloak's Apothecary and cellar in Act Three.

Alchemy traders

Consumable recipes

Potions

Potions
Result Specific Source ingredient Generic
Antidote Salts of Mugwort Mugwort Suspension
Potion of Angelic Reprieve Essence of Unicorn Horn Unicorn Horn Salt
Potion of Angelic Slumber Essence of Planetar Feather Planetar Feather Suspension
Potion of Animal Speaking Essence of Acorn Truffle Acorn Truffle Salt
Potion of Feather Fall Sublimate of Autumn Crocus Autumncrocus Essence
Potion of Flying Sublimate of Eagle Feathers Eagle Feather Essence
Potion of Glorious Vaulting Sublimate of Wispweed Wispweed Ashes
Potion of Healing Salts of Rogue's Morsel Rogue's Morsel Suspension
Potion of Greater Healing Ashes of Balsam Balsam Salt
Potion of Superior Healing Salts of Musk Creeper Yellow Musk Creeper Petals Suspension
Potion of Supreme Healing Sublimate of Ki-Rin Hair Ki-Rin Hair Ashes
Potion of Invisibility Ashes of Imp Patagium Imp Patagium Essence
Potion of Mind Reading Suspension of Mergrass Mergrass Suspension
Potion of Speed Ashes of Hyena Ear Hyena Ear Salt
Remedial Potion Salts of Xorn Scales Xorn Scales Suspension

Elixirs

Elixirs
Result Specific Source ingredient Generic
Elixir of Arcane Cultivation Vitriol of Weavemoss Weavemoss Sublimate
Greater Elixir of Arcane Cultivation Suspension of Laculite Laculite Vitriol
Superior Elixir of Arcane Cultivation Solution of Night Orchid Night Orchid Vitriol
Supreme Elixir of Arcane Cultivation Essence of Beholder Eye Beholder Iris Suspension
Elixir of Barkskin Salts of Tree Bark Wood Bark Suspension
Elixir of Battlemage's Power Suspension of Gauth Eye Gauth Eyestalk Sublimate
Elixir of Bloodlust Ashes of Worg Fang Worg Fang Salt
Elixir of Darkvision Essence of Crystalline Lens Crystalline Lens Salt
Elixir of Guileful Movement Suspension of Ochre Jelly Ochre Jelly Slime Sublimate
Elixir of Heroism Sublimate of Pegasus Feathers Pegasus Feather Ashes
Elixir of Peerless Focus Sublimate of Belladonna Belladonna Ashes
Elixir of Fire Resistance Ashes of Dragon Egg Mushroom Dragon Egg Mushroom Salt
Elixir of Lightning Resistance Salts of Copper Shavings Broken Machinery Suspension
Elixir of Necrotic Resistance Vitriol of Oleander Black Oleander Sublimate
Elixir of Poison Resistance Suspension of Muddy Goo Mud Mephit Wing Sublimate
Elixir of Psychic Resistance Suspension of Cerebrospinal Fluid Intellect Devourer Cerebellum Sublimate
Elixir of Universal Resistance Vitriol of Divine Miasma Divine Bone Shard Sublimate
Elixir of See Invisibility Suspension of Nothic Eye Nothic Eye Vitriol
Elixir of Cloud Giant Strength Salts of Cloud Giant Fingernails Cloud Giant Finger Suspension
Elixir of Hill Giant Strength Salts of Hill Giant Fingernails Hill Giant Finger Suspension
Elixir of the Colossus Salts of Chasm Creeper Chasm Creeper Suspension
Elixir of Viciousness Vitriol of Shadowroot Sac Shadowroot Sac Ashes
Elixir of Vigilance Sublimate of Bloodstained Hook Hook Ashes
Tadpole Elixir Sublimate of Tongue of Madness Tongue of Madness Essence

