Guide to Alchemy

Alchemy (Post 2.0 launch)

After the 2.0 launch of Ratwood, alchemy has been changed and adapted to the AP(Azure Peak) base.

To perform Alchemy, you should have preferably level 2+ to make potions of lesser strength (not the Strong variations), whilst classes like the Witch (towner subclass) and generally other magicians (like Mago's Apprentices and or the Court Magos themself) start with higher alchemy levels on spawn, for example, the Witch starts with Level 4(expert) Alchemy.

The recipes for Alchemy are not SET. They work on a point-like system. Alchemists with some experience in the skill can examine alchemy ingredients and receive the smells of the ingredient - receiving 3 scents. Those 3 scents determine the points given towards a recipe. For example, if an ingredient smells 'strongly of clean air', then they will give 3 points towards Speed potions. Alchemists with the LEGENDARY status will automatically determine what the ingredients are used for instead.

Example of examining an euphrasia with lower than level 6(legendary) alchemy:

Euphrasia examine without Legendary Alchemy

Alchemy - Potions

To begin working on Potions with Alchemy, you must first have a Cauldron. To create one, you simply need one iron bar. It only requires Novice (level 1) skill to create.

Then, the gameplay loop for potion making begins. First, you will need ingredients. Potions require two to create, a primary and secondary one.

The best place to harvest a good lot of primary ingredients - being flowers mainly - are in the southern area of the map, however, be careful as the bog is dangerous. You should consistently sneak to avoid triggering ambushes, however with some good kiting, even a witch with just magic missile can handle most ambushes using zad form for quick escaping.

A small patch of flowers growing in the southern area of the map.

Next, you'd need secondary ingredients. Those are harder to achieve, but some are easy to attain, like viscera and sinew whilst others are a lot more difficult to obtain, like Gold Dust or Magic Dust. Some of those require some exotic ingredients that are harder to come by.

To create a potion, you must accumulate a total of FIVE points towards that potion by putting two ingredients inside the cauldron.

Getting the ingredients wrong will result in the brew not being able to be made. Also having too low of an alchemy skill will result in the same thing since you're 'not skilled enough to make such potion.' Whilst the Alchemy Manual is mostly WRONG, you can still get a few ideas on how to make things, and how difficult they are to make.

A complete list of ingredients that can be found in Rotwood Vale, what they're used for exactly, and how to obtain them.

Flowers

All flowers are generally found in the wilderness, and sometimes as static spawns in town - unless specified otherwise.

artemisia	3pts- luck potion | 2pts - spd potion | 1pt - emberwine
atropa	3pts- doom poison | 2pts - berry poison | 1pt - stam poison
matricaria	3pts - berry poison | 2pts - perception pot | 1pt - doom poison
symphitum	3pts - health pot | 2pts - stam poison | 1pt - antidote
taraxacum	3pts - stam poison | 2pts - health pot | 1pt - antidote
euphrasia	3pts - speed pot | 2pts - emberwine | 1pt - intelligence pot
paris	3pts - strong stam poison | 2pts - berry poison | 1pt - stam poison
calendula	3pts - strong health pot | 2pts - endurance pot | 1pt - health pot
mentha	3pts - perception pot | 2pts - intelligence pot | 1pt - stamina pot
urtica	3pts - health pot | 2pts - speed pot | 1pt - emberwine
salvia	3pts - constitution pot | 2pts - strength pot | 1pt - endurance pot
hypericum	3pts - stamina pot | 2pts - strong mana pot | 1pt - antidote
benedictus	3pts - strong stam pot | 2pts - speed pot | 1pt - intelligence pot
valeriana	3pts - health pot | 2pts - speed pot | 1pt - stam poison

Secondary Ingredients

Those ingredients are generally considered harder to obtain. A difficult rating will be given from Easy - Medium - Hard - Bleak, as well as the way to obtain them.

