Alchemy: unlock it and make your first mix

Start with your situation

Alchemy is locked · Prepare the first batch · Mixing will not start

Unlock the starter formula

1. Continue the fairy-related village quest until you are asked to consult the Plague Doctor in the Abandoned Tower about making Dream Dust. Finish that conversation: it grants Alchemy start and begins the Dream Dust delivery request and alchemy-laboratory introduction. Follow the laboratory introduction before using its building menu.
2. Check that Dream Dust and the mixer / Flask shelf building options are available. A formula existing in this website’s database does not mean your save has unlocked its technology.

Build the right stations

• Basic alchemy mixer: 4 Wooden planks, 3 Bronze Details and 3 Glass, at the alchemy laboratory builder. It has two ingredient slots and performs rune-based mixtures.
• Flask shelf: 6 Wooden planks and 8 Bronze nails at the same laboratory builder. Place alchemy bottles here to supply the internal flask units used by the mixer.
• Study Table: studies the materials before they can be selected as rune ingredients. The Formulation Bench handles ordinary listed crafts, including charging a hypno-device; it is not the ingredient mixer. The Distillation Cube processes materials such as fat and is not required by the selected Stick + Seed oil mix.

Prepare one batch, including research

1. If neither ingredient has been studied, set aside 2 Sticks and 2 Seed oil: one of each for its study and another of each for the mix. The two studies additionally require 2 Faith in total and 3 Science in the Study Table: 1 Science for Stick, 2 for Seed oil. Already completed studies do not need repeating.
2. For Seed oil, the registered Millstone recipe consumes 4 Flax seeds and produces 2 Seed oil; its unlock is Millstone and flour. Check that recipe’s requirements if you need to make it. Keep the final mixing ingredients in the player’s accessible inventory.
3. Place 1 small alchemy bottle in the Flask shelf: it supplies 5 internal flask units. A large bottle supplies 10. The selected single batch uses only 1 unit. Having a bottle in your backpack does not satisfy the mixer’s internal flask check. Small bottles have a separate furnace recipe: 2 Glass and 10 Fire, unlocked by Glass blowing II.

Make Dream Dust

1. At the Study Table, complete the Stick and Seed oil studies. If an ingredient does not appear in the mixer’s selector, check its completed research first.
2. Open the basic mixer. Select 1 Stick and 1 Seed oil, with no boost, and set the batch count to 1. Their combined runes are 0 red, 1 green and 1 blue, matching Dream Dust.
3. Check ingredients and the flask indicator, start the mix and let the station finish. Check the finished output for Dream Dust. The doctor’s next request checks that you have at least 1 Dream Dust before its dialogue continues.

Why the first mix cannot start

• Unlock missing: return to the doctor’s starter dialogue and check the resulting technology, not just a recipe entry on this site.
• Ingredient missing from selection: complete its Study Table survey. If already researched, check its availability in the player inventory and the rune limits of the current selections.
• Wrong station or too many ingredients: use the rune mixer. Two slots cannot hold a three-ingredient combination; a listed Formulation Bench recipe is a different craft.
• Materials or flasks missing: reduce to one batch, replace the ingredients consumed by research and load the Flask shelf. The planner shows flask demand, not your save’s internal fuel stock.
• Unknown result preview: known formula and valid mixture are different checks. In the inspected interface, an unknown preview is not by itself a blocked Start button; a valid combination, selectable studied ingredients, enough materials and internal flasks still matter.

Recipe library and the next unlock

Use the alchemy library for combinations and the material planner. Distillation and melted fat are later preparation steps for opening the resurrection area; Reanimation Liquid requires its own later unlock.

Alchemy library and planner · Prepare and resurrect a corpse

Materials and workstations

Stick · Seed oil · Dream Dust · Alchemy Flasks I · Alchemy Workbench · Melted Fat · Distillation Cube

Notes

This guide draws on the doctor’s quests, technologies, workstations, research and mixing records. Ingredient selection, result previews and flask consumption were checked against the alchemy interface logic.