Grenades

Grenades
Result Specific Source ingredient Generic
Alchemist's Fire Ashes of Fire Amber Fire Amber Salt
Flashblinder Sublimate of Behir Scales Behir Scales Ashes
Fungal Bamboozler Essence of Timmask Spores Timmask Spores (Ingredient) Salt
Hag's Bane Ashes of Dried Fey Flower File:Dried Fey Flower Unfaded Icon.pngDried Fey Flower Essence
Haste Spore Grenade Sublimate of Haste Spores Hastening Spores Essence
Hearthlight Bomb Essence of Nightlight Nightlight Frond Suspension
Noxious Spore Grenade Sublimate of Poison Spores Poison Spore Ashes
Web Grenade Suspension of Spider Silk Silk Gland Vitriol

Coatings

Coatings
Result Specific Source ingredient Generic
Arsonist's Oil Sublimate of Frosted Ears Frosted Ear Ashes
Basic Poison Vitriol of Bonecap Bonecap Ashes
Crawler Mucus Salts of Carrion Crawler Tentacle Carrion Crawler Tentacle Vitriol
Diluted Oil of Sharpness Salts of Viridian Crystal Viridian Crystal Vitriol
Drow Poison Essence of Swarming Toadstool Swarming Toadstool Salt
Malice Vitriol of Lolth's Candle Lolth's Candle Ashes
Oil of Accuracy Ashes of Daggerroot Daggerroot Salt
Oil of Bane Vitriol of Putrefied Tumour Putrefied Tumour Sublimate
Oil of Combustion Ashes of Mephit Magma Heart-Shaped Rock Essence
Oil of Diminution Essence of Sylvan Stone Sylvan Stone Suspension
Oil of Freezing Suspension of Frost Salamander Tongue Frost Salamander Tongue Ashes
Purple Worm Toxin Suspension of Purple Worm Slime Purple Worm Gullet Vitriol
Serpent Fang Toxin Suspension of Snake Venom Venomous Fang Vitriol
Simple Toxin Suspension of Bullywug Trumpet Bullywug Trumpet Sublimate
Thisobald's Brewed-Up Bellyglummer Salts of Corpse Rose Corpse Rose Suspension
Wizardsbane Oil Essence of Gremishka Tail Gremishka Tail Suspension
Wyvern Toxin Ashes of Wyvern Stinger Wyvern Stinger Salt

Extractions

Sublimates Salts Essences Ashes Vitriols Suspensions
Autumn Crocus Carrion Crawler Tentacle Acorn Truffle Balsam Bonecap Bullywug Trumpet
Behir Scales Chasm Creeper Beholder Eye Daggerroot Divine Miasma Cerebrospinal Fluid
Belladonna Cloud Giant Fingernails Crystalline Lens Dragon Egg Mushroom Lolth's Candle Frost Salamander Tongue
Bloodstained Hook Copper Shavings Gremishka Tail Dried Fey Flower Oleander Gauth Eye
Eagle Feathers Corpse Rose Nightlight Fire Amber Putrefied Tumour Laculite
Frosted Ears Hill Giant Fingernails Planetar Feather Hyena Ear Shadowroot Sac Mergrass
Haste Spores Mugwort Swarming Toadstool Imp Patagium Weavemoss Muddy Goo
Ki-Rin Hair Musk Creeper Sylvan Stone Mephit Magma Night Orchid
Pegasus Feathers Rogue's Morsel Timmask Spores Worg Fang Nothic Eye
Poison Spores Tree Bark Unicorn Horn Wyvern Stinger Ochre Jelly
Tongue of Madness Viridian Crystal Purple Worm Slime
Wispweed Xorn Scales Snake Venom
Spider Silk

Achievements

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Homebrewer
Create three unique alchemical solutions in a single playthrough - bottoms up!


Notes

  • An issue exists where the recipes for extracts can be inconsistently unlocked, making ingredients unusable even if the player possesses three of them. When this happens, the relevant extract recipe can usually be forced to unlock by dropping the ingredient onto the ground, and then picking it back up.