viscera	3pts - strong health pot | 2pts - health pot | 1pt - antidote	Can be obtained from butchering a dead creecher OR by grinding sinew (with a 75% chance to get an extra viscera)	Easy
water essentia	3pts - intelligence Pot | 2pts - strong mana pot | 1pt - perception pot	Can be obtained as a guaranteed secondary result from grinding a blortz OR can be obtained by grinding fish of any kind OR a 25% chance from grinding non poison berries as a bonus output	Easy
bone meal	3pts - mana pot | 2pts - perception pot | 1pt - antidote	Can be obtained by grinding tailbones	Easy
seed dust	3pts - strong stam pot | 2pts - stam pot | 1pt - strong antidote	Can be obtained by grinding any seed	Easy
raw essentia	3pts - intelligence pot | 2pts - strong mana pot | 1pt - perception pot	Can be obtained by grinding a Riddle of Steel	Bleak (why would you do this)
coal dust	3pts - antidote | 2pts - endurance pot | 1pt - strength pot	Can be obtained by grinding coal	Easy
silver dust	3pts - strong antidote | 2pts - antidote | 1pt - strong health pot	Can be obtained by grinding a silver ore	Bleak (why would you do this)
pure essentia	3pts - strong mana pot | 2pts - endurance pot | 1pt - constitution pot	Can be obtained with crafting. The requirements are one of almost each essentia (water,fire,air and earth) OR from grinding a saffira	Bleak
fire essentia	3pts - strength pot | 2pts - constitution pot | 1pt - speed pot	Can be obtained from grinding the fyritius flower. They can be found on mount Decap on the north-western part of the map OR as a 25% chance from grinding coal.	Medium to Hard
sinew	3pts - emberwine | 2pts - endurance pot | 1pt - health pot	Can be obtained by butchering creechers	Easy
iron dust	3pts - endurance pot | 2pts - constitution pot | 1pt - strength pot	Can be obtained by grinding iron ore	Medium
air essentia	3pts - speed pot | 2pts - stam pot | 1pt - intelligence pot	Can be obtained as a secondary result from grinding various ingredients, most often with grinding other flowers OR grinding a zad to receive 1 guaranteed with a 33% chance to get another one.	Easy
swampweed dust	3pts - berry poison | 2pts - emberwine | 1pt - endurance pot	Can be obtained by grinding swampweed of any kind (dried or not)	Easy
tobacco dust (westleach dust)	3pts - perception pot | 2pts - stam pot | 1pt - speed pot	Can be obtained by grinding westleach leafs	Easy
earth essentia	3pts - constitution pot | 2pts - endurance pot | 1pt - strength pot	Can be obtained as a secondary result from grinding various ingredients, most commonly with seed grinding	Easy
tail bone	3pts - strong antidote | 2pts - health pot | 1pt - constitution pot	Can be obtained from butchering any creecher	Easy
troll horn	3pts - strength pot | 2 pts - constitution pot | 1pt - endurance pot	Can be obtained from killing and butchering trolls of any kind.	Hard to Bleak, depending on the troll kind.
gold dust	3pts - Strong mana pot | 2pts - constitution pot | 1pt - perception pot	Can be obtained from grinding gold ore OR as a guaranteed secondary result from grinding gems.	Hard
feau dust	3pts - speed pot | 2pts - strong mana pot | 1pt - strong antidote	Can be obtained with crafting. The requirements are two iron dust and one gold dust, resulting in two feau dust	Hard
alchemical ozium	3pts - strong stam pot | 2pts - luck pot | 1pt - intelligence pot	Can be obtained by grinding ozium.	Easy
ozium	crafting ingredient	Can be obtained by grinding poppies. You can buy poppies from the stockpile for three mammon each	Easy
sui dust	Changes your gender to your choice	Can be obtained with Journeyman skill Alchemy, and crafting it at an alchemy station. The requirements are Taraxacum seed, euphrasia seed, hypericum seed and salvia seed. To get those, you just need to grind the respective flowers in the mortar.	Medium (because you need time to get the flowers)
purified salts	3pts - antidote | 2pts - strong antidote | 1pt - strong mana pot	Can be obtained by grinding regular salt.	Easy
mineral dusts	3pts - doom poison | 2pts - strong stam pot | 1pt - strong stam poison	Can be obtained by grinding gems of any kind.	Bleak
berry powder	3pts - berry poison | 2pts - mana pot | 1pt - strong mana pot	Can be obtained by grinding NON POISON berries.	Easy

Alchemy - Transmutations

With specific ores and stones, you can craft upgraded versions of said stones and ores. Here's a quick list.

