Alchemy Labs Minigame Potion Class

Alchemy Labs Minigame: Potions Class

A brief video demo of the Potions Class minigame. Click to view on YouTube.

Reaching level 1 Alchemy Labs unlocks the Potions Class minigame, a bubbling little lesson in questionable chemistry, irresponsible experimentation, and drinking things that absolutely should have been labeled more clearly. Search across Cookie Clicker’s world to collect rare reagents, then combine them into powerful potions with helpful effects, risky misbrews, and the occasional horrible mistake.

Potions Class revolves not just around discovery but leveraging your potion making skills to build better combos or bend the physics of the game to your demand. Reagents can be found by experiencing the world and interacting with various parts of the game. The minigame launches with a single potion and three reagents unlocked. Every reagent has its own source and every potion requires exactly three different and unique reagents.

Mix carefully. A correct recipe unlocks a potion, but you still must take the risk and try it before you will know its true effects. A failed mixture may still teach you something, the best alchemists learn to read the bubbles, the smoke, and the screaming from their unpaid lab assistants.

Brewing Potions

Potions Class consists of three parts:

Reagents - Ingredients gathered from actions throughout Cookie Clicker.
Potion recipes - Discoverable combinations of reagents.
Brew slots - Up to three potions can be brewed or stored at once.

Selecting a known potion will queue it for brewing it if you have the required reagents. Brewing takes time, and once started, a potion cannot be canceled. Each potion has its own brewing time and discovering new potions always takes 5 minutes of in game time.

When a potion finishes brewing, click it from its brew slot drinks it.

Discovering Recipes

Each potion recipe uses exactly three unique reagents. Ingredient order does not matter.

When experimenting with unknown mixtures, failed attempts can still give hints to what is still unknown:

Some mixtures are clearly useless, none of the used reagents pair together in any recipe.
Some mixtures contain ingredients that belong together in another potion or even multiple other recipes.
A correct mixture unlocks the potion permanently, when you ascend you will hold onto memory of all the potions you have learned.

When you fail to discover a new potion you may be returned some of your reagents to try again with another blend. If you attempt to run the same brewing experiment twice the game will remind you of the previous results.

Potion Misbrews

Most potions have a chance to misbrew. A misbrew consumes the potion and applies the listed negative effect instead of the intended "positive" effect. Most potions have a 20% chance of misbrewing though some may have different odds. The misbrew chances are calculated on use not when brewed, any potions that affects the chance of misbrewing takes that chance into account when the potion is consumed.

Potions Class Achievements

Potions Class introduces 4 new achievements that you can earn, these achievements respect the overall mod setting of Shadow or Normal achievements.

Icon	Achievement	Requirement
	The whole pantry	Unlock all reagents in the Potions Class minigame.
	The complete works of questionable medicine	Unlock all potions in the Potions Class minigame.
	Stir crazy	Consume 250 successful potions in the Potions Class minigame.
	Hoardiculturalist	Collect 1000 reagents in the Potions Class minigame.

Spoilers Below

The following sections detail what reagents and potions exist in the minigame, however not how to make those potions. While I have a lot of hope that players find the process of discovery fun, at least more fun than mutation discovery in the garden minigame, the following tables let you know what exists.

I also understand that many players will want to skip that part and the info below will help.

Reagents

Reagents are collected by performing actions throughout the game. Once unlocked you will retain knowledge of reagents throughout accessions, however your collected reagents will reset when you ascend. You may store up to 5 of each type of reagent at a time.

