Alchemy

Alchemy

Category: Botany · Command: /alchemy · Super ability: None

Alchemy speeds up your brewing and unlocks new potion ingredients that vanilla Minecraft doesn't have.

Earning XP

Brew potions in a brewing stand you own (you own one if you were the last player to open it or put items in it; you need to be online). Each bottle earns XP, so a full stand of three pays three times as much. What it's worth depends on how far along the potion is:

Step	Example	XP per bottle
1. Base potion	Water Bottle → Awkward Potion	666
2. Add an effect	Awkward → Swiftness	1,111
3. First amplifier	Swiftness → Swiftness II, or Long Swiftness	1,750
4. Second amplifier	→ Splash or Lingering	2,250
Re-brewing a potion that doesn't change its step	e.g. Splash → Lingering	0

So taking three bottles all the way from water to splash potions earns 3 × (666 + 1,111 + 1,750 + 2,250) = 17,331 XP.

Abilities

Ability	Unlocks	What it does
Catalysis	From the start	Brew faster. The speed rises steadily from normal (20 seconds a brew) to 4× at level 100 (5 seconds).
Concoctions	Ranks at 0, 10, 20, 35, 50, 75, 90, 100	Unlocks extra brewing ingredients (below)

Concoctions ingredients:

Each new ingredient is brewed into an Awkward Potion, like most vanilla ingredients.

Rank	Level	New ingredients (potion)
1	0	Most vanilla ingredients
2	10	Carrot (Haste), Slime Ball (Mining Fatigue), Phantom Membrane (Slow Falling)
3	20	Quartz (Absorption), Rabbit's Foot (Leaping)
4	35	Apple (Health Boost), Rotten Flesh (Hunger)
5	50	Brown Mushroom (Nausea), Ink Sac (Blindness)
6	75	Fern (Saturation)
7	90	Poisonous Potato (Decay, which applies Wither)
8	100	Golden Apple (Resistance)

Phantom Membrane and Rabbit's Foot work in vanilla Minecraft, but in mcRPG you need Alchemy 10 and 20 to brew with them.

Tips

• Take every potion as far as it can go: later steps pay more XP.
• Running several brewing stands at once multiplies your XP.
• Catalysis makes Alchemy faster the more you level it.
• Alchemy is in Botany with Woodcutting and Herbalism: nether wart, sugar cane, carrots, apples, ferns and mushrooms all come from farming. See Wooden Mastery for Botany's passive.