Recipe	Ingredients	Result	Level requirement
stone to coal	4 stones of any kind	1 coal	Apprentice
coal to iron	2 coal	1 iron ore	Journeyman
iron to gold	4 iron ore	1 gold ore	Expert
gold to toper	2 gold ore, 1 stone	1 toper	Expert
toper to gemerald	1 toper, 2 gold ore	1 gemerald	Expert
gemerald to saffira	1 gemerald, 2 gold ore	1 saffira	Expert
saffira to blortz	1 saffira, 2 gold ore	1 blortz	Expert
blortz to diamond	2 blortz, 2 gold ore	1 diamond	Master
diamond to riddle of steel	2 dorpel(diamond), 1 iron ore, 1 coal	1 riddle of steel	Legendary
water to wine	1 bottle (empty) , 16 oz of water in a bucket	1 bottle full of wine	Journeyman

The Cheat Sheet

Too lazy to calculate things? Feeling uneasy as to what ingredients you need EXACTLY? Fret not, for I have the the holy cheat sheet for you to dig your lazy paws into!

product	ingredients (best possible ingredients - as in cheapest/easiest)	special note	difficulty to make
Strong Red	calendula + viscera	You shouldn't have any issues making this ever.	Baby-Witch easy
Strong Green(stamina)	alchemical ozium + benedictus	Mortar poppies which you can get from the stockpile for 3m each for ozium, mortar the ozium for alchemical ozium	Baby-Witch easy
Strong Blue (mana)	pure essentia + hypericum	Pure essentia is arguably the "easiest" to get but requires the most time and effort, needing you to crush a lot of things for the various essentias needed to make this.	Hard-Bleak depending on luck
Doom Poison	mineral dusts + atropa	Absolutely no alternatives, a very expensive recipe requiring you to crush a gem for it. Expensive as in, if you were to straight up buy a gem from the silverface at the merchant's. You can totally work with a miner to get a toper easily. If you do, then this is absurdly easy to achieve, even early on in the round.	Easy to Bleak depending on if there's a miner present
Strength Potion	fire essentia + salvia	Yet another very useful potion that you could sell to knights or bandits for a high mark up, which for the effort put into it, is honestly laughable. You can easily get fire dust by going to Mount Decap (NW of map), getting some fyritius flowers from the odd flower patches, then just going into town and then grab some salvia literally at the steward's place.	Baby-Witch easy
Perception Potion	mentha + tobacco dust (westleech dust)	Yet another very useful potion that you could sell to wardens or archers for a high mark up. Even easier than the strength potion with the caveat that it's slightly harder to find metha in the wild. Westleech you can easily find brutally easy around in the south bog with static spawns about literally anywhere.	Baby-Witch easy
Intelligence Potion	water essentia + mentha	If you make this for the court magos, expect to get paid a good handful of gold coins. Brutally easy to make, just ask a fisherman or someone who could fish (or just do it yourself) to get you a fish, grind it into water essentia, then dump it into the pot with some mentha. The reason why this will not be easy is because you need to spend a tiny bit of time fishing and that could slow down the pace of your potion factory.	Medium
Constitution Potion	earth essentia + salvia	Easily attained by just grinding a few seeds or something coupled with salvia. And not even seeds, some other mortar recipes result in earth essentia, too!	Baby-Witch easy
Endurance Potion	iron dust + calendula	A bit of a higher requirement, needing you to grind some iron ore to get, with a chance to get a bonus iron dust too, this is considerably a tiny bit harder to achieve due to the fact you need to get an iron ore. But with a miner present? This is trivial. If not, just buy it from the stockpile.	Baby-Witch easy to medium
Speed Potion	air essentia + euphrasia	Yet another very useful potion that you could sell to about anyone - especially rogues - for a decent mark up. To get air essentia very easily, all you have to do is just grind poppies for ozium, and you will likely get some as a bonus product. The reason it's not easier than easy, is because you can get unlucky and just get none.	Easy
Fortune Potion	artemisia + alchemical ozium	A very useful potion you could sell - or straight up give for free in exchange for those sweet stones - to your miner friend so they can find even better ores more easily. Just like strong green, just grind poppies from the stockpile.	Baby-Witch easy
Emberwine	sinew + euphrasia	yeah we both know why you want to do this.	Baby-Witch easy