Icon	Reagent	How to Find
	Nectar of Effort	Clicking the big cookie will sometimes reward you with the nectar of effort.
	Dragon Scales	Vigorously petting your dragon has a chance to break off a scale.
	Golden Flour	Golden cookies will occasionally leave behind some of their special flour when collected.
	Captured Auroras	Swap dragon auras for a chance to capture an aurora.
	Divine Extraction	Swap gods in the Pantheon for a chance to capture some divine extraction.
	Rabbit’s Foot	Collected by clicking on rabbit cookies during Easter.
	Cat’s Whiskers	Found on some spooky kitten cookies during the Halloween season.
	Culture of Time	Culture of time is found by advancing through seasons, naturally or artificially. It may also randomly appear as time passes.
	Pure Cane Sugar	Gain or spend sugar lumps through any manner for a chance to find pure cane sugar..
	Tuft of Reindeer Fur	Each reindeer you find will have a chance to leave you with a tuft of their magical fur.
	Distilled Greed	Hire brokers, buy, or sell stocks in the Stock Market for a chance to collect distilled greed.
	Sample of Goo	Each wrinkler popped has a chance to leave behind a sample of, well let’s just say “goo”.
	Wrath Sugar	Wrath cookies will occasionally leave behind the deep red sugar used in their baking.
	Magical Blight	Experience spell backfires in Grimoire for a chance to capture pure magical blight.
	Magical Infusion	Successfully cast spells in Grimoire for a chance to harvest magical infusion.
	Terra	Harvesting mature plants and changing soil will leave you with terra.
	Flower Petals	Found by harvesting mature Shimmerlily, Nursetulip, Chimrose, Everdaisy, or any clover variant in the Garden.
	Roots	Found by harvesting mature Cocoroots, Queenbeets, or Duketater in the Garden.
	Fungus Culture	Found by harvesting any mature fungus in the Garden.
	Immortal Essence	Found by harvesting any mature immortal plant in the Garden.
	Extract of Entrepreneurship	Performing any actions in the Downline has a chance to reward you with extract of entrepreneurship.
	Technojuice	Run programs in the Terminal for a chance to find pure technojuice.

Potions

Potions are unlocked by discovering their three-reagent recipes. Once discovered, they can be brewed whenever the required reagents and an open brew slot are available. Your knowledge of potion recipes retains throughout ascensions.

