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Alchemy

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Alchemy is a crafting mechanic that allows to turn your collection of herbs, wild mushrooms, crystals, and monster components into potions, elixirs, grenades, and coatings. All alchemical ingredients including extracts of them are stored in the Alchemy Pouch.

In-game window

Basic process

The Alchemy interface can be accessed by pressing H, when out of combat.

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

Act One Act Two Act Three

Consumable recipes

Potions

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

Coatings

Extractions

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.