Of course, the more effective way to use your new-found magic is to transform matter into new resources. These magical studies are more costly, but are far more open in terms of use and potential value. Let’s get started…
Alchemist’s Notebook
As a student of Alchemical Arts, it would benefit you to do a little studying before you go trying to turn things into gold. You’ll need a book and one of each kind of rune to make yourself a special book: the Alchemist’s Notebook. This book catalogs all the notes you’ve taken about the world around you, and acts as your way of determining just how competent you are with alchemy.
Once you have the Notebook, you’ll notice it’s rather… empty, at first. Naturally; you didn’t expect a fully detailed book of alchemical theories to just appear out of thin air, did you? Nope, you’ll have to actually step outside your home and do some studying. Take your book and use it on the nearest block to take notes on it. You’ll see it begin to fill with the notes you’ve collected on that block. Take heed that once you’ve taken note of a block, you’ll have exhausted what you can learn from it, and will have to go searching for new blocks to study. Of course, this also applies to things that aren’t necessarily blocks as well: torches, signs, tracks, fences, trees, plants, ores, anything you can find can be noted.
As your understanding of the world around you improves, your skill with alchemy will follow suit, and eventually, you’ll unlock new ways to change the items you possess into something entirely different. At first, what you can accomplish will be trivial and small, but as you study, you’ll be able to perform conversions you couldn’t before.
Alchemical Tomes
By combining a book with certain runes, you’ll be able to create tomes, which permit a variety of magical effects with the items you possess. Each Tome offers different changes when used in the crafting space, and as you progress in your alchemical studies, your capacity to alter items will expand.
Tome of Transmutation
This tome will allow it’s user to perform a variety of conversions with many objects. Initially, what you can re-shape will be simple, but thorough study will allow you to bend more advanced and rare matter as you improve.
Tome of Repair
Using this tome will allow you to restore items to a certain level of durability, directly proportionate to how advanced your knowledge of alchemy is. Of course, it could also weaken stronger tools, so take care in using it at lower levels.
Tome of Compaction
A branch of transmutation typically reserved for more accomplished alchemists, this tome will let you compress groups of items into a single new object. Resource costly, but helpful if used properly. (Note: Compaction transmutations require 8 of each object to work in the crafting space.)
Tome of Enrichment
This tome allows the user to promote lush growth and richness in a variety of objects. It will also let you enrich the ores you find while mining, allowing you to increase their value.
Tome of Extraction
A very potent tome for those who favor mining. Using this tome with any block that has ores available in it will allow you to extract twice as many resources from it.
Tome of Enhancement
Depending on your level of achemical knowledge and the item being transmuted, this tome will give you the ability to improve base materials to new and better states. Note that when using this with armor and tools, the object will need to be at it’s peak durability to improve it.
Tome of Duplication
A very powerful branch of magic, this tome is reserved for only the most skilled of alchemists, those who have taken the most thorough and complete notes on the material world, but the effort is well worth the reward. Placing this tome with any other item will allow you to defy alchemy law and double what you offer, effectively creating something from nothing.