Potion	Brew Time	Misbrew Chance	Effect	Misbrew
Oil of Hephaestus	15 minutes	20%	Clicking is 15% more powerful for 3 minutes.	Clicking is 50% less powerful for 10 minutes.
Arcana of the Finger	45 minutes	20%	Cursors are 20% more effective for the next 15 minutes.	Cursors are 50% less effective for the next 30 minutes.
Tincture of Purpose	2 hours	20%	+30% CpS for 2 minutes.	-70% CpS for 10 minutes.
Infusion of Chance	45 minutes	20%	Random drops (including reagents) are 30% more common for 30 minutes.	Random drops are 50% less common for an hour.
Ointment of Plenty	1 hour	20%	Reagents drop 100% more often for the next 10 minutes.	Reagent drops are 50% less common for the next 30 minutes.
Ether of Serendipity	50 minutes	50%	+50% CpS for 1 minute.	-50% CpS for 1 minute.
Tonic of Ebisu	1 hour	20%	Golden cookies appear 10% more often for 15 minutes.	Golden cookies appear 30% less often for an hour.
Distillate of Kala	1 hour 30 minutes	20%	Golden cookie effects last 15% longer for 15 minutes.	Golden cookie effects last 30% less for 30 minutes.
Cordial of Tyche	2 hours	20%	Rare golden cookie chances are increased for 15 minutes.	Rare golden cookie chances are decreased for 30 minutes.
Vapor of Luck	4 hours	20%	Additional golden cookies may randomly appear for the next 10 minutes.	Rare golden cookie chances are decreased for an hour.
Ichor of Destiny	45 minutes	20%	Causes an uncollected fortune to appear immediately.	A fortune you already own is lost and must be collected again.
Transmutation of Dough	3 hours	20%	Summon a random golden cookie.	A random positive buff is ended immediately.
Ember of Dragon Fire	1 hour	20%	Golden cookie gains are increased by 10% for an hour.	Golden cookie gains are reduced by 30% for an hour.
Ambrosia of the Leech	30 minutes	20%	Wrinkler consumption increased by 20% for 15 minutes.	2 wrinklers explode instantly while not giving any cookies in return.
Nectar of Summoning	25 minutes	20%	Wrinklers spawn 100% faster for 10 minutes.	Wrinklers suck 50% less for 30 minutes.
Philter of Worms	1 hour	20%	Summon 6 wrinklers instantly.	Wrinklers spawn 50% less often for the next 15 minutes.
Emulsion of Sinful Greed	4 hours	20%	Your chances of summoning a shiny wrinkler are tripled for the next 30 minutes.	The amount your wrinklers have already sucked is reduced by 20%.
Venom of the Basilisk	30 minutes	20%	Wrinklers explode with 10% more cookies for 30 seconds.	All wrinklers explode with 10% less cookies instantly.
Poison of the Matriarchs	30 minutes	20%	Summon a random wrath cookie.	Golden cookies appear 30% less for the next 10 minutes.
Toxin of Elders	45 minutes	20%	Wrath cookies appear 20% more often for 10 minutes.	Wrath cookies appear 50% less for an hour.
Corruption of Sin	1 hour 30 minutes	20%	Negative wrath cookie effects reduced for 30 minutes.	Negative wrath cookie effects increased for an hour.
Potion of Gaia	1 hour	20%	Plant mutation rate is increased for 15 minutes.	20% of your plants die.
Precipitate of Chronos	2 hours	20%	The Garden ticks 10 times.	Plant effects are reduced by 50% for 30 minutes.
Tears of Landis	6 hours	20%	Reroll your currently growing sugar lump type.	Your current sugar lump is botched and lost.
Resin of the Cane	8 hours	20%	Your current sugar lump grows 1 hour faster.	Your current sugar lump grows 4 hours slower.
Vitae of the Mother	3 hours	20%	Milk is 3% more powerful for 15 minutes.	Milk is 15% weaker for an hour.
Mercury of Age	1 hour	20%	Grandmas are 25% more effective for 15 minutes.	Grandmas are 50% as effective for an hour.
Balm of Merlin	1 hour	20%	Mana recharges faster for 10 minutes.	Mana recharges slower for 20 minutes.
Liqueur of Rincewind	3 hours	20%	Cast a random Grimoire spell for free.	Lose 50% of your current magic.
Extract of Cadence	90 minutes	20%	All existing buff durations are tripled up to a maximum of 1 minute longer.	All existing buff durations are halved.
Salve of Fortune	1 hour	0%	Potions misbrew 80% less for the next hour.	This potion does not misbrew.
Syrup of Insight	45 minutes	20%	Highlight two potion ingredients that go together in an unknown potion.	Unknown potions take twice as long to discover for the next hour.
Spirit of Protection	20 minutes	20%	The shimmering veil’s reinforced membrane has a 90% chance to not shatter for the next 30 seconds.	The shimmering veil shatters instantly.
Shadow of Remorse	90 minutes	20%	Remove a random negative buff.	Gain a random negative potion effect.
Elixir of Chaos	30 minutes	10%	A completely random potion effect with half the normal misbrew chance. This may trigger a potion you have not yet discovered.	A random negative potion effect.
Serum of Progress	30 minutes	20%	Upgrades are 5% cheaper for 3 minutes.	Upgrades are 20% more expensive for an hour.
Concoction of the Mason	15 minutes	20%	Buildings are 5% cheaper for 3 minutes.	Buildings are 20% more expensive for an hour.
Bloom of Industry	1 hour	20%	Buildings are 10% more effective for 10 minutes.	Buildings are 30% less effective for 30 minutes.
Blood of the Craftsman	4 hours 30 minutes	25%	Gain 10 random free buildings (that you already own at least one of).	Lose 50 random buildings.
Concentrate of Saturn	2 hours 30 minutes	20%	Gain 1 hour of CpS, capped at 8% of your bank.	Lose 2 hours of CpS.
Essence of Cheer	1 hour	20%	Changing seasons is 80% cheaper for the next minute, and 5 seasons previously switched this ascension are forgotten.	Changing seasons is 300% more expensive for the next 30 minutes.
Decoction of Winter	15 minutes	20%	Reindeer are 25% more common for the next hour.	Reindeer do not spawn for the next hour.
Catalyst of Yule	1 hour	20%	Unlock a random seasonal drop.	Lose a random seasonal drop.
Whisper of Boreas	45 minutes	20%	Reindeer gains are increased by 20% for 30 minutes.	Reindeer gains are reduced by 50% for an hour.
Breath of Growth	25 minutes	20%	Newly started Downline actions last twice as long for 60 seconds.	A random downline action is stopped immediately.
Reduction of Silica	45 minutes	20%	Remove 2 hours of cooldown from terminal.	Adds 4 hours of cooldown to terminal.
Draught of Urgency	30 minutes	20%	Potions brew 25% faster for the next 2 hours.	Potions brew 50% slower for the next 2 hours.
Solvent of Substitution	1 hour	20%	Gain 5 random reagents you have unlocked.	Lose 3 random reagents.
Unguent of Hades	3 hours	10%	Lose 10% of your bank.	Gain a sugar lump.
Suspension of Hallucinogenic	25 minutes	20%	Doubles the effectiveness of a random building for the next 15 minutes.	The effectiveness of a random building is reduced by half for the next hour.