Alchemy

Alchemy: You may have been looking for the Potions page, which details potion recipes and effects. The alchemy page details how to get the various research for alchemy.

Alchemy is a branch of crafting allowing you to create a wide range of potions. From being immune to poison or exploding your enemies, it has many options to choose from. Some of the recipes make the game impossible without.

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Equivalent Exchange


You need to find the people frozen in stone near the tower and investigate them. Then you need to talk to your dog about it.

Wonderous Mithrate


To unlock this research, you need to talk to your dog after you speak to him about turning to stone. This unlocks the cure for turning to stone, but you need the research Purifying Albedo first to craft the cure.

Elixir of magnetism
The elixir is unlocked after researching Magnetic Mysteries. The effects of attraction last for 25 seconds and then slowly attract nearby items towards you. This is helpful if you plan on running and collecting recourses.

Chimer Transmutations


Unlocked after researching Wailroot Lymph, it unlocks better armor, allowing you to take more hits before dying.

Theriac mutagen
This research is unlocked by investigating a Wailroot corpse. It gives the recipe for the clear vein's potion. It permanently grants immunity from Wailworm and Warniak poisons.

Volatile vapors


This research comes after harmful agents and gives a wide range of explosives and poisons.

Augmented Regeneration


Unlocked after researching Ossiman bones at the Alchemy table, it gives the recipes to a healing and haste potion.

Metabolic Control


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Traumatic triggers


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Hermetical mutators


This is unlocked after studying Laundium at the alchemy table, unlocking this allows you to delay or strengthen a potion effect.

Sublime metamorphosis


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Alchemical stability


To unlock this, you need to fail at making a potion. When researched this unlocks Purifying Albedo and Volatile vapors research. It also unlocks the laudanum recipe.

Esoteric optics
This research changes the way the alchemy mini game works. It shows the result of dropping a symbol into the research. It’s best taken early so you can use it more often. Unlocked by getting any item researched to 100%

Liquid clarity
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Purifying albedo


This is unlocked by getting Alchemical Stability. It gives the Albedo and Quicklime recipes. You need Albedo for the cure to becoming stone. And quicklime for other things.

Combustible Alchemicals


This research is unlocked after studying charcoal at the alchemy station, and it allows you to create the Potion of Warmth, Nitrate, and Anthracite.

Frugal alchemy
The research is revealed after completing Combustible Alchemicals, giving a 50% chance to get an extra potion when create one. (Might possibly be bugged with higher chances, confirmation needed)