Alchemy

The process of mixing and transmuting items, also known as "Alchemy". While transmuting items in the Blood Altar is a type of alchemy, the alchemy described here is called Blood alchemy and is performed with an Alchemic Chemistry Set. Blood alchemy can transmute and mix items together, and create refillable multi-use potions which are vastly better then their vanilla counterparts; capable of reaching enormous durations and extreme potencies.

Potion Brewing Requirements

Blood alchemy requires an Alchemic Chemistry Set, which has several slots. The lower-right slot is where a blood orb needs to be placed for recipes that require blood as a catalyst (some recipes need certain orbs or higher), the center slot is the output, and the five slots around it are the ingredient slots.

Potion brewing requires the player go acquire a Potion Flask, which you can get either through dungeon loot or by creating it by transmuting a glass bottle in a 2nd tier altar. This flask has 8 total uses - if your potion is empty, you can refill it by placing it in the alchemic chemistry set with a Weak Filling Agent. Alternatively, you can completely reset the flask, erasing its effects and restoring its uses by placing it in the crafting grid and adding netherwart, redstone, and glowstone.

To start with the potion brewing, you need a potion flask, as well as a Weak Binding Agent and an active ingredient. The active ingredient is the most important part of the potion because it determines what effect the potion will have. Potions could have a wide variety of effects, each of which corresponds to a particular ingredient. If you're already familiar with ordinary potion brewing, some of the ingredients will be easy to determine, but others may need a bit of thinking about. Tinker around a bit by using different items until you find one that gives a good effect! Here are a few ingredients, to point you in the right direction.

Sugar
Blaze Powder
Magma Cream
Glass Bottle
Feather

See Potion Flask for a list of active ingredients.

Creating Potions

When you place a binding agent, potion flask, and active ingredient in the alchemic chemistry set, it will start mixing the concoctions together and the effect will be added to the potion. You can even add additional effects to potions that already have one just by putting the flask back in with another binding agent and active ingredient. In fact, you could theoretically add EVERY single potion effect to one potion flask. Theoretically. Unfortunately, the different binding agents have different success rates of the potion actually being brewed. For example, Standard Binding Agent works 100% for the first effect, but only 65% if you try to add a second effect, 42% for the 3rd, etc. If it fails... the flask will blow up.

Enhancing Potions

That is not all. By finding (or creating, see next section) a special catalyst, you can increase the effectiveness of the potions' various effects. A power catalyst will increase the concentration of the potion (shortening the duration in the process), and the lengthening catalyst will increase the duration of the potion vastly. To use these, place the flask, the catalyst, and the active ingredient whose effect you want to enhance in the alchemic chemistry set. (You can't enhance effects that aren't already on the potion). There is no chance to blow up at this point, although it may change in the future.

Like the flask, these catalysts (and binding agents) can be found through dungeon loot.

New Recipes

The alchemic chemistry set also offers a wide variety of new and alternative recipes for vanilla minecraft resources, including obsidian, string, sand, grass, and ice.

Reagents

The creation of various Reagents is at the cornerstone of alchemy. Without the proper knowledge when brewing reagents, you could end up with a big ol' pile of slop. Thankfully, it isn't all bad!

Since there will be so many alchemy reagents that it would be impossible to catalogue them all by pictures, I will contain them all in the table below. It will feature the output and the five (max) inputs needed. Do note that they all need blood orbs to operate. If you have the correct recipe, yet nothing is happening, try getting a stronger orb...

Recipes

Output	Input1	Input2	Input3	Input4	Input5
Weak Binding Agent	Simple Catalyst	Simple Catalyst	Clay
Standard Binding Agent	Weak Binding Agent	Crystallos	Sanctus
Simple Catalyst	Sugar	Redstone	Redstone	Glowstone	Gunpowder
Incendium	Lava Bucket	Blaze Powder	Blaze Powder	Netherrack	Simple Catalyst
Aether	Feather	Feather	Glowstone	Ghast Tear	Simple Catalyst
Sanctus	Glowstone	Gold Nugget	Glowstone	Glass Block	Simple Catalyst
Crepitous	Gunpowder	Gunpowder	Cobblestone	Cobblestone	Simple Catalyst
Crystallos	Ice	Ice	Snow Block	Snow Block	Simple Catalyst
Terrae	Dirt	Sand	Obsidian	Obsidian	Simple Catalyst
Aquasalus	Ink Sac	Water Bottle	Water Bottle	Water Bottle	Simple Catalyst
Tenebrae	Coal	Coal	Clay	Obsidian	Simple Catalyst
Magicales	Redstone	Gunpowder	Glowstone	Glowstone	Simple Catalyst
Mundane Power Catalyst	Glowstone	Glowstone	Glowstone	Weak Binding Agent	Simple Catalyst
Mundane Lengthening Catalyst	Redstone	Redstone	Redstone	Weak Binding Agent	Simple Catalyst
Average Power Catalyst	Mundane Power Catalyst	Mundane Power Catalyst	Standard Binding Agent
Average Lengthening Catalyst	Mundane Lengthening Catalyst	Mundane Lengthening Catalyst	Standard Binding Agent
Greater Power Catalyst	Average Power Catalyst	Average Power Catalyst	Incendium
Greater Lengthening Catalyst	Average Lengthening Catalyst	Average Lengthening Catalyst	Aquasalus
Weak Filling Agent	Simple Catalyst	Nether Wart	Redstone	Glowstone
Standard Filling Agent	Weak Filling Agent	Terrae
Enhanced Filling Agent	Standard Filling Agent	Aquasalus	Magicales