Crafting

Alchemy

Grind reagents into potions with a mortar and pestle; also makes the potions you drink stronger.

Group: Crafting
Title it gives: Alchemist
Grows your stats: Intelligence (70%), Dexterity (30%)
Head start: Chinese (most of all The Way of Yin)

How it grows

Like every skill it runs from 0 to 100 and rises a tenth of a point at a time as you use it: quickly while it is low, hardly at all on work far beneath you. Every try at a recipe trains it, more for harder recipes. Failures teach too.

All your skills together hold 700 points. Set Alchemy to rise, fall or hold in the Skills window (K). A people that is good at it starts 10 points higher, 15 on its own path, and raises it a fifth more often for life.

Using it can also raise your stats a point at a time, leaning towards: Intelligence (70%), Dexterity (30%).

Titles

When Alchemy is your best skill, it names you:

30 Neophyte Alchemist
40 Novice Alchemist
50 Apprentice Alchemist
60 Journeyman Alchemist
70 Expert Alchemist
80 Adept Alchemist
90 Master Alchemist
100 Grandmaster Alchemist

What you can make (12)

Below the first number you can't make it; at it you succeed half the time; at the second, every time. A failed try loses half the ingredients.

Body

Makes	Skill	Needs	At
swiftness potion	30 to 70	2 blood moss1 empty bottles	Anywhere

Healing

Makes	Skill	Needs	At
lesser heal potion	0 to 40	1 ginseng1 empty bottles	Anywhere
cure potion	15 to 55	2 garlic1 empty bottles	Anywhere
heal potion	25 to 65	3 ginseng1 empty bottles	Anywhere
greater heal potion	55 to 95	7 ginseng1 empty bottles	Anywhere

Mind

Makes	Skill	Needs	At
night eye potion	0 to 40	1 sulfur ash1 empty bottles	Anywhere
mana potion	20 to 60	1 black pearls1 gossamer1 empty bottles	Anywhere

Poisons

Makes	Skill	Needs	At
lesser poison potion	5 to 45	1 nightshade1 empty bottles	Anywhere
poison potion	30 to 70	2 nightshade1 empty bottles	Anywhere
greater poison potion	55 to 95	4 nightshade1 empty bottles	Anywhere

Rare

Makes	Skill	Needs	At
elixir of the seam	70 to 100	1 seam-eel2 mandrake root1 empty bottles	Anywhere

Weapons

Makes	Skill	Needs	At
explosion potion	35 to 75	3 sulfur ash1 empty bottles	Anywhere

More in the guide: Crafting · All skills