In this page we will be going over the more specific details regarding the alchemy life skill. For the basics, please check the [Alchemy] page.

Alchemy is considered by many to be the final step of life skill content. There is nothing easy about alchemy, from gathering its ingredients and keeping a stable supply of them, to figuring out the recipes. This is why many Adventurers find it hard to start dabbling in it.

As your characters’ level goes up, you will be in desperate need of elixirs, magic crystals, alchemy stones, and processing materials that are obtained through alchemy alone, and the Central Market might not have a supply of them when you need it to.

Either by selling them to the market, or packaging them for imperial delivery, many alchemists have made a fortune. Alchemy is definitely cumbersome, but it can ensure you great profit.

This page will help guide you through some of the more detailed parts of alchemy. It will focus on preparing the ingredients needed, and how to profit from the result.
If you hesitated to delve into this life skill because you thought it’s difficult, this is the chance to learn!

You have to install an alchemy tool at your residence and then put ingredients in the cauldron to perform alchemy, as explained in the Alchemy page.
Wearing alchemy-related clothes will help you be more efficient with your time spent in alchemy.
As you can see, the procedure itself is very simple, but it is not easy to prepare the ingredients used in alchemy.

You have to obtain them via farming, node production, or gathering them yourself.
Thus, in order to perform efficient, consistent alchemy, you have to secure a certain amount of contribution points and energy beforehand.

➤ You can read more about those features of the game in the [Contribution] and [Energy] pages

1.  Herbs

You can obtain herbs through various ways. You can either gather herbs you see in the wild, or cultivate them in a garden. Some can also be obtained from node production by sending workers to collect them.
However, the easiest way is to purchase herbs from certain vendor NPCs, though keep in mind their cost will be high.

As for weeds, the only way to gather them is with your bare hands.

You can use 1 weed instead of 1 wild grass when you’re crafting clear liquid reagent or pure powder reagent. However, for other elixirs that require wild grass, the ratio is 1 to 5 for wild grass and weeds.

Herb vendors, such as Calpheon City’s Nieves, will be your best friends when it comes to obtaining herbs.

You will see they offer the main types of herbs necessary for alchemy.

2. Beast Blood

You can gather beast blood with a fluid collector after hunting down a beast. Different blood from the same group have the same effect, so use the one that's easier to get.

3. Gathering special ingredients

You can obtain the following ingredients at a low rate while lumbering various trees. Your gathering level should be skilled 5 or higher. You can also obtain them at a low rate by sending workers to specific lumbering nodes.
But we recommend you to purchase them from the Central Market if you want to produce items that employ them at a large scale, since you may not obtain enough ingredients by gathering or through node production.

4. Powders

You can obtain the following powders at a low rate while mining various ores when your gathering level is skilled 5 or higher.
Additionally, you can obtain them at a low rate in specific mining nodes, and you have to send workers to several nodes in order to have sufficient supplies. 
If you are still not satisfied, you can purchase them at the Central Market.

5. Traces

Traces are very scarce, since the only way to obtain them is through node production, and as a drop from certain types of monsters. Remember that you can send workers after getting permission from the NPC of the relevant node by consuming energy.
Even though some monsters may drop traces at a very low rate, you cannot rely on it as a source of ingredients. Therefore, you need to produce it with your workers for a steady supply and get the rest from the Central Market.

6. Fruit

You can obtain fruit at a low rate while gathering grass, crops, mushrooms, flowers, and more that you can gather using your hoe.
You can obtain fruit at a high rate while breeding the crops in your garden. However, farming takes a long time, so we recommend you to buy them at the Central Market unless you want to start farming.

➤ You can read more about farming and gardens in the [Farming] page.

7. Sap

You can obtain sap by using a fluid collector tool on trees, or through node production.
We recommend that you gather it yourself because you can obtain a large amount of it, and they are easy to find. Node production is not the best way since it has low rates of earning sap, and it takes a long time.

8. Mushroom

You can obtain mushrooms in forests and humid places, or you can grow them yourself in a fenced garden. You can also obtain them through node production. However, the easiest way is to purchase them from a mushroom vendor. One such a vendor can be found in the room to the right of Calpheon’s storage keeper.

Remember to check the supply and price in the Central Market before making a purchase at the NPC.

9. Other Ingredients

These are other materials that are used as ingredients.

First alchemy ingredient: Alchemy beginner 1 or higher

Secondary alchemy ingredient: Alchemy apprentice 1 or higher

Tertiary alchemy ingredient: Alchemy apprentice 1 or higher

Essences: Alchemy apprentice 1 or higher

* The content of the game guide may differ from the actual game content, depending on the update and content changes.